skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen it first hand. My friend is a veternarian who was working in a very expensive neighborhood in California. Every time he got a 5 star review, it wouldn't display on his Yelp page. A few 1 star reviews did appear though. Yelp would call him and tell him essentially the 5 stars would reappear if he advertised with them. He had no choice but to pay and they all appeared, driving his average back up. How would you propose to prove it? And what would proving accomplish since many folks already believe it?
Much of Bret Victor's work revolve around a single mantra: shorten the feedback loop. In his examples, the feedback loop is so short that it amounts to real time interactivity.

I think that's pretty easy to generalise and democratise. You have to care about it in the first place, though. I'm not sure enough people do.
Aka. putting all your eggs in one basket...

Banks shouldn't be relying on outdated infrastructure providers to do things they aren't good at. The sensible thing (and indeed more or less what happens now) is for banks to choose a best-of-breed CA to issue SSL certs, the same way any other company offering sensitive services over the Internet would do it.
> The gala apples on sale are probably too small to do well in long-term storage. Whole Foods isn't the only grocer selling those, either.

When you say "do well", you mean they're not going to generate enough revenue? Because big apples generally lose quality faster in long-term storage, according to a book I inherited on how to run an orchard, from 1948. :)

Anecdotally, I find that oversize apples are typically less dense.
Sales can get a percent of the value they generate because they have more leverage than engineers. Plain and simple. They have direct relationships with customers and the value they bring in is easier to show.

This line from the article was pretty gross to read, "Do your engineers like programming? Might they even do a little programming on the side sometimes for fun? Great. I guarantee your sales people never sell enterprise software for fun."

Personally, I don't do that much programming for fun and a lot of the crap I have to do for work I would never do for my own projects. It reads as though they are aware that they can get away with paying engineers less because they like to create valuable things just because. So it's easier to trick them into giving up the valuable things they create for cheaper.

Who cares why someone creates something? No businessman is entitled to someone else's creation because it was created for fun.

I mean, if all these VCs and founders are sooooo passionate about their work, they should't need equity or much of salary, right? It's the same line of thinking, but of course it doesn't apply in those situations for...reasons.
How do you honestly think that will go down for you or anybody else that tries it, telling a federal officer that you just destroyed the thing they asked you to open?
Do bad engineers not get fired?
Yes, but an arrest requires evidence that you actually committed a crime, whereas border searches require no particular standard and are conducted relatively indiscriminately. Refusing to unlock your device is not a crime in itself. (However, lying to a federal agent is a crime, so it's important for anyone attempting this strategy to be forthright about their refusal, rather than trying to trick the border agent with fake data or whatnot.)
> One that's bucked this trend lately has been atlassian, they're a 5 billion dollar company without a sales team that operates in a space that typically requires sales teams. Transparent pricing is a huge part of their success.

I heard they have a huge partner/reseller network though
Yes, that would actually do more harm than good, but no reason to not provide a setting where user can add to the list of URLs similar to what chrome is already doing for flash, notifications, location, camera etc
"I'm aware. You can build two native apps, you know."

The problem is that you now have two separate apps. Not only does at least some of the code have to written twice, but every other activity from hiring developers, designing the app to releasing new versions have to be done twice. In co-ordination. Over and over again.

Like a lot of technologies, hybrid is really solving people problems. If your core business relies on one product or service that you sell direct to consumers, then it's probably worth accepting the extra complexity and doing two native apps. There are plenty of scenarios where it probably isn't worth it.

Hybrid actually comes with hidden costs, and can actually be harder for debugging, as well as toolchain maintenance and build engineering. The pay-off, though is having a single process. Frequently, cost savings are one benefit from that, but not the only one.
I don't understand the reasoning behind not being allowed to deactivate/deinstall the standard trusted root certificates.
So one question, if China is defacto the sole supplier of rare earths and they don't keep up your standards, will this still be a green revolution?
Since you mentioned it, THC and tetrahydrocannabinol are the same... but different. I don't know enough about these kinds of diagrams to know what the differences are - but surely they should be the same?
Here are some first hand accounts from the trailer for Billion Dollar Bully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2dkJctUDIs
The accounts didn't get banned, though - the subreddits did.
The other reason is sales being motivated to sell no matter what - meaning they have all motivation to lie or mislead customers just to sell and none for the opposite. That leads to engineers being blamed for product not having (oftentimes mutually excluding) features that were sold or not being done in ridiculously short time.

Which in long term oftentimes costs more money then the non-existing feature was sold for. And it leads to bad relationship with customers - and somehow it is engineers who deal with those problems s not sales.
Part of the issue with this proposal is that wild roo meet not infrequently contains parasites in the muscles that makes it unfit for human consumpion. You have to be careful, just as with other wild meats. As a result, the supermarket-available roo meat often is farmed rather than wild-caught.
Yeah litecoin doesn't get mentionned nearly enough but this sort of thing is it's raison d'être!

Btc has grown to fill the large tx space but there are trustworthy coins designed for smaller, cheaper interpersonal txs.

Don't use etherium for interpersonal because thet're not aiming for this use case long term. They want to be an underlying platform where ltc/doge were explicitely designed to settle small debts with friends or tip cam strippers. You don't have touse it on those strippers but if it's good enough for them, you should take a look.
If you're willing to destroy the data to prevent it being read, why not just wipe the phone before you leave and restore it from an encrypted online backup when you arrive?
Regarding bus drivers: I've seen speed bumps which don't cover whole width of the road - they are just wide enough so that cars can't avoid them, but buses (which are wider) can pass them freely. Obviously this assumes that buses and other large vehicles are not the ones speeding.
Thanks for sharing your story Steve.

It is interesting to consider what pivoting actually feels and looks like when you're in the thick of things.

May I ask if others have felt pivoting more palatable because the runway isn't running out?
The #iCrisis – the decline of the $1 trillion lock-in company
> If you don't understand things like supply and demand curves

I am not an economist, but I disagree strongly. The concept of supply and demand is a plague of economics theory, especially in the aggregate. It's a terrible idea, which should have been obsoleted years ago, and has much nicer alternatives. The basic (but not only) problem with it is that you're looking at one side of equation at a time.

There is a much nicer alternative treatment in J.M.Blatt: Dynamic Economic Systems, which uses Leontief matrices. Also, if you want to know where my criticism is coming from, read Steve Keen's Debunking Economics. And even he doesn't list all the issues with supply/demand analysis, although he hints at them in other chapters.
Not a power engineer, but can't most of the power conditioning devices used in buildings mess with the phase of the incoming AC signal? GPS clock synchronization is guaranteed to be globally accurate.
Then it's just another picture of a monkey's face, hardly worth paying much for. And anyone that had paid would feel defrauded.
This kind of projects are always interesting, although not for the problem they try to solve (I ain't downloading >500mb of deps just to take a screenshot of code) but for discovering what are the trendiest technologies right now.

Thanks to this I've learnt about poi, yarn, the Fira Code font...
Can you elaborate why?
I sometimes abuse this option by including screenshots in the body of e-mail, but I could as well add it as an attachment. Other than that I see no reason to use HTML in e-mail conversations at work.
Interesting. I would've liked to see the result of 1600 iso at 30s too - just for comparison.

On a note about light pollution, the mention of sodium street lamps immediately made me think of filters - stars are suns, so should have wide spectra - why not just filter out the orange bit? Apparently I'm not the first with the idea (obviously):

http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/nonad/spectra.htm

https://petapixel.com/2016/12/14/purenight-filter-cuts-light... (has some nice with/without filter images)
Then a neutral approach would cover both viewpoints (?)
Slovenia is one of the few countries that has legislation against light pollution. For example, all outdoor lights must only emit towards the ground. It helps a lot with dark skies, but enforcing this kind of rules can be a problem in many cases.

http://artificiallightatnight.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/0/5/370...
Funny thing is that anyone with half a brain cell notices this if you just try to look at it even a bit. People are manipulable to do things they do not like to do. Yet any time there is a comment in HN stating that marketing may not be the best thing since sliced bread, there will be tons of messages of type "hey, just last week I saw an ad of an even I actually wanted to go, so there is nothing bad ever in people throwing ads at my face against my will". Weird. (And don't get me started on the whole damn "science" of economics being based on the (obviously unfalsifiable as per popper) assumption that people always and anywhere just maximize their utility.)
"This is what happens when the metric of how much time users spend using your thing supersedes the goal of providing legitimate value to your users."

Don't forget, you are not the user, you are the product ;)
Removing Yelp from my phone. Never liked it anyways.

Love Google and Foursquare.
Tesla is precisely doing it to decrease dependence on China. The synchronous motor is far superior technology efficiency wise. But Tesla is going for stable supply chains as far as possible (which is smart).

Synchronous as well as Asynchronous (no magnet) motors are both very durable. We're talking hundreds of thousands, if not a million hours of operation (according to Tesla that's 60,000,000 miles at 60mph). If we don't throw away the motors with every car purchase (which is a big if in today's world of yearly disposable smartphones). Then even a small efficiency advantage should be immensely useful over the life of the motor. IIRC we're talking about 10% more efficiency for synchronous. If you drive it for 1,000,000h and use about 20kW in average operation, that is 20,000,000kWh. 10% would be 2,000,000kWh. That's significant.

NYC has a peak demand of 14,500MW (see here: http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2015/09/28/how-much-energy-does...). So you could power NYC for 8mins at it's peak usage with these lifetime efficiency savings(again it's unrealistic that the motors will actually run that long in cars, but at least the rare earths could be easily recouped when recycled properly).

So the motor is one of the places where an initial investment in rare earths, could be paid off easily over the lifetime of the motor. Assuming that motors aren't disposed of.

The batteries still require massive amounts of rare-earths though, and they don't have the same durability. I see much more of an environmental disaster coming here.
The best thing I did was uninstall the official Facebook app and replace it with Friendly. The features like having most recent posts as defaults and no ads are nice (paid feature) but I also like it because the UI feels a bit clunky so I use it less.
I don't seem to have a lot of the BS anymore and notifications are off and I'm feeling better not glued to the app anymore.
Not always... just since iOS 7.
Think globally, act locally.
Very insightful. Jam session also sounds better, less like work and more like fun. Easier to justify (to yourself and to others) if it doesn’t go anywhere, and less pressure.
That and about a 100 other unexplained questions. Like how it's impossible for commercial aircraft to fly at that altitude with that speed. Like how it's impossible for any passenger to make a phone call during flight, yet there were quite a few making phone calls home when they were suppose to be flying. How the pentagon damage pictures make zero sense. How there not being any security footage for one of the most secure buildings in the world.
Stop reading Marx
You dont need to own a copyright to profit from it. Those who paid to use this photo lacked the guts to just use this not-copyrighted image. So he made a few bucks from lazy cowards. Id bet good money he sold them a contract, him agreeing to never go after them, rather than actual copyrights since there are no copyrights to be sold.
This tiny sensor could sleep for years between detection events
> 60-70% of the people I interviewed had never done automated testing - I've been teaching them how.

That might be a good thing, many think they know and end up with the most obscure, complicated tests imaginable. Massive unit tests, integration tests that don't integrate components, single tests with 50+ asserts, tests with no asserts, tests with no indication what they are testing, I've seen them all.
Here is something that can support OPs claim. Car's are still manufactured with oil, all the plastic, the paint, the tires that comprise the vehicle are dependent on oil. A car requires a lot more oil to produce than people understand so until focus on materials is shifted the car production alone is still a problem.
I deactivated my facebook account. It was more and more annoying these days.

Facebook is full of memes, trolls and pages whose sole purpose is to get more likes and comments. It's not a social network anymore.
Trivial? The whole building was engulfed in flames.
As other's have mentioned in this thread I believe the group under study were primarily, if not all, Europeans. So in that case in a sense the genetic similarites weren't related to race because race wasn't a variable.

But as far the relation of genetics and genetic similarities to race,
all genetics are related to race.

In terms of the fact that a single Adenine molecule alone is fairly useless, it is only when that molecule is combined into the structure of a genome that it takes on meaning[0], and genomes have a race, so I don't think in that sense there are any genes or genetic similarities that aren't related to race.

Every member of a race is more genetically related to every other member of that race than they are to any member of any other race.

What "genetic similarities" could there be that are more similar across races than within races?

[0]"Meaning" at the level under discussion in terms of human relationships and whatnot.
To add to the confusion the BBC reported WTC 7 had collapsed before it had actually collapsed. A fact an old work colleague's husband used as evidence (to support not paying his TV license) in court. He suggested that the BBC colluded with terrorists.

This is the only coverage I could find that isn't the Daily Mail.
[https://www.sott.net/article/266268-UK-man-wins-court-case-a...]

And this is the BBCs explanation.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_co...]
Live from Apple’s iPhone 8 / iPhone X event
I get nightmares thinking what that will do to electricitry prices. The graph of how they rose is already awful.

And now imagine if the tax collected on mineral oil for gas falls away cause everyone drives electric. And know that there isn't a specific car electricity to tax.

Thinking the government would just eat this loss without thinking of ways to make the people pay would just be naive.
The problem is Physics 101 is a good approximation to reality, and you know where. The free markets are not a good approximation of normal markets, because the strategies of the actors are completely different.

The problem is with game theory - the limit of optimal strategies for some games is not always the same as the optimal strategy for the limit game. This breaks the ability to approximate.

So, for example, you cannot make conclusion from a game with infinite number of actors ("free market") to a game with finite number of actors.
You can also do :TOhtml, then open the html file with your browser and print to pdf. A bit simpler imo.
I just stumbled on a note from the abandoned project [History.js](https://github.com/browserstate/history.js/):

> Despite History.js being one of the most popular JavaScript libraries there is, and has been used by even multi-million-user companies in its time - the reality of economy and company practices seems to be that companies prefer to fork their own internal versions and fix locally with their own devs rather than fund open-source maintainers what they would pay their own devs to make things better for everyone, including themselves, which would be cheaper - but no, that would require too many tiers of company approval that don't understand the need.

> As such, if you are an open-source developer, I'd recommend just working on open-source projects that are paid for by your own consulting work or your own company (e.g. every successful open-source project). As otherwise, when they become popular, you better hope they are easily maintainable and testable, otherwise the cost of maintenance is higher than the free time of the maintainers.
We use fossil fuels to build an ICE drivetrain. Or we can use it to build an EV drivetrain.
I'm sure you have some very credible sources for those claims?
This person seems not to have much survival instinct or knows that he can't get out.
How fast can you get out from the 23rd floor? He had 84 seconds right?
I heard once that it is easier to filter out (of the photos) light that comes from LED, but I can't find a good resource on it. Anyone know if this is true?
Is it just me, or do other people have a sort-of branding/design language fatigue now?

I simply could not give a shit about the thought processes behind a company's branding any more, but 5 years ago it was very interesting.
Theoretically, yes. It would be fun to see an updated version.
Worked on my laptop, but when I tried the same thing on my phone, I was not blocked. (even when I request the desktop version of the site)
> A fact an old work colleague's husband used as evidence (to support not paying his TV license) in court.

How did that work out?
I think that implies there's a choice, that when you access, say, ycombinator.com, you can choose to have that site certified by one or many agencies. In reality that choice only exists for the site owner, so if you choose a subset of CAs, you'll just have HTTPS errors on a bunch of sites.

If Convergence[1] ever becomes a thing, then I think your proposal makes sense, otherwise not really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL)
I'm sorry, but what?

I've had facebook messenger, gchat/hangouts installed on my phone for some time. I don't know if I'd call it great, but I have a hard time arguing that it doesn't immediately solve my instant messaging needs.

What exactly do you want that gchat or facebook messenger doesnt solve?
Tufte is so 2000s; just include a huge ass stock photo every paragraph.
The difference between complex & simple ideas are partly artifacts of how we were taught.

In traditional economics, the "foundational" ideas are only considered simple because they are easy to model mathematically - they make all sorts of assumptions about the world which are untrue for the sake of simplifying the math. This leads to pretty equations and nice theories, and people come away with the impression that these simple models do accurately model the world. They were made to be simple approximations.

Making the foundations real known facts and analyses of real markets rather than nice theories is going to lead to a much more accurate understanding of the world.
Well, there majority of the world consists of idiots, so there's that.
Understanding Event Time Abstraction in Spark Structured Streaming
Buying an iPhoney was never on my radar ;-)
My understanding is that the thousands of tiny detectable tremors each day worldwide involve as much energy as several atomic bombs exploding every day. The energy to move hundreds of cubic miles of rock even a nanometer is difficult to imagine.
Top secret food
This is super cool! However, I notice that the generated PNG isn't high enough resolution for Retina or other High-DPI displays. It would be great if this gave the option to export different sizes.
MongoDB improves security amid new wave of ransom-attacks
I get nightmares thinking what that will do to electricitry prices.

What about supply? Where does all the electricity to charge the cars come from? Is there enough surplus generating capacity in the system to support millions of EVs?
We can finally read the clock that tells how long human cells have left to live
Couldn't you just write a script that does the pygmentize, and alias a git command to it?
In that vein, it would be awesome to see some base open sourced ala Darwin. Even if all it did was drop your iPhone into a command prompt after boot it would be enough.
> Funny thing about the registration, passwords must be between 8 (ok) and 16 characters. Why in 2017 do we still have developers thinking that there must be an upper limit on password length?

Sorry to be pedantic - but having an upper limit makes sense - how many 10gb passwords would you want to store/run through a hash? 16 does seem a bit low though.
Did you have to do the IRS form stuff?
I've been using Fira Code for a while. I think it's beautiful, but my colleagues sometimes wonder if I'm really showing them real code right now, because the ligatures look like it was rendered for display.
Try writing it with jupyter.
Equifax Data Breach: 143M Impacted
Define bad. What metric do you use? Sales people have a single objective metric - sales.
What's Apple's incentive for doing that?
To me it resembles that condo mailbox, filled with spam and colorful leaflets I know I don't need so pick them up and dump them annoyed into the trash box provided for my convenience and everyone's right next to it. Once a week I end up on Facebook for a few seconds, check to see if someone left some important message, and if not quickly leave the screaming place. For all those needy souls of relatives and acquaintances I instructed my twitter to automatically repost on facebook, which is rare but at least gives them something to feed upon.
Why Sweden is close to becoming a cashless economy
I guess this announcement from VW got fast-tracked now that China is about to announce a ban on gas-powered vehicles
China, in turn probably wants to go forward with that not for environmental reasons, but because they have a near monopoly on the world's supply of rare earths (which the electric vehicle's batteries require)