skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say the same thing about any company that skims an amount from the charges that happen on their platform. Paypal/eBay, Patreon, Amazon, etsy, etc. I'm more confused as to why AirBnB gets singled out so frequently.
I've tried so many monitor setup's for programming and I always ran out of screen space. Went from 1 24" 1080p to 3 and finally landed on 6 and I now feel like I have enough room. A side benefit of having 6 monitors is that it looks damn cool. Reference: https://i.imgur.com/rjO3bLw.jpg
I prefer a notebook to a laptop in business meetings, but then I have to spend time afterward transcribing the notes so I can share them (something expected at my workplace).

I'm experimenting with using Evernote on a tablet computer along with a Bluetooth keyboard. So far this is working well - there's no laptop screen separating me from my colleagues, I can sketch diagrams and the notes are instantly available.

I have no disagreement that paper is better for learning. Computers were first starting to be available in lectures when I was an undergrad, and while I could type like mad I wouldn't retain as much information.
Government finances are different than personal finances. You can’t print money. You can’t tax all economic activity. You can invest a small portion of the next few generations earning potential to build productive assets now.
> ...stupid spectacle...The difference from 1896 is we have enough regulations to prevent such a thing.

I dunno exploding buildings by carefully planning an inward safe collapse is both regulated and celebrated as entertainment
"You don't have to do anything" is better than something "easy" for you to do? That seems like a very small value add.
Human-AI Decision Systems
> Thousands may be how many american military lives have been lost but that is certainly nowhere near the actual cost of any war.

The direct cost to America was clearly the point of these remarks to start with.
While I worked at Google, laptops @ meeting were pretty much the norm. A note-taker (in our case the oncall person, or build master) would open a Google Docs document, or continue from a long going one (well known to everyone) and start typing notes, agenda, action items. At the same time the rest of the team can join (especially useful, if meeting is happening in more than one room, with people working from home, remote offices, etc.). And everyone can correct, fix, assign, comment.

Now there is a time, when the manager would say - please close your laptops, there is something important, sensitive, etc needs to be discussed.

I've never seen more productive use of them. And the oncall person for the week can respond to alerts, msgs, etc. - the build master person can check updates. I mean technically you can do whatever you like, as long as your attention is not needed.

People can leave if they see that this part of the meeting no longer concern them, or any other reason.
No, it's a way of saying "taxes".

If you think taxes are stealing, you don't have a problem with hipsters. You have a problem with governance of civilized society over the last hundred years (much longer for most of the world, since the signing of the 16th amendment in 1913 in the US).
Looks pretty sweet. How useful is it though?
This is an annual conference. This year's topic was requested by Mike Mullen, recently retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bob Woodward moderates the morning panel with Colin Powell, Gary Roughhead (former Chief of Naval Operations) and Robert Hayward, the SEAL who declined to be Trump's National Security Advisor. Highly recommended.
The Defense Department has war plans for a thousand and one eventualities. That is their job.
Weird. It certainly used to be the case no "newspaper" article had comments enabled, but that definitely does. So yeah, OK, I don't understand when commenting is enabled any more.

I mean, at least the old "newspaper" platform v. "blog" platform distinction made sense—there were many more differences (editorial control being a major one) than just commenting.
NASA’s AI drone race a pro human pilot
I doubt that doctors and nurses and teachers are under acknowledged. They deserve a place above a brute warrior for sure, but the education and medical bureaucries are only moderately more humane than our military.
> Now go on and take all that knowledge you hard fought for at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, or Waterloo (or even on your own!) and use it too... Invest in low fee ETFs.

I disagree with your mocking of this. Your emergency fund or retirement savings are not buckets where you throw every last dollar you have. They only cover your emergency fund (typically 3 - 6 months of expenses) and your retirement (10% - 20% of your annual income per year).

For people working a full-time tech job before starting their own venture, I think eschewing those to "invest in yourself" is probably a stupid idea. Not having an emergency fund is a stupid thing to do if you have the financial situation to fund it.

It's a little different for college dropout or straight-out-of-college entrepreneurship. But in that case, pushing off retirement savings until you have a stable job is reasonable, and try your hardest to build up your emergency fund.

Cover your bases. If you're in a high-risk high-reward lifestyle (like tech entrepreneurship), investing 10% - 20% of your income in standard low-fee ETF's is a GREAT point of diversification.
NEAT just uses GA to generate a network topology and weights. From what I read, I think this is just a fancy way to parallelize searching for optimal hyperparameters.
> There's no such thing as individually made profits that don't rely on a ton of collective factors.

You're confused. Depending on a factor does not mean that this factor owns what you produced. Example: To make ice-cream, you depend on cows. Cows do not own your profits.
Nope nope not doing that. Have enough distractions already on my browser last thing I need is another mobile kind of experience on desktop
Sorry, but did you JUST now come to this conclusion?
I found integration to be nothing short of brutal, personally. Laplace has been taught over 3 weeks and has been fairly pleasant - pure algebra.

I'm doing this course as part of the requirements for a degree in Eng. Technology, focusing on Software. It's common to all streams, but none of the subsequent courses Software students have to take will use this material. Damned if it isn't fun though.
There's a TEDx talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
Nice project that I will spend some time studying. However, fewer than 200 lines is not really a virtue, IMHO.
I'm sorry, but that's total rubbish. The Guardian supported Corbyn in the recent general election [1].

The Guardian was very strongly opposed to e.g. the invasion of Iraq (articles too numerous to cite).

Of your two references, one is from Glenn Greenwald criticising the Guardian. The other is Glenn Greenwald /published in the Guardian/ defending Chomsky. The article he criticises got corrected.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/201...
>To be honest I never saw the appeal in this sort of activity.

You can walk up to a girl, who in any other situation would smack you for it, ask her to dance and if she says yes (and she is likely to, unless you stink) touch her and spend several minutes close to her.

I mean maybe you are super good looking, but if you are not and have a crush, dancing is a huge social hack. Plus as with everything that is challenging it is kinda fun (and not a bad way to get your steps in, if you are on the step-counter team).
Apache Airflow for the confused: explained using airplanes
In practice, the base layers update often, and not all apps will be running from the same version.
Show me a comments section of an online newspaper that isn't full of bile and hate? It unfortunately seems unavoidable, and so many publications are just removing their comments sections. Much better than leaving the hate in, IMO.
If you're not using AWS, the use of Parameter Store (or Credstash) becomes a turtles problem--because you need to provision AWS credentials. At that point, whatever you provisioned AWS credentials into might as well store your other secrets, too.

If you are using AWS, EC2 itself is a trusted third party that grants the appropriate permissions for your executing system (container, instance, whatever).
Because if you can pick an index fund with low fees, you are already beating most professional stock pickers. Yes, you may find the one or a few active investors who are amazing, but unlike law or medicine, there is a fallback option that is consistently successful in both short and long term compared to most stock picking, even professional. Note that you may all lose if the market goes against you, even active stock folks with lots of "hedges against the downside" and whatnot.
Not that it matters, but 100000% is 1000x.

This isn't investment advice. I think the idea is that you'll have some investments that yield 1000x and some that yield 0x so you'll average out to something that's better than the market, but not 1000x.
I think it's dangerous to assume that because you can land a job as a software developer, you know enough about CS or can learn all about other areas of CS on your own.

There's a lot more to CS than software engineering. And a lot more to software engineering than application development.
Also worth noting: Jimmy Wales is on the Guardian's board.
I've found de-coupling to be the key to altering this sort of behaviour. The balance of my savings and investment accounts are separate from my budgeting. I allocate funds at the budget level, the balance of my various accounts being a secondary concern.
Thanks for the time to write that out. It was very insightful for this armchair physicist.
People learn in different ways is the answer. Different people have different ways of cementing understanding in their heads.

My ideal form is to record the meeting, and then later review it and write notes.
The Politics of Fisheries Science – Here to Stay?
Newly Discovered Facebook Bug Allowed Anyone to Delete Your Photos with a Poll
The more weird validation you add to something the more ridiculous it is to use. If I want to charge $1000/night to stay in my house because it's inconvenient to me but some rich guy is ok with paying it for his convenience, why should AirBnB stop something like that? On top of that, they seem to be saying, in the article, that they are using a large number of hosts not just one over and over so you wouldn't have enough repeats to flag this.

It'd be easy if these scammers were total idiots but the problem is scammers will work within any system they're given. So you set the limit to 3 repeat interactions as well as a $250 limit they'll just do 3 transactions at $249 so they don't trip it. Then it'd just interfere with real users who just want to stay in some expensive place and liked where they stayed so they go monthly or something.
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Might be a better idea to put a gif of the app in action on the page along with an explanation. Folks not familiar are just gonna click the back button when they're told they need to install a random plugin.
Can't check it because of missing plugin but is it something like https://eternitywall.it/?
Sure. But the US right has become deeply partisan over the last couple of decades. As an example, 2008 was the biggest financial crash since the Great Depression. I was sure that would be big enough to shock them out of the usual D vs R game and into making the same sorts of broad, lasting reforms that have come out of previous crises. In retrospect, I was totally wrong.

The last time the Republicans won the popular vote for a non-incumbent president was George H. W. Bush in 1988. Whatever the intellectual merits of EC reform, there's just no way right now they'll give up the advantage the EC system gives them. Right now a Wyoming voter's opinion counts for 3.7 times what mine as a Californian does in the presidential race. (It also counts 67x what mine does in the Senate.)

So unless the Republican party collapses (which is not unlikely), it will take something bigger than the 2008 bust to get people willing to change the EC.
What stormbrew said above. It's probably not an absolutely O(1) cost but in practice I haven't noticed the difference. I definitely have noticed a saving from pushing many different "slim" alpine images around (alpine is not at fault here, but the more differences your images have, the less you get to re-use existing layers).
I agree that content quality and revenue source are related in this way. There are bunch of analogies online, that I think help fill out this picture.

Youtube “monetisation” spawned a bunch of clickbait-driven spam. Patreon produced good quality content, acting on the same platform, at the same time. This is somewhere between a subscriber and supporter model. A lot like some newspapers. Almost a natural experiment.

In terms of operational scale, patreon’s “creators” are kind of similar to journalists. It takes similar sums to support the work, and they’re on similar timescales. This makes me think a similar model might work for journalism, though maybe not for newspapers.

Podcasting is another possibly useful comparison. Very little clickbait (earbait?) ever crosses my radar. Podcasts are usually ad supported, but there’s still no way to SEO or clickbait your way to a win. To succeeds a podcast needs subscriptions, usually free. Even @ free, the need to attract a dedicated subscriber base encourages the same sort of focus on the same audience. Slow & steady growth. Win more subscribers than you lose…

This example is messier, but I think it shows that the rules are rules of thumb.

Basically, the path to success needs to depend on quality for quality to be likely. Subscribers are generally quality sensitive. I dunno how to formulate a principle exactly, but it feels like there is something here somewhere.
The thing is that this type of work will be gone in idk, 20-30 years?
Wow, this is probably the best solution here. Should be cheap and perfectly effective.
> One hopes neoconservatism is good and dead. It was an ambitious ideology which presumed everyone in the world shared western values or wanted them.

I dunno, seemed to last well into Obama's tenure in practice if not in rhetoric, from what I can tell, and Syria may well be a bigger disaster than Afghanistan and Iraq combined by any measure, including realpolitik (see: its effects on European politics, maybe also on the situation in Turkey though I'm less certain on that one). Yes, yes, the war in Iraq contributed to it in certain important ways, but didn't dictate our response to it, which was about as wrong as it could have been, unless there were some serious poker chips in play with Russia that we mere observers couldn't see, i.e. aside from the obvious ones. There's been no widespread condemnation of that action or even common recognition that we're the reason it's such a big mess, as there eventually was in the case of Iraq at least, and incidentally we're still in Iraq and Afghanistan, so neoconservatism seems to be alive and well in some sense.

Mind, I protested the war in Iraq, was overall a fan of Obama's domestic policies, so I'm not a partisan looking for reasons to bash Obama or try to rescue Bush's incredibly poor legacy or anything like that.
Well, okay, what I meant is that it's literally applying evolutionary algorithms for hyperparameter optimization. Calling it some souped up BS like "population based training" seems like Deepmind marketing is getting out of hand...
Then create laws to tax their money where it's earned.
The first rule of UBI is you don’t talk about how to pay for it.
Since BTC is paired with the blooming crypto markets and platforms of services they provide, it would be easier to blow out a spark in a gently accelerating hurricane of gasoline fumes and powdered creamer. It's not a bubble, it is the pin pricking the paradigm.
If you like bug postmortems like this you may also enjoy the Jepsen presentations by @aphyr. A video summary is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaFVX4izsQ

and if you want to get into the weeds with any of them these are largely published publicly on aphyr.com; see for example:

http://jepsen.io/analyses

There's a lot of "oh, here's how this dirty read from the underlying system became a much bigger bug in the system we built on top of it!" but what I like most about Kyle is that he is generally pretty great about having an attitude of "these are actually really hard problems and it's not surprising that there are implementation bugs when you let me mess with the clocks and cut off nodes and whatnot."
> If every member of the park was getting some form of basic income, the state could require the trailer park to install a septic system and the trailer park, in turn, could charge it's renters more and put in the system.

What you're describing is a special case of the exact sort of inflation that critics are afraid of (more money for tenants across the board just means more money that rentiers can extract).

If the argument is "we could use tax money (via a stipend to citizens, and then extracted as rent) to implement a law that required a trailer park to provide a functioning sewage system", then the easiest and most efficient way to do that would be use tax money to provide a functioning sewage system.
* My friends were also on it

Then yes
There are actually foreign destination coding bootcamps that are free (for the attendee) organized by Swedish recruitment/consultancy firms. I'm not sure how they're financed, it may be the steep fees they charge companies for consultants.

That being said, the girl in question is probably rich given that ancient Greek and Latin aren't part of the regular curriculum at public schools in Sweden.
A Happy Medium for VCs and ICOs
I've been using a 55 inch 4k TV [1] for the past year.
Its a matter of preference, but I prefer more usable space over DPI. I have found at this resolution pixels are small enough that they do not bother me. It takes some tweaking, but if setup right, text quality is indistinguishable from a "real" monitor. Its the rough equivalent of 4 27-inch 1080p monitors arranged in a square.

To get an idea of the size, here is a picture of me sitting next to it. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EV2094Y

[2] https://imgur.com/a/9uBCG
I am a family of four living in a 1 bed. Sleep with ur wife in the living room, kids in a bedroom. I manage to live in the city in a nice (albiet too small) apartment with 15 min commute for 3.8k rent a month. You have to compromise somewhere. I am on more than 120k though.
There is no doubt that managing expenses is very difficult on a minimum-wage or close to it job in most cities in the U.S. But when you start getting closer to the median income in the U.S. (and engineer salaries), expense management and lifestyle inflation become very important IMO.

Increasing earnings gives you more money today.

Decreasing spending gives you more money today, and more money every time that you act on that same habit. Cutting your rent doesn't just put cash into your wallet now, it also decreases the amount you need to save to live (or retire) at your current lifestyle.
Everything old is new again:

We did that exact thing 30 years ago: Auto-Graph Computer Designing Systems' "Kitchen & Bath design". Draw walls on grid paper. Choose placement of items. View in 3d. It was used at home improvement stores to preview remodeling efforts for the consumer. We had a package dedicated to wire shelving, too called ClosetDesign that let you drag objects from a 2D palette onto a 3d surface. It would produce a materials list and even print drilling templates for the support brackets.

And again 20 years ago with Virtus Walkthrough. A visualization tool for architects.

Both companies are long gone. Now you can pick up simple architectural design software on a CD at officemax for $5. There's probably a free package online.

Sumerian is feeling like the same thing "but on the cloud." Maybe I shouldn't knock it. Entire careers were built taking manual processes and "putting them on the computer" so people could do bad work faster.
I love the collaborative style for remote meetings. I'm still waiting for an opportunity to try it for meetings in a single room. I believe it could be nice.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/meeting.html
I pay them because it’s the only news source I actually trust.

Their live updating event pages are really great too.

They don’t always get it right with tech articles (they pissed off Pinboard a while back — they fixed it eventually) but still a great source of international news.
Sure, but I don’t think you give enough credit to the senseless spectacle that Crush, Texas seems to have been. Blowing up a building is entertaining but it is also (usually) useful and necessary.

A more accurate analogy would be building a respectable, expensive structure and then blowing it up for the hell of it. But that doesn’t capture the fundamental chaos of the Crush, TX. Even if the standard of physics education was much lower back then than it is today, I would have to think that people knew the result of slamming trains together would have an amount of pure chaos and risk. And of course they went out en masse to see it!
It's the selective nature of their disabling of comments. Notice on this very article, at the top, is a link to a review by The Guardian of Swift's new album, and comments are enabled for it.

Both articles are obviously opinions, so why the difference? Only thing I can think of is one is more likely to see a backlash in the comments (because the article is ridiculous and deserves it) than the other.
I had thought you offered a thorough exploration of the possible countermeasures, but you missed jgrahamc's suggestion below of adding an accelerometer to the fob. Only unlock when motion is detected. What are you thoughts? Seems that keys are incredible idle when sitting on the kitchen counter, and never perfectly idle when walking to approach your car.
1000 is a lot and I would consider my project a success if it goes that much.
Sumo Logic improving customer experience on Kubernetes and Docker
I always though that as long as the US has a social program, it should be CC style (although there is also an argument for something like Teach for America, a 6'4 50 year old lumberjack might help prevent unruly classes), because (and here I cannot help but sound insanely old) making something gives you a certain amount of pride that helps you in many ways - you can be an ex drug addict who is trying to get permission to just see the kids just once a week, but you build that cabin, or cleaned that grassy knoll, or fixed that fence, or whatever.
You're right that part of the problem is, indeed, theoretical (it remains to be shown that BPP ≠ BQP, even if it is widely believed to be true), but part of the problem is also physical (we need to build a model of BQP---i.e. a quantum computer---to show that there is a physically realizable model of it).
Yes, but:

1) you have to know which ports you want to forward before you ssh into the remote host and

2) you have to change configurations (hostname and ports) in all the programs you use (for example, instead of pointing your browser to http://foo, you're going to have to go and type http://localhost:8888 - not to mention all the scripts or other pieces of software that "just work" using the canonical name and standardized port to connect, and would require customizations to change that)
Reminds me of the question “what are trees made of?”

(The answer to both questions is “mostly atmospheric CO2.”)
> Agree. In your 20s, your main competitive advantage is your ability to take risks.

Disagree. In your 20's, your main competitive advantage is time and exponential growth.
For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out.

When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.