skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to make it perfectly clear...I am NOT in any way trying to avoid my personal responsibility in this painful experience. My primary crime was being careless, and I am sure paying one hell of a price for it. Living in this shelter trying to find work with no clothes, even after I supposedly paid my debt to society, sure feels like I’m nowhere near done with the punishment.

What is deeply maddening, however, is the fact that the police violated my liberties and right to be protected from unreasonable search and seizure. It was an open and shut case according to my public defender and the whole thing was recorded on his body cam, but I quickly realized that I would have spend significantly more time in jail waiting for a trial to beat it then I would by taking a "deal" where the case was dropped to a misdemeanor.

At the core of it, my inability to create loving relationships at this point in my life, the kind that could have helped me bail out in time to not to lose my job, handicaps me in a big way, and surely is a driver of my substance use as well. I have learned a great deal about addiction in my 35 years of using and there is little doubt that the core cause of my use is relationship-based dysfunction.

And yes...I can and do handle meth as I use it almost exactly like caffeine. I worked for 10 months here in Vegas and my boss never even knew I had moved here from Florida...that describes perfectly how little I changed my daily routine.

In that time, I built Facebook and Twitter bots using the latest APIs, decoded and reimplemented an online version of a very complex standalone Medispan pharmaceutical drug database schema, designed/implemented a high-performance PHP MVC framework (and much the code for the actual applications), and designed/implemented a seamless, secure API interface for our Ionic 2 mobile app. Also wrote a standalone subscription-based cart and billing module using the Stripe API.

Oh and I am most proud of the Fastlane integration for the Ionic apps that I personally developed (thank God for the cognitive enhancement for this!) the MS and OSX server scripts to totally automate the creation and submission of 100s of branded mobile apps for all our pharmacy clients. Last I heard, our competition hired two PhD Computer Science professors to attempt to catch up as we totally blew by them with the systems I designed.

But I fully expect no one to believe me, because, of course, “drug addicts” such as myself are simply worthless pieces of shit that have no place in society besides, perhaps, working as minimum wage laborers.

This is the life I live. I don’t recommend it.
The banality of evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
I think it's required to be heat treated to be sold in the US. I like to check the dates too! I always get a little kick from pulling a gallon from the back that has a few extra days left in the expiry label.
Women have always (since joining offices and not being exclusively secretaries/assistants) been represented in high numbers in HR departments. This may be a continuation of that trend.

Is there anything nefarious going on? Companies are hiring recruiters, female or otherwise, who can and want to work for them. People that can get leads into the door, male, female, gay, straight - the companies just want people who can do the work they want done for what they're willing to pay. Companies that care about diversity numbers are happy to hire women for jobs they can do, and many are fully able to do recruiting.

Tech / start ups as an industry and type of company is what more and more people are aspiring to join as a first or next career. Software is eating the world. People want to either have a stable, comfortable life or have a shot at making lots of money. Tech companies seem like a reasonable path for either goal.

Lastly, attractive salespeople were viewed as being more trustworthy, likeable and having better communication skills. All else being equal, an attractive recruiter might have an easier time getting people to trust them more and like them more, which are important qualities for recruiters.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610388048
https://research.wpcarey.asu.edu/beauty-and-the-sales-commis...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228300049_If_Looks_...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018943 and marked it off-topic.
As a company, Tesla would have interest in focusing on high-end cars (with high margins). But, on the other hand, their vision implies making Tesla cars affordable.
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Agreed. I use orbitz expedia etc to find out who flies a route then i buy tickets from the airline. I don't see any savings on the aggregators and i want someone - an airline - to own it if something goes wrong, as it has on my last few trips.
One thing not mentioned yet is that "resort fees" are basically just a way to avoid paying commission to the aggregators. The combination of the ~20% commission and the most favored nation status that aggregators require from hotels without the negotiating power of Hilton limits the options hotels have to raise rates. And as the article mentions, this leads to hotels trying harder these days to establish a relationship with customers as an end run around the MFN clauses.

Also, I've probably booked 100+ hotels in the past few years, and I still do the majority of them through booking.com. I am aware that I can sometimes get cheaper rates by booking direct, and I do sometimes, if the delta is high enough. (On the other hand, I actually just booked a Hilton that was cheaper on the aggregator than on their own website.) I'm also aware that every hotel employee will tell you that 3rd party customers get the worst rooms in the place and are the first ones to get walked when overbooked. I can't say I've ever noticed any problems there. I'm even aware that booking's rating system is skewed - their 10 point scale actually only runs from 2.5 to 10, and the median rating is something like 8.1, so keep that in mind when you book your "Very Good, 8.1" hotel.

Despite all that, it has one killer feature that making direct reservations doesn't have - a uniform interface for making/changing/canceling bookings. It's a tremendous benefit in countries where I don't speak the language. I can do it fairly reliably on either the app or the website even when my network connection is dodgy, at any time, and without having to speak the language. I do admit that my requirements are fairly specific and most people traveling within their own country with reliable phone/internet service are generally better off doing the search first on an aggregator, and then booking direct (after signing up for loyalty programs) if the price is close.

(I work in the industry, but not for any of the companies mentioned.)
This was a really fun comments section to read. It's really interesting to see how much variation there is in the international milk market!
Its very hard to say as no one can really predict when a research drought will come unless you actually do the research. Though I must say that most of the ML researchers I've come across aren't directly concerned with AGI. (either they outright dont care, or they think its a step by step thing) If AI winter comes it's probably because of disappointment of progress due to misunderstanding/misalignment with the general public / rich investors, so now you know who to blame.

The state of cognitive science right now is basically a bunch of scientists saying: "yeah to be honest I have no idea really how the mind does this, but if you ignore the edge cases then this model I have here works pretty well". But it also seems to be that those edge cases are where human cognition truly shines. (ex. naturalized categorization, metaphor in language, novel problem solving) There is some progress, but at this stage its unclear how to import the philosophical discussions to an actual theory.

I'll add that it's very easy to be an "amateur cognitive scientist" because you just need some self-awareness to be able to construct some folk theory of the mind that works most of the time. But a model that "kinda works" isn't going to cut it for AGI because eventually as you push it down the line further your misalignment will get worse and worse. AGI would probably need some massive conceptual breakthrough in cognitive science and not in computational methods (though they are obviously interrelated)

cf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUjc1WuyPT8

(tbh I haven't read the bottom two, but I personally never thought that modern NN methods can achieve AGI, so I didn't bother to read their rationale asides from a skim)

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/strong-ai-isnt...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00289

I am: a cognitive science student that has /some/ understanding in recent ML methods

P.S. Still, my dream to be an AGI researcher! I have 0 prior experience but if someone out there is reading is also doing AGI research or something similar, contact me! I have absolutely no official credentials I must add however.
Heh, true. "Guarantee" is too strong of a word there.
https://testmy.net has worked great for me and tests both downloads and uploads in increasing sizes.
Personally, I take special note of people who can say "I was wrong and you were right" and usually these are rare and smart and often they become very good friends of mine.

Similarly, if you haven't said these words to anyone for a long time, it's likely you're not intellectually humble (or you're just always right :P )
Simply a kinder, gentler power structure. Not anything the US government hasn't pretended to be working toward for years. All it is is treating citizens as "one of your own" instead of as one of the "them". No great mystery, when power doesn't act quite as much as monstrous assholes people have a better time. People need to stop pretending like a little concern for your fellow man is some difficult, complicated, magical system design based on some secret power. When governments let people help those around them they will. Just get out of the way and give up a little control. All its ever taken for people to build a better system here is just for the Government to get out of the way.That's how the west was won, and built.
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If you were just getting basic cable, I don't think you'd get HD video... It might be part of the training to give crappy boxes to basic cable customers.
NordVPN (https://nordvpn.com/). Panama, doesn't store logs, plenty of servers around the world. Works with the majority of devices out there. Accepts bitcoin. Checks pretty much all the boxes.

Also recommended on https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/.
In a weird twist developing nations actually end up having much better access to fresh milk (whether cows or goat etc).
That's a rather classical explanation and although it's correct, I would say the uncertainty of non-commuting operators is more fundamental.
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Filing a charge back with a credit card company is painful compared to complaining about something in the $rideshare_company app in 2 minutes, and then getting refunded in less than a day. It's your life / time.
To my knowledge, just stopping, as you've done, is the most important thing, and then continue eating healthy, exercising and so on, but you've already done the hardest part. The important thing now is that you stick with it
This one of the most interesting stories I've read in a while
Isn't this a natural response to people bullshitting you (instead of saying "I don't know") and wouldn't saying "I don't know" help very much here?

Of course, what I describe is just a special case of what you describe.
I'm so sorry but this is hilarious.
It's visual voicemail equivalent of automated phone line.
On the other hand, I haven't had good experiences with other services. Coming home from my last trip to Texas I landed at LaGuardia and there was a guy there asking if I needed a car. I was super tired, so I just said, yeah, how much to get to <my address>. He says 60 bucks, and I can smoke in the car.

Okay fine. Whatever. Get to my place, and oh, it's 80 bucks. Seriously?! Okay fine. I tipped him anyway because that's what you do. Threw 20 bucks down for an even 100. Not the worst I've been screwed. And getting to smoke in the car on the way home was kind of nice.

Fucker charged me $140.
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They would have, if a Microsoft employee hadn't figured out a viable way to use extended mode in Windows 3.x.
It must be UHT. Pasteurised milk (in the UK, at least), will have gone off within a week or so.
A slightly off-topic question: when was the last time when Hacker News front page hasn't featured a negative post about Uber?
That sounds like an extremely creepy evening. Sounds like you got away cheaper than the worst outcome that night, and that's saying something.

Were there any other signs that things were gonna turn out like they did with that lady, before the picture escapade?
Preach it brother!

I am 6'5" tall (1.95m) and the number of little old ladies who think nothing of waving their sharp metal umbrella spokes at my eyes and face is untrue.
Lots of successful people have a track record of numerous failures. A friend of mine has made millions and gone bust 3 times now (or is it 4?). He's well along on his next startup. He doesn't even have a degree. How is America not the land of opportunity?

If you're not failing now and then, you're not trying. The Uber driver has my respect for getting in the game and trying.

> source

Not offhand. But you can start with every health report that comes out that outlines how this disease or that can have its lethal probability reduced by changing lifestyle. Such as quitting smoking, eating healthy, exercising, flossing, getting vaccinations, washing hands, using condoms, quitting meth, etc. The list goes on.
What do you mean they acquired Bing Maps from Microsoft? Bing Maps is owned by Uber now? Sorry if this is common-knowledge to everyone; I don't remember reading about it.
And it is entirely your fault - or so victims will be blamed.

On the bright side, 40 years is plenty to solve, or at least workaround the problem.
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This is not correct though. Holocaust was ignored or silenced due to ideology, not denied.

Not trying to say this is somehow better, but this just different. In other words Yevtushenko wasn't trying to bring to reason, but rather make sure people won't forget.
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It's also a good negotiation strategy. Admit early on in the negotiation that you were wrong about one thing, and you'll get a commitment to admitting being wrong later on by the other side.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14021078
For some reason, most of what I'd posted to the above comment (quotes from the letter) don't appear to have made it through. Sigh.
I'm looking at Southwest to fly to John Wayne Airport (SNA) from Portland and I'm surprised that they are very expensive and take twice as long (because of having 1 stop) as their non-stop competitors like Alaska, JetBlue (LGB instead of SNA), etc.

On the other hand, I'm looking at Southwest because they have a lot of flights, they let me check 2 bags for free, and I can cancel the flight without penalty.
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I know angular 1.x, is it worth to study angular 2 or should I go with react?
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Honestly it's bad everywhere. I'm lucky enough to have U-verse 1Gb fiber. I get around 95% of the speed, which is awesome. EXCEPT for some awful reason I'm required to use their modem/firewall combo. Even if I forward all IP traffic to my own router I still have to keep the AT&T router in front because it authorizes me on the network.

To make matters worse it exposes a management port for who-knows-why. I'm hoping somebody picks the thing apart and dumps the 802.1X certificate so I can use my own modem.
You know, it is funny. It just is. Sometimes all you can do is laugh about stuff, and this is a thing to laugh about. What else are you going to do?
Except, the phone tree isn't what's on the web. So really you're putting texting against a webpage or an app, which will always deliver a better ux because they're unconstrained.
So, this article is kind of a silly puff piece but the Citizen Lab has a strong track record.

It was the key part of a project called the OpenNet Initiative [1] which was in, in its day, the most comprehensive catalog of state-sponsored Internet censorship activities. It basically involved creating lists of sensitive web pages in various categories and then systemically trying to access them from within as many countries as possible, to see what was blocked and how it evolved over time.

They have done a lot of original research on what commercial tools are used by repressive governments to spy on or otherwise compromise the online activities of their citizens. [2]

They were instrumental in documenting and exposing GhostNet. [3]

They published one of the first comprehensive research reports on the extent of surveillance on TOM-Skype (basically "Chinese Skype").

They have done critically important research / investigative journalism on exposing the activities of CSEC, Canada's equivalent of the NSA, in spying on Canadians. [4]

Citizen Lab is like a combination of a security / threat research consultancy with an international relations thinktank that lives at a university. If this article seems like vague claptrap, it's because it's kind of difficult to describe their mission. They are a skeleton crew operation that is highly driven by the interests of the handful of researchers working there at any given time.

Disclaimer: I did a very small amount of totally insignificant work for them in 2010 as a undergraduate student at U of T.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNet_Initiative
[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/netsweeper-bahrain-governm...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostNet
[4] http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christopher-parson...
Also milk pasteurisation and sterilisation are on a sliding scale, different countries and producers will use different temperatures and times.

It's likely that in the UK, we do 'just enough' to make it safe. Wouldn't want to ruin a cup of tea, would we?
Agoda often offers discounts to hotels you've viewed if you're browsing around and I always get the hotel cheaper than what's on offer at the hotel directly. For example the hotel I'm currently staying at in Taiwan cost 2500 NT, booking directly with the hotel is actually 4100 NT...

I don't understand how this is possible but this is how it seems to me.

I don't use things like flight scanner because booking directly with the airline is always cheaper from experience.
Sometimes. That would be a losing bet when negotiating with the current presidential administration or its GOP allies.

I'm not being flippant or scoring a cheap shot. Intransigence was the entire strategy, the core messaging of their campaign and the reason for their popularity. They don't do compromise. Any concessions are simply treated as a sign of weakness.
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Sure. But for Chinese dissidents, trusting an NSA-run VPN would arguably be preferable to trusting a Chinese ISP.
I spent a few minutes browsing through the data, and immediately founds lots of mislabeled data, e.g. an industrial power washer labeled as a toothbrush sound.
I really got nothing. She wasn't any more flaggy than any other woman I've met on OKCupid who is born and raised in NYC.

I'm starting to think that born and raised in NYC is itself a flag.
Honestly that sounds horrible to me. I'd like to skip the whole point conversion and dealing with non-experts and just talk to a human that works at whatever company please.
Which is fine, if science has a fighting chance in such a marketplace.

But the inherent humility and uncertainty of rigourous science is often no match for snake oil and demagoguery, as we know.
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>DOCSIS has some support for stream compression, so you'll often get highly unrealistic results.

Do you have a source for this? I've never heard of it and I can't find any reference for this or even proposed support for this.
Influenza kills half a million people a year. Don't take it lightly.
To put that into context, most of those cars are not Full Size luxury sedans. Tesla only has 2 models right now, and completely dominates the fullsize luxury space.

http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2017/01/usa-december-2016-large...
It's interesting that you say third party customers get worse treatment. I always assumed the opposite would be the case, because people booking through a portal can leave a rating, while many direct customers will be one-time business, with little to no recourse of things are sub-par. Do you know what the reason might be that this is not the case?
The problem is remembering to only input rationals :) So instead of doing (iota 100 0.1 0.1), you do (iota 100 (/ 1 10) (/ 1 10)). That does not work in chicken for some reason.

I don't know if precomputation is ever guaranteed for those things, but otherwise it would be neat to be able to input rationals directly into the source.

Edit: So, this is scheme standard discovery week: apparently inputing 1/10 works just fine. I can't believe I missed this.
Hadn't tried that (fast.com) before. Interesting results:

iPhone 6+ very close to router: 110Mbps
2012 MacMini (WiFi 802.11ac) very close to router: 120Mbps
2011 MacMini (ethernet but USB-powered switch in between): 92Mbps

With dslreports.com speed test the ethernet is consistently the fastest.

I have limited the download speed on the TP-Link Archer C7 router to 100Mbps in an effort to cut down on bufferbloat. Seems to work pretty well on the dslreports test - get A, A, A.
Not fair competition when indoctrination is given a headstart.
There is a difference between being allowed to learn this stuff and being indoctrinated since the days you are not even able to read.
So, editing code with Cas9 is like sculping with sniper gun :)
Crazy as in dangerous, many deaths and injuries here over the years of powerline techs.
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Actually. Google flights usually has prices that match the airline. I sometimes use that to compare. Then go to the airline site directly to do the booking.
I went there about a year ago. This is a gravestone in the churchyard. Just saying...
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There is no direct link to the paper (only the journal), but I wonder if they considered this (apparently) previously common practice:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...
Theyre gravitationally bound to Jupiter.