skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> malice involved

Then why not mention that in the announcement? The problem is that Twitter is not pointing to any specific content that it is willing to admit was harmful. Doing that would give us too clear a glimpse into the ideological view Twitter holds.

I rarely read RT myself, but like seeing stories that shine light upon problems with American institutions and infrastructure, as well as problems and hypocrisy around foreign policy and humanitarian issues.

We have concentration camps in Gitmo, a prison system where inmates are routinely victimized by rape, and yet there is this idea that any news org that doesn't aggressively cheerlead "USA USA" is harming our democracy. I'd like our democracy to develop the teeth necessary to fix/eliminate the prisons and camps, and evict some of the most corrupt officials -- Paul Ryan has been a public servant his whole life and mysteriously has a net worth of over $8M. The Clintons are worth over $250M after a few decades in public service. What is going on here, we have to be willing to see the ugliness of our system and the corruption that is all around us.

If RT helps us see that and take corrective action, all the better. Ironically I think those opposed to the sort of discord RT might cause are implicitly idealizing a compliant public like one might find in a well-controlled fascist state.
Learning a hierarchy
Getting to 200 product hrs/month
Here is an interesting study from a couple years back about astroturfing reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...
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What does an evaporated/evaporating Dicamba cloud do to the insect population? (The ones that do nothing destructive to plants, such as bees, etc.)
By "manipulating media coverage", you mean "having a PR team that pitches stories"? Because virtually every company listed on the NASDAQ does that --- as does every company that has ever issued a press release.
In my alternative, the engineer needs to:

- Check out the code and review the solution.

- Give a pass or "call for interview".

Let's say that is half-hour of work.

Only for the candidates that get called-in, you can have an hour-long interview. Make it two hours if if you want. It will still save the interviewer time, and allow a better use of the time together.
This is not the only Roundup related issue.

I wish there was more discussion about the impact of these herbicides on insect populations. For instance the Monarch butterfly population has dropped 90% due to herbicides such as Roundup. No public discussion.

https://www.ecowatch.com/david-suzuki-how-to-save-the-monarc...
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

Michigan State study:
http://makewayformonarchs.org/i/archives/2682
If the person enjoys their side projects, go for it. I'm not saying they can't. But on the hiring side I'm not going to require that all employees have side projects that match their day job.
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Is that really only occurring to poeple here, now?!
>but we'd have a more unfiltered equal playing field where you'd also have much more of everything.

The internet has shown that an unfiltered playing field is toxic to the political knowledge of a populace. In an unfiltered playing field, virality gets the eyeballs and fake news is inherently viral. The truth necessarily loses.
You claimed that I lie, but you're lying before my very eyes. I neither blamed the CIA for the Iraq War, nor did I "not mention the fact that Bush and Cheney cherry picked the evidence", and most of all I didn't even "refute the fact that the US intelligence community's conclusion [is?] that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election".

* I didn't blame the CIA for the Iraq War, as you can verify by re-reading my comments.

* I certainly mentioned that the evidence was cherry-picked: I highlighted the mention [here](https://i.imgur.com/sLtW1al.png). I did not mention who cherry-picked the evidence, but it doesn't seem relevant to my point or yours.

* If I understand your first sentence correctly - it is incomplete, giving space to interpretation - you're claiming that I attempt to refute the fact that the US intelligence's conclusion is that RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election; I never refuted that the intelligence's opinion is such, nor did I attempt to refute that. I genuinely believe that these reports represent the intelligence community's opinion. Rather, I'm doubtful of the reliability of these reports, in light of the Iraq reports of 2003.
"Aggressively anti-farmer"?
Fitbit All Set to Launch a Smartwatch Blood Sugar Tracker
Ask HN: Just got let go, what now?
Worked in sales as an engineer, automated our POC builds (used to take weeks now takes a few minutes) but unfortunately the product struggles.

I don't know what to do!
I think blockchain will help us with this.
Seems the economy is finding the sweet spot where education, housing and health extract the maximum amount of money from people right before they break. Finding that spot while a avoiding a revolution has been the biggest challenge for ruling classes throughout all of history.
The premise of Mob Programming[1] seems ludicrous to me. I can't imagine a scenario where this would be efficient in creating a product. The irony of the concept is that it is sold along "lean and agile principles". Has anyone found success using this model?

1: “All the brilliant people, working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer.“
There is a whole industry of software that is the same. Look at BMC, which I'm familiar with. Or just about anything Oracle makes. Yes, their databases are fast and powerful, but dealing with a lot of Oracle software is like going back to the 1970s.

As much as we like to rail on Microsoft (and it's well-deserved), companies like them and Apple, etc., have really made quantum leaps in usability that most enterprise software still hasn't made.

Based on my experience, SAS isn't an egregious example, it's typical.
> tax free pay

Wow what? Is the US? I def got taxed -- and audited because the funding agency screwed up some paperwork -- on my PhD income, while on federal fellowships no less.
You're right, I was probably swinging too hard on the other direction with my comments. The core of my argument stands: I refuse to require side projects as a condition for hiring someone.
Very good points!

Btw, what is missing in the invoices?

For us to be able to move from S3 we would also need to be able to create multiple API keys where we can set what buckets they have access to.
No mention that Walmart announced this first?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/09/22/w...
I get what you are saying, but the incentives do not have to be misaligned. It makes total sense for both the professor and student to be aligned in pursuing the goal of completing and publishing interesting and original research. It shouldn't matter what the student does after completing said research! But, some professors distribute their resources unequally and give the most time/money to the students who are trying to become professors.
There is no way of just paying eyeo to get your ads through the system. If you confirm to the acceptable ads standard your ads can be classified as that and visible to the people that has not chosen to block those too.

For the huge sites, a cut of the ad revenue is taken, more or less as for any other ad network/service really. The full info is here https://acceptableads.com
As someone in the process of applying to PhD programs right now, these comments are quite disheartening... scary even.
I'm curious, what does star farming get you? Is it just like farming karma on HN or is there a more practical reason to do that?

Also, while I'm sure there's a gigantic amount of rather useless repos on github (I contributed my share...) doesn't mean that it's not a good idea to have guidelines to write usefull READMEs for projects that do matter.
They knew. They 100% knew exactly what they were doing and didn't want to correct it.
You pretty much just listed gradle 4 times.
Part of the reason there might not have been much public discussion is that the underlying story is not that Roundup directly affects butterflies, but, according to the study, it is simply very effective at eliminating weeds that the butterflies were relying on --- making this less a story about Monsanto and more about the impact of industrial-scale farming on local fauna.
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It's the willingness of so many men to split hairs in order to defend a pig that is so offensive and threatening to women.
It's not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter.

Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public's mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without "Twitter" being mentioned in national news.
yep, awesome that they've finally figured it out.
I had a similar experience with a company in Bangalore.[1]

I wish there were a law to prevent such exploitative hiring practices.

[1]: https://github.com/surya-soft/Interview/issues/2
To be clear, I'm just the messenger - a neutral one. I'm not strongly espousing one view over another. As for the W+K project, they did sell it as a school or school like experience that gives you a real W+K project, instead of an internship where the interns pay. One guy who got into YC was part of it: https://www.theymadethat.com/people/j81421/rudy-adler
I'll be recommending this app to a relative of mine. I really like the fact you've open sourced it. Nice work.
Yep, overloaded language is common, and I've heard about continuations as well. First time I heard about thunks (a looong time ago) was in my 2nd year CS class that was taught in Scheme. I implemented one, and still never quite grokked what it was. The term continuation was being used as well, and I didn't know if it was the same thing or different. I hadn't heard of trampolines until fairly recently.

The next mysterious term I don't know but is probably overloaded and probably simple is monad.
I like where your head is at. This is the type of math we should be doing.
True. Carrying the flame long after the war has been lost is kinda pathetic. Then its more about identity (virtue signal, tribal affiliation) than anything else.

I wish they'd just argue about sports teams.
>In contrast, after my first project as a PhD student, my advisor straight-up told me that I needed to shed the engineering mindset to succeed. Inventing new techniques was the goal, and so you need to adopt a mentality of confronting problems head on (rather than designing the system to avoid confronting them).

That sounds heavenly.
{Random advice from the internet}

+ When you sell, don't broadcast it to people in the office. Office politics may portray it as signaling a 'lack of faith' and there is no upside to publicizing the decision anyway.

+ One way to look at the money from the sale of stock is as the return on an investment. This means that it is ok to protect that return for the future rather than following the conventional advice that it should be risked for further growth. Walking away from the poker table with money in your pocket is not foolish.

+ The general advice of financial advisors is for ordinary individuals to gamble against professional and institutional investors. There's no need to pay a fee for that advice. They pitch a system based on the idea that dumb money can beat well capitalized professionals over time when those well capitalized professionals sole objective is to take dumb money.

+ The booming current market hasn't brought back the 401k's that were wiped out in 2008. Portfolios that lost 50% of their value would need 10 years of sustained after inflation 7% growth to get back to where they were (with no fees while ignoring the time value of money). [1] [2]

Good luck.

[1]: Edit, the growth would have to be specific to an actual portfolio and not generalized to a market or an index.

[2]: Edit, this also assumes no losses after 2008, i.e. someone pulled their money out and sat on it (hard to do with a 401k without incurring a penalty).
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That's a simple take on a very complex system.
Rent is an amazingly effective means of redistributing wealth upwards. I have easily paid over £100k rent in my life, always to people substantially richer than I am.

Always enjoyed this Churchill quote - from 1909!

Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.
You should read Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem I think you’d enjoy it.
This is already a serious problem. Look at the complaints against companies like John Deere. Once something is software controlled, you have a physical product with all the horrible things that are done in the software world, including draconian EULAs (enforceable or not) and patents on algorithms and basic math.
Take a short breather and let your mind clear. Right now you likely are feeling a lot of emotions and want to figure out what actions to take - instead you need to allow the emotions to simmer down and instead think through next steps.

I don’t know your situation so I can’t tell you what to do after that, but for now you need to make sure you act on rationality, not impulse :)
That's a great idea, but what kind of case do you keep them in? The standard ones are far too bulky for that purpose, for my liking.
That has been my recommendation when people started talking about Cucumber at my compnay. Write a library that has super descriptive names like "EnterTextIntoPriceField(400)" and you get the same benefit Cucumber gives you but you have real programming language if needed.

Our biz people can't write useful requirements so I doubt they can write meaningful Cucumber scripts either.
Rising rents doesn't seem to effect the number of applicants though, every time I've viewed a place here there was a lineup of 20+ other renters there waiting as well. They pushed us through in under 10 minutes then another 20+ people showed up for the second appointment already gathering outside. There was no time to dispute the lease they dangled which stipulated you had to vacate the day the lease expired in order they could bypass provincial rent increase limits of 3.7%, and make you sign a new lease with any increase they wished.
Please, tell me more about how you’ve profiled both the performance of my apps and my development productivity! Amazing of you to provide this for me.

Meanwhile, NYTimes:

> “Facebook developed it to provide a data source that can evolve without breaking existing code and to favor speed on low-powered and low-quality mobile devices.”

[1] https://open.nytimes.com/react-relay-and-graphql-under-the-h...
Nathan Myhrvold has a new cookbook about bread: https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Bread-Nathan-Myhrvold/dp/09.... This complements his prize winning modernist cookbook https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking....
Sure, and so was Al Jazeera, but you still have to recognize that they are literally mouthpieces for the nations of Russia and Qatar, respectively.

It's like Voice of America. They can break real stories of corruption and dysfunction, but I'd like to see them investigated and picked up by a more impartial source before I'm going to give them much headroom.

Which is another reason why local journalism is so important and criminalizing/demonizing it for being unflattering is so heinous.
Soon they'll roll out a new tier, you pay them $10 per photo you take. New jobs will open up too, for the low price of $100/hr you can pay to work at a hot new start up.
You could build your own like this http://www.simpleiothings.com/build-a-10-wifi-smart-button/
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>If this already exists, do tell.

Yes, it does exist, and it's completely open source. It's called OpenBazaar, and it's a fully decentralized marketplace. There's no middlemen at all.

https://www.openbazaar.org/

It's backed by the OB1 company, which has raised $4.25 million from a16z, USV, and BlueYard.

It uses IPFS so that stores don't go offline, and all payments are settled in Bitcoin.

We love code reviews and pull requests. The back end is done in Go:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go

The front end is an Electron app:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop
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Yes, I've found it to be much faster than it used to be and they've added a lot of settings to simulate different environments. They also recently added quick boot in the preview (https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/emulator.html) to improve the boot times.
Each cell can be thought of as its own finite automaton in the DFA/NFA
sense. A cell has some properties: current state, set of states, set
of transition functions, input alphabet. Like how a typical FA
receives inputs from somewhere (for example, with regular
expressions, an input string), your cells in a CA will also receive
input: the states of the (usually immediate) neighbors.

Consider a simple 1d cellular automata. It's either dead (0) or
alive (1). It has a simple set of rules:

If both neighbors are dead, it will become dead.

If both neighbors are alive and it is dead, it will become alive.

If both neighbors are alive and it is alive, it will become dead.

If one neighbor is alive and the other dead, its state is
unchanged.

So there are 2 states (dead/0, alive/1), and 2 sources of input
which can be put into a 2-tuple in {0,1}x{0,1}, becoming a single
input.

Putting this into a typical tabular format since diagrams are hard in
ascii:

| dead | alive |
=====================
(0,0)| dead | dead |
(0,1)| dead | alive |
(1,0)| dead | alive |
(1,1)| alive| dead |

So at the basic level (you can add more complexity) a cellular
automata is a collection of finite automata operating on the same
rules and transitioning simultaneously, but using each other's states
as their inputs.

The Game of Life rules are a roughly the same but extends the automata
to 2d so that each has 8 neighbors, resulting in an input being an
8-tuple. Becoming alive, staying alive, and dying change in the number
of neighbors required for each.
Its worth noting that there are people who have b12 absorption deficiencies. My family has a history of it and a few are prescribed b12 injections once a month.

These injections are usually much higher than what you would take in pill for, as your body absorbs it easier and stores some for later.

Would be interested in more real science about the injections.
I think you just answered your own question. SAS makes a lot of money, so competitors want a chance to make their own cut.
I'd fully expect many of those 4,000 to be sales staff, each of whom presumably brings in more than their salary in revenue to remain employed.
I disagree with the "single ... language" right off the bat before any deeper considerations.

Lisp is a great collection of design patterns for making languages.

> The key was not so much “Lisp” but the kinds of thinking that this kind of representational approach allowed and opened up regarding all kinds of programming language schemes.

> A fun thing about it this is that once you’ve grokked it, you can think right away of better programming languages than Lisp, and you can think right away of better ways to write the meta descriptions than John did.

Once you've grokked it, those programming languages are more advanced dialects of Lisp.

Or else, you didn't really grok it.
>> Lastly, I want to add that a PhD is a degree in learning how to do research and in becoming one of the world's foremost experts on a particular topic.

I think that also goes to answer the question about motivation despite long hours and low salaries. Knowledge is its own reward, I guess.

Also, doing work that really satisfies you is a big privilege. Big big privilege. Not many people enjoy that, the world over.
What were you planning to do with the seller's personal information outside of the legal system?
European Union mandated end-to-end encryption in a privacy law
Why not first penalize the farmers who used the stuff? That would make farmers think twice about using untested herbicides. Then, if a farmer does use a Monsanto product and accidentally burns his neighbor, he can be the one who has to try to recoup the losses from Monsanto (e.g. through false advertising claims.)
Google 'volatilization of dicamba'. (Sorry, I'm on my phone, the best results are pdfs, and I can't get the urls.)

There's about 40 years of research on dicamba's volatilization problems.
Yo! I believe the 10TB ST10000NM0086 ones are helium!
Knowledge Without Application Is Pointless
> Non-technical employees can't really write them either so they be revised by a developer

This is the part I could never buy into either. You cannot escape that writing tests is the same thing as programming (you need to break the problem down into steps, formalise what you want to check, use abstractions) so non-programmers aren't good at writing tests without rigorous training. Non-programmers tend to need a lot of help even describing what they want in plain English as well because they just aren't used to thinking like programmers. I've worked with non-technical people for years who still don't understand that "it's not working" isn't enough information to go on.

As for overhead, it might make sense if you're working on one project in a single language for a long time but the setup and configuration overhead has been significant when I've tried BDD tests.

I'd rather just use descriptive function names in tests as then you can take advantage of autocompletion, automated refactoring, jump to definition shortcuts, static checking, language features etc.
True, but this is no difference than when there is a major incident (e.g. construction) on the thoroughfare and the surrounding quiet streets become the detour. Unless the algorithm mistakenly makes it a permanent preference.
OP linked this article which explains the evaporation:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/13/557607443/wit...

Bob Scott, a weed scientist at the University of Arkansas, recently showed me some experiments that he and his colleagues conducted. They sprayed trays of soil with dicamba, then placed those trays in a field of soybeans far from any dicamba spraying. The soybean plants next to the dicamba-treated soil showed clear signs of exposure to the chemical.

"We had a lot of volatility in these trials, a lot of movement" in unpredictable directions, Scott says. It wasn't what they were hoping to see, Scott says, but the results "do help explain why we had 966 complaints in our state."
This should be the disclaimer every single time Wikileaks comes up in a discussion.
I wonder if breaking point be when rents exceed the means of 2 people? Something like 60% of their combined take home pay.
:( yeah, things took way longer than we wanted. It always does.
There's always the option to simply not invest. For those platforms still in a pre-IPO state, you probably can't invest, even if you want to. For Twitter, it's easy enough to not buy the stock, and, indeed, if you bought in Jan 2014, you probably wish you hadn't. But if you bought yesterday, you're probably happy enough right now.
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