skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Erowid are currently asking for donations to keep running:

https://erowid.org/donations/donations.php

Anyway who has used them over the years and hope they are around for future generations, consider giving as they are more important than ever with the explosion in RCs and analogues where a slight mishap in dosage can result in death
I'm already subscribed to paid sources, Economist for example.
Yeah, the weirdest thing is that the chipset this thing used was released almost two years ago.

Regarding drivers, it's always fun to plug something that is 20 years old in to my computer and have it work. I like showing off to my friends by using something that last had a supported driver for Windows 98. However it's a bit embarrassing when something that should work doesn't.

I'd love to contribute more, but I'm not capable of writing drivers from scratch, and a lot of drivers are just hacks built on top of hacks. I wish building drivers didn't involve hours of reverse engineering proprietary protocols.

For instance, I managed to get a dymo desktop label printer working, but only with one font size, and I can't actuate the cutter. I'd be more than happy to finish the driver if Dymo released the specs for their protocol, but as it stands I'm just happy I can get the minimum level of functionality out of it.

This entire conversation makes me realize why people think I'm a masochist for using Linux.
The Making of the Stitch Fix Algorithm Tour
I think this question is more geared towards evaluating the level of sophistication that a technical organization has prior to having an interview or even applying (which can often take significant time).

I've been at plenty of jobs where either new candidates (or existing employees) have talked a good game but when they finally show up to work, can't code their way out of a paper bag. The hope is that writing code during an interview helps prevent those situations.

The other thing this questions tends to tell you is that you'll have a technical employee likely involved in the interview, which is good for all sorts of things from finding out about general work environment to getting details on the answers of the rest of the Joel questions like "what VCS?" and "build system?".
> "A simple pen" is a nice example, but the real interesting question is what to do about common goods like natural resources and land.

This very question is what is addressed with Henry George's concept of private property in land (aka Georgism, aka Geolibertarianism, aka geoism).[0]

To quote the Wiki page to tie this into the article: "Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek credited early enthusiasm for Henry George with developing his interest in economics."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Media Center experience is much better on this TV compared to other devices: No input switching, native 4K, fast switching between apps, simpler remote experience - no switching activities on a universal remote and turning devices ON/OFF.

Unfortunately, they have an history of not being updated and even worse executing all kinds of spying activities on their users. [1]

We bought a dumb-TV and hooked up an Apple TV. At least Apple respect privacy a little more. We also have an XBox One, but we rarely use it. We only have time for quick games. The Apple TV has a nice selection of titles that you can play for a couple of minutes. In contrast to the XBox, it doesn't take ages to actually start up. (Yes, I know you can use standby, but it uses 15W.)

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/smart-tv-spying-vizio-settleme...
A ton of companies are working on self-driving cars, including many companies that are:

a. Bigger than Uber.

b. Have actual profitable businesses that they can use to fund their research.

I have never seen any kind of evidence that Uber will either be the first to market with true self-driving cars, or that their self-driving cars will be superior in kind to their competitors. The closest thing to evidence that I've ever seen anyone provide that Uber self-driving cars are going to have any advantages to their many rivals is "this is an existential issue to Uber."

Companies fail all the time. This is pretty strong evidence that "existential problems" are not guaranteed to be solvable ones.
If you can't study to reverse a linked list efficiently... You're gonna have a bad time...

I ask 'reverse a linked list' when the interview is going so poorly that there is no chance the candidate will be able to answer my 'normal' questions.
>What? That is absurd. Maybe it could be claimed that other people who were partially inspired by Marx made modern states, but that's about all.

Go read the history of just about any left-wing politcal party in these countries, who fought for and won these social democratic concessions, and get back to me.

>Clearly you have not actually read or understood Hayek. This often gets repeated but everybody that knows anything about Hayek understands that this is false.

Chapter 17 of his "The Constitution of Liberty" is literally titled "The Decline of Socialism and the Rise of the Welfare State," and argues that the latter has replaced the former as the foremost enemy of liberty. At one point he seemed to be in favor of something like universal healthcare and basic income, but withdrew from it when he figured out that doctrinaire rightism curried more favor.

>I'm not gone address this because its so clearly false. There is a huge industry with 100000s of firms all over the world. Also I work in a small tech company who sells to other firms of very different sizes.

Let me know how many are left standing when the tech bubble pops.

>Again simply false. You can look at any indicators of economist opinions and you will see a huge majority of opposition everywhere in the world.

As you would expect living under the Pax Romana of an empire that will undo your state if you disagree with their ideology.
That doesn't jive with the story that Uber is providing a marketplace to connect independent drivers and passengers. Maybe Uber has dropped that way of framing what it does, but that's how they used to present themselves, as a technology company enabling transactions between drivers and passengers. Under that framing, where Uber is enabling a transaction instead of participating in two transactions, this would be like an online broker that sells your stock at $15.27 per share, tells you it sold at $15.25 per share, and pockets the $0.02 per share in addition to its advertised fees for the transaction.
Ask via a Twitter Poll, and we'll answer via Tweetbot.
YouTube TV is now available in the SF Bay Area
It's a reasonable preference, but it won't be shared by everyone. Many of us don't even have onsite phone equipment anymore...
If you want to play around, have a look at Ember Twiddle:

https://ember-twiddle.com/

(No Glimmer there yet, only full Ember, but you can get a feel for what it can do, how it is like, test a things out...)
Beating the state-of-the-art with one-shot learning is not common. Transfer learning for NLP is also quite unchartered.

Also the technique is quite novel: This is not pre-trained nets on labeled data, it is an unsupervised generative model.

Future research directions are exciting: Unsupervised prediction of the next frame in a video, and then being able to one-shot learn a wide range of visual tasks.
He has a friend who builds is own shackle, in Hawai of course.

But seriously, this is a very very interesting project.
My only Uber pool experience was when in San Francisco the whole group I was with would all request an uber pool for two people and the people who didn't get the same driver would quit. We accordingly were using it to get cheaper rides that was the exact same experience as a normal uber
> System Requirements: To play Voxatron, you'll need Windows, Linux or a Mac with a 800MHz cpu and any video card.

http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
Yeah, I was just looking at the Glimmer opcodes format. I'm a bit surprised it's an array of arrays, rather than a flattened array. It looks like it goes `[[1,"id","bar"],[2,<other param>],...]` rather than `[1,"id","bar",2,<other param>,...]`. Wonder why? Monomorphism, or faster dispatch by not having to pass a pc index around? Interesting.

The `a(e,"id","bar")` format is what other frameworks produce. It sounds like in Glimmer it would be `[1,"id","bar"]`. So that's only a single char savings.
That's like saying the horse meat scandal doesn't matter because horse meat tastes just as good as beef. If you purposely deceive consumers in a calculated way to skim off profit, you will have problems as a business. Consumers need to trust the product or service they are buying.
Ars Technica Uses Sensationalist Headlines And Shallow Understanding Of Subject Matter To Defraud People Into Reading Their Articles
Counter-factual hypotheticals are tough. I think it intriguing to consider that the US staying out would have prevented the rise of the Nazis and Soviets, but I'm not in a position to run the experiment.
Are they still saying that by submitting a sample to them, that they then own your genome and can sell it to whoever they want? I'd love to get mine sequenced and check it out a bit, but not if they are going to sell it off to a million shady companies whenever they go bankrupt (maybe 50+ years, but still)
We have been using Blue Ocean for a few months - We have to use the Classic UI as Blue Ocean is a buggy mess... It doesn't handle branches with slashes in them (reload or try a direct link), it handles console output very poorly with some attempt at detecting when users don't want autoscroll, UI fails often and require browser refresh for it to update data or for UI elements to start working again, ...

Uuuuuugh. It looks nice, but all my colleagues whine about how poorly it works. Then comes all the problems caused by regular Jenkins multibranch pipeline limitations...
Gush: A stack based language eventually for genetic programming
It's already available

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/117771/e...
Mine was literally "Disappointed but not surprised."
> So, if I post a GB worth of diary entries, who ends up caching it by default? Just my followers? People I follow? Pubs I connect to?

your followers, their followers, and their followers (assuming everyone is using the default replication settings). These may include pubs or people you follow. If you are able to connect to a pub then most likely it is willing to replicate your feed.
Evidence: Uber is already deploying self driving cars in multiple cities as part of the car sharing network.
They'll probably settle and move on with life
In general you are right but Gates is giving other people money to further their projects. I guess what I'm saying is that I wish he would run one of these companies for one of these specific purposes. There is a reason he is Bill Gates and they (random charity) are not.
OTOH, I have an Xbox One and a 3rd Gen Apple TV and I much prefer the UI for video streaming on the Xbox to the Apple TV. Scrolling through things takes forever on the Apple device, while the Netflix and Hulu apps on the Xbox are a breeze and I can scroll through content with ease. Though, that's probably a function of the controller (much more input options on the Xbox controller than the Apple TV "remote").
How does Volt's transaction resolution mechanism compare? It sounds like that would be a third model yet.
Never before in the history of the Internetz
Contact them directly and express concern over business practices or behavior.

Contact your government representatives and ask them to regulate Uber and their business practices.

Share news reports with your friends so they understand the problem as well.

I don't use Uber or Walmart because I feel these companies are destructive (on balance) to society. That doesn't prevent me from complaining when Lyft or Target fails to be a good corporate citizen.
Logging slow Ecto queries: adventures in Elixir metaprogramming
I know some have a strong-belief to not use the DB-features as fully as possible.

Instead of down-vote, think hard why do you have that belief and if truly the reason apply TO EVERYONE ELSE.

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In the other hand, why is instead "ok" to use a NoSql database? EVERYTHING is non-standard, in contrast with sql.

Who, thinking rationally, will deny to use the full redis features just because is "non-standard"?
When I signed up the sample they took was spit in a vial.

It never clicked for me that this was going to be the most scientifically accurate reading of my health in all the world. I took part because it could give me some scaring and soothing. But I assumed I'd go get a real test done if I was actually worried or interested about something specifically.

The website repeats this sentiment over and over, I learned about all kinds of interesting genetic stuff. I'm sure that's what it's for. I shouldn't be surprised that many people take what it says as gospel.
In JS, if you pass same input it will give you same results. With box2d/planck frequency needs to be constant anyway, and I have not seen any nondeterministic component in the code. (I think in box2d docs it refers differences in execution platforms not the library itself.)
Welp this got downvoted, I guess HN doesn't look kindly at promoting positivity here?!
>Those reports seem not-so-easy to understand based on the patients she sees.

Sounds like they are keeping her in business.
In practice none of those attacks have yet reached a level of concern for bittorrent developers to deploy serious countermeasures. Torrents generally are considered public data, especially those made available through the DHT, and provide peer exchange which allows near-complete extraction of peer lists anyway, so it hardly introduces any new privacy leaks. Although maintaining secrecy while exchanging data over public infrastructure is desirable, that can be achieved by encrypting the payload instead of obscuring the fact that you participated in the network at all.

BEP42[0] has been implemented by many clients and yet nobody has felt the need to actually switching to enforcement mode.

All that is the result of the bittorrent DHT being a low-value target. It does not contain any juicy information and is just one of multiple peer discovery mechanisms, so there's some redundancy too.

[0] http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0042.html
Amazon will create 30,000 part-time jobs but workers desperate to work full-time
HTML is not just about putting text on a screen. It is markup; the tags and attributes imply meaning about the contents they contain.

This makes it not only usable by a web browser, but parsable by software. That includes, but is certainly not limited to, screen readers, assistive technologies, and search engines.

Consider an example where I use JavaScript to make <i> tags behave like links. I can make it “work”, but by doing so, I am disregarding—and breaking—a primary function of the language.
Twitter Sues Federal Government
The document is a bit equivocal on the use on serif vs sans-serif fonts but eventually states that sans-serifs are usually more legible. Interestingly, US pocket checklists (for use in flight) use a serif font for the routine checklists and sans-serif for the emergency procedures. I wonder if there was some research that supports that decision. ([1] is an F-14 checklist I found on the internet but other platforms' checklists have identical formatting.)

[1] http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/en/aircraft/usa/grumman/f-...
I wasn't in hospital, or in any pain. The euphoria is very real.

For the benzodiazepine class of drugs it's a little less clear cut - people who take them recreationally may well be alleviating stress or anxiety and finding that pleasurable. Opiates.... nah.
It may be wrong to drink and drive, but it happens pretty regularly (especially the "I've only had one beer" variety). From a policy (not a moral) perspective though, encouraging ride-sharing makes total sense here. It's a bit like teaching kids about birth control vs. abstinence. I don't condone minors having sex but a lot of them are going to regardless of what I think, so might as well make sure they're protected.
Agreed, but from financial perspective the distinction between "profitable cities" and "subsidized cities" is important. As UberChina experience shows, the expansion (to 100 cities, no less https://www.cnet.com/news/uber-pledges-to-expand-to-100-more... ) is costly and sometimes turns out to be never sustainable.
I don't remember android being floss since google bought it. My exprience of cyanogenMod is bad: support for the devices I owned was shaky to inconsistent through time. Then it turned into a commercial attempt at maximizing profit.

IMHO the effort put into cyanogenmod would have been better used if put into building an actual OS. Though this is a mostly unreachable moving target as devices get obsolete faster than one can add support for at best manufacturers do not help.

Right now I'm considering jolla/sailfish for the next time I buy a phone which hopefully will not happen before 4 or 5 years.
Let me start with an assumption that is often accepted to be true about developers. Many of us are thought to have ADHD or be on the autistic spectrum.

People with high functioning autism, especially those that fit what has been known as the Asperger's subset, are very prone to oversensitivity to external stimulation. In people with this oversensitivity, sounds seem louder, lights seem brighter, and everything is more distracting and more nerve-wracking than for the average person.

I think ADHD and distraction is mostly self-explanatory. In addition, it can take even longer after a distraction to get back into the deep concentration needed for complex tasks. However, these folks often if not distracted can stay in that deep concentration zone a very long time.

So when research shows (and it does) that a quiet workplace is more conducive to work that needs long periods of concentration and we're as a community pretty certain that we have a large portion of our group who are more easily distracted and has higher costs for being distracted, how is there any argument against giving a low-distraction workspace?
Tangentially, while FaunaDB and Spanner both seem great, and I love consuming the technical details in articles like these, neither I or my companies are ever going to commit to using something which isn't open source.

I have a real problem understanding why Google (and now FaunaDB) are so clueless and/or inconsistent about software licensing. Google seemed to finally get it with Kubernetes, which has grown into a real and vibrant ecosystem; I will (and do) happily use Google's hosted Kubernetes product, while I know, at the same time, that I am not locked into a single vendor. With Spanner (and FaunaDB), all I get is lock-in. (The cynic in me suspects that Google's open-sourcing of Kubernetes is a cunning strategy to dominate the cloud by commoditizing container orchestration, and thus undermining competitors such as Amazon. After all, it's not like Google is open-sourcing Cloud Storage or BigQuery either.)

The fact that I can't run these products locally on my dev machine is another major downside unrelated to the philosophical aspects of free software.

I'm sure Google and Fauna will make truckloads of money on enterprises that are willing to bet on them, of course. Personally, I am holding out for CockroachDB.
Ever since Uber added this feature, the fare charged to me has never differed from the estimate unless I changed the destination mid-ride.
Azure has 3 CDN products from what I can tell. They have semi-overlapping feature sets, though I guess now HTTP/2 is taken care of. We were using one of them and experienced frequent timeouts. Switching to another fixed it. They don't explain why they have these different products in the first place, either.
Then what are you basing your opinion on?
What is the right way to do asynchronous operations in Redux?
Jenkins is by far the worst CI/CD system, except for all the others. Jenkins seem to be the only multi-node job orchestrator that works well enough for a CI/CD workflow, but every time it tries to do something "smart", it seems to fail spectacularly.
Erowid stopped my experimental teenage years from becoming disastrous/addiction/overdose years and I know it's done the same for thousands if not millions.
There's no boss to tell them to shut up and get back to work.
This is great! Exactly the type of service I would use as someone that avoids centralized social networks.

Also wondering, can this be a replacement for Slack? Can I set up a private group chat room? Or can I only use the private @ feature to send private messages to multiple people?
> my credit union was infinitely more competent than the buffoons at Bank of America.

This. It's not even a pro-credit union thing: small banks handle exceptional situations much better than big banks in my experience. You'd think it would be the opposite, but it's not. When the tellers know every customer, even when I almost never walk in, exceptions seem to generate a helpful phone call.
This test was extremely useful to me, as I found out I was a carrier for a previously unknown genetic disease.

It was because I used 23andMe that I now know I am a carrier and can potentially prevent having a child who would suffer from this disease. I'd say that was worth 200 bucks.
I'm the original author for this post, and there are a few things I've realised since writing it (despite the fact that it was only 2 days ago).

The first is as allwein says below: Just because I made an assumption that source control is ubiquitous, it doesn't mean that it actually is, and it probably shouldn't be removed from the list.

The second is with regards to quiet working conditions. I've seen here, and on Reddit, that most people seem to vehemently disagree with me. I didn't imagine that there would be this level of disagreement. The popular opinion is that everyone should have quiet working conditions. My statement was that working conditions are tied to open office vs closed office, and it was a personal preference. So, my question to HN is: Am I wrong in thinking that this is a personal preference and that it benefits everyone to have private offices?
There's no question the CFPB has helped some consumers resolve disputes. The parent's complaint was about the death of small banks. That has been caused directly by the cost to comply with new regulations.
This is my main point of contention with the article as well.
I'm going to have to disagree.

1. Drivers want to have passengers close by for pickup. Passengers want to have drivers close by for pickup. The more drivers, the quicker passengers will get picked up, the more passengers will use the service, and the more drivers will use the service.

2. In addition, UberPool/Lift Line have obvious and strong network effects. Sharing a ride is only possible with a large number of users. The more rides that can be shared, the cheaper the rides can be.

In both these ways, additional passengers do add value to other passengers.

These services are really just curated marketplaces of drivers and passengers. Uber has its driver/passenger marketplace, Lyft has its marketplace. It's tough to replicate the power of these marketplaces, just as its tough to replicate the marketplace power of Craigslist or eBay.

You need a substantial amount of both buyers and sellers for the service to be worth anything. If Doritos was not yet in Canada, they could provide value immediately by selling Doritos in one 7/11 shop, no problem. For Uber to expand to Canada, they would need a minimum number of drivers and passengers in a given geographic area.
Thank you. I made the library IvanK.js mainly for myself (but there are hundreds of people using it, too). I fixed all known bugs during the last 5 years and implemented all I wanted to implement, so now I consider it to be a "complete thing". The rest should be built on top of it, not inside the library.

PIXI.js is cool (actually they use some of my code), but I think that my library is easier and more comfortable to use.
DNA readings will soon be the new Horoscopes...