skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use aliases. It possible even in gmail. Or host your mailing and use aliases.
This is why we have the current level of regulation in the waste industry. It has lead to exclusive contracts with haulers that have to report their weights to a local authority. There are many areas with non-exclusive contracts too that allow some appearance of competition, but again only haulers that comply with a significant set of rules (and pay fees) are able to operate in the area.

It's a double edged sword for sure. I'd love to see more open and creative competition in the industry, but since disposal and transportation costs make up such a huge % of a hauler's expenses there will certainly be corrupt entities dumping waste in a canyon somewhere just outside of your community.

Tracking the waste from source to destination accurately and in a way that people can truly trust will certainly be a key to success here. It's worth noting that it is still very likely that some contracted and "compliant" haulers are doing things with your waste that they shouldn't. So that's another place that a start up could potentially differentiate themselves.
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? [pdf]
The Energy density of capacitors is very low (10-100x less than lithium) and they cost quite a bit more per watt-hour.

Capacitors are good if you need power for seconds rather than the minutes-hours that batteries are good at.
I would love if I could set the spam filter to include "audience building"/"growth hacking" emails. I have TENS OF THOUSANDS of emails in my inbox because every startup wants to "boost their engagement". Startups have given me Pavlovian email anxiety.
ADHD is an overrated way for an over privileged society to deal with it's defected mutated genetic pool. In the old days ADHD was just considered a kid with a bad attitude. And the best way to fix an attitude is to slap it right.

I may be being a bit extreme here but seriously maybe it is all the meds that are making the need for more meds or just plain normal attention. Each generation seems to be more defective. What happened to natural selection. When I used to breed guppis I used to ave to prune the defective genetics.
> who said religious beliefs barred them from paying for certain kinds of contraception in their employees health care

And who actually offered that contraception as part of their health care for decades, no problem, until obamacare mandated it, at which point they suddenly realized they had a deep-seated religious conviction against it.
These are great questions that need to be answered. Nearly all the rest of the comments in this thread are think veiled vitriol for Hobby Lobby and Christianity. I expect more of the HN community.

Thanks for trying to improve the level of discourse here.
I highly doubt it. At least not more of a workout than you get from just bouncing in one place, which is more than a lot of people get.
From an earlier discussion of it:
"The OpenGL calls are sent over the network and transformed into WebGL calls in the browser. It’s not video-streaming. The browser is executing WebGL in a canvas. Textures, buffers, glyphs, etc. are sent as well.

You need a browser with WebGL support. Tested on IE11, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Chromium."

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/02/22/qt-quick-webgl-streaming/

I assume only a subset of OpenGL calls can be sent and things like 3d volume textures would eventually require WebGL2?
All his documentary series are worth watching. These are

Hypernormalisation

Bitter Lake

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Every Day is like Sunday

The Power of Nightmares

The Century of the Self

The Trap

Pandora's Box

The Mayfair Set

Inside Story

Inquiry. The Great British Housing Disaster

The last one is particularly relevant after the Grenfell Tower Fire.
Well... I don't know what I expected.
In my two semesters of college math, I've gathered that the faculty has something of a phobia to, if not wolfram in particular, students' access to help outside of the department.

Homework problems were oftentimes deliberately difficult, and attending tutoring/office hours was almost certainly necessary for most students to master the material.

I got my hands on an instructor's manual of the textbook, and it was a tremendous boon for my mastery of the topics. By having immediate access to the solutions of difficult problems, I was able to comprehend how to approach problems of that type, and therefore could solve more difficult but similar examples in the future. The cycle of attempt/fail/check-solution/repeat was really effective. Waiting for the instructor's office hours or the availability of tutors would have made this process, if not impossible, incredibly inefficient.

Do any math educators have any insight to this? Is this math department clinging to an antiquated curriculum in which faculty is something of a gate-keeper to knowledge? Is there a good reason for their distaste for 'going around' them?
This is why, when creating a new 2FA login, you MUST write down the one time use backup codes, and store them in a safe and secure place.
I am grateful that OpenBSD exists, but I find it sad that the most novel advances employed in systems security are layers of security/obscurity over vulnerable systems, instead of advances in intrinsically secure systems. Type-safety would eliminate a large class of vulnerabilities in systems software. We enjoy such benefits at the application layer, but systems software is far behind.
wow. ummm... yeah, that's straight mythology. you should read up on brain scans before spreading old falsehoods.
How long did you leave it before planting?

My garden was literally only weeds (our house is my wife's grandparents and the house had sat mainly abandoned for about 3 years when we moved in). After doing the newspaper and mulch technique and leaving it for about 6 weeks the weeds had all decomposed into soil and haven't come back.
> services like this aren't contractually-bound

By default, no. But you can get contracts in place.
There's a big difference between what people should do, and what people actually do. Research consistently shows that a large percentage of people reuse passwords across many sites.

[1] http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/DBCBW14-NDSS-tangled_web.pdf
The issue with customer service is that a lot of companies end up with awful CS because 1) they outsource it to braindead monkeys who hate their job and are paid pennies and 2) there is no way for someone to complete their task without talking to CS (no documentation, etc).

So instead of pouring endless money into chatbots, allow people to do whatever they wanted without involving CS. Provide good, up to date and easy to find documentation and a web interface if the task needs data entry (porting your number, changing your billing details, etc). This will reduce the load on your CS which means you can now bring this back in-house and no longer rely on an outsourced disgruntled workforce.
> Adam Curtis's movies are more like long essays

... with a great soundtrack. ;-)

Seriously, though, thinking of them as essays is a very good idea. When I hear documentary, I usually think of David Attenborough, fact-conveying kind of film.

Curtis is more about ideas, and my usual reaction to his films is "Now that gave me a lot to think about."
Man this is still a cute OBD2 bridge isn't it ?

Is your plan to release pieces of a self driving kit gradually and crowdsource through early adopter kind of customers(or collaborator in a way) ?

I'm sorry but the hardest parts are still missing and reading you're competing with actual companies with serious power (brain and money) it's more than curious to stay polite.

ps: also waymon fleet might be 200, but if they inherited Google past years of data they have tons of terrain and sensors data. I mean wat.
Are you forgetting that you're talking about two different processes that operate on orders-of-magnitude different durations?

By the time any evolutionary affects are seen, if at all, of weeds being pulled by ML, ML will have progressed far beyond where it is now, likely well beyond what could be fooled by simple diversity.
To the surprise of nobody who has ever gone through automated telephone system hell. Whenever I bump into one, I impulsively shout 'zero' 'zero' 'fucking operator' into the phone.
From what I remember this was before the invention of unit tests, when the closest thing was inline checks and exceptions.
It seems like Google uses some heuristics when deciding whether to ban an account. My theory is that if you stick with your personal gmail account, you have such a long history of activity that it's unlikely to be flagged by whatever "smart" algorithm they're using.

I was quite surprised that my gmail account was banned without doing anything remotely malicious. (Certainly not anything listed in https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/%2B/policy/content.html) I suppose it's my word against Google's, which isn't a happy position to be in, but to the best of my knowledge that's what happened.

Regarding other services, I was hoping to get some recommendations about which one everyone likes using. Gmail and FastMail seem to be the two HN favorites, but FastMail gets expensive quickly for side projects. You can host your own email, but people have shared some unpleasant experiences with that route. It's true that you can still use gmail without losing your address, but you'll still lose your emails if they decide to suspend you.
Eat a bowl of dicks. You're welcome
The are many things which are difficult to measure directly, and thus people tend to use indirect measurements instead; school-learned math is full of such things. Consider a fairly simple example: "What is the factorial of a number?"

Determining whether a student knows this is going to take a bit of work (particularly if they lack a formal way to specify it e.g. Pi notation or even a programming language), but we might approximate it by instead asking "What is the factorial of 5?" Now obviously this is not a perfect measure of what we're actually looking for even in the absence of calculators (e.g. someone might memorize 5! = 120), but it's easy to evaluate and is probably a decent proxy in the absence of calculators.
VR has been around at least as long as TV had by the time it became mainstream in the 1950s, without—and with little sign of this changing imminently—equivalent uptake.
> Except it doesn't? I'm not sure what was broken in your case, but that's definitely not normal or expected Git behavior, and I can't think of any time I've seen anything like that. About the only case I can think of where Git insists on "modifying" random files is when line endings are mismatched, and the repo is not configured properly. But even then it's not lossy.

Git does this by design. There seems to be no concept of line-item uploads - either you have to push the whole fork or none of it. There seems to be no concept of "I haven't modified this file", and an assumption that a user will frequently be fetching and aware of the entire code base.

Some tools help with this awareness, by auto-fetching frequently, so you know when others have uploaded code and you need to merge the master back into your branch. (Err diff the mainline against your development copy, so you can integrate the upstream changes into yours.) Mandatory workflows like this should be automated as part of the tool, but here they are very clearly left manual.
This is why I have my own domain. I have a catch-all email box that just accepts everything and can make up emails on the spot, service@example.com. It makes things a lot easier down the road if I have a problem with my current provider as I can change the MX records at will. This means though that my DNS service must be under another domain for safety though but that's less of an issue.
'Bitter Lake' is one of his harder to watch films. Still good, though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbq63r7rys
I just don't agree with what you're saying, progress comes from understanding reality via some intuition, understanding and intuition lead to the development of testable models. Testable mathematical models are the result of progress in science, not the foundation of it.
Beware Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT) Attacks–The Dark Side of Connectivity
You aren't the only one. I host mine on linode and have no problems sending now that I have DKIM and SPF set up.
> Gmail is one of those that I just can't quit

Literally just started to switch back today from Fastmail

> since they've pretty much solved the spam problem for me

#1 reason. I tried Fastmail for a month or two but I've only just hit the 200 spam messages to train my "personal" spam filter, all of them "greetings of the day" website/SEO related. Realised I've been fighting to get to this personal filter level and then when it enabled.. I received another spam message.

I'm out. Love the idea of not relying on Google for everything but I guess for now spam filtering is just one of those things Google does good.
Most auto parts stores will read the codes for you for free. Some will even loan you tools to fix your car. They are in the business of selling parts and are happy to sell you whatever part you need to fix the problem.
> So apparently giving up and having the wrong answers (or no answers at all) is what professors would prefer. Cool :)

It's much easier to correct known unknowns than unknown unknowns.

The best advice I was ever given as a student was "Pretend like you'll get an automatic A on your report card and treat your grades as a feedback mechanism for figuring out what you do and do not understand. Just focus on learning." As a simple corollary, cheating is kinda silly.
Are your strings immutable?
I love this, what an excellent way to approach a sci-fi story. Reminds me a little of how the game SUPERHOT unveils its story.
scale it up a bit and drop a bunch of them in Middle East to weed out terrorists.
Since we're on this topic: Is a Google Apps account considered "seperate"? Eg I have jim_gordon@gmail.com and jim@gordon.com.

So I'm thinking of centralizing all non-business to gmail.com and the rest to gordon.com.
I remember simulating the Monty Hall problem with random numbers, because it was hard to imagine.
Its a wise thing to do. I use it to simulate, how I would do in a face to face communication. So a smiley, where you would actually smile, to soften the blow, or to add humility when pointing somebody's wrong could be useful. Of course its use has to be limited, else it will look like a typical WhatsApp message emoticon train. :)

There are lots of small things, which if more people do, would lead to friendlier communications. E.g. replying with a greeting, to a mail which has greeting.
Honestly no. Which part?

The themes of Snow Crash include anarcho-corporatism, psychological hacking, and virtual reality. Which of those involves ancient artifacts, smuggling, and Christian craft stores?
Not the other poster, but something that might explain their reaction is that you mentioned keeping an entire separate computer. It is easy to see why this would cause an extreme reaction. (Not saying it's not a good idea.)
“I Wish You Bad Luck.”
Logic in american political discourse is too big of an ask.

As long as there is a compelling narrative and complicit media, literally absolute bullshit can be accepted as valid discourse or even valid history.
While W|A doesn't come close to making the field level, I think there's an argument to be made that it makes the field more level than it was. The perfect being the enemy of the good...
Why company culture and values are so important for DevOps
It deserves to be first, because most people jump into redux because it seems like you're supposed to use it. Also I don't think I agree with the claim that they are very different. In theory, yes. In practice, I use it to solve the same problems in generally the same way (action driven updates, one-way data flow rendering), but with less boilerplate and (for my use cases) better performance. YMMV is fair, but anyone doing serious react work should be at least familiar with both.
I agree with what you are saying. I am having trouble finding tasks that rejuvenate my mental facilities. What works for you?
Ask HN: Should I quit my job?
I'm a very junior web developer. About 2 months ago, my job fired about 1/3 of the development staff, and I'm now the sole web developer. I'm having panic attacks about now being the defacto lead. What started out as a Java job, has morphed into me maintaining an ancient Spring application with a ton of technical debt, and a WP website. I have no guidance on this what so ever. What should I do in this situation?
I was a math major in college only a few years ago, and lower-level courses tended to concentrate most of the grade in exams for this reason. The exams were always pencil-and-paper only, with no resources of any kind allowed. In upper-level classes, the trend often shifted, with most or even all of the grade coming from problem sets. Some classes didn't even have exams. But this is because the material had become entirely proof-based. Referencing books was not only allowed but encouraged.
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Can you provide some links to stuff about the infamous "?" emails?
I also interned at Wolfram in 2000. I spent the summer writing coverage tests, which meant getting to run Mathematica through gcov and seeing what lines weren't being hit by the test suite. Writing coverage tests for most things would have been incredibly boring, but this was anything but. There were lines of code that required me to spend two days in the Wolfram library reading up on branches of math I had never heard of before (wtf is a Gröbner basis?!). My favorite discovery was a line of code in the integer factoring function that I could only hit if I constructed a number by multiplying several Carmichael numbers IN A CERTAIN ORDER. If you like math and computer science, it's hard to imagine a better place to intern.

Sorry to hear about the rest of your undergrad experience. I was really fortunate that I never had a professor complain about me using Mathematica for everything. Even just typesetting math in Mathematica instead of LaTeX was a huge benefit for me.

One of my favorite classes was Computational Algebra taught by Dana Scott. He did the entire class in Mathematica. Each lecture was just him walking through a notebook and the problem sets were all about writing Mathematica code to solve interesting problems. I think I still have them somewhere...
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Do you have a source for this one? I'd haven't heard this before.
I got into a similar situation when Apple prompted me to turn on 2-factor auth, and then after I accepted it wouldn't send 2-factor codes.

Thankfully the "we turned on 2-factor" email gives you a link to turn it back off within 30 days or I would have been in some trouble.
That's true. Especially the answers that tell you the process for deriving the solution instead of just giving the solution. Then you can see where you got stuck/went astray.
I agree. I got hung up on this: "Wolfram|Alpha uses natural language processing technology, part of the AI family, to provide students with an academic shortcut"

WA uses NLP for some things, but not for solving equations.
I can't go too deep about this in public. Their culture has some profound problems, but it's very good in other aspects. I also varies between offices. I don't know much about the one in Chicago.

The concentration of raw talent in their Brazilian office was a humbling experience to me. It was great for some time...
In the beginning, his copywriter made the same 0.05$/word and the poster was making 0$/month.

So the copywriter has shouldered no risk either. He's also free to try and get more per word but he might be in a place where 0.05USD/word is actually pretty decent income.
I've noticed that this is a problem with media coverage of subjects you know something about, which are aimed at a general audience.
So it's an ODB II dongle that made from what looks like parts from Sparkfun and 3d printed case (Although, that's bit of wild speculation on my part), sold at apparently 8x the price of competitors. Sure the ODB exports out some common info, but isn't most of it encrypted and vendor specific? Also, calling this and a camera "a self driving car kit" is an overstatement even for Silly-Con Valley.
Nice.
You should add a really simple sample in the front page to explain how to play in a few word (or an image of a solved puzzle). It take me some time to understand that one cell equals one letter.

Ok there is a "How to play", but who read the faq?^^
I remember George Hotz stating in an interview a year ago that he was going to be a billionaire by the end of 2016. He has quite the ego, there's tons of OBD-II adapters that have been around for a while and many successful Kickstarter campaigns launching better OBD-II adapters.
This is worse because at least with mine, they send the reset password (so I know they have the right email on file).

Then, when they send the PIN to the same email - it never actually shows up. Ugh.
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“Difficult to trace”? If it generates the same output for any given input, then you can just compare the students’ submitted papers with it, no?
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Just Because You Own It, Doesn't Mean You're Good
Protip for everyone on this site.

Look at a companys stock price. If it's in the triple digits, avoid it, because they can and will screw you over.
So, in contrast to the article I personally feel excited about the potential of chatbots - especially as custom and user-friendly CLI's/UI's more than as AI-driven 'human' interfaces, at least for now - in a way I've not felt excited about anything in a long while (both from a business and ideological perspective, but I care more about the latter, all things considered).

I'd just like to ask that if anyone is seriously pursuing chatbots, beyond just helping businesses or consultants sell the 'next big thing', I'd really, really love to talk. My email address is on my profile page.
Two suggestions:

- Long term fix: try Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an evidence-based form of psychological treatment that doesn't have a lot in common with your usual pseudo-scientific Freudian psychoanalysis where you get to pay a shrink every month for ten years and see no improvement. The main idea behind CBT is to go against the grain, so it's the opposite of bullshit spiritual retreats in Peru to do LSD (no offense). For example if you have agoraphobia and cannot take the bus, your 'exercise' will be to actually take it, but just for one stop, then two, etc, and keep doing that regularly to 'chip away' the phobia without triggering a panic attack. CBT is process-driven so there are quite a few self-help-style books, and you can start working on this by yourself. DO contact a professional if you feel this could work but are blocked, though. Books recommended by the ACBT (they list a few titles covering ADHD): http://www.abct.org/SHBooks/

- Short term fix: I bought a Xiaomi Mi Band 2. It's a shitty smartwatch, and an even worse fitness/sleep tracker. But. But I also bought a third party Mi Band control app (the official Xiaomi one is mostly useless), "Mi Band Tools" that can set an arbitrary number of vibrating alarms/reminders. Every morning I change/customize the alarm vibration to avoid getting used to it, decide what my main task of the day will be (i.e. what "idea" I associate with the alarm when it is triggered), then set that reminder to buzz every N minutes. During the rest of the day, every N minutes I am either already working on what I had planned to do, or am reminded I must refocus right now. It's not something I need when working as part of a team, but for some reason when I'm on a solo project I cannot get anything meaningful done without this hack.

Hope this helps.