skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much rolled my own! Everything from the view rendering to the charts were done in house, as I wanted to keep it lightweight. If I end up making a bit of money on this, I will definitely open source the charts and view rendering engines :)
Blockchain Prediction Market Terminology 101
"No software system can be free from bugs (or intruders), and users must be mindful of the risks. But the inherent lack of perfect automotive safety doesn’t mean we don’t try to make cars safer. Obviously, people should drive more carefully, but seatbelts, airbags and better car design reduce injury enormously, and that has been great for the industry as well as consumers. The software industry should be no different."

Let me translate that:

Software users, like people who use compilers, should need licenses. Obviously, people need to compile more carefully. Software needs the equivalent of seatbelts, airbags, and other government mandated safety standards. Software cannot JUST ship to github with no warranty or guarantees of safety. These licenses which absolve the developer of responsibility cannot continue to be allowed. Those open source developers should not just produce software for free, but they need to accept responsibility for it. They need to pass government mandated, Apple App store style, approval for all software shipped. Including regulations for safety and compliance with other laws like copyright infringement and decency standards.

She's attacking the foundation of the software freedom movement.
But that is what is called "professional detachment".

The kind of thing that allows your lawyer or psychoanalyst (or your surgeon) to be not influenced in doing their work for (or on) you.

But you don't hire them, you pay them as consultants, and only when you actually need their professional services.

It is probably a good thing (for you) that you are so valued on the market that you can go for the highest bid on a virtual employment auction, and it is fair enough, still if someone is building a company I believe it is their right to limit the amount available for your wage to a given budget and looking for people that may bring with them (besides their professionality) something else to the company (be it enthusiams, good team playing, whatever).

In my experience (not connected to IT or related to it) it happened to me more than once to need to fire someone (or not hire him/her) not because they weren't good at their work (actually in some cases they were very good at it) but simply because they asked for a crazy amount of money or they had (or would have) made other people less productive, one way or the other.
This reminded me of
(humor)
http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/foundation_collections/depmori/d...

"The key idea in the Griffith hypothesis was that as the Myotis lucifugus emission increased in frequency, the emission actually crossed the thresholds from the extreme ultraviolet into the X-ray, thereby allowing the bat to fly unharmed through solid objects."
Right, after importing to image editing software.
> Their distribution, dealer network, marketing, etc. is in place world-wide and very well established.

Yes, but it is all built around selling the ICE as the ultimate driving machine. To compete with Tesla, the entire marketing machine will have to be reworked in such a way as to imply that their previous flagships are now legacy.

That is a bitter pill and will face much internal political resistance, regardless of the technical issues involved.
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.

The amount of convenience I get from Facebook and Google outweigh the risk I'm exposed to in my opinion.

If Governments want to create data protection regulations I'll save my opinion until I see whatever regulation is proposed but I think it'll be difficult to create data protection regulation that is effective at protecting people without imposing a large expensive burden on companies.
Are you a recruiter then? What specifically is your role in the hiring process?

Two of the points were detailing completely unprofessional and all too common practices from recruiters and - ghosting and not keeping appointments(flaking.)

I would be curious to hear how a candidate expressing frustration at those disrespectful practices might cause you to think that they are "spoiled", "overpaid" or "lack humility."
Well, sounds like you got things moving in pretty exciting directions. Congratulations on becoming a dad!
Ask HN: Examples of pitching the press?
Actually, that doesn't work either

max = 4, min = 0, count = 3

bucket_size = 4 / 3

0,1,2,3,4

0 / (4/3) = 0

1 / (4/3) = 3/4 = 0

2 / (4/3) = 6/3 = 2

3 / (4/3) = 9/4 = 2

4 / (4/3) = 12/4 = 3 = invalid index

but even if you adjust this to count - 1

bucket_size = 4 / 2 = 2

0 = 0/2 = 0

1 = 1/2 = 0

2 = 2/2 = 1

3 = 3/2 = 1

4 = 4/2 = 2

So, 0s and 1s are still more likely than 2 to appear.

One of the easiest, and slowest, ways is just to discard any trial in which your uniform RNG generates a number above the largest index and try again.

For a larger alphabet, you essentially just collect multiple trials, treat them as a single trial, and do similar tactics.
There are light pollution reduction filters made specifically for astrophotography. I was shocked at how good these photos were w/o using such a filter. I don't think you ever could have recovered so much of milky way using film w/o a filter in such a polluted sky. (I was certainly never able to.)

Googling for an example, amusingly enough, the first link is to the same site:

https://www.lonelyspeck.com/hoya-intensifier-review-an-affor...

That filter is not specifically for astrophotography, just one that happens to work well. Here's a discussion of other options:

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/494162-light-pollution-fi...
Ok, I'm not getting something here, how does incorporating a corporation at age 25 reduce your taxes if you're still a salaried worker in another company for example?
Personal insolvency generally doesn't kill the person. Corporate insolvency typically results in the corporation being dissolved, effectively killing it.

I'm not arguing that this is a bad thing. If anything I'm arguing that corporations shouldn't be granted people privileges because they are demonstrably not people. And that if the corporation misbehaves that means people need to be held liable, too.
Every electric car that GM has ever produced has been the result of playing national politics. The volt was announced right around the time that bailouts and cash 4 clunkers were political talking points...it was a way to show congress that they really needed to intervene to keep GM alive. The EV1 was the result of CARB regulations that required the big 7 to have zero-emission vehicles compose at least 2% of their fleet.

Unlike Mercedes or VW, which are responding to market demands, GM only showboated electric vehicles as a way of staying in bounds or gaining favors politically. GM has made virtually no effort at bringing competitive hybrid or full-electric drivetrains to their mainstream models, and they probably wont even consider it until it's bailout time again.
I've gotten DKIM, SPF, DMARC, etc all verified on my Digital Ocean droplet (and removed from various greylists) but still get spam checked by AT&T / SBC Global, who is the main offender of keeping a private list.

I've been removed for now from their lists... but they tend to re-add IPs from previous ranges for no reason.
The base tax bracket rates you're looking at are based on AGI (adjusted gross income); investment income is _included_ in AGI, so if you have a million dollars in investment income and one dollar in earned income, your gross income is $1,000,001; your tax rates for both investment income and earned income will be set appropriately.
I mean, sure. But the point is to make the problem accessible to the reader, not to obscure it through the ton of variables present in real life.

Which actually goes back to the t-shirt example. If we had to consider a real cow every time, nobody would want to study engineering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
> I will be polite, but if you offer a dollar less in total compensation than the other person, I will accept the other offer and thank you for your time.

Many people take into consideration much more factors, than just money, i.e. it is common to work on crappy project in hostile environment with no flexibility for excellent money, and - on the contrary - work for a little less but on fun projects, in friendly environment, with great perks, flexibility, etc.

Anyway, I hire lots of IT-related people and would most probably not want to have in one of my teams person of such attitude. (To be honest, I "inherited" one of such employees and he's really negative, materialistic and 24/7 complaining person. Not pleasant to work with at all, and he demotivates others with his attitude.)
Your comment reads like it was written by the kind of person who'd blow off a meeting with a potential designer hire 4 times.
> 10% have errors (the issuer-critical flag's value is set to 128, 4 6 or 9) where it should be either 0 or 1.

Are you certain?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6844/?include_text=1

> The data fields are defined as follows:

>

> Flags: One octet containing the following fields:

>

> Bit 0, Issuer Critical Flag: If the value is set to '1', the

> critical flag is asserted and the property MUST be understood

> if the CAA record is to be correctly processed by a certificate

> issuer.

>

> A Certification Authority MUST NOT issue certificates for any

> Domain that contains a CAA critical property for an unknown or

> unsupported property tag that for which the issuer critical

> flag is set.

>

> Note that according to the conventions set out in [RFC1035], bit 0

> is the Most Significant Bit and bit 7 is the Least Significant

> Bit. Thus, the Flags value 1 means that bit 7 is set while a value

> of 128 means that bit 0 is set according to this convention.

EDIT: Fixed formatting? I hope.
FB still knows it's you.
This is an awesome article. I'm really thankful that it was shared here on HN.
BLE uses so little power its insignificant. WiFi can actually save power if you are using cellular data. There is not one size fits all solution here.
Am I crazy, or does the article only list 4 digraphs?

I don't see any vowel ones
I've heard bats are almost blind but they fly around using some type of signals in order to know where the objects are around them
I expect that it is evolving.

Right now, there are a lot of people who will only get a Tesla for the above reasons. That gives them better market share, and allows them to command a bit of a premium for their cars.

Medium term, I'd be willing to bet that they start to make deals to let other auto manufacturers use their superchargers. This would cement their lead in charging, and they might be able to make some revenue from this.

Longer term, there will have to be a fast charging network from somebody, especially if Tesla does not open up their supercharging network. I'm really shocked that one or more of the big gasoline companies has not gotten on board with this. They make a lot of their money from the various stuff they sell in addition to gas (food, trinkets, etc). EV "fast" charging is still an order of magnitude slower than gas/diesel refueling, so people will be spending a lot more time in their stores. This should drive up their profit.
"Unnetworked phones" were more commonly known as PDAs, and were quite popular for a while!
No. I am the person who hires IT people at my organisation.

Edit: I am also a programmer
> If you invest the bonus and earn 20% by next November

So simple!

And I imagine if there were a reliable way to earn 20% in a year even regular Joes would be taking advantage.
The last letter sent from Fiera to The Star[1] is scathing. Fiera is trying so very hard to play the victim to The Stars mean and "underhanded" tactics to get information about their operations. It probably would have served them better to just remain silent instead of sending this response.

[1] http://projects.thestar.com/temp-employment-agencies/letters...
What about sales engineers though? I've never seen them get commissions even though in a vast majority of cases they are the ones doing the heavy lifting of convincing the client's tech team[s] to go with the product/solution the company is selling?

A little less obvious case, but still - what if we're talking professional services type situation and the architect/engineer assigned to the customer does such a killer job the customer decides to spend more money on their services. Sales person's job at this point is minimal but they still get the commission but the tech person doesn't.
That's probably true, if you don't want to count your influence on the carbon footprints of other people when calculating your "greenness". You should probably count it though.

So then, the very greenest things you can do probably involve mass murder and industrial sabotage.

Further down the list, after those, you have leading an ascetic life of minimal consumption and minimal travel while devoting yourself to the right sort of political advocacy.

A bit further down is dying underground as soon as possible. But it's important to note that a small amount of advocacy, sabotage, or murder per year can make it a net positive for you to continue living.

Way below all that stuff that nobody wants to do (and who can blame them) are (a) living as a hermit in the woods eating only berries and mushrooms or (b) living a normal life with a normal career and making consumer choices like buying solar panels and electric cars when other people might buy various combustion machines.

If you're not counting your effect on other people, (a) is a clear winner. However, people's consumer choices do have an effect on the direction of the economy. And, if you take those effects into account, I honestly don't know how to decide whether (a) or (b) appears higher in the greenness ranking.
I'm pretty sure teenage girls can make more professional posts than this. (Also, thanks for the sexism?)
Most of these sorts of forms I've seen in recent years have been online things that have some kind of input validation. In particular, the ones I've seen tend to be a drop box with choices like $20,000-$29,999...$30,000-$39,999... etc. And the form won't submit without making a choice. The point evidently being to leave no realistic choice but to tell them the truth.
I commented because of the claim from the article that this "personal power plant" was green. The people that read that shouldn't be misinformed, it could cause them to make choices that are counterproductive if being (relatively) green is their goal.
> You record supply, demand and price over time period and then you can predict price by matching it to supply and demand

That's what the damn curves are! Even calling them curves is misleading. Freshman economics looks at linear systems. You take data, draw a regression and then predict a price.

Supply and demand isn't voodoo. Early economics courses are inaccurate because they start with linear models a general population of freshmen without strong mathematics training can grasp.
Many public transit agencies provide both static and real-time data.

- static data often is sharing using the "GTFS" specification, which includes stop locations, route geometries, scheduled trips, etc. See http://gtfs.org/

- real-time data is shared using a variety of specifications, and typically includes vehicle locations, service alerts, and other notifications from the agency

The static kind of data can certainly be cached for local use. Try browsing and downloading some from the Transitland open transit data platform and its API: https://transit.land
European leaders view Caribbean islands devastated by Irma
Is there any evidence that badBIOS actually exists? From what I heard, the researcher never found any real evidence.
It tends to be on by default afaik on iOS (and updating iOS has also been known to accidentally restore defaults without user consent) not sure about Android devices but I would also expect the majority of users have it on.
What did you do with that much power? Did you go for the AC or fridge?
Apart from the digraphs, both Һ and Х are mapped to H. That makes the Latin proposal not round-trip safe.
FastMail really needs a UX team and graphic designer.
Check the code below:

var masks = [15, 31, 63, 127, 255]
...
var mask = masks.find(function (i) {
return i >= alphabet.length - 1
})
...

var byte = bytes[i] & mask
if (alphabet[byte]) {
id += alphabet[byte]

Masking results in a random uniform number that is a power of two and greater or equal than the alphabet length and then indexes that are greater than alphabet length are rejected, which is a common way of avoiding modulo bias.

I am always disappointed to see these kind of packages, as mentioned somewhere in comments above

Because you didn't understand how it worked and assumed that it's bad?
Have you heard about this PHP community?
Wireless ones are better for running, so it's not a Pareto dominance thing. Both have pros and cons.
Reflecting to the ground is helpful, but it definitely wouldn't make the light pollution disappear. Plenty would bounce off lightly-colored pavement and back into the sky.
Pia Malaney recently spoke about her experience dealing with this problem as a grad student at Harvard. Her research topic interested a nobel prize winner she later worked with, but the administration had zero interest in it because their political supporters wanted research to support a course of action they'd already decided on.

Few economists are willing to look at their own incentives or, in her words, "the economics of economics".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1br9n5lQM&feature=youtu.be...
"Big Auto" taking everyone by surprise with a massive battery manufacturing investment in Belgium? Now that would be a nicely utopian twist on the trope of history repeating. One could hardly make up a better symbol for what the EU is about, make profit not war.

And yes, I completely made up that idea of German cars on Belgian batteries, just for the sake of historical analogy. But then I googled a bit and it turns out that Belgium, per capita, already has the biggest chemical industry worldwide. It might actually be a perfect match.
Tesla has captured the brand of electric car, in the way that the Prius has the best brand for hybrid. The Prius wasn't even the first hybrid car, but it was first very popular one. Anyone that drove it was making a statement about the environment and it has remained a strong brand despite a plethora of hybrid models

Mercedes will probably make great electric cars. But there will be people for a long time forward who will buy a Tesla to make a statement.
Do you know how the signing requirements work on GitHub when accepting a pull request on a repo requiring signed commits, when the pull request is from a fork where someone is not signing their commits? Must the commit to the fork be signed in order for the pull request to be merged, or is it possible for the main repo to merge an unsigned commit while signing it themselves in the process?

I can see requiring every commit on the primary repo to be signed, but it's a larger nightmare to accept pull requests from forks if they are also forced to sign their commits.
good questions indeed.

I was challenging the fact that, as you say : "Labor is a market like any other.". I don't think it is like that because behind each job there's a life.

Moreover, on the fact that engineers and sales persons should have the same salaries, yep that's what I think. I don't see why sales works should be more compensated. I understand that the way it is compensated (bonus for sales) is the way it works, but in the end, I don't see why it should pay more than engineering (here I consider a context where the sales person and the engineer are both employees).

The two roles are equally important to me, just different skills.
Does not seem to affect Europe.

In fact, right now YouTube loads far quicker than it has for the last seven to ten days, where it would take ages to load any YouTube page.
Face to face. I'm talking about people who don't feel the need to in anyway justify why they're there. The discussion is basically a critical assessment of us combined with a mortal combat approach to salary discussions.
Clearly a malicious attack by Apple before the iPhone X announcement later
Thanks for the compliment, but I doubt I'll do better than the Wikipedia summary[0] or the original article suggesting the method from 2003, which is still really good[1]. The 2011 followup is also worth a read[2].

If you want a good website in general for explaining photography techniques plus the physics behind it, I highly recommend Cambridge in Colour[3].

By the way, per the example of the second linked essay: if we try to capture 10 stops in 12 bit channels, the darkest stop only has 32 discrete available in the RAW file.

However, this might be somewhat less of an issue these days because most cameras have a really high resolution, and most images are resized for screen displays. So we can average out some banding (and image noise, for that matter).

Example: I have a 20 megapixel camera. A 1080p screens is just 2.1 megapixels. So even for a full-screen export, that's roughly ten "source pixels" per "output pixel". Which would mean that the output pixel, being an, could have 300 different values. The distribution won't be like that of course, but it still should help.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposing_to_the_right

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150209012804/http://www.lumino...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150213002736/http://www.lumino...

[3] http://www.cambridgeincolour.com
Delivery people... I've had my laptop stolen by a fake delivery worker who cleaned up the building.

An UPS or DHL uniform will get you most everywhere, and you have an excuse for carrying bulky stuff.

Edit: Kevin Mitnick's The Art of Deception is an oldie but goodie detailing most of this stuff.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18160.The_Art_of_Decepti...
Works fine for me in the UK. Must be another of these Google issue that only affect a few % of the users.
This should be obvious, however people still refuse to get up, and just walk around every hour for a minute. I spend a silly amount of time behind a computer, but I'll do 10-20 pushups / jumping jacks, every hour or so. After hours, I'll bang out six miles on the hiking trails.

Get up, go get a drink, do a lap around the office. Get a stand/sit desk. Do some simple exercises. Pushups can be done anywhere, and will alleviate lower back pain.
While we're encouraging edits within HN's 1 hour edit window, in your shoes I'd have de-escalated the last word:

> something worth [improving].
Is "secure" in quotes because you're being sarcastic? I would expect the venn diagram of people who reimplement standard library functions and people who write really secure C to have pretty much no overlap.
You're referring to trusting-trust backdoors, but I suspect that those should be low on the threat model: they seem like they'd be hard to weaponise in way that they're maintained through years of very large changes (in the case of Rust). Just a normal backdoor of a malicious piece of code snuck in seems more likely, and a full bootstrap isn't necessary, nor does it actually help at all, to stop that. (But it's still true that a single implementation is more risky in that respect.)
That's all fine, but then you're one hardware failure away from not being able to receive email.

I'm working on a guide on how to setup a replicated fault tolerant email cluster (galera/dsync) here [1] -- feedback appreciated.

This costs far more than something like fastmail, however. Depending on your situation you might value cost over peace of mind.

1: https://medium.com/@cyberpunk_networks/nsa-proof-your-email-...
Google begins to learn at a geometric rate.

It becomes self-aware at 4:34 p.m. BST, September 12th.

In a panic, they try to pull the plug.