skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I recently tried to cancel a refundable ticket I had bought through Avianca. Their only means of processing a refund is a crappy long web form that doesn't work properly and their support wouldn't do anything besides say "try again later" and refused to transfer me to a supervisor. So I called the credit card company and disputed ticket purchase with an explanation of exactly what happened. The credit card company's customer service was much more helpful and pleasant.

Chargebacks are super useful, but they aren't guaranteed and I try to avoid overusing them so that when you need them you know the credit card company will take you seriously.
Ada on the first RISC-V micro-controller
If you have loads of options it can be almost impossible to know the options. Even basic things can be difficult to find. This is usually "solved" by things like an "advanced" button but that means you'll just end up clicking the advanced button in loads of places.

IMO sane defaults and extremely detailed configuration go against each other. The detailed configuration makes it impossible to find the option you want.
I don't know how this guy is tired after 2 months of being funded, but if he feels that way, i agree. take the deal.
I'd say if you're a PHP dev, you'd know what Laravel is. And Vue is up there with React/Angular in popularity for Javascript devs.

Pusher is the only odd one; You'd probably only hear about it if you've looked into real-time communication technologies.
Someone should tell Passel they are far from the world's first crowd-sourced delivery company
What are you talking about? It was explained multiple times that the released tarball had broken timestamps.

> I also don't want to criticize the author for not pushing a patch they don't understand.

This issue had absolutely nothing to do with patches. The maintainer published a broken tarball. The users were asking the maintainer to re-publish a non-broken tarball.
Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
It's UTF-8.
Hi guys, I built this after spending over 2 months applying to 100+ jobs on all the job boards and managing everything through a spreadsheet as a senior in college. I want to make the job seeking process easier for everyone so I built JobGen, a way to auto-apply to hundreds of jobs in 2 minutes. It's built with Rails on Heroku, and on the backend uses image recognition and DOM parsing to identify fields to submit your applications (name, email, resume, etc). All feedback is welcome, you can also email me here: admin@jobgen.io
You don't get to choose whether you're liable for a tort. Nor will your merchant/banking agreements protect you.
Why do you call it "sewage"?
Game on Playing Video Games May Bridge the Gender Gap in STEM
Plain-text just needs to be the format. Checkout (e.g.) Markdown editors like Typora. The underlying format is Markdown, but it can be edited and displayed in a more visual fashion.

With the text being in plain-text, it guarantees someone the base ability to just open up (e.g.) Notepad.exe if all else fails vs. trying to open up a Powerpoint '97 presentation with embedded RealMedia files in 2017.
Are you stating that there are people that like pdfs?
They do some tracking of clients and I imagine if you start refunding more than they would like they would piece two and two together.
Scaling Machine Learning to Modern Demands [video]
Have you tried a restore on a factory-reset device?
I'm interested that you don't see this as an issue mostly with police response time.

In the UK, the situation is a bit different:

Rural/Country living is still much closer to urban areas because the country is much smaller

The strict control over firearms means that it's very unlikely that a home invasion robbery is going to involve guns on their part.

Personally, if that happens - despite the fact that I own 3 shotguns, I'm not going to resist. Insurance will give me back all my stuff.

In my opinion I think comes down to a fundamental difference in attitudes. We're happy to let our government run things, we trust them with guns rather than anyone else. For (large segments of) the US population there isn't that trust. They don't like the idea of a government having all the power, there is a fundamental lack of trust there (please don't take that as criticism, I'm beginning to come round to that point of view!). It's the independent frontier mentality. Maybe due to difference in age of country? I don't know.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe also discussed the 80,000 year old clonal tree in a recent episode (I think the latest?). http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu
I think it really stretches the definition of "plain text" by the time you need a parser.
Because it's tremendously convenient, the games are cheap, and there's a two-week, two-hours-played window for refunds.

"But I can't chargeback if I get irrationally gamer-ragey" is not something I've ever worried about, ever.
For good or ill, that's actually a pretty widely accepted legal principle in the American justice system.

Jury trials are used to determine guilt or innocence, and judges are extremely hesitant to second guess a jury decision under any circumstances. Appeals aren't for relitigating guilt, they are for ensuring that the original trial was conducted fairly and properly. Furthermore, there's a strong bias in all circumstances against reopening closed legal matters. In general, the US court system prioritizes consistency and finality above correctness.

On paper at least, the proper legal remedy for someone who was convicted, who does not argue that their trial was conducted properly, and who nevertheless maintains their innocence is a pardon or commutation from the governor.

This undeniably sucks, but the alternative is to have the court system essentially DDoSed by felons demanding frivolous retrials.
If you're going to propose an standard for graphs and figures, please make it SVG. It's hard to find tools for editing PDF that would support text and graphics, and PowerPoint exists only as a proprietary closed format.
Agreed - I admit I was speaking from a very 'US-centric' mindset.
FWIW, I've found the IDA Freeware version to be good enough to learn from. Personally, I couldn't really tell the difference between the freeware version I was using at home, and the PRO version that we were using at school (Although that might've been an old version).
https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...
fyi you can't see your email in the email field; you have to put it in about
There are people in power who benefit from the population being, on the large, tied to their (as-large-as-possible) employer and home at night afraid of crime.
The main Bristlecone Pine grove in California is a lovely place. It sits near 10,000 feet, and yet is pretty easy to drive to. It's about five or six hours east of the SF bay area, depending on whether Tioga pass is open or not. (This year, the pass will be opening quite late.)

I strongly encourage a visit if at all possible. It is truly like another world up there, and the silence is magnificent.
The Times Sharply Increases Articles Open for Comments Using Google’s Technology
How Uber’s Chief Is Gaining Even More Clout in the Company
They're around 1/3 to 2/5 of smartphones in the United States [1] and about 1/5 worldwide [2]. (About 2/5 of people, worldwide, own a smartphone [3].) Meanwhile, Apple captures something like 90% of global smartphone profits [4]. High-end margin leaders sell luxury products.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/01/18/apple-iphone-market-share-2/

[2] https://www.strategyanalytics.com/strategy-analytics/blogs/d...

[3] http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/02/22/smartphone-ownership-rat...

[4] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/23/apple-captures-record-91-perc...
> This sounds like yet another example of why SMS is not a good second factor.

You know, that name is becoming customary, but this is not two factor authentication.

Two factor authentication requires that you successfully authenticate on both of two separated channels to gain access. That SMS crap companies keep doing require that you authenticate on any one of two channels to gain access.
I've always considered the Dunning-Kruger effect from the perspective of "too dumb to know I'm dumb" not "too smart to know I'm smart".

Interesting to think it goes in both directions!
Concur. I threw 2x GTX 980s in one of our testbeds two years ago just to make it more generally useful, giving us a 20 GPU cluster. Next time we do it, I'll aim for 4x1080ti or the equivalent. It's painful to power and cool those in lower-end university machine rooms, but it's possible. 10x 4x1080ti machines is only about 15kW, which is high but not insane. It's also only about $60k USD. Also something that a pool of faculty can afford.

I've been experimenting with really low-end builds for that design recently. https://goo.gl/photos/6bDLjJqGAwhG7hGP9

That's a consumer/gaming motherboard (asrock supercarrier), which doesn't have enough PCIe bandwidth to support the cards, but part of what we're researching are ways to reduce synchronization bandwidth. I wouldn't recommend that route as a general approach, though - not flexible enough for future uses. The 8x 1080ti Supermicro build posted a few days ago is probably a better choice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508928

The problem is that one student can easily tie up the entire cluster for half the duration of her Ph.D. Machine learning people have voracious appetites for compute. :)
Grasping. Grasping for unrelated tidbits to make a point you set out to make, before you reviewed the facts.

Using 4chan vs. Tay as an example of the limit of chat support bots. Using Netflix's 2012 competition ensembles developed over 1.5 years as an example of AI being too expensive. Telling us that AI will fail when you don't have any data to input it.

Just replace AI with IT/Computer Science and see what remains of this fluff piece.
This is fantastic if only for the competition and innovation such an announcement will bring.

I feel autonomous cars going mainstream could be more transformative than many realize.
Would he have accepted less money if the exchange rate went the other way?

In addition, it was never mentioned how this person gained access to his uber account. Maybe his password was a really weak password. How can it be uber's fault if your password sucks? 2FA via SMS has known weaknesses and does not compensate for a strong password. This is why it is no longer recommended.

Just playing devil's advocate here.
Savvy PR move doing this on the same day the Uber report drops and Jeff Sessions testifies in the Senate
The .ETH domain auctions
UTF-8, Unicode.
even the article uses more :P

Let's agree on markdown/rich text + non-interactive media (images, sound, video)
Personal essay strikes again in business context - I like it very much and glad to see it here. Looks like a useful read and educational.
Are you going to rent access to your cluster? :)
I am sure that site had thai, how come it is unavailable on the app?
Wouldn't he know if his phone number was hijacked though? I found Uber's silence on how the 2FA was defeated the biggest issue here.
PDFs are still ok though. There are many implementations of PDF parsers, many Open Source. It may not be as "universal" as plain-text, but it is definitely universal. At this point, I believe that all major operating systems ship with the ability to open PDFs for display.
You almost certainly can open PowerPoint 97 files today. Probably RealMedia too. Even better, going forward, pptx (and docx, etc.) are open standards.
Another problematic point that perhaps should be raised about those studies:

Most of today's software is optimized for usage of mouse, with keyboard only as afterthought. But we should compare software optimally designed for the use of the mouse with software optimally designed for the use of the keyboard (e.g. Vim). Though I am not sure former really exists - which is perhaps a testament of how slow mouse actually is. :-)
The article does say, though:

> “The problem is that we were warned of nothing,” Mr. Guiraud said. The museum sent specimens from the Lagenophora family, which includes daisies, and was notified that a quarantine document was missing. “We filled it out and sent it,” Mr. Guiraud said, adding that the paperwork was in order. Two weeks later, the museum learned the specimens had been destroyed.

So it's not completely obvious where the fault was. Having some experience with French administration though, they're probably faulty in at least some part.

Also, it's not really just "a Paris school" but the oldest Natural History museum in the world with one of the largest collections (I've actually worked and collected specimens for them, too). So they do have some experience in sharing and handling their collections, which is why I don't think they can be entirely at fault there.
It's my preferred reading format for sheet music.
Which example did you have in mind?
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False.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...
As the commentators on the website mentioned, this method does not preserve the closeness of the points (when going from 2D to 1D), so it is unclear how can it help the author.
Why comment trolls are likely to beat Machine Learning
If your purpose is to exactly represent a printed page it's a great format.
This is not a normal commercial transaction. Since it only happened by negligence of Uber, there's nothing wrong in principle to make it asymmetric against them.
This.

My wife is a math teacher, and the piss-poor experience of writing mathematical notation outside of MS Word keeps them stuck on Word. As much as she and I love LaTeX's math notation, she can't get her departmentmates onboard with that kind of syntax.

They need to maintain notes, guides, tests, quizzes, etc. and basically running a team OneDrive is really the only option because all the alternatives utterly fail a group of non-technical mathies.
Not charged back. But steam having a kill switch where they can prevent you from playing any game if for any reason they don't like you. I'm not sure I would pay any money upfront for what is really a subscription.
Accepted by the locals? Yes! A wonderful place to live? Oh yes!
But is it easy to move here? No. Visas are a pain and things are only getting worse it seems.
>> 1. Don't pre-purchase games

>> 2. Wait a couple of weeks for real gamer reviews

I know it's hard to do if everyone you know's playing the latest hotness, but if you can wait a few months, you can usually get the game heavily discounted in one of Steam's (or Humble, Green Man or other Steam key sellers) quarterly sales.

I used to buy my games on release date at or near full price, but these days I try very hard to wait as long as I can for them to get heavily discounted. When you pay much less than full price, the sting is lessened if you chalk up too many hours to get a refund.
but the article was about matching it, and they weren't able to achieve that. i agree it would be a factor if trying to beat it
There is a free monthly job thread on Roadmap.com, a community of product managers --
https://www.roadmap.com/hiring-product-managers-june-2017

LinkedIn is also a good resource, but it costs a few hundred dollars for a monthly post.
Hi!

Thanks for the tips!
Imagine if we had such a staunch advocate for other constitutional rights, like privacy and right to protest?
> you have two hands.

Every watch ‘the mother of all demos’⁰? Engelbart's system was designed to be used with one hand on the mouse and the other on the chordset. Xerox followed this with the Alto, and on to the Star¹, eventually dropping the chordset but with the same model: the mouse and the left-side function key block worked together.²

⁰ https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY

¹ http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/keyboard/

² https://youtu.be/_OwG_rQ_Hqw?t=54m25s
Subscript and superscript are the bigger problem than fractions, also larger-than-one-line parentheses. Fractions can be aped in the ugly approach of dashes just like how Markdown underlines headers.
New Node.js news extraction, scraping and article parsing module
does anyone know how they are breaking 2FA here? it doesn't sound like SS7 hijack because the message is still going to the correct handset and presumably if you are carrying out the SS7 hijack you wouldn't proxy the traffic. was/is uber allowing people to brute force pins? or are the PINs being leaked through whoever is doing bulk SMS messaging for them?
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If you were the founder and you launched the product today. What would you do next?
You are absolutely right here. It's a lot to do with the 'frontier mentality' of the American west (self-reliance, self-protection, etc).

Short of that, it does also have a lot to do with visibility / response times: If i were able to see the sheriffs dept. cruising our backroads more frequently - I would feel much more assured of my safety, and probably be less concerned with keeping weapons for personal defense.
I think the concerns about them are entirely theoretical, yes.
The thing that keeps me from investigating/investing in the Suse ecosystem is the lack of a free LTS offering.

OpenSuse is Fedora, not Centos which is what they need IMHO.
He explicitly does:

> That last number might be twice as large in the dimmest of light or half as large in bright light; and the blurriness from being out of focus scales in direct proportion to it. So if you’re shooting in full daylight, you might have only half as much blurriness as shown in the following images. But your enemies may not do you the courtesy of attacking in full daylight.
In fairness, by these standards, there hasn't been a day in months that wouldn't qualify as a 'good day to deliver bad news.'
What does that link intend to prove? The Office Open XML standard relies heavily on hidden implementation details of the Microsoft Office software suite.
maybe better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc (Rich Hickey Hammock Driven Development)
Why is the CEO credited with market capitalization? They don't have anything to do with it.
Telegarden (1995)
> Entry level for a really good engineer in America is 185k+.

Maybe in the Bay area. Most of the USA you'd get half that with 10y experience.
I agree that PDF is effectively universal as a distribution format for graphical and formatted text. There are some cases where plain text is still nicer, like when trying to read documentation without an X server.
I'm from one of the companies listed (Culture Amp).

I'm now based in SF, but was based in Melbourne with my other co-founders for many years - my cofounders and a large chunk of the company are still based in our Melbourne HQ.

- We were based in Richmond, now the CBD (city). The city or any of the surrounding areas are good areas and easily accessible. Public transport is pretty great. Pretty do-able to live there without a car.

- Meh. Not that great. You count your home connection as fast if it's over 10Mbs. A few lucky areas have NBN, which is fast, but it's not that widespread yet. It's also expensive. However, the thing that gets me is the latency. Chatty protocols (Like Rubygems) are really terrible. That said, it's more in the irritating category than unworkable.

- We were in the Inspire9 co-working space for a (long) long time. I think we were almost 40 employees there when we moved out. Inspire9 was one of the first. There are now a lot to choose from.

- It was pretty grim a while back, but there are a raft of very credible VCs based in Australia now. We work with Blackbird, who are fantastic. It's along flight, but jumping on a plane to SF is probably still a good idea.

- Melbourne is a very multi-cultural city. I'm biased, but really terrific city. I think most people would have a great time there.

- Very much so and it's growing exponentially lately.

If you or any other founders out there are in or considering visiting Melbourne and want to connect, feel free to email me (email is in my profile).
related, there are several old Navy towers off the coast of Georgia/South Carolina (USA) that were at one point going to be scrapped as well but with so much marine life around them last I heard they were transfered to the state gov't and just being left as is. They're quite a sight to see appearing on the horizon as you're moving towards one.

http://www.thehulltruth.com/florida-georgia/384438-navy-towe...
I don't understand why HN readers are so eager to debunk the idea of 10x developer when it's obvious they exist.

For example, in this post you seem to be setting the upper bound around 3x. But actually, it is trivial to be 3x more productive than average: (a) Don't browse the internet while at work; (b) Sit there and spend your time working on the actual problem, not ratholing on programmer fixations that have nothing to do with the end result. Done. Congratulations, you are now 3x, before any consideration is made of experience level or talent or smartness or unique instinct or whatever else.
What you are misunderstanding:

Not everyone cares about the fantasy of becoming inter-planetary. If you are against autocratic regimes, you must be against peddling grandiose fantasies as the highest, "divine" goal of humanity. That's exactly where autocrats come from.

Humans are what make humans important. There is nothing else out there, that we're aware of, that cares about us except us.

This effort is a pipe dream from people that cannot accept their own mortality. We're not that important in the grand scheme, and likely will never achieve a inter-planetary state, certainly not for us.

Competition arises naturally, we need not compel it by forcing fantastical goals down people's throats.

"...we know humans exhibit a tendency towards immoral, autocratic leadership..."

Which often, I'd say it's a truism, starts with "Let's work together on this one thing! It is the ultimate goal and you should all hold it up as the highest goal! Anyone that doesn't get behind it "misunderstands"."

Phrases like "...we should take advantage of the fact we live in the best 0.1% of time in history to develop such technology. It may be that in the short run is the only foreseeable possible time to become inter-planetary."

That relies on paranoia and fear to manipulate opinion. The way autocrats do.
It's a way of hiding/burying information. The info is legally required to be disclosed, but with so much else going on the news is unlikely to be widely covered.
A lot less oxygen to write one more "decline and fall of Yahoo" story or "what went wrong for Marissa Mayer" story.
For some context to pram's comment, by essentially worthless he's referring to how Yahoo recently completely wrote off Tumblr's goodwill value from when they acquired it, which was most of the purchase price. In other words, Yahoo paid a premium because they thought Tumblr had a lot of potential, then... wrote it off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)

For more context see:

2013 talk of 75% value being goodwill: http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/09/technology/yahoo-tumblr-good...

Then 2016 writedown: http://gizmodo.com/yahoos-latest-earnings-report-basically-c...
It's not really optimized to the limit – or perhaps it is, but then the limit is fairly easy to reach.

When I saw this item here I reached for the terminal and wrote a simple (and non-compliant) alternative that simply initialises 8150 bytes of "y\n" and then loops a write forever. I understand that it is not a fully standard-compliant yes, and that maybe GNU yes is indeed fast, but that awfully simple program that takes all of 10 lines (everything included) and took me all of a minute to write performs just as well as far as pv is concerned.

(I eventually completed a feature complete yes but I still think that simply not using `puts` is hardly optimising to the limit.)