skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a casual observer outside the cryptocurrency community, this whole thing seems quite surreal to me. Is it really necessary to have a religious war and a hard fork that divides the community whenever they need to make any sort of change? This sort of internal fighting really weakens the credibility of cryptocurrencies as a whole.
Perhaps customers wouldn't be willing to go through the hassle of provisioning, deploying, and maintaining their own version of the open source sync engine if they had more confidence that Nylas is someone they would trust to do it. Doing all those things is a pain in the ass. I would LOVE for us to pay someone to do it, but we've completely lost confidence that you are those people.
"Lisp" still hasn't; it is a family which comprises various dialects, many of which have lexical scoping, but some of which don't, like Emacs Lisp (which only had dynamic binding until recently and now supports lexical scoping, but not by default).
It's interesting how this forum seems to react so robotically to things that adversely affect the lower class. Yes, it is good that it looks like people will spend less money on something that might have a very poor roi depending on your circumstances. No it is not okay, that the lower class was duped into believing they needed a piece of paper to be financially secure in life and that many went so far as to get literal pieces of paper from diploma mills that only shows that they were duped. It is not okay that they are in debt for substantial amounts of money they can't get out of.

Or let me put it another way. It's like a massive hurricane just ended and you said: "That's fine, that's how it should ideally be. The hurricane lost its energy for some reason that is intrinsic to hurricanes losing their energy."

I hope that this doesn't sound too emotionally charged as I have some very close friends that act robotically to just about everything.
Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of SE Now Overseeing Siri
Get a list of jobs. Sort by desc the salaries. Scan for what you could like. Figure out what you need for that particular job and get that. Done.
Dangerous trend. A large part of the reason my country (Denmark) is as rich as it is because of education. We too talk about the value of certain parts of academia, like Ancient Greek, and whether or not too many people go to the university.

It's all become very cost-benefit, and while the discussion is a reasonable one to have, most of our entrepreneurship comes from educational environments and a lot of the benefits of education can't be directly measured.

I mean, there is a reason Tesla had to hire a Swedish company to do the interior design of their cars and that Scandinavian design is increasingly more influential in to world. We're not born better artists/designers, but we do have a nurturing environment for those sort of things to grow and a way for the designers to form easy partnerships with business degrees to be successful.

I did project management and later general management autodidactic for a while. It worked perfectly fine, but after taking a degree in management I find myself wondering how the hell it ever worked.

Gut feeling, a clever mind and a willingness to learn on your own will get you a long way, and you can absolutely succeed without education. But academia not only teaches you tested methods it also teaches you why you use them and how to determine which ones are best suited for a given situation.
Question: Is there any way to get a notification whenever a credit account of any sort has been opened in my name, WITHOUT freezing my credit or otherwise crippling/slowing/altering any process that exists? I just want a letter or email notification, not any other changes to anything. Ideally a free way, but paid if a free way doesn't exist...
Most likely because Equifax is not providing the service and the actual provider will need to engage with each customer directly, despite the service being free.
But running several different processes can be a nuisance...better performance by default is still great.
The traditional college path just isnt scalable enough anymore, at least for undergrad degrees. Undergrad level education needs to be cheap and attainable from anywhere. Moocs are getting us there, hopefully the trend continues.
There simple needs to be a revolution in this space. I would say, from personal experience, that Galvanize, a software bootcamp/school etc. is the most organized & on point pushing to replace tradition CS programs. But CS is only a micro slice of the job economy. Why can't their (or others) model of short term/extremely focused programs be applied to other in-demand, specialized, fields? Examples? Non-MD Psychiatrists that review specific cases, other mental health specialties, highly technical pharmacist/software/hardware/etc technical jobs (sry lack of clarity) but taught in this new learning style vs 6-8+ traditional college curriculums.
How often do you apply for credit? In the last 5 years I’ve done it zero times...
In my experience, that's inaccurate. Certainly for the majority of interns, but 50-60 hours is the range I would say is accurate on average. Obviously, there are some weeks with a lot higher, but they're relatively rare.
I might do this with options for this breach, depending on what the IV is tomorrow. While this is probably the worst breach ever, it also happened in a time when there's a government that is going to do fuck all about it.

So what's it going to look like 6 months from now? Your guess is as good as mine. Mine is: either absolutely nothing happens and the stock goes back up, or this finally gets something to be done about the garbage that is SSNs and/or credit reports (in which case I can't really imagine what happens to the stock price in any direction).
Same. Starting with the PlayStation hack a few years ago. If it makes you feel any better, I get notified by that service every time I do anything that accesses my credit at all, usually within minutes, so, I guess it works as designed.
> Why can't their (or others) model of short term/extremely focused programs be applied to other in-demand, specialized, fields? Examples? Non-MD Psychoatrists

We had these. They were called apprenticeships. [1]

[1] https://www.dol.gov/apprenticeship/

Companies became accustomed to making the rules though labor-wise over the last decade (including externalizing the cost of an employee's education). This is slowly changing due to a tight labor market [2] (forcing employers to finally invest in their workforce) but it will take time.

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-06/it-s-boom...
> Now, what if she started falsely telling others that BigBank took her money, and that significantly affected BigBank's reputation? Are we talking jail time, or just civil penalties?

Probably not jail time, and perhaps not civil penalties. Even civil defamation in US law generally requires knowing falsehood or reckless disregard for the truth, not just mere falsehood, and criminal defamation, where it exists, tends to have high . Unless the bank had provided concrete evidence so solid that it was unreasonable for her not to believe their denial of responsibility, there likely be no legal wrongdoing.
Ask HN: Why can't we stop hurricanes?
I googled this and see theories as to how to stop hurricanes -- decrease water temperature under eye of storm, send supersonic jets in to revolve and cause hot air to rise, lasers, etc. -- anyone have a simple reason why these haven't been tried or are absolutely crazy?

A follow up: so how can we stop hurricanes?
Now there are news that they sold their shares last week.
How many of those jobs will exist in 10 years, let alone 40?
I think a lot of projects would probably be OK with Citus Community: https://www.citusdata.com/product/community (as long as you don't mind being unmanaged)
Non-STEM seeking students really are not a majority in colleges. Per the National Center for Education Statistics on conferred degrees, the number of liberal arts degrees has been on a decline for quite a few decades while STEM and more vocational degrees have been steadily increasing [1].

Slam universities for many reasons, but the students going aren't graduating in arts; they're doing what employers say they want and still not getting jobs.

Universities have many problems, but they still are useful. We have all these STEM graduates but no one seems to be hiring them.

[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_322.10.a...
Actually there are three criteria:
1) Information is material
2) Information is not public
3) Breach of duty through the "trust and confidence" clause.

It would be highly unusual for the CFO not to have the burden of confidence but even for a division president it's not clear they'd have corporate officer responsibilities.

During compliance training in my old life they covered the classic "overheard in a coffee shop" example as a way to highlight that a barista does not owe confidentiality to a random public company. However, I don't think it's ethical behavior regardless of whether it'd result in a conviction.
This paints a pretty bad picture for IOTA. Ternany, custom hash functions, and a significant amount of buzzwords used to back up their poorly made choices. It's interesting their market cap is still as high as it is, although that's cryptocurrencies for you.

IOTA is down around 10% in the last 24 hours, leaving it with the worst daily performance out of the top ~45 coins (https://coinmarketcap.com/). I wonder if the authors short sold it :)
Empathy breeds terrible policy.
At least in the US the path that will most likely lead to a decent career is still through college. As long as there aren't good vocational programs then people losing faith in college is not a good thing. It's more that people are losing faith in the whole system and just check out.
Isn't that like half of the United States? And is it 143M SS numbers or just 143M people with any kind of data breached.
It might be possible in the future. Right now the main dev wants to keep it as minimal as possible.
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178945 .
The National Hurricane Center has some records [1] going back to 1851 [2]. I'm sure those are based more off eye witness accounts.

[1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#tracks_all

[2] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tracks/tracks-at-1851.png
That may be so, but the GP was talking about the time it takes checks to clear. IIRC, uncashed checks aren't even valid after 180 days, let alone 7 years.
It's not that inaccurate to presume the net present value of the automation required to replace higher salaried jobs is higher than lower salaried jobs, all else being equal...
This simply isn't true. The only way these agencies get your SSN associated with your personal info is by your agreement with a bank or similar organization to do so. It always happens with your express approval, even if you are not savvy enough to pay attention to what you're approving.
> Can you imagine if jury members (some of whom might believe in homeopathy or other bizarre pseudoscience) were allowed to base their judgements on `facts` not presented by one of the parties involved?

But jury members are allowed to use their pre-existing knowledge of homeopathy, are they not? They're just prevented from learning more about homeopathy (or psychopathology) in a way that could influence their decision.

Now I wonder if an elementary textbook on a topic would be admissible evidence, and whether jury members would be allowed to ask for it.
I've found Stow central in getting my preferred setup up and running quickly, as well as using Ansible to setup all the binaries/utils that I require.

Although I'm looking at NixOS now ...

It is a never-ending cycle, it seems. :)
Feel free to file an issue on nd4j. That is our tensor lib. https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j
What did you learn from your management courses? Genuinely curious, as I've always found that people with degrees in management were no better (and probably slightly worse) than people that just figured it out. My evidence is anecdotal and limited, so I'd be interested to hear what you found useful about your program.
Yeah. I'm partially unconvinced. That is to say that, if the compiler Dev wants to take on the completeness responsibility, cool. If not, I'm okay with that, too. Adding the optimization and screwing up the edge cases is the only way to end up on my bad side.

An example number might be 8388608.0 (or 2^23). Hell could have broken out more than four million integer values before that, but it's as nice a test as any (except maybe the exact edge).

There could also be interesting cases of compound arithmetic literal statements. And then, of course, there are other side-effect considerations (e.g. the x87 opcode register).

I'll stick to getting my literal types right in the first place, but, as stated above, it doesn't feel like a real miss to me. Either a dev or a code generator wrote ".0". I'm inclined to respect that to some degree.

Probably because I'm old.

I'll compile this in gcc and clang and see what shakes out. My bet is that clang does the right thing once the value is out of safe range.
I'm surprised it took this long. The value is opaque. Education is just selection bias. College should be free up front and cost commensurate with your first few years of income. Incentives would then be aligned properly
Feature request : Please allow weighted load balancing i.e. ability to distribute traffic in a user specified ratio (weights) to different sized instances.
> We had these. They were called apprenticeships

Apprenticeships tend not to be “short-term”.
Heh, great comment. I wrote The Weather Channel a letter (yes, on paper, sent by mail) years ago specifically in appreciation of Jim's demonstrable love of severe weather. He is a guy who clearly loves his work.
Degree != education, though. In the US system a bunch of introductory lecture-only courses could potentially be pushed down to high schools or outfits like Coursera/edX without the requirement of paying $35,000 to be physically present in the room.

Online delivery doesn't work well for seminars or labs, but basic proficiency with lecture material before enrolling and taking out a student loan would boost the graduation rate. Currently only 59% of students enrolled in a college program in the US complete their four-year degree six years down the road https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40
A macOS app to generate app icons
> Assigning metadata is tedious, remembering workflows is tedious, but if you want more power, you have to do those tasks, regardless of the particular software in use.

This is why you hire dedicated Scrum Masters / PMO, and direct the PMOs to automate away what they can, as the domain becomes clearer.

Jira is actually really great for this because the REST API is so powerful, which can allow the PMOs to build systems which extract work from elsewhere, populate all the necessary fields which are repetitious and tedious for users to fill out, and then submit everything against the REST API and watch it all turn into issues.

When you start to understand that what Atlassian really did with Jira was build a powerful general UI abstraction over relational tables that even non-technical users can use, then you start to understand the sheer power of what's on the table.
I think you're missing the point. I don't think that Americans are losing faith in the value of education. Most Americans I know envy the low cost of education in Europe exactly because they would like the same conditions of access. Simply put, we want to go to school. But we don't want to sink ourselves into decades of debt to do so. Would anyone?
A country cannot bootcamp its way to prosperity. Education takes time.
meh I've had the same shit working with low memory usage for decades

interoffice chat apps can be useful but they are overall super mundane
Apparently, if you wish to opt-out of the arbitration clause, you have to send them a hand-written letter? While TrustedID is a company of Equifax, I'm not 100% certain that opt-outs to the arbitration clause for Equifax mean you also opt-out of TrustedID arbitration.

http://www.equifax.com/terms/

> Right to Opt-Out of this Arbitration Provision. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE ARBITRATION PROVISION, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE YOURSELF. Opting out of the arbitration provision will have no adverse effect on your relationship with Equifax or the delivery of Products to You by Equifax. In order to exclude Yourself from the arbitration provision, You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You first accept this Agreement on the Site (for Products purchased from Equifax on the Site). If You purchased Your Product other than on the Site, and thus this Agreement was mailed, emailed or otherwise delivered to You, then You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You receive this Agreement. To be effective, timely written notice of opt out must be delivered to Equifax Consumer Services LLC, Attn.: Arbitration Opt-Out, P.O. Box 105496, Atlanta, GA 30348, and must include Your name, address, and Equifax User ID, as well as a clear statement that You do not wish to resolve disputes with Equifax through arbitration. If You have previously notified Equifax that You wish to opt-out of arbitration, You are not required to do so again. Any opt-out request postmarked after the opt-out deadline or that fails to satisfy the other requirements above will not be valid, and You must pursue your Claim in arbitration or small claims court.
"IANAL" is polite internet slang for "you can stop reading this comment, as I don't know wtf I'm talking about." Vaguely related to the old "PLONK".
Yeah! Where's that magic wand that makes it free again?
Also, any city willing to participate must have the following...

Top of the line medical centers, big ones!
Fantastic sports teams, many of them.
Amazing universities, state college required.
Seasons, a little of everything for everyone.
A small traffic problem, so it can get worse.
Cheap real-estate, so it can get more expensive.
A port, you know, the ones with access to shipping lanes.
Land for more suburbs, so you can run out of land.

I'm sure the list is longer for the reasons why Silicon Valley and Seattle are what they are, but that's a start.
Perhaps this is a disconnect: "academia not only teaches you tested methods it also teaches you why you use them and how to determine which ones are best suited for a given situation."

In the US, I can't 100% defend our universities (of which I am a product...both engineering and MBA) of achieving this (which would be a fine) goal.

In fact, in the US, it's proabably easier to be skeptical of "The Ivory Tower", where one hears what will work and should be done, only to go into the field, and find out it's a bunch of non-practical garbage from a textbook some prof wanted to sell.
How could you resist running "./downhill.sh"!
"cost commensurate with your first few years of income"
Finally the obsession with white collar careers is ending. I much prefer the German system of presenting trades and office jobs as equally valid. This is the first step to revitalizing skilled trades in the US.
No. It's to accept liability when you make a mistake. If a criminal tricks a bank into giving away money and debiting some random account, the victim is the bank, not whoever happened to own the account.
I don't need to own bitcoin to carry out a transaction with it for longer then a few minutes. With a global cap of soon to be 28 transactions a second Bitcoin will never be competitive with Visa.
About Equifax

Equifax is a global information solutions company.

Was
Empathy and compassion are mandatory for sound policy.

Edit because of HN throttling: I haven't seen unsavory elected folks generate sound policy yet, so I'm sticking to my statement.
A credit freeze gives you a PIN that they'll ask for before the freeze can be lifted.
They're absolutely crazy.
https://denebleo.sec.gov/TCRExternal/index.xhtml
Ask HN: Am I addicted to HackerNews?
I keep checking hackernews every now and then be it at work or when I am at home. I come here at least 10-15 times a day. Is that normal ?
Did that https work for you? For me it redirects to plain http and then OpenDNS blocks it as a phishing site. Why are they using such a scammy looking domain, anyway? Why not just host it on their main site?

Edit: I'm abroad and just tried through a VPN and it worked. Don't know why I tried without it ...
This account has posted too many trollish comments for it to be a coincidence, so I've banned it until we get a commitment from you to follow the site guidelines meticulously from now on. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com if you intend to use the site that way.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15197488 and marked it off-topic.
I really doubt the (mostly overblown)"anti-free speech movements on campuses" are playing much of a role. The rising cost and declining employability you mention, particularly in juxtaposition with the rising prominence of the vocational trades, probably has a lot more to do with this trend.
For now here's a work-around that I use: create multiple listeners/ports on the larger instances and add them as targets. Containers is a great approach here too; load up the bigger instances with more containers and register each container as the targets.
Build a wall. A really big wall.
HN is a very carefully controlled bubble. It's almost completely dominated by a crypto-libertarian groupthink.

The article [1] is interesting though. What we're witnessing is the complete self-exile of Republicans from the mainstream. Republicans have lost all faith in mainstream media [2], they have lost all faith in experts, they have lost all faith in science, they have lost all faith in America's major democratic institutions [3], they have lost all trust in the world's biggest corporations, and now they have lost all trust in higher education [4]. That's pretty much everything.

Here's a significant chunk of the country that has retreated completely into a paranoid fantasy. It's absolutely remarkable. I don't think anything list this scale of mass delusion has been seen in the West since the Nazis. There are no longer any institutions that might meaningfully engage with these people; they reject anything and everything that does not absolutely conform to the Party Agenda. Without any kind of shared reality -- this group has sincerely adopted a platform of "alternative facts" and nonsense conspiracy theory -- no dialogue or compromise is possible.

The full impact of this is probably still coming. This sort of complete disconnect reality always leads to complete disaster. The Nazis truly believed they could conquer the world. The Soviets were absolutely convinced that the capitalist West was going to crumble any second. Reality has a way of biting back and forcefully asserting itself no matter how hard you deny it.

[1] http://www.cetusnews.com/life/Americans-Losing-Faith-in-Coll...

[2] http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media...

[3] http://www.npr.org/2017/06/29/534835094/political-controvers...
Decrease water temperature over a huge area that's constantly moving?

How many supersonic jets are we talking? 50,000?

Lasers or magnets might work though...
Well it must have taken them a ton of work to parallelize their algorithm also. It would have been better to just have a batch mode that lets you process multiple images at once on different cores.