skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this actually true though?

Lenders want to "verify employment" and I can imagine a service where big employers report who is working for them to an agency, allowing lenders to query the agency to check employment.

What I doubt is that employers report salary data to Equifax. I'm an employer and I've never heard of this. I'm good friends with (well...married to) someone who worked in this field and tells me it is highly illegal to divulge non-anonymized salary data to any entity other than the IRS.

I've been trained how to answer calls from lenders asking about our employees (I can answer "yes that person works for us", and provide no other information, period).

The idea that Equifax built a giant database of everyone's salary data is completely at odds with everything I've ever heard as a person running a business with employees.

Also...if they had this data why am I always asked to provide my salary on loan applications?
You’re probably correct, though I think string interpolation is one of the things posix got mostly right.
Prove it! Can you post a how-to? :)
This looks really nice!

It's not for me, though. Maybe I'm not a very good systems engineer, but I've got a decent .tmux.conf. Between writing automation and trying to make sense of the mess I've inherited, I'm constantly splitting, resizing, and re-adjusting my work space to suit the task at hand.
A neighbor of mine actually had a disc explode in his drive.
I couldn't believe it at first, but sure enough, the drive sounded like a maraca when I shook it.
So when can we file a class action lawsuit?
As a business owner I have had to run background checks on prospective employees (because contracts with our clients required it). In no case were we given this kind of information.
Stonebraker is quite down to earth to work with - he cares about practical ideas and systems that can be plausibly constructed. You can decide if one of the primary collaborators of Ingres, Postgres, Streambase, Vertica, VoltDB, Tamr... is over-rated. Certainly a number of commercial efforts didn't find great commercial success but the technology he participated in pioneering has found its way into almost every modern database system in use.
Ask HN: Palo Alto HN drink up?
A few years ago we started the PAHN meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Palo-Alto-Hacker-News-Meetup/), then kind of went dormant for a while. However it seems there is still interest, and I'd like to try and get the group going again. Do you want to join us for a drink next week?

If you don't live nearby, is this something you do or wish you did near you? Where's that?
That was for a completely different reason. CDs had Constant Linear Velocity (CLV). This means the disc would spin lower when the head was on other tracks, and faster on inner tracks, so that the same amount of data would pass under the head every second. This was a-OK until 8x or 16x and became really insanely pointless around 24x - with the disc being vigorously accelerated and brakes as the head moved from region to region.
At some point some manufacturer rightly decided “to hell with this idiocy” and made a CAV unit - Constant Angular Velocity - the disc would spin at Always the same rate, and if this means outer tracks read faster than inner ones, well, who cares.
The whole industry soon followed - there was no point in staying CLV.
That is pretty much the reason I didn't have a Windows phone. I would have considered it if it actually did promise privacy.

Free phone sounds nice, but tinkerers like me don't want to apply and get the approval lottery for shit. We wanted cheap phones. The Android ecosystem at that time was already matured to the point that you can get cheap no frills, no worries if you break it secondhands. It was an obvious choice when I could get a secondhand Android phone with all the stuff I could tinker with for $100, and that also gave me the unexplored freedom to get any ROM I want. I remember porting Cyanogenmod 9 on my shitty 2 year old OG Motorola Droid, and control every aspect of it.
And other people also said that it has to be as good as google maps now. And it has gotten better. Still not google maps good.
It's the synthetic, fascist mono-culture.

Free thought isn't allowed-- Silicon Valley enforces thought control like Weinstein did over Hollywood.

Sooner or later (looks like sooner) everyone realizes Silicon Valley is 90% white and Asian male. All the politically-correct talk is lipservice alone. (That's probably why the self-virtue-signaling went into overdrive in the first place.)
This idea of having 20 years of linked entries in an append-only distributed log is very powerful, and is the basis for the "idchains" system discussed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZC98s4paYY

It controversially opts to use faces rather than fingerprints, but faces are easier for humans to verify, especially without special hardware.

I don't think the video describes a complete system, but the idea has merit and I wish it had been developed more.
I totally TOTALLY agree. I was trying to stay away from offering value judgement and be a little more descriptive. it is not necessarily effective, but, it is.

I have done similar things, with similar reactions. I think such approaches in fact negatively impact science...especially through the public's engagement with it. Perhaps my 'favorite' was trying to do a conference session about active learning using...active learning. Got told that it was unprofessional and that those listening were 'peers not students'.

There was a really wonderful paper on academia I read not long ago[1] that basically made the argument that a darwinian biology framework basically explained all this. It basically asked the question what is a defense that arose to solve a problem, and has now transformed into what looks like a defect...and how do we separate those (or should we) from actual defects. Today I stumbled across a similar article which discussed

[1] Lohmann, S. (2004). Darwinian medicine for the university. Governing Academia: Who Is in Charge at the Modern University, 71-90.

[2] ...and of course I can't re-find it. I'll update if I do.
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thats what all the drones at Zcash say. It is either that they like the math, or they find validation from stacking the team with renowned cryptographers.

there is almost no intersection of people interested in zcash and people that actually want to use cryptocurrency or keep zcash in their portfolio who have done any analysis of how this is not something to hold for long.
Maybe by giving girls what they want in order to get the damn thing into their hands, this product is exposing them to technical challenges that will improve their confidence, causing them to see themselves as being equally capable as boys in technical areas?
I share your sentiment here. Having a common base to work from also has the benefit that end-users, the BI or Data Science practitioner (whom we empower as data engineers) can expect a stable SQL dialect that they'll be able to use everywhere*.

I haven't followed Spark in recent months, but what I recall was that the SQL DSL had some caveats at first, because certain things weren't yet implemented.

My anecdote has been that projects that implement SQL after a while, typically don't deliver the whole thing on initial release. I imagine it's often quite a lot of work.

The more projects that use Calcite, the more upstream contributions there would be ...
Race is not an accurate or productive way to describe human biological variation
I did the communications server for a small online gaming site once, and it had a profanity filter on the chat channels. The approach we took mostly avoided the Scunthorpe problem, and also caught when people tried to sneak profanity past it by splitting it across words (e.g., knowing that "motherfucker" would be filtered, someone might try "motherfu cker", or maybe even "m0th3rfu ck3r").

Here is what we did, as far as I recall. This worked a heck of a lot better than I expected it to.

1. Make a copy of the text and replace all the common non-letters that look somewhat like letters with those letters. E.g., 0 => O, 1 => L, 3 => E, 4 => A, 7 => T, @ => A.

2. Do a spell check on each word. Set a flag on each character that comes from a word that passed the spell check.

3. Scan the sequence of characters, ignoring all punctuation and white space, looking for sequences that match known profanity.

4. For each sequence that matches, mark it as profanity if any of its characters were not flagged in step #2.

As described above this probably would not scale well to high traffice because of the spell check. That could be improved by changing the order. Look for potential profanity first. Only if some is found would you then do the spell check, and you would only need to spell check the words that span the potential profanity.
> Nothing you will read below changes the fact that you’re trusting me and five other participants not to collude. Full stop. End of story. It is IMPOSSIBLE for myself and the other participants to prove to a third party that we did not collude to keep the secret key. If you do not believe you can trust me, you should stop reading now.
Because you are the one making nonsense arguments.
How can you help?

Most restaurant owners would very much prefer it if you called in your order. If you’d really rather order online, see if you can do it via the restaurant’s website.

This kind of explains everything. As bad as Seamless might be, it's a far better experience for the customer than using the average restaurant website.
What is the deal with that camera work, hey guys, try focusing on the person talking.
I don't know why this was downvoted, because absolutely this is why I started to use WhatsApp. Though the main problem is very high international SMS/call charges. I was in an international distance relationship a couple of years ago, and doing anything over cellular would have bankrupted me.
> That's almost as bad as Apple patenting rounded rectangles.

It's worse. The rounded rectangle patent was a design patent, by the wording used above I'm guessing they're after a utility patent.
@cassowary, geotagging your photos can be done without logging your location on the server. It can be done locally. Plus, I thought that Snapchat does not keep the pictures you've taken? (I have been out of that since then, so I don't know.)
Wasn't Athena also a name used for X-Window widgets?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets

When I saw the name AthenaX, well, I thought it just had to be related to X. I guess I'm old.
I'm all for making it more appealing for everyone to learn to code, but I was torn over this product by a comment made by Sara Chipps on the Giant Robots podcast (http://giantrobots.fm/246).

One of the use cases she mentions is "...4 buzzes means the guy you like is nearby...".
Get the computers out of the classroom.
yes that is interesting, it is the same as one copy of the database. you would have to find someone mirroring another copy and compare them.

if we live in a world where one-copy is fine most of the time, then this is a marginal improvement adding just a little redundancy between unknown parties.

some kid with the blockchain copy in their temp folder from years before will save the key pairs for humanity.
I'd say about as similar as football and soccer. Both involve getting the ball thingy into the opponent's end-of-field thingy. Indeed lots of common skills.
This is confusing advice. Are you saying to find a bunch of stocks that are selling for less than what you think they are worth and then start buying them when the price of them starts going up?
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I drank two six “cup” pots (really about 2.5 cups each) today. I just got a badge from the Dunks app that I’ve passed 20k points in the three years I’ve been using the app.
I don't think that you need to worry about the transferability of skills from a 11-year-olds toy to professional software development. The far more important thing to transfer is interest/excitement, and that may (or may not -- you're the expert) be easiest to do with a language other than C++. Part of what makes Arduino so fun is how fast you can get to a blinky LED, and part of what makes Scratch so fun is how quickly you can get to interactive graphics. I feel like there has to be something (not necessarily existing today) which is powerful enough to make kids feel like they are in control of the device without annoying arcana like semicolon errors.
I got fed up with up with Python and switched to F#. My main issue was the lack of static typing made testing and debugging a major timesink and headache.

It's early days but so far F# it ticks all my boxes and I'm finding it an extremely nice language to write in. It is just as terse as Python (due to type inference) but statically typed, and there is a great plugin Ionide for VSCode which makes for a really polished development environment.

Plan is to use Microsoft's CNTK for ML/DL stuff.

For anyone frustrated with Python's duck typing, I highly recommend you check out F#.
As general practice, I never ask people about their genitals.
> Is this retail, wholesale or cost to make prices?

I'd guess it's the estimated cost to manufacture, say, half a million units.

GM sold 574,876 Silverados in 2016[1] a new headlamp assembly for a 2016 Silverado costs about $600 each on eBay.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/best-selling-cars-trucks-vehi...
I think it'll only be released in the next minor version. We currently need to build from source to try it, so I'm waiting for next version. I'm still learning the Java API, which is a lot for a few hours here and there.

In the blog post, you talk about running AthX on YARN, so am I correct in saying that I might not be able to run it on single-machine mode? I'd like to try it out (SQL window functions are easier to understand than Beam Java ones).

Maybe Gitter or a public Slack channel could help, more users will have queries that aren't suitable for HN nor GitHub issues.
There's a movement called MDA (model driven architecture) which aims at large scale automation. I regularly keep an eye on this, but it never seems to leave academia. There's a lot of leverage that's possible but it's hard work to get there.
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+1
The mnemonics that come with tmux are short and intuitive enough such that everything ive needed is just a ctrl+b away.
Curious what the use case is for this
Hi! I wrote all about this, you can read my thoughts here.

https://medium.com/thelist/papas-please-let-your-babies-grow...
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Active investing isn’t a great idea unless you’re committing a lot of time and resources to the effort. And even then, it’s usually still a bad idea. The vast majority of professional funds underperform the market. It really is better in the long run to just swallow the humble pill and defer to indexes.
> For example, if there was a device that focused on running progressive web apps well, there would be a market today than compared to the past when horsepower wasn't at the level it is at now.

How does that explain the failure of FirefoxOS?
When I looked back when Linux was something only enthusiasts used back 15 years ago, it does seem like so too. We never thought one day Linux would be dominant and people would go through great lengths to deal with GNU software, Firefox or OpenOffice. We counted Firefox market share when it was 1%, then 5% then 10%. Time changes and if a project actually is good, I believe the general attitude will change.
Not for WP10, specifically.

Continuum was to be the killer feature but they shot themselves in the foot by releasing the Lumia 650 with such mediocre specs that didn't support it.
Even without socialization, I'd bet some girls will still like girly stuff.
My Diablo II disk shattered in my mothers PC when I was in the 7th grade, we were both rather upset (me because I lost my game disc in the era they were still used for anti-piracy, her because she needed to buy a new CD drive).
You don't need money to publish on PLoS, strictly speaking. If you are not currently funded to do the research you are seeking to publish, you can request a waiver of the author page charges.
Anecdata: I only chose to back it after they reached the 1mm mark.
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Just turn off last seen. Duh.
Savannah Georgia is spending over a billion to dredge the harbor to make way for bigger Panamax container ships. Same with Charleston, about 2 billion. My point is that there are a fair number of billion dollar infrastructure projects that fly under most people's radar. Source: today's WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-panama-canals-big-bet-is-pa...
The search for the holy grail continues..
Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)
Fukushima Is Preparing for Melt-down(2008)

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was happend.
Disasters occur at unexpected places.
I believe they were talking a bout a slow, permanent evacuation of an area likely to get hit by more and bigger floods coupled with rising oceans.
Oh, it has happened but it's very much an anomaly.
Trying to fix the internet protocol at the application level is a hack. You should check out the 'Host identity protocol'; that's what you're really looking for (fixing the internet). Beside, splitting parts of the code between 'server' and 'client' does not keep anyone from running the server along with the client.
By decoupling the baseband from the CPU so that it can't directly access the OS's memory+busses and securing communication on the wire (defaulting to secure messaging over Matrix, and using SSL everywhere) so that it can't be sniffed in transit by the modem.

I'm guessing that what this ends up looking like is a USB modem talking to the OS with pppd or a similar model that also enables voice calls over LTE
If you use the map it asks you if you want to turn it on, most people click through it looks like. Now someone write a PoC to keep a log of where everyone goes.
It works both ways, though. I was responding to a claim with an implicit "never" possible. Like you say, such a claim is theoretical, and I wanted to ask how that person knew it would never be possible.

Smell, taste and poison are all matters of physical molecules and how these interact with human physiology. We already understand these to some extent. We can already build devices that can detect some of these things to some extent. We have no grounds to say it's impossible for a human-level ability of it to be engineered. (Note that lack of positive evidence against X is not the same as positive evidence for X).
Jolla/Sailfish is not FOSS, and they have no plans to be so in the future either.
males can like girly stuff too
My experience teaching some graduates in a BI shop. SQL is more common, and tools that support SQL tend to be used better.

I've "taught" them how to use Spark, but being a team of varying prior experience, the Scala API meant them learning Scala, the Python one was a bit better, but they did much better with the SQL DSL.

Regarding your concern re maintainability: UDF's tend to be the problem, I'm also curious to know re their support issues, and also: can anyone write their own UDF (the code requires registering a .jar), or is there a team that helps business users in that regard?
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> Learn to code->it will help you get a guy.

I don't think I reasonable person would get this from the quote you posted. Does it even appear in any of the material on the site? Or was it an off the cuff example in an interview? Regardless, I'm unclear on why this is offensive, can you elaborate?
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How do you know the teacher is wrong based on science? Do you have citations?

"Boys and girls are wired differently" seems like an eminently plausible statement -- it applies to the rest of our bodies, so why not to our brains? I don't think it can be rejected out of hand without a solid argument (or reputable studies) to the contrary.
There's also plans to port KDE's mobile stack (including PIM suite) to the librem's operating system, providing at least one fairly comprehensive set of software.

Your bank probably won't ever have an app running on it though, you're right. I think most mobile apps that people use elsewise have decent enough PWAs that it won't be such an issue as long as PWAs are well supported at the UI layer.
Thanks for asking. I totally get the request. My cofounder Dmitriy likes his iPad a lot and wants to do more coding on it.

Unfortunately it seems that the Monaco editor does not support mobile browsers https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/master/READM...

But I've been very impressed with VS code's rapid improvements. I would love to know if mobile support is something they are looking into.
The problem with measures such as 2FA is that they are voluntarily implemented only by users who are most concerned about security, whereas users setting their password to "password" are on the opposite end of the spectrum.

What we really need is (1) 2FA and other enhanced security measures and (2) the ability to exclude all packages from a project, whether imported directly or indirectly, that do not abide with a minimum level of security.
if I was Microsoft's CEO, I would have donated $ billions to Mozilla. Then let Mozilla to build the best mobile browser. The Web can easily abstract the OS. As WeChat has shown. That way I can sell more handsets and also bespoke "Microsoft Services" based on the web.
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Cool to see that you have so many openings! You are welcome to post them on https://cryptojobslist.com/ while it's free to list.
I don't think the conditioning process advised here is sound if considering the subject's psychological health.
I stopped drinking caffeine a couple of months ago, in preparation for another attempt at quitting smoking. I also did not need the extra energy boost in the morning.

Also, it turns out that if you have a cuppa tea or coffee after quitting for a while it makes you feel the effects very strongly. I don't really like it, other than the taste.

My path to quitting caffeine was to first switch to green tea in the morning for a while and then to Tulsi tea which is made from holy basil, which has a lot of very nice health benefits especially for smokers.
"it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks" -- well, that's comforting!
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Thanks for your comment. Self hosted GitLab has been very reliable but GitLab.com's availability has been far below par.

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Yeah, I think it'll be important from the perspective of the... tenuous relationship between PRC and ROC. In that sense, there is almost no environmental stress that wouldn't be worth overcoming.
what are the pros and cons to using tmux as opposed to say multiple instances of a terminal emulator split up using ratpoison?
Why do men and women need to be the same? Isn't it ok to be different?
There have been over 600 episodes of The Simpsons—that by itself is an “often”.
Actually, it does need to be repeated, because economists and their opinions and their "evidence" are being given too much credit by politicians and laypeople.
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