skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? The ripples are also invisible. There's nothing wrong with saying it this way.
moreover, it's had a web-based editor for years now...

> https://slides.com

i think it started out being free for everybody, but now
a free account is available only for public slide-decks.
(when it was free for everyone, i think all decks were public, so it's not as if they ripped back functionality.)
So, assuming these work great.. what are the next steps to get fusion energy production?

Are there fundamental limits that prevent these designs from producing a commercially profitable neighborhood reactor for, say $1 million?

Actually, what's the smallest scale possible for these stellerators? Can one be produced table-top sized, to say, power a ship or train or even a car?

So many questions...
Using topic modeling to make sense of podcasts
Chinese Espionage in the State Department
Disrupting Advertising: 3 ways to take on Google and Facebook while they attack TV
Yea. I have the same concerns.

If this tech evolves, I'm really worried about brain harvesting or trafficking, we already have increasingly desperate people turning to organ trafficking, and human smuggling is tied to organ harvesting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-traff...
https://www.decodedscience.org/organ-harvesting-human-traffi...
I know a lot of entrepreneurs who travel to a cheaper country to work on their startup. They still pay their taxes to uncle sam.
70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS
As a customer of Amazon I think Amazon should definitely be an appropriate distribution platform for anything. They have digital downloads, monthly subscripts, extremely large items; I don't think it's unreasonable to allow items with long fulfillment times (especially items handcrafted based on customer request).

I've been very fed up with Amazon's selection, the number of scams and reduced quality on Amazon has seemed (at least anecdotally) to have skyrocketed. I think this article shows that Amazon's quality control issue is at least partially an issue with Amazon themselves, and not just the reseller market. Disallowing high quality products because they can't be made fast enough just smacks of poor planning on Amazon's part. I don't think anybody wants a market with a million crappy items, they want a market with as many quality items as possible, but no more.
There is an important caveat in the last paragraph of the article:

"Granted, all of this implies that companies have actually created an interview that actually tests the skills needed for the position they are hiring for."
I did not say that.

It might be the best solution when nothing is moving.

Our brains also cannot measure distance when there are unknown reference objects and everything is standing still.
"do the needful" is en-IN-ism:

http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/life/10-indianisms-652344/
Yes, having legislators not make laws that are against the public interest should be step 0, but that isn't really relative to a professional code of conduct for software engineers.

Note that I specifically mentioned mass surveillance because the original poster pointed it out as "field that enables mass government surveillance", then wonders about the implementation of a "rules of conduct". The natural implication being that those rules of conduct would have helped stop the enabling of mass government surveillance.

I'm not convinced that what the NSA/DOJ lawyers did here was unethical. One of a lawyer's roles is to answer the question: "Is what I'm about to do legal? On what grounds?"

The lawyer says, "This is legal, here are the grounds for believing it is so. I'll go into court and defend it". The engineer says, "This is technically possible, there are the grounds for believing it is so. I'll build it and maintain it". What is the reasoning for saying then that a lawyer has acted ethically (even though mass surveillance is not in the public interest), but the engineer has acted unethically (because mass surveillance is not in the public interest)? What is the quintessential concept that allows lawyers to ignore the public interest, but precludes the engineer from doing so?

And if there is nothing that we can point to that differentiates lawyers and engineers in this manner, then how would a professional code of conduct (like lawyers have) prevent the actions that the original poster specifically highlights.
The heuristics seem overly blunt. Clicking on "Entrepreneur", which is the most visible endpoint on the homepage right now, returns a listing of people who have "celebrity" in their twitter profile, with Demi Lovato and her 40m+ follower count at top. Maybe the "influencers" option does something more interesting? I don't know, I accidentally initiated another search by clicking somewhere on the page, then hit the back button a couple of times to land at a page that told me my "daily limit has reached".
I can't believe people still inform and try to counsel these tone-deaf corporations. The upside is so small and the downside is potentially quite large. Catch some moron CEO in a bad mood and they've got plenty of resources to make your life hell even if they don't have a legal case.
> Take a moment to dwell on the mental context of someone that would say this and what it means to them: You can write a system in any language right?

I understand the point, but not every concept is easily explainable or should be known to everyone as common knowledge. That's wasteful. If someone is confused about a term or how it applies, or if it seems like it's being used in a different context, then they can look it or up ask, like they did here. If I had seen a suggestion that better encapsulated Rust, I would be on board with you in saying it should change, but I haven't seen that yet.

> If you have to reference a footnote to describe the word every time you use it

You don't, unless you are exclusively talking to to people about it that have no industry knowledge or training, and then I think the term is probably either not something they care about or something they should learn about. We don't ask Doctors to change their industry jargon for non doctors, and doctors that don't know it are expected to learn it. Communication is a two way street.

There's a middle ground between making up new words and dumbing down all communication to the simplest words in the language. Neither is particularly useful in the long term. I don't know if Rust has hit a good middle ground, but I do't have a better solution than what I see them doing, and I don't see what I consider better solutions being presented.
> Bitcoin is not inexpensive. The cost of mining is actually quite substantial just in terms of the electricity bill.

As you point out, this is on purpose. And the cost of mining bears almost no relation whatsoever to the cost of using Bitcoin.
very interesting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220925
I don't think companies necessarily think that. I think most companies resort to algorithm style interviews because they can't think of anything else that is better. You've got a candidate for probably an hour, probably in a room without a computer, what else can you do to exercise their programming knowledge besides toy algorithm problems?
It could be an emergent property of the fact that our brains are pattern-recognition machines, even when there are no patterns to be had. Couple that with being social, conformist animals and it's easy to start seeing the invisible hand of god everywhere.
This is one of those posts that would be more impactful with the Amazon emails embedded in the post. When you can have the bad guy in the piece playing their own part it really resonates, if you're reading PA consider just putting in their responses to your questions.

The only nit on this is this bit: "The only way to meet their demands would have been to mass-produce huge volumes of speakers featuring no customizations. And the only way to make that economically feasible would have been to sacrifice our high standards of quality across the board. Needless to say, we're not going to do that."

I find I can't help but react when someone presents a problem as unsolvable (it triggers my 'hey solve this!' button). And so when they state that this is "impossible" my first question is, "How have you tried to solve it?", "What do you consider as constraints? How do you verify those constraints?"

I agree completely with the idea that being craftsmanship to bespoke products is an excellent goal, and if we can come up with ways to do that effectively we can enable a manufacturing renaissance in places like the US. As a result I see calling this problem 'unsolvable' as a challenge (it may be unsolvable but if it truly is, then it may mean that bringing back this sort of work to the US will never be economically feasible and I am not ready to accept that yet)

In terms of worthwhile startup projects to pursue, I consider this one of the big ones. Creating the tools and infrastructure around craftspeople to enable them to economically apply their craft at scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Development_o...

>Timestamps for subsequent blocks indicate that Nakamoto did not try to mine all the early blocks solely for themselves in an effort to benefit from a Ponzi scheme.

But they could have.

>The public bitcoin transaction log shows that Nakamoto's known addresses contain roughly one million bitcoins. As of 7 February 2017, this is the equivalent of over US$1 billion.

Starting your own cryptocurrency doesn't seem like a bad way to make a buck (particularly provided it becomes as successful as bitcoin), all thanks (eventually) to "the biggest names in finance and technology".

Granted, there's a strong difference between "potential scam" and "scam" (hell, it's the difference between Torcoin and every legitimate, well-regulated non-crypto currency).
Uh except Organovo is trying to solve a much harder problem and has been around for a while AND has proven success? What point are you trying to make besides superficial snark because some funding numbers quoted in the article are similar?
Right - there's no wrongful sexism in first world countries and there is no difference in the messages males and females are given during their upbringing about how they should behave in society.

Also, family courts make perfectly fair decisions.

/s
"Religion provides people with a lot more than just explanations for the natural world," Schwadel said. "It provides community. It provides them with friends. It provides them with psychological support and economic support. It provides a lot more than simply an understanding of where they are in the world in relation to the afterlife."

Daniel Dennett has talked about precisely this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5tGpMcFF7U

In particular, the major world religions are particularly good at creating community and support groups. In part, it's because the major world religions have an ideological emphasis on love and compassion. While this often fails when dealing with out-groups, it succeeds in making true communities where people feel emotionally safe.

I say this as an Atheist: as a group, Atheists do many things that are the opposite of what religious communities do. In my experience, I am far more likely to be thrown under the bus in a group of people who announce themselves to be Atheists than, say, at some kind of a Unitarian or Episcopalian meeting. To go by my personal experience and the output of various YouTubers concerning the dramas and dissolution of various Atheist groups, it seems like Atheists spend a lot of time attacking each other and out-groups. In fact, this seems to apply almost universally to any kind of 21st century movement that spreads online and somehow involves politics. Outrage sells easily and goes viral easily. As a result, many 21st century movements, while professing the opposite, have a strong dependence on in-group/out-group hate.
Very interesting!

Please take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220925
That is super interesting. If I understood it correctly, its like using a Wi-Fi channel as a radar system that both your device as well as an attacker are connected to. And then based off of the interference of your hand when typing, it knows what buttons you pressed. I don't think it would be a practical attack vector because the attacker would probably need to know the physical size dimensions of your phone. And also in an age of phablets not everyone can type with one hand, which may throw off the results.
Religions selected humans that grouped together, Religions evolved over time to have better fitness. Religion rewards it's followers with feelings of serenity and defends itself with violent hostile belligerence.
I don't think that the ideas "Intelligence + Education == Secularism" and "religious texts are useful" are mutually exclusive.
Aren't these guys better off with shopify or something?
Software has a professional code of ethics, it isn't universally read/adhered to though: http://www.acm.org/about/se-code
The 100
i agree with all that. lot of good wisdom there.

as for html-to-markdown conversion, http://markdownrules.com is good.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220925
> So my thought was to just have a really good recording system so that in the aftermath of whatever happens, you can give really good info to the police...

I think along these same lines, so I have a combination of some raspberri pi's running a customized version of RPi-Cam-Web-Interface [1], and a ring.com video doorbell.

[1] http://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface
Actually, it looks like they are making nice wood cabinets for cheap low-quality parts:

- a "full range" 3" speaker is about $7, quantity 1.

- a 20W at 10% THD class D amplifier with bluetooth input is $25, retail. (Yes, that's a terrible spec. It's what Princeton claims.)

- a battery is $8

- a few dollars for a fancy knob and grille.

So they are charging about $300 for their cabinets and
integration of all the above. Nice work if you can sell it.
Thanks! My in-laws from the UK had started and run multiple businesses over 30+ years in the UK (generally small - usually 2-8 employees). Health insurance was one thing they never even had to think about. Of course, there were other issues, but health care wasn't one.
I mean from block diagram perspective, we are always used to keep data in the center secured by all other layers. But that pattern is changing in the days of AWS & Google Cloud, where data can be anywhere. If data is a service, it doesn't matter where it is located. But if Data is a layer within the application, we need to surround it by protective layers such as app, gateway etc.,
I've never quite understood the predilection towards hatred of the subject of religion, and the persistent nagging claim that it must be eradicated.

The world would be a very hard place if we couldn't just suddenly decide that our description of the universe didn't actually need to make sense, and isn't relevant anyway, "because <deity/concept/idea of some relevance>".

Well, it just seems naive and reactive, to me, when I encounter the viewpoint that its all crap and must die.

Its a very common thought.
But if you think the stuff you work on is cool, why can't you express that feeling by telling it to someone else? Because you lack the confidence in your work, which is the exact problem.

The interviewer should not change here, you should change to be able to convey your work and why you think its cool etc. Thats exactly what the interviewer is looking for.
I'd say they're not crap because they're Chinese.

Cheap is top of most peoples wish list when shopping and China can do cheap. Cheap tends to be the enemy of quality.
It might be sad but it is empirical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
Yep, agreed. This means that Dropbox's minimum engineering count will be larger than WhatsApp's, but I still maintain that once you have sufficient engineers to tackle the problem, it's still largely independent of user count. Or, put another way, the number of engineers you need is O(problem complexity), not O(user count).
Design from the data first. You can build testing into your change management at the database layer. In my experience building applications this way reduces the chance for the database to enter into an invalid state.

When I build web applications on top of this they have less to do. They literally parse HTTP and shuttle data. No big MVC framework needed. When the data model changes we change the data model. In the database. And we use the abstraction facilities in our server to keep the public schema clean.

Premature abstraction is just as dangerous as premature optimization. Maybe even worse in my experience.
> The point of Wikileaks is to publish, after all.

So how many anti-Putin materials were published there?
I have a question.

I would LOVE to have a security system that automatically locks doors inside the house and fills the room with a thick fog. There are fog machines that work faster than the ones in the club. Hard to find a way out of the room in that case. And hard to find and assault anyone, or steal things, with a thick fog.

Humane - can't get sued for leaving lasting damage - and also

As a fallback, I'd remoty enable use of really unpleasant sound or pepper spray on the perp.

If I lived in a rural area, I would also want a drone to take off half a mile away and film people coming to my house. That way I'd know who's coming and have a record of it even if they thought they destroyed all the surveillance video.

Thoughts? I believe these kinds of things would be far better for security than what's currently on the market.
you don't choose the programming life. The programming life chooses you
Try Google Cloud, it may get even cheaper. https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-... (disclaimer: I work at Google)
I am ashamed to admit that it took a long time before I learned that sentence (with dog) is used because it has every letter of the alphabet.
Is it because we are not ready to do away with capitalism as it becomes obsolete?
You may as well just be describing software, in general.

This isn't a "crypto thing", yo.

All software has such utility.

You either care or you don't.
Are you an idiot? What he's implying is that a company selling juicers for the rich is able to raise as much as a company making human organs, which is fucking ridiculous.
I passed this onto marketing team and they seem to love it. I think a tool like this is what we have to use for more appropriate signups when doing any significant release.
A lot of them are, for the reasons you point out. But they really are not that different than other financial instruments in kind, just in maturity.

What does it mean to own a share of Snapchat, Facebook, or Google? You can't influence these companies, they don't pay dividends, so the value of a share is just whatever the mob wants to pay for it. Goes up on good news, down on bad. Bonds are even worse, that's just someone saying sure, I'll pay you back later. These things have law developed around them now, but didn't when they first emerged.

It all depends on your risk profile. If you have high risk tolerance, and think that you can mitigate some risk with being ahead of the market in technical and/or business skills, there is no reason not to get involved in these.
I know, but all our infrastructure is on AWS right now :/
> If there is a power outage while I am at work, I can find out when it started and how long it lasted from the security system logs...

Pingdom works well for this as well :)

> I wanted to monitor my home temperature while away. I pointed the security camera at a thermometer, and then could use the remote camera app to look at it. (Later replaced with en ESP8266 and temperature sensor that takes a reading every minute and uploads to my website).

Is there anything the ESP8266 can't do?? (I also have some of these - Wemos D1 minis) spread around my place for temperature monitoring and general geekery)
Well if you model your domain, then if you find only a certain database can persist that domain well, then write a specific adapter for that database and stick with it. If your using DDD + OO most of the adapter will be converting to and from your persistence model and your domain model.

However there are plenty of applications why there is no technical reason why they can't work on both though.
> Even having different boxing (the sport) categories for men and women could be construed as "sexism".

I disagree that fits under prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination. But of course it can be overly broad if you apply it overly broadly.
I think the vast majority need some framework to cope with existential questions, even if that framework is atheism. No, I'm not saying atheism is a religion, but it has nevertheless spawned recognizable frameworks. The major religions remain the major frameworks, however. Getting people off of IE6 will prove to have been easier than getting them off major religions, assuming you wanted that in the first place.
Lying is like any other tool. Its morality is based on how its used.
This is a very similar idea to Gary Bernhardt's: Functional Core, Functional Core, Imperative Shell: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct....

I prefer Gary's explanation of it because he jumps right into the meat of the problem and shows code that models this architecture. The video doesn't require you to know Ruby to understand what he is saying, just as long as you know some basic testing phrases; Mocking, Stubbing, Etc, you should be able to follow along.
I think ricardobeat is pointing out that it says something about the current VC climate that something as dumb as Juiecero got $20 million more funding than something as potentially important as Organivo.
If you consider that most EU equivalents of SEC have issued warnings against OneCoin I would say that counts as a scam.

The amazing thing is that OneCoin does not even have a public blockchain or any chain.

Probably just an Excel spreadsheet with periodic applying of *2 formula.

It is just a regular pyramid which has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies besides the name.

I get regular questions from non-technical people who have been asked to "invest" in OneCoin.

It is hard to tell people to stay away.
But this also ignores that religion is exploding in the Global South as it develops. Ironically, as the Chinese get richer, religion is becoming something that they haven't been able to have but want to obtain.

With birth rates falling in European countries, the world is getting more religious, not less.
> Amazon is not really an appropriate distribution platform for 6-week custom-made-to-order products. Maybe there's another well-known retail site that caters to that type of vendor but it certainly isn't Amazon (or Walmart).

Perhaps Etsy would be a better platform for that product?
In US/Canada it's 'enforced' from the very top.
It is mandatory to have 'religion' affiliation for a politician, even if your real moto 'grab her..'
Starting from special treatment in constitution/constitutional act and all the way to the schools. Kids, for example, in 6th grade in more secular Quebec have more exposure to religious ideas than to basic geography.
Religion in US/Canada is special kind of hypocrisy.
Thus no surprise.
Giant Schnauzers are hypo-allergenic and are increasingly being trained as guard dogs
Getting spooky and ethically tricky.
very brief
If that can make you happy, I used that power to downvote you, as your does not add anything of value either. I also upvoted him, for being right :>

"X billion dollars can't be wrong" is also a dead horse. Appeal to authority and wealth is a terrible argument.
It seems like cheating to make a statement like this using "Judeo-Christianity". Judaism seems like a pretty different philosophy or worldview from Christianity. And, of course, both have evolved over time based on the needs of their adherents and the whims of their leaders.
Yes, and I am surprised that this wasn't at the start of the article instead. Very few companies have interview processes that test for the actual skills required on the job. Certainly not any of the big 4.