skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is like saying you can flip 50 coins and have them come up heads every time because your flips were choreographed. Every single move he makes, every fingerhold, every foot placement, everything, must be perfect every time. The rock can't crumble unexpectedly,the sun can't momentarily blind him, hell, a butterfly in the Peruvian Andes can't flap its wings just so. There must be thousands of such points in his climbs, any one of which could kill him. He does it often enough, someday, they will.
To "live" in this sense is, perhaps, to "flow" in the Mihaly sense. You can't flow if you're dead, but the flow you seek is not a panicked fleeing from death.

Not too different from deciding to run a startup - small probability of success, certainty of exhaustion, possible alienation from family, etc. SV provides ropes for when you fail. Doesn't happen everywhere.
but interestingly, fridge adoption kept powering on.
Counterpoint since I only see anti-FB replies below: I absolutely love seeing OAuth login. I don't have to create yet another password, or worry about whether your site has reasonable password security. Even when I choose to create a login instead, just seeing it gives me some confidence that you're competent enough to set it up, and probably gave some thought to the security trade-offs surrounding login in general.
At the same time, the teams who shift are the teams who lose the most often. Obviously this is correlation, not causation, but it does make me doubt the efficacy of the shift.*

*I'm on my phone so I can't find the source for this at the moment, but did see it in an article in the last few months.
Isn't this good? Fuck criminals. Anything that makes catching then easier is good.
Android 1.0 had this via ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, unfortunately Android only recently got runtime permissions.
The assertion the author makes about the revelations of Snowden is incorrect. The author hasn't done their homework. Further, if you'd like to know about the history of the technical ability of spies, and how the information gathered was processed check out the book referenced, written by an actual historian.
Done by a government with proper legal oversight it certainly has its place and easily will be a net positive for society. Though lawmakers seem to be oblivious to tech advances moving far quicker than they can, don't hold much hope they can keep up.

Used by corporations it will be frustrating and take privacy intrusions to the next level. In the end though, democracies will survive fine.

The real issue is tyrannical regimes getting their hands on facial recognition, it's a terrifying prospect and likely to be used with great effect.
Apple's API don't discriminate with regards to precision. An app that shows nearby stores with a 1km radius precision requires the same level of permissions as an app that's trying to do 1m precision.
Primary reason that I don't buy into elaborate conspiracy theories right here.
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On a similar note, maybe offer to teach programming during the summer. There may be parents who are willing to pay a bit so their kids can be exposed to programming, and being a kid yourself, you could create a fun and non threatening atmosphere. Plus, for kids, it's not so important that they learn exactly the most marketable languages and techniques, but just to expand their brains and tickle their interests.

Another idea is to tutor introductory college students. I made reasonable money in college as a math tutor, even as a freshman. The college had a tutoring center, who paid my wage, so I didn't have to deal with collecting money from my students.
This just made my day. Running apps on FreeBSD is awesome, but dealing with IPFW config is a nightmare.
The 'golden age of capitalism'/social democracy thing didn't work so well throughout the seventies - that's why the neoliberals were voted into office, mainly due to problems with the economy.

I am also not convinced about the democracy part during the 'golden age' - once upon a time you had unelected bureaucrats and union bosses who would do the decisions (you have some of that in the EU now). Also mighty Goldman Sachs didn't enact Glass-Steagall - you need a government for that.
Both :-D I'm not looking for help necessarily but if it helps create a better product, I'm more than happy about it. I don't think we can create a great thing all alone. The idea to open source it, amongst other thing, is the transparency.
I have Galaxy S7 and Sony SBH20. It's just a tap and they're paired.
Can anything literally be only part placebo? obviously hyperbole, but anyone who has stuck their hand in a chalk bag knows how comforting it is in spite of it being the 7th time on that same rest hold.
I can't understand why people include GitHub as a deploy time dependency. Deploying should be about pushing an already built package to the destination server(s).

The idea that you push the source code then build it on the server makes no sense to me.

If I was github I would forbid (and punish) this kind of behavior.
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Its about as relevant at this point as arguing that traffic lights shouldn't be red and green, sure maybe, but its not a very useful discussion because its both a trivial aesthetic concern and never ever going to change.
The episode I liked most was if-then-else. It had the right mix of silly and smart for me. The conclusion of the show was not that great, IMO.
I've just noticed that the Intercept journalist who burned Winner is the same one who burned Kiriakou some years ago.
We're halfway to going back to tablets, in the literal sense.
And you've constructed a belief system that we better believe anything that comes out of the NSA about adversaries of the US because well, I feel the NSA is really competent and what else are we supposed to believe anyways.

My belief system isn't convincing me that Russians didn't hack the election system, or that they aren't capable of it. Just that this particular document is not the smoking gun.
When will this come to mobile devices?
As they've said for some time now, "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
When is this coming to iOS though?

I think chrome for mobile already has it?
The EU is the exact opposite. It started out as the union of coal and steel "community" (for the bosses of the companies). It is the exact opposite of a worker's union: for the largest part of it's existence it was 50% dedicated to taking away rights of employees. It very much was a voice for capitalists, owners and generally the ultra-rich (not even the 0.1%, we're barely talking the top 10 richest of Europe at the time here)
I've only done a very small amount of climbing many years ago, however I have done a fair bit of overnight hiking.

I would suggest that the difference between protected and free climbing would be the same as the difference between hiking with a full backpack and hiking with a small day pack with only some food/water and maybe a warm pullover. Your plans are the same, to travel somewhere, your methods and the level of encumbrance is very different. Your enjoyment would also be different, with significantly less sweat and exhaustion but depending upon your environment maybe less enjoyable sleep and more restricted food. In my subtropical environment I know which I prefer, as long as it does not rain.
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I think that this is probably the biggest misconception about Alex. Pad your estimates of death with a couple of 0's, that is, 0.01% (even less) chance of death. From this article others have posted https://www.outsideonline.com/2190306/why-alex-honnolds-free...:

> “It would be so easy for you—you know you wont fall on 5.12,”

In essence, he is so good at climbing, this is like going up a really long ladder for the average human. Sure, rungs on the ladder could break, but even I could climb a ladder 3000ft tall with enough endurance training and not fall. At least, most likely not fall.

To answer your question about the thrill, in multiple interviews, he says that free soloing is the "ultimate test". Akin to closed book and no calculators. Can you really claim that you've mastered a subject if you were allowed to use aids? This is the way he views free soloing.

When you view it like this and reduce the chances of dying to be less than driving on the freeway, I think it is less daredevil behaviour and more the ultimate passion for his craft.
It's possible he has a much different view of the world than you or I do. I once met a person who did similarly risky things but from his perspective living a normal life seemed like a nightmarish slow burn death. He was completely fine with the most brazen stunts but the idea of settling down somewhere or having a 9-to-5 desk job gave him cold sweats and in his own words "the feeling as if a hand were wildly grasping at my throat" (sounds better in the original language). No "quiet desperation" for him I guess.

Although I think the simple thrill of it has to factor in at least a little bit, the climber is perhaps mainly motivated by the idea that not living like this is actually a form of death in itself or a very risky behavior (in the sense of wasting your life). It's similar to the ancient idea that a life of servitude is not a life at all. I can't say I necessarily agree but it's not such an outlandish concept either.
And so you're saying that because you did this work and he would like to do technical work that somehow he is wrong? What value are you bringing to this discussion for this young man?
Well, the Secure Enclave is in every device with a TouchID, so that's the iPhone 5S and newer.
Yes, and it fits into option #2. It is work directly related to the company. And?
The numberphile channel on YouTube is almost nothing but pure math and number theory and is pretty popular.
>Silly article, the revelations of Edward Snowden shouldn't really tell anyone much about the capability of spies

i absolutely loathe when people say things like this. people would nearly without exception treat you like a lunatic if you talked about the kinds of capabilities revealed by snowden prior to 2013. making references to ECHELON made plenty of people write me off as a paranoid crank.

the ex post facto 'everyone knew this' is a fucking crock.
Cloud providers are carriers. Their backbones are larger and growing faster than the ISPs you refer to. And they are hosting a lot of content and services from multiple providers. If they provide preferential treatment to their own products over products they host then this situation is no different to the one you're thinking of.
So, I am looking at a bit of the transcript from the first course and it is talking about scaling companies from millions to billions and things like that.

YC started with this idea that you take a couple of college student hackers, give them like $20k and let them build something "ramen profitable." The basic idea was that tech had lowered the barriers to entry for business.

An awful lot of these big companies (Uber, Home Hero -- which is shutting down -- etc) seem to hire 1099 contractors instead of employees and they often don't pay all that well. The goal for YC seems to have become grow the next unicorn.

So, I find myself wondering (having already forwarded this stuff to various people): Is there anything of use in these lectures if you aren't looking to become a billionaire and have no desire to grow some gargantuan company that probably is making the founders rich on the backs of the 99 percent who are so often underpaid?

Is there any basic business wisdom here for people not looking for some J curve growth and then cashing out? (Serious question and I know it sounds like snark. I just don't know how to say this more diplomatically because this is not how YC started and I have trouble with the direction it seems to have taken.)
I think this is the money line right here:

The heart of YC’s philosophy is that world has too few people solving fixable problems, a “bottleneck in society,” says Garg. “If you fundamentally believe that, then [Startup School] is exactly the right thing to do. You are empowering a bunch of people to just try and it’ll turn out it’s going to be way easier than they thought it was going to be. And there’ll be more progress.”
The core organizing principle of biology is evolution and natural selection.
The Human Factor, by Ishmael Jones.

Required reading on this topic. Tl;dr - Salesmanship, cold calling, closing and relationships are worth a LOT more than acronyms, budgets and bugs.
Unfalsifiable arguments are not especially strong.
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I can't tell from the docs.. Does it actually allow your app to wake up in response to scanning tags? Or does it merely allow your active app to fire up the NFC reader?
Can you describe how rare do you feel it was for US officials to straight up lie on or off the record? Also based on what data did you make this assessment?

I can recall of a number of occasions during the Bush and Obama era where high-level officials were caught lying, sometimes in public testimony. And I don't even have any data points for Russia because we don't get their official statements on our news so I don't even know how I'd compare. How did you get both sides of the story accurately enough where you feel so confident in your beliefs?
Well, the onboarding process in the past you've described seems like hell. May be merchants should simply accept to bite the bullet on this one and accept it as part of the cost of doing business.

Now that you've mentioned stripe; I am in the process of setting up an Australian company with stripe; so far the docs are easy to digest and it seems waaay easier (and cleaner) than my previous experience with paypal.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Dawn Wall distinction was also that they climbed each pitch in order, and each pitch consecutively without a fall. They fell many times, and just had to start from the bottom of the pitch each time they did. I remember hearing slight controversy about them being able to decide where the pitches start and end, effectively choosing the respawn points conveniently. The other distinction was that they couldn't leave the wall before they finished all pitches.
That was the one! Clearly I didn't remember the details of the wording well enough to use the right search term.
My impression with experience in bioinformatics is that these issues are likely not shared.

Biological systems are highly variable and absurdly complex, and most datasets come with a host of confounding factors. In comparison, baseball is extremely uniform, and the variability that does exist can often be quantified effectively, and more importantly, often is. Biologists can dream of such high-quality and thorough data, but that's a long way off. This means that the analysis used is quite different.

Genomic data depends greatly on the material used and the methods used. For instance, even with consistent genotypes and identical library preparation, if you collected your RNA a few hours later in the day, you now have a host of circadian changes to contend with that confound your analysis. No one can effectively keep track of all the confounding factors. This means that most analysis needs to be done with direct controls, biological replicates, etc.

In terms of actual analysis, I think the problem is somewhat overstated in your assessment. There are good statistical methods to adjust for multiple comparisons, and the field has largely caught-up to the biggest issues. This was perhaps more accurate 5 years ago, and was mostly the result of poor statistical literacy.
Any roles for metabolism and/or genetics in there?
Pick the team that finishes last in any sporting tournament and you hear more about their failures than their successes. The usual response is "Well what successes?" So it would seem to be with the CIA. The USA is hugely and massively successful and the CIA hides its disaster laden, failure after failure after horrendous outcome in secrecy.

What success did the CIA have, ever? List their failures is so easy, I'll start with the ajax revolution and Pinochet, both occasions where if the CIA had done nothing the world would be better and the USA stronger.
Not as 'successful' as YC and other incubators/accelerators, but the idea of taking in as many and filtering out is what Founder Institute does. It is the "survivor" of Startups.
Sure, but everything is a consequence of natural selection. If you don't teach that, you aren't teaching biology.
Just want to chime in that your comment makes total sense and hope to see it answered!
That doesn't make a lick of sense.
As for this vector, credentials leaks have been littered across the community and they've been aware since 2015. See
https://github.com/ChALkeR/notes/blob/master/Do-not-underest... for more information.
Open an account at freelancer.com and similars and see how the system works and what can you offer. It really works, though competition is high. This will help you build a portfolio and make money in the process.

Search for people problems and build an app to solve it. Apps are hot.

Github portfolios, open source projects, etc... may make you look important but it does not generate direct income. Try to avoid the ego trap there.
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It's wonderful, when the punishment for murder is a Norwegian prison, terrible when the punishment for shoplifting is ISIS chops off your hand.

There's a broad region in between those two poles, where some cases are merely somewhat awful and not completely horrible, and other cases where I guess it's kind of okay, but not that great. The rest of the time, it's an apathetic, civil neither.
Ooph, this is game changing.

There is a LOT of hardware out there that supports this.

The iPhone is the most popular game platform on the planet and, just like that, it will be the most popular platform for developing AR applications.
In the case of the 4 minute mile, I assume lots of runners were training and were reasonably close, and of course someone has to be the first. I don't know if it can be shown that the first 4 minute mile inspired a bunch of other people to follow suit so quickly.
i dont understand why you wouldnt be proud of this.. what exactly did you do wrong?
The article answers your question:

> Now, Startup School will accept about 10,000 companies in early 2018, says Altman, and potentially more after that.
That's kind of what I was hoping. I suspect a vast proportion of normal Python code doesn't use the meta programming and run on import and so on.
It's about making "hard to track" the norm, not the exception.

Similar ideas apply when using Tor, VPNs, do-not-track, etc for "innocent" internet browsing.
> WHOA, NOW. Time is a zero-sum game. The scarcity of time is not even close to "irrelevant to Capitalism". Economists compare productivity gains as the ability to produce more widgets in the same amount of time.

Once widgets materialize in a box and can be moved immediately via non-human means to whomever needs them, or more likely, simply be removed from the box by the human who wanted the widget, the friction becomes 0. It's no longer about who can get the widget made faster unless you talk about the efficiency of the replicator itself, and that will likely approach a certain baseline point as well.

The thing is the further along you go on this curve, the faster all of these things will work to improve each other. Why have a prepackaged meal when you could have the exact molecular composition of a fantastic soufflé made by a five star chef in Paris, instantly, for the cost of running your replicator for 10 seconds? Why take a helicopter to avoid traffic when automated streets have made the few commutes that remain extremely fast? Who cares about shipping you things when the product you bought materializes next to your oven?

You're talking incremental improvements in the next 10 years. That's not going to do anything I've discussed. I'm talking the theoretical and in my mind, inevitable conclusion to capitalism: that all goods and services are worthless; not because we don't need them, but because they don't cost us anything.
South Korea started following the same policy a few years ago. The thermostat is set at 28C in most offices, and people care less than they did before about men wearing short sleeves and no ties.

One problem is that Seoul is further north than Tokyo, so the temperature tends to stay around 28C anyway, especially during the monsoon between mid-June and mid-July. Thermostats only detect temperature, not humidity. So the A/C sits idle and everything gets damp :(
Keep checking in with your network for jobs they need that you can do. Present yourself well online (your portfolio and yourself). Expand your network.

Two previous threads about starting to freelance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8761088
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14424699

I'd pick a technology to focus on, and present yourself as a person who specializes in it. Put your skills and work first and foremost online / on your resume. Choose something you can use quickly, and fully build the projects you have or are about to have. Whatever it is. Start with the HTML/CSS/basic JS. Or Wordpress, Drupal. Or React or Rails or Flask. Practice most for the job you have. Second most for the job you want.

Work with the businesses you built things for to be references, and if at all possible get a good looking project one to be publicly accessible. At least as a few screen shots. Clients want to see what you've done.

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Good luck!
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