skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spatial synesthesia is the weirdest thing because it does not conform to physics. In my head at least. Technically speaking, 1-5 and 20-23 or so should be on top of each other, but they never are.

I am something like this

5 6 7 8 9 10
4 11
3 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12
2
1

then its just lines like this (but upside down to the bit above)

etc
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
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Shopify Digest is their newsletter.

Here are the topics I have received for a store recently (I'm sure it's targeted).

-Protect your reputation using social media

-Lifelong learnings for entrepreneurs

-Get the perfect photo

-6 Bulletproof ways to improve conversions

-How to track your marketing campaign

If I look at a few months of emails, there is only 1 that is "make millions type" and it's titled "How two entrepreneurs generated $91,470 in 3 months"[1] and it's an interview with the store owners. I don't see anything wrong with that.

https://www.shopify.com/blog/14917217-how-two-ecommerce-entr...

The sketchy marketing I see for Shopify (FBA, dropshipping) is from users who are selling a course they made.
I'm talking about day to day mucking around in production by developers, not forbidding all access.
Studies like this are frustrating. The conclusion confirms my own biases, so I want to respect the study - but there are, invariably, issues that make it difficult to take their conclusions at face value. Put another way, it's entirely possible somebody looking at the data a different way could present an entirely incompatible conclusion.

For instance an issue this study faced was that it's difficult to control for the fact that extenuating circumstances and other factors help determine the sentencing for individuals. A judge, presumably, will make some effort to attempt to sentence individuals who are less likely to reoffend to probation rather than prison, and vice versa. The study argued that the random assignment of judges to cases, each of whom has their own sentencing tendencies, works as a control here but I think that is less than compelling. A judge may be more or less lenient on average, but that does not change the fact that all judges are going to be aiming to achieve the same thing. You're not comparing apples to apples.

It seems the only solution would be genuine random sentencing in a controlled experiment, but there are obviously certain ethical issues there. It's unfortunate since our system is completely broken. You create environments where individuals are treated like dehumanized animals and pushed towards greater degrees of sociopathy with no meaningful effort made towards rehabilitation. And suddenly after being in this situation for years, they're supposed to come out better than ever ready to integrate and become a productive member of society? Obviously the idea is that fear of being put in that circumstance is supposed to be a deterrent. But given an overall recidivism rate now of 76.6% [1] over 5 years, it should be self evident that this idea is quite obviously not working.

[1] - https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4986
So what if they're not poets, or whatever you consider worthy? If we don't need their labor (we might now, but someday we probably won't), what difference does it make what they do with their time?

The one exception to this is that children might not finish school if they think they won't need to get a job. To avoid this, we might limit UBI to those who have at least made an effort to get a high school education.
I agree the lab management overreacted in this particular case. If I were them, I’d ask the author of the comment to fork that repo disabling telemetry, and probably implement some automatic verification tool/tests to make sure no parts of the software stack call home.

However, I can also understand the reason for the management’s paranoia. Besides that HIPAA law, it’s also the fact that if your genome gets leaked, you can’t change password/order another card like with the traditional IT data leaks. Probably, they view the data leak risk as an existential risk for their whole company.
So is a random business guy hiring a chef to run his restaurant kinda the startup equivalent of a business guy hiring a dev to build his startup?

Both seem in a similar boat. A restaurant is nothing without a good chef. A programming startup is nothing without a good developer. Both have cases where the chef/developer starts their own companies.. and many more cases where an outside guy with some money comes in and tries to make it happen.

You can succeed in both paths, but it sure as heck seems a lot harder! I cannot image funding a software startup if each MVP I wanted took say 30k to make (instead of a few hours of time). It seems reasonable that cooking is similar..
I've used several different characters for escaping, though I don't know why backslash (\) isn't the default universal one. It seems pretty sensible, it's used across multiple scripting languages and CLIs. If you need to escape a backslash, you escape it with a backslash.
I think a skilled plumber/electrician/tradesman would have an easier time starting a successful business than a software developer would. It's hard to generate demand for software

Me, I'd think I was going about it wrong if that turned out to be the case.

Just sayin'...
We use Jenkins and currently nuget restore first. Your assumption is invalid.
Intel and AMD both embed monitoring processors with unaudited binary OSes in their CPUs: https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-...
Intel calls their spy cpu "Management Engine", AMD calls it "Platform Security Processor." Both run code that sits between the OS you're running and the CPU, for the supposed purpose of remotely managing PCs in an organization.
A group of SV tech experts is raising money to help 500 Democrats in 2018
Thank you!
I have a use case at work where I work exclusively on a frontend application. And sometimes I need to mock new API routes not developed yet by the backend team. I could hardcode some things directly in the application but mocking with an external tool is more convenient.
> If they also happen to be black, they might want to use the race card "OMG You suspect me because I'm black? Racist! How dare You!" etc, but who cares.

I'd say this might be an interesting moment for self-examination. If their primary reaction is outrage then they're probably not a criminal after all. Maybe think again at why you suspected this innocent person of acting shady. Maybe learn from it so you don't make the mistake again.

"who cares" isn't really a very community-minded reaction when you've just accused one of your neighbours of being a criminal.
"and that more black men are restrained by the "criminal justice" system today in the US than were enslaved prior in 1850."

Worth noting that the U.S. population has grown significantly since 1850. I'd be more interested in the relative numbers (e.g. the percentage of black men incarcerated today v. the percentage enslaved before 1850).
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This is much how we do things in the software world, isn't it?
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I'm thinking more of the hardware lag, especially the horror stories of the Nexus 6 and to a lesser extent Nexus 5X.
> Would it be feasible to make Podyn run in a scheduled Lambda function? would save us from having an EC2 around...

That's an interesting idea! My mental model for running Podyn was a container or T2 instance, but I think it wouldn't be hard to add Lambda support.

I've created an issue for tracking it: https://github.com/citusdata/podyn/issues/2
I'm going on 2+ years in a van myself and I even started a side project showcasing others doing the same: https://vanvaya.com

Being young and looking to save on expenses, living in a van is one of the best decisions I've made.
Ah, thank you for the suggestion, I'll certainly give it try. (And no, not a strong prescription.)
I measured the size of your room and it seems to have collapsed.
Also in some cases (e.g. many conferences) you can know who the list of reviewers are. Just look up the program committee. Only a subset reviews your paper submission, but with the field of possible reviewers constrained to 10-12 people you personally know, it becomes very hard to hide.
my go-to .bashrc hashes the hostname into a color and prints the prompt in that color. it has saved me from making a dumb mistake a few times.
Well, I know I how to, and I am fairly young.
Ask Mike pretty please and he might hook you up.
Check out Botwin for a sleeker HTTP experience on top of ASP.NET Core pipeline https://github.com/jchannon/Botwin
YMMV? Having used find -exec for 20+ years, I find it much more difficult to convince myself to switch to tools like this, and just simpler to use -exec. That, and the extra spawn - and potential for disaster - that putting a | into the mix can incur ..
If you're in the mood for a documentary 'Betting on Zero' is pretty good. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3762912/
It doesn't seem to. Text can be in any color and my synaesthesia stays the same. If the text itself was multicolored, maybe? I'm not sure. It doesn't come up that often.
EU countries have agreed to privatize state companies in order to have competitive markets. If some companies can take loans at negative interest rates because of being (part) state-owned (while private companies pay market rates), and then use this money to go on an "acquisition spree", that's not fair competition. Of course that doesn't mean it's actually going to be considered illegal.
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You don’t need to pay a fee but you do need a Mac.
Agree. In my experience (LD) there are no real rules in debate, only what would convince the judge to vote for you. If that shakes up the "meta" then that's a plus.

The way to make debate about truth seeking is to find the right judges who prioritize that.
Detailed vector map app for tourists
Hi there,

One of the developers here. The spirit with Intent is to use light touches to help you become more aware of how you spend your time online and thus make better decisions. We just released this and our number one goal is to get feedback about what is or isn’t effective for folks. We believe it’s a bit of a different take compared to products that either do heavy-handed blocking or focus on quantification without tools for follow-through, and we’re excited to see what people think!
There is a setting under settings/advanced called 'join user experience program' which is on by default. Does this have anything to do with this data collection?
This reaction is ridiculous as well. Completely inappropriate comment.

This is from the person who's website codemonkeyism is running on the same host as some german version of AirBNB.

It's so sad to see people without a clue when it comes to security lambasting people who are writing software and are actually doing a pretty good job.
* .NET Standard is a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation.

* .NET Standard 2.0 is implemented by .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Xamarin. For .NET Core, this added many of the existing APIs that have been requested.

This seems to support the narrative that windows is really fickle in what is 'the thing we are definitely going to support from now on'.
Fortune 500 company, Junior dev. Tried to log into our staging database, which has the same username, but different password than production.

Tried 3 times, got the locked out error. Got frustrated, said I'd fix it after lunch, went out to eat, came back about 3 hours later after a doctor's appointment.

My boss was waiting for me at the department door and I got sent back to his office for a stern talking to. I had locked out the production user from the database, causing every app in the company to go offline. I was then told to read aloud back all of the projected sales losses from that day as well as write a bunch of letters for our top sales people who couldn't make sales that day.

Wasn't fired (thankfully). Made it to a senior lead, so if I had to say anything, it's that the punishment really made it really drive home and I _never ever did it again_ . :)
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Currently not much programming related but lots of design/graphics/video intensive applications (photoshop, etc). And expecting to do more of data sci/stats related tasks in near future.
One of the issues is that running Android software on an iPhone inherently breaks a lot of the things that you love about iPhone. The reason is because of Apple’s verticals integration. Running Android would negate this and likely result in a not-so-great experience compared to native iOS.
Laws would have to change with a person in the cab you are talking about Grand Theft, Kidnapping, and Robbery. With an AI it's just Grand Theft meaning you'd spend much less time in prison.
>Google is not giving away the source code of Android for philanthropic reasons, it's just part of the business model, i.e. the process of money making to pay the employees and the shareholders.

They're also "giving away" a smaller and smaller fraction of Android with each release. This article is four years old, but quite relevant: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on... A non-exclusive list of Android apps that are no longer open source: Camera, Gallery, Keyboard, Music.

In order to include any Google apps or use the Android trademark, you are required to include almost all Google apps and make no other apps default. Further, Google makes it substantially easier to license their apps if you join the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which contractually prohibits you from building non-Google approved devices.
Indeed, this could generalize to any industry:

Domain expertise (cooking, coding, whatever) - slow for one client
Logistic expertise - fast for large numbers of customers, not clients
Business expertise - becoming a legal and financial client
Financial expertise - pure cashflow and accounting with little regard for the specific business model

The skills applied in labor-intensive work are not automatically transferable to capital-intensive work as you move down the list. That's why the CEO of McDonalds trained as an accountant, and has probably never worked a grill in his life; for the job he does managing a global corporation, learning to cook would have been a waste of his time.

ISTM that a key difference in left/right political philosophy is that the left thinks its more ethical to start at the bottom and work up, whereas the right feels it's OK to leapfrog as far ahead as you're able. A libertarian economist would argue that this maximizes both individual freedom and value across the economy as a whole, whereas a Marxian economist would argue that such maximization strategies exacerbate boom and bust cycles, like a car with an accelerator but no brakes.
Women prefer men who do something with their lives.
You get downvoted to hell if you post something negative about MSFT after around 17:00 UTC. It’s open season between 09:00-17:00 UTC because they’re all in bed or commuting.

Incidentally I agree with you although MSDN has been difficult to find the content in for a few years as the auto generated stuff takes precedence.
JNI bindings work and allow C#/.NET to call into Java libraries without a problem. It's a standardized interface for Java interop, a good example is how Apache Ignite runs in the .NET version which launches a JVM process and communicates with it from the CLR.
Another bit of gameboy hacking (the printer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FfJvd-YP4
I wouldn't disagree with that comparison :-)

Back when I was working at Google there clearly was tension between people who were promoting the AdSense platform and Google's desire to have more inventory. Much of it seemed to fall into the "we didn't tell them to do this, they just came up with it on their own."

At the time (2006 - 2008 or so) the "deal" was person A would get a partner ID and they would resell Google ads through their partner ID to shops that they recruited. It was so bad that after I had left Google and joined Blekko the easiest web spam page to detect was the same AdSense ID across more than a handful of domains. The ranking team de-indexed every site where the AdSense ID appeared on more than 50 different URLs and it pruned a very significant chunk of the index of 'web spam'.

The only point I'm trying to make is that when your platform makes money on a per-use basis, whether its transactions or page views, there are people who will use that to create affiliate type businesses.
You should be able to save it somehow.
> there are so many differences between browsers that you have to keep them all in mind

Compatibility horrors from people violating the standard will appear no matter what format you use. That's not fair to blame on the format.

> You have to keep in your head escape rules and exceptions, and balancing quotes and other delimiters.

CSV itself has newlines, commas, and quotations marks for special characters. That's extremely minimal. The only extra thing to keep in your head is "is this field quoted or not".

What set of escapes and delimiters could be simpler? Would you rather reserve certain characters, and abandon the idea of holding "just text" values?

> The whole thing doesn't look human readable or easily navigable for a document of any serious complexity.

> And what's the upside? If more people just used Excel or another spreadsheet program to edit these files, you won't face ANY of these issues. They would eventually converge on a standard format, like they did with HTML.

This sounds like you're arguing for a more complex format! I'm confused.

So again, what is a format that you call simple?
There are many deterministic password managers out there, most of them use KDFs though, which in a sense is more secure, but for my case they require salt, which is something I can't remember as I explained in the post.
How so exactly? If anything it's the opposite. The .NET Full Framework is not going anywhere, it'll be supported for a very long time from now.
Looks like a good service!

Obviously early stage (guess there are things to be polished) but I think it would be useful. I've looked for a simple SaaS AP solution without all the complexity of some of the advanced solutions.

(semi-related; anyone has tips on other good SaaS AP services?)

Some suggestions:

- Make it clear on the website that this is AP, not AR (if that's the case).

- Offer the first ~100 invoices for free (regardless of the plan)

- I'd look at a stripe integration for automatic payment (if possible, not sure that it is). Otherwise look at exporting 'bank files' that banks in most countries can import (basically a pre-generated of transactions, uploaded then verified and signed on the bank website).

- Most companies will probably want an approval chain for invoices based on the company hierarchy, invoice amount, etc.
Mapzen is an awesome company. I'm excited to see what comes of OpenTraffic, a Mapzen-sponsored, open-source traffic speed data set: https://github.com/opentraffic/
Nice, good strategy.

How'd you solve the problem of cold starting the communities if you don't mind me asking?
What? They're basically the same thing. Herbalife sets you up with a way to be a solo salesman, just like Shopify. Both sell inventory.[0] (Note: Shopify acquired Oberlo in May)

>Not to mention the fact that a successful Shopify store relies on skill at SEO, social media and picking the right products. Herbalife relies on being early enough in the "reverse funnel" and having a lot of people downstream (not skill).

Silly! Don't you know that Herbalife relies on skill at salesmanship, networking and picking the right products.[1] Shopify on the other hand relies on you being early enough in the "reverse funnel" and having a lot of people downstream.

The crash-and-burn charts Citron links to are also pretty damning. This seems almost exactly like Herbalife from where I'm sitting.

[0] https://www.shopify.com/oberlo

[1] http://products.herbalife.com/product_catalog
> But few are in the practice of doing that.

Because there's no point. If I'm able to manipulate your shell environment to set aliases, I can also change your search path so that \sudo picks up the program I want. And no, you can't defeat that by only running /usr/bin/sudo because there are a million other nasty things to do once an attacker has reached this level of control.
See the comment about backup codes. You can often have some tokens just in case.
I have a raspberry pi setup as router with a USB Alfa wifi adaptor for rebroadcasting free wifi. I also have a 4G hotspot as a fallback.

I've found the pi doesn't work well because it's having power or IO issues where the external adaptor is slow when rebroadcasting on internal wifi. I'm upgrading to an Intel NUC when I have the time to finish setting it up.
Being experienced is no guarantee either. I had a neighbor who was operating multiple successful restaurants at the Mall of America when he decided to quit and open his own place closer to home. He poured his heart and soul into that project, completely remodeling the space into something 100% better than what had been there before. I think it was the debt that did him in - the restaurant closed in 9 months, and he lost his house too.
Ok, interesting. I've just been trying to wrap my head around the novel value in blockchain technology.
.NET core collects telemetry. This isn't really any different than loads of other applications, but it's microsoft instead of google so booo hiss evil evil evil.
Why would people be 'deprived of all achievement' just because they're not broke?
When you are on a boat for a while, you become accustomed to the motion. Certainly looking at a screen would not bother me at sea.

(there are exceptions - some people never do and they should perhaps stay on shore)
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That's what I'm saying. It's only some of the sciences that have a shortage of women, and medical isn't really one of them. In fact one branch (nursing) has a huge oversupply of women.
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I have a hard time seeing how this was your fault. It seems like a poorly designed system is the root cause, not you.
I would have like 100 additional karma or more if it wasn't for MS related downvotes.

update: Downvoting started already.
>We contact the DBA and explain the folly of his decision.

>He then proceeds to rename everything AGAIN on a live system.

What could his reasoning possibly be? Did he not understand your explanation?
They are (1), and although that did hurt Ubiquiti's stock price nothing else ever came of it. I have no idea why anyone listens to these guys.

[1] http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-ubiquiti-networ...
What’s next? “How to make a phishing website look like a real website!”

I don’t get how this is an iOS problem, he basically just taught you what phishing is and happened to use iOS as the example...
I did a project where full text search was the main feature. At that time Lucene was the number one project for that. There was a C# version but totally outdated. It was a really difficult situation with no good choices: Port the Java code myself? Wrap in into some kind of server? Move to Java?

My conclusion was that next time I'd be better off learning Java. C# seems better but there is a lot of cool stuff written in Java so it's probably not that bad. When I look at machine learning and AI it seems Python and Java also are the best options with everything else way behind.
> I assume we're all gonna treat Star Control 3 as non-canon?

They couldn't treat it as canon even if they wanted to (which they don't). Unlike the first two games, which were produced by Toys For Bob, Star Control 3 was produced by Accolade, so TFB don't have full ownership of the IP associated with that game.
Re: HW Acceleration

Is this going to work at all on Linux?