skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a low level magic trick: she chose the problem. Even supposing she didn't have the answer memorized, she knew exactly what to min/max to favor herself in the challenge.

(A real magician would also work to make sure that the kids thought they chose the problem, but the choice had already been primed for them.)
This page has 10 such links. 8-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=bezos+question+mark+email
Writing Modules for DataSploit (OSINT Framework) Got Easier
Don't confuse anger with distaste. I have a profound distaste for mediocre software. I have distaste for software that looks terrible so the lazy developers can "doing that easily". I, as a user of software, don't care about your ease. I want to have good software, not a minimum value product. From your comment here, you obviously care little for platform-standards; you describe "a standard set of behaviors that work across both platforms and work far better than running a web app in a webview", as if that's some measure of quality. My measure of quality is higher, and I have the stage here and elsewhere to try and spread my message. If you don't like my message, you are welcome to downvote and/or click the [-] button on my posts.

"If you were right then all of us who love React Native and have used it to build amazing cross-platform UX are wrong or have less insight than you, which cannot be true unless you've got some real insight or something, which is certainly not true."

I work at Wix. I have a lot of insight into what I am talking about. We have one of the largest React Native applications out there. I have also contributed to the react-native project itself, and have intimate knowledge of how most of it operates. I have, and am, building tools to improve work with RN. I have an extensive iOS knowledge, and I have access to Android developers with extensive Android knowledge. We happen to share our opinion on RN.

"There is nothing that could not be done with a combination of platform specific knowledge and React Native, and the technology is still evolving."

Try running JS business logic concurrently. (Multiple JS VMs does not count.)

"What do you have to share besides criticism of other people's work?"

What a ridiculous statement. So I can't criticize terrible technology unless I, alone, have created a competing tech to Facebook, who employs hundreds of engineers?

Nonetheless, here are some open source projects which I have contributed or created:

https://github.com/wix/AppleSimulatorUtils

https://github.com/wix/detox

https://github.com/wix/DTXSourceMaps

https://github.com/wix/DetoxInstruments (WIP - no read me or documentation yet)

https://github.com/LeoNatan/LNNotificationsUI

https://github.com/LeoNatan/LNPopupController

https://github.com/LeoNatan/LNInterpolation

Before that I worked at Check Point Software Technologies, a security company, where contributing open source was frowned upon.
I find it difficult to believe that any optically-driven machine-learning weeding robot will be 100% successful at eliminating every weed in a garden. There will be some overlooked and they will mutate.
Create multiple accounts then

Yeah, it's convenient to have only one, but it seems it's dangerous as well
Nah, it's fine :)

'Crazy' is how I view myself. It helps me accept my broken brain, and more importantly, makes it easier to stay on the meds. Without the meds, I'm into serious depression and anxiety territory. It's no fun being there, so better to call myself Crazy. It is what it is. Also, I use self depreciating humour as defence mechanism. People I know personally don't like it when I call myself Crazy though, not sure why.

One day I do intend to get an 'I AM crazy, the doctor had me tested.' t-shirt. (see what I did there?)
Thank you for the kind words!

I am happy to report I left that position after 13 months, but consider the plight of the skilled tradesmen who work under those conditions and do physical labor. I was just sitting at a desk programming.
I think that's gone the way of the dodo. Last I remember, he didn't read those anymore, and they were automatically just shunted into the normal escalation flow. Too many people got wind of it and abused it.
>Given how much we've learned about the role of the brain in mental illness, many people are surprised to learn that we can't know what psychiatric diagnosis a person has—or even if the person has any diagnosis—by examining that person's brain.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-brain-scans-d...
Exact same issue. Have tried to resolve it for six months now. I've cancelled the credit card and they can f* themselves.
I brew up and spray compost tea in 5 gallon batches. A machine that would continuously brew tea and go walk around the garden spraying it everywhere would be pretty cool. But also far more of a niche.
Isn't ODB-II just doesn't have anything useful for self-driving? What's is "fragile" part of ODB-II? How does this yet another dongle solve "fragile" part? Isn't it just arduino-like board and ODB-II shield?
It's the difference between using a vacation day and not using one
Or passing an exam thats easy/cheap for the teachers/school to grade for that matter.
"Intent to distribute" charges get slapped on people an awful lot without much hard proof.
if all you care about is rpm's and high level stuff, I absolutely agree. a $10 bluetooth dongle is more the sufficient. However, data about any particular sensor becomes significantly more intersting if you look at the bigger picture comma.ai is presenting. with their openpilot platform (ie, the actual self driving code/product) it needs to know what those sensors are reporting. ie, is the radar reporting an object in front of you?

panda+cabana allows joe user to identify (and report back to the project) what they are seeing on the CAN bus.. so it can be catalogged and added to the database for all the thousands of different vehicle makes/models on the road.
Not mine but... http://nodemailer.com/status/
I had a high school math teacher who actually had a policy that you could use any program on your calculator you wrote yourself, including on tests.
https://www.i-am-n.com/ was a pretty visible thing when news of ISIS atrocities were just hitting the media.
Sounds like Wolfram Alpha could be very helpful for anyone doing self-study, from math textbooks that don't put answers in the back.
I am not much into this, but I believe that to be really useful the OBD-II PIDs (generic):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs

should be integrated with the ones by the given manufacturer on the specific model, and AFAIK all the money is in the software that can read those non-standard PID's.

And this is border-line (or downright just over the border) with hacking and/or reverse engineering the manufacturer's own software.
Sorry, I meant Unbound, not Bound, which is a PSVR game. http://unbound.io. The reply below is correct, I meant Kodon and not Kodo.
I am starting the Herbalife for Groceries. Would you like to signup as an independent distributor in my downline?
I have a project which may never generate revenue, despite the fact I spent 2 months after hours working on it. I did a dumb thing and dove directly into the project without first finding a fit or customer base for it.

More or less, it's a scheduling application that allows a user to set when they're open and allow anyone to book that time for however much the original scheduler valued that slot of their schedule. It's a good base application, but without customers, it's wasted potential and engineering time. Guess I'll add a link: https://kronikl.io

There is an added benefit that I built up a lot of custom Vue components and flask modules which can be added to later projects (braintree painments, address inputs, settings pages, &c.), so I'm not considering it a complete loss.

I've decided to pivot most of my time to a more marketing based approach for the time being and, once customers role in, tailor the solution to their needs.
We are not only being colonized by machines, we are becoming machines, and gladly. We are already acting like and being treated like idiots by our technology. In the car it is turn by turn navigation, on foot it is stumbling with our phones in our faces, for music it is auto-tuned, formulaic pop songs, for dance it is the robotic pop-and-lock dubstep moves that amaze us...we defend our heads with noise-canceling headphones the size of earmuffs, are interrupted every moment by smartwatches...we bumble from one mediated moment to the next, always alone, always accompanied by no one--just the glow of a screen or a hum, a talisman. We're not sane without checking our notifications, need entertainment...can't stand not watching something, can't stand dead space, can't stand our own thoughts, can't stand our own minds.

Please take my mind over, AI, we constantly beg. Put us out of our misery and upload us to the digital nirvana.

/yea I know hackernews ain't exactly the right place to blah that out there, but couldn't. stop. --karma
Here's a couple I found: https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-ma...

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/customer-service-jeff-bez...
Sharing Success
I have not built this project with the main goal to earn money from it but just to build something that I thought was missing in this world.

I am trying to visualise all of world's knowledge with interactive mind maps focused on learning anything in a linear way.

Here is the search engine that searches all of these interactive maps : https://learn-anything.xyz/

Both the search engine and the maps are open source so I am not so sure how and if I can ever make money from this aside from the Patreon page that we have set up for the project.

If anyone has any ideas on how one can monetise this in a good way, I would love to hear it. We don't want to put any sponsored content in there as that would defeat our vision of having most quality resources available for all subjects.
Both are true.

Clearly we are more productive with the tools. However it is very, very easy for people to see the tools as magic. At some point we need to actually understand what it is that we are doing. For which those equations and symbols are essential.

Yes, the computer can draw a pretty picture. Pretty pictures are helpful in conveying information. But they are a horrible way to understand inherently complex topics.

For example pictures are essential for conveying basic concepts in in multi-variable calculus. But you won't make much sense of the topic until you actually understand the three basic mathematical representations of a surface embedded in a higher dimensional space (function, level surface, and parametrized coordinates), how each connects to the tangent to the surface at a point (whether that tangent is a line, plane, or something higher dimensional). And you need to understand this in an n-dimensional way because that comes up, a lot.

So no, we won't lose equations and symbols. Ever. They are essential, and there is no possibility of real understanding without them.
On macOS I have this in my .profile:

alias ls="ls -GF"
export LSCOLORS="Exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad"

-G Enables colorized output

-F Display a slash (`/') immediately after each pathname that is a directory, an asterisk (`*') after each that is executable, an at sign (`@') after each symbolic link, an equals sign (`=') after each socket, a percent sign (`%') after each whiteout, and a vertical bar (`|') after each that is a FIFO.

The filename/dirname is colored and the character denoting the type is not colored, so I can tell what is part of a name and what denotes the file type.
Being realistic instead of assuming the legal scrutiny level of a judge, the burden of proof is on them here IMO.

When you spend millions of dollars on antiquities, you are at least casually interested in their provenance... Especially when you've hired an expert.
If you're a new programmer, I don't think you should start from OO. OO-based languages are built on procedural, structural and imperative programming foundations. Starting from OO may force you to see everything as an object even when it doesn't fit.

The less you start off with, the better your understanding will be, and then you should learn to expand your horizons with other programming paradigms: logical, functional, and many others.
Active Storage
Here's a link to Bob's book, "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp": https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html

You can buy it here for $25 from the FSF: https://shop.fsf.org/books/signed-introduction-programming-e...

This has been a valuable resource on my own road toward learning elisp, and I'm very grateful he wrote it and made it freely available.
The analogue neural net stuff is quite a reasonable example, because it's specifically trying to mimic a real analogue system and tends to be noise-tolerant.

Couple of points from your lower link:

- return of "wafer-scale"! Nice.

- " the average power consumption is expected to stay below 1 kW for a single wafer"; not bad but you're still going to need to cool that

- actually a hybrid system: long range comms is digital and multiplexed to save wiring, converted to analogue at the synapse

- "All analog parameters are stored in non-volatile
single-poly floating-gate analog storage cells developed for
the
FACETS
project" => basically analogue Flash? A development of MLC I suppose

On reading the whole thing, it seems the magic is actually in choosing which bits to make digital. The "long range" neural events are sent as differential 6-bit bursts, multiplexed, which they claim saves significant power.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-10/jeff-bezo...

and a little bit here: https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-ma...

No one inside Amazon wants to receive a question mark email from Jeff, and a number of the VPs have picked up the habit too.
I used automatic for a while. It was pretty limited, and pricey. I've been using a panda for several weeks now, and FAR more capable. It probably boils down to: do you want a pretty UI dumbing the info down for you, or do you want the raw data so you can do things with it?
Didn't you have backup codes or a backup phone number? Bearing in mind I have no idea how 2FA for DO works, but all services where I'm using 2FA have these options, although I've yet to fall into a similar situation I imagine that it should turn out fine thanks to these options.
> ... why don't you use spoons instead?

reminds me of one of the arguments against minimum wage hike theory: if raising the minimum wage makes workers better off and has absolutely no drawbacks for anyone, why raise it to a mere $15/hour? why don't we do some real good and crank it all the way up to $100/hour?
Good work, OP.
Are you that dense? That gullible to believe the PR from big company XYZ who had just gotten caught illegally smuggling artifacts from a warn-torn region of the world?

Did you not read the part of the article

"The acquisition of the Artifacts was fraught with red flags. For example, Hobby Lobby received conflicting information where the Artifacts had been stored prior to the inspection in the UAE. Further, when the Artifacts were presented for inspection to Hobby Lobby’s president and consultant in July 2010, they were displayed informally. In addition, Hobby Lobby representatives had not met or communicated with the dealer who purportedly owned the Artifacts, nor did they pay him for the Artifacts. Rather, following instructions from another dealer, Hobby Lobby wired payment for the Artifacts to seven personal bank accounts held in the names of other individuals."

HOBBY LOBBY WIRED PAYMENT FOR THE ARTIFACTS TO SEVEN PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNTS

LOL. THIS MUST BE HOW THE BIG BOY COLLECTORS DO IT HUH? Just hit up the western union and transfer some cash to a few different bank accounts.... of course. Nothing funny going on.

And there's more

"All of the intercepted packages bore shipping labels that falsely declared that the Artifacts’ country of origin was Turkey."
Some great advice in here about creating multiple accounts with a + sign in the email address. One thing I didn't see mentioned that is a standard best practice for AWS is to create a separate IAM account for your day to day usage and NEVER log into your root account (unless you need to open a billing support ticket) after creating the IAM account.

You will get a new login page and username to log in with and not need an email address specific account.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practic...
Even if you did sign up for it it's probably spam. That's the real issue here. Given how aggressive businesses are with signing up people for unwanted newsletters it seems completely natural for Google to be suspicious of them.
That's a valuable perspective. How do you propose they prevent social engineering of their staff while meeting this goal?
> I very much doubt the relative costs of production and storage in game are at all close to what they are in real life.

The benefit is not constant either; in areas with regular outages you have a very high incentive to build energy storage (food spoils in the fridge, you cannot do laundry, your router needs power etc). Add a choice of semi-viable alternative energy sources to the mix and the decision is just as interesting as it is in games.

Real World Scenario(TM) - Northern Republica Dominicana:

* rolling blackouts (typically 8h, from 9am to 5pm; once a week); at least once a week some drunk driver takes down a pole (usually fixed in 2h)

* capped electricity bills for low income households

* no enforcement of security standards (not sure such exist at all) - so an array of old car batteries will do just fine. bonus points for investing another $50 into acid-resistant flooring.

* solar power works, but without sun tracking only for 5 to 8h/day

* wind power works, but not everywhere (jungle is a great barrier for wind)

* water pressure is so low you need a motorized pump just to flush your toilet

[disclaimer: I spent 6 months in that part of the DR in the last 2 years]

EDIT: Only 2nd hand, but from 200[345] - in an economic standoff between government and energy producer the navy sent "generator ships" that anchored near the shore of Puerto Plata and delivered electricity to the local population through cables they ran through the water.
Any references to how one should go about separating an Amazon retail account and an AWS account, if they are presently the same?
> stability, no-bullshit, and good customer service

I'm interning at a recently (12 months ago) acquired standout in the e-commerce provider field, and yesterday I was at a talk where the CTO/co-founder attributed their now multibillion dollar business to the exact same thing.

There are plenty of dumb problems that people just want to not worry about.

I will say, the downside is they spent about 7 or 8 years before going public, and another 4-5 before being acquired (for about 4.5x their IPO price). It wasn't quick money, because you can't prove stability in a year or two, but it is a very powerful business model.
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"Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The best workers get their tools to do the work for them."
Right now, i am finishing a system that took me 2 weeks do develop. With the standard way, i should have finished it around January of the 2018.
The two typical approaches are "file-type-first" (separate folders for "actions", "reducers", "containers", etc), and "feature-first". I've got articles discussing various React/Redux project structure approaches at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... .
What is the purpose of 2FA when social engineering the support team circumvents it? This should not be possible! Lost your phone? That’s what 2FA backup codes are for.
"I don't have a Facebook Account" is the 90's equivalent of "I don't have a TV".

Here's the trope for people who who may not remember: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
Teach and test for understanding why and how the answer comes to be, not what the answer is. Maths education, in my experience, relies too much on testing of the arithmetic rather than the logic. This just results in plug and chug because it's lazy testing and students apply lazy solutions.

Good examiners will ask students questions that make them think about why and how, not what the answer is. These often don't even need algebra or arithmetic because it assumes students know the equations and instead goes a level deeper to test understanding of why those equations are the way they are.

I had the gamut in uni. I found that engineering more often successfully tested understanding as I describe above. Some didn't; my thermo was a case of 'learn how the equations work, then read the right graphs and go' but particularly some of my fluid and aerospace courses were great at asking questions that really tested deep understanding of the theories.

One good example of this that I came across more recently is some of the edX courses that used to exist featuring Walter Lewin (before his sexual harassment came to light). He was very successfully able to question his students on the why and how, not just the what. This actually proved even more important in the MOOC environment, where you can't as tightly control the environment in which students undertake examination.

It's hard, it requires good lecturers really spending a bit of time devising questions as well as supporting their tutors as they teach the students, but it's possible.
OBD2 is the connector and the protocols used on that connector. The vehicle CAN bus is on the OBD2 port, and the "K-line", which is diagnostic only, is also there.
I spent a few thousand building a very detailed database of seed-funding entities that included all the staff and their backgrounds, detailed areas of interest and past investment, and more. I planned to turn it into an actually-useful seed funding search service. But I got distracted with another project needed to pay my bills. Time and persistence are the greatest obstacles to side projects IMO.
Wow it's so sad that so much effort was put in just to get betrayed by everyone...
L. Bob Rife used an Evangelical Christian church as a cover for his plan to spread the mind-virus that he developed from the information in ancient Sumerian tablets.
It was certainly still active and being triggered by Jeff not long before I left Amazon (just over a year ago now), I used to be subscribed to the list where those post-mortems would appear, and they would always indicate how the escalation occurred.
ding ding ding. we have a winner!

when conflict cannot be meaningfully reconciled the whole system tumbles apart.

fwiw my critique focuses less on specific disagreements but the overall culture. i personally observed more innocent people eaten by this angry machine than necessary. that machine can't be the sole reason the company finds itself in this position today but friction from discord can't help an already uphill battle.

lesson number one: the no asshole rule is inviolable.
It's preferable to purchase GNU books and documentation through the FSF rather than Amazon:

https://shop.fsf.org/books/signed-introduction-programming-e...
sounds like she proved that she could do it just as fast as a calculator. good thing i wasn't in that class. i would have proved her wrong: i couldn't out compute the calculator.

then again, they wouldn't have let me in that class in the first place.