skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why a corporate entity being the state sounds appealing -- the theory that you at least _can_ go to another company seems really appealing on its face.

But in reality, there is no difference.

What you're missing here is that in a monopoly situation there is no competition. You can't go hire another company. You can tell the monopoly you want to hire another company until you're blue in the face, but they don't care. They know you don't actually have the option, because there is no other company to hire.

You can try to start another company, but in a monopoly situation, the monopoly can always out compete you. They can simply drop prices in your small area of competition below you (or to zero) until you go out of business. Even if people hate the monopoly, they often won't be able to afford your higher prices.

And if you look at history, when companies achieve monopoly power, they do often essentially usurp the power of the state, up to and including coercive force. Look at the history of unionization attempts in the mining industry, particularly in the Appalachians here in the US. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, union attempts were often suppressed with privately hired military force -- or with the state's military hired out as a private military force.

And there's another level, corporate entities as state are worse, in many respects than an inefficient or corrupt democratic state. With a democratic state, it's still, ostensibly, answerable to the people. If you can organize enough of a popular response against it at the polls and in street protests, you can change it. A corporate entity is answerable to its owners and stockholders. It's an oligarchy. When it becomes the state, it becomes the worse kind of dictatorship and your only choice is revolution.
I agree with the first part, but the article has a point on WeChat.
It is a very good example of how app vendors have stronger brands while smartphones are seen as commodities in China.
Looks very good and I like that they have a screenshot right on the home page. I wish there was an anonymous instance to try it out without the tedious login process...
No one else has brought this up, but her "fidget spinner" is a totally different device than the ones that are popular. It's like a frisbee with a bump in the middle to center it on your finger, which I assume lets you get it moving it one handed by "hula hooping" it around. But you can't put it in your pocket and carry it everywhere, nor can you fidget inconspicuously.

The popular fidget spinners are small, flat devices, comprised of a frame and one or more ball bearings. Google image results: http://i.imgur.com/33Qg5BU.jpg

The only things her invention has in common with these is that you fidget with it and it spins.

Was her patent really broad enough to cover everything sharing those attributes? You might as well patent quarters. They're great for fidgeting.
This video will always stay relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGar7KC6Wiw
Wouldn't that be https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/ ;)
in some cases it leads to worse horrible experiences like my Linkedin feed. I have to wait a few seconss everytime before content loads.
I transferred into my current job a few years ago, and this year, I interviewed two transfer candidates, one of them (not you, I'm pretty sure) a QA engineer who wanted to move into an engineering role, so I might have some thoughts on this situation from the other side:

What advantages does the candidate expect from being an internal transfer, and what can we fairly offer them? To me, an internal transfer has a sizable advantage in that they are a known quantity in many aspects: You can ask them in much more detail about previous work at the company, you can talk to their co-workers, you have a clearer sense of the projects you were involved in, and in some cases you may already have personally worked with them.

Where we DON'T cut the candidates any slack is the technical side of the job, and QA is usually different work from engineering. So the candidates still stand or fall based on the technical interview.

The controversial aspect of Machine Learning jobs in particular, and the situation you described, is credentialism. In many areas of software engineering, credentials are indeed overrated, but Machine Learning IS a very technical field, requiring rather advanced math to truly understand it (rather than just blindly plug together pieces from an ML toolkit), and right now the field is undergoing revolutionary changes, so this is one area where a recent graduate degree really DOES convey a concrete advantage.

It should not be an INSURMOUNTABLE advantage, but you'd have to be a very impressive non-academic candidate. What ML papers have you recently read? How would you plan to apply them in the job you're aspiring to? What contributions have you made to the field?
Isn't the point that weechat has pretty much become the preferred operating system in China?
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That article (which, btw, you're not even reading correctly - go back and look at its numbers again) is way out of date. You can see the actual, current pool share statistics in many places online. The author makes a lot of baseless assumptions and glosses over a lot of details and then uses his ill-derived conclusion to peddle an unproven proof-of-stake system. It's sensationalist bullshit. It's fake news.

https://coin.dance/blocks/thisweek
How do you plan to study? Have you created your own curriculum or will you be following one you've found?

Like this Open Source Data Science Masters: http://datasciencemasters.org/
Does UberPool really profitably work at 2:30am? Boston experimented with late night public transit and basically couldn't make the numbers work.
I would rather be slaughtered than vote for Conservative, but I have to say, the NHS is already dead.

1. My nephew is 15 months old, sick and has to take tablet form which is almost impossible. The liquid one is beyond the budget.

2. My mum is having big problems with her knee due to arthritis, it has been going on for 4 years, and all they do is treat the pain. So now she is on boxes of Tramadol, and this is creating all kinds of new problems.

3. My father in law has a poor heart and he has medication but what they have given him creates a list of side effects so long that he visits the GP atleast once a week. If he cuts himself, he is in Hospital. However, there are alternatives, but beyond the budget to be prescribed to him.

This is my only experiences with the NHS and I don't think it is fit for purpose.

The desire of the common person to scream "PROTECT OUR NHS" is feeding into the problems. Now they are even paying Recruitment Agencies huge sums of money to find people remotely qualified, and they are absolutely raking in the cash (I know someone off to Miami with work in August as a perk holiday for working the NHS account).
I guess high deductible plans should provide people incentive to lower their healthcare costs.

It'd be interesting to see if shifting to higher deductible plans leads people to make different health choices or not.
(1) It's often cheaper/free to call numbers on the same network.

(2) Business phone/family phone.

Edit: speaking from my experience in Eastern Europe. I assume it's similar in India.
This is C. There's nothing questionable about this "style." It is just how C is written. How else are you going to free resources without a code section to do it? Copy/paste it dozens of times?

The specific code isn't "goto fail" anyway, it is more akin to a finally block.
Not a defense of finid's stupid comment, but the developers and volunteers basically are the project.

Requesting hardware this way makes a lot of sense. Hunting down oddball hardware isn't an ideal use of developer time, but it's the sort of thing OpenBSD's users, the ones reading the request, are probably very well equipped to help with. I have sent projects hardware a few times over the years as it gets decommissioned and it's helpful to know what is useful and what is not. I'm happy to see the hardware go somewhere where it continues to be useful.
> The process takes often less than 10 mins per day.

Yikes. That's worth pointing out and celebrating? The most crucial part of "standups" is in the name - a meeting so short you don't need to sit down.

Here's the thing with 'agile' and stand ups. Do whatever's best for your team. Do whatever helps you be productive as possible. Don't just throw the baby out with the bathwater.
there are some parsing urls on this page:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/com...
Are you kidding? It's like every other day we hear about a new Android exploit or security flaw. At least Apple is committed to strong encryption and privacy. The OS - and the hardware integration - is an enormous selling point to me. As much as I oppose Apple's direction as of late for many business decisions (iPhone 7 headphone jack for example), the reasons stated above are why I still cannot see myself switching.
It is definitely possible in some countries/companies.

Using "EU" as a blanket term is misleading, as always.
Fwiw, drone pilots (I'm thinking racing drones here) don't use VR, they use low bandwidth and resolution single pov video, since it has the lowest latency. That low latency is quite important when doing precision maneuvers, even if it comes with the attendant analog artifacts (I.e. static).
> wanted to buy some frosting tips. After half an hour on Amazon, reading reviews accusing products of being shoddy knock-offs that rust, warp, etc., I realized it's much faster to just drive to a store and buy them. That's what I did, drove to Michael's and bought a set for close to the same price.

Would you feel the same way if the rating system was right there in-store on a tag?

I understand taking the ratings as a deciding factor; but when I buy odd-things I'm no expert on; I tend to go with gut and middle-of-the-road and I'm hardly disappointed. But that's something I learned from shopping at brick-and-mortar.
Turds isn't even crass.

Maybe it's an American thing, but I honestly didn't notice anything odd about the headline until you complained.
Sure. Reigns, Hopiko, Alto's Adventure, You must build a boat, Monument Valley, Hearthstone(arguable), Clash Royale(again arguable), Vainglory, Crashlands. That's what I've got installed on my phone, I'm sure there are plenty more.
I think AR headsets like Hololens will offer an opportunity to appeal to more traditional gamers first before, as you so humorously put it, "optimized filth" becomes the mainstay. This is due to, what I think, is a positive correlation between people that are early adopters and people that are gamers.
What about a movie lile "Brazil"? would that be considered happy or sad?
I think their website is on github, so open a pull request
Why not? It depends on your agreement with employer. In my previous work I had a colleague who used to vanish to Himalayas for at least a month every year.
First sentence of paragraph two states the premise of the article: "...the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS."

The article does not assert that Apple has a monopoly on smartphones.
I did try linear regression but the results were bad. That's why I moved towards sophisticated models.
It's worth remembering that we have had VR for well over 20 years now, in one form or another. 5 years seems optimistic given that.
kinda funny how the parties are flip flopped on this one. Republicans don't want states rights and Democrats do.
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Yes, I'm using the HTTPS Everywhere extension for Chrome and I'm guessing a lot of HN users might as well.

I'll try another browser, but I suggest to enable HTTPS for your site.
I know that many of the local shops in Edinburgh owned by Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi guys prominently advertised SIMs with special rates for calling numbers in those places. Perhaps it's something like 1 SIM for local every-day stuff, and another for calling your uncle/cousin/sister who's studying or living abroad? Also India is pretty huge perhaps some of the further apart states are considered sort of "abroad" for billing purposes by the carriers.
I'm afraid that at this point Slack has too strong a network effect to be replaced with something better except in niche circles.
> And yet, you want to fire people who let their brains relax for a couple of hours.

Not at all. I did not mean to say that if that's what it came out as. My intent was I would fire someone who intentionally works less because they feel they are entitled to because of something another employee is doing.

It's also how they do it. If they come to me and say "I don't think this is fair... here's what I think we should do" I would never punish them. Punishing people for expressing a concern to management is a terrible idea. But if they just start doing it because they decided that's what is fair... all the sudden they disappear for hours on end... that person is not a team player.

I would never fire someone for taking a break unless it became a problem with the work quality. Heck... one of my team just went and took a nap in the break room for an hour and I'm completely OK with that. He's probably exhausted (he has a kid at home) and will come back more productive. Context matters.

> Not a big difference. A lot of those people will forget most of the stuff they "learned" in a few months time.

They might forget the technical details but they will retain some of the vocabulary and now know what the developers are talking about. But if even 5% of them is able to save or make their department money because of what they learned in the class it's probably worth it. You don't need 100% success rate to see net positive returns.
So I did try simple models but the results with sophisticated models have come out to be better than simpler ones.
I feel like having "safety net" sections is a smell, too. Maybe it's due to limitations of the language? I'm not a C expert.

Safety nets make it seem like you're handling edge cases in a vaguely specified, ad-hoc way, which is prone to forgetting to add the safety net in at least some places, while the nets themselves are easy to mess up as well.

Could this code benefit from more typing perhaps? Automated checking of pre- and postconditions? Are there C (macro) libraries implement that in a usable way?
Archive.org is a single-point-of-failure, also they don't take PDFs and screenshots of fully-rendered sites with their JS-loaded content.
They are saying that Michael's brand reputation (as compared to Amazon) was the deciding factor.

The reviews are just evidence that Amazon isn't protecting their reputation very well.
> and making us as a whole look like a joke to the rest of the EU.

Have you read the leaked details of the meeting between May and Juncker? [0] [1]

A lot of people on the continent already think May is a joke. What good does taking a "tough" stance do in negotiating with the EU? Sure, it looks good for the local electorate (especially as she's just called an election), but negotiations aren't about being "tough" they're about getting a good outcome for UK/EU citizens living in the respective countries (and a trade deal, if they ever get around to that).

Comments like "bloody difficult" [2] also don't help things. To those of us on the continent, it seems that the UK has decided to go with the "bull in a china shop" strategy with May.

The amount of animosity toward the EU coming from the UK is just stunning. We get it, you dislike the EU, hence why you voted to leave. But it seems like the UK government is intent to burn every last bridge with the EU through their rhetoric...

[0] https://twitter.com/jeremycliffe/status/858810953353367552?l...

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/theresa-may-j...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39784170
It means exactly what it say on the tin. This isn't a hypothetical, either, but a class of behaviour which has happened repeatedly in the past. Here are a few examples of things which the FCC & FTC eventually stopped; there's zero reason to believe that this behaviour won't resume as soon as it's safe to accept that money.

Large ISPs like Verizon altered HTTP traffic to inject a unique identifier which linked all of your traffic across devices and sites and sold a service linking those identifiers to demographic information. Even without paying, you could use that to reliably link user activity across every plain-text HTTP service:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
https://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/verizon-wireless-in...

Going further back, a number of ISPs got heat for reselling access to customer activity to various tracking services:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04...

Another interesting allegation came from Andreas Gal after he left Mozilla, claiming that Google's competitors were paying ISPs for copies of user's search activity so they could improve their search engine by using ranking closer to Google's. Given how many people search for sensitive or identifying terms, that's already a concern and, again, there's no reason to think companies with very limited competition won't expand their profits if it's safe:

https://andreasgal.com/2015/03/30/data-is-at-the-heart-of-se...
"640K is more memory than anyone will ever need."

"No one will need more than 637 kB of memory for a personal computer"
Even Western Europe, I have UK and French SIMs.
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While I disagree with the word dumb and find "ignorant" more suitable, your Candy Crush comparison is bad.

Jonathan Blow nailed it in this presentation:
https://youtu.be/AxFzf6yIfcc?t=2436
AFAICT they're not a monopoly here either; most of the numbers I see are in the neighborhood of 40%.
> The other day 8 people did a stand-up for 27minutes. That's a crazy loss of time.

What i see here is a team that let it happen.

A 'scum master' (or whoever) that oversaw the conversation and carried on with it. Developers (or team members) who talked for that long, and other people who _let_ it go on for that long and didn't put their foot down.

Man, where I work if a standup started going for half that time, people would just start walking away from it.
I'm not sure people would connect with that. Like if Adam and Eve published that some random person ordered a dildo, the public reaction is likely "meh" for everybody who doesn't know said person.

Publishing that a congressperson ordered a dildo or butt-plug would get peoples' attention pretty fast- and might accelerate change.

I'm starting to warn people not to go to WebMD and similar sites because of recent events.
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Well you'd be wrong. It's legal to circumvent such protections at the border -- in fact, this is one reason they do it.
Getting Started with LoRaWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) Using Python
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Android enables you to install apps from 3rd party stores and specifically warns people about being careful about doing this. It is not so much that Android has more exploits, but that it is more exploitable if you choose it to be.
> You need 2400 calories a day to maintain weight

No, his sources estimates 2400 calories a day. You're right to question if he's consumed more, but taking his claims at face value, they match my own experience and many, many anecdotes I've seen over the year to indicate that advice of maintenance levels around that range are way too high for most people.

> and were (off the cuff) burning close to 1000 a day from running and other activity.

I very much doubt that. My own off the cuff estimate is ~500 calories a day for that activity.

> There's no way you'd gain weight at 220 lbs effectively consuming 1000 calories a day. I've lost weight eating more than that at 180 lbs body weight.

More like 1500 by my account, possibly more depending on the intensity of his exercise. And if you assume lack of substantial muscle-weight in that, it matches pretty well with my own experience from before I started lifting weights - I had diets where I had to drop to around 1200/day before it made a noticeable difference.

Once I started adding muscle, I could get away with more, but not a lot more.

I don't doubt your numbers, but to me they'r why we shouldn't listen to estimates, but measure, as activity level (all day long, not just during exercise) and body composition makes the error margin on estimates of metabolic rate crazily high.
Based on github it seems this service is developed by a single person[1]. So, the product seems to be really new.

[1] https://github.com/kspearrin
By your definition the entire stock market is a ponzi scheme because early investors are "paid off" when they sell their shares to later investors.
This surprised me:

> "Results: In all cases, there was a statistically significant (t-test and Wilcoxon p<0.05) increase in energy consumption when running tests in Docker, mostly due to the performance of I/O system calls."
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I've been very impressed with the OnePlus 3T. Cannot fault it at the price (£400).
The thing is that anything ever published in a paper represents a claim: the researchers claim that they have achieved something. You may choose to trust the claim to be true, or not- or you may try to reproduce the results if you need to do so for some reason (for instance, because you want to use them in your own work). Until you have convinced yourself that something is true, you can't be expected to believe it just because someone else -anyone else- says it is.

This is true even for theoretical papers with mathematical proofs and the like. I don't think this is a very controversial opinion. I've often seen reports in the (mostly popular) press starting with "such and such team claims to have solved such-and-such longstanding problem in a new paper released..." etc.

In the popular press we tend to see claims made in papers reported as an absolute fact: "These Danish boffins trained a deep managerial neural pixie network to recognise the sex of starfish" etc. The point that the paper reports the team's own results as the team understands them and that other teams may have a different interpretation of the same results, is often lost in the translation.

The best outlets often include a few opinions from researchers not involved in the work- I tend to trust those better.
Agreed. I research new media and archive.org is invaluable to me. I worry that current web sites won't be able to be preserved. (much like many of the flash sites and real audio of the past are largely gone.)
I also up-voted you, since asking for clarification to understand an implied connection (to an unmentioned event) is a completely reasonable thing to do. I would have done the same if I didn't see the connection, and everyone should be encouraged to post questions if something is not clearly stated.
I think I'd rather see something like...

"Telnet into www.example.com 8080 for the text version of our site" and have the main site more friendly.

Also, I don't intend to discount the work here but... this has been done... many times. I wish I could find a link right now. I've also seen homepages with vim key bindings.

There is also a bug where you can't copy and paste because the text immediately deselects. That might be intentional though.

Edit: also there might be a missed opportunity here. You could make applying for a job use the prompt as well. Might have the added bonus of testing how well the candidate knows command line. Right now it asks for applications via email.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvks70PD0Rs