skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the audio nerd version of a huge garage filled with sports cars and old timers.
Meh, why would they? Better buy would be Lyft, and then just pour money and crush Uber completely.
Exactly. World's smallest violin plays.

With a title of "Launching my new daily blog (and podcast)",
and sending in bulk, I'd expect a good spam filter to send it to spam.
"I’m Starting a Brand New Live Case Study. Over one hour of free training in today's video..." was also flagged as spam. On keywords alone, those titles just scream "spammer".
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Actually, they're based on tx size. Fees are estimates as satoshis/byte. 10-20 satoshis is incredibly cheap
I had a friend in college who wanted to be a writer. She was paranoid about spending too much time on comparative lit and setting the bar too high for herself before she ever got good at it.

As far as I can tell, she didn't avoid that trap, despite identifying it. Occasionally I wonder if I avoided it. There are so many ways for a project to fail and when you know too many you can become a nervous wreck. Over most of the course of the '10s I've noticed that I'm a lot more comfortable with certain classes of imperfection, because they are immaterial to the job at hand, or represent an unknown that we haven't tackled yet (if you don't know how something should actually work, making it 'perfect' might make it perfectly wrong, and then where are you?). It's like a chess game. Half the board is full of pawns to be sacrificed for some higher priority. You have a contingency plan for any threat, but you can't act on them all at once.

Probably everybody does this, but their set points are different than mine, so we argue over code reviews.
I think for stable markets; ie: markets where neither the buyer or seller has a distinct advantage; probably. But I just bought in a market where the sellers have a clear advantage and buyers are competing aggressively against one another. Houses in my market have an average listing time of 8 days, almost all with multiple offers, many with dozens of offers.

I thought my RE agent wasn't really worth what I knew I would be paying him until we actually went to make an offer. Their knowledge of our circumstance and the local market let us put together an offer that despite not being the highest offer, nor the most favorable closing (I used a VA loan which takes on average 50% longer to close), we still were able to come out on top. My agent helped us get an inspection on the property the day we saw it so that we could wave inspection contingency, knew that we needed to put up more than the standard earnest money to account for our weak closing position, and they were able to accurately predict what the house would appraise for so that we could ensure that we didn't overbid and waive the under appraisal contingency.
What makes you assume his content is crap? Didn't he say he has a writer who is an expert in the niche?
It might be more of a support thing, although I would love to hear an answer from someone who knows more about this.
What a shame, SoundCloud is/was a great service.
I wish your comment alluded a bit more to the details.
Author of the post here. AMA :)
Why on earth would I read the article when the title is provably false?

Nevertheless, my point still stands. Even if it were cheap it would still be more expensive, and this coal CEO would be making the exact same claims.

It is, however, a very cheap way of removing carbon from the atmosphere.

It's just that the organization who is properly incentivized to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is society, not coal companies. In this sense it is much cheaper to scrub exhaust, which is practically 100% carbon dioxide than to scrub the atmosphere.

It's irrelevant what the coal ceo thinks is cost effective, because he's not the one who benefits.
> Meh, why would they?

I think the suggestion is based on an anticipated Uber firesale price resulting from its recent legal and HR issues.
If there was even a slight possibility it wasn't safe many boats and motor-homes wouldn't be configured in a way that makes the batteries accessible from the cabin because doing so would open them up to lawsuits because that's the world we live in.

The comments on the question are surprisingly rational and level headed.
Is this true in high-demand, low-supply markets? I've found the brokerages get much more greedy in these situations. See: Seattle, San Francisco, NYC.
Multi-sig transactions are larger, and fees are based on tx size.
That's a good point.
One could make a decent argument that by paying taxes in some places you have funded 'terrorism'. Unfortunately terrorism is a word that is polarising and is generally shouted hysterical such that it's devoid of meaning and you can't really use it helpfully.
ELI5 what type of transaction could have been done which is that large/complex that also would be 100% on the up-n-up and not trafficking [something], laundering [something]?
Fees are around 80c and average confirmation time is ~150 minutes. Pretty good for the first implementation of a completely new technology which has scaled 100,000x in 6 years. I don't really get the cheap shots but ok.
I'm not sure how much work you do in this area, but the only ML models that are pluggable and easily moved are ones that are relatively outdated, widespread, and thus provide little benefit over your competitors.

ML moves fast, and to keep up, you need to be using a flexible yet powerful framework or you will run into major slowdowns in implementation time. Tensorflow is that framework, and, by the way, it also happens to have the best support for actually deploying your models across datacenters.

Migrating your data into some cloud provider is irrelevant and consumes maybe 3% of the total effort involved. Data is maybe 10%, and the rest is developer/research time.
> My generation was one of the first (1987) to have their formative social years immersed in this shit. That means we'll never escape. Ever. We're literally wired to seek approval of strangers on the internet instead of the people around us. It feels more ... correct? Real? True?

I don't think that's really true. I'm about your age, and you were ~20 when the iPhone came out, right? Facebook was just settling in as the tool of choice for every college student, but even then it was mainly just photo-sharing and event-planning. The fact that we missed out on social networking in our entire teenage and preteen years means that we narrowly escaped this.

If you spend any time around people a bit younger than us, the contrast is particularly stark. My cousins are about a decade younger than me (just started college), and throughout high school, Snapchat/Twitter/etc were simply a must-have. The amount of time they spent sharing content and scrolling through others is insane, and if you talk to them about it, they're very aware that it's somewhere between a chore, an addiction, and good ol' fun.

That's the kind of "hardwired into your formative social years" thing that we never really had to deal with.
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lol.. yeah
I've started exercising seriously last September. I've been waking up at 5am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday since then and never felt better. I'm 31. I was always super skinny, but that's no longer the case now.

I've gained 25lbs since then by following the 5x5 workout routine. I highly recommend it. There are good apps for the 5x5 workout routine in the app stores too. https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Go to the gym three times a week for 1 hour and follow the 5x5 routine. You're always sore, but after a while you get used to it. Now I enjoy it a lot. Find a buddy to go to the gym with; that helps a lot.
I've seen Tal's talks and based on his passion and enthusiasm I do not see Wix moving away from RN, for as long as FB actively pushes RN forward. If FB drops it that's a different story.

NativeScript does not support GL/ThreeJS but RN does so I expect games will be built on top of RN. And when that happens we should get lots of new entrants in the ecosystem and greater creative mass.
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Correction: you can also enumerate through NSEC3, the most common (and default) mode of deployment; NSEC3 turns enumerable zone entries into the equivalent of a password hash file, which can be cracked.

There's a hack to prevent this that seeds the zone with false entries, but it requires the server to operate as an online signer. Since this is essentially incoherent to the design of the protocol (which makes major cryptographic and usability sacrifices to enable offline signers), there's an "NSEC4" being worked on now.

DNSSEC is silly.
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If you're a scala engineer in sf who knows finagle, we're hiring. Plus, pretty much everything else.
Expertise at what, exactly? It's often incredibly difficult to assign any value to realtors except 'knowledge of market', which should be the easiest part to automate.
The reason I usually hear: Good engineers almost always have jobs and usually aren't looking to change. When large layoff events happen good and bad engineers lose their jobs. This gives other companies an opportunity to recruit better talent with less effort than usual and, if they're really lucky, recruit entire teams that have worked together before.
I tried it a couple years ago with Google and once targeted ads were off, I would get many ads about gay dating sites.
Once I turned targeted ads on again, these ads disappeared.
I like: modify your setup so if it runs it is right and fast.
That only accounts for the selling side, though. You also get a refund as a buyer and if you are buying and selling with Redfin (not uncommon), the savings are substantial.

They actually only charge 1% commission as the selling agent now, too, so vs a typical 6% combined commission, they save 33% for the seller. (Assuming just a sale)

Redfin doesn't seem to disclose how they calculate the refund anymore, though, so I'm not sure how much that works out to be. Seems to be around half a percent, so lower than it used to be.

All combined, it's close to half of the traditional fees that they either refund or don't collect.
Everyone here is talking about bubble, overpricing, inflations etc. But the long term demographic shift is coastal growth at the expense of the rest of the country. The West coast especially has a booming economy and is growing at a very rapid pace.

I think most of the price increase is just a supply/demand issue. Lots of people moving to coastal areas and American cities are terrible are high density housing and planning.
This is a really important problem to solve, for more than just self driving cars. We have no good way of controlling AIs right now. Particularly reinforcement learners. All we can do is make a fitness function and hope they maximize it. Often they will find a way to exploit it in a way the programmer didn't expect or desire.

And even making a fitness function is a pretty difficult task. You can't exactly let a self driving car get into thousands of accidents until it learns not to do that. Making a good simulation is extremely difficult and very expensive. Training it to mimic humans means it will always be worse than humans.

As AIs get smarter this will become more of a problem. They will become more clever at exploiting the reward functions and even fooling human supervisors. One could imagine a self driving car causing accidents indirectly in some way. But it doesn't care because the car itself didn't collide with anything.

In the extreme case, AIs much smarter than humans would be extremely difficult to trust. They could figure out how to manipulate humans to get them to press their reward buttons or whatever equivalent. The famous thought experiment is an AI in a paperclip factory that desires to maximize paperclip production. So it invents nanotech, tears apart the Earth, and eventually turns the entire solar system into a massive paperclip factory.

Perhaps that's a long way off. But it's not comforting to know that AI ability is increasing faster than our ability to control AI.
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Well, since companies are always complaining about the chronic "shortage of tech talent" I'm sure everyone here will be employed within a few days, amiright?

EDIT: Honest, non-snarky question, then: If you believe there really is this shortage of tech talent, why is this effort needed? I don’t believe there is such a shortage and I wish these guys best of luck.
Seems like an awful large price to pay for some low-quality, fear-mongering, dog whistling. Seems like a great way to encourage people to spend more than they want to!
What does that even mean? Its not like evolution did some magics that we become better with exercise. Our bodies are trained by actual physical exertions, which are not possible if one is sedentary.
Ask HN: Where to find a “who is hiring” for the business side?
I think the monthly hiring threads are brilliant. Cutting through the recruiting cruft of job sites to show real opportunities posted (predominately) by real people embedded with the companies.

My question is, where is there something like it for the business side? The non-technical cofounder types. Managers, Product Managers, Operations/Strategy leaders, etc.
ITT it is revealed I know literally nothing of how BTC operates. What is the best way to remove my ignorance?
https://www.findlectures.com, though not expecting to make money either. I've had a lot of interesting side-conversations from it though. E.g. lot of people email me speakers they like, and I got a conference talk out of it.
_Some_ ad companies make their money on clicks. Others charge per impression, and others charge per acquisition.
Someone gains unauthorized access to their data stored in AWS.
it is cheaper than practically all other forms of zero-carbon on-demand energy production, and a LOT cheaper than removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Compare the cost of exhaust sequestration for all of the fossil fuels and I'm sure you will find that coal is still the cheapest.
My June/July/Aug booklist:

- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
- Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
this is really freaking cool

how do you generate the maps? maybe you can sell that to companies so they can index their internal documentation into mind maps
I would argue against that, I couldn't think of anything more powerful in an industry than a company that could use it's tens of billions of dollars in operating profit annually to fund their efforts to dominate ride-sharing as well. You are making a good point, but although there is a fine line in regards to its prospective market power until they can make it profitable and sustain it afterward, I don't see how this doesn't lead to bad things for them down the road even if it something like this did get approval
I think it's better to compare VR to Ham Radio in that there's a hobbyist or niche interest but not enough to spawn a mainstream adoption of the technology. Even AR I think has a similar problem since it's all about making a market where no real demand exists. VR is cool in my opinion but it really isn't something I can see even my nieces and nephew using beyond once or twice in their lives. The games they play tend to be focused on the relaxation they bring with the ability to just lounge in the living room which VR breaks from that format of leisure. VR seems to take effort to consume and if you don't find that kind of effort relaxing then you're not likely to do it for a pass time or hobby. Frankly, I think too many in Silicon Valley assume their interests mirror the interests of non-Valley and non-technically-minded people.
Sometimes transactions stick at the strangest places. For example, a buyer balks at paying a final $500 fee allotted to him because he has hit his financial stress limit - potentially killing the entire transaction.

Good agents are not just facilitating the transaction, but also acting as friends/confidants/therapists for buyers&sellers - helping them make responsible decisions. Good agents also come up with creative solutions to complete transactions - this pops up often in resolving inspection contingencies. Say there is some leakage discovered underneath a bathroom sink with some cabinetry damage. The buyer is getting cold feet. What do you do?
Wow... based on this list - Companies might consider hiring in Denver/Boulder... because SF looks like a mad house.
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The theoretical validation of these methods drove much of the early development of computing in the 1930s (as a way to compute Monte Carlo estimates.)
Question?

Does being good at programming competitions make you good at interviewing for programming jobs?

Obviously there's some irony in that question. But I also think there's some truth to it as well.
Thanks! Yeah, GitHub is definitely the way to go for OSS or projects with technical users. This is designed more for things like closed source apps or SaaS.
Knowledge of process, not just market. Which, don't get me wrong should also be easy to automate.
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>It's much easier to correct known unknowns than unknown unknowns.

This assumes you'll get any kind of personalized feedback and instruction in a lower division maths course. Good luck with that at a public university.
It was the #1 reason. Other issues were I had about 480 emails in my inbox. I'm not sure where the difference is but I've always managed an "Inbox Zero" with Googles' Inbox

There are other things I missed from Inbox too such as reminders "hit t - set reminder", snoozing emails till another time and I have a few people that contact me via Hangouts so I ended up loading Inbox occasionally anyway to see those messages.

No fault on Fastmail really, if I'd never discovered Inbox I'd still be using it. In regards to spam I just can't be dealing with training a spam filter, I was reminded it was one of the reasons I switched from self hosted to Gmail in the first place.

Edit: For what it's worth the SEO and website spam emails weren't getting a spam rating at all, most were <2.0

Edit 2: Also while looking at the spambox for that last message I now realise a lot of my server backup status messages were going into the spam box with a 7.1 spam rating.

Edit 3: I'm going to stop editing after this one. Edit 2 was on me, the backup messages were sending direct rather than via mailgun.
Enterprise adoption is slowed by the lack of ML developers/researchers, not because of something as banal as language choice.
I'm pretty happy with the results of spam filtering based on sender reputation.
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This idea is awesome. What language(s) did you use? And it saves your games and can be played from anywhere with an internet connection?
I'll take your assessment at face value (although a quick look at github repos, it seems that junit is way larger).

My point wasn't to ship crap, it was about obsessing on quality over actually shipping (and cutting some corners). This is something I learned at my first job, we obsessed over quality and never shipped. Guess what happened? :)
See https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/SWAT0
My main point is that the lack of Facebook affects the process by which these real friendships form. In a context where Facebook is used by most of your peers, the lack of it creates an additional barrier to socialization that has subtle negative effects which compound over time. The result is that you can miss out on forming real friendships because the cementing period is stunted by the reduced amount of unplanned interactions. Of course, this is highly ironic when seeing that strong friendships are resilient to the absence of social media or the passage of time.

The concept may seem strange but it's actually no different than someone growing more distant from a group of friends because they habitually miss out on the weekly Quiz Night or something.

It's not so much that people force you to communicate by one means, but rather that the friction involved reduces the amount of interaction in an automatic way. As kinkrtyavimoodh pointed out, it's an organic process and not really a conscious choice by people to isolate others.
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I built a large inventory, product management, CRM, channels management etc etc system. The idea is to integrate all the non-talking and buggy systems needed to run a small e-commerce business (most small e-commerce companies are using money-losing systems and "fixing" the issues with Macro-enabled Excel books). It was also open-source because there is zero way I'd ever take the whole market alone.

The idea, I think, is sound. I worked on the system for over a year, and there are many interesting ideas. The big problem is that it took way more resources to launch than I could ever do alone. I would need sales, support, sysadmin, developers, designers, etc. Everyone calls it my billion-dollar idea, but I truly couldn't and can't do it alone.

The lesson learned is, think big, but not so big you can't handle the work-load. If you are working every day and falling behind two days, the side project is far too large.

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I think the most underrated part is:
"untyped lambda calculus is harder"
"any" does not mean "all". People regularly make this mistake. One cannot do these sorts of tricks with ANY queries.

* http://jdebp.eu/Softwares/djbwares/qmail-patches.html#any-to...
I have watched Adam Curtis' documentaries and understand the context of that quote. It's not wrong.

Scientists have models for the natural world that are fantasies. Scientific models intentionally simplify reality in order to be able to analyze them. It is arguable with our current understanding of reality that a perfect model of an aspect of reality will never be possible with quantum uncertainty.

Most of what you've said in your comment is non sequitur, and I suggest you edit it out.
Related true story: I wrote a free e-book about Bitcoin[1], and Bitcoin dev lead Gavin Andresen wanted to send a donation as thanks. He apparently meant to send $10, but sent 10 BTC by accident. (worth $3,000 at the time, now worth $25,000)

He emailed me and my co author asking (very politely!) for us to send it back, which we did (minus some amount to make it come out to the intended donation).

You can see the transactions here: https://blockchain.info/address/19QsxWwNyeQ9NceaXZFXkHSHbdKC...

(And verify that address matches up with the donation address on the site).

[1] http://understandingbitcoin.us
I've since made a small change that doubled performance and I'm operating on >5x more data per pixel (32x4 vs 8x3). So a 10x factor makes this already faster without any explicit SIMD yet. Proper benchmarking on the same machine would need to be done obviously.

On the quality drawbacks I'd have to do some more checking. This algorithm is closest to what the image would be if you had a camera with that native sensor size. The standard filtering approach may very well have plenty of cases where it produces better output but it can also cause issues so I wonder if this isn't a conservative solution.
You are taking way too short a view of this. Perhaps invading was the wrong decision. Or was not taking Saddam down earlier in war 1.0 the wrong decision. Or was funding Saddam for years the wrong path?
The current situation is a culmination of (at a minimum) decades of failure by many countries.
If only there was a technology that can provide low fees and fast tx. *sarcasm
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