skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simple, if you want to fly, just fall and miss the ground.

Simple doesn't mean easy.

I used to suffer from severe clinical depression and ultimately the only thing that's helped was to learn how to control my thoughts. It still rears its head when I'm tired, hungry, or drunk enough so I don't have the energy to control my thoughts. Hell, sometimes I just relax too much and forget to and it comes rushing back.

But on the bright side, the need for constant productive output has really helped both my career and my physique. Pros and cons I guess.

Ultimately I find this much more desirable than the antidepressants that just made me numb to everything.
A paper titled "Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality" [1] was recently published by students at Stanford GSB that put forth a new model for valuing privately held companies [2]. If you consider "Table 8: Detailed Unicorns Fair Values and Post-money Valuations", Uber objectively has one of the smallest deltas of all valuations listed at 12% (bested only by Snapchat and Lyft out of ~100 companies).

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2955455

[2] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/silicon-valleys-unicor...
And just how much of most of these navel-gazing schleps lives are really worth capturing?
That's why I said value and not actual return on investment. They have created an insane amount of value in the stock that Benchmark owns. If you were an investor would you rather take the money that Benchmark originally invested, or the stock they received for it? Pretty easy answer unless you think they will go bankrupt.
Linked in never made it "public". Use of their site is and always has been licensed. https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement
Antifa is not just anti-facism. If you go to any of their rallies or counter protests you'll find most are socio-anarchists or communists who don't see anything wrong with violence.
The video you linked to is by "Project Visuals" which is run by James O'Keefe.

O'Keefe is a conservative activist has a storied history of "severely editing" videos to mislead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe
Many people aren't attuning it to outdoor light levels.
Almost everyone that uses that phrase uses it in OP's context, making your comment seem like mere pedantry.
I strongly disagree. I switched to Duck Duck Go about six months ago and haven't missed Google at all.

Maybe Google was much better at some point in time in the past, but I haven't noticed any meaningful difference these days.

Google's advantage is their massive brand awareness. They've done an outstanding job with brand marketing - positioning themselves as smart and nerdy, so people are inclined to subconsciously think of them as highly performant, even without any evidence to back it up.
Our Nissan Leaf does (give or take) 4 miles/kWh, or 0.25 kWh/mile, FWIW. I did the math one time, or someone else did, I forget. Anyway, cover the roof of the Leaf with panels and it would make a negligible difference in range. In a fit of dreaming of life off the grid in an RV, I can fit eight 100W panels on the top of our VW camper, and the usable roof on that thing is probably twice what the leaf has.
I'll be happy to get apples without fingernail dents in them.
Why should we not want the public spaces to be publically owned?
No, all of cryptography is based on the assumption that P !=NP
They can fail though (and I've seen it happen, overload, excessive moisture, etc.,). How do you know this before you touch the doorknob and get the (possibly final) zap of your life?

If the failure mode is potentially "you die", then we're probably better off low tech.
Why would you have to be careful? Reading is not a crime.
Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg is even aware of such things.

I work in a small company of less than 50 people and different teams/depts. barely know what each other is working on.
But then how will we know that paper is correct?
These massive breaches sort of scare but at the same time sort of relieve me. If everyone has their information leaked, there is a low chance that any one person will be an identity theft victim.
There are some heavy-duty hand drills on Alibaba.[1] It's not a dead technology.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Double-Pinion-Two-Spe...
I wonder if they have an "Application Process" for who is allowed to go offline. Their biggest problem has been drones straying into places they shouldn't. Airport locations can be stored offline but emergency FAA drone "blackouts" are relayed online. What happens when someone uses this to document a protest in DJI's native China. Hmm?

Edit: To make it clear, I've always had a love-hate relationship with this form of DRM.
Yes, they wanted to get the poem banned, so the law would be appealed (which it then was).
Recently listened to this on a road trip and I can report that it kept me interested and awake :). This podcast quickly focuses in on the problem of boolean satisfiability and the history of SAT solvers for those unfamiliar with said topics.
Exactly. If the boss is the one doing the harassing there's almost nothing you can do. I suppose you could be a witness for the harassment lawsuit. Actually attempting to police your boss is likely to just get you fired.
How about, let's all stop being so judgmental about other peoples' language choices.
well it would be kinda difficult to control a remote-controlled drone if it's completely radio silent.
You might find the value proposition a bit different where governments pay for student tuition.
I agree. I've used Bing for a long time now, starting as an experiment to see how big the difference was. In practice the difference is very small, although once a week or so I'll need to use Google to search for something.
Hah, yes I'm a white male.
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It has to look tempting to Apple to get into the search engine business. They already have Siri, which is similar to the front end of a search engine.
It's great to see DreamHost stand up for their users in this instance but they're not always like that.

I had a bogus DMCA takedown filed against a WP blog I have on a DH shared hosting account. DH went into my DB and took the post offline before they even notified me.

Had they bothered to notify me first or spend 5 min reading the blog they would have found it to be clearly fair use.
I feel it's misleading, it's naming feels like its coat tailing off implying something like a university comp sci degree ( with a practical bent), and this seems more of a React web/mobile app design course with a bit of C++ and some basic algorithms ( presumably so they can pass interviews that seem to be obsessed with such things )

$30k seems steep, and while 0 $ upfront is appealing, that kind of strategy can be exploitative( like 0% deposit financing ). It can be super appealing to someone who doesn't have much money, but they end up paying a lot more than they really should be.

Not saying this is bad (maybe it's good thing), but when look through it, I'm getting alarm bells.
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The Heights We Go To
No TCS grad student I have talked to has had this experience...

Almost everybody in the field knows we're far from an actual proof with current techniques.
In this instance, however, it is not (as can be gleaned by reading the article).
You brought it up?!
Ask HN: Why Is Hyperloop One Advertising on Facebook?
This sponsored video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAWEOwDDt_Y) just popped up in my Facebook feed. What could they have to gain by spending money on this? They claim to be aiming to have an operational hyperloop by 2021, so I doubt they're trying to get me to buy any tickets. Do they think I'm a VC or something?
Right, gizmo686 is arguing for a line of defense at a different place (installation) which I agree would be far more useful.
> We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions

and

> those who generally allow such bleak feelings as sadness, disappointment and resentment to run their course reported fewer mood disorder symptoms than those who critique them or push them away, even after six months

Yet the comments so far are mostly about "controlling your thoughts", rather than accepting negative emotions (and maybe looking at what they're trying to tell you rather than killing the messengers).
> LinkedIn is not a public service

Boo. OP said it's a service offered to the public. Don't need to move the goal post.

> Whether it's enforceable or not, LinkedIn has a EULA and use of their service, whether you have an account or not, is presumably governed by their license.

Turns out I also have a EULA. And when linkedin responds to my HTTP requests, they opt into my EULA agreement.

It sounds like LinkedIn doesn't want to be accessible from the world wide web. Going offline is always an option.
Don't do much news sites, most are pushing the shiny new tech of the month - which changes just about as often.

Advice - don't try to learn it all at once, lots of technologies (CSS is truly brain damaging to logical back-end folk, take it easy)... also best to keep your HTML as simple as possible and style and script out from there.

for a book, I suggest Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith Very good terse visual intro to CSS, will give you a good insight on what CSS is capable of, which is quite a lot.

Look for the basics on responsive layouts, those grids and templates are usually set up for non-developers and add a lot of cruft you can do without. - this looks good - https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ui...

Javascript - if you don't want a lot of effects, you can do most effects with only a little javascript without resorting to JQuery (google to help you there) same with DOM work and AJAX - Google what you need and if you get some stackoverflow suggestions read though all the examples, sometimes the less popular ones are more sane.

Especially if you are looking to do public facing front-end work, read up whatever security tips for your backend (filtering/escaping input, preventing cross-site scripting, and database exploits, etc.).

Keep plugging along, you'll get there - Good luck
The "no tipping" was a great precedent they set. It made their service super easy to use. Call your ride, get in, get out, leave a rating if you're pissed off (vs. spending weeks dealing with the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission). Americans want to tip so badly, the only way to prevent them from doing it is to not give them the option to (it was always possible to tip in cash, but the intention was clearly to have all interactions happen through the app). Tipping doesn't actually lead to drivers earning more money, it just leads to the price of rides dropping as the need to tip increases quantity supplied and decreases quantity demanded until prices reach a new equilibrium, at which point the drivers are still making the same amount and riders are still paying the same amount, except now riders get all stressed out about how much they should tip and drivers get all stressed out about how much their passengers are going to tip. Drivers only think tips are a good idea since most of them aren't smart enough to understand economics. Or, perhaps the Lake Wobegon effect is at play and an overwhelming majority of drivers believe they would receive more tips than average.
I'm constantly surprised at how many designers use flux and its alternatives. I can't stand the color shift and I'm not even a designer. How do you put up with it?
Yes, it would. The adversary in cryptography is assumed to be worst-case evil; it'll do whatever it can to break your algorithm, as long as it's performing a polynomial amount of computation. Remember, you're not just fighting your friendly neighborhood hacker, but possibly entire nation-states.
You haven't really made a point, just made a few vague but very strong statements. Uber impacted my life by vastly increasing my mobility.

Can you give an example of what you think should (???) be the most important company of a generation?
Love the concept! What about the people who want to freelance after the program? What will be the fees for them?
Indeed. It will also save your company time and money (in more ways than one).

I work for an ISP and I intentionally do not log user <-> IP address mappings. The time I've had to spend producing similar information in response to such requests is very minimal (basically, "sorry, we don't have that!").
Re: "If you put in the effort, you can be playing something musical in a few months..."

Months?! With an auto-harp, one can be playing in an hour. Auto-harp is instant gratification; I just wish it had a fuller sound. Inventors, work on that.

I tried learning guitar from Youtube vids, and my fingers were sore. They don't bend that way, at least not without pain. Will the pain go away? I'm not young.
In a landmark decision that maintains you can take a picture of your community bulletin board... le sigh
Agreed. Even in the event of the discovery of work which would qualify as minimally sloppy, I'd think his reputation (if not wanting of some polish) would still be intact after a quick retraction.
I mean, I guess sometimes that's how we recruit people in the security industry? That and job ads on LinkedIn?
out of curiosity, does anyone know if this company is scraping just whats available if you're not logged in or are logging in and scraping. I believe Linkedin shows different information based on if you're logged in or not ?
> you have to keep a cool head about it, and remember that each interview is to a certain extent a roll of the dice.

Thanks, this is somewhat comforting. :)
Care to elaborate on the Siri fiasco? I'm out of the loop.
This is not a zero sum game (like war) but a greater-than-the-parts game (like trade). Having access to a larger pool of potential employees because the workplace environment is not unpleasant or toxic makes the averages go up. Who doesn't want to work with great people?
That's still almost $5.5 million. Less than the cost of development, but probably not that far off.
Canada has 110v and electric kettles. America apparently just doesn't care for tea (and/or have much of the subpopulations from areas of the world that got big into boiling their drinking water before chlorinated public water came about, and so who see drinking even clean unboiled tap water as gross.)
Ask HN: What's the best book on leadership you know of?
I'm using "conspiracy" in the colloquial sense, not the legal sense. Obviously, he's charged with more than simply being a member of a conspiracy.

I don't know what you think the prosecution of an actual banking trojan operation would look like and so can't evaluate the implication of something seeming "more like an intelligence operation than a criminal operation". Maybe you could clarify. This isn't the first malware conspiracy case the DOJ has gone after.
The funny thing is that all these "solutions" are implications but not proof, and one contrary demonstration would actually render them all irrelevant as far as I understand the theory of computational p v np time complexity
For the price I don't know if DJI has any competition. The p3s is about 350 bucks and I don't think there is any drone at that price point that is competitive. Maybe the xiaomi drone, but they don't have US warranty. 3DR is out of drones. The other brands just don't work as well with the same range, gimbal etc. There is really no competition to the Mavic.
Using AI to consume new information in real-time
I have made a conscious effort to avoid Google products as much as I could for some time, part social experiment, but also because I could use Bing without having to use a VPN while living in China.

My personal results are that you can totally ditch Google Search, Gmail, etc, and no, Google stuff is not orders of magnitude better. Nowadays, living outside the GFW again, I switch freely between Bing and DuckDuckGo, but it will always be a pain in the ass not having access to Youtube. That, imho, is Google's killer product.

And then you have things like Yandex which is a tad better than Google in Russia and Baidu which does the same in China (compared to Google HK)
They have to be doing it. They can't rely on another company for something so important. Just as Samsung is also doing it, and doing maps, and doing their own OS.

It is stupid to become reliant on Google. Even though their solution would not be as good, they need to have something in case Google cuts them off.
The order discusses how less is required of the merits (need only raise serious questions) if the consequences are dire (going out of business), then discusses how they depend entirely on LinkedIn.

It's also possible that the judge is giving them affordance before killing their business to prevent appeals.
The user agreement does not cover the "public" parts of Linked In, like for example, the user agreement. If I want to copy and republish the user agreement I can, despite of what it might say.

If the startup were republishing private information from Linked In I would agree with you.
What chilling effect would that be? I'm a security researcher, many of my friends are security researchers, none of us sell banking trojans (or write them; they're extremely boring as computer science projects) and none of us have changed what we're working on even a little bit as a result of this case.

Frankly, this sounds a lot like what people said during the advent of the Hans Reiser trial.

Believe it or not, "security researchers" are just as capable of committing crimes as everyone else is.
DJIs can fly along a programmed path.
I don’t see anyone linking to the actual ruling, so I grabbed it from PACER. Here it is:

https://drop.qoid.us/linkedin-081417.pdf
This is about influencing peoples current bias. Preaching to the choir won't win an election; changing the opinion of the opposition will.
Increasing mass will require changing Jupiter's momentum in order to get a stable binary.

The rest of the planets will go wild, true.
30 people at $10 per class, or 15 people at $20. It's not unusual.
The same! It's income-based regardless of where you work.
this mirrors my experience after going through a bout of anxiety disorder during my time in college.

Just a few sessions with a psychologist who suggested 'mindful' behaviour (defined as observing your own emotions and not judging yourself rather than being involved in them) helped a pretty great deal.

As most people who have dealt with this probably know, trying to surpress anxiety symptoms does not help at all and mostly makes the attacks worse.
No I am not. It is really that simple. People can say and think whatever stupid thing they want. As soon as you put limits on what people can say it becomes a slippery slope (Hey let's ban talking about Abortion - you do not think that would happen given enough control to that camp?). The only way to be safe it just to allow people to say what they want (with in the limits of "fire in a theater" or liable) and deal with it. You do not have to like it. Feel free to argue and protest against it. That is your right because what comes out of your mouth is just a protected as something that comes out of the dumbass alt-right people. I am not afraid of what they say. I challenge the facts and truth of it but it is their right to be stupid. Only education and good people standing up for what is just and correct removes the sources of hate speech. Banning it is just something that allows people to feel good without solving the source of the issue in the first place.
> Boo. OP said it's a service offered to the public. Don't need to move the goal post.

Nothing moved. OP also said, in the same sentence, "you cannot then police what users of that data you consider to be 'public' because it serves your business interest." Yes, they can. It is clear from context that OP was suggesting that LinkedIn should be held to the legal standards of a "Public Service" in the government entity sense of the term. This is not the case, LinkedIn has no legal requirement to provide anything to the public. Booing me doesn't change that.

> Turns out I also have a EULA. And when linkedin responds to my HTTP requests, they opt into my EULA agreement.

Good luck with that!
I've come to accept this with regards to sexist/racist thoughts. Once you realize that it is a normal, ingrained biological urge to have these thoughts as a result of human evolution and cultural conditioning, it frees you to stop "feeling bad" about having those thoughts and trying to block them out, so that you can objectively assess the flawed assumptions behind them and reason yourself past them without the need for self shaming.
Update gone wrong leaves 500 smart locks inoperable
You know me?
I'am considering taking CS as a part-time education, but I have no intention of becoming a software engineer.
My name is Raja CSP Raman. I am the founder of TalentAccurate, AMA
That's where you (completely earnestly) start talking about how much more concerned you are about the extra wind and all the dangers from it, and maybe how you want the windmills there to slow down strong winds. Avoid discussing the danger of wind spills, you don't want it to be obvious that you're trolling them - you want them to start explaining to you that "it doesn't work that way."

If you can get them looking into it enough to try to teach you about it (seems like human nature to want to correct people who are wrong) then you've won because they'll also pick up (without being told in ways that get their backs up) that they were also wrong and they can just quietly abandon that stand.
1. In Python, Python provides mechanisms for communicating between processes. Literally the exact same mechanisms can be used to communicate between threads. So I'm not sure why you think processes are inherently safer than threads.

2. If we're taking about all languages, I'm really just not sure why you would assume threads imply locks. There are a ton of threading models out there which don't rely on explicit locking, and there are even some that don't use locking, period.
Does the startup want to scrape the public profiles which you see when logged out of LinkedIn? If yes, this profile data is of little value because it's probably 5% of the real profile data (mainly just the summary) and often there are no public available at all, many times these profiles are turned off for public virw.

Or do they mean the 'public' profile which you see when logged in? If yes, this would be a real case because this is awesome data I would like to scrape and which you could build interesting business cases with.
Xshell is backdoored
Yes it turned out to be, but did we know it at the time? If you bought gold during the CA gold rush, how did you know there wasn't 50 million tons of it waiting to be dug up? Turns out you would have done just fine buying gold in 1850. Bitcoin's supply is definitely limited.
Actually, in Europe drinking water is unchlorinated. Chlorinated water is something I'd consider as gross, by default.
Based on the standard IRS deduction, a 30 mile round trip would be about $15. (And the marginal cost is less than that--your insurance at least doesn't generally go up by mileage except to the degree it slightly increases the probability of an accident.) But I agree with your basic point. If people had a clicking meter whenever they got into their car, they'd think a lot more before they turned the key.

Some might say this was a good thing. Personally, I think mobility is generally positive.
Ah I see -- Can you actually describe ownership in python sufficiently well to be able to describe this move operation for any useful python data structures?
Nice, just tried this. It reminds me of the "comfort view" tint on my phone that I forget is on over time.