skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you're trying to measure is how someone feels, it might be necessary to ask them how they feel - and what they feel influence that. If one person thinks job stress make them unhappy, that might be anecdotal - if seven hundred of a thousand say work makes them unhappy - that might be more towards the "data" end of the spectrum?
Hack who back? These people have probably been lobbied by intelligence agencies for sometime (not the first time I hear about this idea) to "push for 'hack back' legislation" and now they're taking it out of context and saying it whenever a data breach happens, even if it makes no sense, such as in this case.

This is similar to how they pushed the CISPA surveillance bill as a "cybersecurity solution" (thank Dianne Feinstein).
One person or AI can do such "imagination driven programming" to mirror any organisation. so i guess organisation of n people can also mirror any organization they want, if that organization is more complex than theirs. Organization can also use some kind of obfuscator to change program structure to not mirror their organization and also mirror less complex organizations.

I don't understand how this is dangerous. can you please give an example? I guess if you mimic more complex organization it may be dangerous.
Then you can just turn around and be deported. Non-citizens don't have many rights at the border.

The big questions is for Americans, who also have fewer rights at the border (4th amendment for example). Can they force you to sign into external services at the airport if you're a citizen? Everyone should refuse to do this.
This isn't that different than all of the 24 year old programmers with the BMW screensaver.

Successful people have BMWs. If I buy a BMW that means I'm successful.

No, son, it doesn't.
Unplugging the computer to shut down the Emacs OS?
Wow, I would definitely not expect that.
> There aren't any reasonable justifications for requiring you to bring all information you physically have access to you with you when traveling... regardless of the format it's stored in.

I think many of us would equally argue there isn't any 'reasonable justification' for forcing phone unlocks on random strangers in airports, but that still happens. I think you are asking for a reasoned distinction from people incapable of drawing them, and that while what you say makes sense, we are not dealing with a sensible system.

I can absolutely envisage some asshole airport security staff member causing grief over these kind of features should they grow in popularity - the existing interactions over phone unlocks are already in a weird constitution-free legal grey area in the US, even for US citizens. For foreigners the situation is worse still - basically zero options but compliance, or feel free to go home and never be granted entry ever again.
The front page video on their site gives a good visual on their output: https://www.luminartech.com

The rainbow colors are, of course, optional.
So what you're saying is, if I pay you enough you'll become a genius?
Every time I see it I cringe, yes. I don't want to see the process of mowing down pedestrians get automated, however.
I think it can be argued that supporting individual property rights is the definition of rejecting corprativism.
Deny bail for postcode 123. People in those areas do more time. Get sucked into the system. Lose their jobs. Become criminals. Become a higher risk. And so computer denies bail for postcode 123.
I have had several windows laptops with lpddr3, and the standby battery life was never that great. Windows just isn't good at managing battery in standby. I think only apple can bring up the power argument for choosing lpddr3 because it only makes a real difference in their case.
This is amazing. I've never heard of this technique and I'm excited I can try this in my kitchen. (Though it could end up being a very expensive hobby...)
That's not really true. As a US Citizen, on basic legal principle, I believe that once Immigration has established you are a US Citizen, they have to let you leave unless they suspect you of a crime.

Customs is sort of a different issue, they can go through your physical and digital belongings and search you.
It's a delicate line to walk. If lenders thought twice before lending money for student loans, only the rich (ie: 1%) would be able to enroll in postsecondary education. It might just be a lose-lose scenario for the 99% when college and university are expensive. We would all prefer that the population at large is educated, but when that education doesn't guarantee success in a career, who should pay for the failures?

Now I somewhat understand the few countries who offer "free" education (ie: funded by taxpayers). The incentive should be to offer free education for degrees that practically guarantee employment benefiting society. If you major in something widely considered useful, enjoy your free ride. If you prefer to major in something wishy-washy as far as society is concerned, you can pay for it yourself. Such an ugly compromise. :/
> You're only committing a crime if you lie under oath, either to a court or congress.

False: the relevant statute, 18 USC § 1001, doesn't mention the word "oath" once, and applies to "any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States".
From what I understand, it removes everything but ones marked as safe therefore you're not hiding anything.

It's like moving your private files from a device before travelling, you're not hiding anything you just didn't bring it.
We haven't even figured out how to protect humanity from humanity, and we've had a lot longer to work on it.
But they control for race, and picked results that generalize across different populations.
Part of this is that Uber was / is building a rider / driver base, and to do so, they accept losses on every ride. They were paying drivers more money than they were collecting in fares. It was an attempt to claim market share and drive competitors out of business (which hasn't quite worked thus far) so they could increase the prices later when they had price control power. Uber's existence is all based around investors dumping money faster than they burn it in operating costs (without ever turning a profit).
No. That statement is silly. Unique and digital was always possible.
My problem is that I had full encryption enabled on Marshmallow, upgraded to nougat and my system settings say that encryption is enabled even though I strongly suspect it isn't - my phone used to ask me for pin before booting up, but now it doesn't, so I suspect the encryption was removed while upgrading but the system settings are showing the old value for whatever reason. And I can't really wipe my entire phone just to re-enable the encryption, it's a lot of work to set up all apps again. Xperia Z5.

My point is that android encryption has problems if you can just lose the encryption between os version upgrades.
>criticizing an integral part of a product, when there are multiple alternatives with exact the feature your desire is ... silly.

So hypothetically if a laptop came with 4 hours of battery life due to "muh thin and light", criticizing that is silly because other laptops have 10 hours? With that logic, nobody could have an opinion about any "integral part" of any product at all.
Wew, lad.
[insert trope about premature optimization here]
This becomes a compulsion where the act of going out becomes motivated by the amount of high-value social media shareable posts.

Such a soul sucking compulsion, truly a product of modern times.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/07/blockchain-could-complete...
Is it possible to suss out another person's motivations in our current political media climate? Was it ever possible to truly find out motivations that weren't mostly projections of the voters and media types?

My belief is a strong "no" to both of those questions. (I don't even think that I understand my own motivations very well, and am much more hesitant to ascribe behavior to what 'motivates' other people.)
Eh, I think the net boomed without needing online shopping. Lots of people were and are using the Net 99%-100% of the time for non-shopping purposes. The net boom drivers were:

-Email

-Funny cat pics/videos, etc. eBaumsWorld etc

-News/blogs/forums

-Online gaming

-Porn

-YouTube (see above)
And that's what's so hilarious about putting a content hash on a blockchain, when you can just give it to someone over HTTPS. The hash is plenty immutable all on its own.

Strong transaction ordering can give you proof of existence at a certain point in time, but that's not useful in an identity context.
How is that different from any other market cap measurement?
Court revives Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA
Sorry, not buying it.

I caught 3 "Whoops sorry you missed a weird bug in a specific programming language that you weren't explicitly being tested on". Sure, if I was doing a Python3 quiz, I'd expect those. But this wasn't what the quiz claimed to be.

Turns out, the "fill in the blank" code was easy, got all of them. Along with all the 1st year theory questions.
Same, and the scrolling is horribly laggy.

Using Reader-Mode in FireFox works, though.
>You've clearly not researched just how much Employer's NI is. It's a lot more than an employee pays.

If it works anything like the US, there is a portion[1] assessed to the employer and to the employee. If you report income as an independent contractor/self-employment, you pay both sides of it (since otherwise people would artificially class themselves as contractors to pay less). Are you saying Uber drivers in the UK aren't paying that, or that UK law allows that loophole?

>Also here in the UK we have workers on income support (welfare) because their employers underpay them... That is quite literally a case of the public purse subsidising a private enterprise.

So, it's not Uber-specific, just the general argument that all low-wage labor (below some threshold) is inherently subsidized because you qualify for public assistance at that level.

[1] economically pointlessly, I might add
How Franz Liszt Became the World's First Rock Star (2011)
Several points here:

> Government: But they only make up 13% of the buyers.

At what point does the additional percentage of buyers have a drastic impact on a market? At the margins, buyers can exert large upward pressure on price. There was a great article in the NY Times a while ago about how Goldman figured this out in the IIRC Oil market and created havoc.

Basically, each additional buyer has a potentially non-linear impact on price.

> Ok, foreigners only make 13% of the buyers but they're a CATALYST.

If you've bought a house you know price is often driven by comparable sales. When a foreign buyer bids e.g. 5% higher on a house, he's now driven up prices on comparable homes by at least 5%. When there are multiple buyers, it can play havoc with prices. That's one way price-insensitive buyers are a catalyst (relative to people whose incomes are tied to local fundamentals).

> Um ok, so no one else is to blame?

I'm not sure "blame" is the right word to use here. I'd say something like "there's no other cause". That said, Gordon has spent a lot of time analyzing both the Vancouver and Toronto markets. I have an interest in both markets as I live in Vancouver and am from Toronto, so if you have an alternate, data-backed explanation I'd love to hear it.
The laser in the article is on the order of tens of milliwatts. Even directly into your eye would not damage it. It would be painful, especially if it was in a visible wavelength, but the laser spot from a lidar is in one location for less than a microsecond.

In terms of direct heating, tens of milliwatts isn't even enough to really make a human-detectable rise.
That's how I understand it. It is the physical presence of data that allows the warrantless search in the first place. Leaving data off of your device would be treated no different than leaving your device at home entirely.
This was addressed in the original article:

> Last year a microbiology student at the University of Alberta, Josh Le, wore the same pair of raw denim jeans for 15 months without washing them and then tested their bacterial content.
He tested them again two weeks after washing them and found the bacterial content to be much the same.

> "This shows that, in this case at least, the bacteria growth is no higher if the jeans aren't washed regularly," said Rachel McQueen, a professor of textile science, who worked with Le on the informal scientific experiment.

The research they reference: https://www.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2011/01...
It sounds like you want some type of plausible deniability[1] or a way to hide your secure data in pain sight but often security through obscurity is a terrible idea.

Beyond using FileVault and a firmware password I don't think there's much else you can do besides physically removing the disk. Unfortunately that is not a easy task on the latest MacBooks.

1: https://defuse.ca/truecrypt-plausible-deniability-useless-by...
So are you hosting your own IMAP server? If so, have you any problems with your emails being filtered out as spam?

EDIT: Bit of a brain-fart. IMAP is just a client of a mail server. So to rephrase my question - what mail server do you use?
> change our elected officials

In America, who you vote in has very little effect on public policy, and by very little I mean a near zero/statically insignificant amount (unless you're part of the top 10% of income earners):

http://fightthefuture.org/videos/does-voting-make-a-differen...
But they have inherent utility unlike Bitcoins.
If you're a company this is easy to manage. Give people laptops with nothing on them. Don't credential them until they phone your help desk from their hotel.
The right solution to this problem is, when traveling, always answer "no" to "may I search your laptop?"

It sucks, and it many mean a lot of hassle ranging from confiscated equipment to being held at the border to being refused entry, but this is just one of the new risks of travel. Border security only gets away with this because people say yes.

Companies need to make clear to their employees (and the public) that sharing passwords is a terminable policy violation. You should be able to say, honestly and credibly, "I won't unlock my laptop because I don't want to get fired."
Some things seem so obvious. How can those old people not immediately realize the implications of recorded and proliferated sound? How could Charlie Chaplin possibly think that talkies were a passing fad? How can people today think that our media isn't heading towards the virtual, our computation towards brain interfacing?
The legislation doesn't have a fixed period, it provides a vague 'reasonable use for a reasonable period of time' type clause. This was a £1700 laptop, so I had a right to expect it to last longer than 3 years, which was supported by claims on Apple's website.

Therefore, Apple either has to say "our laptops are only good for three years", or say that particular laptop was defective and fix it.
Ah, excellent!
Can you address his point?
Yeah.. sqlite is crazy fast but I've found performance falls off a cliff once the DB is larger than ram. a 4G database on a VM with 8G of ram runs great.
I actually appreciated that, since my phone has a spotty network connection.
I'm a very happy 1Password customer.

Repeating my #1 feature request here, dovetailing this thread, please forgive.

Problem: My logins keep breaking as websites evolve, change their forms, etc.

Suggestion: Online catalog of login config/scripts.

a) Pre-populate with "official" scripts for top 50 websites. Also serve as examples to show everyone how its done.

b) Permit users to submit new scripts.

c) Version these scripts. Use some kind of repo.

d) Keep track of success rate, a la bugmenot, retailmenot, etc. Anonymize feedback, of course.
I did above:

> I've been testing https://clickhouse.yandex/. I threw it on a single VM with 4G of ram and imported billions of flow records into it. queries rip through data at tens of millions of records a second.
Crumple up a piece of tin foil around the end. Make sure it won't fall off and bridge the walls (negative) with the tip (+). Ghetto but effective if you only rarely unplug it. Alternatively, solder wires onto it and plug them into your fuse box. Add an inline fuse for added protection.
Yeah, I felt that way too when I started this work. What I've come to realize is that the tax credit is not about conducting science in the strict, academic sense of the word, a la Karl Popper and the received view. The systematic evaluation of hypotheses just doesn't happen that often outside the academy.

Instead, the tax credit is really a political compromise crafted to appeal to both sides of the political spectrum. It's about subsidizing high paying, professional, white collar, technical jobs so that employers don't outsource them. That makes the credit an anti-free market subsidy designed to protect jobs but disguised as a pro-science, pro-innovation policy whose main beneficiaries are large corporations.

And honestly, even in the most "sciencey" firms, most of the R&D going on is dreadfully repetitive and unimpressive. Just as you cut and paste SO code, pharma researchers are just "cutting and pasting" the nth iteration of a chemical formula. They're not unlocking the secrets of the universe, they're just trying random shit until it works. Which, interestingly, is part of how the tax regs define a process of experimentation. Instead of "trying random shit until it works," the regs call that strategy "a systematic trial and error methodology."

Your issue is that you have a mental definition of R&D but the tax codes of the US and Canada do not define R&D in the same way, which to you seems dishonest. But you need to remember that, from a tax perspective, the definition isn't important except insofar as it helps or hinders the underlying policy objectives. Your definition may be closer to a colloquial or idealized definition of R&D, but it's not necessarily the definition which best achieves the policy objectives of the governments in question.
one painfully obvious missing feature: voice capture.

It seems to so natural to integrate google assistant into this thing. I wonder when 'Alexa' for meetings will be good enough to commercialize.
Alternative hypothesis: you can be very successful in your field without knowing about some celebrity.
I would guess that the way you use Facebook, by only visiting Deep Learning groups, is a fairly atypical usage pattern.

I'm not trying to claim any personal high ground. I'm trying to understand, in general, how these different types of sites tend to affect people.
Non-mac layout is different again. Here's a pic of a Dell laptop I have knocking around: http://imgur.com/a/w5GVC [ could do with a clean! ]
A step debugger has been suggested below by cubano. In my experience using a debugger as a broad lens to learn a codebase takes too much of my time. I can take a module to walk through the code in my head, paying special attention to conditional branches. Any place where I can, I ask 'What if..?', e.g. 'What if the value is null?', 'What if the network is down?', 'What if the program is being run for the first time?', 'What if an exception gets thrown here?'. For each of those what ifs, if the particular corner case is not handled then write a unit test to see what happens.

That brings me to another thing a senior dev can do, refactor code to be more testable, one small piece at a time.

Thing is though, your job as a senior dev is to make sure the code, and the coders, work smoothly together. A good chunk of your work will be mentoring the junior developers, fostering tech exchanges, leading design discussions, etc., and if done right the value in this far outweighs any individual code contribution you can make. In my opinion a true 10x developer is not necessarily one that produces 10x as much code, but one who maybe produces 2x as much, but enables the team around him to produce 5x as much.
> What am I missing that makes this so expensive?

The price of something is correlated directly with what people are willing to pay for it. I'm 100% certain companies will pay for this. The value proposition is pretty huge for this sort of tech.
When I read about stuff like this and also how Uber is losing a lot of money, I have to wonder if maybe there's a fundamental problem with their business model.
People are pushing this as a MacBook killer but it's more like an iPad Pro killer. With the same 4GB of RAM, a Core m3 and 128 GB of storage, it costs $100 less than the iPad Pro with the same RAM and storage (but an ARM processor). The m3 here makes a good difference.

For the same as the 8GB i5 with 256 GB, you get a MacBook with a Core m and the built-in keyboard. It's slower than the i5, but it's an actual laptop.
This is the same company whose founder "took the tax dollars from employee paychecks — which are supposed to be withheld and sent to the Internal Revenue Service — and reinvested the money into the start-up, even as friends and advisers warned him the action was potentially illegal." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanic...
edited for politeness' sake
I meant English is my second language
And when global warming kicks in hard, the ice caps melt, and the coastal cities flood, the cuffs of your pants won't get wet! At least according to the pictures on the product site. Is it no longer fashionable for your cuffs to reach your shoes?

And, personally, as one who wears 501s at every opportunity, I wouldn't be caught dead in those things outside my house. But that's just personal taste.
Do you honestly think customs agents care whether you'll get fired or not? US immigrations will permanently sever families that have been together for years or even decades with utter disregard for the emotional trauma they're inflicting.

Your job matters exactly fuck-all to a CPB agent.
You'd want to make sure it erased the data while making it seem like the data set was empty. You'd even need that special password to remove traces of itself and how it erased the encrypted data, as anything left over could be evidence for destroying evidence.
How easy is it to remove Windows and install Fedora 25 or Ubuntu 17.04?
We talk about smart money and dumb money. Lately I've been calling this stuff "weird money."

I've been hearing a lot of weird stories about weird money in the last few years. My favorite involved an investor who could not be located when the company was sold. Phone was disconnected, company did not exist, etc. Not sure how that shook out. Maybe the proceeds get held in escrow for a while and then distributed to the other investors if the owner never shows?
Interesting! I'm on "Problem Analysis: High Dimensional Spaces" so far. I'll probably just leave a comment there if I end up with something to say since we'll probably drift too far off topic if continuing here ;)

Edit: I finished but couldn't find a way of leaving a comment on your blog. I thought it was an interesting read—but yep, definitely needs that conclusion! Hard to say much without that. Is your goal to use the ideas to create a new metric for how difficult a code base is to work with?
Kim Dotcom claims insider Seth Rich was involved in the DNC leak
Enterprise consulting for Fortune 500 companies, working with distributed teams that scale from a few developers up to a few hundreds.

Sometimes there are actually cool projects, no issues with licenses for the likes of Oracle servers or Visual Studio Ultimate.

Also I do get to enjoy life outside work with the people that actually matter to me.

Downsides, well there are lots of politics, social skills matter as much as coding skills, sometimes projects go really wrong.
Kim's website is one HTML blob and requires manual scrolling.

Disclaimer: I'm aware of Seth Rich death conspiracy theories and this release obviously falls short of proving them.
Why do governments really want to abolish cash?
Fuse Studio – Visual App Development Tool
Yeah, it's running a normal version of windows.