skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See the design narrative at “Step 5: Tail call optimization”[0] in The Make-A-Lisp Process[1].

[0]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md#s...

[1]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
I think any type of auto fill software should show you everything they're giving up from you before they do it. I rather click Y/N once and have that "inconvenience" than just wonder in the back of my mind how much I'm being screwed by hidden forms. This is alarmingly worse on Android than the web due to being able to inspect hidden elements with a modern browser, but on Android you have to go through more hoops to look through the code for an app.
Two habits that have changed my life:

1. Waking up early and reading something significant with my morning coffee. Usually something on philosophy or theology. Not looking at any screens until I'm at work.

2. Working out for an hour each day. It's like a switch: once I work out regularly, everything else falls into place. I eat better (because I don't want to lose the benefits of the 1 hour workout I just put in). I sleep better (because I have to be up early to workout).

Working out daily truly is one of the best habits I've ever picked up.
Is the article meant to be a link to Kahneman's comment https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc... that you quote elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228754)? It seems weird for it to be a link to this article itself.
Think it is pretty clear there is. Now for what purpose and whom? Is it to create more distrust in the US? Is it to try to get us to destroy ourselves from within?
The backstop "best practice" is to put somebody in charge of the issue and give them both the responsibility and authority to fix it.

Next you need to face up to the causes of the problems. There may be five or six root causes, and if you plan to fix just 4 of them, you will pay 80% of the costs, but get 2% or 0% of the benefits in terms of cost savings because the other root causes will still cause chaos, and now people will start to blame the tools and procedures that were tried (those costs will be very visible.)

Getting people on board with a realistic plan can be a little bit like getting an alcoholic to recognize the damage that drinking has done to their life, but the alternative is wishful thinking.

If you want to get into more specifics, click on my HN id and send me an email.

See

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Getting-Your-Own-Sweet/dp/0070145...
The CIA has been known to tamper with electronics, so between that and pre-backdoored hardware (IME) it's fairly likely that a determined opponent has one or more means to passively wait for a payload in a hard to detect manner.

From there, it's turtles all the way down; you "only" need to deliver an ulterior, possibly tailored, payload from any of the several methods described in this thread.
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We've added quotation marks to disambiguate that.
We've linked the submission to the relevant URL so hopefully that will be clearer now.
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At this point isn't it reasonable to assume that companies will not tell you the truth if it puts them in a bad light, and you would need to go undercover to find that truth? Companies cant tell their shareholders on one side that they are doing everything to maximize profit, and on the other side say that they will show their operations with all the good and the bad to anyone who asks.
> A poor person consumes almost 100% of their income; a very poor person consumes more than 100% of their income (by going into debt), an upper-middle class person consumes much less than 100% of their income (they get savings, some investments, and big expenses like student loans and mortgage don't count for sales taxes), and a very wealthy person consumes just a small part of their total income, as most of their spending is essentially buying control of means of production and control of other people, which is not consumption and not affected by sales tax.

This is the common refrain, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Even upper middle class people spend almost all of their income, and what they don't spend goes into tax-deferred retirement accounts. And tuition and student loan and mortgage interest are tax deductible.

Even the super rich don't pay income tax on the money they don't spend because they keep it in offshore tax shelters.

Moreover, income tax can't reach existing wealth (a dollar you already had isn't income), and income tax is collected even when the money is used to pay existing debt, so the working poor are taxed when they earn what they already owe to the credit card company.
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Even though they're not paying a lot tax, they are getting screwed because if tax burden is shifted from upper middle to rich, the former would spend more of freed up money than latter on more variety of productive goods and services, which would benefit the poor more.
Daniel Kahneman responded to this blog in the comments section.
Where uses "ginger"? That's a new one for me.
Drones to Be Used to Monitor Parking Services in Nairobi
zipphone was acquired https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/07/hike-zipphone/
A question:

I have nearly 0 experience with web-dev. I'd like to add some minimal user tracking to my static site on Github; just when & where the requests are coming from (geographically), which posts they're looking at and maybe a referrer.

I don't want to use Google Analytics (seems unfair given that I block it). Is there an easy way to do this?
I think that if you are around in this business long enough, you will eventually experience something like this.

We had a Linux server that had some issue with a network driver that was causing kernel oops with long uptimes (about once a week). This one was particularly nasty because the oops would disable the network interface, meaning that you couldn't ssh to diagnose the fault (or, more likely, reboot), which meant that you had to drive to the premises and kick the server in the guts.

Of course, Murphy's law ensured that the server would fail at the worst possible time. Late Friday, weekends, your mom's birthday, etc... Not fun, at all.

The solution was to write a cron job to reboot every day at ~4:30AM. Stupid? Yes. But we all agreed that it sure beat the alternative (driving, kicking, sobbing).

The driver was eventually fixed by the vendor, and this "hack" became unnecessary.
Randomized trials are the gold standard, but I wouldn't blast a study straight for being prospective.

My main thingy with studies like these is that actuarial bookkeeping is hard. The difference in base mortality rate between a few age years in difference can be huge. But since the study runs 4, that difference in base rate multiplies. Properly accounting for that is hard.
To be clear (since it wasn't to me; best tag-team approach to trick me into clicking some lawyer's website ever!): ...

The user is expected to click the email icon, then fill in the to: address, with the body pre-filled with the current url.

Most email urls passing query string parameters fill in the address (which winds up in the to:) and subject instead.
I guess not using diacriticals makes computing easier, but it's silly to claim that use (or non-use) of diacritical marks can make sounds disappear.

If specific sounds in Kazakh disappear because "they were written the same", it merely means that the particular sound distinction was already being phased out in the spoken language. If the sound distinction is gone, separate symbols won't save them. It will merely become yet another opaque spelling rule for children to memorize.

English "th" represents two different sounds, and English speakers manage just fine, because in its sound system they are totally distinct and never confused with each other.
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The list is not exhaustive. A company may not be included for several different reasons i.e they may choose to remain off the record
Don't forget Chromodo which was a reskin of Chrome with --disable-web-security set. Because that totally makes their browser super secure!
I imagine that Retric (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228800)
is referring to stories like https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdo... and https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/opinion/sunday/the-evil-o... (DDG results for "outdoor cats wildlife death"), compared to, say, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w... (DDG result for "wind turbine wildlife death").

This is likely unpopular (especially with cat people like me), but I'm not sure what's callous about it—unless you mean the "meh" part, in which case I'm not sure how backing it up with data makes it any less callous.
That's the danger of these types of studies. We all know what is healthy and what isn't, but the methodology here is suspect at best and the analysis shows weak conclusions. When headlines like the one posted here take root and people expose the truth for what it is, it damages the credibility of research and science in the minds of the masses, who are then more likely to ignore science in general.
That's an awesome idea except that you really want to warn people that it's always streaming. You don't want sensitive info on the whiteboard easily accessible
This is great! Thanks.

Would it be possible to break down the US startups by state? It'd be great to connect with local people, if possible.
But there is a Miami accent that I can hear. Not everyone in Miami has it, I don't and I was also raised there. I hear it more in the first generation children of Spanish-speaking immigrants (which I am one but I never picked the accent up)
Like, you know, like, presentation :).

I agree that people miss appointments etc, but this is again distraction from bigger picture, where you would focus on your skills and what you really want to do. And especially how you want to do it, process is also important.
I can't tap my phone on my phone bill or my airline's webpage to pay it.
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If that wouldn't result in me embarrassing myself in the Target/Costco/supermarket/work parking lot multiple times per week, I would actually be really interested in that approach.
I recently learned of a related condition, called dyscalculia, which is to mathematics as dyslexia is to reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
To be fair if you're working hard it can take 3-5 minutes for glycogen stores to rebuild for the next hard set.
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Would love to see an attempt at one of these for the British Isles.
Why I’m betting on Blockstack to save the decentralized internet
Agreed - tapping phone at checkout is actually more convenient. I don’t see why blockchain would help to improve this checkout UX
> Monero is even worse than Bitcoin when it comes to scaling issues.

True, and fees are higher because of it, but they are working on that. I should have explained why I mentioned it. I list it mainly because it wins on fungibility, so I can see where it might follow a similar adoption pattern to bitcoin, where it becomes the darknet currency of choice, then expands outward. I think this is more likely if either the traceability of bitcoin becomes an issue, or if bitcoins with "tainted history" become harder to spend.
I'm not asking why you can't buy a cup of coffee with the store of value. I'm asking why the currency you buy a cup of coffee with can't be the store of value.
Why not work on improving an existing one ?
Atom 1.21 features support for the language server protocol
On Mac, QuickTime Player also works for that URL. VLC does work, but it's really wonky and stutters every 10 seconds.
Welcome to the recentralized web.
Level 3 autonomy is reckless. It provides next to no value when it's used as intended (i.e., a fully aware drivers instantly ready to take over) and it is dangerous under normal usage conditions (i.e., people using it to text and drive).
I don't know if it is what the other poster is talking about but Michigan is weird in that a relatively large number of people drink ginger ale as a soft drink, particularly Vernors.
Worked for Salt Lake City and Utah.
> The machine learning algorithms that underpin AEB systems have only been trained to recognize the rear of other vehicles, not profiles or other aspects.

Not something I have known about Tesla's autopilot before reading this.
People don't understand why it's dangerous because such hacks are what Taleb calls black swans. They are really rare, but their results might be catastrophic in unforeseen way.

Those who thinks that Google and Facebook have harmless data compared to Equifax, imagine what criminals might do with all your information located there to target you. Add here AI technologies, like NLP and speech synthesis, and it gets really scary. Think about massive but at the same time highly targeted social engineering attack abusing all this information.

We should not allow this to happen and it's better to prevent it now, not after the moment such attack happens. Markets won't solve this problem due to rarity of such events. Only legislation can help here.
If you're intonthis stuff, the Dictionary of Regional American English[0] is pretty great.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Regio...
The problem (started by GP, tbf) is that "investing in companies" is not a binary choice. A given amount of capital is economically more productive in riskier bets in most real-world cases (i.e. bets on tech advances drive the economy forward but are risky). However, higher investment taxes tilts the investment decision towards less risky (and less productive) investments. Think of investing in 1997 Amazon vs 1997 Walgreens: the more your upside is taxed, the more attractive Walgreens is going to look (in 1997)
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> I'm not particularly worried, Google and Facebook have two of the best security teams in the world and spend an amazing amount of money to protect customer data.

But the Google and Facebook security teams are particularly motivated to protect Google and Facebook, not me. If our interests happen to align, then I reap the benefits; but if they conflict, or even if they don't align particularly well, then the sterling quality of those teams becomes more or less useless to me.
I hope someone doesn't use this as inspiration for an exploit against LIDAR. On second thought, I hope people do start working on an exploit, so engineers can get on with hardening systems against it!
Yeah that seems like a prohibitively high apparent social cost.
A couple of random thoughts as a former WA state resident...

* WA omits groceries, prescriptions, and rent from sales tax. So many of the actual necessities in life are already not impacted.

* No personal income tax drastically simplifies and shrinks the tax bureaucracy. According to the Seattle Times, the city's goal of taxing high earners will cost "10 million to $13 million to set up, plus $5 million to $6 million per year to manage and enforce". That isn't counting the overhead costs on the citizens themselves. This is all money that could more productively flow elsewhere.

* There seems to be an assumption that income taxes will drastically reduce the sales tax. But from my memories of living in both CA and NY don't really bear that up. If anything, these states all have problems with spending too much... more tax revenue is like giving alcohol to an alcoholic and just makes the problem worse.

* Income taxes give politicians another tool for pandering to special interests. In NY, one of my exes got a fixed tax deduction for classroom supply expenses because she was a teacher. That's neat, but there was no such tax-payer candy for my own professional expenses. And back then her salary quite a bit higher than mine. Not fair.

* (bonus!) We often tax things that we wish to disincentivize, such as cigarettes. If you accept the premise of anthropogenic global warming, then perhaps we should drastically jack up sales tax instead to reduce consumption, keeping the omitted categories above.
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JUMIA Is Set to Launch an All-In-One App in Nigeria in a Bid to Boost Sales
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Yeah, I thought ending on complaining about having an advertisement being spoiled, was a bit silly and took away from the message of not handing out confidential company information.

> Does this person work for Apple?

Gruber makes a living writing positively about Apple, so no, he doesn't work for them directly, but he is in more than one way, heavily vested in Apple.
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Some people are anti-automation.

I am an economist, turned into "data scientist" since I've learned to program in the past 5 years (hate that name...).

At a macro consultancy firm I worked, everybody lost it when I suggested that we moved our manually downloaded data from a bunch of excel spreadsheets to a proper database (28 years of macroeconomic data) so that we could programatically extract data for online reports we sent/hosted. They said I was being lazy...
Marriages between different ethnicities of white Americans are so commonplace they're not even considered interracial.

To my second point, the whole benefit of sexual reproduction is genetic diversity, so it's odd to have some evolutionarily dictated behavior pulling the opposite way.
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I changed my primary work goal 2 years ago.
Now I try to minimize stress as the most important goal of the work day.
I redefined my job; it now is to solve problems in the lowest stressful way.
In other words, my employer is not paying me to kill myself.

I walk 10 mins every 1 to 2 hours and use that time to review.
I try to find ways to solve problems in ways that are more fun, easier, and effective.
So to me a 10 min break is a work requirement.
Solving a stressful problem and not reducing the stress first is wrong.
It isn't just something I do for my health, it is the way people are supposed to work because it produces much better solutions.

After 50 mins working on something very difficult my mind gets so mucked up.
Often I discover a simpler solution during the break and end up getting my work done much faster.

Sometimes stress can peak and when that happens I just take a nap until it dissipates. Usually just 30 mins but there are times when it can take an hour or more. Again, I view the nap as doing work because often I wake up with a simpler solution that also has much less stress. If I can't find one, then I escalate the issue. Again, it isn't my job to absorb stress to the point where it degrades my effectiveness.

Please note, I don't work on production system being used by 100s of millions of users. I've done it; it was fun; it is not possible to reduce stress in that work so it is not worth the effort. I now make 2x as much and have almost no stress.
Of course, now I find this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674747
> It's been over a decade since I studied the literature on this, but the dead weight loss caused by a tax at the point of transaction is larger; a case can reasonably be made that transactions that would otherwise occur did not due to tax.

> Income tax removed before you receive your paycheck into your bank account has been demonstrated in psychological studies to be less onorous, and cause less behavior change (you don't ask for a lower paycheck because you don't like tax).

Another way of putting this is that sales taxes encourage saving and income taxes encourage borrowing. Lo and behold, the average American is up to their eyeballs in debt and a large fraction of income is going to interest payments instead of actual spending. It is hard to see why this should be considered a good thing.
That's where the comparison comes from, however it's more that these articles are linking to harm without putting it into any perspective. If we replaced all electricity generation with wind farms you would kill fewer birds from pollution than the existing power plants directly kill.

There are 10+ billion birds in the US and a smaller but very large number of bats and well over 1 billion of them die every year. Talking about hundreds of bird/bat deaths in that context is almost meaningless.

PS: A fungus on the other hand is decimating bat populations and represents a real threat. However the actual threat is not exactly making the news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-nose_syndrome
Didn't Atlassian grow to a pretty big size before they even started hiring a sales team?
> Crazy libertarian SREs. :-P

A Google search didn't immediately clarify. What is 'SRE'? The most plausible de-abbreviation I could find was "site reliability engineer".
I found this example interesting as a Canadian, as currently there's a big tax battle over people incorporating to avoid high marginal tax rates and take advantage of relatively low small business tax rates, plus income splitting (which normal employees don't have in Canada). In Canada the emergency room physician would be incorporated.

Personally I think a lot of the issue is coming from lowering small business tax rates while cranking marginal tax rates federally and provincially.
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it makes me wish that we had 6 quadrants, instead of 5.

for those that don't know, portland has five "quadrants" due to the river being the east-west dividing line, and having a few turns. it makes for interesting explanations to visitors - I can't begin to estimate how many times I've drawn the city on a whiteboard for GIS professionals visiting.
> This does not mean that we can trust the published results, but it does suggest that some of the published results might be replicable in larger replication studies with more power to detect small effects. At the same time, the graph shows clear evidence for a selection effect.

So, there might be a priming effect but the studies that Kahneman used don't necessarily show that? Is that right?
Well, that's a decision tree! An algo that arguably falls under ML :)
Flipboard built their mobile web app in canvas: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web
By google devices, do you mean only the Pixel and Nexus phones? Or does that include all android devices? Because for example Sprint Galaxy s5's can't be unlocked.
My favorite is the Californian use of the definite article when identifying numbered roadways, e.g. "I took the 5.".

Here in Oregon, a general (and I must say unfair) disapproval of transplanted Californians exists, and that use of the definite article is a "tell" that the natives have learned to look for.
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Oh whoops I messed up with the 250. You're right it should have been 200.

The 18.6 number doesn't come from journalists though but from the CBO. And these numbers are in line with similar studies by other entities.

I'm sure you agree that its not just how much your taxed on profit, but also how much profit you had to record that matters.
No matter how you cut it the failure mode trying to drive a car of known dimensions though a smaller space than those dimensions is pretty inexcusable.

>The machine learning algorithms that underpin AEB systems have only been trained to recognize the rear of other vehicles, not profiles or other aspects

Does Tesla's software make the assumption that the lane is safely navigable unless it detects otherwise?

IMO it's pushing the envelope of recklessness to have a default software of "good to go" for a non-critical system (whereas something like a shipboard fire suppression system should default to "good to go" in order to prevent corner cases from impacting functionality).

While I understand that you don't want the car braking aggressively when it encounters a bag blowing in the wind or poor lane markings mid-corner not driving into something those are behaviors that are not unexpected from an excessively conservative human driver and preferable to running into the back of a van that's parked on the side of the road.

edit: If you're gonna down-vote you might wanna say why.