skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. Low attention spans aren't a millennial thing--it's a human nature thing. Snapchat and facebook may benefit from this phenomenon the most, but HN does too.
How so? It seems correct to me.
Show HN: NetSignal – Find strongest and weakest WiFi spots
It's not paranoid, it happened to me. I lent my phone 18 months before crossing the border, the person sent a few messages, some of which were incriminating. I had no idea as I do not use the stock messaging app.

The border agent believed me when I said I had lent the phone and do not use this to text message (had not been used in 18 months, was used to send message to numbers not from my country, had an encrypted messaging app full of messages)
I have been searching for exactly this type of tutorial for months. Your explanation of the state of online "10 minute introductions" for machine learning is spot on. I understand the concepts, and have a thorough background in programming, yet there always was a gap in my knowledge base. Thank you for sharing this!
Safety ratings do not account for different speeds, and different driving styles, so it's probably best to assume those are equal, for the sake of the conversion (which is about _safety rating_).

Cars are slow to crush. If you're involved in a collision while on a scooter, you don't have a crumple zone to slow down whatever might be eventually hitting you.

Cars have seatbelts. If you're hit on a scooter, you are more likely to be thrown out of the vehicle, compared to being hit while in a car. Being thrown out of a vehicle is not good for your survival rate.

I actually have no clue what safety features scooters have, if any. Cars have a ton.
Yeah, the tweet and subsequent replies are absolute garbage.
Because these transactions could have already been used. For example sold on an exchange. Now you're not only targeting the robber.
>So yes, every function is a closure [in Elisp].

-- only if lexical-binding is non-nil :)
Judges throw out contracts that both parties agreed to on a regular basis, even if both parties knew exactly what they were getting in to.

Agreement is not the only prerequisite for a legally enforceable contract. The contract also needs to avoid certain unenforceable things like unconscionable clauses, or agreements to do things that are illegal.
I'd love such an arrangement myself too, especially remotely. I have friends who tutor on Thinkful or some other company so they can choose to do fewer hours a week and dedicate themselves to family/projects, but that pays much less than working as an engineer. It works for them because they live in low cost-of-living countries.
FWIW version 0.83.1 (October 2016) is available in Ubuntu repos.
Where?

If you're in a place where everyone drives a moped or bicycle and cars are rare, then mopeds are a lot safer. Stick the moped in traffic surrounded by clueless SUV drivers and now the moped is a death-trap.

Go to a place where everyone rides a bicycle and there's no cars and I guarantee the fatality-per-mile rate is ridiculously low. See downtown Copenhagen for example.
There is also the issue of cached data.
Arthena (YC W17) Is Hiring Data Scientists
Arthena (https://arthena.com) is a Series-A YC backed financial technology company that creates quantitative investment funds in the art market. We build data aggregation pipelines, identify opportunities, build financial models, and create tools to acquire assets.

We apply machine learning algorithms to an antiquated and inefficient market. Our tools allow human-in-the-loop verification of our models and high-level automation of acquiring assets. We are looking for talented individuals to combine software engineering best practices, data science, and rigorous scientific investigation to build quantitative art funds with us.

Our problems are very technical: We structure noisy data from a wide array of sources and we work with bleeding edge ML algorithms in a field where mistakes can translate to millions of dollars. You should care more about analysis being correct then achieving p-values.

We are a small but growing team, based in SoHo, NYC. We deeply value intellectual curiosity, creative idea generation, and close collaboration.

Ideal candidates:

* You have a graduate degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field.
* Professional experience in architecting systems and with numerical or scientific computing.
* You’ve taken courses in optimization, linear algebra, natural language processing, and machine learning.
* Enjoy solving hard problems. You must be comfortable writing code. The better you are at it, the more efficiently you can explore the model space and find winning ideas.
* Proficiency in Python. You’ve contributed to large projects with NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, or popular machine learning libraries.
* Experience in writing fast, performant code (especially numerical code) is a big plus.
* Experience with multiple database technologies is preferred.
* Experience doing research in any scientific field is a plus.
* We value correctness, maintainability, elegance, and testability of code. We want to do things the right way over just getting things “done.” We’re strict about our code style and quality so that you don’t have to spend your time tracking down other peoples’ bugs.
* Knowledge of quantitative finance is a huge plus – but in no way a requirement.

What you’ll do:

* We’re exploring ideas from across computer science and statistics, including supervised learning, imbalanced data and anomaly detection, and ensemble learning deep learning.
* You’ll develop and implement solutions for real-world, large-scale machine learning/statistical problems.
* You’ll build and maintain our data pipeline, help perform hypothesis testing, back testing, model validation, and data visualization systems.

email questions and resumes to careers@arthena.com
The Mesh Network at Work: Ubiquiti Amplifi HD Home Wi-Fi System
Women are talking and these companies make them happiest
You can absolutely take down the offending material; you'll just lose the collateral (you can also transfer the contract to someone else but that will likely not be legal in all jurisdictions). However, as the contracts are made between the clients and miners directly, miners can choose to charge anonymous/untrusted clients more to make up for this potential eventuality.
> Some of us prefer to live in a free country of laws and are willing to make a little noise now and then.

Exactly, that's why I choose not to live in the USA.
Also if you're not a US citizen you have no rights whatsoever at the US border.
So painful to read this article. How did it get on the front page? Is it that it's funny how confidently the author has no idea what "disrupt" means?

Summary: new car introduced at same price as current leading car in category, but with a bit more room and slightly nicer, and they give you cake when you pick it up.

Literally, that's the whole article.
Ask HN: Investors have lost faith. Next steps?
I was brought in as a lead engineer in a startup project inside an already established company, given the brief that the project is "well funded" and has "every opportunity".

Its now 6 months later, we have the beginnings of a product that I believe is marketable, and now the board of directors for the parent company has called a meeting next week to discuss whether or not to cancel the project.

Essentially they want financial projections for the next 3, 6, 12 and 24 months and are expecting us to turn a profit in the next 6 months.

I'm not really sure what I should be doing at this point. Are these unrealistic goals? I'm sure we can get customers in the next month or so, but a profit?! Not in 6 months, no way. How do I explain that this just isn't going to happen...

Really lost right now, gave up a stable and secure job for this.
This is a fantastic story. I'm so happy to hear that it worked for you!! Thanks for sharing!
Here's a relatively recent roundup of the state of research: http://psychedelictimes.com/iboga/the-evidence-for-ibogaine-...
Note also: /r/quittingkratom/

This one is interesting because many people use kratom to wean off opioids.
> I mean, if it isn't verifiable, then how would it at all be exploitable, and then patchable?

Let's assume you're right and smart contracts are verifiable. Verifiable by whom? I can assure you that my non-techie friends could not verify a smart contract themselves, so they will have to trust some authority that verifies the contract for them. The chain of trust now moves entirely into meatspace again and will be subject to the same economic and social forces as existing financial systems. So what has Ethereum accomplished other than adding an automated intermediary to transactions?

For a real-life example of what this might look like consider HTTPS. In theory SSL allows you to cryptographically verify the identity of the site you're looking at. In practice your ability to do this is still bounded by the competence of third parties like browser vendors and the integrity of CAs issuing certificates.
An important example of the government's role in medicine.
> why would a judge not enforce that?

Because the purpose of a judge is to interpret the law, not enforce Ethereum software invariants.
Probably will affect them; best to ensure you have a backup auth method.
The vulnerability being discussed is for a particular multi-sig wallet, not the Ethereum blockchain itself.
Can you name a 2-stroke model scooter being sold new in India? Everything I can find currently being sold is 4-stroke. In fact AFAICT 2-strokes are illegal to sell new in India.

(Personally I'd rather ride a scooter than drive a tiny car in a dense urban area, because my awareness is much higher on a scooter, and also I've ridden scooters around London for a decade.)
I think NoJS users are the opposite of vegans. Vegans scream that "Not eating animals works for me, maybe it works for you too!" rather than "Without meat my body does not work, could you change the nutritional requirements for humans?"
But you do, as far as your own hosting of that data is concerned - You shut off your node and delete your data store.
That is a great value. Way more in line with what one site ought to cost in my opinion.
>if was genuine, he would suggest another option: starting a small/medium business in tech.

It's an essay relating his personal experience. (Notice that Seibel wrote: "Here is how I learned this about myself. [... rest of text ...]"

He didn't cofound a small-medium-lifestyle business so he wrote what he was familiar with: justin.tv/twitch.

Lastly, I didn't see any advice that didn't also apply to small-medium businesses. (See the 3 questions to ask oneself at at the end.) He's not advising anyone to start another billion dollar Youtube clone or a company that requires YC funding. One can take his questionnaire and apply it to starting a small bootstrapped 5-person consulting firm if that's what your idea of a "startup" means to you.
Garage. It worked for Apple, Google, and HP.
To be fair, tech is full of relatively unfamiliar and complicated language and concepts (at least for the average Journalism major). While I won't deny the sensationalist nature of the coverage (it is the British press after all), I do think it's still generally fair.
I had an awful experience and ended up them having to refund me the fee required to start the job search. My company needed someone with WebRTC expertise and they had no one that knew anything about that technology which is strange seen as it's quite a big deal right now with apple having added into the latest release of Safari etc.

Lots of yeses but really they should of said no no no
I can see a business opportunity for 'fake but believable device activity as a service'
That definitely is quite... random!
> No coal trains in India except Heritage pieces.[1]

Sorry, I meant diesel.

> The Diesel ones have an Auxiliary power units to save Diesel which they are hauling around anyway now. Your point of hauling around batteries and equipment even now happens in all Diesel locos with multiple compressors and stuff.

Consider the energy density of diesel versus a lithium ion battery. Now consider the weight of an array of solar panels versus a small diesel generator. It's a great deal of weight gain. The compressors you carry are a sunk cost and are irrelevant.

The weight gains just put more work on the locomotives diesel engine. You will use more diesel in one location.

> The Solar changes will mostly augment the Diesel units progressively thus strategically reducing dependence on Diesel, which India is a huge importer every year.

You're not reducing diesel consumption. You're just moving it from an array of generators to the engine.
Have you heard about https://prescreen.io/ ? We too have a clear pricing. ;) Full disclosure, I'm one of the co-founders.
Thanks for being honest about it. I think founders are masochists. We have to put up with tons of struggles, uncertainties, rejections, setbacks, hypocrisies, backstabbing, betrayals, slanders, deceptions, agonies, burn-out, blood, sweat, and tears while trying to keep positive tone on the outside to keep the team motivated and stick to the vision and mission and not lose investor's confidence. Just thought I asked if you can share what worked in your experience. Thanks.
The testpilot program from mozilla has a beta test for sidebar tabs. This is still not tree, but can be a decent alternative if you need tree style tabs to reclaim screen real-estate.
It follows the "safe-space" "you're not allowed to dissent" model pioneered by some "leftist" subs, and will ban people for having perfectly legitimate dissent.

Exactly -- and why I lasted only a week on Reddit. It's nothing but a collection of echo chambers. No matter how sincere and thorough I would try and make arguments, if they're weren't in line with the herd I'd get downvoted to oblivion (no counter argument except insults) if not outright banned (never had been banned before). It's no fun participating when the only accepted input is "me, too!"
This research and your story give me so much hope for people who have inoperable cancers and can't handle chemo. I look forward to the day that we can rank cancer among syphilis, tetanus, and all of the other past disease scourges of man made completely eliminable by a non lifelong treatment.
So let me understand now that we are officially off-topic.
Letting people write that opioids are better than alcohol, so that someone will feel incentivised to try them, is not against hacker news guidelines.
Answering a direct question expressing my opinion that I would rather save a child than someone that doesn't want to be saved, as shown in the other discussion last week, is against the guidelines and off-topic.
I would say that this is the strangest interpretation of the guidelines that I ever witnessed..
> Users of the contract should pay an insurance fee

Which would make such contracts significantly more expensive than regular contracts that are reversible by trusted intermediaries and legal authorities.

Paying out insurance claims is much more expensive than simply reversing a transaction. This is part of the reason Bitcoin never took off as an alternative to credit cards. Consumer protections are much more expensive to wrap around immutable transactions.
Because the cryptocurrency space attracts only the brightest minds.
The problem arises when they stop at kratom. The ideal pathway is opioids > kratom > kava, or alcohol > kava
The cloud ? Do you mean a third party owned server, probably one that is hosted on US soil and subject to patriot act, one over which you have no rights ?

That's not how you protect sensitive data.

Try crossing the border with a reset device and see by yourself if this makes you suspicious enough to get yourself in trouble (hint: it is)
Azure Stack: What IT pros need to know about it
... because it breaks the basic fundamentals of a block chain. A block chain is supposed to fight against roll backs not support them.

Sure, the core team / devs are using the rollback for good. But will that always be the same in the future? It's an avenue for abuse and one of the primary reasons ether isn't going to take off.
"We" possibly never did trade goods instead of using currency. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
As a counterpoint: My spouse's ongoing education is currently dependent on my regular income. Once she graduates it'll effectively double our collective income and hopefully give her her first good career. I'm not sure how I could sell gambling all of that on a 90% chance of failure even if I wanted to. Sounds like the act of a gambling addict.

Also, if you need to gamble your family's livelihood to find out if your spouse really loves you or not, why are you married? Similar sentiment for your friends. Being able to sympathize with the homeless sounds like a horrible return for sacrificing your livelihood. Dealing with backstabbing co-founders doesn't sound all that educational, just miserable. Fake people are a thing in all walks of life.

I don't come from the rosiest background in the world, I've had enough severe instability and drama forced upon me in the past to know there's nothing romantic about it. It should be avoided unless there's a tangible payoff, and certainly greater than a 10% chance of success.

My regular corporate job is currently giving me a stable platform upon which I can save, build up my household and consider launching a business on my own terms. It's also giving me valuable professional experience as I see how a large company ships product. I'm so glad I didn't go the startup route straight out of college, I've learned so much about business on the job that my engineering degree never remotely touched. It's hardly my dream job but I don't dread my work, nor do I feel like a zombie.

In 10 years I'll likely have enough saved up to seriously consider my own business, and enough contacts/professional clout to go back to regular work if it fails. I'll also have 10 more years of business experience to draw on, likely from at least 2 more companies. Why do a startup now, or God forbid right when I graduated, when I have/had the fewest resources and the fewest advantages?
Basically, when crossing the US border you have no rights.
> get rubes to work for pitiful amounts of money

The typical founders are grads of top universities and on average end up worth several million from the YC thing.

(2015 stats - value of YC startups, 65bn, number 940 so valuation / startup $69m. say 1/3 stays with the founders and there are 2 on average that's $11m/founder)
Depends if you limit it to moped - moped collision then the numbers are different. But a car - moped collision is arguably a car fatality not a moped fatality.

That said walking is very dangerous per mile, but cars get a lot more miles on them.
Yeah! Well, uh... except that one time.... mumblemumble
Are the social sciences universally not science or just when they study the processes by which society ascribes genders to individuals?
I chose this trial because the I liked the fact that my own immune system was being boosted to fight my cancer.

We need more of this.

Congrats on being NED.
It's the same group that rescued funds during The DAO attack so they have a good history of benevolent hacking.

They are just going to deploy new multi-sig contracts with a fix and make the original owners the owners of the new contracts. Pretty easy to do. They are actually paying for the gas to do the fix using donations they received for their work on The DAO attack so the original wallet owners aren't even out the gas the fix would charge (which isn't all that much but it's nice that they are being made completely whole).
Lessons from the CIA’s classified guide to good writing
Microsoft Delivers Azure Stack to Advance Hybrid Clouds
Ah thanks, very interesting. This part was telling:

"Precision dice with rounded (or cut) corners are recommended where a limited rolling area is available, the cut corners allow the dice to tumble, in particular the smallest size of 1/2 inch (13 mm) are becoming increasingly used by many RPG gamers."

I didn't think about backgammon being a small dice rolling area, but that makes total sense.
> Hard fork can't even undo this, from my understanding.

This is completely incorrect.

A hard fork can undo anything, it's just backing up before this happened and continuing down another path as if it didn't.
Define robbery.
I've tried to start a startup, 2 times. I failed both times.

And now I have 0 money left, the family that cannot help me, I don't have a job and can't find one and thankfully I have some friends that are giving me a place to sleep.

Should I start another startup? I wish. Will I do it? I don't know how.

I wish I had a magic idea and some people to invest in it, but not living in the Valley and not having a clue on how to find great ideas I'm kinda stuck.

I'm already looking for a job, the problem is that I have the fear that the more I wait for the next startup and the more it'll be harder to build a product from scratch because the expectation from all markets will be higher.

Ideas?
I think there's some truth to the family support part of this. I was just racking my brain trying to think of any founder I knew (and I know a ton of them) that was in the position of "success or potentially homeless". But, I can't. I think there's some variable confounding going on when YC and others talk about people in their early 20's being better positioned to do startups because they're less risk averse due to youth. I think they're less risk averse because it's not such a big deal for them to move back in with their parents if they fail. And, their parents are usually still working and therefor able to handle the strain of that.

Nearly every successful founder I know of had either very wealthy parents, very supportive family and friends, or both.

I don't see any shame in admitting that it's not about some romanticized risk taker ideal alpha geek, but rather about upper class kids lucky enough to have a bunch of built in risk arbitrage supports that they lucked out on being born with.
Locking out people because they might be confused by data seems... quite patronizing.

I'm not saying I am entitled to mozilla's data, but if that were the reason behind closing data that was once open I would feel a little insulted.

Lack of openness also makes participation more difficult. For example I occasionally see links by mozilla developers posted on IRC (some telemetry, google spreadsheets) that require login, which makes it more difficult to follow what's going on.
I always wondered why nobody implemented an App store for news and magazine articles that can be accessed through the internet (i.e. not device specific).

Why didn't Amazon do this? Or Apple? Google?
This is why I keep saying that "smart contracts" should be expressed in some declarative notation like decision tables. Byte-coded programs as contracts were a really bad idea. Contracts need to be readable, not just executable.
> Do I seek the hard challenges that most people shy away from?

Arguably, you can find much harder challenges working for a bigco, at least when it comes to engineering challenges.

Also, surprisingly one of the biggest factors involved when it comes to starting a startup is not mentioned: idea itself.
There are presumably still actual nation-state like laws that apply. Heck, laws still apply to contracts.
https://www.amazon.es/dp/1521567476
Odds etherium does another hard fork to fix this bug?