skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd be willing to bet that we'll soon see comments full of anecdotes from people who have never seen sexism or this kind of harassment in their workplaces claiming that there is no problem.

I think this happens because people generally believe that a anecdote confirming the null hypothesis serves as evidence for that hypothesis. It's one of the best examples of something that scientists, engineers, and so-called "logical" thinkers screw up on a day-to-day basis.

In other words, suppose I claim that some days a subset of the population can see the earth's sky as green, rather than blue. My null hypothesis in this case is that the sky is blue and always will be for all people at all times. Finding several anecdotes from people who have seen the sky blue can never confirm my null hypothesis. They may have simply never seen the sky green.

In statistics, we can sort of work around this problem with p-tests or confidence intervals. In interactions with normal humans, I like to take the personal approach of always putting a little more weight in anecdotes that push against the null hypothesis. Just because they're contrarian, it doesn't mean their argument is more valid, but when you encounter something "outside of the norm" it's worth evaluating whether your sense of "normal" is more biased than you might think.
> Laws against spam do not target messages on the basis of their content (except in so far as they are commercial advertising, which is a less protected category of speech)

I'm not a lawyer, but the parenthetical is doing a lot of work here.
Stealing is an Art?
When you figure out what that is let me know.

Please do not mention getting lucky
>There have been many demanding days in the last couple of years where I felt that if I would just give in and allow myself a cup of coffee, I would get more done.

Caffeine doesn't do anything for me anymore except stop dependence side effects - been thinking about ditching it and using modafinil on days like these - seems relatively side effect free and easy to get pharma grade stuff.
It's the premise that is the most controversial, not the conclusion.

People can debate all day over whether America's current system is sustainable. When they start to suggest the inclusion of the female vote is part of the reason for that, they're understandably going to face some backlash, regardless of whatever corrections they make in the future. What he wrote is clear enough, and his correction can be understood by conservatives to be insincere, since it was forced on him by the mainstream view.
Ive done a fair bit of GUI development in Python, mainly using Qt and not hit any significant responsiveness issues. The multi-threading support in Python is perfectly fine for providing responsive switching between activities and event loops, as long as you don't have anything that locks hard for too long. But in that case you can always split that off into a separate process e.g. The way browsers nowadays run a process per tab.
Giving racists, on either the left or the right, is never a waste of time...
You can implement basic auth using Lambda@Edge.

You could also implement your own non-expiring signed URLs with Lambda@Edge too.
The income share is forgiven after five years. Hopefully we can weed those types out in application process.
No, not really. Who the hell thinks that "all speech should be protected"? You're oversimplifying a complex issue into a soundbyte that is not and has never been real. Nobody defends hate speech.
Apple Maps was never as bad as the media hype suggested at the time. It wouldn't surprise me if 2/3rds of users never encountered any major problems. While it was worse than Google Maps it was still as good or better than most automaker nav and portable units people were accustomed to using.
I own Spectacles. Yes, you can retrieve the videos and do whatever you want with them, without ever sharing them via Snapchat. Here's the workflow:

1. Take video

2. Enable BT and WiFi on your smartphone

3. Open Snapchat on your smartphone

4. Wait for what seems like forever for the phone to find the Spectacles. Charging them in the case seems to help, as does charging the phone?

5. Wait for the phone to grab the low res version.

6. Wait for the phone to grab the "HD" version. (Note: this may (?) be automatic on iOS. I own an LG V20.)

7. Navigate through Snapchat's terrible interface to the video you want to save.

8. Save to your phone. You're done!

They come out as 800x800 videos that are circular, so the true resolution is (-21.4% vs square).
After I got my bachelors and moved in with my girlfriend I figured I would make a living freelancing. I had a few contacts from having done moonlighting and part time contracting work while in school. First thing I do is I call this guy I know out Arizona. We'd work together when he was doing some contract work before his current stable gig. Two days later he called me back with a great project that was kicking off "next week". That was May of 1995, it still hasn't kicked off so far as I know.

I took a regular job three weeks later. We'd talked, it was still "a week or two out." Eventually over the years, my Rolodex expanded to where I could take another stab at it when an economic down cycle made my job evaporate and I was kind of more or less able make it work.

You're ready to start when you have a signed contract and the retainer check has cleared. Software contracting is no different from any other type of contracting. 80% of it is sales. The other 80% is doing the work. Nobody who hasn't already asked you to do a project for them is likely to care on the day you open the doors and hang out a shingle.
The three most important things are:

1. Get the job.

2. Get the job.

3. Get the job.

Good luck.
It may be on a consumer account, but you can get a business account at a residential address from most providers; and in many cases you need to to get the balance of upstream to downstream to you'd want for hosting, even leaving aside ToS concerns.
100% agree being around other students would be a huge plus. I went to a school where I was surrounded by 40 other amateur programmers all driven towards building awesome products and writing quality code. Being in that environment is what made me obsessed with software.

There's actually a program called Make School that's pretty similar to this Lambda school, except they DO have student dorms and even offer a 2k/month living stipend in SF. Finding Make School on ProductHunt a few years ago was probably one of the highlights of my young adulthood.

https://www.makeschool.com/product-college
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/makeschool-gap-year
> How do you get your figure to press down just right on the string and not interfere with another.

The main secret is: Press just behind the fret. This will give the cleanest sound with the less amount of pressure.

Also, you need good ergonomics. Your wrist should never feel ackward; it should be as straight and relaxed as possible. This often needs wearing the guitar with a strap, and with the guitar hanging high (as most bass players do), rather than low as in most music videos (because it looks so cool to have the guitar hanging low...)
Does anyone know where to view this ruling?

I'm curious how it passes free-association muster: you're not allowed to discriminate on particular tasks, but there's no reason you can't discriminate based on eg, behavior or user-agent or IP address.

It seems very strange to me that the judge would order MS to associate against their will prior to hearing the arguments.
I mean...you can't make math simpler. like...math is math. you can create resources that make it easier to teach math (and for the record high quality textbooks on AI/ML ABOUND). I think you want software and libraries so you can build things without understanding the math. To some degree this already possible (see my english major linkedin friends playing withs sci-kit etc etc). Fundamentally though, I think you need at least some basic understanding of the mathematics to interpret results/create new ideas. Arguing otherwise is like saying you can code without knowing what a queue is...I mean sure you can probably create something that compiles and runs but your horizons will be more narrow than someone with a full computer science education and grounding. just like trying to do ml without at least some understanding of the math is like a blind man trying to open a door.

case-in-point: I am on hn right now because my research is going badly because I am using another researcher's code and I don't fully understand the correspondence between the paper and the code. I am getting terrible results on some multi-class classification (i.e. approximately random). I am not sure if I am using some wrong parameters or because the signal I am looking for doesn't exist in the data. Not knowing at least some mathematics would make this a LOT harder
I was responding to the general statement made in the comment to which I replied.
Intrinsically better? They're not.

Intrinsically more connected to you, and therefore worthy of you giving at least somewhat higher priority on their welfare? Definitely yes.
Note: The percentage of women in computing is roughly 25%. I don't know how she got the 90% and 98% numbers.
It made sense throughout the whole stack. We're right on the edge of small-midsized, so we need to find technologies which our people know or can easily learn.

Database level, our DBAs are very SQL Server oriented and all of our primary data stores are such, the ORM for .NET Core, Entity Framework plays very well with it. This was probably the biggest factor. It has a decent Redis library.

Application Level, it is a managed runtime, strongly typed, performant, with a strong ecosystem of libraries. We're running calculations on data so out of the box performance is important. Scaffolding models into Controllers and Views is handled very well, along with migrations. Strong facilities for serializing and parsing Json & XML. Nice interfaces for integrating email and SMS services. It has a secure, extensible authorization framework (Identity Server). It has a strong debugger, when you make a typo, you know right away, so you can cut out the vast majority of issues by the time you're running it. Easily share class libraries across projects with a private NuGet repository. A nice implementation to get metadata in System.Reflection along with intuitive handling of generics. Support for lambda expressions and functionalish behaviors. Carefully considered implementations of asynchrony and parallelism.

For front-end tools I'm not as up to speed, but browsersync is built in, so that is running without any configuration. They have automatic minification of css and javascript on build, and some tools to work with Angular, Vue, React, etc. as well as an emmet clone which allows you to use emmet shorthand when generating html.

Dev Ops, the Visual Studio IDE is really comfortable for a wide range of people. Strong integration with GitHub & Docker.
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> the only mandate for the interview process would be to hire the best person, no exceptions.

Yes. But, how did said person even get to the interview stage. It has been documented that people will recommend their peers for positions a their company — peers that often look like they do.

Unfortunately, I think it's rather complicated....
So why not divide and conquer?

1. University-scope undergrad journals

2. University-scope grad journals

3. University-scope science journals

4. University-scope humanities journals

5. Regional-scope science journals

6. Regional-scope humanities journals

7. Nation-scope obscure science journals

8. Nation-scope obscure humanities journals

9. Nation-scope science journals.

10. Nation-scope humanities journals.

11. Nature.

You start with the people who haven't been educated to rationalize the racket, in journals that have the least amount of reputability in the first place. (Ignoring fake journals, journal mills, etc.) They are also more likely to understand the underlying technology and probably do a lot of the implementation work, too.

Same for grads.

Then you get the journals that only function within the scope of a single university-- i.e., they are used to publish and gain notoriety within the university but are of only limited value outside of it. Probably best to start with a high-fallutin' uni whose stature could be used to convinced them the publicity of being the first mover is reason enough for the risk.

Then regional journals, where again the notoriety is relatively low and personal relationships are leveraged more for notoriety/credibility. (For example, an anthropological journal that covers a small region.) Because these academic communities probably already can recite the names of all the current scholars in the field, moving the research content isn't as disruptive.

In each case the science journals should go first. Humanities have a natural envy of science's verifiability/falsifiability, so they'll quickly follow whatever the scientists do.

Edit: clarification
Escort carriers were basically just merchant ships with a flat deck. They were small enough to build in ports that couldn't accommodate larger warships.

And they weren't really designed for battle - they were designed to protect convoys from submarines (at least the US version). They weren't as fast as fleet carriers, had smaller air wings, little armor, less range, almost no anti-aircraft capability, and not much in the way of damage control. As a pilot you really wouldn't want to be on an escort carrier.

Though it could be worse - you could be on a CAM ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_ship

In the Battle of Leyte Gulf a handful of escort carriers were responsible for sinking a fair number of Japanese capital ships, so they weren't useless in fleet actions.
This idea is just more narrow minded America-centric thinking.
Where are we going to put a car battery and the means to charge it in your door frame?

Are you going to operate a crank to recharge the battery? I'm not too keen on wiring mains power up to something connected to my door handle.
True, but we know that inventory commingling is an issue in general for Amazon so it seems reasonable to assume they have done so in this case given that there are two vendors cited who provided strong claims to have been selling proper product, but were still subject to the recall.

I ordered a variety of different products and so I can see which were recalled and which were not. Based on that sample my guess is that they recalled anything with the text "solar eclipse" in the description that they could not conclusively prove complied with the relevant human-eye exposure standards which include manufacturing, documentation and tractability requirements. This would have caught : truly unsafe product; safe product that lacked the necessary paper trail; safe product that wasn't manufactured in the approved facility; product that was never marketed for human eye protection; compliant product that couldn't be separated from the above categories due to Amazon inventory commingling.
It wasn't lower standards so much as once you'd built twenty of them, building twenty more back to back allowed you to get really good at being efficient.

Today they keep switching things up so much between each iteration.
We keep that kind of close to the chest. We have pre course work for applicants to complete, and let's say we can learn a lot from that.
The reason for the bundles is that they are trying to prevent purchases by miners. I do agree that they aren't a perfect solution
This is just a preliminary injunction and the court has not even heard or ruled on this case. They just allowed HiQ to access the data while they wait for the scheduled court hearing to begin. The court may eventually rule very differently once they have heard all the evidence presented and weighed up existing applicable case law.

The judge who issued this injunction - Edward Chen, is also the judge presiding over the Uber drivers as independent contractors class action case.
"U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction request brought by hiQ Labs, and ordered LinkedIn to remove within 24 hours any technology preventing hiQ from accessing public profiles."

Interesting ruling
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> Is it worth while to get a lefty guitar?

If electric, you can just use the regular "righty" guitar, just fit the strings accordingly. Jimi Hendrix, probably the most famous electric guitar player ever, did this way. He was a lefty. If you haven't seen him on video, please do it right now. Your mind will be blown!

If acoustic, they are often totally symmetrical, so no difference.

> I have noticed that being rhythmic in licking with my right hand can be tricky, but I figured it’s something I can learn through...

I think lefties are more likely to be able to play guitar "ambidextrously", an impressive sight.

The rhythmic hand (strumming hand) is the most difficult to train, IMO. Pressing the frets is learned way quicker than picking properly.
> This is, after all, the gist of what P vs NP means. And this is why it's such a huge deal - the problem is almost self-referential in nature.

Could you back that up with some citations? This doesn't ring true. But my pure CS has withered a bit...
The fix for American health care can be found in Europe
I want to add another important aspect, the aspect of NP completeness. There is a bunch of problems considered "NP complete" and they are all related such that it is easy to translate one problem into another (easy as in "quickly").

This means, first: If P == NP, then all of these problems become easy, and second: if P == NP and we find an algorithm that solves only one of the NP complete problems quickly, then this algorithm can solve all algorithms quickly.

Reversely, if now this paper's proof is correct so P != NP, then there is no algorithm that solves any of these problems quickly.
> Some of the energy thing is related to dehydration I suspect - if I drink more water over the day it has same effect as stopping coffee

For me, that was the majority of it. I've settled on a 1:1 ratio. Drink a cup of coffee, then a full cup of water before I have another coffee.
That's where we test new instructors. It's a class taught to thousands of people at once, so very, very different.
I bet a lot of the credit card debt eventually gets written off. I heard a statistic a few years back 05/2014. Essentially 1/4 credit card debtors had more on credit then they had in the bank.

Those levels of debt are unsustainable on a macro level. Some bank somewhere won't get paid. Then we'll have 2008 all over again.
I played electric bass for 6 months or so, then rented an upright for 6 months, and then bought an upright. I've been playing about 3.5 years, there's a recording of me here: http://paulsanwald.com/music

Definitely a lot of learning for me, particularly regarding the bow. I went through the George Vance books and they were helpful with the basics.

I was able to start playing professionally on it pretty quickly, though, played my first gig on upright after 6 months of playing. But things like higher thumb positions and soloing with the bow (I'm a jazz musician) are very much a work in progress. Luckily, in jazz you can get a long way just knowing a couple positions.
I feel like it's always been like that.

Websites in the 90s were slow, too. They did a lot less, but the tech was worse.

Now everything is faster but we push things to the limit and make everything slow again.

I must say that every once in a while I visit this website I made in 2007 and it's super-fast, though.
But if you call it a ship, then it can have a boat and you don't have to say things like "they launched the boat's boat".
And yet there's really no replacement. I mean if MS uses Bluetooth for their surface pens, when they completely control the hardware at both ends, then there's really no hope for getting rid of it.
You're more likely to get a big promotion for creating a bold new v1.0 than refining and polishing v3.5. This seems to be a big problem with Google, too. Out of whack incentivization at work, I suppose.

I wish more companies rewarded employees based upon NPS or some similar metric. I think that would address your complaint in fairly short order.
Boy that suggests an interesting attack vector. You didn't happen to see where the USB port to update the OS on the plane is, did you? Hopefully the in-seat USB ports aren't wired to this somehow...
Will seriously give this a shot! Thanks for the tip.
> AML/KYC apply to institutions that apply for Money Service Business licenses

MSBs have KYC requirements. It does not follow that non-MSBs have no KYC requirements. FINRA-member firms, for example, are not MSBs and have strict KYC rules [1].

FinCEN has nowhere said that non-MSBs are exempt from KYC. Nobody can competently say that. All American businesses are subject to the minimum threshold of KYC responsibility in coöperating with OFAC restrictions [2].

[1] http://www.finra.org/industry/notices/11-02

[2] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Page...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This comment does not constitute legal nor investment advice.
I think this is a really good idea. there's definitely is a gap in the market for non-CS grads who want to learn more about this
No one cares (as long as it's within "reasonable" proportions). Any animal would happily eat 10 times the amount of corn you took.

And, man, we're loosing so much fruits, because of global warming and cold snaps nowadays... If you find a few appealing apples on the way, please, enjoy and don't waste them.
What will it take to get IoT device manufacturers to adopt development practices that prevent this kind of thing happening?

Having to pay to send a locksmith to every lock they bricked.
>I think the killer combo is self driving cabs for first/last mile, plus rail for intercity travel.

Millions of tech nerds daily grinding through a hellish commute so they can spend the day sitting in front of a computer. 99% of them doing nothing that they couldn't just as easily do from a computer at home.

Clearly optimized transportation is the best solution here.

Something something... better horses.
For similar reasons to your use of caffeine, I decided to intermittently take Sudafed for when I needed extra focus or energy. Not the off-the-shelf kind with phelylephrine(which is a total placebo), but the kind with pseudoephedrine that you have to ask the pharmacist for. I find it works very well for short periods of time, and it has effects that are closer to that of prescription amphetamines. I'm probably on a list of "possible meth cooks" at this point because of how often I buy it, but it's worth it to not have to justify myself to a doctor all the time.
Only because it's my only choice as an Apple Watch owner. Same goes for the default Music app.

If you want the convenience of Apple Watch, Siri, or CarPlay, you are stuck using Apple Maps. It's a shame, because I love my Apple Watch for two main reasons: being able to control music and navigation in the car. My 2015 GTI was one year prior to VW's introduction of CarPlay, and this damn watch gets me about 80% of the way there without a $2k retrofit.

If I know where I'm going before I get in my car, it's Google Maps for me. More POIs, fewer outdated addresses or incorrect business hours, and better traffic negotiation.
You at least have to give them points for actually trying something different.

Juicero was just an overengineered scam.
Self host what..? Become a dns registrar?
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Nice to hear somebody mention pawpaws! Here's a short intro video/article: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/29/140894570/the...