skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually find articles like this fairly upsetting to see. Presumably, it hits some nerve for me in terms of wanting to have a full and "normal" life in spite of my genetic disorder. In some sense, I can pass for normal in a way that conjoined twins cannot. In another sense, no, I will never be normal. The degree of social friction I face over that fact is more problematic in some ways than the physical limitations.

Conjoined twins are so obviously and undeniably different that I just cringe at the idea of the social impact. It very much strikes me as "Hell is other people." I hope their social experience is more positive and supportive than I imagine.

A couple of dead comments suggest conjoined twins cannot have a sex life. So, I will just post this here:

Determined to live as normal a life they could, Chang and Eng settled on their small plantation and bought slaves to do the work they could not do themselves. Using their adopted name "Bunker", they married local women on April 13, 1843. Chang wed Adelaide Yates (1823-1917), while Eng married her sister, Sarah Anne (1822-1892). The twins also became naturalized American citizens.

The couples shared a bed built for four in their Traphill home. Chang and Adelaide would become the parents of twelve children. Eng and Sarah had ten. However, Chichester disputes this number of children, stating Eng had 11.[11] After a number of years, the sisters began to dislike each other[12] and separate households were set up west of Mount Airy, North Carolina in the town of White Plains. The brothers would alternately spend three days at each home.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker
Leaked documents link Trump's commerce secretary to Russia
How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay
I think many hoped for a path forward in Bernie Sanders, but the Democratic Party kneecapped that...
Show HN: WIP coding font (CSS Mono) for front end CSS developers
Oh come on: If the fact that Moscow owns part of Twitter and Facebook isn't HN worthy, HN simply isn't following politics and tech.

This leak is inherently intesting to HN or nothing is.
One thing that helps me is when the learning projects are somehow related. From the book “Make it stick” , I learned to make connections. For example to ask yourself, how does this relates to stuff I already know. So, using this principle, if I’m able to make a connection between something in project A and another in project B, it helps me remember both.
Why do you need to work long hours? Do you get fired or not-rehired if you do 9-5?
> It's always fun to take a moment, act like a human, and talk to people.

I find this very American behaviour. Talking to strangers (unless in a social event) is considered weird and not socially acceptable in large parts of Europe.

In 20+ years of daily public transport usage, I've had maybe a dozen interactions with random people on trams and busses outside of standard "where does this line go" or "is this your stop" conversations.
If I remember correctly, none of the icij releases have ever been made public. Their assumption is that countries should change their laws if they want to access such files. (Also it is probably better like this to protect the sources)
The built-in unittest library does the job well.
Russian state bank funded Facebook and Twitter pre-IPO
Training via bootstrapping (i.e. dynamic programming) does reduce the state space for search when working with function approximation. It represents a bias in what sorts of values the value function approximator should predict for each state. It encodes a sort of "local continuity/coherence" constraint that wouldn't necessarily be induced by simply training to predict the raw values -- collected stochastically via interaction with the environment. This local coherence constraint acts as a regularizer (i.e. bias) while training the value function approximator.
As I said, Bloom goes on to describe his position in much more detail. Have you read the entire article?

I'm not sure why you are so adamant about evidence here. Bloom is just one example of someone who did some research and put together an argument, which was then cited by Damore for a single point in a larger piece. I do believe that particular point is valid (as it's completely accepted in popular culture) but regardless the greater issue is that it can be discussed at all.

You seem to be saying that it shouldn't be discussed at all... because there's no evidence for it? People talk endless about many things that have no evidence and are purely conjecture, just to start exploring a certain perspective (which usually comes before the hard scientific research). Why is that a problem?
He doesn't disagree with him, but "not so sure" isn't a ringing endorsement of anything. It suggests that Bloom is unsure, so if Bloom is unsure about the value of empathy, how strongly can it support Damore? We don't know because Damore doesn't explain it, just links to it as evidence. Again, that's not how you do research.

Not looking to keep this discussion going, take care.
Imagining people in meeting rooms at law firms discussing if they can go back to paper-only workflow...

Also, this I guess confirms the policy I heard from several heads of accounting depts in the 90's that they did not want their computers connected to the Internet..
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/trump-commerce-...
It's extremely rare though; the article mentions that the vast majority of such twins die within the first 24hrs.
Jack Ma bet 100M with the former richest guy in China about e commerce
For one, it has message_id ackbacks so that you can have a request/response rpc style system. A basic feature for any websocket-heavy application.

socket.send('login', [uname, pass], (err) => ...)

And there are socket-io clients for most languages that can interop with a socket-io server, once again supporting message_id callbacks.

Reconciling my own message_id + reconnect buffer system is not something I want to build on the client + server every time I build an application.

People talk shit about socket.io and then never recommend an alternative that implements this fundamental feature. Without message_ids, I get flashbacks to working with IMAP.
You could do the obvious thing and focus on a task or two at a time. I'm not sure how much more obvious it could be here.
The leak shows substantial Russian cash going to US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross; Twitter and Facebook; and Arsenal and Everton. It also shows the usual tax avoidance by powerful people including Lord Ashcroft and Trudeau financier Stephen Bronfman.
>If a company doesn't use these tax-avoidance means, it becomes uncompetitive and gets eaten by those, that do.

I don't understand why that would be the case.
I believe iOS does the pixel shifting automatically.
>user:	bearbearbear

>created:	6 days ago

You're only supposed to start deflection if and when your astroturfing gets called out. This was probably covered in your onboarding process.
> It's a tax cut for billionaires bought and paid for by the GOP donor class

I am a small business owner setup as a LLC single member company and the new cap will be a positive for me. It will reduce my tax burden allowing me to buy more software from companies, hire, expand, increase advertising spending, etc. I am a very real case, and there are lots of other small business owners like me who are certainly not billionaires. In fact most bay area tech company employees make more than I do. I find it somewhat hypocritical that employees at Google and Facebook that are making 200K+ are complaining about tax reform.
Don’t forget VAT and much higher import taxes which make some consumer goods prices constitute of effectively 70-80% tax.

When you have goods with import tax of 50% or higher and on top of that you pay 20-25% VAT you have much higher effective tax rates.

In many European countries 80% of your income or in some cases even more will go into taxes.
> treat people as machines

We are machines. Squishy, carbon-based machines with certain unique computational capabilities, I'll grant - but still, machines.
Yes, scholars. Maybe it's a generational thing. Young people have too many people they have to compare to. You have to be great at everything! I'm hearing that high schoolers don't have confidence anymore.
My experience has been that people who are black, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and some Asian ethnicities use them pretty much constantly. My Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese friends generally just use the yellow ones, whereas my Indian in-laws use skin-tone-modified ones. Maybe you're just not interacting much with non-white folks in a context where emojis are used frequently?
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database

They offer a torrent.
The 100Gb pipe article was off the front page and not really commented on that much. I see post after post about containers this and vagrant that, all sorts of posts about stuff that I find pretty uninteresting. Something as remarkable as the 100Gbit thing gets a little attention but it is clear that it's not that interesting to the majority of the people here.

I'm just depressed that real low level systems stuff seems to be not sexy any more. When I was at Sun the kernel group was the unchallenged top of the heap, it was the place to be. When I was fixing source management at Sun (as a hobby, it wasn't my official job) they asked me to go work in the tools group. Are you frigging kidding me? Noone in their right mind would leave the kernel group for the tools group. Sorry to be snooty but that just wasn't a thing.

I just got back from a FreeBSD conference at Netflix and was asking about the state of the world and it's depressing. People don't seem to write solid papers like they used to. Sun produced papers on vnodes, the VM system architecture and implementation, Sparc, I wrote one on making UFS perform like an extent based file system. Who is doing that now? I looked in the usual conference proceedings and it was full of academic stuff, not very interesting stuff, but no industry stuff.
this is reddit material not HN material
I was about to sign up with my google account, but the app requested permission to allow beeminder to .. view my email messages and settings. Is that a mistake?
Will you accept people in a junior role for less money for hiring and then work themselves up? I'm a good hire.
> Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store?

Yes, that's why I have food stamps.
Actually, "emoji" is 絵[e] (picture) + 文字[moji] (character). A lot of them do not represent emotions, but just random pictograms. In my opinion while encoding pictures as text was a good idea at the time (due to limitations of mobile text messages), it makes no sense in 2017 where we have technology to easily inline any picture in the text even on mobile phones.
Isn't focusing done automatically anyway?
Database download of Offshore Leaks data
Nobody is saying not to discuss it, but if you want to have a nuanced and productive discussion, provide better evidence.
interesting. That may very well be a huge obstacle. Because they are all about no-fee adjoinders to the tangle. Hmmm. Other paradigms have the fee built in as this article mentioned. That might be a way for them to mitigate this, with some sort of implied starting transaction velocity / stickiness that could decrease. Like a way to outdate spammy attackings and disregard their info. Damn though, all that takes tabulation and overhead, which is where you want to pack it all down with cryption. Man. That is a toughie.
Almost all businesses require constant improvement to be commercially viable. This is the common scenario.

Natural moats are rare and highly sought after and fought for, and is actually much harder to build than a typical business based on product value.
No, they are just the definition of corruption.
Can you really get a functioning single prop with new or decent functionally usable used parts that is completely flyable and safe enough for regulations for under 100k?
Google doesn’t do open geodata: they’re the only major internet company not to be invested in OSM in some way, preferring instead to build up their own proprietary geo database.
Paradise Papers – The Shadowy World of Big Money
He’s an engineer or scientist. The world needs engineers and scientists, and it makes them feel good to assert their superiority.

At the end of the day, these guys always work for somebody, who is usually some sort liberal arts or business major. It’s something to keep in perspective when somebody asserts that math and science run the world.
Most certainly not. I recall that, in the SCO vs. IBM case, they discussed copyright of individual code snippets, on the range of a dozen lines of code, that were part of a bigger codebase.
> Graal, Truffle, SubstrateVM, Sulong

Is there a succinct explanation as to what those four projects are and how they would be combined in the hypothetical implementation you mention?

The idea is to replace all of the JDK with a construction of those four, right? Would it still need a traditional JVM to execute the resulting toolchain or replace it fully?
No system of taxation?

If you can show us a modern functional large-scale (i.e. nation-sized) society that has no taxation, then I'd love to see how they do it.

I can't think of any examples, though, so would welcome your thoughts on this.
I wrote up a hand wavy way of doing a generalized sendfile here:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/splice.pdf

and linux took some of that. As I recall, they don't use it much because the user land apps (like web servers) end up touching the data for TLS (https).

Netflix/FreeBSD are working with the NIC folks to get the byte by byte TLS pushed down in the card along with the TCP offload. I think they'll get there first because BSD is so heavily used by CDN people (not just Netflix, Limelight is very active in BSD as well).
"It's more usable than android" is purely subjective, and also irrelevant to my point.
> Maybe the Unicode consortium made a mistake by specifying them as bright yellow

They didn't. It's recommended, but not required, to use a "non-realistic" colour, examples being yellow, blue, or gray.

http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/index.html#Diversity
I just finished it a few days ago. Read it for the exact same reason. I can really recommend it!
If the purchase-price being offered exceeds the sum I think I'll be able to give my heirs as inheritance, then I should actually accept that transaction.
Well, it is technologically possible yes, but we as humans often make the compromise for practicality and communication. Perhaps there are better tuned parameter glyphs that represent screens. ️
What will it take for people to say NO MORE
Come work for me. I only hire people without college degrees. I consider college degrees a red flag.
It's because of our gmailzero.com integration where you can mind your Gmail inbox. But, yes, it's super dumb that we don't separate out those permissions and are freaking people out by asking for them just to sign up...

Thanks so much for pointing this out!
How is pytest superior?
I don't understand why you need different colors of emoji.

Isn't yellow sufficiently neutral?
Go is becoming the new Java from what I can tell so it's good to know enough to find your way around and patch a Go project if needed. Being the new Java, despite being less expressive, explains the uptake in the enterprise and startups.
Multiple major media outlets have been planning this news dump for a while. They had time.
No One Knows What Britain Is Anymore
Why would you consider yellow to be asian?

Asians aren't yellow...
Perhaps "teamwork" is not the best term, if it invites such a narrow interpretation. But even for mere "cooperation" as you put it, empathy is needed. In your cloud service example, if a client ever needs tech support, at least the support person is trying to read the client's mind, or they're not doing their job. Even in the case of holding up heavy objects, don't underestimate the value of sensitivity to the other person's needs; I've been on both sides of screwups in that area.

GP asked about hiring at companies, so solo projects are either not germane, or an illusion. Are you the only dev on a project that serves larger business goals? You're on a team! You need to understand how your work fits in with others' efforts, and either adjust or explain how others should adjust instead, most likely both. Oh, and don't forget to document everything, another empathy-heavy task. I think we all know this; it's just another way of discovering the meme that devs who understand the business go farther.

Part of the point I was trying to make is that those "large projects" you were talking about are going to become more common and more important, out-competing smaller teams that are almost by definition less capable in terms of feature output. If a solo dev outcompetes a team, it's because they were better at empathizing with customers. If that's not exactly teamwork, it doesn't avoid the problem, either.
Have also had issues for a month or so now. Weird stuff like trying to do a search in incognito mode, which should do a Google search, and it spinning forever.
Am I alone in finding it unsurprising but unfortunate that all those addons to the official go toolchain are created by everyone to paper over the limitations of the Google Go implementation (which naturally reflects Google's development process and needs more than anything)?

EDIT: E.g moving .git/ back and forth or adding extra vetting/linting tools instead of extending `go vet`.
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Could you explain why is that the case, I've heard that multiple times, but for me the math doesn't work out.

If I earn an amount of (x+y), I would get taxed on (x+y), but if I donate x money, I would get taxed on y, but I've already paid x in donations, so unless there is something fishy going on with the x donations part, it would make sense for someone to not donate, as they are already being taxed on y, and the taxes on x would be less than x.

So how are the rich making these donations out of my wallet?
> Actually, "emoji" is 絵[e] (picture) + 文字[moji] (character). A lot of them do not represent emotions, but just random pictograms.

Thanks, I really do wonder why people lie to me or make things up. I guess that's what I get for never typing it into my IME in full.

> In my opinion while encoding pictures as text was a good idea at the time (due to limitations of mobile text messages), it makes no sense in 2017 where we have technology to easily inline any picture in the text even on mobile phones.

Even at the time, the character set was apparently meant to replace common phrases and text emoticons (for SMS, as you note). There's frankly no way anyone would have the time and energy to produce high quality custom images for simple messages, save for selfies.
What exactly are you referring to? Webpack has an incredibly simple model -- do everything with a loader.

I've only had to really wrestle with webpack twice: once to get it working with a huge corpus of legacy code, the other to get it building a node backend and ES6 frontend with lots of shared code. Other than that my config has always been pretty simple.
If you can provide lots of names fast, you should definitly show that your users. Dont let them click over hundreds of sites with a small amount of names.
It's very interesting watching both of your comments XD
We do, but configuration doesn’t correlate to issues.

It seems to be very random. Maybe there are radio or baseband variants? It’s very frustrating to our guys who do this stuff as there are really no useful tools to troubleshoot.
But if they're representing body language, then they're representing the human body that's communicating the body language. When a family member had some health issues and a friend sent me a text that said "I hope they're ok, and I'll keep your family in my thoughts. :prayer-hands:", that reads (at least to me) as though that person is saying "I hope they're ok, and I'll keep your family in my thoughts. I'll be praying for you and them." The prayer hands emoji is carrying a whole sentence - which, slightly off-topic, but this is why I actually kinda love emoji - and the implication is that it's representing that person, the same way that the actual words "I'll be praying for you and them." would be symbolically representing the person saying them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15628925
It's not hard to imagine people making that assumption, as it is reasonable if not correct, particularly as "emoticons" and "emoji" are often used to describe the same or similar non-character glyphs. There's no need to assume bad faith on others, any more than it would be to assume ill on your part for repeating it without confirming it.
If you read the AGZ paper closely, they actually use checkpoints during training. Specifically, during training they only perform updates to the "stable" set of parameters when the current "learning" set of parameters produces a policy which beats the stable set at least 55% of the time. The current stable parameters are what they use for generating the self-play data which they use to update the current "learning" parameters. I believe this is only mentioned in the supplementary material...
This is a nice and ambitious post. A few thoughts:

1. There are great insights in Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma. The focus of that book is on Disruptive Innovation, where a new upstart with some new tech/angle crushes your business. A lot of your notes/principles here are captured in that book concisely.

2. One thing that is useful for employees to understand is how their company creates and executes on a strategy. It's crazy to me how many guides there are on strategy when most individuals do 0 strategy setting. The result is that you think of a great strategy, get shot down for whatever reason, and just grumble about how the "execs don't get it". It's much more fruitful to understand how the big dawgs are setting their strategy and what models they're using, and then you can figure out how to operate and innovate in that context.

3. Your comments on insight and research reminded me of Charlie Munger's talks on Mental Models. The basic idea is that you learn from a bunch of disciplines and your brain starts to tie things together and you'll produce insights. Shane over at Farnam Street (https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/) has a great guide and intro.

Overall, I enjoyed reading your post and am impressed by the level of research. Great job.
Is this still actively maintained? I haven't kept up with the project but my impression was the original creator moved on and left the project in the cold
Uber’s U.S. sales recover after the #deleteUber campaign but Lyft still gaining
True. Or limb taps would work instead, since nether have control over all of them.
So, what's the hivemind spin on Apple aggressively dodging taxes? How're we defending that again?
okay I have a system and structure..why am I not as successful as Henry Ford or Russell Simmons or Bruce D. Henderson. Luck plays a huge role, imho. The survivorship bias is huge. It's easy to review the winners and then work backwards to derive a 'theory', after the fact, as for why they were successful...it's like an interpolation polynomial.
Cool data. Appears the CoP vs outdoor temp plots are on page 14. Since the data doesn't provide temperature delta between the source and sink, you'd need to assume that the pump met the heat delivery requirements.
Exactly my thought about json-schema, as I use it extensively in both Python and C++ (excellent library valijson [0]).

Not all Python objects are json-serializable by default, so the ideal solution (for me) would be json-schema with simple syntax for adding custom type validators.

[0] https://github.com/tristanpenman/valijson
Technology is subtly transforming the restaurant experience as we know it