skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, why not make everyone play role of CEO 1h/week then? Any arguments against it?
>the US will have no choice [but to switch to a better, non-SSN based system]

I absolutely hope this happens too...

... but I have a feeling all of the banks and agencies involved will find a way to plug their ears more and pretend nothing is wrong.

They will look at how costly and complex it is to create a halfway decent identity system (even though it's really not hard, other countries do it just fine with digital and physical keys/tokens).

And they will just continue to push the burden of ID theft onto consumers, rather than their businesses.
After a few weeks, if you don't address your postural issues, you'll discover that you can have terrible posture on a yoga ball just as easily.
Creators haven't stopped creating at all. The reason that people look back on earlier decades as agolden age is that then there was comparatively so little music produced that various demographics could broadly agree on a canon of "great bands/albums". These days, there is so much music being produced that groups of people -- even if they share a similar background -- might have no overlap in what they are listening to.
> Before her post, others who spoke up publicly and privately about their experiences of harassment were at best ignored. Some of those people — whose names are unfortunately not well known — include Adria Richards

Seems like she's just trolling at this point.
Electric cars are ~2% of the global sales and compounding 50% growth would hit 100% in 10 years which seems inanely optimistic.

I suspect they will hit 10% fairly quickly, but take much longer to break 50%. The really interesting transition is when gas stations start disappearing.
Impact Site: Cassini's Final Image
Arizona - but to clarify, I'm talking about apartments. For example the Mark Taylor properties I've stayed at permit smoking.
Kinda makes me wonder why OCaml didn't become more popular for Unix systems programming, the way Go seems to be becoming now. Looking at the two languages, it seems like pretty much everything that Go has to offer in that department, OCaml has as well - and if it also optimizes better, why is this even a contest?
Yup, the front motor is the cruising motor and the rear one is the accelerating one(since weight distribution means that the rear wheels get a bit more traction).

They shut the rear motor down at highway speeds giving the Dual Motor cars slightly better range.
In Canada you can't do anything meaningful without a photo driver's license or a passport. My wife got a passport just to have a quality ID. Before that she couldn't even open a chequing account.
https://youtu.be/bNfAAQUQ_54?t=16m30s
your site already made news...

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/09/16/1623255/can-the-pira...

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-crypt...

https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-PIRATE-BAY-OFFICIAL-SITE-MI...

https://betanews.com/2017/09/16/pirate-bay-secret-bitcoin-mi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/70j924/the_pirate_...
> Publishers add value in their role as gatekeepers and filters.

And yet the peer review process relies on unpaid volunteers. Sure, there's some kudos. But the publishers are laughing all the way to the bank.

> They provide an objective, systematic evaluation of research

Publication bias is a thing. A hugely significant thing.

> Piracy is not an alternative to publishing, so it isn't a competitor

This is an odd semantic nitpick without any discernable meaning. I feel very certain that many who benefit from working within academic publication see piracy as a threat to their revenue streams, hence "competition".

> piracy destroys the market

No, the market has simply changed.

> We need to collaboratively imagine and build a better system for communicating and evaluating science

On this I completely agree.
I guess it's kind of an archaic term but it means broadcasting media via multiple channels at the same time. In this case it means that when the next episode of a show is broadcast via cable or over-the-air in Japan (probably cable in 2017) it's also simultaneously available on websites for folks who don't have Japanese cable.

A simple modern example is being able to listen to the announcers of a sports match on radio or watch the same announcers via the television transmission.

Google defines a "simulcast" as a simultaneous transmission of the same program on radio and television, or on two or more channels.
I'm going more for freaking out the students than any up-up feel of a window.

Truthfully, I rather like not having a window behind me. I see several posters in this discussion who sound like that is preferable. Maybe we have a paranoid streak our just don't like people looking over our shoulders. The fact I handle some confidential information also makes me happier to not have a large viewing port behind me. Plus, I suppose I've seen one too many horror films and already had a "only idiots in horror films do that" moment.
Other countries have the equivalent of SSNs, i.e., a number issued by the government tax collector. However, other countries don't use it as a form of ID. In my experience, they use passports, ID cards, drivers licenses, etc., which are supposedly "hard to forge".
What is your stack?
Aka my book just released so remember to buy it!
As soon as you ask me for a name,email, DNA sample, etc for a download...you lose. Python doesn't do that. Which is why it is kicking Scilab, Matlabs et al arse.
It's an ill-considered stream of consciousness where I wasn't clearly separating "simplicity of interface" from "simplicity of implementation".

Part of what I was going for is that a clean interface might hide a complex implementation. If you've followed rule 1 and see that "Get" is a bottleneck, it makes sense to apply rules 3+4, and see if there isn't a simpler implementation than the one provided by "Get".
It's actually a good piece. If you have some second thoughts just because Pao wrote it, I think it was easy to misjudge her. I got caught up in this myself at the time, believing a lot of the stories on Reddit and such.
My favorite part: "Also available from XCOMP: General Purpose controllers (8 bit interface), with easy interface to microprocessor-based systems."

Contemplate this for a moment. Not exactly plug-and-play!
That sounds similar to this, but with much less time spent on the intermediate frequencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWEexwZSXF8
I just started watching this series independently, it's great to see how far it has come! I had no idea there was a 24/7 twitch stream, this is hilarious.
Medals are awarded in integer quantities, and you don't want j·g+k·s+l·b=0 to be possible for integer j,k,l (except when all three medal counts are 0).

This is actually a slightly stronger condition than is needed, because no country can earn negative medals and there are a finite number of medals available, so you could actually have the weights for eg. gold and silver medals differ by a rational factor as long as the denominator was large enough.
https://elsyms.com/the-art-of-over-engineering-your-side-pro... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15147660 (Sep 2017, 257 comments)
Mm, how so? I know nothing about that person specifically, so if there's substance to it then it's better to hear the full details.

I worry about opening the door to a low quality conversation though, so let's try to keep it objective and substantive.
This has been said over and over again, but companies should always be able to hire and promote the best available candidates. Unfortunately large tech companies especially in the bay area are hiring/promoting to meet a quota and prevent any social justice backlash even though it continues [1][2]. They are looking for a perfect 50/50 balance, missing on talent and ultimately what's best for the company. Truely disconcerting.

Look at what's happening at Google, perhaps the most inclusive and liberal ideology company. Entitled and outraged employee still end up suing[3]. Employes who have different political views and try to perhaps explain why there are traditionally more men than women in technology are just fired.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/githubs-diversity-is-just-...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/uber-first-diversity-repor...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/technology/google-gender-...
Pirate Bay 'borrows' visitor CPUs to mine virtual coins
Random, incoherent text and graphics, apparently generated by some kind of algorithm.
I'm considering cases where looping over a list mean using a simpler algorithm than whatever's provided by "Get", applying rules #3+#4, after determining that "Get" is a bottleneck.
What a load of bull. She latches to a real incident and pretends that its existence makes her right - and not only her, but every fraud like her (and every crackpot like Adria Richards). Tech is a big and lucrative industry but there is no place in it for leeches and that's all these people are.
You would need to have a really big email list to justify maintaining your own server with either open source software or Sendy, which I realize isn't a big deal for developers but you gotta figure your time isn't free, right?

If your list is small-ish, I would suggest to go with a hosted solution like http://BigMailer.io or other similar providers depending on your feature needs.
These systems don't work well remotely, of course. Sometimes an organisation will accept an upload of a scan or a mailing of a photocopy. They sometimes require it to be signed by a somebody to verify that it's genuine (e.g., a Justice of the Peace). But by doing that, the "hard to forge" feature is lost entirely.
Mine was an ST-506 : 5MB, 5.25"

First moderately modern drive was a Rodime 3.5" 10MB. Smuggled out of the factory somehow (which was just down the road from where I worked). That was the first drive that looked like they still do today.
On a side note about 9 years ago I was involved in a project to study "digital" camouflage and exploitation of the image recognition systems for a GIS solution primarily for governments where patterns were used to "fool" algorithms that identify objects such as buildings and roads.

We did identify a few issues with an ESRI/IBM solution, I always wondered if these techniques are being actively used in the field.

It won't fool a human analyst but since satellites often operate in mosaic mode these days and generate 10,000s of images per tasked pass CV is often used to identify objects of interest.

This QR code reminded me of this.
If the order of magnitude differential you're referring to is my rough range of costs of $500 - $5,000 per article, then there's a lot to dive into there. The reason for that range is that we're talking about very different products at the ends of that spectrum.

On the low end you have journals that intentionally screen only for scientific soundness and will publish anything, across all fields, that meets basic scientific rigor. And I don't intend that description to come off as sounding negative. I think there's an important role for that kind of publishing. Some of the publishers in this space are PLOS, PeerJ, and Springer Nature with Scientific Reports. As an incredibly rough rule of thumb, these types of journals accept about half of the articles that get submitted.

Then on the high end you have journals focused on exclusivity and only publishing the most impactful science. So that's the Cells and Natures and Sciences of the world (and OA journals like eLife). They reject most of the submissions, and so the cost is far higher on a per published article basis because they do a lot of work to throw away most of the articles.

These are very different services being offered.
I understand (roughly!) the basic idea of a watch mechanism, and how mechanical escapements work.

What i don't understand is exactly how the spring drive keeps the wheel moving at a constant speed.

I appreciate that this involves magnets, and eddy currents induced by those magnets, but that's a description, not an explanation. What is the mechanism, physically and mathemetically, that keeps the speed constant?
I'd say it's more of a colorful description than an analogy. Consider the classic dining philosophers problem for a crazier example. Who eats with both hands, using different forks, and sharing forks with your neighbor? And yet being able to visualize it like that helps a lot.
My first computer (Nascom 2) didn't even have a floppy. A hard disk would have cost many more
times than the computer. The first hard disk I saw
many years later was 80 MB and very loud.

Almost six orders of magnitude advancement. I do
wonder if humanity will every be able to pull such a stunt again.
Now you get to enjoy him all over again!
That's strange—there have been physically small 4TB HDs for a while: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9489/seagate-backup-plus-porta... . I have this one or one like it as a Time Machine backup.
The copyright law is absurd in the context of scientific publication. Here's why. The private property associated with the publication is created at the moment of publication, and is the association with the author's name. It is this association with publication which undergirds lifetime tenure, or reputation leading to employment, a cash flow which when discounted can be worth many millions of dollars. The investigator author knows this and the publisher knows this. The author gets permanent monopoly rights due to the association. It's remarkable. Unless the publication is proven wrong, the name association can last centuries. That's why I say many millions of dollars in the case of a significant publication, especially, pre-tenure.

Now the publisher knows this too, and tries to assert monopoly rights, using the skirts of copyright law, over a certain time frame, in the vending of images of the publication. It's ridiculous how little value he's added. And when you examine who paid for the research or work in question, it's a racket. Third world baksheesh is certainly less injurious to progress.
Bad practitioners in any field crudely invoke and naively apply a trite toolbox of mantras. Detached from reality and driven by insecure ego, they become the problem by using magical thinking from authoritarian logic and delude themselves of the reality of what they are actually doing.

In any skill, people can fall prey to cults of myth and mysticism as they merit based on adherence to orthodoxy rather than suitability. Programming is no different and sometimes it's hard to hear anybody think over the mooing of all the sacred cows.
As others have said, this particular service uses Amazon. But to answer your question, I've supported services where management dictated the process was going to involve an on-premises Exchange server built just for a mail campaign to deliver directly to inboxes.

The answer is, rDNS, SPF, DKIM, abuse.net registry, feedback loops with major mail services - are all memes.

You can do everything right, which is an extremely manual effort once you get as far as building code that identifies the top mail services used by your mailing list and reaching out to ISPs and mail hosts individually and asking them to whitelist you.

And you'll still find deliverability extremely poor.

Even Troy Hunt went in circles trying to get HIBP emails delivered to Microsoft Office 365 users.
I'm not so sure about that. I think most people would probably support a name like "Powwy McPowerface."
In Go, it's idiomatic to use map[T]struct{} for a HashSet. In fact, the compiler optimises struct{} so that it doesn't even allocate.
haha, I switched just in time to see it meekly surrender to the police.

It looks like it still has a lot of improving to do to manage basic stuff like not accelerating into oncoming vehicles, but it's quite neat to see that its mastered the art of stealing another vehicle after writing its own off, which isn't something your average self driving neural network gets trained on.
California Senate passes prescription drug pricing transparency bill
I think quotas are a bad idea, but there is some space between quotas and not being sexualized at the workplace. Women seem to be asking for more of the latter than the former. And luckily, things seem to be changing in that regard.

Quotas may turn out to just be a fad. Once people see the destructive effects (like that no woman hired through such a program can escape undertones of "should she really have been hired here?") they'll probably fade.

Or, y'know, we could both be wrong and quotas will turn out to be a good thing. It'd be nice to have an objective test.
If only they went after cable internet connections...
This is very important and overlooked by many marketers. Your emails need to actually come from the email address you say they are, e.g. the sender should be blah@yourdomain.com and not "via some random server name of your provider".
I'm saying "men oppressing women" is the same BS as "the bourgoise oppress the proletariat"

> Not every claim about one group having done something to another group rests on some kind of Marxist ideology

Of course it doesn't.

What I am saying is that I find parallels in many, many, ideologies. If the only difference between the ideologies is the names of the "bad" and "good" people, then I call the ideologies the same.
what happens when you hand such task to 'growth hackers' :). would have appreciated if this was communicated directly via email so we stop it right away.
> Women earned the right to vote in 1919;

And when did men earn the right to vote?

> Women are still considered property of their fathers and husbands in many parts of the world.

So... this means that women in the US are oppressed.

Right?

Right?
It's a positive development.

But I'm not sure really that 'startups' contribute to the local economy.

The average restaurant has more revenues, and employs more people than the average startup.

The real value of most startups in Montreal is almost nil.

The 'startup contribution' generally only happens when there are large, incumbent, dominant entities that are formed. This is because of mass employment, and all of this spin-offs. Particularly - 'large dominant entities' are cash-flush and spend a lot on spurious acquisitions, etc. etc..

80% of acquisitions fail, but it still makes economic sense for big companies to buy, as there is potential upside. Without cash-flush behemoths, startups have nowhere to park - either they do an IPO or stay private forever - which is fine, but it's not generally how the ecosystem works well.

Bombardier, based in Montreal - employs 66 000 people (!!!).

$16 Billion in revenue.

So, just a 1% change in their head-count = all of the startups in Montreal.

If Bombardier secured a decent set of contracts for their mid-sized Jet - that's a definite boon for Montreal.

AI 'revenues' in Montreal ... I don't think have come close to exceeding the investment the provide/feds have made in it.

I think they will break even on it, but we need companies, not tech.
She's the woman who got a developer fired for a comment she overheard between two other people that did not have sexual intent (relating to forking a repo) but which she interpreted sexually and flipped out over, accusing them of targeting and harassing her.
> Publishers select the reviewers, analyze the reviews, and accept or reject. Orchestrating all this, by itself, is expensive.

If academics can peer review, they can do the analysing of reviews and accepting/rejecting, too. Even for-profit publishers often put all that work on an unpaid editorial board.

Also, the costs do not have to be so high that they make Wiley or Springer-type for-profit journals the only way of publishing scholarship. In my own field, the most respected journals are printed by learned societies founded on the basis of an endowment or national academies of science. Since the labour and coordination is already done for free here by academics -- just like with many for-profit journals -- the only additional costs are typesetting and coordination with the printer/distributor, and it turns out that these costs are not so high that you have to lock your content down. These journals do not even have to charge submission fees like other journals in the "open access" movement claim is necessary; it just all doesn't cost that much.
In the past, discussions on this topic on HN have historically devolved quickly into flamewars. Anyone choosing to discuss this please reflect on why you want to do so: are you looking to truly understand what others think on this? Are you truly open to having your opinion changed? Are you hoping to convince others of your position? Just let people know the truth of the matter? Shout down those you disagree with? If you're looking for something other than truly productive, respectful, thoughtful, charitable discussion, please refrain from commenting here.
My first hard drive (8.9MB, 5.25", double height) was loud, but it was too slow to be obnoxious :)
I don't know what you are trying to argue about, but somebody got hold of personal details, SSN and credit card details of 140 million people.

The argument that it is ok, because anyway if somebody wanted it really hard they would find a way to get my personal details, is illogical.
You should read her court case. After that her Reddit story looks completely natural. Greed, incompetence, extreme narcissism and indifference... No surprise that she is trying to high jack the cause she has nothing to do with and ride other people stories.
It's pretty simple. Richards was a developer evangelist who decided to start a public shaming campaign when she overheard some developers making a 'dongles' joke in a conference. Conference organizers in a display of weak-willed, hasty and cruel behaviour typical for people with trappings of power but no real power overreacted and expelled the developers. That got the poor buggers some extra publicity and was enough to get them fired.

Richards herself has barely finished the self-congratulatory tour over the feminist twitter when she was fired herself in the first display of rational thinking in this story - after all who needs a developer evangelist who prioritizes witch-hunting developers over evangelizing to developers.

And that's how you can know if anyone props Richards as a feminist martyr icon that they are trying to sell a false agenda. Same is true for Pao herself and a number of other things her article mentions.
What a better idea than using renewable energy just to put it in waste and get rid of any benefits you might have gotten over using fossil fuels.
Thanks for posting. Ill check it out. :)
What that means from a practical standpoint is that you are essentially guaranteed an unrecoverable bit read error if you read the drive end to end

That sounds scary, but if I remember a research paper from a few years ago (reading smaller drives multiple times over), these are very conservative estimates.

Also, I think you're an order of magnitude off --- 10^15 bits is close to 100TB, not 10TB.
Right or wrong is relative.
While statutory property tax increases are exclusive to California, homeless populations are not.
I'm not sure if there's a problem at all. Learning how to do anything is much easier today than ever. Just type "how to do X" in google, and you will probably see a nice YouTube video, or a tutorial. If you get stuck, there are online forums with people willing to help for free, 24/7.

Has the number of people who want to learn decreased? If so, was it because of iPhones/iPads?
One of us missed the point.
A Quick Reminder Why Bitcoin Was Invented in the First Place
If it's possible for the barber to finish and check the waiting room before the new customer traverses back to the waiting room from checking the barber, it means that the barber shop is poorly architected, and needs to be reimplemented (preferably with the latest JS framework).

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