skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do hate the walled garden aspect of them. I agree they are far, far, far from innocent.

But from a UX standpoint they are vastly superior to having to deal with people trying to reach me on my US number while I'm in China, or trying to reach one cell phone when I'm carrying another.

Also, the telco operators love to nickel-and-dime consumers for things like roaming charges. I'd love to see more competitors come out and overthrow those rascals by doing everything over IP, creating worldwide MVNOs and slashing all roaming charges to essentially zero. Google Fi has done a nice job. Granted they exist to promote Android, but when I tell friends I have LTE data in 100+ countries without roaming charges, international voice calls for pennies directly from my cell phone, and viewing voice charges in real-time, they are all astounded. Unfortunately yes they too are a walled garden, but the user experience is amazing.
An interesting side note: I work with several mathematicians. We are an algorithmic management company, they come up with optimization algos, we (software guys) make it scale. They seem to prefer imperative code over functional style.
Thats a good point, I'm appalled that if they feel compelled to crack down on delinquent bill payers to the point they resort to these measures but can't look into other ways to save money.

What are their priorities in life?
I love the way you format your py code. clean and super easy to read.

https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper/blob...
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Share your idea we will prototype it
Do not scared of leaving your job and going with your idea.just share your idea we will prototype and test in the market if it works go full time with your business and we do not own any part of it.
My view of the future is only pessimistic if one assumes that VR is the future. Im pessimistic of the medium, not the future of film or storytelling. I didnt support the "4d" craze either. That too came to nothing and film survived.
They probably have no money left to refund.
I agree, for me, anything that mentions AI is instantly treated as horse poo until it does something really impressive
It's very widely known among developers who read HN or bl9gs in general. Which is a good filter on its own.
Does anyone know the valuation of the company? And more importantly, what justifies that valuation? I have trouble believing that the meal replacement market is all that lucrative.
There doesn't need to be an actual crime. There needs to be an investigation of an actual crime. One which seems to have been taking place.

Also, given how often Uber is brought up in these forums for ignoring/breaking local laws, I really would not be surprised to find that they have committed real crimes. I would be far more surprised if they had not.
> One bank locked me out of my account entirely because you can't log in or contact custom service without receiving an SMS code (no voice option), but their system refuses to send SMS to my number.

I have this problem with one of my credit card issuers (not the two I mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and they're going to lose me as a customer as a result. I can't log into any online banking without receiving a phone call or SMS and I'm prompted to enter a number at which I can receive such a thing. The problem is, I am entering the number that I know the bank has but entering that number--or any other number I own--is met with "hmm, it doesn't look like that number belongs to you." Of course it doesn't considering my mobile phone service is paid for through my LLC and this is a personal credit card account.

When I tried calling them, I'm told that, again, I need to verify myself with an SMS and, no, the number I have used for a decade is not sufficient.

At least they've now returned to mailing me paper statements. Once I've verified that my last automatic payment has moved away from them as of next month, the card gets canceled. If I can't cancel by phone, I'll cancel by mail. If I can't cancel by mail, I'll just leave it in a drawer and watch my mail for any new statements until the card is canceled for inactivity.
This seems similar to how we punish some crimes worse if you thought something mean about the person you committed the crime against.
Hello from Oslo

Would be interesting to hear about what you do machine learning for in the public sector. Could you share a bit?
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Yes, I avoid living in the Bay Area because I literally couldn't afford to live there without having my rent payments or the commute suck my life away. I've run the numbers. I couldn't. I don't feel bad about not being able to for all sorts of reasons, but whether I felt bad or not doesn't change that the math doesn't work.

As for the latter, I edited it before your reply because I didn't really feel like getting into it because it's late--but I will be straight with you, if there's a "running joke" out there I certainly wasn't participating in its spread. Those critiques--and I'm happy to shoot the shit about them, my email is in my profile and you're welcome to say hey--don't belong in this thread.
>yeah no, that would be equivalent to being kicked out the EU.

Has there actually been any country that's been and/or in the process of being kicked out the EU (besides threats wielded in media and talked up for ad-views)?

How do you reconcile them willing to kick out Greece but trying to put a multi tens of billion euro bill on the UK for leaving the EU? Would Greece be demanded to pay a similar bill when kicked out and actually pay such? (We already know the ability for them to pay such a bill).

What about all the northern countries running a surplus to Greece, what would happen to those companies special positions due the trade restrictions in their favor?

I really doubt the folks in Brussels want at situation like that to happen, nor do I see them having absolute control over what comes in from customs, in every country, much less in any one in particular.

>Also, COSCO has already acquired the port of piraeus so there is an asian connection already.

Not really sure how to interpret what you mean by "asian connection". So having one state related shipping company from China, now satisfies all the demand for people trying to import into Europe from all over asia, as if every trader must some how just use that port/company? Besides, the issue isn't technically with shipping things, its actually having it cleared to leave the port to the buyer with the right paperwork.
Anecdotal: though I'm far from a top contributor, the CTO at my first job out of school eventually confessed that it was my Stack Overflow profile that convinced him to make the call.
You can't get anywhere close to 3D printing lenses
In the Netherlands lunch is usually sandwiches (with cold cheese) that children being themselves. A proper meal follows at 1730 at home. Some schools do school milk or school fruit, but usually it's bring your own. In high school cafeterias exist but do not come near what I see that US/UK schools feed their kids in not very nutritional food. Schools do not last all day, so most kids eat some more after school before going to sports or other hobbies. Many smaller kids go to after school care when both parent work.
That child has not been hungry in a while. A little hunger can do you a world of favour.
If you do that with the intention of passing through a checkpoint to hide your contraband, why shouldn't that be a crime?
Increasing bureaucracy and administration. Almost all of the extra money in increased college tuition in the last has been absorbed by the administrative part and increased amenities for the students.
TBF that one's internal organs seem bountiful. Perhaps too bountiful.
CloudFlare doesn't promote anything, it just helps sites survive DDoS attacks (which are illegal).

This piece seems to be needlessly focused on one part of the stack rather than asking the broader question of what role commercial organizations should play in suppressing voices that society no longer wants to hear.
Not in the Netherlands, most older kids (>12) bring a lunch box, usually filled with 4 slices of bread with cheese, meat, "hagelslag" or peanut butter (we call it peanut cheese and it is almost only peanuts). Children until 12 often eat at home during the afternoon although that is rapidly changing. Many children now spend lunch time at school, I think the cost is ~1 euro for some slices of bread with topping as mentioned before, they are helped by volunteer parents.

My 4y/o brings a box to school with 1 piece of fruit (some bring a cookie/oat bar or something but the school encourages fruit) and a bottle of water which is eaten around 10:15 I believe. I think this is only for young children.

By the way, if a kid forgets his or her fruit they make it point to share, I like that policy. Also I hear from colleagues more and more schools are switching to water only to battle weight increase in children, although this leads to some discussion :)

Edit: see below, the Netherlands is waking up I guess :)
That font-weight/color is nearly unreadable on my Windows 10 machine.
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I think that this point of view ignores the fact that a big under acknowledged purpose for public school is daycare. The school day needs to be long enough to give the parents time to go to work.

Not sure what the solution is here but I don't think shortening the day will work due to this.
What's up with kids buying lunches at school? At my school everyone brought lunches with them. Never had any drama that I can remember.
Aside from the whys are wherefores of the situation, the thing I find the most disturbing is that people who set these policies and do things like this:

> staff taking debt notices to class

> when the cashier discovered she had an unpaid food bill from last year, the tray of pizza, cucumber slices, an apple and chocolate milk was thrown in the trash

Are allowed anywhere near children. I know it's nothing new, and in many countries we're beyond school staff being enabled by the state to physically abuse children (at least by a couple of decades in the UK), but it seems like we still turn a blind eye to emotional and psychological abuse. It's one of the things that petrifies me about potentially having children at some point.

> It shows how lasting these experiences can be.
Good point, but making changes is not bad, right?
I would humbly suggest that they cease and desist from calling their workers stripes.
> And unless you think phone calls are an optional feature, it makes perfect sense that the dialer cannot be deleted.

I don't see the connection here. Why shouldn't people be able to delete the dialer if they don't like the phone company's choice? I understand preinstalling one, but preventing people from choosing another if they want seems unnecessary.
dont worry, ex wife is an art history professor ... 0 chance anyone on here will say something that is widely accepted in academia.
I haven't ever read his blog or followed him online, but the moment I landed on the site, saw his name and picture, I recognized him immediately - "Hey, that's the Max Woolf from TechCrunch comments!"

I remember about 4-5 years ago when you couldn't read a single TechCrunch article without a witty comment from Max.

He even mentions how he got interviews after someone found his comments on TechCrunch.

Max is a very smart marketer with strong communication skills. IMO, he would be more of an asset in a role that leveraged these skills along with his technical knowledge
Ok, download the APK again, see if it fixes the problem.

The new APK changes the target SDK number to be 23 (Marshmallow, 6.0.1), since that's the latest we've tested against.

Thanks for the bug report!
Anecdotal counterpoint (from a throwaway account for obvious reasons)...

This very much varies depending on the team you're on. I had no issues transferring from QA to engineering, but it's very much about who you know. From what I see my experience was the exception, and most people looking for internal transfers fared much like the OP. If you don't have a prior relationship with anyone on the teams you want to move to you're in for a rough ride. This is easier said than done because Apple is far more silo'd than other tech companies.
Try the new APK, does it help?
Carlos Slim has a few interesting monkey period pieces at his foundation's museum in CDMX.
Most of those critiques boil down to "it works differently to how I'm used to" or "I don't know how to use it so I'm going to criticize it poorly".

NPM has issues but most criticism of it is really complaints about bad dev practices (like not pinning versions correctly).
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There is no free lunch!
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Very much agreed. We lived in a poorer neighborhood a few years back and my child's kindergarten had free breakfast for all (through title 1 funding). I think it did a lot of good.
A real criminal investigation probably isn't going to be satisfied with the lowly coder. If this ends up going all the way, I would expect people high up to be punished.
School lunch is not really a problem for many countries in the world.

Turns out that in order to feed kids we need to contribute a bit more than $2 a meal, but if we were actually interested in solving the problem we could invest in it and just give all the kids free lunches, just like how we give them free classes.

This would have the added benefit of helping out poorer families who might not have the time/money to always give their children the highest quality food.
I'd love to hear more detail about the example you give of type inference over an AST. I like the idea, but I'm having trouble envisioning how to write code in that style cleanly. Did you implement that in an open source project I could take a look at?
One other one is that it has hilariously poor performance, and bizarre failure cases. For some forms of network failures it'll just say "callback called too many times" and crash.

There are literally no worse major package managers.

A good package manager can be misused and still work reasonably well; a bad one doesn't even work all that well when used correctly.
It seems pretty standard to me.

Curious, what is there that you especially like? I only noticed a couple things that is different from what I usually see (and write):

- newline after function declarations

- assigments with `= x if pred else y` style and trailing \ formatting
By definition, the people that make interesting cinematic experiences in VR won't be "film makers". I don't know if we've created a job title for them yet.

It's a completely different medium, with completely different advantages, drawbacks, and considerations. Applying film techniques in a virtual environment is not the right approach, as your examples demonstrate. The really compelling experiences in VR will embrace the constraints you mentioned, not try to emulate a medium in which they didn't exist.

I went to New York a few months ago and saw a play called Sleep No More. It takes place across 5 floors of a warehouse, converted into an incredibly immersive series of sets. It's loosely-based on Hamlet, with multiple storylines playing out simultaneously in different parts of the hotel/hospital/graveyard/theatre. The audience wears fawkes-esque masks and is not allowed to speak, nor are they acknowledged by the actors in any way. You can wander anywhere you like, follow any actors you find interesting, rummage through drawers, read books you find lying around, etc. You really do feel like a ghost, and being able to move around the actors (or even leave the room, if you feel like it), is incredibly fun and interesting. It certainly didn't feel like a limitation.

So maybe VR has more to learn from theatre (and specifically interactive theatre) than film? Food for thought.
Yes, everyone pictured in that article is obese.
Nice, they've worked out how to take away their developer's down time.

> To catch integration errors, the suite of codes are repeatedly checked-out around the clock from our central repository, compiled, and several hundred regression and unit tests are run. Email and cell phone SMS provide instant notification of any errors.

https://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov/chapter-1.html
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Wouldn't it be nice if schools were funded enough to provide every child with a full stomach, which is very helpful when you're trying to learn something, and the adults training to become soldiers would have to pay for their own meals instead?

Or, why not pay for them both with taxes? How in the hell can you expect a child to learn while hungry?
So they misled investigators throughout multiple cities across the United States. Therefore, it's a federal issue. This really isn't that hard to understand.
There's a ton of annoying little stuff (like doing nothing to prevent path names too long for your filesystem) that could be forgiven for being young, but the big problems are in its architecture.

Node module syntax is non standard and can't be tree shaken, with a little more forethought it could have been designed to support static analysis and they wouldn't have needed to reinvent the module syntax for ES6. You can't reliably tell if a piece of code is using a given package until you run it.

The dependency resolution sucks. It's better now that they finally made it so nested dependencies aren't duplicated, but why the hell do I have to run a manual dedupe command to do so? What that tells me is that npm doesn't actually track dependencies, its hardly more than a fancy file downloading tool.

The repository curation sucks. I'm not sure if you've used Python's package manager, or Java's, or C#'s, or Perls, but npm has zero package curation and is filled to the brim with garbage compared to the others. I have published packages for C# and Java and the semantics are well defined and reasonable, you even cryptographcally sign your code and the system checks to make sure you upload documentation etc... In the case of java, which has the best system I've seen, they even use something similar to DNS validation to make sure you control package namespace.

The above point is the absolute worst thing about npm and drawfs the other problems. Let me give an example by pasting the package publishing guidelines for Maven(Java) vs npm:

Publishing an npm package:
>Use npm publish to publish the package.
>Note that everything in the directory will be included unless it is ignored by a local .gitignore or .npmignore file as described in npm-developers.
>Also make sure there isn't already a package with the same name, owned by somebody else.
>Test: Go to https://npmjs.com/package/<package>. You should see the information for your new package.

I had to condense the Java guidelines but it's roughly this:
create JIRA account
apply for access
review requirements
verify namespace ownership
generate crypto keys
package coordinates/versioning
project description URL and license info
developer info
SCM info
package deployment
generate binaries
revolve package dependencies
crypto sign package
generate documentation
online verification

Sounds like a lot of work right? It takes a few hours to setup and verify your domain/keys the first time but after that all of these steps are automated. The signing/building/doc generation/ deployment is totally automated. Npm is a toy in comparison.

from their docs:
Why Do We Have Requirements?
In order to ensure a minimum level of quality of the components available in the Central Repository, we have established a number of requirements your deployment components have to meet. This allows your users to find all the relevant details about the components from the metadata provided in the Central Repository. The following sections will detail these requirements.

Left-pad is a perfect example of why npm sucks. Nuget, Maven, Phython, and CPAN would have never let something that stupid happen.
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Back in the day, it is the same sheep effect with 'XXX Topic Model'
No, it would be illegal according to EU data protection laws: "Article 8 prohibits the processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, and the processing of data concerning health or sex life"[0].

As you've mentioned, basically you can only use user's data for purposes stated in EULA (and they can't be overly abstract i.e. "we do anything we like with your data"). Though, sadly it's rare to see enforcement of data privacy laws except few show-off trials.

P.S. currently data protection laws vary a little country by country, but even more strict, EU-wide data protection laws will enter into force next year that also applies (on paper) to non-EU companies that serves EU citizens[1]. See more at http://www.eugdpr.org/

0. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/...
1. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/index_en....
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Yes it is (at least in France, Sweden and Finland), and it is much, much better than the stuff the US kids are fed.
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How is it an overreach to define finding who is a LEO and feeding them false information to deceive them and waste their time as obstruction of justice?
Be courageous, share what you know
Sometimes people can get cagey in tech. We all have our domains, and I think it's natural to feel threatened or encroached upon when someone else begins to pick up on that domain. But if you close up, and don’t share your knowledge with those on your team, then you’re not acting like a team member. Don’t get me wrong, I know that there is so much value to be had in properly failing. We fail, and then maybe we fail again, but then we fire up our engines and we blow the f’ing doors off. At least in my experience, failing was the best thing that ever happened to me. But personally, I'd like to see my teammates fail further ahead than I did.

I'm not suggesting that you hand your team members a blackbox and tell them to hop on your shoulders (unless that’s appropriate, then by all means), but warn them about common pitfalls and guide them when they struggle. Try to make it easy for them to succeed for as long as you can. For crying out loud, communicate! You might be wondering, “Who has time for this? Don’t you have a job to be doing?” Yeah, I do, but I’ve also got great teammates who can do that job now too.

It takes courage to share your hard earned knowledge with those who may someday replace you. And it’s so easy to hide behind the mystique that our field is known for. But I say be courageous, share what you know.
No, eliminate meal programs, cafeterias and food workers in schools.

Parents are responsible for the child's nutrition. If the parents don't provide, the school should report it to the relevant authorities (CPS, etc.).

Let schools teach: money allocated for education should be spent educating students, not feeding them.
The error message (which you can't see) is probably telling you that your Internet connection is blocking Melondream's UDP packets. Are you connecting from work or public WiFi?

Btw, the lesson here for developers is: don't use UDP, use TCP. We made a big mistake
One thing you forgot to consider is why the school lunch program is in place at all. It's for those kids from poorer backgrounds who might not receive a meal that day if it wasn't for this program.