skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“You have to recognize realistically that A.I. is qualitatively different from an internal combustion engine in that it was always the case that human imagination, creativity, social interaction, those things were unique to humans and couldn’t be replicated by machines,” he said. “We are coming closer to the point where not only cashiers but surgeons might be at least partially replaced by A.I.”

I think the politicians will finally get it when income tax revenues start eroding (maybe as soon as this year?). I'd expect this to force a pivot to a sales/transaction tax model. Hopefully (but I'm not optimistic) this is paired with a final capitulation on the necessity of a UBI.
Indeed flight crews have an elevated cancer risk:
http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20031021/flight-crew...

But the risk is 50% more than normal, which is not extremely high compared to how much more radiation exposure they get.

EDIT: Flight crews working on intercontinental flights have higher yearly exposure than nuclear workers apparently (https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/11/27/radiation-exposu...)
Please teach unit testing. I'm constantly amazed at how many students can leave school without ever even hearing about this thing called "unit testing." They'll have to look it up when they get home. Those that have heard it, still don't get how to write to in a form that can be unit tested.

The number one criteria we have when hiring a fresh graduate is the quantification of how much time we can devote to training them their first year. Demonstration of unit tests in sample code signals lessened requirements on us. We use it as one of our proxies (a real internship is an example of another.)
I seeded my site with scraped data for quite a while. Once organic started coming in and twitter referrals and hits increasing I added an email subscription.

http://weworkcontract.com/
As I understood, it boils down to: Quality is the cutting edge of experience, which is the totality of any "reality" we can know. Things like science, religion, etc. are static value patterns that we assemble to explain that experience, and that allow us to use a process of "static latching" (from Lila) to climb higher up the mountain of quality.

Whilst possibly a gross over-simplification, I do find this perspective a really practical philosophy for personal growth as well as a good basecamp for approaching other philosophical viewpoints.
BearSSL: SSL for All Things by Thomas Pornin [video]
I'd never heard of JetSmarter so I went to their site to learn more. The website is a scroll hijacking mess that's really unpleasant to use. I didn't make it past the landing page.
Answer: For each flight, you get 2.3 cigarettes worth of radioactivity.

You would need to fly 4572 East-West coast flights per year to reach same dose as from smoking 1.5 packs of cigarettes per day.

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Data points:

Smoking 1.5 packs of cigarettes per day is equivalent to between 60 and 160 milliSievert per year
http://mathscinotes.com/2014/01/radiation-exposure-from-ciga...
With 20 cigarettes this means 10958 cigarettes. At about 160 milliSievert, we get 0,014601205 milliSivert per cigarette.

You would be exposed to about 0.035 mSv (3.5 mrem) of cosmic radiation if you were to fly within the United States from the east coast to the west coast.
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/air_travel.html
I was kidding that's what we're doing.. I run a studio focusing on elixir, react, and react native. we started as a ruby shop.
Is it open source yet?
> McCarthy came up with his idea (that the unconscious isn't used to language so it speaks in symbols)

I tought this was Carl Jung's idea.
I had identified as open minded, but now I'm conflicted. Thanks a lot, now my life is in turmoil.
All about your lifestyle – Make Your LifeStyles
Not really. See in the previous comment you wrote "European Jews were deliberately, carefully, and systematically targeted by the Third Reich" yet few sentences before that you wrote "I agree that it's unfair to separate people based on their religion".

What my problem with this whole discussion is that people keep talking about as Jews as a totally separate group from all of the victims. They don't talk about {Polish| Russian| French |Other } citizens being killed in extermination camps. Yes, a lot of them were ethnic Jews. But a lot of these ethnic Jews did not thing about themselves as Jews, as they were being shipped of by the trains to Auschwitz. They were in their minds Russians, French, even Germans. But for some reasons these people were "separated" by some people to show how much more their group suffered. And then they claim that other groups just died "because of bombings" or in "work camps" as if this was so much better way to die.

To me it's infuriating that we talk about just one specific group that died, while ignoring the rest. And even more infuriating is suggesting that these others that died don't count as much simply because there were fewer of them or they were not from the "right group".
One of the things that happens here is the more static and optimized a compiler output is, the harder it is to do source level debugging. Conversely, more dynamic, less optimized languages are easier to write and verify debuggers for. This isn't a strict ordering, of course, but a general trend. Unfortunately, the very aspect that make some languages easier to debug make them poor at some of the applications you might want the former for (cf C# and c++ as you bring up).

Luckily debugging is not merely the act of using a debugger !
Access Now and EFF Condemn the Arrest of Tor Node Operator Dmitry Bogatov
thanks for the comment. Yes, we will offer a trial without sign up for at least one song.
Great suggestion, I've created an issue for it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31393
The interesting thing with Remote is that most companies these days "allows remote" as part of their package. Not a statistical data but I can see it[1] more often these days, whilst looking at our internal tool[2] that we used to look for new interesting prospects for consulting.

1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b937olnwswwkwlm/getbetterluck-2017...

2. We aggregate lots of well-known to lesser-known job boards for our internal consumption. Cleaning it up a bit. Will release it to public in about a month's time. https://getbetterluck.com/

P.S. If you're looking for a job either full-time, contract or freelance, you might like to try this. Ping me if you need very alpha test access now.
A simple telnet client for Node.js
Et tu, c2?
if they ban anything larger than a smartphone how do they figure that the terrorists won't just use smartphones?
I guess I don't get how dimensions can be disconnected. It's true if you live in flatland and you move up into a third dimension you dont seem to move in flatland, but then if you wanted to explore the third dimension you would still move through the second, just as to exist in space one must exist in time. If you are moving through and extra dimension an outside observer ought to see part of that movement. (Granted I don't know what I'm talking about.)

Ok, so maybe I'd find it easier to believe if it was explained as some kind of wormholes​ opening up to our senses that allow us to occupy some kind of Avatar from this point in space.

I guess you could have two trippers meet in this space and exchange information. That should be testable.
Nowhere in there does it say most terrorists are intelligent.
Wow the prices people pay in here are exorbitant. I have a UK no contract SIM and pay 25 pounds a month, this includes uncapped internet and quite a number of texts + minutes. I pretty much only use it for the internet as it's such good value.

The best thing about it is that the uncapped internet works in pretty much any EU country I've been to. This is really surprising from UK as most of the stuff in there is usually more expensive than in the rest of the EU, however I don't think I've ever seen a plan with uncapped internet and free roaming in any other country.
The list needs some Kool Keith, MF Doom, and Aesop Rock, but I'm biased.
> I see this attitude all the time. Why are people so worried?

If you find the map straight to a goldmine, why should you share it?

Example: Last month you found a new way to target on FB ads (=> mix of ad creatives, country and interest), with tons of traffic at ultra low CPC. The space is quite popular and you are surprised yourself why no one else found this way. Conversions are sky-high and it seems not to end.

Why should you share this? If you share you will destroy the low CPC within days. If you had ever found a goldmine in the past you might understand. And if yes, please share this goldmine.

You can make this example for every Marketing channel. People never share current tactics, only old stuff which isn't working anymore.

Edit: Why the downvote? I try to explain opportunistic behaviour and I understand and even agree that this behaviour isn't nice or something we would expect. But downvoting seems to be easier than replying properly...
Samsung Wemogee: A New Communication Tool for People with Language Disorders
Help – How can I better protect my Instagram account?
I have tried numerous times to contact Instagram through email and their support page without any luck. Therefore I am reaching out to the only community of smart technie people I know of.

I have a generic one word, four letter instagram account which I signed up for in early 2010. I use it as my personal account and wish to keep doing so going forward.

In the last 6 months I have been getting a large number of reset password requests for that account. Sometimes 5 per day!

As a result I have changed my password to a very long alphanumeric password in hopes that it will help with the security of the account.

Is there anything else I should be doing to make sure this account does not get taken over?

Any help is really appreciated!
The problem here is that tribal attachment among Turks got haywire. I don't know enough about the tribalism tendencies of Armenians at the time. Victim groups can have developed a strong tribal identity, but that's not always the case (tribalism was strong among Jews and Gypsies, but AFAIK being gay was quite confidential during WW2).

Regardless, the story is the same all over the place. People's tribal instincts are amplified and manipulated by a few hateful/interested people, which turns peaceful crowds into genocidal herds.

The danger is the potential for excess that we have when thinking in terms of ingroup/outgroup, not a specific group (which is why it keeps happening all over the place, and sometimes victim tribes later become perpetrators of bigoted violence).

A desire for justice/vengance is understandable, BTW, but our intuitions are wrong when dealing with populations rather than individuals.

See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

Edit: Whether strong tribal identity among small groups lead larger groups of otherwise neutral people to resent them is an interesting question as well, BTW. I don't know if it is the case. Gypsies and Jews are historical examples, I don't know if there are counterexamples.
Japan has a lot of cultural differences in their iconography.
Similar situation in Germany. With Aldi Talk, you can get 1GB and 300 texts/minutes for 8€. When valuing the text/talk component at 0, that still works out to 2.18 cents USD per 2.5MB, an order of magnitude less than the claimed 20ct.

Note that they picked the cheapest plan with at least 500MB, not the one with best value. Furthermore the largest ISP may not be the one with the best plans at the low end of the spectrum. That skews the data enormously.
I had the same struggles. Eventually I just went to pycharm, which is great and has full support for any environment you want.
Hello,
In my opinion, when taking notes, the old way works better than the digital way
Step 1. Get a small notebook or notepad that you can carry around with you. In my experience, is better if it fits in your pocket.
Step 2. Start taking any note that comes to your mind, doing drawings helps a lot.
Step 3. Bookmark your notes. Theres many ways to do this. Fold the corner of the page or add a sticker in the top of the page. Also highlight the notes you think are more important.

Thats all i got.

xoxo!
I sometimes wonder if "the terrorists" have a twisted sense of humor. They put a bomb in a shoe, so now we all have to take off our shoes at the airport. Learning from this, they put a bomb in some guy's underwear. Fortunately we don't have to take off our underwear at the airport now, but we do have to be gawked at essentially naked by underpaid TSA rent-a-cops.

It's only a matter of time before they think of the "butt-plug bomber," and we get cavity searches before boarding planes.
Happened to me. It uncovered Java's handling of surrogate pairs. I fixed my code, because it was technically broken before.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42457416/jq-cant-parse-an...
What about hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, stand-up paddle boarding, etc...

Is there nothing physical you enjoy doing?
best thing those of us championing elixir can do is build apps in elixir that need to be maintained.. the more elixir apps in the wild, the more jobs we can create.

my studio is doing all of our greenfield backend work in elixir and we're all very happy with our current stack.

haven't been this happy since the early days of rails. elixir and react are a match made in heaven.
Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy
Discussed heavily yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181152
Google has built the best spy machine of all times, something even the worst dictatorial regimes couldn't dream of. KGB would be jealous. And you can't opt out of the system even if you don't use them, it's like cancer.

Uber was digging its own grave before and now with the help of liberal journalists who got angry because of the Trumps fiasco they multiply the process.

I didn't have anything good to say about uber before, and I don't support their practices of breaking the laws, but clearly it's a witchunt against the company and CEO.
This site is useful and informative but I have a problem with their statement in bold. From what I understand, they use the cheapest plan that satisfies two conditions - it provides over 500MB of data and is valid for over 30 days. They present that this is the _best case scenario_. This is false of course, cheap plans have often a shitty value ratio. For example in France you can easily get 50G non-renewable contract for around 20-25 euros, SFR even offers 100G for 20. Maybe these are not the cheapest plans you can get, but they have much better ratio than what this site presents as a best case scenario for France (which is ~$0.1/MB)
The problem with this data is that it's based on averages etc over billions of customers. It doesn't hold any direct meaning.

IE; If you increased the speed of your site by 1 second, it doesn't mean you would increase sales by 7%.
Effectively Using Matplotlib – Practical Business Python
SSL Server Security Test
I cannot do it (excuses excuses I know) if there is no purpose. Exercise sake I find the most boring thing in the world and just don't do it although I know I should.

Excercise to get somewhere on the other hand - not a problem. When I lived a 40minute bike ride from work, I enjoyed it and looked forward to it.

When the daughter lived 30 minutes walk from school would walk her to school and run back (15 minutes - took a longer detour). Again, I enjoyed it.

If I need to go the shops, I'll walk and enjoy it.

All went to post last year when got a crippling injury and could barely walk. Now with the youngest child also needing to get to nursery not the time in the morning to walk daughter to school and I know work from home. Now that I have to force myself to do excercise for exercise sake, I do nothing
Highly recommend realm, works like a charm and has migrations too.
C Programming Tutorial
With a travel time of 5 days I assume you won't arrive jet lagged? I think that compensates for lack of schedule choice.
Yes, but we took more Duolingo as our referenced than the other platform you mentioned since we have translated language learning lessons. We will offer one song to try before sign up - but we will need to collect the user data at some point since we want to offer personalized language lessons in the next months.
Cash starved? These businesses are fine. They can borrow money domestically using the foreign horde as collateral.

If they are cash starved, it's because they have no credit and no horde.
Flagged for being unrelated to hacking/technology, but also because breeding dogs is a form of animal abuse[1] (and this is a product for breeders).

Breeding dogs contributes to horrific illnesses, like the painful brain swelling and death experienced by Cavaliar King Charles Spaniels that occurs after breeding age and is therefore failing to be bred out[2][3].

1. http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/why-breeding-...

2. http://cavalierhealth.org/syringomyelia.htm

3. https://books.google.com/books?id=eAadBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=do...
>That's the million dollar question: how do you know whether a classmate is being earnest or just copying you? Especially in highly competitive environments, cheaters are extremely adept at leveraging your work without substantially contributing anything back.

What if I'm very good at one thing and very bad at another? That would probably work with the study group just fine, assuming they know it and adjust accordingly, but it's still 'cheating' in the sense that I can get away with only a partial understanding.
I've been playing with using safari content blockers to not load images/other resources when on data. See https://github.com/jacklightbody/Data-Diet
I'm curious if anyones found any better alternatives though, as it's definitely not an ideal situation
You should not do these things on your Android Smartphone – SuratNow
Youngsters.
http://www.snopes.com/blue-whale-game-suicides-russia/
Forecasting MRR for Next 12 Months with Stripe Data and Prophet in Exploratory
Sounds like dehydration. Do you always drink enough water before and after exercise sessions?
"A large part of that is because they were deliberately and very specifically targeted, particularly with regard to the use of camps and gas "

What about other groups that were deliberately target like mentally retarded, Roma, homosexuals etc?. Why they are less important in this discussion? Is it only because they still have no voice in our society, and (baring killings) we don't treat them any better than Germans did?
We pay for fear. ;)
Getting Started with pywebview
What it would actually take to get to Mars by 2020
The other interpretation of this, if you have millions of paid users, that are getting 5 months free.. that's 5 months of you paying the bill and not getting any revenue. That wont scale in terms of maintainability. At least that is what I assumed when I read that.
Marissa Mayer to make $184m from Yahoo's sale to Verizon
> This is not basic - load balancing needs to be more reliable than the service behind it, which is hard to do. You can run your own instances with nginx or haproxy but you'll never get to the same reliability, scale and performance without a significant amount of work.

It really depends on the reliability of your underlying servers; it's pretty easy to get nginx or haproxy to be reliable: get your config set and don't touch it. Then you're just down to hardware issues, which are generally fairly rare. If you need to mitigate hardware issues, you'll need to do something fancy with IP takeover/ECMP etc, which I agree is a significant amount of work.

The one thing that people really need to think about though is when you let other people do TLS termination on your behalf, you're putting the private information of your customers into the hands of someone else -- they could disclose it due to bugs in their system, rogue employees, system intruders, etc. Layer 7 load balancing features can be nice, but they come at a price. This is something to consider even if your load balancer is provided by the same people providing your servers.
I come from an age that used csv wranglers. ma pa was a csv wrangler and so was his pa before him spits into bucket scrapins hard work lad.
Story at The Register, https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/25/webroot_windows_wip...
I gather this is a good-faith question, but it's a little boggling to me how you can be asking it.

One company secretly installed software on the phones of employees of its competitor, in order to track those individuals and perform corporate espionage on its competition, and you ask what's wrong with that?

You say it should be ok because some of those employees were offered payouts to switch?

Not only does that not remotely excuse the behavior described in my second paragraph, ask yourself: why is Uber engaging in these tactics against its competitor? It's definitely not to spur healthy growth and competition in the industry -- it's to help drive a competitor out of business and cement its monopoly. And if it becomes more of a monopoly... do you think that will be good for its employees in the long run?
> The interesting thing with Remote is that most companies these days "allows remote" as part of their package.

This question goes for the original post too -- but how many of these are truly remote? i.e. I can work for the majority of the year remotely, with maybe one or two visits to the company main office, if that.

Asking because I see far too many companies these days trying to brand themselves as remote-friendly, when they really mean something with far less freedom, like “We'll maybe allow you to work from home two days out of five”.
Alternative side, as a big company when I get a nice small startup that tries to fit our needs that way, I keep them close.

It's like the whole "you owe bank money" story. If you owe the back $1,0000 you have a problem, if you owe them 1 million, they have a problem.

In my experience, if you're that startup's largest client, they'll bend over backwards to help you succeed.
Not as convenient, but you can write the statement `debugger;` and the debugger will stop there.
Wow. I never thought all those emojis were implemented on so many different platforms.

Are there official specs? Who designed the original emojis everyone else copied?
I get that color resolution would be increased, but wouldn't everything viewed get a green/red cast since the amount of blue signal to the eyes is cut in half?

You can even see in their sample images that blues become different shades of teal.
There's a large social component, too: beyond simple resume-driven development engineers get social status by doing interesting technical challenges. You rarely see a project make the front page of HN, for example, because it has a really polished UI and great documentation.

Since that's what the community generally respects and focuses on, people seek out areas to add complexity – who wants to work on a boring “solved” problem? – and, especially younger engineers, often feel they have to do things the same way Google or Facebook does (it's web-scale!) even if they have 0.001% of the engineers and 0.000001% of the traffic. It's easy to miss that most people with similar problems have so much less volume that they aren't forced to do the really cool (i.e. expensive) engineering and, since they're using something stable, it's not considered interesting enough to talk about it.
for the same reason kids come out of college woefully prepared to build software in the real world.

college is an absolutely horrible environment to learn programming.

programming should have a journeyman apprentice program like electricians.

I learned more from a mentor than I ever did in school.. it honestly was a waste of money.
Scientific papers found via a google search == scientific evidence

Come on people
My website have SSL too. https://www.codingular.com/
Parent isn't claiming that the Google search is itself evidence. The scientific studies that are returned by a Google search are the evidence. The search is a means of obtaining the evidence.