skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty good point. I also wonder how fixable bikes will be once they're "smart" and whether or not will still maintain "the right to fix".

One of the reasons why I absolutely love cycling, is that my bikes (and those of friends and relatives) are one of the only things left in my life I can fix myself, I save money and learn a lot from doing it, it's rewarding and incredibly cheap.

It would be really disappointing to see parts become a black box, more expensive and disposable.

Leave it to the eBikes I say.
I skimmed it in a bit less than an hour, like reading every second paragraph. If you are not a mathematician and physicist, it will probably take you weeks or months to follow the argument in any detail and even then you will still be far away from really understanding it. That is some seriously advanced stuff and it touches on a quite broad spectrum of ideas.

I also tend to question what devereaux thinks is the essence of it. I would say it is mostly a presentation of the evolution of mathematical ideas with some focus on ideas applicable to physics. I did not notice any new physical ideas, at best new mathematical ideas applied to existing physical theories and even that only on the last couple of pages.

Also to the best of my knowledge our current physical theories are heavily constrained by very general principles, at times up to uniqueness. As a simple example, the Poincaré group of special relativity is the unique solution if you make some quite basic assumptions like homogeneity and isotropy of space. That conflicts with saying that quantum theory is not special.

Also the sentence mentioning renormalization does not really sound like it was written with an understanding of what renormalization in this context means. I hope I do not sound to harsh, I am far from an expert myself, but that TL;DR seems way of in my opinion.
Getting with machine learning
Yes. I would start there.
Seems like he had a major drinking problem. Groping someone you just met at a professional meeting isn't normal behavior, seems like he couldn't control himself - alcohol being the issue. It's possible he's a decent guy but the demons come out with drink, like a Mel Gibson.

He's apparently stopped drinking so hopefully he stays sober.
exactly. Finding less than a 5 year lease in Manhattan is extremely challenging in my experience.
Yalp is a FOSS Android app available from F-droid. The Yalp app on your phone talks directly to the Google Play servers.
You're argument seems like a strawman. I don't think anyone has argued that HN should operate with no moderation whatsoever.
It is difficult. Look how much effort was put into Bootstrap3. Good UI framework brings consistency and good practices.

Browsers are not so consistent as people think. CSS is difficult to get right. UI/UX is hard if you are not a designer. Interactions between DOM, CSS, and JS are hard to test.
> This is also quite illegal - you can not pay to work

You do know the offer is optional right? If a driver doesn't want to pay $115 for the 33% rate increase then they don't have to. Did you read that part? Also, many drivers could benefit from this especially if they drive full time in popular areas.
After the fiasco with thousands of non protected Mongo DB instances you can figure out who their major audience is.
No. You give UBI to everyone. And you also tax everyone’s income, usually with a flat tax.
( Gutentag /)
Did Arc go closed-source or does Hacker News run a closed-source fork?

As far as I can tell, the arc forums site is still up and running, and a lot of people seem to be focused on Anarki[0].

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
> An e-mail from Executive Vice Provost David Nirenberg on Sunday cautioned that unionization would introduce a “third party” that could interfere with graduate students’ relationships with the University.

That, of course, being the point.
They will almost always allow you to sublease though, which is its own horrible time sink to find a replacement tenant.
Judge shocked to learn NYPD’s cash forfeiture database has no backup
So the working memory exercise... improved your short term memory? :)

But it is good to hear that it worked well for you
Pointer Free Programming and the Future of Nim
You have a f` floating on your landing page, under the photo next to "Never miss a photo"
It's going to be tough, but I suffered quite a bit.

How'd I move past it? I started small (I was still rather young) and performed in a band. Eventually, I'd even sing. I am a classical guitarist but played rock, mostly.

Anyhow, I used to vomit and shake. I used to be truly afraid. I used to be scared of failure and of making errors.

So, I first started playing for people. It'd be a while before I was in a band and on stage. The first stage was small and had maybe 50 people in the audience. I threw up and made it onto the stage.

Over time, I realized that most audience members aren't accomplished musicians and won't actually notice a small error. Learning to play through the errors helped.

Eventually, I could walk out on stage, sing, talk to the audience, and actually put on a show instead of standing off to the side and concentrating on my playing.

What I'd suggest, and they are just suggestions, is hitting up something like an open mic night, a comedy club that has such, an open mic poetry reading, etc...

It will not be easy, but these days I'm outgoing and will talk to most anyone. I don't have any social anxiety and, if I do, I now have the confidence to just bluff it.

That same confidence has helped in many areas. It certainly helped with dating and in business. I've played in front of some large crowds and have spoken in front of some pretty large groups of people.

What it took was starting small and building up the confidence. What it meant was being able to interact with people at a much greater level.

I've since learned to be an active listener, which really helps. Open-ended questions about things they kno about is a great way to interact with people. It does require that one listens and give the others a chance to speak.

But, yeah... It made me toss my cookies, sweat a bunch, and I even fainted once. However, confidence grew quickly. It is absolutely not easy.

I don't know if that will work for everyone, and I assume it won't, but it worked for me. You have to make yourself do it the first times.

The impact it had elsewherein my life is amazing. I'm now very able to just converse with strangers. I now initiate conversations with people. In fact, I'm pretty much the polar opposite of how I used to be. I was a shy introvert who was unable to make many friends and didn't like to be social. These days, I'm a freakin' social butterfly!

So, maybe they can take something from that and try it?
Cables, servos, brushes, switches and so on.
what % of people have workload beyond something that PG on i3.16xlarge can handle?
This will end well...
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I'd like to bet against civilization collapsing by January 1, 2020. Given how dire that scenario is, I see the problem ceejayoz pointed out where there might not be much value to money at that point. But maybe we can bet on a precursor, like a stock market crash. There are probably scenarios where the stock market crashes first, but there's still time to use money before civilizational collapse.

I think we can solve it like this: if the S&P 500 drops below 50% of today's value (which is 2,562, so the trigger number is 1281), I'll send you $100 immediately, which is hopefully enough time to use that money for buying survival supplies before everything collapses. If that hasn't happened by January 1, 2020, you donate $100 to GiveWell[1].

It's an imperfect measure - I might accidentally lose it due to a nuclear war, but you still might pointlessly win it in a world where the collapse happens extremely quickly, and have a worthless $100 if I'm even still alive and able to use PayPal. But maybe it's good enough?

Want to take that bet, or suggest something else?

[1] https://www.givewell.org/
Of course you don’t print money. You tax everyone more. And you give everyone a share of that tax.

> UBI is not an innovative idea whatsoever.

It’s not claimed to be. The idea is literally hundreds of years old and is pretty well understood. There seem to be a lot who are just coming across it and applying lazy thinking and biases to it and mostly getting it wrong.
JTF2 are dope.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-elit...
They have literally had laws enforcing fairness in media.

Fox news is heavily criticized for their biased reporting and editorial standards. That would be the comparison to criticism of HN modding policies.
This article is still relevant:
http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...

The main point is: most of your data is most likely relational and not document based. Use the DB that fits your data model, and not the data model that fits your DB.
I published a couple of papers in grad school, and what the article describes made me imagine the peer review process busted open for the world to see. Reading reviews sucks: good reviewers provide smart reasons that you're wrong, which you have to beat with more research saying that you're right. The editor makes the final decision, not always in your favor.

In their "open peer review", the psychologists seemed to have all the class of a bunch of redditors. An uncomfortable process is made worse! Instead of motivating people to publish lame results for tenure, this new situation seems to motivate people to act like Internet trolls or tabloid journalists.

A more critical research community should help advance the field, but these researchers set a bad example.
Since Uber is in control of the dispatch, do drivers trust Uber not to throttle the rate of their rides as they approach/pass the break-even point? Given the shenanigans they've pulled with geofencing around regulatory agencies, I don't think I would trust them, but perhaps if they do have a history of letting people hit the driving incentives, I'd be more willing to give it a shot...
I'm in a suburb and had the seat stolen off a department store bike.
If this is research with MIT, then it would be interesting to see the IRB (Institutional Review Board) sign-off on this (assuming that they did.) This would raise a lot of red flags at most credible research institutions.
> ...and isn't an asshole...

I just read his blog for the first time and thought he’s a huge asshole. It seems to me the primary effect of science-shaming on the blog is to rally the pitchforks, something he can’t possibly be ignorant of. But he apparently keeps on doing it. No doubt it’s good for the hits, but doesn’t contribute to a dynamic that leads to good science. Oh wells.
You don't have to quit the field. Her coauthor did not.
A PhD student at UChicago whom I know well told me that they significantly limited who was allowed to vote to make this happen.

Not allowed to vote if:

* Not currently onsite (field work or pre-grad research elsewhere for a year)

* If you were not onsite in the previous year (anyone who did field work last year)

* Anyone who took a year break from teaching was not allowed to vote even if returning to teaching this year

* Anyone in 1st or 2nd year not allowed to vote (despite most years left to live under this union)
If you want anything serious with a language to generate html, css etc. you should look into scribble/pollen. Of course, like you said, you need to be familiar with the syntax.
This is a fantastic idea. Graduate students have to compete for so little funding (or even just unfunded slots) that the wage and conditions are at a bare minimum. Just a shot at those sweet professor jobs (whether or not they exist) or just adding to the world's knowledge send to be so desirable that people will work ridiculous hours with no benefits for pitiful pay. But why should the grads compete with each other?

What's next should be academia uniting to distribute funding internally, rather than stock with the farcical lotteries that are grant proposals.
~1600 students participated in the vote, but on wikipedia the school has 10k postgrads. How does this work?
Automatic lights would be amazing in ridesharing bike systems, like Nike's Biketown that we have here in PDX: https://www.biketownpdx.com/

I see these fancy "smart" features very useful for making biking convenient and simple for very casual biking.

Hard core bikers already are happy for the most part, and probably only care about shaving off marginal amounts of weight.
> My comment is prompted by the realization that recently (for the past year or so) a lot of general interest NYTimes articles shoot straight up to HN front page.

I've noticed that for a lot longer, and for a lot more than just the New York Times.

> either the HN crowd is turning into a general interest one

The thing about "general interests" is that they are often shared even among members of a community centered around more specific special interests.
This is very interesting. Having been a graduate student who threw off the reins to do basically the same work in industry at 6-7x the compensation with better benefits I support them.
You didn't even change the biopace rings? Those are murder on your knees. Can you even buy biopace rings anymore?
They limited who could vote to mostly those who support the idea (source: a PhD there). I posted details a comment above
Not true.

First, the taxi companies never made apps, so the lock-in factor just wasn't there.

Second, the absence of an app makes it hard for any single company to succeed with every option that customers want. Willing to pay more for a nicer car and a professional driver? Or want to save money by sharing a ride with someone else? Sorry, you get whatever cab is closest, unless you're willing to look through the phone book, and the cab companies can't stop you from seeing their competitors in the phone book. With an app, I can get all of my options taken care of without ever seeing another company.

Third, taxis are heavily regulated and even have to buy medallions from the limited share the city makes available. Uber and Lyft completely skirted regulations, removing an artificial barrier to monopolization.

Fourth, all of the above greatly diminish the effects of the economies of scale that Uber and Lyft enjoy. Why spend a bunch of money on, say, advertising, if it isn't going to help because people simply jump in the nearest cab regardless? How can you block the competition by copying their features if nobody has apps with features to copy? How can you buy out the competition if you don't have enough cash because needing to invest in medallions and drivers slows your growth?

It's not an accident that Uber and Lyft have put companies like SF's Yellow Cab out of business.

With self-driving technology, the economies of scale become even more influential. Who's going to get first dibs on exclusive partnerships with car manufacturers and tech companies? Who's going to have the funds and the clout and the experience to negotiate with regulators and governments? Who's going to have the software engineers to develop their own self-driving technology? Not small taxi companies, that's for sure.
Damn, I didn't realize I hadn't been updating the Android client. Just did it.

The only sad thing is that the previous no-updates message has been replaced. It used to read "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date (or your repositories are out of date)."

This always tickled me as a perfect evocation of the open-source software spirit: cheerful, optimistic, mildly pedantic, and technically correct.

The new message omits the parenthetical. More user friendly, but missing a bit of FOSS personality.
> so I don't really know how nice (or not nice) is HN from the submitters' point of view.

I submit a lot (although not nearly as much as some others) and I have no idea of what submission will be good or not.

Some things I think are good don't take off, and get put in the second chance queue. Other things I think are good don't get put in that queue, and I don't know why.
Could they turn that blinking light into a an arrow at the appropriate time? I ride a motorcycle and have upgraded all my signal lights to the maximum legal output.

I would probably test to see if changing the colors was also effective. I don't think it would have to all that large, maybe half the size of an automobile license plate. When it is just going down the road, flash white. When it is turning, flash orange or red - in the shape of an arrow.

I'd test that and see how people responded to it. It might not even have to be that large. I'd just want to make it large enough that the arrow can be made out clearly and from, say, 100 feet away. The changing color may also help.

I suppose orange would be fairly standard and might be a good color choice to try.
I suppose you mean that leaving an open to the world webserver copy lying about without even a password, much less encryption was an idiot's blunder - but that wasn't a legitimate site. It's way downstream of the actual information heist, if I read the article correctly.

Nobody got phished. The information was originally gathered by some legitimate institution, perhaps government, and then sold or stolen. I wouldn't be surprised if Dracore was founded from the start by a leak from an insider who figured out he could quit his govt job, take the database with him, and found a nice business that would make money while he slept. Basic security by individuals at home can't prevent such "inside jobs."

I once knew someone who was offered a million dollars for a copy of a very small corner of a records pile that was part of their normal work responsibilities over a few drinks and said no; I'm less surprised that others might have said yes.

What I call the "mass effect", that is, the fact that 60 million records could fit onto anyone's phone (if it had an external chip smaller than the one in my otherwise cheap phone) makes such inside jobs very hard to defend against; on the "who will watch the watchers" principle. "Mass effect" so called because information is losing mass extremely quickly, a whole lot of it now weighs almost nothing. You can just saunter out the door with it.
It being stated that it's zero tolerance and "well, give him one more chance b/c he's a top performer" [especially in small orgs with young employees </bias>] aren't quite the same thing. People are willing to make exceptions for their implicit biases.
I did. Did you consider THAT outrageous option for a moment?
Having a different opinion is no excuse to repeatedly berate a person.
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Your side project nanagram reminds me of a similar service, Pidgeonly, which allowed people to text photos to inmates that heard on an NPR podcast -- http://www.npr.org/2015/03/25/395238624/ex-inmate-uses-his-s...
I think the share price will be eventually consistent.
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There are all sorts of optional deals that are illegal.
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Which also shouldn't be a part of a career environment.
The other nice thing about BT instead of IR is you eliminate the risk of cross contaminating signals. This is most likely a common cycling in the 90s story but I use to have a heart rate monitor and one guy I would ride with had the same device. His monitor would usually pick up my signal, but not vice versa.
I went to grad school at a unionized school (UC Berkeley), and was generally fine with the union. I never directly took advantage of the union protections, but it's nice knowing that you won't just be at the mercy of your advisor should something go wrong (though having an advisor you can trust in the first place is obviously preferable). I know people who took advantage of maternity leave, and I felt that the benefits we were provided were a cut above those at Stanford (who only recently got dental/vision coverage).
An X window manager would likely have to be completely rewritten to work on Wayland, I doubt many of them have much abstraction of the underlying window system.
> Why? What difference would that have made?

It makes it easier for other people to determine the likelihood / difficulty of them finding this recommendation of yours.

The hyperbolic passion conveyed by 'hate' and 'taste like car battery' to describe a luxury item you are not compelled to consume meant I wasn't about to put much effort into looking anyway.

However, I've just now tried to locate a 'black panther bar' and have discovered it would cost me US$50+ in order to obtain.

Presumably because I'm not 'around here'.

> What's your point?

That popularity does not imply, let alone guarantee, quality.

> Possibly. I don't really know enough about the respective bars to really speak to that.

Could you perhaps review the nutritional information on one of your packets?

Reviewing their website, Endangered Species Natural Dark Chocolate (72% Cocoa) is about 27% sugar.

The Black Panther variety (88% Cocoa) is 11% sugar.

In the plain dark chocolate market there doesn't seem to be much variety - or indeed much room for variety - of ingredients:

Black Panther: BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE (CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, CANE SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA).

Lindt does not seem to include soy lecithin in their comparably dark (90% Cocoa) chocolate. (Of course they may use it but not mention it -- this seems unlikely as around here (Australia) we're fairly strict on nutrition and ingredient advisories on processed foods.)

So, it might be informative for you to work out if soy lecithin's presence is the key.

I don't have a particularly acute sense of taste, and haven't eaten chocolate for a couple of decades, but some casual googling on the subject turns up some quite passionate tomes in both directions (no difference, lots of difference). Impossible to summarise, so I'll let you do your own research & taste tests if you're so inspired.
The graduate students at Penn have been trying to unionize for a while (http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/08/update-grad-students-un...). For the most part, the divide is between engineering students (who are well-funded) and the rest (who are not).
The work of these social psychologists absolutely deserves the scrutiny they are receiving. The field is rife with "surprising scientific effects" that do not replicate and turn out to be completely wrong, yet they linger in the popular culture and are brought up over and over again to defend ideas and policies that are not based in reality.

Look at the reach of people like Malcolm Gladwell and stuff like his books and podcast, and NPR's Hidden Brain, which subsist on recounting these "surprising studies" and speculating about their profound meaning for society, to gigantic audiences. And they're wrong! Made up ideological BS with the gravitas of 'serious science' behind them.

Power posing, stereotype threat, the bystander effect, implicit bias. So many popular hypotheses have snuck into the popular culture and they are wrong. They're based on fudging numbers and statistics and throwing out results that don't fit the hypothesis. They deserve to be combated in the public sphere. They don't deserve to be shielded to protect the careers of the hucksters.
I don't disagree with you for teams who know which technology is right and which isn't, for their specific use cases.

But more common than not, inexperienced devs are using Mongo and similar to store relational data, simply because they were sold the 'MEAN' stack and didn't realize that, while it's easy to get a quick prototype running, a year or two later you eventually need things like transactions and joins, and NoSQL is absolutely the wrong technology most of the time.
There's no mention of Trek 5 on his IMDB. Are you sure he was involved?