skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me throw in another sort: introverts. I like coding alone, not in pairs, and most definitely not in some big group event.
My usps postman won't deliver mail if the name on the letter doesn't match the names on the mail slot.
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Same goes for firemen or policemen, they choose to be near / around danger.
From the sounds of it, I'm amazed he lasted five months. I mean, seriously, alienating your staff the very first time they hear your voice? That's top of the line incompetence.
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Best article ever :D
[project name] iteration scrum Actual update

(with the random capitalisation of actual)
Any idea why the duplicate detection did not work for this link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786881

Anyhow: these should be merged (even though there is no discussion on the other submission)
i guess it's subjective, some people would think a bank of Vapourwave music on SC is important. I'm pretty happy to have a 128kbp version of blink 182 albums on my backup, because they mean something to me.
I'm just really questioning the need to archive for the sake of archiving.
Updating...can't wait to see the new sidebar. But, gitlab team has spent quite a lot of time in UI redesign.
It's interesting that I can't see any text on Google Blogs on mobile - Safari (iOS) with ad blocker "Focus". I can see the article on Chrome iOS though.
No the World Health Organisation didn't say that. The IARC did, basing their decision on a hazard criteria, not a risk based one. The WHO and FAO's statement is that it is not carcinogenic [0]. Most regulatory agencies follow a risk based approach that takes into account real world exposure.

Also, the IARC apparently ignored data on farmer exposure to glyphosate [1]

[0] http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf?ua=1
[1] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/glyphosat...
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Yep! Though us non-native speakers should really be recording, too. So we're not left behind in voice recognition.
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I also tried to learn the "PARSE dialect" (the DSL coding mechanism of REBOL/Red), as this is what's often claimed to be the crucial differentiating factor (the "main idea") of REBOL/Red - but I failed, because of what OP mentions. The REBOL docs feel to me more like an example-based guide, than a solid RTFM-grade manual. I find such a guide OK and valuable as a tutorial, a starting point, and to teach idioms and mindset; but then I need a reference manual to clarify all details and fully explore the topic. Also read some third-party articles on PARSE, but none of them were comprehensive enough (AFAIR, mostly being tutorial-like too). Lua and Go do it well in my opinion - they both provide a solid tutorial-like experience, but then a full-blown, well written reference manual too.
Can you explain what from your point of view is the difference between AlphaGo and a Chess AI? Because to me it sounds like the one should have resulted as an evolution from the other if it would be that simple.
My suggestion to the developer would be to offer the app to Pocketcasts for a fee based on his daily rate (to cover the time he took to wrote it) plus a reasonable royalty percentage per year. He could then have his app, not need to maintain it at his own cost and possibly make a bit of cash from the royalty. If the Pocketcast people give it away for free, he makes only the dev cost back - but doesn't lose much really - but he gains the app he wanted.
Why isn’t he on MySpace?
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Google produces notoriously opaque and high-level articles with regard to its networking systems. You are not meant to get much meaning out of them. Instead you should stand back in awe at the amazing things they are doing.

Nearly every Google paper about Google networks in SIGCOMM is utter trash that would have been rejected in an instant due to lack of novel details if it had come from anyone else. They just brag about scale, utilization, and resiliency without actually giving anything back to the academic community.

Note: This does not apply to all Google papers (e.g. spanner and other DB ones are pretty good). Their networking publications seem to be crippled by either IP concerns or poor academic writers.
Thanks for the information :)
I think that's why. When the previous thread is not very active, dup's are allowed.
Not sure though.
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Myspace still exists?
I really think all but a handful of HN readers first learned about Mirzakhani upon her passing. It's a tragic event -- highly so -- but not one of particular significance to this community.
> This disagrees with my daily experience in Europe, so I conclude it's a US-specific thing.

It is. Having lived in both places, it's astounding how expensive good food is in the US and how cheap crap food can be. $1 for a single apple or for a McD burger? Tough choice.

Add to that the fact that most of the US poor are time poor as well. Working 3 jobs and/ot commuting 3hrs per day doesn't leave a lot of time to prepare meals.
I'm a caver and I have several cave-diving friends and I think your risk assessment is off by some way.

There's maybe a couple of hundred active cave divers in the UK. I guesstimate been a cave-diving death every 5 years or so, so with a bit of guessing we could say your chance of death is 0.1% per year.

There were 1,732 road deaths in the UK in 2015 and 45.5 million licence holders. Assuming they all drove at least once, I think that's a chance of death of about 0.0038% per year.

That's based on yearly participation; if you went on a per-dive or per-drive basis you can probably separate them by at least another order of magnitude difference.

This is a bit simplistic for various reasons such as chance of a non-fatal accident when driving a car or cave diving fatalities including exploratory diving (which seems to be the case in this story) and difference in driving/diving dangerousness between UK and wherever you are but I don't think there's much doubt that cave diving is much more dangerous.

I'm not arguing you shouldn't do it but if you think cave diving is "almost certainly SIGNIFICANTLY SAFER than driving to and from the dive site", you haven't properly considered the risks.
I would take both. Even the word Hackathon rubs me in the wrong way. I never describe myself as a hacker though.
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I always use 1/1/1911 to shave off a few more of those precious microseconds
Weird. Every hackathon I've been to has tried to inform first time hackers of these things.

HackMIT FAQ (every year): https://hackmit.org/#faq

Numerous HackBeanpot posts:

http://blog.hackbeanpot.com/simple-advice-for-first-time-hac...

http://blog.hackbeanpot.com/check-yourself-before-you-wreck-...

(Disclosure: I helped organize HackBeanpot 2017)
You can do some pretty awesome things in Rust over a weekend and it counts as systems programming. Also, your quote sounds fun - it's just a matter of presenting it in a cool way ;)
If you actually want to build something meaniful it's probably better to do so from the comfort of your home with proper rest and breaks.
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You can easily employ redundancy for core services. Core functionality doesn't need to be synonymous with central point of failure. For example, you have three healthy copies of the core service running at all times, combined with failover. All software systems have a core function that must work or else the system fails, but that doesn't mean all software systems are centralized in any useful sense of the word.
Where are you guys going for all these hackathons where real devs show up and can code? The ones I attended in Sydney are 90% marketing/sales/designers desperate for a dev and they spend all the time faffing about.
And it was an assets sale to Time which resulted in all common stock holders (aka employees) getting wiped out. Good times.
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I used postgresql along with postgREST to get my smartphone talk via ifttt to my raspberrypi.

no code except the SQL-Schema and complete freedom in data and API design.
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I actually recently requested and received and export of my blog posts. So there is that at least...
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And yet ATMs still run Windows XP...
Damn! Not sure exactly which country you're in but the minimum wage of most western european countries is between €8-10 / hr. There are cleaners who make the same money as you!

Seems like you've got to up your game. Don't get mad though, take this as a lesson and learn from it. If anything this should be good news because now you know you can earn way more than you are currently for the same exact work.
I hope this data will be used purely for voice recognition purposes and not for voice generation, or we'll be stuck with robots talking with this horrible gurgling and clicking accent due to poor recording conditions of most participants!
It highly depends on the field you're in though.
If they're planning to make a voice recognition system, why are they using example statements that are clearly taken from novels? [0] That's not how real people talk. They use a lot more slang, a lot more stopping and starting, filler words, etc. Instead you have people saying things like "irresolute", "rumbling", and other complex words. It would be useful for training a novel dictation system, but it's not how people would speak to their browser for example.

[0]: An example sentence is "a thin circle of bright metal showed between the top and the bottom of the body of the cylinder", which is from H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Much of the programming with ML has moved towards cleaning, extrapolating and generating the data.

But this type of programing is - miracles- bugfree. We never hear of data-conversion gone wrong, data corrupted or data-mining withou conclusive results here. Obviously such bugs lack the glamour of security bugs.
Yes. The system is designed to allow multiple chances for good content to get exposure.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20deliberately%20porous&s...
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You could use always use plausible nicknames. Humans will tolerate them, but exact-matching computer systems won’t. For example, if you were Nathaniel William such-and-such, you’d have a large supply: Nat, Nath, Natty, Nathan, Niel, Neil, Thaniel, N. W., William, Will, Willy, Bill, Billy, Liam…
I still think a Mathematica-eque workbook format (manipulable inline graphics and objects interspersed with regular REPL) would be the best of two worlds.
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I understand that some aspects of a Hackathon might be fun, but nowadays my time is simply more valuable than that. Spending time with my loved ones, taking care of myself, putting in a few hours on a pet project that I don't plan to throw away in a few days, and even going to an event for some proper networking feels a much better use of my time than a Hackathon.
I think Hackathons, however small, provide useful feedback for estimating your "fluency" in a specific technology. Self-assessment gets a reality check.
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I did wonder, but they appear to be unique not just to the page but to the specific link being upvoted.
I think it's funny that JIRA knows how to prioritize the best of all the list.
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lol what do you mean by "not getting private time"?
You assume that all sensors are working on 'images' and that the algorithm are all using gradient descent.
Salesforce is a great example. It is amazingly "old fashioned", tiny and uses non of the UX paradigms of the last 10 years. However, it gets work done really, really well.
I'm disregarding the Lightning-UI versions for now.
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Agreed. In my midwest small town, the $1 apple isn't even the good apples. Bananas are preposterously cheap though. I'd still rather east two double cheeseburgers or two breakfast burritos than 5-6 bananas.
You have an interesting comment history.
Scrith has enough tensile strength, so I'd imagine it could have similar compressive strength...
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Yes please share!
I like to trot out this link whenever this comes up [1].

[1]: https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2016/11/11/python-versions-used...
My way of participating to hackathons is to go around helping groups. I also dislike big group events (and to a lesser degree coding in group), but I like helping others.
So you either don't work there as a parent or you become the caricature father from the 90s movies that misses all of his kids' games, fails to pick them up from school (although we solved this with Uber (TM)) etc.
Actually, wouldn't light pressure automatically keep it centered (assuming it's consistent enough and therefore the net gravitational force is close enough to zero)?
I always counter, the intelligence is not in the machine, but the builder. Antropomorphism is in line with that, because it projects the human qualities onto the machine, because, in a broad sense, they are modelled after those. Egoistic as we are, that's the only way to understand anything, to remove the shizm between animate and inanimate objects. Just like a fishing rod is just the extension of an arm.
What is your point? Healthcare greatly increases quality of life.
In the UK (not in london) as a freelancer in Ruby on Rails I charge £40 / hr. For contract jobs (you basically work exactly like a permanent employee but get paid as a freelancer - so no job security or benefits and contracts usually last 3 months - 1 year at most) i was paid between £300-350 / day. In London it seems the same type of jobs usually pay £400-450.
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I've won every hackathon i've ever entered (around 10 now).

I enter them to win money or prizes, and as such take a cynical view of them which helped to find a formula to present at them. Being confident wins over technical talent in most of the ones that offer prizes.

Simply you need to show or tell the audience an example of you using X piece of software, pretend to be frustrated and then dramatically pause, and then start selling your version of it. Make them be sure they've had this problem before, even if they haven't.
I'm wondering what keeps e.g. Google from implementing micro-payments. If I can get access to an article or website for 20 cents by simply clicking a (universal) payment button, I would do so in many cases.
The hackathon in this context seems to be an extension of the good old "lan party", but with programming instead of games.
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Watch Black Mirror's episode "Fifteen Million Merits"...
A better grip on reality.

Yes, and there is not this perverse attempt to replace human company with controllable companions (aka pets), that leads to so much animal antromorphism and hidden missery.

I can like a cow, and still know its a cow. A horse can not know what a hand is that holds the sugar cube. For a horse, you are another smaller horse.

I live near a horse-stable, where strong-empowered single ladies have up to five horses. The sadness and missery of a live that has replaced what could be a family or just human company with animals - is on par in my eyes with some computer addicted males. You should hear the arguments they have with the vet.
The only time ever my shitty Australian connection is a benefit.
The last trade is a shame. I saw the demo of MySpace around 2014 and found it almost exciting. It was at the time when they were trying to make it all about media consumption with transparent handover between devices and TVs / computers. The tech looked quite fun. Looks like they couldn't get enough interest to pull it off :-(

For some reason they were trying to get geeks at local meetups excited about it. I got a can of MySpace-branded energy drink which was one of the weirdest gifts...
I imagine you get a slightly miffed water bear out the other end eventually.
I was think worse, like this:

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/icloud-sc...

http://www.jordantimes.com/sites/default/files/styles/news_i...

etc

Usually show men in black clothes trying to climb in windows, etc.
Yes, the exploitation inherent in these events is the biggest turnoff to me. I value my time and expertise too much to give it away for free.
I think I agree, much as I hate ads! There is something about podcast ads that I find much more acceptable than most other forms; the only slight downside is they tend to be quite repetitive, both within shows, and across them.

It would certainly be useful to have notes for a whole range of other benefits e.g. making it much easier to search an old episode for a specific topic.
If that question somehow arises, management will probably say the new employee will pay for themselves very quickly by generating loads of value. There's always a rationalization available for justifying irrational decisions.
This. I've seen hackatons being increasingly mentioned during the hiring process in the last few months.

Seeing 40-something adults talking about free beer and hackatons while walking on a floor full of nerf-bullets is beyond comical. I literally couldn't believe it if someone told me this ten years ago.

I miss working in finance.
Try https://hackmit.org/ ;)
This is a huge topic in applying ML in physics and chemistry where we already have a lot of prior detailed knwoledge about the systems we want to describe and it would be silly not to build it into the ML models.
Title is misleading, it makes it sound like the backdoor is in the Android software while this is just malware.
That article links back to the one published on HN:

"Update: A newer version of the chrome extension is available here."
Many hackatons are organized around the host company's business goals. They are either organized for recruiting purposes or to get cheap labor (sometimes both)

I love coding and do code a lot in my own time. But I'm not gonna work for free for some company or government (it's your solutions to their problems) just because they market an event as a hackaton.

There might be better events out there but this is my experience.
I've been to a few demos at the end of hackathons (absolutely refuse to take part in one myself) and have only ever seen one somewhat useful project come through. And it was quite obvious that the team had done a fair bit of pre-hackathon prep...

Last company I worked started pushing these in a big way. Free pizza and goodies so I code all night, unpaid, at our work offices... who on Earth does this kind of thing appeal to?!
Of course you can deny them. After you install the app, just go into settings and deny every permission.
I'm impressed. I would certainly have loved this when I was a practicing "data miner" (I'm old-ish). Anything that allowed me to better understand my data and models was welcome. I used DataDesk (https://datadesk.com) back then.

This tool should be useful to classic statistical modeling as well as DL.

Given how easy it is to point-click-slide complex data transforms into existence, there's also a danger of mucking things up and creating overfits and so on. But that's a minor consideration given the rather obvious benefits.
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Word! Work for free day and night for a whole weekend and give out the IP for the meager pay of some buffet lunch and maybe a tshirt. Are programmers that cheap?
I had a small part in writing this. I think we're in violent agreement with regards to the underlying concern; here is how we phrased it in this document:

Our users entrust us with their money, their businesses, and their livelihoods. Drivers in San Francisco and jewelry sellers in Latvia and software developers in Tokyo rely on Stripe to feed their families. When we mess up, miss a deadline, or slow down, it matters. We take that responsibility seriously.

We could potentially have phrased this in terms of e.g. uptime, but the gory details are covered in an appropriate amount of detail in internal documents but not really appropriate for a guide we give candidates so that they have signal on whether they'd enjoy working here. For one thing, it's hard without an in-depth understanding of the system architecture to map a particular technical concern (like e.g. API uptime of a particular component) to the specific way that would manifest in a user's life. For another, our concerns are actually a lot broader than the technical part of the business. There is a lot of hard and important work that happens between HTTP 200 and money actually showing up in a real person's bank account. If we were shooting for "Be perfect at engineering 100% of the time" that would both probably be a poor target as an engineering matter and, incredibly, not be nearly good enough.

On the plus side: we've got lots of intellectually interesting problems to be found while poking around the plumbing of the economy. If that sounds interesting, we're always happy to chat.
Im making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do, ====ⓌⓌⓌ.joinmate2.ⒸⓄⓂ
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do, ====ⓌⓌⓌ.joinmate2.ⒸⓄⓂ
Don't eat wrong, simples.
Same, dots are obnoxious when copy-pasting.
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Partly, I think they're also fundamentally slower than NN because you're manipulating and executing programs (ASTs[1]) while for NNs you just adjust some values.

I've dabbled in GP and I really like it but those ASTs can get huge if they're not carefully pruned and might not add to the solution at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree
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This sounds incredibly rude, but why? Maybe my income is too small for me to see the benefit (student) :p
The Wall Street Journal is a very, very good newspaper that brought us such amazing series as "What They Know", which I believe started the practice of referring to the use of trackers as "spying" (much to the dismay of advertisers), which has certainly helped deliver the message that tracking is something users should worry about.
Hey mate, I'd love to know what languages you deal with?
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You are conflating the colloquial sense of pragmatism with the technical philosophical sense of pragmatism.
Nothing is keeping them from doing it. They (and others, e.g. the Brave browser and Optimal) have been doing that for a while. Here are a few related links:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/21/google-co...
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/google-relaunches-co...

https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/

https://medium.com/@robleathern/why-we-sold-optimals-technol...
I seem to recall feeling similarly a few times when we did have black bars. Sadly I don't remember who they were (which I suppose vaguely confirms what I'm saying?) but I do remember being surprised that I hadn't heard of them before, and didn't expect many had either.
Sign up for Blendle. It's exactly what they do and all the big publishers are on board.
But the solutions to adware crap are thankfully legal and trivial.