skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohh, someone who knows my pain! I deal with SolidWorks EPDM on a daily basis, and I am continually amazed by how terrible it is. I long for proper source control with branching and merging and sensible handling of local files and all the lovely things that have been figured out in the software world.
I agree the title is confusing. As far as I understand everything is unsupervised except for the sentiment neuron. The paper itself is actually a better read.
Someone needs to make a lightweight framework with MobX and Glimmer
I think you're confusing economies of scale with network effects.

For example, a hotel chain is more valuable if it has a global presence because it can leverage that to create customer loyalty. That is not a network effect. To the consumer, it does not matter how many people use those hotels. They could be completely empty for all they care, they just want a room for a competitive rate.

More efficiency through higher utilization (more passengers lowers the cost of pooled rides) is a classic example of economy of scale.

There are counter-examples to your "Uber expand to Canada" argument. For instance, a mobile provider is not going to be very successful in a market until they have coverage across the area of that market. Nobody would say that a mobile provider has a network effect because they have invested in build-out.
Well you can host a Docker image of an openldap container, secured by SSL certification (in my experience, Let's Encrypt works for this, just take care to not expose the ldap port, only ldaps) and prevented from unauthorized access by denying anonymous binds.

Using service accounts you can then have other cloud services like Atlassian, Slack or Gitlab authenticate against the LDAP server.

Ad phone equipment: Asterisk in Docker combined with a VoIP provider (and exposing a SIP server) can work, but I have not tried this in practice. It should support standard Android and iOS SIP clients, but beware that this will drain your battery life due to permanent connections and keepalives - I don't know how easy (and supported) push notifications for calls are. Also, going from the VoIP provider through a questionable (in terms of QoS) Docker hoster to your phone will introduce a measurable latency, and the re-coding that may happen in Asterisk can also negatively affect audio quality.
For me, an example is worth 10 pages of documentation. The documentation is good for reference but only after you understand the ideas behind it.

One of the biggest criteria I have for using a library is whether they have a rich set of examples to draw from.
Honest question: Why is RADIUS not more widely used? Is it because of limited AP hardware resources?
"We will not sell, lease, or rent your individual-level information (i.e., information about a single individual's genotypes, diseases or other traits/characteristics) to any third-party or to a third-party for research purposes without your explicit consent."

And...

"Unless you choose to store your sample with 23andMe (called consent to "bio-banking", which can be found here and changed in your settings), your saliva samples and DNA are destroyed after the laboratory completes its work, unless the laboratory's legal and regulatory requirements require it to maintain physical samples."

Also: https://www.23andme.com/en-int/legal/biobanking/
Google Paid $120M for Self driving engineer
BTW if you're curious, browser DOM operations have advanced now to the point that doing work in dom fragments is often slower than just doing it right in the main tree. See, for instance, one of the recent optimizations to the vanillajs implementation of js-framework-benchmark: https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/commit/2e...
The time I had to crack my own Reddit password (kinda)
While this might be the case in many businesses, physicians generally pay their own malpractice insurance (which can easily be more than $10k a year) out of pocket. The litigious nature of the medical system as a whole in America drives these costs way up and it makes a noticeable impact in not only how much doctors take home but how they act to cover their asses from a lawsuit.

Conference expenses and the like are still often covered by the group though so that's at least something.
Quite surprised Dermatology and Plastic Surgery aren't the top two. Those specialities are almost unique in being the only remaining ones in which most practitioners are not in managed care programs so can and do charge what the market will bear.

If you go to an oncology conference you see a lot of paper presentations and poster sessions. If you go to the annual Derm conference there's a whole "scene" in the corridors and the trade show floor is really little different from the trade show floor of, say, a car show, or the AVN awards. Maybe GDC, or maybe that's a bit over the top. If you aren't an unabashed fan of capitalism (which I am), you'd likely call it crass.

One year I was walking the show floor and stopped to look at a display of liposuction tubes -- it was beautifully laid out, like a cross between a bunch of Cala Lilies and an pipe organ rank. The salesdroid came over and said only two things:
- "Hello, Doctor! Do you do liposuction in your clinic?"
(I shook my head)
- "Well you can easily get an additional $3000/day from these babies."

I'm also surprised radiologists score so high because a lot of the analysis has been farmed out to India. And since that entailed a fully digital stack, those Indian MDs are about to be the first physicians to be replaced with DL. Perhaps the large number reflects a small residual 'n', or perhaps the radiologists have been able to hang on even though part of the job is outsourced -- presumably by them.
Funny, because whenever I get asked questions like that, I just start nesting for loops to an arbitrary depth, until that trolls my way out of the interview.

Then I wrap the outer-most closure in an exception that swallows the error, and bid good afternoon.
North East Line, Sengkang lines are run by ComfortDelGro.

I wasn't aware that SMRT was bought out by the government recently (the last time I rode the MRT, last year, it was still private). It doesn't seem that the buyout was orchestrated as some sort of bailout, especially given that the systems seem to be solvent enough to support at least one for-profit. It, then, remains to be seen if refolding SMRT will result in a net degradation or net improvement in services... This will be an interesting 'control' experiment.
There is no reason for the personal stuff to be out in the open in open source.
You'd probably flash it using flashrom, just like non-blobless (blobfull?) coreboot.

BTW, a really interesting coreboot distribution is https://github.com/osresearch/heads (focused on boot security)
What happens over time if each year I fire all my below average programmers?
Read reviews for games you're looking at buying? Star ratings is all I've found, but they sold this as an entertainment hub and touted how it's all integrated.

What's the point of all the flashy store interface if it's lacking what has become a critically important part of the buying process for most people?
> Also, aren't Disney movies raytraced?

Yes.
Here’s how an otherwise humdrum virus sparks celiac disease
Apparently, DP has some detractors. I was told by my signal processing professor that differential privacy wasn't really a solution for privacy preserving data analysis. He said something along these lines: "if I know something about the underlying data distribution (Gaussian, etc.), it is possible to wash out the randomness."

Now, I don't understand DP well enough and information theory/signal processing still seems a bit like "dragons be here" to me. But, I want to take a stab at trying to reason why he said that.

For example, take randomized response (the only DP technique I understand). That is vulnerable to a longitudinal attack: a person can query repeatedly to wash out the randomness. If you think about it, isn't it the almost the inverse of a repetition code (error correction)? There, you're trying to use redundancy (repetition) to remove noise.
That's an interesting technique.

Mine was a matter of grouping the global variables for configuration together. Take the address of it, compute the offset of that address in the .exe file, and write.
Yea, many nights of mine were spent converting finger movements into headshots. So your work is appreciated.

It is just amazing to me that it was such a downgrade. Granted, the Xbox Ones menu system has improved over the years. But it still is sloppy feeling, laggy at times, and just overall non user friendly. Like you have some menus where you have to press different buttons for actions (like inviting people to a game) and otheres where you select the option with 'A'.

I may be a bit jaded because it was so awful at launch, but I still feel like it never got close to as clean and usable as the 360.

I will stop ranting now.
I actually find the fact that the Linux version is more expensive to be insulting. If anything, it should be cheaper, given that you're paying the "Windows Tax" on the W10 version of the laptop.

I just created a product comparison¹ on Dell's site and it looks like the Ubuntu version of the XPS13 is $100 cheaper than the Windows version.

① - http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/configuration-compare.aspx...
States compete with other states.
Microsoft Ranks Highest in Tablet Satisfaction as Features, Design Shine
I forgot all of those.

Hell I couldn't even remember if it was libreboot or openboot that had drama.
> In the second paragraph, you present a scenario where the third party repair could have been responsible for the fault.

No. Perhaps I could have been clearer, but the emphasis in that sentence is on 'widespread', not on 'could'. Which is to say that third party repairs can do significantly more damage, and if you have your TouchID sensor replaced or repaired by a third party, and a connected component fails, Apple may rightfully feel aggrieved if they're on the hook. The component may have failed anyway, but it also might be due to the third party repair or unofficial component.

> They can't just say "this could have been caused by the third party, so we're not going to look at it." They have to actually figure it out.

Which is what this is all about. It's very hard and very time consuming to do that.
It's only "rogue" because it actually helps people.
> For example, if you have a laptop and a desktop, you can set up SSO and an NFS automounted home directory, so you don't need to maintain two (or N) home directories/sets of dotfiles/etc at the same time.

Good luck with unstable network connections. NFS is already enough of a PITA in a fixed office network, much less over e.g. a spotty Wifi.

Also you will need a VPN because you don't want to expose raw NFS to the Internet.
I have a thread on when Pottering was hired at Red Hat:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14044287

I think there was a lot of hate for PulseAudio too.

I wonder what about Kay Sievers now, which was even hated by Linus Torvalds at one point.
So this will help prevent channels from stealing content and re-uploading it as their own.
True, though many of the initiatives for more STEM workers (through visa programs) focus more on graduate students, especially at the PhD level. There are various exemptions to visa caps for people with grad degrees, and there was a proposal (that died along with general immigration reform) to provide a green card to anyone with a PhD in certain STEM fields, with a possibility for people with MS degrees should there not be enough PhDs.

It's not 100%, but I'd say there is definitely a push toward graduate education in the "STEM worker shortage" conversation.

Interestingly, a RAND study found that the reason people with choice don't get PhDs in STEM fields is because they aren't competitive with the "professions", or even para-professions in health related areas.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/issue_papers/2005...
I thought it was funny enough to deserve having been posted, since it implied a nice misreading (or perhaps even a garden path sentence).

You could also consider it a wry social comment on the Rise of the Robots.

(I notice your comment has been downvoted. I will up vote it -- I disagree with it, but it's also reasonable question as questioning the standards and practices of the group are a way to converge on good practice. Every team should be doing that).
Newest web vulnerability: pivot your way into a job
You're spouting bullsh*t.
There's absolutely nothing in this topology that's new; you're using bog standard off the shelf components that can be bought anywhere...?
Conversely, after the initial struggle getting the ideas behind it, examples are worthless and documentation is king.
Well Uber is one of the more blatantly antisocial companies out there. But skimming through the comments, if the accusations are true, I have to wonder - are they that stupid? Why would anyone think they could get away with showing two different prices to driver and passenger? People don't live in isolation, they talk to each other. Sometimes a driver will pick up their friend. And a driver can also be a passenger when not working...
Depends highly on the 'job' - Big Machine/Small Role or Little Machine/Big Role?

If my job is to be a single cog working on tiny tasks in a large machine, I prefer to work remote since a lot of unproductive people tend to loiter their lives away inside these types of companies - and they will drag you down too. Its depressing and I avoid it by telecommuting and using my reclaimed free time for more important work.

However, if I'm a creative member of a small team charged with solving a big challenge, I much prefer working in an office. I've found there is a great deal of ingenuity lost by these small teams working remotely - even if youre on Slack 24/7 and have a daily group standup. There is a lot of critical information transfered in bursts when physically present that you can't yet match with online collaboration tools.
Precision is totally compatible with deliberate ambiguity and playfulness.

As examples: Esperanto tries very hard to be precise, but there are playful neologisms, like "gedormi", which conjugates "dormi", "to sleep", in the mixed-gender plural, to form "to sleep with (heterosexually)", with the same innuendo as in English.

In Lojban, there is an abundance of poetry in which pieces of the phrases are intentionally and visibly omitted, which allows for flexible interpretation of created ambiguity.
Guh, I wish this title mentioned that it involves the Gorean community.
> Or am I vastly underestimating how complex the standard UI elements really are? Or overestimating how much effort went into Glimmer?

Both, especially the first one.
Great point. I didn't know that Web OS was released as Open Source by HP, or that LG bought it... http://www.openwebosproject.org/
They are both private, so its academic, you cannot invest. If the future of ride sharing is electric self driving, buy Tesla or Google (or Apple, their car cannot be too far off).
That doesn't seem to be quite the whole story, though.

Suppose I'm a contractor you've hired to remodel your house. I tell you that I can get a plumber to do it for $5,000, of which I'll get some cut, and you agree. Then I go to a plumber and tell them you're willing to pay $4,500 for the job, and they agree. I pocket the extra $500.

Have I been honest in this scenario?
But it usually means you don't want to be a generalist. Otherwise, why waste 8 years going deep on something?
I thought it was clear that Leah still finds fault with the FSF (and thus has no interest in Libreboot rejoining), but has come to the conclusion that she went down the wrong path in responding to the situation. I see that as a reasonable and internally consistent position.
VR interested person form the US or Canada wanted for Interviews (Study project)
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It is a university-project where we should define a sales and marketing-strategy for VR-headsets. I would be very happy if some would help me and answer my questions.

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Eh, when I interviewed my recruiter was definitely friendly and willing to answer questions, but didn't really have any actionable information about what to expect in the interview. Answers on Quora/blog posts were actually a lot more useful. However, later on in the process during team matching and negotiating an offer the recruiter was much more helpful.
Except for rebranded chips/cards.
> - No keyboard backlight.

This is a huge plus for me. After switching to Fedora on my previous laptop, I could never get the damn backlight to shut off, and it crippled my battery life.
> I believe this test is as good as buying your astrological map

Yeah, that's vastly overblown, sorry.

Let's say the average for the whole population of getting Disease X is 10% over a lifetime. You do the genetic test, and it turns out you carry an allele that's been shown with good confidence to raise that risk to 30%. What you get is not certainty, of course, but a place in a row of statistical buckets. There are studies providing solid evidence that Disease X can be typically delayed by years or decades if you do A, B, and C.

Is that information not valuable to you?

Note: I am in the general situation described above. Well, most people probably are, too, one way or another, they just don't know it.

EDIT: Perhaps you're confused because 23andme does not provide this kind of information now. But they did provide it in the past, before the FDA ban. Looks like the ban is now being gradually rescinded, one step at a time, which is good.
> mobile camera deposit

What is this?
My point is: this shit exists already. There's nothing new about it.
Makes me wonder: Would the slavery-based economy of Roman times represent a model for what will be the robot-based economy of the future?
I'm no lawyer but I understood "fraud" to be misrepresentation. Who is being defrauded? The passenger pays one price, the company pays the driver and takes a bit of that fee. The company is defrauding the driver by not telling him the full fee the passenger is paying? If they word it such as: "A % of the fee and other fees", I don't see fraud. Not a lawyer.. feel free to correct me.
I tried to upvote you here but it's not possible.
My dream was to have something "powerful" for $500-$700. For $10k you can really have something nice.

I wouldn't expend that much money right now. I think we are just starting to see the evolution in the hardware for deep learning and that in the next 3-4 years we are going to see a really big jump in terms of performance and performance per watio. So I would expend less money and update the system more frequently. I would want to know what do you think after taking the decision of expending so much money in a system like that. Just see how in a year nvidia released 1080, Tital P and 1080Ti. I consider this the first generation designed with DeepLearning in mind.
Introducing Expanded YouTube Partner Program Safeguards to Protect Creators
Uber drivers are free to leave.

(And yes, I agree that this might not be a good business practice. I like my business practices honest and simple.)
Yes but Uber already lost in China.
It's way less than that. They scan SNP's, of which there are about 10 million in total. So only 0.3% of the human genome varies between all of us. I think they only do the 602,000[1] most common SNPS, which is only 0.02% of the genome though they might do a few more.

A SNP is a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, ie places in the genome which vary from the reference human genome by change of one base pair.
[1] https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe_v4_differences
Choosing between a male and a female developer
Understanding Gamers and Gameplay: Moving Beyond the Genre
I'm guessing people might perceive that politics is simply a manifestation of ego games not dissimilar to hierarchical rituals of chimpanzees and this is unlikely to change ever until human nature itself changes. Along with the astonishingly unlikely glimmer of hope that human nature can in fact change.
the cynic in me suspects the apology is a result of Leah's bottom line being seriously affected: Leah has a business that sells libreboot based products
> Can you make a build in one step?

vs

> Are all builds handled automatically by a Continuous Integration server?

Are two very different indicators. And both are, least in my mind, equally important.
One measure the holistic approach to source code including everything necessary to produce a functional system. Checkout, build, use.

The other is a measure of how much care is given to the overall process of software engineering. How much automation the tests receive, how much attention is given to deployment etc.

Software construction must be tied intimately with the software code itself for thousands of good reasons. Too many times have I seen a team jump onto the CI bandwagon; abandoning all notions of build scripts to let this new shiny thing perform it's magical incantations to build and package the system. A checkout alone is no longer sufficient to gain a fully functional system one can test locally, the CI becomes in an integral part of the software code but without the process the rest of the code receives (reviews, versioning, source control etc).

With the multiplication of commercial tools flaunting how easy it is to automate all this that one does not even need a programmer anymore, I fear software construction will become harder and harder to do without the help of these external systems.

So yes, do team have a single operation to build (that is construct) a workable system is still very much relevant.

And yes, do team use continuous integration to automate their test and delivery process is also important.
IMHO all of this personal drama is a sideshow compared to the inability to support modern Intel or AMD hardware. I know they're working on enabling ARM Chromebooks now, but without support for Intel or AMD it's hard to see how this project isn't dead in the water.
+1, also curious about this. I speculated that Cloud Spanner is supposed to be F1[1], but the fact that F1 seems to fully support SQL DML makes this difference even more perplexing.

> Updates are also supported using SQL data manipulation statements, with extensions to support updating fields inside protocol buffers and to deal with repeated structure inside protocol buffers.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html
>Those specialities are almost unique in being the only remaining ones in which most practitioners are not in managed care programs so can and do charge what the market will bear.

I think you've hit upon the reason. Turns out when the customer is paying directly and feels the pinch directly the market will not bear as much.
That would be very interesting because it would remove all risk for the founders of being considered "US persons", which has unexpected and unpleasant consequences such as not being accepted as a client by many non-US banks or financial services.

It is not clear to me at the moment if incorporating currently through Atlas makes a foreign, non-US resident founder into a US person, or not.
I wasn't implying that she shouldn't do these things, or that her problems don't matter. Quite the contrary, the previous comment tl;dr could be understood as saying that she was an exception because she had personal problems.