skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is a great documentary called the woman who swims with killer whales which documents dr. ingrid visser's research and rescue efforts of the new zealand orca population. her research has done a lot to showcase that the orcas are in danger, particularly of toxins. she shows in the documentary how she recovers discarded rays and does toxicity reports on the rays to theorize what toxicity levels the orcas have, since they are their primary, if only, source of food. (the "resident", fish-eating orcas are extremely picky.)

the woman who swims with killer whales: https://vimeo.com/45809457
Yup, totally.

There's a pretty common trend in GameDev -> Embedded Systems | High-Speed Trading.

The skillsets are very similar while the domains are quite different.
ah you're looking at the CABI stuff.. that part wasn't benchmarked because I wanted as close to apples to apples as I could get and know that the cffi bridge taxes performance

here's the actual rust library: https://github.com/Dowwie/rust-authz/blob/master/src/authz.r...

the project includes a bench
That's an unfortunate domain name if I've ever seen one.
The New Google Home Device
Find overlap between your and your friends' Steam library
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725108
just cut the crap and call it "endorsed users" . otherwise they you're implying they are some sort of demented people who are "no longer themselves"
UPnP, Universal Plug and Play.
FLO software shifts the balance of power between users and developers, since (1) it's harder to sneak a "feature" in without people finding out, (2) if a developer makes a change that people don't like, it's much easier for people to continue using the old version, and (3) there is potentially more competition between developers, since they can start from a fork of the project instead of a clean slate.

As that applies to the specific example in your comment, (1) people can verify whether or not a piece of open source software is listening and phoning home, (2) if it is spyware, a different programmer could make a fork and remove this antifeature, and (3) if they published the fork, now end users have the choice of using a version that does not track you.

Does this mean Open Source software never tracks you? Of course not. But it is much more resistant to this sort of thing.
Choose your own adventure on whether this is a good or bad thing.

I'd defend the light industry as an example of creative destruction, candles and lanterns gave way to incandescent, florescent, and L.E.D.

I have no doubt that someone nerfed their incandescent bulbs to make more money, but that probably made it easier for people to buy alternatives so good riddence.

It's akin to oil - the oil producers had their day in the sun when it was $100 barrel but because it was $100/barrel, people started to talk about how to use less oil or extract hydrocarbons more cheaply.

Now we have electric cars and fracking. Sure, capitalism is the reason OPEC got greedy, but capitalism is the reason we explored alternatives.

If it's an ideology, capitalism is best practiced as 'understanding the questions' than 'knowing the answers'. The questions capitalists should ask are 1) how do I add value? 2) How do I capture enough value to invest in adding more value?

If they think the answer to their questions is "make enough money that it doesn't matter" they're going to walk the same road to hell that Enron, Worldcom, and Saudi Arabia find themselves on.
By sinking your precious time invests sure. But you won’t be able to claim you have 20 years of experience in X anymore, you will be a newbie for awhile. That, and your PhD is already in something else...your papers are already published in other conferences....it can be a problem trying to move from say PL to ML.
Tencent is acquiring Sanpchat, but can it save Snapchat?
Focus RS head gasket failure per chance?
Most of my more recent experience has been in web agencies, and SaaS. For SaaS in particular CPQ software to help business clients quote product prices for many arbitrary configurations. I don't have as much experience with infrastructure in the large scale, however. I also had a short contract job as a game developer so maybe that can be useful for applications that require real-time performance.

I live in the Midwest. I know that with Amazon they had offered me a paid round-trip flight from my city to go to their final round interview. I declined only for personal things to handle at the time. If I ever get to that point with Blue Origin, would that company be able to do the same?
[edited:re read and changed my opinion]
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indeed its not the place of corporations, that s the job of a state, so far. so twitter is free to be as censorious as their marketing requires.
I tried to avoid gigantic quotes from the Vidcon Medium post I linked previously, but I'm assuming you read this:

Our founder, Hank Green, talked with our panelist and said two things:

1. He told her that her comment had violated our policy, but that he understood that there was a broader context (which to be clear, we were blissfully ignorant of until this weekend, and remain inexpert in.)

2. He apologized to her for not having been more aware of and active in understanding the situation before the event, which resulted in her being subjected to a hostile environment that she had not signed up for.

> If we're not going to follow the rule of law, then why pretend to have rules?

Rules are an imperfect tool. People behaving badly while carefully staying within the limit of the rules often run afoul of the intentions of the rule makers; it boils down to trusting those responsible for rule interpretation and enforcement.
This is the “the compiler represents a typical workload” fallacy.
He wants power to be as concentrated as it should be when people are free to gain and lose power as consequences of their decisions. That's contrasted with bureaucratic insulation whereby power isn't gained or lost with bad or good decisions.
Python, pandas, tensorflow, SignalBox (my own creation)
Not GP, but I also have a guitar tuned in fifths.

A high `B` string wouldn't last 10 minutes... I've seen schemes that have a G there, I went for two CGDAAE, which is not too hard a change from the usual guitar tuning (though I ultimately dedicated a guitar to that tuning, as did the GP).
Thanks for sharing this. I suspected that "not being sure if you have the exactly right source code" could be a real world reason to patch a binary, and now I know.
An update on the Android problem
To make a convincing parody, you need to be able to write as well as the voice you are trying to mock.
Thanks for the detailed response. A lot of good stuff to Google.
>That answer is quite bullshitty.

You're so focused on the time people leave the office, I can't tell if you're arguing that 50 hour weeks at Google is abnormal.

That answer was upvoted by multiple Google employees/former employees.

>Look, at the end of the day it's about getting shit done and COMMITTING CODE.

Are you suggesting that working long hours equals more and better results? There's a stack of research to contradict you if that's your position.
Seriously Bloomberg, automatically playing a video? I just woke up my wife by accident thanks to your poor UX.

I like the idea of more democratic film-making but am apprehensive about this as it seems just like crypto is hitting fever pitch and people are trying to make it fit in every paradigm they can think of
Can you elaborate? (Considering them over a competitor)
Alexander von Humboldt believed that a scientist never interacts with nature in a purely rational manner, but that there are always emotions involved as well. And those emotions, he said, ought to be a part of the way he communicated his findings.

His philosophy shows in his books. His writing style superbly captures the beauty, awe and grandeur of nature as he experienced it on his South American expedition. The result was a series of books that became bestsellers, because almost everybody could read and appreciate them. At the same time, copious footnotes provided the accuracy and comprehensiveness his fellow scientists needed.

Of course, he also wrote books that were entirely technical in nature, as is perhaps inescapable. But I wish more scientists today would take up the challenge of communicating not just the truth of their findings, but also their beauty.
Bitcointip was taken over by Changetip. I believe you can recover your balance at https://changetip.com
'The big danger is "owning" some domain that falls out of fashion'

That is part of the reason for the high pay. There is always risk associated with specialization. You can't become an expert without specializing in something, but if you specialize in the wrong thing your effort may not be rewarded.
Obviously it is wrong to assert causality without proof, but why is it wrong to imply causality if no other official explanation is offered? TechCrunch refers to an anonymous source who, for all we know, could be Tim Cook or any other Apple official wanting to reduce the embarrassment for the company and for Denise Smith, who had been at the company for 20 years and in the job for 6 months.

Yes, journalists are too quick to argue causality when there is only correlation. IMO, the burden more on the TC reporter to explain why she accepts her anonymous source's claim, which implies Apple was incompetent enough to hire someone for a highly publicized position who had planed to quit 2-3 months after getting the job, as opposed to being pushed out for not being wanted in the position, even if she had never made those controversial comments.

Harder to swallow is that if this really were the case, then why is an anonymous source pushing this angle. Why would Apple try to hide the innocuous explanation for Smith's departure?
I don't think getting a PhD is an especially good maximize-earnings plan.
Ah, fair enough. Apologies for an unintentionally hostile tone.
Don't Talk to the Police [video] (2012)
Penalties for corporate misbehavior are absurdly small, particularly in cases of obvious malice or fraud.

Until executives and shareholders feel real pain, companies can simply make their decisions based on cost outcomes. In most cases, the financial incentive to cheat and flaunt the law is just too great compared to the risk of penalty.

Throw some execs in jail, starting with the CEO. If CEOs are so valuable that they can be paid 100x median employee wage, then they should have some real responsibility. And penalize the stock in some way so the investors feel the pain. Sure, it's not their fault necessarily; but if you make the investors angry enough, they will demand proper behavior from the companies they invest in.
Absolutely, we pay for travel expenses to come interview with us.
No, the proper term is "IoT-grade architecture".
Crypto is doing really well these last two years, it seems like that is the startup equivalent to the investment banking/quant jobs. However with Crypto, it does feel like the beginning of the dot com era. Dot Com == ICO
Nobody reads source code (hell they don’t even read the permissions and those are a lot easier to understand); the de-spied clone couldn’t use the same name, couldn’t necessarily communicate with the same servers, and wouldn’t get near as much exposure.

The practical impact of such a change, even if it were forced top down by Google, is nil. Nobody outside a tiny minority of geeks treats free software as a selling point.
> One other thing: by "BigCorps", I'm referring to things like banks, Wal-Mart and so forth, not technology companies like eg Google.

Yeah, I'd much rather work at a traditional conservative BigCorp than a Silicon Valley company that never grew up from startup mentality.

If you do want to stay I tech, I'd recommend looking at the B2B telecom sector. It's far, far more conservative then any other part of the tech industry. They're the only tech companies that I've seen ban T-shirts in the office.
> Orcas discovering a major new behavior just when we happen to have the means of observing them seems breathtakingly unlikely.

i wouldn't be so sure of that. of course just because we witness doing them something for the first time doesn't mean that is their first time doing that thing, but the mammal-eating orcas are rather adaptable animals are obviously extremely intelligent. due to receding ice barriers, orcas are now eating beluga whales, stealing from polar bears, which is a previously unknown prey for them. also, orcas were well known to be aiding fisherman and whalers in australia with documented cases of herding whales into a bay. even today, fisherman have been noted as witnessing increasingly new behavior in orcas tracking down fishing boats to steal their catches. whales off the coast of south africa also eat great whites, and they also chase down dolphins, including massive feeding frenzies off the huge (like 1000+) dolphin herds there. it is not clear when this behavior started, but orcas do not typically eat dolphins.

orcas also have other behavioral techniques that are very human-like. off the coast of canada, there are orcas who visit a specific shallow area to receive a massage off of the smooth pebbles there.

so i would say it's breathtakingly unlikey that orcas are not learning new techniques all the time.
All the other stuff they're working on that's more important than creating a new engine.
My current favorite:

1. Research and find vulnerabilities
2. Research company
3. Notify company in good faith depending on result.

If they have recently misbehaved towards people disclosing vulnerabilities, publish publicly immediately.

If they respond with any sort of legal threats, stop communicating with them and publish publicly immediately.

If I expect the company to be reasonable (e.g. has a bug bounty, is known to respond reasonably, or even just is a tech company that can be expected to have a clue) I contact them openly, otherwise, I consider either contacting them anonymously first, or (especially if I don't like them and don't want to deal with them) publish.
Automate it, a mad libs job haha, pick a random topic from the news, fill it in with data, wonder how poorly written it would come out.
Sigh. Why not?

Unless a judge either throws a CEO in jail or applies a "death penalty" to a company, there is nothing to lose.
That's a new one. Incredible.
Thank you but in foreign country Google Maps with their rich content, recommendations etc. is indispensable. My point was rather that I would expect more then armchair design from them.
CERTs, or reputable security news sites.
So... I agree that growing constantly is important.

But I don't agree that having constant side projects and learning the new cool language/framework du jour is necessarily valuable.

I think that there's just too many technologies out there, moving too fast, to be proficient in a significant fraction of them, even if you invest all your time in learning them.

I think there's more value in learning how to do engineering well in one language than learning how to do basic stuff in 20 of them. Because the skills and knowledge of going deeper transfer much better than knowing syntax, etc - stuff you can always pick up for the next job once you know what it is.
I did a retraining as a professional application developer at the age of 37 in Germany. I don't care about age. Of course I knew already that is a little bit crazy to do a retraining in a highly competive field with so much obsession about youth and self-exploitation. I'm 40 now and somewhat a junior dev in the transports and logistics domain but I have a lot of fun doing this stuff and constantly growing and learning in my spare time. I have no technology background and programming experience besides working as a professional online poker player from the year 2008 on. xD Before that time I didn't even own a computer. Some people are really old at the age of 40. My advice would be to put on a really hard physical and mental training program. So you are always in shape and have a clear focused and somewhat young and fresh mind. Do this to the end of your days. Who cares anyway at least you have learned a really great skill. The human craft of computer programming.
Killer whales of Eden, Australia
Show HN: Helix – a habit tracking app
At $50 a bulb, it would cost me $1550 to do every permanent fixture in my 1600sqf house. $1100 if I skipped the bathrooms and closets. Another $250 for lamps. I think I was mistaken about the subscription fee, there wasn't one. Regardless, that is crazy expensive.
Hey everyone! I've just deployed the beta of my new habit tracking app.

I'd really love to hear some what you think. Do you like it? Would you use it? What would you improve? Can you share some advice on which steps I should take next?

Source:

https://github.com/raymestalez/helix

(note that it's in early beta, bugs are possible)
Over a lifetime of owning a CD, that doesn't sound too crazy. I think it is a safe bet that there are albums I've listened to 25 times this year. And if I bought an album today, I would think it unlikely that I wouldn't average 2.5 plays per year over the next 10 years. I'd probably burn 10-15 of those plays in the first few weeks, and then only need 1-1.5 plays per year to break even.

Of course, I won't listen to all my albums this much. Some might only get a few plays. So I suspect that the Miles Davis estate would be better off if I streamed 'Kind of Blue' rather than owning the CD. Conversely, Creed have done relatively well from my ill-advised CD purchase because I can guarantee I'm not going to hit 25 plays on that.

So I guess the moral of the story is that I should stream from artists that I love, and buy albums from artists I am on the fence about.
I always try to find the context when people are outraged by a quote, so I started by trying to figure out what the definition is of the quoted "capitalist democracy". Wikipedia gave "page does not exist", so I went to google. Google gave me a bunch of news article about Peter Thiel pamphlet. The term don't seems to exist outside it.

So I went back to the pamphlet and looked if it defined the term only to find that the above quote is the first time he uses "capitalist democracy". The only thing that then make sense is to look above in the text to see what if anything related to either capitalist or democracy. However the only thing he say is that "capitalism simply is not that popular", and "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible".

So I can only really make a blind guess what he is trying to say. In 1920 9% of women were working, while about 90-95% of men were working. It might be this difference that the pamphlet is referring to, but if so, it is also missing the historical context of that date. World War 1 ended in 1918, and during that year the US congress had planned to issue a female war draft because they ran out of men to fuel the war machine and the voluntary female work places did not attract enough women. Naturally you can't force people into the military without rightfully open up the issue of voting rights. The draft, and associated discussion regarding voting was more or less decided, but then the war ended. The female draft became first delayed and then scrapped. The question of voting as we all know did however get voted in.

It is in the context of those first few years after world war 1 that the pamphlet bring up that quote. It seems to have no insight to 1920 economical environment, and even less so with the economy of 2009, that its hard to figure out what the intended meaning is supposed to be. Maybe the whole pamphlet was written to say that women should not vote because 1920s enjoyed political optimism?, but that too would also just be an other guess to what would be a very odd thing to write.
> While in absolute terms it's not any more ok to spy on adults than children, the idea of spying on children being more morally repugnant is based around the idea of children as innocent and by spying on then we're depriving them of that and allowing malicious actors to prey on that innocence (hey, now someone knows where this child will be, when, and most of the important things happening in their life; much easier to trick.)

This seems like a very mushy reason. I'm pretty sure the real reason is that children are not considered able to knowingly consent to many things - including contracts such as EULAs or TOS. Given this, a child is also not expected to be able make a reasoned decision about privacy tradeoffs.

The reason it's "ok" to spy on adults is that they can make an educated decision about whether they're ok with being spied on. I don't necessarily agree that this is true in practice, but I think that's the theory.
Thanks for that, but it doesn't sound right.
> Some people don't understand computers at all.

"Some people", as in, anecdotally? Or some groups of people? I don't think any diversity initiative calls for random people to be inserted into jobs.
Although Buzzfeed and the similar ilk are all terrible, you cannot blame them for doing what they do. They are all merely a symptom of the burgeoning idiocracy they pander to.
Just going off of an NYT article from last year about how Amish communities, and especially those who live among farm animals (what I, at least, think of as the "most Amish" lifestyle), have really healthy gut microbiomes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/opinion/health-secrets-of...
Why do the orcas leave the rest once they get the liver? I understand why the liver is the prize, but why waste (from the orcas' pov) the rest?
I don't think facts themselves are ever really the issue. My opinion is that in how they cherry-pick facts and events to highlight there is an implicit generalization about a group, and I object to that generalization, not the facts themselves. People on the subreddit will often give specific facts or events which by themselves are true but with how they are presented will imply that most Muslims are violent and it's the underlying implication that I would object to. I just went to the subreddit and it was pretty easy to find an article where I think the comments crossed into the territory of 'islamophobic' https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7djxqv/three_as.... I just
Anyone know of any extensions that automatically (and reliably) quash auto-play videos or automatically mute them?
That’s interesting, because the perp must have been looking for reasons that it looks like him, and found them, whereas I ask “look like anybody know? Nope.” even if the kid lived next door. If he’d just kept his mouth shut...

Of course, I’ve always questioned police artist sketches, too. Almost all of them look like every/none white/Black/Hispanic man/woman I’ve ever known. There might be similarities to someone I know, but not enough that I’d have SWAT kicking down their door.
Which diversity policies have you read that skin color is "the most important factor"? Certainly that's not the case at Apple.
Ah okay, that's unfortunate.
You mean, physically? Colorblindness probably wouldn't be a useful trait in this context as differences in skin color are usually seen as shades of darkness.
I agree with your points, and also suffer from that syndrome.

So I have to ask - how do you do the management portion of that? Getting into it, I mean, more than just developing the skills or interest.

I've been trying to get into the management side of things but get stymied over and over, and typically people who express disinterest (and no particular aptitude) keep getting chosen to do it. This has had a tendency to wind up with most of the people involved (except the person who gave the promotion) quitting, and it's really frustrating to watch it play out again and again.

I suppose in one case I did get promoted to lead, but I was lead of nothing, because literally everyone else had quit.

The point is I want to move - badly - in that direction, and see lots of opportunity to do lots of things there, but keep getting stymied. How can I get past that?