skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Like, "The series variously details the interplay between the mechanistic perspective..." What does this sentence actually mean?'

I'm not a big fan of this style either, which I think greatly tempts both author and reader to mistake style for substance, but it doesn't help that you've cut the sentence off mid-clause. "The series variously details the interplay between the mechanistic perspective and the catastrophic consequences it has in the real world." can be translated into something a bit more HN-ish as "The series discusses the interactions between machines and their catastrophic real-world consquences through a mechanistic lens."

While subjective, it is at least a sentence that contains real content, in the sense that it can be falsified, or at the very least, sensible arguments raised for and against it. I won't disagree that the style you are reacting against does tend to indicate content-free sentences, though.
There is a way to mostly prevent these errors BTW: Change the transaction format so that the sum of input values must equal the sum of output values (edit: including a special fee output which should only be ~8 bytes); this would prevent money from being "lost" as fees. If someone is planning to change the transaction format anyway (ahem) maybe they could also add this safety feature.
You're right. It's not literally the same. However, it is effectively identical.

It is absolutely trivial for even a 5 year old to click a button and perform a downgrade attack on this type of an https:// connection. That is why accepting any self-signed certificates should be treated identically to http:// connections.
I'm wondering, what prevents Lyft from just starting to operate in all the cities Uber already operates in? Does Uber reach individual deals with the cities to get permits?
You're willing to pay the $30, $40, $50 AWS bill for services you aren't using but the $5 notary charge is some grave affront?
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Uber won't last long enough to acquire a traditional automaker before technology creates a death spiral for those automakers. I'm wrong if they can find additional investors willing to gamble on the expected duration of time till that happens (~5 years at least).

Tesla has a product people will buy today (with ~25% margins!), as well as a team to transition to ridesharing in the future. They're collecting millions of miles per day of autopilot data and that'll only increase with the model 3 rollout.
Top Wall Street strategist sees Bitcoin 'cannibalizing' gold
With a collaborative spreadsheet like this, my assumption is usually that it was set up by the first person in it.
Link fixed and resubmitted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720645
He livestreams himself using the modular all the time...
And all of visual arts is thousands of colored pixels which can be arranged at will with something as simple as MS Paint.

Your comment comes across as reductive grandstanding.
This. This is the worst design flaw I am aware of in AWS. It makes no sense that Amazon's two totally different businesses, use the same account.
The relevant quote from the judge is:

I want to reiterate to the plaintiff here that you should think a lot
about just dropping the patent part of this case.
> I deleted those defaults and made it so the autocomplete takes it to my profile on each site. My Facebook profile page is inherently non addictive. It's just me. I can then choose to click on events or whatever.

People are going to start thinking I'm associated with this extension because I bring it up every time Facebook's addictiveness comes up, but Newsfeed Eradicator is a pretty elegant (and more complete) solution to this problem for me. It just removes the newsfeed and puts a daily quotation there instead.
"I never learned long division, and look at me." -- Stephen Wolfram

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/media/meet-inventor-who-makes-...
This is why it's a good idea to consolidate dust during off-peak hours when the fees are lower, so that if you do need to spend a lot urgently, the total fee you pay is much less.

It's kind of like the electricity company giving you lower rates for doing your laundry at night.
> It sounds to me like a rotten culture from the bottom up.

Anecdote, but the one engineer I know that works at Uber is an ex-Googler and got a 20 when rolling for kindness.
Probably a lot more than you think.
It's just how you do the accounting. For instance, you might buy a stock over time, and then sell it over time as the price is rising. You have to pay tax on those gains, but how you do it is a choice. You can do first-in-first-out, so the gains would be e.g. on the first 5 shares you bought vs. the first 5 you sold. You can also do first-in-last-out, which might make sense if you can get long-term capital gains rates on some trades.

It's kind of ridiculous, but most traders will have some sort of automated solution to help with it. The exchange you use should give you a nice report of your trades.
In the computer age, I am used to methods like this using huge numbers of samples to calculate the result.

How was this done before computers?
They like having something to complain about. The poster lives in/near SF and has hundreds of notaries available to them for 0 to minimal cost, time, and effort.
There are lots of people of Chinese ancestry in the US, sure, but there is no reason to believe any substantial number of them have any devotion to the present government of the People's Republic of China.

Quite a lot of them are from families that have been American much longer than the PRC has existed.
Back in the early 2000's, there was a realtor group that advertised a $900 flat fee for selling homes. Not sure what happened to them though - could have been a dot com bust.
The nation isn't being held responsible. :)

It think it is reasonable to expect an organization to take reasonable steps to ensure the legality of its own operations - such as not ignoring the advice of its own legal experts.
Exactly. I worked with a buyer's agent for 2+ years, and during that time saw over 100 houses and submitted about 30 written offers. None of the offers were accepted, so he made $0 from me. I felt kind of bad, but the money he makes from his successful transactions probably makes it worth it. Not my problem.

I don't know if they deserve a % of the purchase price, but they definitely ought to at least charge by the hour.
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It is baffling because it does a poor job at influencing. Frankly it sounds kinda unprofessional and "Uberish".
Ad companies make money based on clicks, not views. It's in their interest to make them interesting enough to click on.
There are two discussions that have been beaten to death many a time on any forum discussing production of electronic music:

Hardware vs Software (which I would compare to the discussion of a data center in the cloud vs hardware on premise)

and Analog vs Digital

Everyone loves to think they are controversial...
Good for Redfin. Disruption in any business that charges 6% transaction fees is great.

Having said that, real estate transactions are complex beasts with many moving parts. A lot of this process can be scripted and templated. But there are many situations where it cannot. Buyers and sellers are under immense stress as they face very large financial and legal decisions. They don't understand the process, the terminology, the legal and financial consequences, etc. There are local regulations and conventions that differ from region to region. E.g: Check out the differences in who pays fees across counties: http://chicagotitletransfertax.com/

Good agents absolutely earn their fees when uncertainty and complexity arise. I suspect Redfin is seeking to carve out the part of the market that comprises straight-forward, template driven transactions.
I only see a form to request an email and a password. The "file" section is equal. Without more information you will not get any subscriptions.
Most of these people are listed as still working at SoundCloud - what is the "explain it like I'm five" about this document? Did all of the employees just get laid off and I missed that news?
I don't understand what "streaming" means here.

Is this a video stream of a QT UI being rendered in the server ad-hoc for the client?

Is this a QT UI being converted to WebGL (planes, meshes, etc) on the fly?

Is this a QT UI compiled for WebGL?
They are not recoverable. Good luck trying to get your rewards back once the credit card company cancels your card because some moron enter you social security instead of someone else's at the dept collector. Sure you can get a new account once your credit score is back but you get no simpathy from the credit card company. Even after more than 10 years with them.
I recently got tired of all the creepy targeted advertising, so I hit the nuclear option. Turned off all targeted ads on all social networks, cleared all cookies, all search histories, and installed the Disconnect Chrome extension. Also disabled all images in my email to stop those email trackers. I've always used an ad-blocker but I don't think that stops the data collection aspects of it.

I've always known this is happening and previously I didn't care because you figure if you are going to get advertised to, why not make it relevant, right? Well, it's more complex than that, here are the problems I have with this kind of data tracking:

1. Data can we used against you in ways you might not understand or have considered.
2. It's a waste of money and resources. Think of all the extra bandwidth, server space, human time, that is spent on just trying to sell people more shit.
3. I don't like the idea of people making money off my data without my knowledge.
4. Targeted ads might distract me and cause me to waste extra time online.

Bottom line -- I have a moral objection to the whole idea of it, and will do everything I can do stop it.
Unfortunate that your perception is that this is a desperation play. I think the intent is the exact opposite of that.

The startup souffle might be deflating for sure, but I think the intent here is to say:

"We just had to layoff 40% of our staff yesterday. Through no fault of their own, our folks are now jobless. Can the community help?"
But how do you deliberately lose money? I think there's this idea that you could tank a portfolio with ease, but if that were true, shorting would be incredibly lucrative.

It's just as hard to lose money on stocks as it is to gain them (aside from racking up trade fees or something).
I guess I fail to see the importance of difference. Legal reasons?
looks like ELI5'd it to yourself haha
I built https://cocoa.dog recently. The idea is that you can send somebody random pictures of dogs with a message. Kinda like the Goats thing awhile back.

I mostly built it just to get some experience building something using Stripe and was not really intended to make a huge amount of money. But Im not sure if anybody has really used it. Im guessing the novelty of sending people pictures of things from a random number has worn off.
this must be sarcasm, right?
This looks pretty great! I would have used it a few years ago, now I host my project on Github and use their built-in tools.
> What's with the sarcasm? I asked why somebody keeps a purely entertaining app while trying not to get distracted by it.

I think the characterization of the FB app as "purely entertaining" in a way Messenger isn't is inaccurate. Maybe I'm mistaken, but Messenger doesn't have every feature of Facebook that can't be classed as distracting entertainment. For example, events and group postings (not group messages). The latter two are the main reason I ever open my Facebook app, and it's a stretch to find a definition of "pure entertainment" that includes them and not messaging.
Good for those who cannot afford HRT, I presume.
The Republicans have proven repeatedly that they put party over everything else. It doesn't matter. If Ben & Jerry's did this "send them to Gitmo!" If Hobby Lobby does it? They're good Christians; they can do no wrong...
Yeah, that sounds good and all, but what happens if you lose your 2FA then?
I remember a lot of the piracy situation improving sometime after Google took over. I remember YouTube as the place you could type a movie or show quote and find a clip for that movie or show quote. Now you're lucky if you find it on YouTube, especially if you find the original clip without any oddness to it.
While get out of the building is a great advice (and almost always hard to execute), the biggest risk is not getting too many negative feedback online/in your peer group, but actually getting false positives. If you're determined, you'll give it another shot probably even after a negative validation (e.g. here). If you get an overly positive one, then you might not try hard enough to validate with real potential customers.

Having said that, I think it's OK to ask questions like this here, because you might get good insights, e.g. from people who have tried it.
This is a notoriously difficult topic to pin down.

For people that genuinely want to tease it apart, there are useful ways to do it, such as:

http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/six-categor...

A bit of transparency goes a long way. Where I work (Casetext), our data team does a mix of traditional data engineering, machine learning, graph algorithms, NLP (a mix of off-the-shelf and custom work), information retrieval, customer/market analytics, and experimental design. For us, and probably many other companies in this situation, it helps us to know what a candidate is interested in and good at. It also helps explain what we do to another level of granularity.

Yes, the "data science" label is pretty muddled. It happens (but it is understandable) probably because of the fuzziness of the topics and differing communication styles and goals of engineers, marketers, salespeople, and investors.
This is a totally different article that the one submitted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14558106
If DNS returned IP:port for hostname, that would sort it too.

www.foo.com --> sharedserver:8000, www.bar.com --> sharedserver:8001 and so on.
Hopefully we evolve to be sedentary here pretty quickly.
>E.g: Check out the differences in who pays fees across counties: http://chicagotitletransfertax.com/

The complexities can be and already are structured in a table format? Seems like a job perfectly suited for a computer, not a human.
Thank god we can finally give money to support you folks. For the past year I've been waiting for the day that I can fund the development of Matrix (for context, in the past they made it clear that they didn't feel they needed funding because they all had jobs working on Matrix).

I have just pledged 50EUR a month (kudos for providing two free software systems for donations -- though GNU Taler would've been another nice addition). I would also pledge my time if I wasn't already working overtime on other free software work. To everyone who just reads HN comments and skips the articles -- if you have the means, donate: { https://patreon.com/matrixdotorg ; https://liberapay.com/matrixdotorg ; 1LxowEgsquZ3UPZ68wHf8v2MDZw82dVmAE }.

Matrix is truly a very revolutionary piece of technology, and they deserve far more support than they're getting. I'm gladly investing now in the hopes that the Matrix of the future will deliver on what I see them doing. I'm really hoping that one day people will switch to Matrix because of its features and not because I badgered them to do so. Here's hoping.

Good luck.
Invisibility cloak makes solar panels work more efficiently
Totally agree. Also, compare with this map of heroin deaths per capita [0]. They're shockingly close.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
Taxes can be a counterpoint to this. So, you want low value unless you're going to sell soon.
Bitcoin is currently dealing with a scaling problem. People are creating more transactions than can fit in the blocks. So if you want your transaction included in a block, you need to be willing to pay a higher transaction fee. the metric for this is satoshi/byte (s/b). Not long ago (Christmas time) you could easily get a transaction in a block for 60 s/b, now it's like 300-400 s/b. There is an update in place that will go live August 1 that should fix this.
Necessity is the mother of invention?
One of the points of advertising is to get you to recognize the brand, so that in the future when you shop for similar products you'll think of theirs as a familiar brand (even tough you may have no memory of ever having seen their ads).

Ads also often get you to associate positive feelings with the brand or product. Again, this might not result in directly buying the product right away, but next time you think of it, you'll be more likely to buy it than if you never saw the ad.
> I think the "you are the product" quip has become an overplayed meme of late.

It's been overplayed for years. The problem with pithy phrases, even when true in their original narrow sense, is that they allow those who aren't willing (or capable) of thinking for themselves to substitute something that superficially looks like wit without having to actually think about what they're talking about.
It doesn't have to be the extreme opposite as you described.

Plenty of apps benefit from some stuff being done on the client and the server.
If anyone on this list is interested in working at Reddit, we're hiring a ton of people in Engineering and other departments in SF! Check out our jobs page: https://about.reddit.com/careers/#jobs-16253

If anything seems interesting, you can email me at saurabh.sharma at reddit.com

From an engineer's perspective, it's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a company that's only now building out most of their tech stack. We get quite a lot of traffic and it's very interesting to work at this scale.
The top of the spreadsheet says, "For companies currently hiring, please add your details to the second tab", but I'm seeing the spreadsheet in readme-only mode. Can the creator of this spreadsheet comment on how companies can edit it, please (or whether it's permanently locked now)?
Unless you live somewhere like California (Prop 13) or Oregon (Measures 5 & 50) where taxes don't track home price increases.
Aren't they doing this because not enough electricity being used at night is bad for them anyway ?
This is the case for most employees, no?
That's an awesome website. Some highlights:

>Here is a small sampling of our Services offerings:

>GUID duplication

>Lamp stacking

>Despondency injection

>We're hiring! If you're a best-in-breed, 10x, full-stack rock star, we want to talk to you about joining our "posse". Here's what we're looking for:

>Senior Java Developer - Develop 15-20 Senior Javas per day

Maybe you should try to monetize fake companies instead. You're good at it.
The questions he was asked were pretty darn reasonable, IMO. If he's unwilling or unable to answer those questions I have no problem at all with him being prohibited from selling a product that his customers would literally be trusting with their lives.
Slightly off topic, but can someone here explain what in OpenPilot that makes it so technically superior? Or is the (partial?) open source part of it the most seductive part?

I only quickly looked over the source code so I am not sure if I missed something. But looking at the top level code, it seems like something anyone can accomplish after taking the Udacity SDC class (minus the CAN interfacing, but that shouldn't be all that hard?)?
I routinely use the "scientific method" to debug. But usually by then it's too late: the code is too hard to reason about so I have to treat it like a blackbox and "observe" its "responses" to the "stimuli" I'm changing.
I haven't taken a very close look at the transactions, but it seems like the 'appropriate' 2BTC fee that btc.com is talking about pays for 11 extremely large transactions, with around 100-160 inputs each and a half dozen outputs.

A typical bitcoin transaction is made up of 1-2 inputs and 2 outputs (destination and change), so this person is doing the equivalent of thousands of transactions on the network.

That being said, bitcoin transactions are fairly expensive, (I paid $1 the other day to buy a steam game, eww), but there's a scaling roadmap being implemented to lower fees going forward, likely within the next month or so.

But yeah, right now the equivalent of a few thousand transactions will cost a few thousand bucks.
It's just a group of people who've all been already vetted by a respected software company and who are all in a tough situation simultaneously due to no fault of their own. As long as their involvement is voluntary I don't see anything to be concerned about here.
> That's incorrect.

No, its not. The group that became al-Qaeda in Iraq was founded in Jordan in 1999 as “Organization of Monotheism and Jihad” and was not affiliated with al-Qaeda. It affiliated with al-Qaeda simultaneously with it's 2004 rebranding as al-Qaeda in Iraq.

> The structure of Al Queda is that of a franchise

Yes, and just as sometimes a pre-existing unaffiliated business signs up with a commercial franchise, sometimes a pre-existing unaffiliated jihad group would join al-Qaeda.
>Insert "Not Hotdog" joke here, but having a wifi connection to the cloud where heavy-duty weed classification software could be run would keep the device costs low.

Actually I would like to insert here that time the connection was down for half an hour and the thingy eradicated all aunt Julia's plants, and it's not a joke (at least according to aunt Julia, who didn't laugh at all).
Come on. Do you honestly not assume that the device you are producing that will be responsible for driving cars will get a least inspected by NHTSA?

Do you also need to be warned that if you create a plane autopilot, the FAA might get involved?
According to the article, 2btc
Another book: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/softfree/softf...

I remember reading this article long back: http://www.free-soft.org/FSM/english/issue01/bob.html
If I were to guess: they probably went their separate ways to join the RE/Maxes, Coldwell Bankers and Century 21s of the world, where they could more than double their take for the same work.
The USG provides the GPS service for free. You can argue that connecting to it isn't free (since you need hardware that can do so), but then connecting to Google and Facebook isn't free either.

This took literally two seconds to think of off the top of my head. The quotation is _still_ not accurate. It's a useful perspective on how to think about free services, but it's not a substitute for thought.
The game was made long before the story. From what I remember (I can't remember where I read this) the story and campaign were fairly rushed afterthoughts, compared to the mechanics and multiplayer.
Linux under fire: Malware reports detail growing threats
Did not find whole words on the same page. Not there yet.
I've been told this before :)

My thought was to throw it away initially but I have so much karma on this account I can't bare to part with it.
It's an urban myth. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
I love the fact that people are prepared to be so open about this. Wish it would happen more. I don't know anything in detail about these people and their work, and so won't name names, but there are certainly people there that I recognise as quite impressive and I don't read this as desperation, just a neat response to an unexpected situation.

(edit: well, I wouldn't name names even if I did know more about their work. That would be uncouth)
I have a bridge to sell.

Looking at the github repository code, comma is a joke.
I haven't heard of hosting companies sending anyone to a collection agency. It could happen, sure a but I think it's more likely they just cancel your account and suspend all continued hosting (which, if you believe 2fa should be impossible to circumnavigate, this is probably the ideal outcome). From there you would probably open a new account and start over.

I could see the argument either way on if this is the most optimal solution or not.