skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if there was nothing contractual, being asked to do something like this by the CEO after starting a new job would make anyone feel pressured to play along and not make a bad early impression.
For many use-cases, the cost is far more important than the efficiency. e.g., I have a chicken coop that's a few hundred feet from the house and not worth the trouble of running wiring out there. In the past, I used battery-powered LED lighting. I'd much rather switch to solar. Same for the unfinished shed I started building years ago.

Those of us in rural areas often have to cope with wiring difficulties that solar would solve.
If you ever want to truly be held as an expert, you should be doing what you _enjoy_ most. Not for money, not for job security. Purely enjoyment.

The rest will follow.
What would marching in the streets accomplish, exactly?
It is a much heavier setup and wikis have been out of favor past years. As of such their theming and configuration is not up to par when compared to the new kids on the block. In my company (multinational) even IT is phasing out its support, which usually means it's really dying ;).
Unfortunately, you cannot use the app on your mobile device yet. Please use the browser on your computer instead.

I don't know but I suspect many users are on mobile devices like me.
I question starting people on Ruby for web development.

Heavens forbid using a popular, practical language combined with a mature and even more popular web framework.

Anyone starting web development now would do well to stick with Javascript.

Yes, let's recommend people to use a language where the things they learn (to use) stop being maintained/used/relevant 1 month later.

And you can always use that on the backend if you have to

You can use Ruby in the frontend as well: http://opalrb.org/

and if you need to spend time learning something for the backend part you'd be better
served learning about relational databases than Ruby.

What? Learning Ruby doesn't somehow mean you can't learn about relational databases.

When learning/teaching something you very much want to pick something that:

1. Has been around for at least 5 years

2. Is actively used, maintained, and overall has proven itself

3. Has good documentation and tooling

4. Perhaps has programs to help people getting started (Rails Girls, PyLadies, etc)

5. Is still around 5 years from now

Ruby and Rails are a perfect choice for this, though Rails (just like most frameworks out there) _is_ a bit complex for total beginners.
thanks for the info and the edit :)
It is opt out. You can read the comments from the Kite developer yourself.

https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm...

Your comments are such a poor defense of a dubious feature I wonder if you have a connection to Kite.
You know that's a parody right?
>young, energetic, and highly intelligent & analytic

That isn't what works in politics...

What works in politics is knowing which levers to pull, and having the money or influence (in the right paces) to do pull them.
I had RSI issues for years until someone pointed me to this link on Slashdot about 14 years ago:

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu
Do You Want to Classify That? Consider the Cost
What you describe reminds me of Marvin Minsky's 1986 Society of Mind theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

> A core tenet of Minsky's philosophy is that "minds are what brains do". The society of mind theory views the human mind and any other naturally evolved cognitive systems as a vast society of individually simple processes known as agents. These processes are the fundamental thinking entities from which minds are built, and together produce the many abilities we attribute to minds. The great power in viewing a mind as a society of agents, as opposed to the consequence of some basic principle or some simple formal system, is that different agents can be based on different types of processes with different purposes, ways of representing knowledge, and methods for producing results.

> This idea is perhaps best summarized by the following quote: "What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle." —Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind, p. 308
Similar experience where I went to an ER and like six people interacted with me for less than 1-2 minutes apiece plus scans and an unneeded IV which came with a generous offer of Opioid pain meds when I specifically said, multiple times, I wasn't in pain. I got like seven different bills, each for randomint(0,1000). Worse, after wasting a day there - all they could do is just refer me to a specialist. The bills didn't even really explain what they were for, they just kept coming for almost a year after - apparently one for every person who may have looked in my direction plus each scan or test.

So I switched to Kaiser which is slightly better from the billing side but feels pretty mediocre care-wise. I don't hear back from the GP about questions/tests ordered and I've waited literally all night just to get something for a bad cough.

Healthcare in America is truly and thoroughly fucked.
This is the kind of comment that shows the wisdom of keeping "code monkeys" as far away from decisions that matters as humanly possible. Thank you for helping the cause of "pointy haired bosses" everywhere, keep it up.
on an unrelated note: can someone explain why SMS based 2FA was every considered to be a good idea? That crap drives me NUTS.
The description makes it sound like if you are firing weak hand (or strong hand) you might be outside the range of the watch?

They say "just a few inches" which implies less than a foot. That's not going to work for law enforcement or anyone really.

Honestly sounds like they didn't think too hard about real world usage. That describes most handgun manufacturers though and isn't strictly limited to smart gun manufacturers.
He probably has a better chance to win in 2020 than in 2024, doesn't he?
Having an expansive definition of theft merely serves to raise the noise floor.

The "true" purpose of the ACA was to do something about spiraling health care costs. What was passed was a "compromise" where the people pushing for a public option got nothing and the most onerous restrictions on the monied interests were rolled back. This has not been an effective solution in many senses. I decline to further characterize the issue, however; this is extremely close to a political discussion, and those are ban-worthy here.
What area is that?
You can disable Google SMS 2FA anytime.
That statement had nothing to do with the investigation, it was a chance to play up her constituency - this is what politicians do.

Here, let me translate for you:

"I, as a representative of a majority African American district, am making the public and my voters aware that I am involved in a popular issue that they will remember. I can also tie this to the real concern of food deserts because Whole Foods is a grocery store, and it allows me to find relevancy even if only marginally."
C++17 in details: Code Simplification
Ha ha, good one. Yes, it wasn't meant to show anything new, just put it because I've seen many people don't know this sort of stuff - basic command line usage.

Edit: Actually, I had originally meant to write "At the DOS/CMD prompt", but left out the DOS part because who knows how many people even know what DOS is these days ... :)
The important piece to note, which Zuckerberg may or may not understand, is that the UBI should be accompanied by the elimination of the rest of the welfare state (yes, all of it, including minimum wage). Combined with requiring people to be US citizens for 18 years before qualifying should eliminate most of the qualms critics have with the idea. Overall, I don't think the tax burden is significant for a minimalist UBI, because the savings from eliminating our current welfare state full of mal-incentives will increase productivity.
Stallman in the white house would be a complete disaster.
Why I'm Making My Next Hire Outside Silicon Valley – And Why You Should Too
I'm not African American/Black, but Amazon already partners with a similar grocery store in my area called Sprouts. I.e. I can order through Amazon Prime Now my groceries from Sprouts. I don't have a car and the nearest store to me would be a long bus/Uber ride, so having Amazon's help to deliver my groceries saves me not only a lot of time, but money, too. I am very grateful for it
And how would this be implemented? Are you proposing every country creates their own equivalent of the great firewall?
Anything in particular from it that helped you? I'm looking through now. Looks like a good general resource in any case.
>There is a limited supply of housing and they have no interest in building more.

Who is "they"?
Mac malware seems to be mainly motivated by creepiness
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I've used Makefiles to determine what order to run batch jobs in so that dependencies can be met. Instead of describing what order to run things in, you describe what depends on what.

It's pretty cool, but not ideal.
Netflix still runs their DVD service?
Meritocracy is more about how we sort people into skilled and unskilled labor positions. Which is to say that a pay difference between skilled and unskilled labor is the outcome of a capitalist system but a system which gives everyone an equal shot at being skilled labor is a meritocratic one. Which is why I'm curious about your opinion of how meritocratic our society is today.
If you have digestion issues you should do an elimination diet. It's nice to identify the cause(s) so you can avoid it in the future.

I've given up a lot of foods (that made me feel horrible) and generally eat 1 meal around 11:30am and then snack in the evening. It's so nice getting the diet right. I feel so good now. All of my health issues were caused by foods (I recognize this isn't the case for everyone, but it's worth a shot).

Cutting out sugar is awesome. After I did it I really recognized that I was just maintaining a blood sugar high all day long.
I pivoted my idea on an allergen identification system after hearing the same thing from people on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637584
Former neuroscientist here.

I have no idea why this paper is at the top of HN, other than that the former founder of Palm is the lead author.

Setting aside that it hasn't been published or accepted, the only remotely novel thing seems to be they suggest that location information is represented in each column, and this occurs everywhere in the neocortex.

Well, what does the actual biology do? On the one hand, it's well-known that the trillions of long-range connections mean you can find neurons almost everywhere that will fire in response to place/location stimuli.

On the other hand, the entire medical history of restricted lesions and targeted deficits (Broca's area, Wernicke's area, patient HM's hippocampal anterograde amnesia, visual scotomas, etc etc etc) indicate some brain areas really are specialized for some things more than others.

The brain has some redundancy, but it's such an expensive organ (2% of body weight, but 20% of your energy budget) that I would not bet on such widespread replication if avoidable.
thank you for fucking the country. I'm sure you feel very smug now that a few evil fucks are trying to take basic healthcare protection away from a bunch of poor people.
What's minesweeper like now? I'm still on Windows 8.
Yeah, the software token was only intended for testing purposes.[1] HID support is supposedly a goal for later this year.[2] There is also a third-party(?) add-on for hardware token support[3], but apparently it will stop working with FF 57 as it not was not written for WebExtensions.

(Disclaimer: not affiliated with Mozilla; I just check in on bug 1065729 every so often.)

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729#c262

[2]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CryptoEngineering#Web_Auth...

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...
You might want to think about cross-currency IRS and FX products as next steps, because they're more common hedge instruments for corporates (your likely market, if you ever want to go in that direction) compared with options.

To monetize the API I guess your only option would be to partner with an exchange (or something like that) to get access to the necessary market data. A decent API for valuations and pricing would really be a breath of fresh air.
How would canceling Netflix affect Verizon?
186 days ago I posted my app Dongle Daddy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13434787

On this day, it was also featured on Product Hunt and The Next Web leading to around 30k uniques across 2 days. Traffic is now nothing like that unfortunately.

One nice upside is that when I launched, it was picked up by a manager at BT Shop, a fairly large online electronics store in the UK, and I have released a variant of the app which uses their own affiliate scheme and branding. They've integrated this into one of their category pages at https://www.shop.bt.com/category/cables-and-adapters,cables/....
Code Complete, Steve McConnell.
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/cc.htm

One of the best books on programming style and function, backed up with actual research for the recommendations.
That does seem to be a trivial point. You're not going to get 100Mbps unless the entire path between the endpoints can push that speed.

You're getting a 100Mbps connection to the edge of their network and they have peering agreements, what else should they be doing?
We rode horses for millenia, and that never changed until the car came along and suddenly nobody rode horses anymore. The same thing will happen to human labor. Automation will make it obsolete. The only question is how we as a society will deal with humans being made "unnecessary".
Ooo I'm so happy that you mentioned this! I own two Hal Lasko's :) That story is amazing. It really shows the value that tech can add to anyone's life.
Unintuitive Properties of Neural Networks
I think you are right - great catch.
If it tastes better because of your appetite, then that's basically just sacrificing some pleasure of not being hungry for the pleasure of the taste of food, like hitting your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop.

(disclaimer: I practice IF but take issue with this one claim, at least without the stipulation of hunger)
Since some folks have trouble reading between the lines: Google considers all code possibly relevant to its business interests, and treats employees (in)appropriately.

The only way to win is to not have ideas.
> It hit the homepage, but many comments were "I would never trust my data in the cloud" or "Why doesn't everyone use Python/Pandas/SQL".

That's classic HN/slashdot. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I would imagine the argument for concern (not saying I agree with it) goes like this:

If Amazon Whole Foods is freed from the need to be profitable (like the rest of Amazon), and has the access to all of Amazon's other infrastructure, it will have a powerful competitive advantage against all other major grocery chains. Even if Amazon Whole Foods continues to focus on the upper end of the grocery market (which they may not), that will still make it even harder for other chains to compete in those markets, which I assume are more profitable than markets full of poor people.

If a given chain is only able to compete in the markets with the least purchasing power, that could have the effect of causing those chains to go out of business, which would in turn mean store closures in the poorest places. If I'm in charge of Ralph's as they're getting outcompeted in wealthier urban areas with high rents, I have to make up that profit by closing the least profitable stores, right?

Also, why assume that Amazon will keep Whole Foods' pricing or even brand alignment? Maybe they are simply buying a massive infrastructure for Amazon Fresh or whatever, and they intend to compete further down the line? I don't think there is any reason to assume that Amazon Whole Foods will have the same price range as Whole Foods.

By definition, there is no great business to be had selling groceries in poor areas. That's why there are food deserts now. If Amazon drives down margins and helps consolidate the grocery market, there may be even less likelihood that stores in poor areas will open or stay open.

Edit: read the actual letter, which makes very direct points about the potential pitfalls and merely asks for them to be studied (not for the merger to necessarily be blocked):

http://www.ufcw.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/61/files/2017/07/Lt...
> Just as farmers & bowling-pin-setters found new jobs in the past, taxi-drivers will find new jobs in the future.

this seems like something of a religious view, and seems to downplay the nature and scope of technological advancement.

mechanization obviated a lot of physical labor. this made human expansion into mental labor and services more practical. however technology is fast approaching a point where substantial amounts of mental labor and services will be subject to automation.

most 'new jobs' won't necessarily go to humans, as they'll be ripe for automation from the start.
You're focusing on the long term and ignoring the fact that automation job losses affect people in the present and short term.

A person who's job is replaced by automation is screwed in the short term. Nobody will hire them for their primary skills (because the job can be done better/faster by automation), and so they have to learn something new while also working some kind of job to support themselves and families in the meantime.

"Just innovate and come up with a new job and work for yourself" is easy to say, but it's a huge cop out. If it were just that simple then everybody would already be doing that.
Which jobs cannot be automated?
At the large company I contracted for, I negotiated my rate directly with the company. Then, they had their vendor manager hire me, and agreed to pay them my rate + their markup as an hourly wage for my services. I worked directly for the large company, but was an employee of a vendor whose sole purpose was to manage that company's contractors. It was quite bizarre.
I've actually used Windows 3.1.

In Paintbrush you had palette of 20-ish colors, which were or were not dithered depending on whether they were displayable by your graphics adapter. (The default palette consisted of 16 default EGA/VGA colors and few dithered ones, with particularly notable burgundy-ish color that almost didn't look dithered). In the control panel you could set arbitrary 24b RGB colors for user interface elements which were dithered in exactly the same way.

Interesting thing related to this is that Windows 3.1 had significantly different default color scheme depending on what graphics driver you selected during installation. The really default color scheme was similar to OS/2 2.x (pastel colors, active window title with black text on light blue background, different background color for MDI master and slave windows) and significantly different one was used for graphics drivers with 16 or less colors (ie. the one that everybody remembers, with white text on dark blue or black background for active window title bar). Obviously the reason for this was to eliminate dithering in default color scheme.

On the other hand, this was not applied consistently. Windows 3.1 post installation tutorial essentially introduced the pastel yellow (also used in the default color scheme for MDI window background) as the "help popup color", even thought this color was dithered on VGA. Another inconsistency was that Windows 3.1 shipped with CTRL3D.DLL and some (2 or so) applications that used it. (Until Windows 10's consistent Metro-ish style I regarded CTRL3D as the most consistent UI that Windows ever had, because most applications consistently used this same UI style. The Windows 95 HIG mandated style is also nice, but it was never used consistently used by anyone, not even Microsoft itself).
Yeah, if you're talking about underemployment, that's a huge issue, but I think that's more market-driven than skills-driven. People are generally over-qualified than under-qualified.

Too many people are taking on obscene levels of debt to get a college degree, but most aren't really distinguishing themselves by doing that...they're joining a crowd of other people who've proven they have the same skills (on paper).

Do we need more of that?

Hence the need to be entrepreneurial. Everyone doesn't have to create the next Instagram, but if they can just acquire a skill to offer their communities some kind of a service, like the world worked before limited liability and the 401(k), they should be alright.

Many (most?) of these skills don't require $200k to acquire.

What is different in today's situation is that we're asking people to do more than they did in their past: learning a new skill and offering it to others is damn hard. Leaving a farm to work in a factory where someone tells you what to do all day is easy (not literally, but it doesn't require your livelihood to depend on your creativity/luck).
You're right, Microsoft revealed last year in a Hot Chips presentation that HPU v1 is a Cadence Tensilica DSP with custom instructions [1]. Given that, I'd bet that HPU v2's neural net core is Cadence's "Vision C5" [2].

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-hololens-hpu-arch...

[2] https://www.cadence.com/content/cadence-www/global/en_US/hom...
Pegasus was used by governments to target specific individuals. If you're being targeted by governments I would agree you're out of luck even on iOS.
As a former neuroscientist, the majority of people who claim to have grand unified theories of the brain are those who haven't studied it enough to know how far we still have to go.
> Being raised in a family that struggles to make ends meet might give one the grit and character one needs to succeed.

Or it stacks the odds against you, and you'll struggle the same way those before you in your family/social group did.
So are you accusing them of malicious throttling or that they just have bad peering agreements that configuring a different network path ends up being faster?
There is plenty of iOS malware, its just burred behind a "free" app which appears to be a simplistic game or whatever..
Almost any politician will tell you that taxing employer-sponsored health insurance is a "3rd rail".

Almost any economist will say this is one of the largest problems with US health care costs and employment mobility.
Nothing on that site makes the claim that Apple software is immune from malware. They claim that it's "secure", but that's relative anyways. All of the real iOS malware I know of abuses either jailbroken devices or enterprise provisionings. The standard infection case of "ran something you shouldn't have" or drive by downloading is a lot harder to pull off there.
Mostly because, thus far, it has the best user setup experience (doesn't require user to download a new app and hence can often get enabled in seconds) and has the best "lost device"/"broken device" story (people tend to not have their backup codes). I think things like Soft U2F can change that equation a bit. An iCloud keychain synced 2FA credential would go a long way toward addressing some of the usability issues with traditional TOTP based 2FA.
Unfortunately there's no shortcut to it. They basically follow the principles outlined by Dr. Sarno that has treated RSI patients as if RSI is a real physical malady with psychogenic origins.

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/mb_what_is.html
This doesn't change that Pik's patent status is currently uncertain while HEVC's is known.

We can certainly discount Pik as soon as a patent that covers it is discovered, until then it's just a promising project to pay attention to.
This is the fundamental problem with all 'smart' guns. Adding significant complexity to a system that needs to be as close to 100% reliable as possible is never going to be worth the effort, at least any time in the near future.
This is the only real answer