skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and a drop of anti freeze
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the 5th gen uses the microsoft precision standard (i.e. sends the raw input to the OS to interpret) - reported to be as good as the surface book, and close to macbook.
Question: Do different counties have different governing bodies on qualifications for human experimentation? I assume so but am not well versed in this domain.
Cool, so this is a good response to that https://fee.org/articles/do-free-markets-require-rational-ac...

> What Austrians and their fellow travelers can argue is that it’s not the rationality of market participants that matters, but the institutional context within which they act. In other words, rationality is not a feature of the individual choosers but of the market as a whole. Even if people make “mistakes” by not acting as the strict model would suggest, they will receive feedback from the competitive marketplace that will demonstrate their errors and give them the incentive and knowledge to correct them. Those who can recognize their biases and correct for them will do better than those who can’t, and markets enable us to do that when they are genuinely free and competitive. This is what Nobel laureate Vernon Smith calls “ecological rationality.” Even if individuals are irrational, the system as a whole produces rational outcomes.
for the cynics who will invariably pile on with "survivorship bias," would you mind sharing what choices you consciously made that were different from other messaging apps?
True enough: the main type of engineer you'd expect to speak the words "Opus codec" is a telecom/SIP engineer, not an audio engineer. It always feels like tech with origins in telecom never gets much notice outside of that realm, even when it's much more widely applicable. (Look at the set of "core" Erlang libraries to see what I mean. Think most programmers have heard of even half of the relevant standards, even as they implement NIH competitors to those same standards?)
But how do you determine the position at night?
Does this pledge deliberately avoid internal matters like employee wages/benefits, HR dealings, etc?
They've got a lot of attempts to expand to similar markets, but the problem is that most are second class.

Twilio is the market leader for developer SMS, and voice.

They are not the market leader for any of the other categories that they are trying to expand to.
FDA rules increase barriers to entry to the market, resulting in fewer companies (especially fewer smaller companies) who would be interested in funding such a project.
heh Flyertalk... awesome forum btw.

until we added messaging nothing I did worked. once we added messaging it took off on its own.
I lived in Houston where you cant eat anything near the coast. When I went to Australia it was incredible you can fish and eat almost everywhere/everything near the coast.
Here's the list:

10 Arizona State University

9: University of California, San Diego

8: San Jose State University

7: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

6: Georgia Institute of Technology

5: The University of Texas at Austin

4: University of Southern California

3: Carnegie Mellon

2: Stanford University

1: University of California, Berkeley
That's much less of a problem, because if you know the whole thing, then any subset of it is also known. It only becomes a problem if you need to change the code, because then you have to be aware of the subset to restrict yourself to.

C++ actually has a similar problem with developing idiosyncratic in-house solutions to common problems - it's not uncommon to find hand-rolled collections, reference-counting pointers etc, especially in older codebases from before STL and Boost became more widely accepted. But because the language doesn't offer anything close to the flexibility of Lisp macros, those idiosyncrasies are also much easier to parse.
He actually says exactly that.
Yep for me the lack of self-supporting screen has meant I hate using it - can't use it on my lap properly, can't use it on a desk because the screen is so physically tiny whilst the resolution is insanely high, causing me to run everything at 200% scaling (as supported by Windows 10, even for non-scaling older applications which then appear blurry), thereby defeating having a high-res screen.
The parenthesis go away pretty fast once you start writing. I remember it took me a day or so. Mind you I mostly work in Clojure where parentheses are not used everywhere (function airity is described using a vector [ ] for example).
You know where I am nearly every single time I get an Uber or Lyft? Right outside my building, where my phone is hanging onto a Wi-Fi connection that won't work from there. Maybe it's not as common as it is in my life, but SMS seems essential until phones figure out how to deal with the Wi-Fi limbo state.
I think an SMS/WhatsApp/WeChat/Hangouts/FBMessenger bridge could be an even more useful service than just an SMS bridge.
I understand the situation you're in. People always say that if the first person you talk to is in HR, you're already screwed. Or another version: if you just submit a resume through an online platform, you're screwed.

I haven't done it myself, but I've seen friends break free of this. The best, most difficult, most time-consuming way is, of course, to meet lots of people. You never know who has a connection where. Opportunities come from surprising places.

A much quicker hack is to send messages on LinkedIn. Find the person who would be your boss at the company, tell them how much you like the company/product, and ask them if you can buy them lunch and learn more about their team.

In some cities/cultures, like NYC, this almost never works. People are really busy. In other places, I've seen success rates as high as 10%. Of these, around 25% seem to result in offers (assuming the person is qualified for the job). That's not bad!

In general, it's (unfortunately) going to take a lot of footwork and rejection.
That feeling of being "insufficiently nerdy" and the mild paranoia that arises from being subconsciously labelled as such by your peers is one of many things I've learned to deal with on a daily basis. I'm certain there are many others that can relate. I think part of the problem is that we don't have these empathy-building conversations at work, which is a shame because there is evidence that empathy towards teammates is part of building successful teams[1].

In general, I wish we would stop framing discussions of improving diversity in tech as a zero-sum game in which the collective experience of one group is by default more valid than the collective experience of another group. Bad hiring heuristics and mental shortcuts for what makes a person a good engineer hurt everyone who gets eliminated from contention before being given a chance to do the job, not just the person who checks off the most boxes on the EEOC reporting section of the job application.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...
Hahah that's so pretentious what they did
Just remember that everyone at the gym thinks they are imperfect or else they wouldn't be there.
Dumb article is dumb. Ex-product manager = / = Facebook exec, this person also hasn't worked there in four years. "Targeting emotionally troubled teens" without detailed explanation as to how someone could implies simplicity in the matter, but it's not like an advertiser is typing in "show my ads to emotionally troubled teens please."
This isn't remotely apples to apples; for example, HN has zero avatars, Xenforo has zero avatars, whereas Discourse shows up to five avatars per topic, of which there are many on the homepage.

I'm unclear where you are getting 3.2MB from, since sorting by filesize, here are the largest network requests at meta.discourse.org:

http://imgur.com/8v4Fp4L

As you can see, starting at 11.5kb and below it's all images (avatars).

I suppose you could try with images disabled. If you want to make a case that 'not showing avatars by default uses less bandwidth', then I guess I can agree with that. But these images won't affect actual load time, as images rez in later, and all the dimensions are set on the page.
It'll send the same codes as any other 10-key you have. That was my issue when I was looking for something similar, as I still use the 10-key on my keyboard occasionally. I ended up getting a Logitech G13 for the same purpose but never ended up clearing the desk space so I could set it up.
The modeled quests described (ever-escalating series of crafting better items) is reminiscent of those found in traditional MMOs like World of Warcraft. And those quests aren't fun, and the "grind" is regarded as an antiquated game mechanic, even in the context of Minecraft. (of note, WoW recently introduced a weekly "quest line" which is all complete-10-generic-quests/kill-100-demons/etc grind and no plot. Players are not happy.)
It's funny, my ex-wife always runs her browser full-screen (even on a 24"+ monitor) and would complain when sites wouldn't use the whole screen (this is before 1080p was nearly as common). I almost never browse full screen.. I use a 40" 4k display (essentially 4x 20" 1080p), and find anything full-screen to be difficult at best.
Second the default tools. The open source tools are really cool, but especially if you're just starting out, the proprietary tools are much gentler in helping you debug your own mistakes.
Xiaomi Mi Air, plus VAT/duty, ships with Chinese only Windows license, unlicensed for English, without CE marking for Europe, and with minimal Western country warranty to speak of.

By the time you add all that up, it's approximately the same pride as any other similar spec non-Apple/non-Microsoft/non-Dell Win home laptop.
In US, the receiver of the firearm is legally the firearm -- everything else is just boring bits of metal that you can buy without any sort of legal encumberments. Anyone can buy a chunk of 7075 aluminium that looks like an AR-15 lower receiver but, critically, has enough milling not-yet-done such that the ATF has blessed it to not be a firearm. Some time with a proper jig and a drill press can convert it into a working lower receiver! You don't even need a CNC.

But you don't even to buy such an "80% lower receiver" to do this -- you can just make your own lower receiver out of most anything (it need not stand firearm chamber pressures, unlike the bolt carrier / bolt and barrel, which are much harder to DIY), up to and including wood.

Murders done with rifles are quite rare (an overwhelming majority of murder is done with handguns, per FBI's Uniform Crime Report) so the disproportionate focus on the evils of such "ghost guns" / "DIY rifles" is baffling.
Google is notoriously famous for their automated and permanent /kickban. It's literally the first law when using their products : "Don't trust them and never put important stuff in one single place".

It doesn't surprise me that your child could trigger accidentally one of those super ban. At least it's not that bad, they could have banned your account too.
As a layman, I don't understand.

I mean it's bad news, but they may probably lose 12% of their business vs a 30% stock price drop while still hitting estimates (admittedly at the low end) for revenue this quarter. The price should definitely drop, but why is this not an overreaction?
They bought Authy as well.
Thanks for the link, seems like interesting material.

From what I gathered in the link in order to perform recovery you need a non-volatile and accurate history of a server's execution state? Using a RAMdisk to store the state and asynchronously writing it to SSD would not be fault tolerant enough in general?
For a different (and incomplete) take on a Linux Desktop in the browser permit me to plug my own project that I work on in my spare time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7namj7iy16Y

https://github.com/Lerc/notanos

This takes the approach of Still having Linux, but instead of transferring an X display to the browser, the browser supplants X. Consequently X apps don't run, but HTML/JS apps are really easy to make.

Connections are still made in a manner similar to X. A socket is available on the Unix side which apps can connect to, which tunnels through an open websocket connection.
Unfortunately the longest urls, the ones you want to shorten the most, are the worst candidates for compression (with long query strings full of things like uuids).
Out of interest, how is it more educational? I had a fun time educating myself back in the day as I tried to get X to work with my video card. I jest!

In all truth I suspect there are millions of system administrators who have never even used 'Lye-nucks' so attempting to get students (who need support) to use Linux devices will probably never happen (unless the admin/IT staff is extremely pro-Linux) or the school wishes to spend money retraining their staff.
AAPL also has a dividend. From the point of view of shareholders, growth is better than dividends or buybacks.
There's a YC company called Front that does more or less this: https://frontapp.com/
7 years ?????? WTF intel !
Can you name any examples of "non-obvious" software "inventions" that require patent protection?
Exactly. I was being facetious, but the point is that rock-bottom prices aren't everything.
But your complaint is still valid in the larger sense that you don't want to allow Google to have any say in the matter.

What we need is for Google's school/office apps and their storage to become open-source commodities that are self-hosted. "Self-hosted" can then involve any balance of self/outsource you or your organization would like.
Finally! I have been suffering under SWIG and have been hoping for some time that someone would get the compiler to do this.+

Not to say SWIG isn't an amazing effort, but it's a whole C++ compiler maintained by a very small team.

+ I already put my time in at the gcc salt mines so no, I didn't try doing this myself.
This is very accurate. I've gotten in the habit of manually killing my phone's WiFi as I leave my apartment and start walking down the hall calling a Lyft/Uber, and the same when outside my office. This remains an unsolved problem.
>crispy

An abomination of a word :)

It should be crisp, AFAIK.
I just want phones to be hyper-aggressive about terminating WiFi connections if the signal strength falls below a certain point.

I've gotten to the point where I'll manually turn off WiFi as soon as I set foot outside my front door. It should be automatic.
So you're saying they're a commodity offering with no customer lock-in?
Might be an overreaction, might not. If Uber dropping out is a leading signal for "major clients aren't getting value out of their business relationship with Twilio", then that's a major problem going forward.
That's not questioning, that's rejecting wholesale without a proper argument as to why. And frankly I don't at all see the ethical analogy between luxury athleisure and payday loans, and it seems to me you'd have to be pretty damn fucking self-deluded to think they're remotely comparable.
It's all about Cost of Living. A $150k base salary really doesn't get you much more than an average-ish life in San Francisco.
also summer internships at v250 law firms are prorated first year associate salaries
Not a very good joke. I'd have considered it a moral imperative to act on that impulse.
Could be useful for a headless computer system, to relay the information to someone working on it via terminal.
I read that answer, I didn't find it helpful on two points.

1. There's this really nice analogy about German and English languages, but it doesn't have any specifics. In particular, the crux of his entire argument is in this statement

> The two languages and their attendant communities have drifted so far apart that there is nothing of value in their intersection.

Which he simply states as fact without any sort of follow up or justification. And I disagree. Consider this Common Lisp snippet from Wikipedia computing the answer to the birthday paradox:

(defconstant +year-size+ 365)

(defun birthday-paradox (probability number-of-people)
(let ((new-probability (* (/ (- +year-size+ number-of-people)
+year-size+)
probability)))
(if (< new-probability 0.5)
(1+ number-of-people)
(birthday-paradox new-probability (1+ number-of-
people)))))

Literally replace "defconstant" with "define" and "defun birthday-paradox (probability number-of-people)" with "define (birthday-paradox probability number-of-people)" and that's valid Scheme.

I'll readily admit they are two different languages, but pretending they are as different as C and Python or something is absurd.

2. Even if you convince me these two languages are so different, there's nothing here to convince me Common Lisp deserves the title of the "real Lisp" or "true Lisp". Scheme can also run LISP code from 1960 with a very small driver.
It's great for those that targeted their puts at the $25 range and definitely for those that have been sitting on the sidelines waiting to jump in. It's not going to stay down here for long. I agree. Total overreaction.
In your statement - "you are making the decision", "you" can be replaced by algorithms. Algorithms are taking decisions (e.g. giving loans, showing ads) based on data. Algorithms can have bias. Data can have bias.
And they chose to buyback stock and pay dividends, which means they think those other uses for their cash are unproductive relative to buying back the stock.
A lot of fish need to be frozen for a period of time to kill the parasites to the FDA standards. Some types of fish and some farmed and contained fish doesn't need this treatment though. I don't think proximity to the ocean is a good metric as you can freeze fish for a few months with no noticeable degradation in quality. It can be held indefinitely at 0 degrees F I believe as well.
Yup. Same for the Firefox version. Both can do it, but as long as almost everyone on Windows can support the standard Win32 version and a large number can't use the UWP version, it makes no sense to expend a lot of effort on this.
He just said "Yeah, ok, that could work, now do it with a database." :P
There is $30+ billion currently invested in cryptocurrencies. While the masses may still not know very much about it, I think we're beyond the point where any individual educated in how they work can reasonably call it nonsense.
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson is out–along with 8% of its workforce
They are, however, also working within the confines of Minecraft. The grinding-progression mechanic is probably the most desirable within the game systems since Minecraft only begrudgingly offers combat and other systems, emphasizing find, fetch, and make. That's its bread and butter, so I'm not surprised they built up using that technique.
I find the argument that Lisp needing fewer symbols means that it's simpler to be suspect. Imagine if we took English, and replaced all punctuation with parentheses. Would it be "simpler"? In some very academic way, probably. I'm not at all confident it would actually be easier to read.

This is really something that needs input from people who professionally deal with the way our brains process visual information, especially text. It might be that there's value in having more varied and fancy punctuation, e.g. because the differences between ( and [ and { serve as anchor points for visual pattern matching.

It would be interesting to have an experiment whereby people not previously exposed to any PL have to analyze a code snippet in, say, Lisp vs JS vs Python side by side, and discover its structure (e.g. by drawing it as a block diagram).
Probably a very strong one at that.
I tend to use native applications. They resize fine to a 16:9 screen - I think it is the web apps that insist on a certain layout (e.g. text in a column, huge areas of whitespace etc)?
I turn it off when I get into my elevator because if not it'll be in a 1x limbo state for about five minutes, even once I am completely out of the building.
I think you and he have sort of the same point: data has no ethical orientation. If you unpacked that sentence, he would probably clarify it to "data behaves in ways that, if there was a human making that call, would be unethical".

What makes the situation interesting is that there's not necessarily a person that makes the decision to do potentially damaging ad targeting: if you want to prevent it, you probably have to specifically prevent it in each case. Is Facebook responsible for preventing every single unethical ad targeting? Given the unfeasibility of that, does this problem mean we should call it quits on targeted ads entirely?
> Big data isn't some magic wand that absolves you of moral responsibility, but it's extremely interesting that at least one marketer at Facebook seems to believe it does.

I suspect a large portion of this attitude comes from the fact that the marketers (tasked with enacting campaigns and strategies based on results of data science/machine learning), likely don't understand all of the statistical intricacies and pitfalls around underlying assumptions, and a lot of people already view data science as producing "magic" results (and assume that if it tools them so, it must be true).

Of course, this guy is likely morally bankrupt anyways, which doesn't help either.
Yeah, basically if you have any kind of oppressed category of people, you can take advantage of them by exploiting their vulnerabilities (lack of education, lack of access to credit, etc). If you aren't careful with how you use your algorithms, you can come up with all kinds of systems that reinforce systemic racism.
If I got $10,000,000 and quit, I'd die happy.
Definitely not clickbait, this is a huge movement for any stock and it happened due to genuinely disappointing news from AMD
The reason this isn't getting funded is because it's extremely unlikely to work in reality. They've engineered synthetic protein sensors of dsRNA that induce apoptosis on detection - this mimics the natural viral detection systems that all cells use to prevent viral infection. The argued benefit is that this artificial protein avoids the common hacks that many viruses use to circumvent the natural detection pathways. For this to work you have to (1) inject a ton of this foreign protein into the blood, (2) have it persist and be taken up by many cells in an organism, (3) not elicit a negative immune reaction against cells expressing this foreign beast on their MHCs (4 - for prophylaxis) have it persist long enough to provide realistic protection against future viral infection events (5) hope that the distribution of protein-transduced cells overlaps enough with the natural viral targets to provide some clinical utility.

The costs of trying to turn a novel therapeutic approach into a real therapy are extremely high - hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm unaware of any approved therapy that utilizes protein transduction of cells - I also suspect existing protein transduction methods aren't very efficient. There is a tiny pile of evidence that this method "works" in vitro in cultured cell models of infection, I can imagine a hundred ways it will fail in bodies.

There's a reason some ideas are left unexplored by industry.
Yesterday might have been the time to short it
He was a Product Manager (says right there in the article).
‘Reined-In’ N.S.A. Still Collected 151M Phone Records in 2016
Even if often times they don't know exactly what Google is, they generally notice if the search results page they're looking at isn't Google's. And in my experience they tend perceive this as something being wrong with their computer that needs to be fixed.
We use this at work for talking to customers and it works fine, but note that they use Twilio under the hood IIRC.

Also their SPA app is what you'd expect from JavaScript apps—buggy and prone to slowness once it reaches a certain scale.