skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally understand you, you basically described what the book I am reading now: "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain.

It also explains the cons about these brand new "wide noise open offices" that companies are building today.
I'll take Google's growth lessons over facebooks, snapchat, myspace any day of the week.
I think there's a great deal of mental fun to be had thinking about formal and informal social rules as some sort of underhanded C contest. But you can't lose sight of the fact it's not how such rules are generally applied in reality. The intent of the rule and the intent of the potential rule-breaker matter a lot.
Can anyone comment if this would fly in Europe? AIUI, you can only use information for the purposes for which it was taken. Taking someone's credit card number is for processing payment. Filtering it for fraud seems like it would be okay, but "checking if they're a narc" seems like it would cross the line.

(Yes, I asked about this in the last thread, but my question and the replies were about credit card/PCI agreements, not privacy laws.)
I agree. The acquisition seemed more like desperation than something grounded in logic. Jet was never going to compete with Amazon so the smart play would have been to just sit back and let them burn through their runway and then buy them on the cheap.
I've never heard of this service before, is bitwarden widely used by people here?

I was looking at the FAQ[1] and on a small paragraph they manage to put 3 spelling mistakes. This might be unjustified but I'm less inclined to trust a product with this, even less one that manages sensitive secrets.

> Since your data is fully encrypted and/or hashed before ever leaving your local device, noone from the bitwarden team can ever see, read, or reverse engineer to get to your real data. bitwarden servers only store encypted and hashed data. This is an important step that bitwarden takes to protect you.

> You can read more about how your data is encrypted and trasmitted here.

Many FAQ questions have at least one spelling mistake, and it's not the same every time, so it's not due to a foreign speaker's mistake. "trasmitted", "sensative data", etc.

[1] https://help.bitwarden.com/security/can-bitwarden-see-my-pas...
How about opening the course and sharing on github so other can benefit/help improve as well?
I assume this is a hedge against being fed fake data.
Location: NYC

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

1. Front-End: HTML5/CSS3, JS, ES6, D3.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, React, Webpack, willing to learn any other JS framework

2. Back-End: Python(Django/Flask)

3. Resume: http://rahulxsharma.com

4. Other: MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Linux, SAS, Photoshop

I am also familiar with ML (scikit-learn) and other packages in Python.

Email: rs2376[at]cornell[dot]edu
Why Simple Is Sexy Again
Film makers don't want to use VR. It is very limiting. Films in 3d were never very good, mostly because of the limitations it placed on camera movements. VR will be the same. When you cannot control what the audience is looking at you must resort to tricks, repetitions and slow pacing to ensure that they see what they need to before you move on. The beauty of film, over theatre or other "3d" experiences, is that the director can grab the audience by the eyeballs, force them to see what he wants/needs them to see. That's why films can be so much faster and more direct than live entertainment.

Take your favourite movie, or even one you just hated. Think of how it would be to "sit in" the action, tilting your head to look at anything and everything. You will miss all the details. You will miss the facial cues, the many non-verbal interactions between characters, because you were instead looking at the shiny thing in the corner. VR is for interactive experiences and theme park rides, not the carefully controlled storytelling of film.

Think of GOTG, of sitting in the spare seat of a spaceship during a battle. Every time a character says something you will hear it, but miss seeing them actually say it because you didnt know to look at them in time. Think of all the wasted effort to animate Rocket's face if the audiance is never looking at him while he speaks.
Location: NYC
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

1. Front-End: HTML5/CSS3, JS, ES6, D3.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, React, Webpack, willing to learn any other JS framework

2. Back-End: Python(Django/Flask)

3. Resume: http://rahulxsharma.com

4. Other: MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Linux, SAS, Photoshop

I am also familiar with ML (scikit-learn) and other packages in Python.

Email: rs2376@cornell.edu
“paws” isn't a neutral term – it has strong negative connotations.

My point was simply that while, yes, Bill Clinton ultimately owns his official actions, it's naive to ignore the massive weight of the entire U.S. intelligence apparatus, especially coming off of the Cold War footing, on a subject where he was hearing from a lot of experts in government and business saying this was a good move.
The portion of the credit card number they were using is not considered sensitive information under PCI-DSS.
Paul Graham nailed it: If the iPad had come out before the iPhone, we'd all be calling them "tablets".

http://paulgraham.com/tablets.html
Example line from the Openshift reload-haproxy script:

old_pids=$(ps -A -opid,args | grep haproxy | egrep -v -e 'grep|reload-haproxy' | awk '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ' ')

Can we do this without grep, egrep and awk?
Would this work?

old_pids=$(exec ps -A -opid,args |sed -n '/sed/d;/reload-haproxy/d;/haproxy/{s/ .*//;p};'|tr '\n' ' ')
When I worked for Eventful, I organized several study groups for beginners similar to this.

Like the Stripe team, participants in these study groups also found that cross-departmental collaboration improved. After learning the fundamentals of coding, people understood better how to work with engineering teams.

We also found a few people out on the edge of the bell curve who had strong engineering aptitude, including one fellow who eventually became a stellar engineer for us.

The main difficulty is that you need a lead who enjoys teaching. Personally, I find the challenge of explaining concepts at varying audience-appropriate levels fascinating and stimulating. We had one other fellow lead a group, and he had a good experience too. But as you can see from this discussion, not everyone wants to take this on.
How to Solve Problems, from an Inventor with 200+ Patents
It depends on what you expect the catastrophic plans to cover.

In a lot of ways, the expensive, high deductible ACA plans are catastrophic plans. It just happens to be the case that they will actually cover a medical catastrophe, so they are expensive. A catastrophic plan that leaves the patient dead or declaring bankruptcy didn't really provide enough insurance.

Also, it depends a lot on what you mean by low income earners, but a family of 4 on $65,000 is getting a bigger subsidy than a very low income single adult in a state that didn't expand Medicaid (http://kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-uninsu... ).
Except that researchers also haven't seen the information converging to a single point, which should be obvious if it's happening.

I agree that the computing is done with moving charges and chemical propagation (at substantially below the speed of light), but that doesn't account for how the information gets integrated in to a single signal for experience. But we also see that kind of structure in, eg, the proposal to build a TQC, where you build a computation in to non-local structures built out of entangled particles by moving around charges at substantially lower than the speed of light.

If it's not being amalgamated in to a point object (which doesn't seem to be the case -- there's no 'you' point in the brain), then it must be being amalgamated to a non-local object.
> the replacements make life ... more complicated

It's a long-held belief of mine that (what society considers) neurotypical people, enjoy making their lives more complicated. They pursue things that do so. (It's half the point of the societal encouragement to have kids the moment you get married: it keeps life challenging by adding complexity faster than the added stability of life-partnership can take complexity away.)

> Are farmers luddites for rejecting Deere's bullshit?

I'm not totally sure; don't know that much about this story. (Do you have a link? Maybe submit it as an article!)

My entirely-uninformed intuition is that agro-tech generally is such a different thing now than it was in the past, that legal precedents from the past won't serve us very well.

We don't just have fancier tractors now; we effectively have "a crop-growing+harvesting system in a box—just add ops staff." The modern large-scale farmer is now doing a job that bears less resemblance to the act of classical subsistence farming, than it does to the act of being a feudal lord with serfs. The serfs are robots made by John Deere. Does that give John Deere some different rights than they had when they just made tools for humans to operate? I'm not sure. I can be certain that it's not an "easy, obvious" question, though.
Ooh, a challenge :-)

I was being facetious though, playing off the GP comment's mention of museums. I'm a painter and an unsociable one at that.
Take recruiting for example, would that really allow you to have a more technical conversation with a prospective employee? If they are any sort of engineer they'll run circles around you in every sense, so what's the benefit here? I'd love to see the data breakdown of how/why this benefits certain jobs or teams.
> Not really, because if you ignore the rest of the series T2 ends with humans winning

Coz a pointless and massively destructive war is OK as long as we end up winning in the end?
Ok, a 2fa protecting anything of value (such as money) should not be trivially breakable by state actors.
In a vacuum, this isn't a problem. In practice, what you have is people regulating and creating laws for their future employer, and/or legal bribery (knowing you'll get a cushy job for supporting a bill). At this point, you aren't leveraging your knowledge, you are abusing your power.
With the prosthetic hand having vision you can do a Romberg's test on it :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romberg's_test
They're minimizing their market risk, but the trick is doing that while making payroll. You can trade practically risklessly by quoting an unrealistically wide spread. Practically no one will trade with you, but none of your orders will sink the company.
I was offered a job at virtu, and met people who discussed this in the interview. They had backtested the model but apparently it had a slight bug. After fixing it they claimed to have made much more than the loses.
Delicious Science.
I know that this sort of cheating happens quite a bit, and usually people just turn a blind eye to it. According to some of my friends from overseas, some of my their friends (my classmates) hired test takers to get them into the university I attended.

Makes me a bit livid. I studied and worked hard by playing fair.
Kalanick must have known this was on its way when he backed out of the Code Conference a few days ago. Even with just the events of the last few months, he was already going to be on the hot seat facing Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.

And you know neither of them were going to pull any punches.

John Gruber quipped that cancelling that interview was probably the smartest thing Kalanick has done in a while. I see that point, but I slightly disagree. If Uber could come up with some kind of decent response to all of the recent shitstorms including this one, that would be a great platform to spread the message.

Cancelling reads to me like they are afraid to answer tough questions because they have no good answers.

On the other hand, I wouldn't want to tangle with Kara Swisher in particular. She's tenacious; she doesn't care who you are or how big your company is; she will tear your intestines out your butthole and feed them to you while the entire technology world watches. I love her. She and Walt are shining examples of a free press holding the feet of the powerful to the fire when needed.

The rest of the media could learn a thing or two from them.

But back to the point, yeah, I bet he's glad he doesn't have to respond to this as well.
WSJ just released this today too: https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-are-most-exposed-to-puerto-...
Is it polite to pompously lecture someone about making an argument while ignoring the one they made?
Glad to see Ayahuasca get at least a passing mention here.

Let anyone who thinks they understand consciousness inhale >18mg of N,N DMT and return humbled.
I think that no one of them. They both are too complicated for average developers.
One factor that greatly limits my use of VR is that it is so uncomfortable with glasses on. I've seen people propose hacks and kickstarter projects. I don't understand why the people leading VR are turning a blind eye to the problem (no pun intended).
Yes, I agree. Bloomberg is even worse when they show these giant charts with unreadable y-axis's.
> In particular, you get the exact version of the library you want. If you've ever had the experience of trying to make your software work with multiple versions of its dependencies because different OSes ship with different versions, then you'll know how annoying this is.

Isn't this just kicking the can down the road though? The incompatibilities are still something you either have to deal with or users end up with 58 outdated versions of each library and the security vulnerabilities they bring.

> Once you've started using language package managers, it become very apparent that they have huge value, that apt-get doesn't bring.

This is what's wrong with so much modern development, we do what's easy for developers, not what's best for users.
"Dialing" a phone is niche functionality that most people don't use anymore - generally, people don't know phone numbers anymore, they don't really see them, and they definitely don't use them, they just tap on a name or face in their contact list.

A phone number is an identifier that you use once when obtaining a contact (or it gets shared by someone, so you don't enter it even that one time). If a phone actually required you to dial a number, for many people it wouldn't be usable as a phone to call their friends.

This means that integration with wherever users have stored their contracts (and right not it's generally one of the cloud services) is a key component of the dialer app, possibly the main one - a contact app without phone features can be used to communicate with everyone (using the multitude of VOIP services available, skype calls or whatever) but a dialer without contacts isn't sufficient for communication.
So algorithms, thermometers, and neural nets are all conscious?
I thought so too and was corrected on the last thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786035

But I still suspect it would run afoul of some privacy laws, to collect someone's credit card number to process payment, while also using it to see if they might be a cop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14270250
What they're talking about is a red herring.

This is more analogous to the food safety inspectors showing up, and Uber intentionally leading them to a different restaurant's kitchen - always, even when the inspector isn't there to officially inspect them.
It depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to build a toy app for the hell of it then you can probably get away with a few scripts and a sqlite database and call it a day. If your goal is to learn a specific framework, then go for it. Generally speaking, the overhead of a framework is usually worth it for larger projects but not necessarily for smaller ones.
Nothing. The comment I replied to was explicitly about local officials, not the federal government.
The most likely seems to be obstruction of justice or conspiracy to violate whatever laws the drivers were violating by operating in jurisdictions where they weren't allowed to operate.
That link goes to something peddling nginx plus. I'll stick with nginx and haproxy and use each where appropriate.

For some odd reason Products -> Compare versions didn't work for me (Chrome on Linux) so I can't tell what plus brings to the show.
Introducing Docker Hugo – A CircleCI 2.0 Ready Docker Image
My comment was meant as an irreverent summary of Veblen's ideas, rather than expressing my personal outlook.
As a former remoter at Heap, I can only recommend them: great team, good focus, promising product.

Good luck Matin & team!
If you live in a world of "should be"s, it would be safest for you to assume that nothing was ever sacred, no. There were just opportunities being passed up or that weren't feasible until now.
The thought is that, especially with expensive chronic illnesses like diabetes or heart disease, getting the patient to stick to their treatment plan has a dramatic effect on costs. Fewer hospital visits means drastically lower costs, and having even a marginal shift in utilization of routine maintenance regimens can move the needle on costs.

That's the theory, anyway. It might work, because the health insurance industry is a mess and is just now finishing migrations to modern IT platforms. A well-funded upstart like Oscar could easily come in with a modern analytics core and undercut on administrative costs.

Many of these companies don't have people who know how to deal with the volume of data in a migration.
I agree, I think we should go to a flat tax something like 18%. No deductions, loopholes, credits. Flat 18% across the board or w/e is deemed needed to sustain things..

GBI is employed to give everyone a quality of life, but even the poorest citizen who--is getting free money, can then afford to be taxed the flat rate.

Say you have 45k average income per person. and 250 million adults.

That is (45,000 * 250,000,000) * .18 = 2,025,000,000,000 or 2 Trillion..

This doesn't factor in any Corporate / Estate / Wallstreet Speculation Taxes either. -- Which corporations should pay something similar to the 18% flat tax as well. Do that and you can almost see this thing paid for. We could also add a 4% sales tax or vat -- which will make it so anyone who's in the country on visa/illegal still pays taxes while here.

This is all speculation as I don't know the exact average incomes, and # of adults, or if children will be given stipends, or what the perfect % flat tax is for everyone - but it's just an idea.
Which is ironic, considering the party claiming to want to bring back manufacturing jobs is also the party that busted the unions.
True, and thank you. I think it'd be nice if they had a video of a user on a sample system running queries and building displays. Yea I can play with the demo, but for that price I'd expect some promotional materials to be made.
They just want to meet a subgroup's needs first. When there is a traction, they can move forward from there. But it seems the subgroup did not buy in after serval attempts.
Amid Brick-And-Mortar Travails, a Tipping Point for Amazon in Apparel
That's not the scenario. If I want into your account and I only have the password I don't wait for you to try to log in, I just try to log in and sniff the message to "prove" that I have the phone.
High energy but low frequency. 0.1 watts absorbed dose of cosmic rays would kill you in less than a day, and your a lot larger than a chip.

Math: 0.01 J/kg = 1Rad. 1w = 1J/sec. 100kg = 220lb and a reasonable estimate for person. .1w/100kg = 0.10 rads per second, 6 rads per minute, 360rads per hour which is just under the LD/50, but 24h = 8640rads which is just flat out lethal. Though with good care you might last another ~2 very unpleasant days. Of course not all radiation is the same so you can try some equivalent dosages, but no that's not going to save you.
> I've never so reckless refactored code as much as I do in Haskell, I just wait for the compiler to tell me what I missed and go back and fix it up. I'd never do that in C, C++, Java, etc; it'd be suicide.

That's precisely what I was doing at work today in a C# project. I was going particularly crazy today, doing some refactoring with project wide regex replaces rather than leaning on VS/Resharper for everything.

I think it depends a lot on how your project is structured. If you're passing around object everywhere and casting... you're gonna have a bad time, sure. But at that point you're practically using Python or something. If you're using generics and so on properly, then you can lean on the compiler and type system quite a lot.
ear plugs have been the cheapest upgrade to my productivity. Sadly the social stigma means it may also undermine my own career trajectory. yay.
It's enough to fry your hardware but not enough to drive your vehicle with. A bit like a bullet hitting a driving car. If it hits in the right place it would kill the car (or it's occupant(s)), but you can't really propel your car with bullets, not only because there are too few bullets to start counting on but also because they can hit you from any angle when they do hit.
Of course, and thankfully I know for a fact Blizzard has redundant backups of all their source control :)

The disc would die in a fire certainly, but so would it if it were at the Archive.
This is the artificial scarcity problem I mentioned ... there is no reason one cannot pay extra, heck 100% extra, and get any set from Lego's catalogue on demand.
you might think thats a fun idea, but what happens when 4chan decides to draw a giant penis on the moon with rover tracks?
What if I think investigators are following me, so I get a friend to drive my car around all day, "wasting" their time. Am I now guilty of a crime? Seems like Uber did the same kinda thing.
Agreed, the benefit also being == bureaucracy = jobs = costs. AI printing/cutting/mailing checks to everyone in America every month like clock work, or direct depositing can be totally automated and not cost much at all and lower the cost to administer -- w/ GBI you'll be able to close every welfare building, layoff all welfare/gov't program staff for the poor, and save a lot of money that way.
Cinequest film festival in San Jose, CA this past year added VR to their offering of entertainment delivery. Granted it was a mix of VR films, VR scene immersions, and panel-like how-to discussions, but doing so was an interesting choice.
> Film makers don't want to use VR.

Creators often like to play with multiple mediums. I'd give filmmakers the benefit of the doubt, and assume they understand that VR is a much different medium.
Entrepreneurial affect: Attachment to work practice in the digital media sector
Headless Chrome and Cross-Platform Screenshot Capturing
Making “The Circle” Meant Designing an Alternate Universe of Tech Culture
[devtools] feature regression: no longer able to select multiple filter levels
Yes, but why can the little guys do it? If they can produce acceptable quality at a lower price, what is the problem with that? Or if they can't, why are people not seeing that?

To me it seems that it's a bit of both: Apple store is definitely not doing enough to promote quality over spam; but it is also the case that this market simply allows more competition from below (aka disruption in its classic definition), which is not a bad thing.

This is in fact somewhat similar to music (and a lot of other industries -- my favorite example is the monologue from Boogie Nights about direct-to-video porn), where the people who have been hit hardest (and who seem to be complaining the most) are not even musicians themselves, but various people supporting professional music production. Well, surprise: turns out people are not willing to pay for quality as much as they thought it was worth.
Thanks .. had no idea. What is the name of the book if I may ask?
> but it's not that different than what you'd get with other programming languages

Does your list of other programming languages include C/C++/asm?

;)
Being inflexible with your legal and moral codes is a sure fire way to become a completely immoral person.

I would say it astounds me to find people who are as rigid as you are, but truthfully, it doesn't.