skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What caused things to turn around in the 30’s was people getting so fed up they voted in a different crew who actually fixed things. Voting (and voter outreach) is still the best path to reform.
Ask HN: Does anyone use Streak (YC S11) as their main CRM?
I've used Streak as a personal CRM on and off over the years and it has certainly made a lot of progress as a product. However, I only use it as a "personal" CRM - i.e. for fund-raising, or senior hiring, and when we have done sales in a company we have used something like Pipedrive or Salesforce.

I'm wondering if anyone uses Streak to run a serious, multi-agent sales team, when otherwise they might be using a more regular CRM?

They have Uber, Twitter, AirBnB, Yelp logos on their website, but I find it hard to believe that these companies are really using Streak as their CRM company-wide - it's probably just a few individuals like me also using it as a personal CRM.

I'd love to hear first-hand accounts of sales teams really using Streak.

Streak: https://www.streak.com/ CRM plugin for Gmail
Can this course be also followed online? If yes, how? I can see the list of lectures, but not the actual contents.
Please let us know how it goes.
> Let's say that you go to a bank and ask for a loan. The bank has a procedure to decide if they give you the loan or not. If your request is rejected, they can (hopefully) explain why you didn't qualify. Instead, the whole process gets offloaded to a learning AI that makes that decision for the bank. For the most part, we don't really understand why systems like neural networks make a decision. Now if the banks denies your loan, the best they can say why is 'huh, the computer said so'.

This is similar to the current situation in the UK for various financial and insurance applications. The application is farmed out to an organisation that ensures compliance with whatever regulations apply, but often simply gives a yes or no answer, without details. Or at least, the details are not passed back to the customer.

> What if suspiciously the banks start rejecting applications from an specific minority? Has the AI determined that this particular minority is trustworthy? Does it even matter?

This is a very real concern. Specific subsets of society tend to build and train AIs and may consider their outputs accurate or as expected, whereas other subsets of society may disagree but may be underrepresented among AI engineers. There is a danger that an AIs ability to distinguish subsets of society will be paired with value judgements. It doesn't have to be this way, we need to involve all members of society in discussions that are currently somewhat restricted.
Teradici PCoIP is proprietary, but absolutely, amazingly good. It is licensed by various thin client and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products, like AWS WorkSpaces. RDP is also really effective.

I use both, but Teradici is the one that made me abandon my local Windows VMs.
I second this, it's a very good resource. Mastering Ethereum should be out early next year too.
This varies greatly, as most libraries receive some federal funding and as a result are required to allow reasonable public access from my recollection when working at a private university. In general many libraries include public access computers which aren't great, but at least are on the authorized IP range for accessing the journals.

But I would agree that this is not really a good solution for most people as it requires a lot of conditions which aren't always possible:

-- close proximity to a University which has a library with such policies

-- knowledge of the search systems to be able to find the document in the alloted public access time

-- available time during library public hours to do said research

More or less most people are blocked from such research without any means aside from very expensive fees to access such data.
Randomly bought bread/snack in Japan (or Europe) has less sugar then bread/snack in USA.

Is that true? When I was in Japan a couple of years ago I found that at least their 'US/European' style bread and cakes where all sickly sweet sometimes verging on being almost being inedible. More traditional snacks though did seem less sugary.
We used Haberman. I think you can find a solution book. I'm not really sure what constitutes a gentle introduction. Half the class probably flunked or should have!
Just by reading the title, following scene from the show "the newsroom" comes to mind.
https://youtu.be/XM0uZ9mfOUI
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid#Circulatio...

with a nice MRI of fluid being pumped around. Though I think a different system to the one in this article.
Their business is based on transporting people relatively short distances. All involved parties are consenting. That this is in violation of any laws or regulations is the true injustice.
This all just illustrates how fickle this price is. Cold, hard facts of science won't likely twist in such a way.

And what about Obama? He was kind of a joke of a president, didn't do a thing for world security apart from nice speeches, kept all the evil things going strong and stronger (meaningless wars, guantanamo, spying on whole world including YOU). Maybe he was just a good guy but weak and powerless. Who cares, results are what matters. Why the fuck should he be given such a thing? It casts shame on whole 'nobel' effort.

And I can go on and on and on - Mother Theresa is very controversial, so is Arafat, so is Kissinger. Al Gore, seriously?? Most of these people would pass a test as a good person when looking back, and definitely none deserved it. Now look back at scientific nobels, they stand the test of time extremely well.

Peace nobel price should be cancelled. I understand if you are norwegian you might not like it, but this price just doesn't make sense and is beyond pathetic.
Firefox Nightly 58, Windows 10, CPU usage 50-70%

> How does this run? https://codepen.io/tipsy-/full/yzPaKK/

This is much better but still slower than what shows in the gif on your github readme. CPU usage 50-60%.

Maybe I should just try in Chrome ;)

Edit: vastly better performance in chrome. I guess Firefox isn't there just yet.
And what happens to (your access to) that community when you quit Google?
The article is a badly written opinion piece that meanders through various topics, but your critique of it is beating a strawman.

It's not making the "you can't win" argument that tech companies should be critiqued whether or not they build housing.

Rather, it's that they're supposedly constructing "company towns" in the sense that the housing stock they build won't be for sale, and presumably only rented to employees. If you get fired you also get evicted.

Furthermore they'll own the nearby retail space as well. Will an Oculus competitor be for sale in the Facebook-owned chain of stores? Will someone trying to organize a Facebook union be allowed to use the meeting spaces at the Facebook town hall?
Thank you for what was probably a lot of hard work to get this site together! I appreciate it a lot.
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/dec/11/django-awar...

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source...
"... within a half-thousandth of true" was my favourite. :-)
Ask HN: What is the skillset required to be employable as jr dev?
When hiring someone as a junior developer, what do you look for if they don't have a college degree?
GDPR already does more than any existing law in either US or Europe (not sure about other countries). As every law it will be reviewed and can be made stricter. Changes are likely needed anyway as companies try to circumvent the directive with "creative" ways or incentives for users to give up privacy.

But it's a huge step forward compared to the existing situation.
I think the difference here is that the system itself is vestigal; JSTOR et. al. made sense when there was not a convenient collection or distribution method for journals, but at this point, such groups are not providing any actual benefit that could not be replicated for an extremely minimal cost by the journals themselves, or just abandoning the cost altogether. Already, many fields have started publishing pre-prints for free on various sites and the model works fine.

I appreciate caution as much as the next person, but we've been operating with the natural alternatives for some time now without any issues; the incentives for researchers and universities when it comes to publishing articles hasn't really changed, nor has the incentive for the the public (academics or otherwise) that want to consume them. The only part of this system that has an incentive to keep the old system is the publishers themselves, because they're no longer a required component. Their infrastructure and their pricing schemes are no longer beneficial and have been replaced, while the incentives for the researchers publishing and the audience consuming are provided and met by the replacement systems.

Removing the publishers isn't a hammer destroying it from the top-down, it's an appendectomy like prodecure.
As a person who moved from Pakistan to Germany, I can confirm. In Pakistan an average person will only eat fast once in a while, on occasions like a birthday party as the article suggests; in developed countries on the other hand fast food is a cheap no-brainer lunch and dinner option
agreed, I think that's the point of the article - the grey area is very large here. Judge Alsup slapped both Uber and Waymo/Google over the wrist and "With that, Alsup got up and retired to his chambers."
seems like a good character to have on "Sillicon Valley" for a bit of contrast
Clearly they exist how else do you explain why many people's heads are full of crap. I think there are many peoples lymph's blocked causing the head to fill. :)
But load balancing also applies to their new domain as well. Why would you need a separate hostname?
There are surprisingly few providers, and AWS WorkSpaces is unusual in that it has no minimum number of desktops. One gotcha with WorkSpaces: it is cheap enough to make sense for just one user if you the free "Simple" AD option, but "Full" AD with GPO support etc. does add a cost (though not a significant one for a business).
If you're interested in Ethereum Smart Contracts I wrote:
http://ethereumdev.io/
A paycheck I suppose.
It's not gonna last forever this way. Unions are not very useful for developers now, but you might want to have them already in-place by the time they become needed.
5k+ per person would be bribery. I hope he meant 5k in total..., 1000 gifts of 5$ would be ok
Ask HN: Do you use database version control?
Do you use a database version control system ?

If you do;

Which product ? Why do you prefer it ? What are Pros/Cons ?
How do you use it ? Do you run your ddl manually or let the tool do it ?

Thanks in advance.
I don't know how certain we can really be, I had the same concerns myself, I could just keep my account disabled and stop feeding information to Facebook but still keep access to it myself if I ever needed it. Or I delete my account, Facebook maybe has access to that data but I do not, it was a thought process that delayed my action for a while.

This non-committal situation created some anxiety for me, it was a decision that still needed to be made in my mind so wouldn't go away.

Then Bryan Lunduke went through the process on his YouTube channel and he claims his contacts at Facebook were unable to find his data once it was deleted, so that was good enough to push me off the fence and I finally made the decision to delete.

I can never be absolutely certain but there's really not much more I can do besides use European privacy laws to try and force the issue, but that probably won't do much about the NSA backup. ;) But my mind is at rest now, I don't worry about it apart from doing my best to limit tracking online but that's another story.
Thanks for the reply! Really looking forward to the development of this :)

Keep up the good work!
> original meaning was thick soup

Interesting, I know the word from early aircraft where dope was used on the fabric skin to tighten and strengthen it. The dope used was a thick gloopy soup.
Compartmentalize and abstract, keep telling yourself that "if I don't do it, someone else will do it (and they might do it worse than me so it's really best if I do it first)".

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-buil...

I know the above sounds kinda hyperbolic, but there is a lot of substantiated stuff in there that doesn't need much extrapolation to have the potential to go reeeeeally bad at, well, the flip of a switch, political or otherwise.
Every displaced worker can be repurposed as training targets for the drones and then upcycled to Soylent Green after the training session!
Skylark in Go: the Skylark configuration language, implemented in Go
> I always wonder exactly what kind of "systems" these people are programming, clearly not any with real-time constraints.

Well Niklaus Wirth for one was able to design an entire OS using a language (Oberon) that had garbage collection.

> There are a few HFT firms, most notably Virtu, that use Java.

The hedge fund where I worked used Java. We didn't have problems with latency, although admittedly we weren't doing the really low-latency stuff. There are patterns that you can use in Java that basically emulate manual memory management. In Java this is a little harder than in C# because there no value types, but java.nio basically lets you do whatever you want, so you can always allocate everything up-front. In fact, just for fun I did this myself in an audio setting. So basically I had an audio engine with a ring buffer to pass messages to the event loop, and with a little care I was able to ensure that there literally no garbage that made it past the first phase (i.e. locals). Those are essentially free, so basically the GC wasn't getting any pressure at all. It wasn't that hard to write, and with the excellent profiling tools available on the JVM it's easy to see which if you're making use of longer-term GC sweeps or not.

Finally, I would add that there are scenarios where C++ moves into automatic memory management. std::shared_ptr is an example of (shitty) automatic memory management, but there have been efforts, notably by Herb Sutter, to provide precise GC-collection as a library. For some non-blocking multithreaded algorithms, GC schemes are actually necessary since allocation becomes one of the prime vectors through which blocking occurs.

So conclusion, while it's certainly the case that most systems programming is done in languages with manual memory management, it's a little less binary than you suggest. That said: I'm writing a DAW (zenaud.io) and for that I am using C++, mainly for memory management :)
Indeed. And with the upcoming stricter EU laws on data handling, I think this is a big plus.
I support the EFF. I really appreciate their efforts. But I think at some point I just got too tired of perpetually being in a state of having just barely fended off the latest attack, and getting ready for the next wave. Something shifted in my mind, and I refuse to be worried about it any more. At the border, I'm just going to do whatever I want, whatever I think is appropriate, and I'll just deal with the consequences. I just don't care. They're just hostile people between me and my destination and I won't spend my life in fear of being illegal. I'm resigned they'll do whatever they want, so I will too.
Yoshua Bengio – Deep Learning and Backprop in the Brain (CCN 2017)
Apparently wings in the 1900s were the equivalent of today's blockchains.
"human error" is not a root cause.
There is also opensim , the open source "second life server", and thousands of smaller grids . Also, highfidelity.io is aiming for a VR version of second life (like Sansar) but is still in development. Also, sinewave.space wants to make a modern second life.
The question is, if you find out about the trade secrets before you get sued, how far do you have to go? Do you have to fire the employee and will you have to report this to the other company? Or is it enough to not use the secrets?
"I'm just following orders."
Times tables, Mandelbrot, and the heart of mathematics. (YouTube)
>> Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return. Functions are used in expressions, often in things like if's, so they need to read appropriately.

This never occured to me, but makes perfect sense, I usually know what I want a function to return, no need to make the name more generic than it needs to be.
C exposes you to low level programming environment, memory management and system internals. Its a great base to build upon for programmers. Even after more than a decade, I still have fond memories for K&R C - a must read for programmers.
I really like using go for writing e.g. the logic part of an Android/iOS/Desktop app. Would not it make more sense architecture wise to write UI real native and do the interfaces really well to the logic binary go parts? Are there good examples/libs for this approach?
Hi, I would like to try this.
Is it more active during sleep?
> We’re grateful that this effort will benefit from the advice and guidance of our DeepMind Ethics & Society Fellows, a respected group of independent thinkers.

It's not clear to me whether or not this is the same "ethical board" they set-up for DeepMind that they kept secret for a while, or if it's a different group of advisors.
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Even if you were to completely deny any scientific nature of economics, it would not be reason to lessen the "memorial price", as there is no implication that "Nobel price" means science. 40% of the original five have nothing at all to do with science and even if you dismissed the peace price for being the odd one with all the norwegianness and questionable recipients, there would still be literature . Just think of the memorial price as "the Nobel for economic literature", you won't find a hair in that.

(Also I suspect that there might be some linguistic misunderstanding here, maybe some participants are used to think in a language where the most common translation of "science" does not include the subset of social sciences?),
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A lot of services don't allow + in email addresses. With gmail you can also insert a . anywhere you like which works more often. But sometimes, catch all addresses really help to test.
> UBlock Origin is my recommendation.

You may prefer it to Ghostery, but it doesn't actually address GP's request, for query parameter stripping does it?
Casinos offer better odds than early stage startups you have no connection with or control over, and aren't allowed to market themselves as investment opportunities either
Though one hour of exercise looks easy, I think that once one is depressed, its difficult to break from the inertia of brooding over life and going to exercise. Here is where a solid family/friends support system comes to play, and is of paramount importance.
If the shape of your code begins to look like something out of the gilded-rose kata [1], it's usually a sign that it could use a good refactoring.

[1] https://github.com/guyroyse/gilded-rose-javascript/blob/mast...
> McDonalds isn't ever a good choice.

One big factor they have is consistency and availability. I'm UK based and probably go there 5-10 times a year usually when I have very little time and am travelling. I know exactly what the quality and presentation of the food is, I know it can easily and cleanly be eaten in a hurry and is pretty much perfect for the times I need it. They also have excellent packaging, another known quality.
Then pay contractors to blow torch rip-replace the tip of the screwdrivers after each screw turned. See also: scrap-heap piles of new engines and wheel rims left in Afghanistan that were billed to the US military, the metal of which was sold cheap by local scrap merchants to make weapons for the Taliban in Pakistan.
Application for the 2018 ImagineH2O accelerator is now open
Here's a thing, it is like with philosophy. Once something is understood and solved it is no longer philosophy but science.
Likewise with crude alleged intelligence.

The proper label to be used is usually robustness, analysis or optimization. (We're far away from actual creativity by the way, and quite far from even robustness in most cases.)

Or autonomous automated decision making. The scariest of the bunch. If not employed right or not robust or not "reasonable" (possible to reason about), it can have really bad results.

(By the way, automated decision making is pretty old, as old as industrial revolution.)
Amen Brother
Apple iPhone 8 plus splits open while charging
A major part of the prevention of tobacco use is education. This is partly done through explaining the health impact on the people affected by smoking (smoker+surrounding), partly through moralizing (since health and the personal responsibility for ones own health are exercised as a value).

The latter nicely fits with an externality argument based on scarcity of resources in research & treatment. At this point, if you accept all those premises, lung cancer research for smokers is a negative externality for all the non-smokers in need for research & treatment.

And it's not necessary that those premises are accepted on an individual level; it's enough to just teach them. Long term policy making is in many value questions just a proxy for mass education.

You currently don't have any of that for the misuse of medicine, etc.
Hey, we had the Flex GUI builder.

HTML/JS is catching up with with Flash a decade ago.
A resistance against Big Tech
Also an important question: How to get quickly tokens for a ETH test network to be able to do anything. Last time I tried I wasn't successful because all these places where you could get some free tokens didn't work and the only thing possible was to mine them yourself which still took a day or two.
Every large org project I’ve seen fail does so for three large categories of reasons: under-management (delegating too much authority, project management and lack of accountability over to vendors), vague requirements (ie vendor becomes more hesistant, less certain what to build and moves in tangents to meet expectations) or too long of a feedback cycle (ie BDU).
I can't remember exactly what browsers were affected but I think it was fairly broad. Certainly, mobile browsers and maybe people on a VPN but it was mostly random from memory which is why we concluded it was just a temporary connection problem.

As an aside we also saw similar errors loading jQuery from a CDN and so used similar code to load it from our own server if it wasn't loaded from the CDN first. You cant do that with Stripe though.
That's correct, but that doesn't make it a good choice. It merely makes it convenient choice.
When Mr. Kushner issues a dictat that you are no longer to work on <potentially embarrassing issue for the administration>, you'll get a test of who ultimately decides what projects to engage on.