skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will really depend on how they approach and work with the haulers. It sounds like they are providing them with an app that will help them manage their other accounts more efficiently so some haulers might really enjoy the trade off.

Also, it's important to view this initiative as a rebirth of the waste broker. They're already super common in the industry handling the waste collection services for all the locations of large corporations, they negotiate with haulers to service each site then make sure services are performed. They tack on a fee for streamlining/managing this service for each company.

One of the larger brokers was purchased by Waste Management a few years ago. Since WM is a hauler too, they're now gathering tons of data about each market that can be used when bidding against smaller/independent haulers. Lot's of haulers would be happy to help another broker succeed to get WM out of their affairs.
> teaching students how to build tools that solve their homework?

This would give them not only a thorough understanding of the problem they are solving, but teach them a very valuable life skill of finding ways to automate your work, and finding ways to package your expertise into software that can be run by a person without your expertise.

This would amazing!
As another responder astutely pointed out below, services like this aren't contractually-bound, they're subject to TOSes. Good luck getting any kind of conflict resolution with a giant company when all you have are TOS. Companies that rely on other companies for service, when they do it right, use contracts.

Your point about having multiple providers is very sound though; if all you have available is AWS-like services with TOSes, being able to easily switch between them mitigates your risk.
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The implication is that, once it's taken over, the hackers could intentionally trigger a Chernobyl-scale spill.

Not quite as bad as a nuclear weapon detonated in a big city, but still very bad.
China actually executes managers that make huge mistakes (poison in pet food etc). Does it fix the problem? Has manufacturing in China changed at all?
I don't understand your concern. We all have numerous accounts all over the web. Having one or two more doesn't increase our attack surface 100x.
You do know you can buy weed barrier fabric and cover the beds. When you plant you put holes in the barrier where your plant goes. Work well for a few people I know and it's similar price to mulching every season.

Mulch worked for me but I am using pots at the moment.
I have had a half-dozen gmail accounts over the past 10 years and all are active with no problem.
Have you tried teaching calculus where everyone gets to use Wolfram Alpha and/or Mathematica? I did for three years.

I discovered that the students really don't understand the concepts and more importantly don't want to. They just want to mimic problem types. They don't want to understand the why. Plug and chug is their true desire.

Using the computer exposes right away if a student understands the concepts. You can't get started on a problem if you don't know what to tell the computer to do or why. I went back to the old paradigm. A few students got it but most never understood.
I'm not understanding you comment. The quotes are there because they a self-reference by a member of the group.
> 2. When something is free, then YOU are the product.

Debian Linux, Firefox, gcc, visual studio... The list goes on. I think the "you are the product" quip has become an overplayed meme of late. Mutually beneficial / co dependence and such themes are more applicable in more cases than not when it comes to free products and services, in my own view anyways.
I do that. Still lots of weeds directly around the plant. Which I guess the bot isn't going to pull anyway. Hm.
I experimented with OBD-II devices for a while, paired with a phone app like Torque, and I found that the lower-level information (e.g. data about any particular air sensor) just wasn't interesting or useful to me. And other useful info (e.g. speed) I can get from my dash or other sources.

Where these devices come in extremely handy, however, is by allowing you to look up the opaque fault codes that your car's computer produces when something goes wrong.

For $10-$20 off eBay or similar online stores, you can get a device that will tell you, for instance, when you have a cylinder misfire without having to go to a mechanic. (You may have to go to a mechanic to get it fixed, but at least you'll have a rough idea what needs fixing.)
Also having problem with AWS - can't access it and they keep billing me for something there I want to shut it down (EC2?) but I can't.

I recently moved from Brazil to UK (new address) and changed phone + sim card (Authenticator after restore from backup lost all 2 factor auth entries).

This is the moment when you realise that you're outside of predefined use cases of The Machine and you're fucked. Nobody is here to help you. I've tried, nobody gives a shit at Amazon. They have procedures, you know.

I blame 2FA and I think it's great if you don't have problems but it's shit if you have, ie. you move places, change phones etc. in your life. Something there in the process is missing like "next of kin" recovery that should be mandatory when enabling 2FAs.
If you provide good content, google will find it and back-links will build themselves naturally from organic traffic; he's objecting to the unnatural building of back-links via spamming the Internet. No one likes when they google something and the results are full of spam sites and affiliate links.
They recently crossed 2 billion active users. Guess that qualifies as "anyone."
I find it an awesome tool to advance knowledge. I recently had to take calc again after 10 years, and it helped me get back up to speed super fast. I would do the work, check the answer in the back of the book, and if I got it wrong, I would use Wolfram Alpha to do step by step to see where I got it wrong.

I can see some people saying that is cheating, but it is a learning tool to me. The class was 90% tests/ quizes. HW was a participation grade. Meaning a tool like that gives no one an advantage. Unless they are using it during the test.
Spam-assassin soaked up too much memory for my cheap, tiny virtual server. I recently set up rspamd, which seems to work as well and, while it is still the largest process on my machine, hasn't forced a reboot yet.
Heh - I wouldn't be surprised if the language used sets off the filter. Machine learning isn't great at abstractions like "writing spam" versus "writing samples of spam someone else might write", so I imagine this sort of topic is particularly prone to filtering.
They (and we, I admit to doing this with Level) do this because statistically more people make it through the information collection if we stagger it out.

People see a fleet of fields and just go. People see 2 fields and they tend to just enter in data. Even if they leave and come back, mobile apps and websites can much mor easily checkpoint this (digression: I think it's easy to checkpoint a form but lots of people don't and only web toolkits make it drop-dead easy to do).

Sorry you're on the right hand side of the computer competency power law distribution.
AI gets clicks in 2017: a story about students giving an artificial intelligence their homework to finish sells better as a story than talking about students punching formulas into a web-based calculator.
> Probably the most interesting of his documentaries that I've seen is on the rise of propaganda and the public relations industry in his documentary "Century of the Self".

Yeah, I liked that too, the fact that PR is war-time propaganda repackaged for the corporate world.
In terms of missing the forest for the trees, I agree, but perhaps we are looking at different forests.

If port 22 is not privileged, then what is to prevent my daemon from listening on that port and collecting all the credentials of other users trying to log into the machine? Nothing. This is why users don't get to bind to privileged ports -- it's why privileged ports exist. The workaround is that every user get their own ssh daemon under their control and for every user to request that their ssh daemon handle their own login by specifying their own virtual network address: alice@alice.com and bob@bob.com -- instead of the current solution of using shared hosts with system services: alice@sharedhost and bob@sharedhost

What you cannot do is have system services (a shared host) with user control over daemons that fulfill those services. It has to be system control over shared services and user control over user services.

But every user having their own ssh daemon and their own hostname/IP is certainly looking a lot like the virtualization/containerization solution, no? The opposite of the virtualization option is not "get rid of privileged ports", but "have privileged ports" -- e.g. have resources controlled by the system and not any particular user.

The real complaint here is that using custom port numbers is unwieldy and we need more robust mappings from custom domains to shared domains with custom ports. For example, make it easier for users to set up their own virtual hostnames to map to a shared host with a custom port. Getting rid of privileged ports doesn't solve this problem at all.

For the same reason, users can't bind to port 80, because then my webserver could steal credentials to your site, as both our sites use the same common webserver. So either none of us controls the webserver or we each have our webserver, and with our webserver we'll need our own copies of other system libs, which again puts us back on the containerization path.

Again, the choice is of using system libs versus duplicating and then isolating user libs.

It seems to me that this is the fundamental trade off, and focusing on privileged ports as a problem, when they are one side of a fundamental trade off, is not really insightful at all.
Sounds like Mathematica is the way to go then? Because it turned out students who could do the problems. The 'old paradigm' leaves most behind, which serves no one.
> They've (almost certainly)

Is that true? More importantly, is there evidence that makes it more likely than not that (1) this is true; and (2) that Hobby Lobby knew about it, or was willfully blind about it?

Like, what percentage of unprovenanced antiquities sales are used to support terrorism? It's like saying buying drugs (or diamonds, or products containing certain metals) finances terrorism. Yeah, some does. But the percentage is not such that it would be reasonable to try and pin someone who bought a back of weed as being responsible for funding terrorism.
It didn't take a position on the issue though - if anything it took a cynical "they're both as bad as each other" view, showing hypocrisy on both sides. (I suppose you could argue that's still a political position, but I'd say it's primarily a gameplay decision, particularly in the context of a multiplayer-oriented game, to have two more-or-less equal-and-opposite sides who both carry equal responsibility for the war).
Mine hasn't been. I've had all sorts of petty issues with their customer support. Basically any time something falls outside of the norm or if anything is genuinely wrong with site functionality, their remedial processes are poor.
That says more about the book than about calculators. :)
In that case, think of that chart as representing "buying power," rather than "income."
>What will all these people do once farmers are unnecessary?

The answer is "whatever they want". The big problem facing governments everywhere right now is how to jump over the little gully of poverty that comes right after the change to get there.
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Any percentage above 0 makes it true.
> Some time ago I published a couple of blog posts talking about Qt WebGL Streaming plugin

I had to search to find out for sure what he was talking about. A Qt application runs a small, local web server, streaming UI calls to a WebGL context on a page you view through your browser of choice. http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/02/22/qt-quick-webgl-streaming/

This differs from Electron in that your backend is C instead of JS, your UI is Qt instead of HTML, and the runtime doesn't embed the browser. I'm just guessing, but I suspect you also don't develop any code on the browser client context.

I've also personally found value in running Electron from a page in a local HTTP server process, so I don't find that part too different, but YMMV.

Maybe it's more appropriate to say this is like per-app RDP via WebGL.
It's not either or, it's a dance. You make a hypothesis in your head, verify it with a compiler. If result matches your hypothesis, move on. If not, investigate.

For me personally, I thought I kinda knew assembly until I started using https://godbolt.org when I realized that I really didn't know assembly. This site helped a lot of other people as well. Note that all it does is make the process of discovery faster. But it's a tool in the same category as a calculator.
The "problem" is that the students have moved to https://www.computerbasedmath.org/ but the curriculum hasn't (yet). Just fix the curriculum.
I don't follow your logic about the breach risk. If you're using unique passwords per service (and you really should) then I would expect any breach that involved passwords would have less of an effect. If there is a breach with a centralized single sign on service then every other dependent service is also affected.
> Adam Curtis's movies are more like long essays...

Aha.. that's a good way of putting it.
I personally rarely use facebook.com but messenger.com instead. I can't afford to delete my facebook account because this is how I keep in touch with most of my friends. People who can delete their facebook accounts probably all have their friends in the same city?
Presumably he built it with AWS in mind, using their proprietary services and APIs. I'm certain if it was easy to have transitioned away from AWS, he would've already done so.
"Who are you?" is the most expensive question in technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

Letting the wrong person in to an account? You're fucked.

Locking the right person out of an account? You're fucked.

Given that data can't be reversed as charges can, arresting an account may be slightly preferable, but it remains highly disrupting.

I've been through the experience a few times myself, largely with Google. Out of a fit of pique, the temporary account I created for myself (and through which I negotiated for recovery) was "The Real Slim Shady". Several of my G+ contacts noted that they could be pretty certain that this was in fact me, though I'm a little frightened whichever way that works out.

(I did have other profiles through which I could announce my plight.)

I still think that the matter of idientification, or rather, the more primary matters of authentication, authorisation, integrity, validation, payment authorisation, ownership, receipts rights, and similar associations, need to be worked out.

I'm also strongly in favour of a system in which a physical token -- and I think a signet ring with a very-near-field chip and accompanying sensors on mobile, laptop, and desktop devices would be just about perfect -- should be part of that systme.

Not an insertable device (as with Yubikey), or something requiring keying in a value (as with RSA fobs). But something which is worn (so: on you at all times), replaceable, destroyable, discardable, but also exceedingly difficult to duplicate or appropriate, or to read without intention on the part of the owner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2w618r/how_to_...
That's like saying, if you make cars, why let Avis take the profits from renting them out? In both cases, because that car related business (rentals or ride hailing apps) is outside your core specialty.
Today I learned you can cheat on homework. So apparently giving up and having the wrong answers (or no answers at all) is what professors would prefer. Cool :)
he's answering in the comments, he says typical OBD interfaces are slow and fragile, which I surely believe. Is it me or is his ego made of titanium ? the reporter quotes "we're 3, waymo, tesla and us" .. yet he's building a cuter, faster obdII bridge I don't get it.
OP here:

I indeed meant it in the philosophical sense you describe. But I am very interested in the possible technical solutions. I tried to describe (in the chapter "Connecting ML and rules") the approaches I know of, none of which are very exciting.

I'd love to hear if anybody knows of good approaches.
Anyone who thinks using wolfram alpha for math is cheating has never tried using it for non-trivial calculations. Yeah, it will save you the time of looking up an integral from a table, but it's worthless if the integral isn't in a standard table. It will save you time on looking up the equation for the area of a dodecagon, but it won't prove that equation. It will save you time figuring out the units of the final answer, but it won't tell you if those units are logical. Wolfram alpha only saves people from the tedious busywork of basic arithmetic and algebra, the user still needs to do all the math.
>Something there in the process is missing like "next of kin" recovery that should be mandatory when enabling 2FAs.

wouldn't this just weaken the second factor? Services that have bypasses to 2FA wind up rendering it useless.
If you know how to formulate the problem well (which is typically half the problem anyway), Mathematica is great for providing closed-form solutions, if there is one. In CS graduate school, it would provide general closed-form solutions that I'd never have thought of. Most everyone else brute-forced a solution numerically or simplified the problem to specific cases, which is fine but you get so much more insight from the general analytical solution, if one exists.
I send newsletters (that people double opt in to and want to receive) to about 360k developers each week and a good 90% are on Gmail or have their domain on Gmail. This is very specifically developers, however.
Such as? Still no examples, I see.

Without a real architecture you don't get to complain that a hamhanded solution is less than optimal
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Panasonic is building a connected vehicle system for car-to-car, car-to-operator, operator-to-car, and accident/weather/etc detection. We're still a fairly small team within the larger Panasonic, but we're growing and are looking for someone senior to take the frontend.

The frontend app is Go in the back and react/redux in the front using google maps to do some of the heavy lifting, and several custom layers on top of gmaps. The app (back and front) has to stream data at super high rates over websocket (alongside traditional REST) (cars send a lot of data!) and have it available in near real-time, so there are many interesting high-data-flow visualization, correlation, and aggregation problems that ends up happening in or near the frontend. The future probably holds a fair amount of svg drawing work, which should be pretty cool (graphs, animations, that sort of thing).

Auxilliary technologies include Karma/Jasmine/Enzyme for testing (which is also quite interesting on this project, given the high data flow and reliance on drawing tools), webpack and babel for build, concourse.ci for CI and automated deploy, AWS as our IaaS.

If you're interested in talking to an engineer about what we do, hit me up at jadekler@gmail.com.

If you're interested in applying or talking to a recruiter about the job, hit up Jessie at jesseyjean@gmail.com.
Google will find it but it will not place it on top of your competitors if your site has low authority, i.e. small amount of backlinks.

So you will not get any organic traffic because your site is not visible. On-page keyword optimization is a very weak factor compared to the number of backlinks from "powerful" sites.

Cold emails to relevant site owners and bloggers is no more spam than "Show HN" is spam.
Well, mental health has always been and will continue to be an issue that needs to be addressed in the workplace.
This is because the workplace now is at least half composed of programming related tasks.
Programming is such a mentally tasking task due to the need to get everything just right to get your computer to do what you want with it, that the fallout from it could be compared to a hangover.
Your mental faculties do get tired by the process of programming leaving you in the lurch when you step outside that mental zone, and making you susceptible to attacks on issues unrelated to programming, that many managers and other people that don't exercise their mental faculties enough tend to indulge in.
As a programmer, it's just as important to learn what to do outside of your programming related tasks, specially ways to relax and rejuvenate your mental faculties.
If you don't do this, you'll burn yourself out leaving you susceptible to mental disease.
In all seriousness, email jeff@amazon.com. The most likely outcome is that some relevant managers will receive one of the infamous "?" emails from him.

If so, that'll result in two things:

1) Your problem will be resolved ASAP, managers right up the chain will be tracking it extremely closely, as they'll have to justify every action to Jeff. Everyone goes scrambling when one of those emails goes out.

2) A post-mortem will be done of everything that happened, with processes and procedures improved to ensure it doesn't happen again.
The difference is that in drug cases, there is almost always overwhelming proof that someone committed a crime. Nobody has a kilo of cocaine shoved down their waistband and doesn't know about it. In a case like this, maybe it's a "giant crime," or maybe it's just a customs violation. Unless you have proof of the entity's state of mind, it's impossible to tell the difference.
> She finished first. Not by much, and obviously the calculator is the faster choice more often, but she finished first.

This is more of an interface problem I believe.
The dude is surfing on ignorants wow effect and past iphone jailbreak. Whatever he says, journalists believe. #fakeoldz
Well as I mentioned the company is currently in the process of closing a 3rd investment round. Therefore investors that are much more sophisticated than me (in both the colloquial and regulatory sense), with access to better information (e.g. up to date financials, whereas I've been out of the loop) have decided that the company is worth $x per share. If the company follows best practices in assigning a 409(a) valuation for my shares based on this sale of preferred shares, that is as far as I can tell the gold standard for valuation. My concerns are simply a lack of faith in the management and product. I'm not sure how this is any different than me saying Disney is overvalued because I think Bob Iger is a bad manager and I didn't enjoy their latest films -- if I chose to offload some Disney stock the IRS will still use the market valuation. Well, the market value of illiquid common stock is the fair 409(a) valuation based on the latest sale of preferred shares.

I will take this to a tax lawyer before proceeding, but I was hoping to find some precedent (for or against) before doing so. Tax lawyers are not cheap, and I'm presently living month to month (paper valuations notwithstanding).
If you want some of the features of the Panda interface (not the cloud connected dashcam) it seems like Automatic [1] seems to do the job. Any happy users of Automatic?

[1] https://www.automatic.com
> If what you said is possibly true, then light could be a carrier of things like multi-dimensional spin, or possibly where dark matter really comes from (inter-dimensional interference).

That's a total non-sequitur. What on earth are you talking about?