skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The fund pays 3.93 per cent.

How can I get into this!

Paypal used to do this and they had an outstanding rate of return.
I would really urge the developer to identify the target audience for this and to define what needs they have that may not be met by the current crop of similar tools.

I would also recommend finding some of those people, talking to them directly, and watch as they learn to use this application.

For this to survive in a crowded marketplace it is going to have to find and serve a niche very well.
Fascinating. That article held my attention all the way through. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but it's probably the longest article I've read 100% of for months.
The military has a long history of spending huge amounts of money and time on stupid, failed shit.
Can't help but remember the quintessential (links anyone?) dropbox critique when Drew first talked about it on HN. In particular something like 'why do we need this when you can just use rsync'.
It's an English idiom meaning to retire.

I don't really understand why this is so objectionable.
Huh, I never thought about "consulting magician" as a career. Sort of like the professional songwriters who work for music labels, ghostwriting for dozens of bands.

Given that these exist, I wonder how many magicians with a signature trick got it from a consultant instead of inventing it. Are a few people creating all the world's magic acts?
Just a bit on my background so you know what perspective is behind my advice. I came from an Aerospace Engineering degree and transitioned early into Aerospace systems engineering and software, eventually moving to more traditional software positions (still systems oriented I guess, but different system domains).

It sounds like you're applying for web-industry type jobs which I think you should continue to apply for in your situation. However, with your background, you should have a great advantage for industry + software type positions which would play to your experience as well as your new skills. I would expand my search beyond just "software category" jobs, and search for companies which have products/services in in oil & gas, find companies in that sector, (also companies building software tools for that sector) then go look for listings on their individual websites to see if they have openings of software jobs (look for networking for friends who might be in that industry too - maybe an instance where Linkedin is very useful). I would suspect that there is a lot of software work for embedded, industrial controls, data collection, analysis, even project mgmt, calculation/coordination widget software in that field. I might even expand to searching companies looking chemical, and construction companies from what I can glean from the description of your experience.

What I'm terming "Industry" jobs here are likely culturally different than your standard HN software work, but even if it's not what you're aiming for over the long term, it might be a stepping stone to more "software" archetype software positions.
The link that says "web" it searches for the headline, letting you access the site with google.com as your referrer. It's to the left of "comments" and to the right of "flag".
Just don't use any humans, and there's no risk of loss of human life.
> How can you call one a flaming garbage heap and the other a nice language?

The lack of UnicodeDecodeErrors.

Just because there is a 90% overlap doesn't mean one can't be a pile of trash (i think that's a bit harsh though). The improvements under the hood are huge (unicode, no 'new-style' classes, speed improvements etc) as well as syntactic sugar means that as time goes on Python 2 looks worse and worse.
I can't wait until I hear about a Young Adult novel with this as a primary plot device. I will know where the idea came from.
> And yes. It probably is like libertarianism. I am a libertarian, and I don't take that as an insult.

Yes, that explains the economic illiteracy. What you describe as individuals interacting with each other is really organizations interacting with individuals, or 2 entities interacting with each other with big power differentials in a market with low elasticity.

If you ever decide to learn economics past 101, look into what those terms mean and what might happen in those markets.
>Ubuntu has more recent packages since Debian is very conservative by design

Not really, it depends on Debian's freeze date
If you're an artist of sound and musical texture, then sure — a powerful DAW can't be replaced. But if you want to specifically focus on composition — harmony, melody, counterpoint — then a DAW becomes a looming, impenetrable fortress. In my experience, musical creativity thrives when you're able to iterate on your ideas in a rapid loop, adding and removing notes almost as quickly as you think of them. There is plenty of room in the music software landscape for tools that focus entirely on placing notes instead of generating production-quality sound.

In other words, your favorite Markdown editor doesn't replace Microsoft Word — but that's hardly the goal!
I want to know how much these people get paid. The content industry needs some transparency. Especially after that horrible stain on professionalism Huffington Post paid its writers nothing and Ariana got $315 million. Exploitation is not cool, nor is kneecapping the real market.
Robinhood is severely lacking in features and it is mobile app only, no website. If you want that kind of thing with index funds go with another brokerage (Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, all have commission free index funds.) The other really crappy thing about Robinhood is that it doesn't integrate with other platforms so if you want to track your wealth with Mint or Personal Capital you can't.
I pray that the quality of textbooks won't go down if they're reduced to free. I know the textbook industry is a racket but I don't know many PH.D.'s who expect to work for free. What if textbooks end up being funded by agenda-pushing corporate advertising?
Next Steps Toward More Connection Security
Boy, nothing says "This upgrade is a totally backward compatible drop-in replacement for Angular 2" like not only bumping a major version number but actually skipping over the usual increment entirely.

(Not that this is really substantial -- it's the history of the project that not only warrants but demands skepticism on the ease of both the upgrade and the utility and learning curve. The tone-deaf nature of the upgrade number is simply frosting on the cake.)
Didn't the Space Shuttle go 1000 times (yes, thousand times, not thousand percent) over budget in terms of cost of launching 1kg of payload into space?
Careful reading too much into that. There's a difference between, "We will give you $100 or 500 RSUs" and "The street value of a RSU today is $0.20". How many times have we seen startups say, "We can't pay you a $100k salary, but we can pay you $50k and XYZ stock options, which is just as good because the company is going to explode!" That does not mean that XYZ stock options are worth $50k at grant.
Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237697 (293 points, 587 days ago, 204 comments)

They were using his site to check if the CC were valid. It's not the same problem, but perhaps you can get a few ideas from the site or the discussion.

--

Other ideas. I'm not sure if they are good:

Mark the new / suspicious accounts and add captchas until the credit card is verified.

Are they downloading the images manually or automatically. If it's automatic you can offer some interesting images like "plain_white_wallpaper_full_resolution_16000x9000.bmp" (and the 4x3 version too) Just make the link no visible with a custom css / white text on white background / tiny font / whatever. (Are there some totally safe cc0 images that you can redistribute too?) Put this fake links only for registered users, not for google, because google may think you are doing something shady.

How are they monetizing the site? Are they using AdSense? Can you send a complain to Adsense?
United says it’ll pay bumped passengers up to $10,000
Worth pointing out that these are new ARM processors, potentially 3x faster than the (very) old ARM processors it was using before.

I still think they should've gone with Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 [1] platform, though, which I think will be significantly ahead in performance and perf/W than either Cavium or APM's processors. I guess they went for that sweet price/performance value, but I think in ARM's case, it's worth going with the best there is, if nothing else to not continue the "too slow" stigma that ARM gets in servers, which can only hurt any ARM-based vendor.

In my view, it would be better to offer similar or better performance than Xeon D (or other Xeons, depending on number of cores) for 20% less than offer half the performance for 50-60% less.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/12/07/meet-qualcomm-c...
I can confirm this. That's my experience as well. I run an uptime monitoring tools[1] and the node run on Scaleway is the most unreliable one due to network issues. It happens randomly once in 2 weeks when the instance experience 3-5minutes of disconnecting from internet completely.

They are also very slow when you stopping instance. Mine take hours to just stopping instance.

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[1] noty.im
There is the "Nagging Auntie" hypothesis. :)
I think if I got to fly by one planet in our solar system, I'd want it to be Saturn.

The scene in Interstellar before they fly into the wormhole is one of the most beautiful space shots. I'd love to experience that in real life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WldmX1zu6vM)

Also, if there are any blossoming film directors hanging out on HN, I'd absolutely pay to watch a full-length movie of space travel of planetary fly bys.
I feel like the solo zones would get monopolized by people that like being solo until necessary.
> For context, the recent move in Paris ends over a century of water privatization. The city seems to have managed fine during that time frame. The focus on consumer prices is emblematic of the problem with public water management. Water/sewer services shouldn't be cheap. Prices should be high enough to adequately maintain infrastructure. Water rates in the U.S. are less than half of what they are in France,[1] and as a result, our water infrastructure is in terrible shape.[2]

No, that happened in 1984.
(https://research.ncl.ac.uk/media/sites/researchwebsites/goba... slide 11 or http://www.eaudeparis.fr/lespace-culture/patrimoine/).

> You quote the example of communications, in France by law France Telecom had to expand its network to reach any citizen, whether 10km away from the grid or 10m at no cost for the consumer. This led to a great coverage of the territory and very high access to broadband for most of the population.

>> There is no free lunch. More money spent covering more people means less money invested in improving infrastructure in urban areas.

The point here is that the regulatory authority creates a legal framework which favors investement in the grid, resolving one of the inefficiencies of the market (no interest in paying 2MM euros to connect a person who's distant in the country side), makes investments happen which would never take place under a fully deregulated environment. This addresses issues of digital inequalities which would push actors on investing only on people or products which can yield the higher profits. At term it hurts society.

I'll take your points on the OCED and Akamai rankings, and yes I provided anecdotal evidence, not a lot of time for research :) But my sense is that if you compare speeds delivered to prices paid, consumers are still much better off in Europe. The other point which might be hard to quantify is the little choice US consumers have when choosing their ISP. It's often one or two actors who offer the same speed, price points and whose situation of oligopoly allows them to forgo proper consumer support alltogether (TWC). That is the result of no regulation and I don't see how more of that will benefit consumers.

More sources on water remunicipalisation:
https://www.tni.org/en/article/180-cities-take-back-public-c...

https://www.tni.org/en/publication/here-to-stay-water-remuni...
Shopify Engineering – Building a Dynamic Mobile CI System
CTF Challenge CHES 2017: Obfuscate AES
> The gig economy is just a big scam on taxpayers shoulders. Companies get the benefit of low paid workers and low or not-at-all taxes. And the rest of the society has to pay the burden of increasing poverty.

All things being equal, companies would aim to spend the same TOE (total cost of employment), on each worker regardless of if they are a contractor or a employee.

A contractor being paid $15/hour has to pay self-employment tax to cover medicare and social security. A company who hired the same worker, would only do so at say $14/hour to make up for the taxes that they now cover.

The goal of contracting isn't to pay less, it's to handle jobs that are irregularly distributed so you aren't literally paying people to sit around.

The only cases where you'd choose to employ part-time instead is if a workers' presence is physically required (e.g. Starbucks), or near instant time is extremely important (e.g. not Uber).
Yes, Robinhood Order Types: https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/208650386-Or...

Edit: Now only market buy orders are converted into limit orders. Market sell orders remain as market sell orders. They must have changed their policy in this last year.
EBITDA should really be renamed EBMS: Earnings Before Manipulative Shenanigans. A high net profit might be heavily correlated with high EBITDA, but it's relatively easy to show a GAAP profit while being in terrible financial shape, and not so easy to do that with EBITDA.

In this case, I'd consider Dropbox's emergence into slight EBITDA profits as not great, but a definitely welcome sigh of relief for a unicorn market full of bullshit.
We have Visual Search as a primary interface. However the goal is to build an application agnostic visual data analytics platform. Similar to a relational database we have high level concepts of indexers (convert image/bounding box into a feature vector), clusterers (cluster feature vectors) and retrievers (retrieve similar images/objects/annotated-regions).

To answer second question we also detect objects (VOC, YOLO 9000, Faces etc.), detected objects are also indexed and retrieved when performing visual search. Further you can perform clustering on these set of "indexing" vectors for things such as fast retrieval and quick labeling/annotations. We use Flickr LOPQ to implement ANN but like all other things you can use custom algorithm. I am working on adding indexing over any set of annotations/detections/frames.

You can find more information about the design goals and vision behind the project in presentation at https://deepvideoanalytics.com/
>Previously, TypeScript didn’t support compiling generators or working with iterators.

I had no idea. That seems like a big deal, no?
I suppose my point is, they could acquire the knowledge needed to do cutting edge farm automation if that's something they wanted.

And it should be something they want.
Care to point where are you getting 2.5gbit/s ? https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc this only has 1gbit/s. A 10gbit/s card is still awfully expensive.
there is a free tier you know...

its limited to 2GB, but you could increase it by installing the app on your phone and enabling the auto upload of pictures. every picture increased it by (iirc) 5MB - and this extra space stayed if you removed the pictures.

haven't used it in ages though.
> Both countries are currently in desperate need of sizeable public works programs to keep people usefully occupied.

Not really. The ECB will offset any inflation extra government spending might create. That's what inflation targeting does.

And on the lower side, the ECB will cut rates and do QE if total spending and thus inflation fall short of their target.
Another take on the Cliff notes:

* Google raters are subcontractors for contracting companies, among which one is Leapforce.

yep

* Google flaunts new contract requiring takers to use employees instead of subcontractors.

Don't get the use of "flaunts" here. Google is rolling out new requirements that its contractors use employees instead of contract labor. Leapforce's main or only client is Google, so had to make changes to its policy of only using contract labor.

* Leapforce decides to employ raters, but at much reduced salaries and no benefits.

There's no indication that pay per hour is going down and they've never had benefits. The change is that contractors are becoming employees and limited to working 26 hours a week.

* Raters who work mostly from home are the losers in the equation, and have a hard time finding other work.

Yes, it seems that raters drew the short straw here. Hard to know for sure whether Google's fear of labor regulators or it's well-intentioned desire to improve working conditions were the cause.

This seems like the future of the gig economy. Same work load, less pay, less security, less employee power.

The model Leapforce has is has been around for decades. The internet has made the model more feasible, but working from home as a contractor for a single company is not a new evil.

A few points to further counter balance your Cliff notes:

* Raters get paid from $13.50 to $17.50 per hour for work from home and are upset about the cut in hours because this is significantly more than they can make anywhere else.

* Raters are now going to become employees and thus the employer will be paying Social Security and employer taxes, saving the employees somewhere on the order of 50% in income tax liability. Unless their pay is cut to compensate, their per-hour rate is going to go up in this change. And it's worth repeating, they don't have any benefits now so aren't losing them.

* Employment status also brings unemployment coverage and disability benefits in case they get fired or become disabled.

Side note:

I hope for Leapforce's sake and that of their contractors/employees that they got Google's blessing before making their CEO so available and transparent on the relationship with Google. I just don't think I'd ever give the press much access to me on the record talking about my largest (or maybe only) client without vetting every word with the client first. Even if everything in the article was already well known by labor regulators, I'd be very concerned that articles like these paint a much bigger target on my back.
This article has the subtitle: "We may have robotic authors way before Skynet"

This is yet another example of oblivious, uninformed people breathlessly describing as new, or as predictions, things that have already happened.

Probably long before the author was even born, robotic authors already existed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
the video background is making me nervous, I'd increase the frame rate to 20fps at least
"Nobody thinks that magicians will work this hard to fool you." - Jamy Ian Swiss

https://vimeo.com/81764932

What I find fascinating is that it doesn't matter if you know the trick, you will still get fooled.

"The method is not the trick" — Jamy Ian Swiss
And the new public transit/pedestrian bridge in Portland http://image.oregonlive.com/home/olive-media/width620/img/op...
Creating a culture of accessibility
And/or PD (pure data)[1] which is its FOSS cousin.

1: http://puredata.info/
A good rule of thumb is that if a REST API has an SDK, then it's not really RESTful in the first place.

SDKs are an enormous effort to create and maintain for every HTTP API, I think it's a malpractice that is all too common.

Browsers (and by extension, websites) are not good examples of REST in practice? I don't know what world you're in.
A Jewish friend once commented that it's the reason for kosher laws. I'm not sure if he was trying to justify an ancient custom with modern insights.
PITCHME.md is a convention. Simple and memorable just like README.md.
> forcing people [...] by promising them a better future

Something doesn't add up in your analysis.
> the first time he saw David Copperfield's circular saw trick

I believe that is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SefD84fbEE
I love the Cup and Ball trick, where they repeat it again with clear cups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8osRaFTtgHo
That doesn't work in the python 2.7 that I'm running, just like python 3 it complains that I don't have enough arguments.
Above all else, it should be fun. If your son finds programming enjoyable, everything will fall into place.

For that reason, I'd suggest a language that enables you to easily make things. I actually think Ruby is perfect, because you can teach him to make websites using Ruby on Rails.

I personally have a soft spot for rails because it's how I first got interested in programming. I had no experience in coding and don't have a CS degree, but hacking on rails projects is what initially sparked the fire for me. Two years later I'm working my dream job at Google - that never would have happened if there wasn't a fun, interesting gateway into the programming world.
It's funny to complain about CORBA's local/remote muddling in 2017 when we have moved on to microservices that also talk to each other locally with TCP/IP.
you should really take the train from tyo to osa, it's an experience and probably faster than flying (since you don't have to deal with an airport)
You should have put that in your original post. I made the same mistake as my sibling and thought you were just swiping at academics in general.
Introducing the Google Assistant SDK
I suspect you didn't set target to ES6 in the `tsconfig.json` file which would limit some of the features. If you don't specify, I think the default is ES5. See this example:

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx/blob/mast...
Researcher uses math to investigate possibility of time travel
You could make the same argument about literacy, how it allows dumber/more sinful people to interpret the Bible in erroneous ways.
A simple (but potentially dangerous) question - is there any practical application of category theory?

(I have PhD in quantum physics theory... yet, each time I see category theory, it looks to me as abstract nonsense. The only example when it was for me anyhow insightful is the abstract definition of tensor product; but for more mundane stuff, all examples I know can be implemented with functions (or even: matrices :)).)
Not that I disagree, but to be fair, query processing on GPUs is a highly specialized task, and not quite what people think when they say "general purpose". A lot of work goes into writing code that utilizes that particular architecture well.
My 3 year old son LOVES looking at these pictures with me. everyday he gets home he wants to look at planets, old shuttle launch footage, spaceships or the IIS live feed. Makes me sad that we don't invest much more in space.
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Also remember that a lot of the coastlines of yesteryears are now underwater, and coasts tend to be good for fishing and Homo habitation. So, there may be sites, just 200m down and buried in sediments. Also, humans tend to scavenge older sites and many places still may be the sites of current metropolises. Just as they were good places to settle way back when, they are good to settle now. Essentially, many theories are valid as there is not enough evidence to really support one side or the other. New techniques like geo-spatial mapping satellites may help, as will others that are not yet invented. Google Earth has been a (possible) asset to this and people may have found some new Egyptian sites using it : http://news.sky.com/story/two-new-pyramids-found-on-google-e...
It also makes it hard to disambiguate cities/airports. Entering "Portland" brings up two entries named "Portland, United States" (presumably Oregon and Maine) along with "Portland, Australia", but no way of telling which Portland in the U.S. is which.