skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should stop but:

"I think many people join the "climate change denial" crowd too push back against the "humans are evil and should go extinct, the quicker the better" environmentalist crowd."

Not completely obvious from this statement, but what I meant to convey was that the people who are committed and serious about "climate change denial" are people who believe many/most environmentalists are in the "humans are evil and should go extinct, the quicker the better" crowd. Not really sure about that, as I don't know any committed deniers well enough to have an honest conversation, but it doesn't seem unlikely.
Of course apples problems are all supply related, not demand
Seems to be big news in the domain industry..

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2017/dailyposts/201...
Are those arbitrage opportunities still profitable after commissions? i imagine no..
Only drawback is association with a card that says "Uber" on it. Their brand is terrible.

For any online purchases, I suppose that's less of an issue.
In the country with HIPPA I would absolutely bet quite a lot of money that this is the norm as well.

I've now debugged (as a well known patient) two computer systems for local clinics - and they were completely and entirely owned from the ground up. They saw this as completely normal/routine (as in - "oh man, call the IT guy - we've been infected again!"), and I watched as they would minimize whatever medical records app they used with my info in it to pull up the toolbar-laden IE to run my credit card via an on-line processor.

Luckily in those cases it was typical malware/botnet infestation. All it takes is the wrong person/group to come across that secretary's workstation that is almost assuredly connected to the same network the random medical equipment and storage is as well.

Security/IT in general in healthcare is a complete unmitigated disaster. Everyone focuses on hospitals (for good reason) - but those are typically far better ran than your local plastic surgery/lasik/clinic practice.
Ask HN: How you prevent accidental leaks of your company's data?
1) How do you prevent accidental leaks through email, Github, Slack?

2) Google has a Data Loss Prevention API. https://cloud.google.com/dlp/ That requires uploading your sensitive data. Is that a concern for you? Do you know of better/cheaper alternatives?

2) Usually sensitive data is company specific. E.g., my sensitive data was biotech specific (e.g., chemical, enzyme names). How do you prevent leaks of your custom data?
A USB keystroke injector with software-triggered 5v payloads
>It will take several generations to escape that shadow.

How many? Because this ideology most certainly doesn’t put an expiration date on white privilege and “systemic” white supremacy. There’s no way anyone would agree on a date, and even if they did it would be necessarily arbitrary so as to be rendered meaningless.

>The opportunities that I was provided were in part based on the opportunities that my parents were provided.

And the lesson to be gleaned from this is to work hard so you can provide a good life for you and yours, not make people feel bad (which is what inevitably happens) for their prior generations’ successes.

>Yes, people will blame 'systemic racism' for their personal failures; people will blame God, or the weather, because people will blame anything for their failures. I don't think that is an argument to ignore reality.

It’s not a reason to ignore reality, and it’s also certainly not a reason to invent new ones. The last thing we need children thinking today, with all the external stimuli they get from social media, is that they did or didn’t achieve something because of their privilege or lack there of.
This frequently comes up in discussions like this. Licensure is a joke with respect to demonstrating competency. Yes, the initial hurdle is high. However, once you are licensed it's hard to lose it. I would never rely on licensure as a measure of competency or currency.

On top of that, many electrical and mechanical engineers are not licensed because they don't need to be. (Everybody likes to jump to the civils in these discussions and forget about us, since civils are basically required to be licensed.). EEs and MEs don't get put through the same bullshit that this industry puts developers through.
Since you've continued to post plenty of unsubstantive comments after we repeatedly asked you not to, we've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended.
Scientists update four key fundamental constants
"In short, we found product-market fit."

"Despite our early successes, we’ve decided to close Walnut. Our tests revealed that we could create an experience customers loved, but we doubted our ability to be profitable long-term."

If people weren't willing to pay for a product you were offering at a price that would sustain the business, then you did not in fact find a product-market fit.
that's not how it works. whoever gets there last keeps it. like all things, it's about power, if you can't protect it, it will forcefully be taken by violence or "legal" means.
Sigh ... they've worked really hard over the past 10 years to remove the definite article from Maine Maritime Academy, and then bam Yankee Magazine goes and uses it all throughout this otherwise fantastic article.
> WW2 is another great example of this, no topic has had more books and films than WW2 yet the perception vs reality is incredibly wide in popular US culture.

Well, the winner writes the history books.
Benchmarking Elasticsearch with magnetic EBS
Lol what is this garbage?
No, and that is a hilarious assertion. You are the fool for setting a precedent of free labor in that case. Most figure this out pretty quickly.
>Americans have set up their government so that it more or less reflects the will of the people

I patently disagree with this opinion. Between lobbyist money and "news" agencies blatantly lying to groups of people not educated enough to fact check what they're hearing on the news, the government very much does NOT reflect the will of the people. It reflects the will of a handful of extremely wealthy people, and large corporations seeking profits at the expense of *.
Officially Crowdfunding – Vi Hart on Patreon
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274) wrote one earlier. From the Wikipedia article about him, a couple of his works:

al-Risalah al-Asturlabiyah – A Treatise on the astrolabe.

Zij-i Ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables) – A major astronomical treatise, completed in 1272.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi
Does anyone know if this has any effect on Erik Verlinde's theory of gravity?
I had to go digging to figure out who otterly is. He's correct, we are old friends.
And most companies are perfectly content underpaying high performers.
> We have also rewritten a large portion of the documentation for using Apollo

Unfortunately it seems like the core API docs are still woefully out of date and full of broken links: http://dev.apollodata.com/core/

Despite that, my experience with Apollo in general has been good. I maintain the Ember addon for it, and I find I'm much happier and more productive with Apollo Client + GraphQL than I ever was using ember-data + JSON API.

https://github.com/bgentry/ember-apollo-client
"Closed gate with unlocked lock, can pass." Never seen one of those.

Usually a cattle guard means no gate at all.
Allowing Russian bots to spread propaganda to meddle in our elections is hardly being neutral. That’s being an enabler.
Our project at work is using 3.4 and full of legacy code, and typical python code always has something astonishing.

I always use type hints when I write new code. Because 3.4 has no type hints for class member declarations I end up writing constructors that take parameters then assign them to self. This way PyCharm will properly detect the type of class members.
Three women engineers sue Uber in San Francisco claiming unequal pay, benefits
Fear is not binary. Yes of course fear of nuclear power is rational, but so if fear of cows, cars and a lot of other stuff.

The amount of fear that exists is competently out of proportion to the real problem.
Two things

1. Economic productivity gains are measured in trillions per year globally. Expected value for the research is good. Transportation costs are significant bottleneck in the economy. They make up roughly 8-9 percent of GDP. Wages are becoming the bottleneck in transportation costs. Internet economy can increase productivity but but if the end people who deliver packets, move pizzas, or transport anything have hourly wages.

2. R&D into autonomous cars is related to autonomous robots, robot vision etc. Google is betting heavily into AI and driversless cars can be seen as one piece of the puzzle. Navigation in real environment and spatial understanding of surroundings is core technology in many other things.
ZFS RAID-Z online expansion in the works
Seems awfully hypocritical. At least Soylent doesn't cause diarrhea, unlike Huel[0], which continues to be produced in Canada.
[0] https://huel.com/
Since drinking an unspecified amount of alcohol can render a woman (but not a man) incapable of consenting while possibly also giving the outward appearance of consenting, no absolutely don't serve alcohol at the workplace when women are present.

Now of course this is an absurd statement, but are their elements of truth in it? Quinn's account is Scoble and another woman were "making out" and that both were drunk. There was no question at all of Scoble's capacity to consent but Quinn felt she or her friend was able to determine the woman (who she doesn't know and apparently didn't talk to) was not able to consent, and claim that Scoble was minutes from raping her.

So, in short, a dumpster fire.
ProtonMail Bridge
Yeah, I agree. Screenhero is fantastic. I wish there was something that good that is OSS.
"There are plenty of articles talking about how important pop-up forms are for your website."

This is satire, right?
It sounds like great stuff, but here's an ad copy nit:

"Bioperoxide, the hero ingredient of Ode to Clean"

Using "hero ingredient" instead of "active ingredient" seems like getting a little too enthusiastic on the marketing. (Not to mention using two made-up terms in the same sentence...)

More generally, I'm looking for a page that explains the science behind the safety and effectiveness (for the end user) in a more technical way, and not finding them. "No toxins" and "made from plants" doesn't seem like enough of an explanation.

The ad copy for household cleaners hardly ever explains much of anything about the science, but why not do it better?
Hey Jamie, my name is Sergey and I'm a developer for the Grammarly extension. Sorry to see you had so much trouble with Grammarly! That definitely wasn't our intention – quite the contrary.

Thanks to your debugging video pinpointing the issue, we have been able to fix it. There was a bug where Grammarly would try to poke nodes outside of the input field in certain cases. It should be fixed now in the latest version of Grammarly for Chrome – please check it out and let me know if it helped.
Banks score hollow victory in class-action win
From my experience, most of it is about connections. I have seen $41 MM thrown at startups like Color and them failing a month later! Why just recently, FileCoin raised tens of millions from VCs, before goong on to raise $200 MM from crypto holders around the world for a product that hasn't even been developed, in a space where MaidSafe and IPFS etc. already exist. How? Because it was touted by CoinList, started by among others AngelList founder Naval Ravikant who has all the connections.
lovely! Is there a way to bookmark some stocks so I don't have to search everytime for the ones I want to look at that day?
Seems like a pandora problem to me. You have the problem because that box has never been opened. Had that been the way salaries were handled from the beginning, you wouldn't have the issue. But opening up salary information mid-stream can cause a lot of conflicts (some justified, some not).

The question is, when going from private to public information, how best to handle it so that it isn't a source of chaos.
People just assume it won't happen because we assume Facebook has deep security expertise. And we assume Equifax got hacked because they (evidently) didn't.

I don't know whether it's a reasonable assumption or not.
Yours is one of the more intriguing startups I've seen. My background is in software and developer advocacy - my job is to figure out how to convince people of true ideas.

I'd like to offer some unconventional advice.

Subsidies hurt the people who take them the most, because they destroy self-confidence (belief in your own efficacy) and undermine self-esteem (knowledge that you have earned your achievements). I'm glad to hear you do not need them.

You have rigorously applied your mind to create an objective good - a new chemical process which will promote human flourishing.

Strike all mentions of the petroleum industry and of toxins. There are two main problems with these.

First, they are not differentiating your product on its essential value, which means every moment spent making the negative case for them is lost to making the positive case for your product.

Second, you are being dishonest and are appealing to emotion. Dishonest because, with doctorates in oncology and chemical engineering, you know words like "toxins" are deeply nuanced; and even in your post to HN, you attack petroleum in one sentence, then mention your products application to plastics in the next. Appealing to emotion because you surely know the public's fear of chemicals is not based in reason.

Next, strike mentions about the expense of peroxides, their dangers, and explosions at peroxide plants. These are not differentiating, unless your go-to-market strategy is fundamentally based on licensing the technology to existing peroxide producers. As a consumer, I perceive peroxides to be so cheap as to be beneath notice - if you mean they are expensive in industrial applications, just talk about that directly. I don't know anything about how to judge the impurities in peroxide - just talk about the value of why purity matters, which I think you do in point 3 (though I'm not sure). And industrial accidents happen - unless your claim is that you are going to put the entire peroxide industry out of business, those explosions are going to continue to happen - instead, talk about why the stability of your product is a value.

Strike the Ode to Clean product, unless it connects with your core go-to-market strategy. It is an incredibly expensive product. You can probably make a lot of money because people make emotional purchasing decisions, but it is also a distraction from the phenomenal applications you mention in your HN post.
Well, that's the billion dollar secret.
That is a shame. I think Culebra Peak has always been private access. At least it when I was bagging them back in the 1990's. What are the other four that are problematic now?
You have to look at side projects as helping to build you up in ways that are not explicitly paid for. This isn’t limited to software. Consider physical labor; if it’s someone’s job to do lots of work that requires massive strength and endurance, is there ANY employer that will pay you extra for the time you’d be spending at the gym to meet the required strength? No; they’ll simply ignore the person demanding that investment, and hire the person that already fits their needs. School is another example of something you work hard on without really being paid.

On the flipside, I do hope that employers are good at actually understanding open-source project pages. For instance, GitHub is terrible about letting people create profiles with prominently-displayed forks of dozens of projects as if they’re contributing when those people may actually have done nothing on any of the projects they’ve displayed. Similarly, having a single project should not be an indication that you’re worse than someone with 10 projects; there are some legitimately huge problems and “one project” might be a full-time job in itself.
As a neuroscientist who just started doing ML research, I would call this paper cargo cult programming. If you cobble together a hodgepodge of ideas from neuroscience and build a network to accomplish some trivial task with no baseline to compare it to, I find it really difficult to take anything away from that. Ignoring the cortical column aspect, I'm not particularly convinced that Hawkins's model is a better approximation of biology than a typical deep neural network, just different (and likely far less capable, if you were to apply it to a challenging task). Why not start with a network that we know works and make a biologically-inspired change, and then see if that improves performance on a well-studied problem? If it does, then you have 1) an improvement on the previous network and 2) weak evidence that your idea of how the brain works may be right, if we assume that the brain is a highly optimized information processing device.
I'm getting "Error! Problem, or Page Not Found
Sorry, the page you were looking for does not exist."

Edit: Weird, I just closed my browser and tried again, and the article looks like it flashed into the screen then was replaced by the error message. Happens repeatedly on Chrome on Android...
So when I was interviewing as a intern and junior developer, I had _most_ places that actually interviewed me look at my side projects I'd listed on my CV. The one interview I've done at an intermediate level (at a company that reached out to me) also did.
Hey, this is awesome! One major issue/annoyance with design and typography is organizing, sorting and sifting through an ever-expanding font collection. For the longest time I wanted a font manager that organized fonts by various tags/classifications. FontExplorer X added that somewhat recently, but this takes it a bit further. The ability to sort by ranges of x-height, width, etc can really help with find good good font-pairing options. Obviously, this could become much so much more useful with a larger library of fonts. It would be interesting if there was a central database where everyone could anonymously upload the results of their own library. Such a database could be helpful for people trying to find similar fonts, better pairings or just a better way for font managers to organize fonts.
agreed. There are many examples of attempts to put into dialog these different traditions of postmodernism vs humanism/analytic rationality:

The Foucault/Chompsky debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8

The Heidegger/Cassirer debate: https://newrepublic.com/article/81380/heidegger-cassirer-dav...
"excessive" to you is "core user need" to a product manager
Another question after looking over your site: could you start a side business looking into microorganism-based carbon sequestration? I know this is something that other people are looking at, but you seem to have a lot of experience in chemistry and bioengineering, and you specifically mentioned CO₂ capture as an incidental benefit of your production process.

If you had microorganisms that captured orders of magnitude more carbon from the atmosphere as part of their metabolism (or indeed just other enzymes that catalyzed other chemical processes that had that effect), maybe people would want to pay you to breed a lot of these organisms.
Deepmind wants to find the next miracle material
Moving is detail-oriented work. Ignoring the simple case and consider moving to multiple locations and not all boxes being unpacked. That requires: 1) Many moving pieces, 2) all labeled correctly, 3) all routed correctly, 4) undamaged, and 5) multi-object units delivered together [0]

Pulling that off with a sizeable move takes a lot of process and discipline, as anyone who has tried to execute a highly detailed IT project knows. Also, people tend to not focus on details when they are exhausted. I doubt you can get it done well at a price people are willing to pay.

[0] For example, a bookcase might include: A 'frame', removable shelves, pins that support the shelves, and for some bookcases a removable back. All these objects must come back together at the destination - 'what are those shelves for?' 'Where are the pins?'
Greer's account of Scoble flirting with her at a hotel bar (drinks in both hands, touched her leg) is quite the counter-point.

It appears like that moment had a lasting and significant impact on Michelle. [1] The repercussions as Michelle tells them are certainly terrible. I feel badly for Michelle and want to understand better what she experienced from her perspective.

That was certainly unwanted sexual contact. Was it sexual assault? Possibly. Was is sexual harassment? Possibly! All unwanted sexual contact is not actually automatically sexual harassment. [2]

[1] - https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/woman-accuses-robert-scoble-o...

[2] - http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/whatissh.pdf
Yr Dog Is One of These Breeds, Here Are the Health Risks You Need to Know About
super creepy
I still love my Kinect. It came out at the end of the 360's lifetime, so I waited for the Xbox One to get one which was sadly a mistake. Games supporting Kinect on Xbox One are limited to say the least.

I am still however enamored with the automatic login. It sees me all the way across the room and logs me in. It's wonderful.

It used to work even better with the first gen controllers which had identifier IR lights in them. My friend and I could swap controllers and continue to play the same side of the screen. It was truly magical. The gen 2 "S" controllers however eliminated the IR lights.
>>What about APIs? Is it forbidden for US citizens to create NVIDIA CUDA clones now?

If the Google v Oracle case stands, API's are fall under copyright as such you have to have a copyright license to replicate them.

That was the entire case, how google implemented the entire Java API with out using Java

SO things like WINE, or any other implementation of an API that does not have the original author of the API's permission are violating copyright law
I feel like this is all the same absurd realities as with Flight M370.

A vessel carrying 33 lives into the path of a hurricane was relying on hourly EMAILS from a for-profit weather aggregation service? What the hell? Why wouldn't you have up to the minute satellite transmissions of developing whether on every ship that leaves port?

It seems the world is poorer, and people greedier, than can possibly be imagined.
Not sure where you live but Uber's 'terrible' brand is at best a very localized phenomenon. In most of the world it's either a neutral or positive association.
warning - generalizations ahead

Progressives tend to already support/buy in to conservation issues, so reaching and tapping In to the political right is where you can get the most bang for your buck.

The obvious question is why can’t other groups reach the conservative environmentalists? Some progressive leaning environmentalist groups embrace ideals which can be at odds with conservative views, while only being tangential to important things like wilderness conservation. Some progressive leaning environmental groups use ‘evil conservatives’ as a fund raising meme. Some simply identify as progressive and don’t leave any room for conservatives.

Truth is, in a huge chunk of this great nation, the people that enjoy, visit, and use national wilderness the most are conservative. They’re hunters and multi-generation farmers and ranchers. Sure, one of them might leave a beer bottle on the ground behind their skyjacked F250, but if they caught you poaching a doe out of season there’d be hell to pay.
Russia didn't have better tanks they had more tanks