skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a GETS account too (I work in healthcare). T-Mobile provides WPS service free, whereas Verizon charges $5/month per enrolled line. More info here
https://www.dhs.gov/publication/getswps-documents
and
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/HOW%20I...
Intel has engaged in some strategic patent litigation over the years, but if you look at the chart in the article, it looks like there has been a big push to get more ISA patents in the last several years.
I am actually in the US. On paper, suing the ex-employer sounds nice; but who's going to put bread on the table while the lawsuit works its way through the courts? Who'll pay the lawyer? And how can an individual compete against a company with billions in revenue??
The state exists to protect and serve the interests of the wealthy IMO
Hi all, I created this site!

The motivation was basically a version of ninite[1] for Linux. So very desktop-focused. I actually got in touch with the ninite folks, who used to run a Linux installer [2]. They said there wasn't enough interest and package managers are "good enough." I respectfully disagree on that point - I think that having the ability to point-and-click for the core, most important packages you want to install is really useful when you're spinning up a new desktop from scratch.

I was running into this problem after basically doing ad-hoc setup for every new machine I turned on. Sure - I could write a shell script / list of packages and save it to my dotfiles repo, but where would the fun be in that? :)

(Plus, package lists on every machine are different)

[1] https://ninite.com/
[2] https://ninite.com/linux
Feels like some stability in computing generations (CPU/GPU) or interaction paradigms (mobile) will be necessary to formalize software engineering. Until bridges/etc had a relative standard building each one was a craft. Not to say there hasn't been generational tech in traditional engineering, but generally not on the order of every few years.
Ask HN: How to handle a difficult client?
I was always lucky in getting very reasonable people as my managers/clients until my company found this new project from a Bay Area startup. The client has following characteristics:

1. We have standup meetings scheduled twice every week. He doesn't show up in 90% of them.

2. He doesn't respond to most of the emails which are to get his feedback on latest development progress.

3. A week before the initial deliverable was due, he demo'ed the project to CTO. He didn't give me any heads up before giving the demo. Incidentally there was a bug in the system at that point and his demo didn't work as he expected. He expressed his anger by a one liner email.

4. On the day of first deliverable, he gathered his entire department to showcase the product. He asked us to run a flow which was neither mentioned in his requirement docs nor it was related to the core features due for the deliverable. Since we weren't prepared for the flow, it didn't work. He shared his anger later with my manager.

5. He'd agree to everything I present in initial requirements, and later get angry for something not even remotely present in the initial requirements.

The project is super complex and he is barely involved in the development process. I know I can technically face any challenge, but I'm struggling with locking down requirements and managing his expectations. I'm whole-heartedly committed to learning and adapt to this challenge, but I'm not been able to develop a mental model so far.

How you'd handle a difficult client like this one?
The biggest problem with the NBA these days is that so few players come into the league with solid fundamentals and skills. The rookie age limit that has spawned the whole era of one-and-done college players who bail after March for the draft is in some ways worse than when high schoolers could get drafted. Most of those guys are poorly served by the current system. Either they are ready at 18 (like LeBron or Kevin Garnet were), or they really need two or three or four years in a good college system to hone their game, get experience, and work in the weight room. Just look at how sad rookie of the year awards have been in the last few years.
Sure. Anything with hash map or list literals (heaven forbid a list of hash maps!), off the top of my head. I'm not near a computer or I'd type out the example.
Najaribu
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Choosing between visualization methods for a memory profile
Not really, medieval period to now is too short a timescale for evolution to operate
That doesn't eliminate the need to set up an account & password for every possible pair of users, rather than just every user.
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Because the market is still paying for software licenses instead of paying for services. It rewards writing as much code as possible to sell it. And then deprecate it and write more and more.
The real issue is power. The point of splitting up companies is to reduce their concentrated power. We could alternatively reduce their power through regulations of other sorts. Surely we all want the positive things that come from the cases where concentrated power is used for good things, and we don't want the power used for not-so-good or worse things. Ideally, we figure out how to maximize the good part and minimize the bad, but sometimes we have to decide to take it all or leave it all…
Fooling humans into doing things in the electronic realm turned out to be easy
Similar thing with long sales pages. Reader doesn't know exactly what he wants, isn't convinced, but with a lot of filler mumbo jumbo and some images, maybe a video, you can get them to buy on the spot.
This is an odd blog post. I'm not sure the authors really understand the genetics they are trying to invoke. For example, when they say:

> Research has shown that some key autism genes are part of a shared ape heritage that predates the “split” that led us along a “human” path. This was when our ancient ape ancestors separated from other apes that are alive today. Other autism genes are more recent in evolutionary terms—though they are still more than 100,000 years old.

This is a really misleading use of 'autism gene'. All this means is that a particular 'gene', in the sense of a large chunk of DNA which codes for a protein and not the usual sense of a distinct variant/allele present in only part of the population, when damaged or modified leads to autism. (So you would take all the GWAS hits and note that the SNPs tend to cluster in particular gene-regions.) This might tell you something about what biochemical or developmental pathways lead to autism when broken, but it doesn't tell you anything like 'autism is good' or 'autism helps humanity evolve'. At best, it tells you that autism is sometimes connected to relatively recent biological changes, which is not a surprise (what would an autistic chimpanzee look like?). You could make the exact same argument about schizophrenia: 'genes' (in the sense of large genetic units) in which schizophrenia SNPs often turn up are also often relatively recently evolved or related to the nervous system. Did 'humanity need schizophrenia to evolve'? Seems unlikely. The parsimonious interpretation is that the human central nervous system and other things have been evolving over the past 200k+ years and diverging from the other primates, supporting modern human intelligence and cognition, and autism and schizophrenia are simply ways that our brains can break and the newly-evolved stuff can break often thanks both to the constant introduction of new mutations and demographic events like Neanderthal introgression. (Neanderthal variants typically are harmful and are being evolved away. That must have come as a shock to those people claiming Neanderthal contributions made you smarter or something.)

If you wanted to show that autism and genetic variants disposing to autism really does offer adaptive value or was important to the process, rather than simply reflecting the fragility of the human mind and long-standing mutation load, you would look for signs of selective sweeps for autism variants (either the rare variants of large effect or SNPs; none have been identified) or at least frequency-dependent selection (inconsistent with the additive genetic architecture), beneficial genetic correlations (there are none except some with intelligence), predicting any kind of better health (the opposite, indeed, just today: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/09/148247 ); higher reproductive fitness in past or present populations (hah!) etc.

The other arguments like 'cave art', well... I'll leave that to others.
I had an IEP because of autism and work in the industry.
I forgot to add that fractal dimensionality is a clear differentiator between natural and man made things. So, it does make some sense to separate the natural from the synthetic.

Off topic, but does anyone know how this would affect the Fermi Paradox if aliens produce technology inherently fractal in nature?
It's indirect. Lyft sets a max price of $0.05 for an ad placement, so uber has to set $0.06 to ensure that they get the ad and lyft doesnt.
Writing a bunch of scripts can quickly become a mess. I was working on some twitter analysis for a project, and not really worrying about the code because I didn't intend for it to be used again, and it quickly became a mess of "run this script, then run that script on the generated file, then use this shell command to process the file, then run the final analysis step on that file, then clean up all the intermediates". Not to mention, say, "one-time" data cleanup through the shell / REPL that runs into problems months down the line when you want to update the data set. And, of course, invariably none of this is documented. Notebooks don't force you to organize your code and write documentation, but they strongly encourage it.
You said it yourself: You're honest. Take pride in that and keep being you.

I have just enough knowledge and just enough free time to maybe pull off one of these kinds of scams, but two things stop me: One, I have to look at myself in the mirror every day, and two, even if I set my morals aside, given my luck, I'd be the one Apple finally decides to make an example out of and sends the feds to my doorstep.
But I don't want anyone doing this just for themselves. We need the creepy ad-business removed for everyone because it affects society overall. Google wants to have it both ways: pay them and they won't advertise at you (maybe eventually agree not to track you as much even), or for that matter, you can use an adblocker etc. as long as you keep using Google so they retain their dominance and can then track and advertise at others.
I don't understand what you mean by analyzing facebook as a country. You're saying facebook employees are citizens of the country? And their salaries vary so much?

According to this[1] facebook employees make $277k. And this[2] says facebook has 17048 employees. Multiply those, and we get $4.7B of compensation. This[3] claims Mark Zuckerberg made $5M in a year. So he made about 0.1% of facebook's salary expenses. Not 99% like you are claiming.

Or are you referring to existing shares that people own going up in value? It's obvious that if someone owns more shares than someone else, and all shares go up in value, the person with more shares makes more profit. Are you saying it is unethical for someone to own more shares that someone else? And if you are referring to shares, you should be talking about shareholders, not employees.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-total-compensation...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...

[3] http://www1.salary.com/Mark-Zuckerberg-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Op...
At what point do you say "no, the app store experiment has failed" and give users control of their own devices?

Never, I guess.
Crumb free bread will mean iss astronauts can now bake in space
>Is this article true? https://www.thelocal.fr/20170309/rules-of-the-game-what-rule....

>In that case, you'll have to get 500 signatures of elected officials. That seems even more chilling, because then you're on record for having supported a candidate, and if you're backing the wrong horse, there should be repercussions.

Yes and no. It's missing a few details.

First off, elected officials that can give their support can include our 36000ish mayors, and around 10000 other servants.
The repercussions come from your own electors, yes. But don't be too afraid, unless you're cosigning on the FN's project (in which case you will most likely be a FN mayor yourself), repercussions are limited. You have to face your electors with the fact that you signed on for a particular candidate, but this is almost universally seen as part of the regular flow of our elections, and very little as partisanship.

>Also, it seems that now your airtime is proportional based on your performance in the last polls and election.

This is an absolutely terrible decision that we're fighting the best way we know (which, you guessed it, is protesting), but bear in mind that it only applies to legislative elections, for the national assembly. And since it is based on previous year's results, Macron's party gets something like 5% of airtime, compared to the PS which gets 30ish percent. It seems to be pissing off enough people that things will probably change.

However, I do agree with you, this particular law is utter crap, and should be removed.

>how is that any different from voted taxation? The vote of the masses is voting to take away the wealth of a small percentage of very wealthy people to "redistribute" the income.

The key difference is the mass. Yes, that's tyranny of the majority. But I prefer that to a single person having the voting power of many.
I thought the issue was him trying to get it on his cofounder's phone?
>Even if it happens within a platform it's still a very concerning problem.

I don't necessarily disagree, but "Xcorp is presenting personal data that you've released publically in a misleading way" very different than "Xcorp is giving personal data that you assumed was private away to third parties". I think the second is a lot more serious than the first.

>If a company decided to put cameras in people's homes to improve "customer service" that business would be out of business the next day.

I'm not sure I agree, given the popularity of smart TVs and the recently announced Amazon Echo Look. I make no judgement of whether this is good or bad (I personally don't have any always-on recording devices), but I don't think its true.

>I understand that this is a result of people not wanting to pay for access to websites and online-services but, in my opinion, that's because they don't understand the ramifications.

See, and I disagree here. There are certain kinds of services that money cannot provide. Google Now recommends news articles to me, it can give me reminders about upcoming events from my emails and Google gives me some personalized search features (ie. if I type "frequent flyer number" into the default google search bar, my number appears, scraped from an email years ago). Those features have a utility that I couldn't get from an application that didn't track information about me. Potentially I could self host something with that level of utility, but it would take a research lab and millions of dollars to create.

On the other hand, reddit, which tracks comparatively little information about me, reliably recommends trending posts that are of zero interest to me.
so one of the most powerful people in the US couldn't get their children good math teachers? something doesn't add up here.
Same way you can own the rights to touch screen gestures I guess?
Yes, that. This is not a difficult problem. App purchase behavior that is more than a couple of standard deviations away from ordinary, but successful, apps should trigger a heavy human review.
Given who the establishment's people's friends are, and the nature of the revolving door, I find it hard to find fault with that assessment. But "the wealthy" is maybe a too broad brush. Co-conspirators, maybe...
Ask HN: I got rejected because i don't know number theory, is that fair?
/Meta

gawd, been literally years since I've visited /. ...and tho it still is a bit of what it used to be, I don't think I like what it is anymore than when I quit it around ~2009.

I can't even remember now just what the tipping point was anymore but I do remember that the quality of conversation had gone south.

Does anyone else feel the same mix of sadness for what /. has become and a longing for what it once was? (...and for me personally, no, HN doesn't completely fill the gap, hence the longing)
Ha, Spec#... Good old times... It has interesting static design by contract constructs as well as tracking resource ownership (via [Claims] attribute) 13 years before Rust! [0] Yeah, I know it's mostly apples to oranges but with Bartok [1] the CIL was compiled ahead of time to native code.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Sharp

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartok_(compiler)
I would personally be pleased if the millstone of the x86 instruction set sank both Intel AND microsoft's hegemony.
I've encountered plenty of adult men who seemed to say they hated math or were scared of it. Apart from gender issues, there seems to be a strong thread about young people having bad experiences with mathematics education.

I'm reminded of Paul Lockhart's work as an example of the claim that contemporary mathematics education is broken across-the-board. And then there are lots of reports that say that the U.S. is doing considerably worse than other countries at teaching mathematics and other technical subjects. This is a theme that dates back at least to Sputnik and the Cold War.

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

I think that forms of the Sputnik crisis have repeated themselves in subsequent generations, even if there isn't a single event that triggers this anxiety as dramatically as the Sputnik launch did.

It's hard to tell from this summary of the presentation how Michelle Obama felt that this interacted with gender (although maybe the recordings would make that clearer). One possible interpretation would be that girls' enthusiasm for mathematics is more fragile and easier to throw off-track through poor teaching. Another is that the bad teachers treated boys and girls differently in a way that discouraged the girls. A third is that boys and girls might be best interested or motivated by different teaching methods or projects.
small & easy linux-like in-browser emu:
http://bellard.org

fullscreen, "Unix-like virtual shell", u.a. ssh(!?); ping(ok)
"-":
no c&p,
http://cb.vu/

think, there are some more Linux & unix Emulators in js?
would be nice, find some in next comments.
:-)
RTFA.

"And there's something going on that is not just about the girls. There's something going on with how these subjects are taught."
$2500 US Dollars.

20 years old.

Student as least currently, made my "net worth" as a NASA Intern.

From Los Angeles, CA.
The first RISC should have read CISC. It's a typo
Maybe nothing. Or maybe something. Either way, we won't find out if we approach what she's saying without curiosity. Incredulity toward what she's saying serves to preserve the status quo, not effect change.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2010/01/female-teachers-math...

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436525758/how-teachers-unconsc...
That's not really accurate. I can write a small program that does not include the OS, but rather assumes it. Just as a vehicle designer doesn't have to include the gas or electric distribution infrastructure in their design, they can assume it.

If I'm conforming to someone else's interface (say the C standard library), that's equivalent to an electrical engineer assuming various standard interfaces for the equipment they're designing. It's a design consideration, but not a design task. So the project itself may still remain quite small.

When I'm designing the interfaces that others are using, or designing the interfaces between 100 [0] smaller programs so they can interact effectively with each other and their environment, then it's a larger engineering task.

[0] Arbitrary number.
This has been around for a while:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Navigation...

I guess this is the API it uses. It's pretty impressive. Seemingly hundreds of bike sharing systems are on this thing. It uses OSM for the background, and gives you a reading on how many bikes are at a given station.
www.opensourcebeehives.com
1. When the VC money runs out, timeshare will still beat taxis on price until something changes with the regulatory landscape, because a good chunk of each ride goes into meeting bad government regulations.
2. Its not meant to be an even playing field; that timeshare can outcompeted Taxis without any adverse social effect demonstrates the inefficiencies imposed on the industry by way of useless regulation.

3. I don't doubt there are bad rideshare stories. This doesn't mean ride share is somehow less safe than taxis, hence fear mongering.

5. Drivers seem to love ride share as far as I can tell, so the McDonalds/Walmart comparisons aren't apt, even if I was certain that Walmart and McDonalds are unethical companies.
I live in Vancouver, I travel a lot to Seattle and San Francisco for work, I used to make sure Trader Joe's was a stop before I head home. After this move I'll try and actively avoid Trader Joe's. If Trader Joe's feels so strongly about Canadians buying their products then I have no reason to give them money. keep in mind I never actually went to the pirate Joe's even though I walked by it frequently.
Not to trivialize her experience with her two daughters, but if I didn't do something because the person that taught me the basics of it at 10 or 11 was terrible, I would have a very small range of potential jobs.

Nobody I grew up with was taught to code in school. Most teachers were pretty bad - Math and Science particularly; they weren't just bad at the subjects, they were often cruel. Middle school was an awful experience for everyone, I think.

That's not a reason not to improve things - I'd love for things to get better for everyone.
They don't even seem to cite that work: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11051-017-3826-6
Oh yeah, thanks!

Apparently the phono-semantic derivation for that is "mouth ma" (maybe because a mouth is used to ask questions?).
I attended a rural high school that provided a subpar education (including STEM). I was not exactly "college ready" and graduated not having even taken a calculus course. I was at a disadvantage entering college, since pretty much everyone I knew attended a magnet school or a well-taught high school where their teachers were PhDs in the field. High schools that offered upper level mathematics courses. Kids like this very well may have already taken data structures/algorithms, linear algebra, real analysis, abstract algebra etc. prior to entering college with 30+ credit hours and 5s on all AP exams. Compare those kids to someone like me that never had the chance to even take an AP class... Anyways, how did I turn out? I completed a pure math degree, but it took me much longer to get there since I started much further behind.
But why are they poor to begin with? A big reason is the capture of wealth by industries like those in silicon valley that engage in exploitative labour practices and pay low taxes. There is easily enough money going around to have safe work conditions and still get everyone enough to have access to the basics and then some.
Weren't their children in public school?

If her children were turned off of STEM and didn't want to stick with it until they saw cultural change, I could see the Obamas as the type of parents who'd respect their childrens' chosen paths here.
Isn't bike sharing huge in China?

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-doc...

> the world’s 15 biggest public bike shares are ranked. Thirteen of them are in China.