skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
An Introduction to DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls
Classic blinkered-technocrat perspective, why does "scale" matter in education? What is the endgame when education is scaled as much as possible, plugging kids into VR headsets and calling it a day?
Thank you for this. Well-stated.
Isn't this just doing the same exact thing as iptables only worse since it's not transparent to the operating system?

I've created bad firewall rules by mistake many times and enforcing them transparently so the machines can't see them makes the issue almost impossible to debug and fix.

Of course I have the same gripe with AWS VPC setups I guess... I just think it's funny how the cloud keeps reinventing cloud versions of things that perform objectively worse than the original, but then everyone still uses them out of pure convenience or stupidity.
Nor did I say that the poster here was fit or unfit. I speculated about what two extreme opinion holders would say to one another.

My point was that polarizing the discourse and reducing the other side to "just came out of the psych ward" does absolutely nothing to further reasonable arguments.
Silicon Foo is a meme for non-technical types used to communicate some sort of software renaissance by a city. It makes them picture the AmaGooFaceSofts of the world opening up offices to rescue their economy. Or maybe they picture the next UberLyftAirbnb will happen in Fooville.

Of course it makes us want to vomit because we take it literally and know that isn't what's going to happen.

The Bay Area[0] is the Emperor of building software (business and consumer) and it will always be that way. The Bay Area's primary business is the building of software and thus software is created there for software companies as well.

At the rest of the Silicon Hopefuls, just getting a handful of legit tech companies that want to build software specific to that city's primary economies (oil, real estate, defense contracting, lumber, etc.) would do A LOT of good.

Disclaimer: I don't live in the Bay Area. I live in Silicon Foo where talented software builders either run away or work remote for Bay Area companies.

0 - Citizens of other very large cities: please don't have your egos bruised. Your cities matter, too. Ok, you know I'm really just talking to New Yorkers who have a hard time not being the best at everything.
Amazon and Reddit try to save net neutrality rules in “day of action”
Yeah, I don't get that. I see some people who like to reflect their interests online but I don't consider it inane or addiction. You have a hobby, why not share it online?
What we learned about cloud security running a SaaS in AWS for 5 years – Part 1
Recurring payments is a minimal risk after the first payment processed. If you're going to set up recurring, having an ACH transfer from bank account is going to be cheapest, or debit card paid via ACH.
This is a no-name journal with no reputation (positive or negative) that I can find. The aluminum hypothesis is widely rejected by mainstream researchers for pretty good reasons. User nilved posted a link to a comprehensive paper explaining why (go upvote them).

Please remember to be be skeptical of links like this. Being in "a journal" is not a high bar.
Inkscapes "Save as optimized" is the best way to go for later hand editing. But yeh it's clunkier than I'd like.
That seems to refute most of OP's points and bring up a lot of contradictory evidence that OP doesn't include at all.
How Did the NYC Subway Get So Bad? Look to the C Train
Just force people to use GMT and European style dates! :D
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14462384
Big Tinfoil teamed up with Big Pharma to keep Americans sick for profit. Unbelievable.
And to double the single-points of failure? Now your "stuff" is only alive if both the virtual machine(s) are up, and the object-store is accessible!
1) Does it integrate with my calls from my iOS / emails from gmail? So that I can sort by "least recently connected"? otherwise writing notes each time and looking it up gets tiresome.
2) is there a mobile app?
3) how much will it cost monthly?
4) how are reminder sent?
"More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" by Sebastian Mallaby - this is a great read and motivator for someone interested in quantitative trading systems - started as a side project for me, but looks like it will give me my early retirement + my legacy money to leave behind one day...
Quick note to the founders: You need to add more genders. A lot of early adopters in the Bay Area have friends who are non-binary or are non-binary themselves. I don't want to be forced to mis-gender people who don't identify as male or female.
Having a directory of trained models to download is an interesting concept. This will certainly accelerate the adoption of ML.
I read somewhere her original name was Sarah. She changed it herself.
Isn't the world "haemorrhaging" manufacturing jobs? Isn't this just mechanization?
Haven't seen the movie, so it's hard to directly comment, but for what it's worth, Château d'Yquem is a very famous wine. Exactly the (rare) sort where the popular wine magazines will routinely every few years have an article reviewing how the different historic vintages are holding up -- should you drink that 1975 d'Yquem now or hold it a few more years?

It also would be a very dangerous wine to BS about if you didn't know anything about it. 1973 apparently was a lesser year. (Still, it would run you something like $500 a bottle today.) 1975 and 1976 were classic years, name those as something to skip and people will be questioning your taste. And they didn't release a wine at all for the 1972 and 1974 vintages, because they didn't think the grapes were up to snuff.

I had to look those details up because I haven't paid much attention to wine in 20 years. (Wife doesn't like it, so it's hard to justify buying even $20 bottle. Not that I ever could have afforded a Château d'Yquem.) But I still remembered the mid-70s produced a couple of really good vintages. Someone who was actively into wine could probably have given you all those details without any research.
UNIBEN New Admission Screening Registration Details for 2017/18 Is Out
Email is less sexy but free. XMPP support gets you quick/dirty Slack and Hipchat integration. Something like a Hubot extension could be a fun way to interact as well. Or Alexa/Home! Or IFTTT. Ok then, maybe just an open API?

It's too bad all of the metadata around a contact can't be kept with the contact in a portable way, and then Monica could just be an API for pointing at CardDAV and other contact servers, and a UI for interacting with them in unique ways. Personal clouds, etc.
I think the interesting part is that if you are not exercising regularly, you're not perspiring and hence blocking a major channel to excrete aluminum.

Diet and exercise, folks. I wouldn't worry about the aluminum in your deodorant - make sure you're living a healthy lifestyle overall.
first day of August not January 8
Just to share something I think is fun:

Modern German has separate formal and informal pronouns ("du bist" vs. "Sie sind") and verbs. English used to have them too ("thou art"/"you are"). Even though people assume "thou" is more formal, it's actually the informal/intimate version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou

Apparently we (~Angles/Saxons) also used to have a separate tense for "a group of exactly two of you" and words like "both" (vs all) and "either" (vs any) are residual traces of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)
The positive sentiment is because they are a credit card processor that has a good API and supporting libraries. For some payment processors you are stuck with "here is our Java Middleware and this is the only thing you are allowed to use."
Baked goods is the primary vector (it's very common in baking powder as mentioned). But it also has uses as acidity regulators in cheeses and pickles.
They don't need to, but Colorado, and Boulder in particular, is trying like hell to do it anyway.
actually material design says otherwise it is just Googlers doesn't follow material design specs

https://blog.prototypr.io/mobile-first-desktop-worst-f900909...
I've worked on this and also did cross-compilers for it.
It's industry standard. It's not only used in cars, it's used all over industry control automation, airplanes, power plants, ...
It's reliable and creates almost bug free code. It allows real-time control loops. It creates highly optimized C code (I wrote a C++ backend). You wouldn't want to do that in C or C++ by hand.
Before Simulink my prev. company used Occam, a powerful Smalltalk/Objective C like language with CSP, which ended up being succeeded by Go.

But there are also many more such successful tools being used industrially, esp. from Siemens.

The biggest problem with it are diff tools. There exists a graphical diff in the toolbox, but I haven't seen it being integrated in its workflow yet.
> California was 50th.

What a strange metric they must be using: Silicon valley erupted (and continues to erupt) in CA, land of high taxes and high regulatory environment. And it seems many areas are trying to figure out how to be the next silicon valley.
>from an also-ran university

Don't do this. An ad hominem against someone's employer is really lame when you consider the fact that many people don't want to relocate due to family obligations.

Using the author's previous research as a signal is reasonable but also lazy.
Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming
A cooperative[0] is usually operated and run for the mutual benefit of it's members. So for example, a credit union co-op provides services by members, and for members.

Since Sparkfun provides the majority of it's services to non-members, it's unlikely that it would fit the bill of a co-op.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
But everyone else's input modes would still produce something close to NFC. Interop with the rest of the world matters. OS X is not the only OS.
If you want an alternative to slathering chemicals, look into essential oils. Also diet is huge contributing factor, albeit a longer path to find a solution.
No I most definitely did not make a mistake.

Yes CCDC aka Clark County Detention Center (aka Las Vegas County Jail) is a jail in downtown Las Vegas where I did my kitchen slave labor recently on a 90-day sentence for basically jaywalking.

If I were to be sentenced for more then a year, I would have been sent to a prison somewhere in the boonies of Nevada away from Vegas.

The OP discussed a "3-year jail sentence", and I simply explained that would not be possible as jail and prison are significantly different institutions with very different implications.

I don't think I am wrong to continually express the difference between the two.
More Redflags
- A paper that doesn't have any experimental data
- A single author paper (nobody to collaborate with)
- A paper that uses many of the the author's previous papers as references
Designing for Trust
Cookware for hiking etc. commonly uses aluminium.
Cops speak less respectfully to black community members - Stanford researchers
Gödel bio by Rebecca Goldstein covers some of the friendship between Gödel and Einstein: http://amzn.to/2rxJexf
I'm not really sure what argument is failing. I'm certainly blaming the leaker for using bad opsec (sent emails to The Intercept using a work computer). I'm also certainly blaming The Intercept for using bad opsec. I'm also pointing out that the government has every incentive to act like it was The Intercept's bad opsec that allowed them to find the leaker even if they, for example, found who it was by just looking at access logs for the document.
The main thing we can learn from history, is that we do not in fact learn from history. That's what I have taken from B.H. Liddell Hart's great little book "Why Don't We Learn From History?" and it is exactly what is happening here in education, again.

Today on the HN homepage there was an article about how NJ was the innovation hub of American before the Valley, which generated a nice discussion. Akarnani recounted the story of Fred Terman's failed effort to make NJ more like the Valley. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497136

This historical anecdotes illustrates how even when many essential pieces are present (money, smart people, etc) it is a nearly Sisyphean task to change a system and a culture. The great management thinker W. Edwards Deming once said "a bad system will beat a good person every time" and that is the history of the past 60 years in education reform. I wrote about that in more detail here.
https://medium.com/@m_pettyjohn/on-humans-hard-problems-and-...

This NYTimes article reaches out and touches nearly every broken aspect of education that makes improvement seem intractable. Zuckerberg wasted $100 million in Newark and seemingly came away learning the wrong lessons. Benioff, big hearted and charitable, has his heart in the right place, but long-term will have little impact.

With that in mind it is almost inconsequential what the Silicon Valley billionaires do in education.

There is massive potential in our teachers and students, but to unleash it we need to understand our history, take a systems view and approach, and genuinely understand the discipline of management, which even to the big successes in the Valley seems like an afterthought.

If you're outside (or even inside!) education, reading The Case of Mrs. Oublier, a study of one California teacher during the state's massive 80's reform effort, can be enlightening to the challenges faced.

https://393methods1.wikispaces.com/file/view/Cohen,+D.+K.+(1...
I can only read, not listen to this, but they aren't blaming Brexit, they just say that post-Brexit Britain will pay the price if they can't figure out a solution, which seems fair. Of course, post-Remain Britain would be in exactly the same circumstance considering the jobs have been going for 10+ years.
Ask HN: What's the end-game for online ads?
Online advertising has always moved quickly, but what are we moving towards?

Brave (https://brave.com) limits ads in favor of a direct payments to publishers, and Safari now blocks trackers (which ultimately are used to make ads more relevant to users).

Is the future one of consumers supporting content directly? Or is there a place for ads, and if so, don't we, as consumers, want those ads to be as relevant as possible?
Ohhh I see the subtitly. That is an awesome idea. Thanks!
She’s Accused of Texting Him to Suicide. Is That Enough to Convict?
Thanks for sharing glennreyes
Great idea. Good luck. I did notice a few grammatical and spelling errors on the homepage. Easily corrected. And, the content reads like a non-English speaker wrote it. Also easily remedied. The initial page needs to reflect the creativity of the idea and the professional nature of the developers. I could help, as could many others...
Daydream Labs: Locomotion in VR
> although the housing prices skyrocketing is going to affect whether the younger people who are less financially established, will come in the same numbers as before.

It's been mindblowing how much housing has gone up over the Front Range even in the last ten years (median price of a single family home in Boulder is now over $1M whereas ten years ago I think it might have been a third of that). Much of the affordable housing for northern Colorado means being all the way up in Larimer or Weld county if you're interested in a single family home. I think this is only going to get way worse, with a number of companies like Google and Amazon significantly growing their footprint around Boulder and Denver.
We use Google Cloud Storage Coldline as our backup file storage. Synced using rclone (rsync for cloud) nightly. The cost is next to nothing. IIRC, ~3TB stored for $25/mo.
Anecdotal: I walk into the centre of Birmingham through Digbeth across the river Rea in its little culvert most days and have done since around the late 80s. Used to go past small metal bashers and 'repetition' companies with doors open for ventilation. Metal baskets full of washers, and a galvanising company with a huge Victorian shed dipping parts into vats. Now, mostly garages, car scrap and rebuilding. A few hipster galleries and coffee bars.

Historical Note: Thatcher's administrations moved the UK economy from manufacturing to service industries. This has always worried me through the volatility of the service sector. Germany (then West Germany) went down a different path.

Numerical sideline: West Midlands (mentioned in OA) has a population of 5 million.

Breaking News: Jeremy Corbin is addressing a rally down the hill. Big turnout.

Background: GMB is a TUC affiliated trade union

https://www.gmb.org.uk/

https://www.tuc.org.uk/britains-unions
I also use Cron for the same purposes; for one-time events, especially further in the future, I use a combination of at and mail.
What do you mean? It's not like if your object store becomes unavailable your database sending it's backups there will suddenly stop working.
My father was a fine art printmaker by training. In the 1980's he was working in advertising doing (what was then called) desktop publishing. Physical photographs, knives, glue - old school image-making. Making art on the side, he became a very early adopter of digital image making tools and rode the wave as his entire industry was transformed. The tools available to the (what is now called) graphics designer changed completely - but the goals and underlying skills of the job did not. Designers became better designers.

To extend the analogy, I have this feeling that we're putting a great deal of effort into "taking the designer out of the design" rather than making tools to augment the designer's abilities/speed/workflow. Yes - we can probably create a system that can spit out company logos just as "good" as a mediocre designer, but if our best designers are still making do with knives, glue and paint then the entire field is being held back.

There are purpose-build tools for all kinds of professions, but teachers are largely making do with the same processes and tools that they did fifty years ago.

They don't need a LogosmartAI to replace them; they just need Photoshop.
Could you point me towards that bit where they blame Brexit?

I can only find the part where it says

> “If this sad decline is not addressed then post-Brexit Britain and the next generation will surely pay the price.”

...which is a fair statement, I'd say.
It's a Laravel setting. When you are already logged in and try to access https://app.monicahq.com/ or https://app.monicahq.com/login etc., redirect to https://app.monicahq.com/dashboard instead of https://app.monicahq.com/. That should fix the endless loops.

Edit: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32130028/82135 might be what you are looking for.
This looks great, and I see the utility of it. Really, honestly, well done.

May I ask what made you settle on the name "Monica" instead of something more gender-neutral?
I believe there's some in coffee mate (a non-dairy creamer)
People shouldn't necessarily trust the Washington Post either, who is beholden to their sources in the NSA.

The Washington Post covered Snowden's leaks of unconstitutional actions by the NSA, won a Pulitzer Prize for the coverage, only to then stab him in the back and call for his prosecution.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/edward-snowden-doesn...
Also, I think it's an old idea, probably recycled. The title seemed very familiar, but from long, long ago, pre-2000 at least, maybe circa 1990.

Well, either that, or I got too much aluminum in my brain and I'm confused. :)
I have some org-mode files that kind of do this. I never open them or my agenda anymore, so they don't help, but they're there.

I guess I need to hook org-mode to twilio or something?
The quote doesn't blame Brexit. It's expressing the urgency of the issue and only referencing "post-Brexit Britain," as where Britain stands today.

I believe you are referring to this:

“If this sad decline is not addressed then post-Brexit Britain and the next generation will surely pay the price.”

Or, if the issue isn't addressed, from here on out it will be to our detriment.
Not if that job relies on being able to evaluate evidence or change your beliefs on the basis of observed outcomes. But that's not because of value-less "political beliefs"; it's because people who prioritize partisanship over evidence, on either side of the political divide, are going to have problems in environments that reward responding to feedback. Anti-capitalist anarchists who don't believe in supply-and-demand probably have the same problem.

Though openly supporting racist, anti-immigrant policies in a field with so many talented immigrants may actually be a unique challenge. Promoting policies that attack your coworkers seems like it would alienate a lot of people, at least if you expect to be able to share your beliefs about how people like them shouldn't exist.
http://www.developerinsider.in/whats-new-in-xcode-9/

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/De...
I am a sort of generalist software dev (I've been working back end for the last few years), and think I could give it a try. As far as I understand, an index is pretty much a sorted copy of entries of a column, which enables fast lookup for that column (but slows down insertion and takes up extra space). I would guess an index could also be something other than just a sorted list, the important bit is that is an extra efficient lookup structure. Beyond that though, I don't know anything. I think a back end dev, who ever interacts with SQL, should know at least that much (assuming it's not totally wrong).
Are you going to convert them all to systemd services? =p
12,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
I have two very raw ideas about this slowly taking form in my brain.

1. Factories produce wealth.
If you look at the nations doing good and the nations doing bad[1], factories, I think, make a difference. USA completely moved their means of production to Asia, thinking they could produce cheap and make huge profits. Works for Apple. Doesn't work for the consumer. These jobs are just missing. Nobody can buy. So people borrow. Until the lenders crash, because they can't pay back. But the banks have to lend, that's their business! And when companies don't borrow because they don't build factories, then the consumer has to borrow. Needs to, because he doesn't get payed well.

2. With factories gone, our system doesn't work anymore.
Forget Asia. Robots. And someday not even big robots in factories, but a desktop replicator. There is so many jobs that will just cease to exist. Sure, there will be new ones, but some researches claim that already today robots take more jobs than create. Especially combined with the low investments. Corporate profits are at an all time high, savings are at an all time high, money is cheap (negative interest rate!) but still investments are low. Companies aren't borrowing. Nations are still playing the ordo-liberal game and cut spending. Consumers are the only ones borrowing.

It's insane.

It's like capitalism forgot how capitalism work.
Companies should borrow, invest, earn, pay their workers, and the workers consume.
Now companies save, pull profits, cut wages and replace workers by cheaper means of production and the jobless borrow to consume.

Every couple of years this crashes because people can't pay their loans. Government takes over the debt to reset the cycle, but because their increased debt they have to cut their spending.

[1] I audaciously define good/bad in way that it serves my argument.
What's the average equity sold by YC startups raising 500k-1M+ seed rounds?
Trying to get an idea of the total amount of equity outstanding (including YC's 7%) by end of a successful seed round.
O (n) -> O (logn)