skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my defense, the initial tweets were scant on the details, and could have been... Somewhat reasonable corporate policies mis-construed for public outrage.

Uber not forthcoming with this information during discovery is another story.
Mystery power outages that seem to hit only our house have been known to occur in my neighborhood on fine weather days. It's like a ghost in the breaker box or something...
But probably different people. Communities are very capable of holding conflicting viewpoints.
Sounds like a problem of the US. It’s not (yet) like that in Europe. We spend a lot of time outside with kids not matter how bad the weather is.
Happened to co-worker. They don't even know which neighbor did it, but it resulted in embarrassment, including calls at work from police, home visits etc.
Tabs on explorer or GTFO
What happens when you take away the phones as a consequence (other than surly behavior)?
They became prominent, because such behavior is rewarded and praised.
FF has for me crashed more times in the last week than in the previous year. - Multiple installs on different Linux systems. The last crash was with a clean profile.

And then there's the disappearing dev tools - that's fun.

EDIT:
I hope that there is something weird with my systems. But I fear that the rush to push this out might have been a little hasty.

EDIT EDIT
Apart from the crashes the new FF has been nice. I've been able to largely stop using chromium for dev work - so not all is bad.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Is a Capitalistic Perversion of the Original Game
few ideas:
- find local dev/IT shops and offer your services as a sales/project manager. With your English and if you have a good network from your financial/banking sector - you should be able to find a good fit.
- it's hard to find a job in Russia even for locals if you don't have network/connections.

what are your skills? What vacancies are you applying?
Everyone is pointing out various news articles that show that people do indeed call CPS when you let your kids play by themselves at a playground. I won't dispute that it happens, but to me this is similar to how we view other low-probability events. If I let my kids walk to school or the playground by themselves there's also a chance they can get hit by a car crossing the street. I can teach them safety rules and arm them with the tools they need, but there's always that chance. If you were so inclined I'm sure you could find countless articles about unsupervised kids getting hit by cars (or whatever other horrible thing you wanted to dig up, child abduction, etc etc). And yet that's a low-probability risk that we readily accept for the trade-off of fostering a child's independence and not being held hostage by every small risk in this world. Some asshole calling CPS and causing serious annoyance and maybe even emotional trauma is a real risk, but I'd argue it's super low probability (lower than the risk cars on the street pose). So yes, it happens, but that doesn't mean we have to change our behavior. We just have to accept that risk just like we do thousands of others in the course of daily life.
"One of Galinsky's more surprising findings centered around a question she posed to both children and parents: "If you were granted one wish to change the way your mother's/your father's work affects your life, what would that wish be?" Some 56 percent of parents anticipated that their children would want more time with their parents and for their parents to spend less time at work, yet only 10 percent of the children actually wanted more time with their mothers and only 16 percent wanted more time with their fathers. A far larger proportion, 34 percent, wished that their mothers would be less stressed and less tired, and 28 percent wished this about their fathers."

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/05/listen_to_the_c....
> The advertising UI left a lot to be desired.

Every bit of UI, except the two main ones[1], leave a lot to be desired. Their moderation tools are still atrocious, despite promising for years to improve things.

[1] The list of submissions for any particular subreddit, and the subreddits therein. As far as I'm concerned, they absolutely nailed it, and should be wary of messing with a good thing.
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Where I live my kids can go on a 5 minute walk through a quiet neighborhood then cross one street to get to McDonalds. If they go a different direction they wind up at Subway.

In 10 minutes they can go to a wide variety of places, everything from IHOP to a dollar store. Albertsons is an 11 minute walk. Less if they run. More if they stop and play at the park on the way.

Not all of suburbia is big box malls off of freeways. There are a lot of little strip malls around as well. And you can choose a place for how walkable it is.
On the contrary, the distribution of incorrect values alone is fairly convincing. A "typical threading bug" does not actually flip a randomly selected bit. And the rate of memory errors in consumer machines in the wild is probably quite high, because machines with hard memory errors are not consistently removed from service. "Random" soft memory errors from alpha particles or whatever aren't the dominant source.

I've seen stranger things than this, including a cluster of servers in which 3 of the 4 machines had frequent bit flips, and when they were all replaced in response, 2 of the 4 new machines also had frequent bit flips. We diagnosed based on this same kind of distributional evidence (in our case, the bit flips occurred in certain address hyperplanes, consistent on each machine, like having bit 5 flip at an address like 0x???6?3B0 every time). The customer was, as you can imagine, pretty skeptical that this was not a software bug at that point. But all of the machines, when booted into memtest86 or whatever it's called, quickly found errors with the predicted physical address pattern! Dropbox doesn't have the luxury of tracking down the customer machines and testing them.

See also "bitsquatting": https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squa...

If it doesn't have ECC memory, it's an approximate computing device.
> If it is an all stock transaction

For the amount of money raised by WeWork I don't know why Meetup would take a deal like that and why WeWork wouldn't just use it's massive capital chest to do so. Generally speaking all stock transactions are ways to (1) incentivize founders/management to stay (2) it's a cheaper way to capitalize a transaction.
This seems like yet another example of how tech’s ridiculous focus on ambition and growth are going to kill something that’s just fine the way it is. I’m a fan of Meetup.com, and it sounds like they are/were self-sufficient, but suddenly the cofounder and CEO thinks they need to grow to a “billion members”. Sad.
I'm making a joke. :)

Thanks for the feedback. I made the list more outrageous so it's more obvious.

A lot of male comedians transition to family jokes after having children. This could be the catalyst for my stand up career!
Congratulations, it's really an unparalleled performance of parallel performance.
you will be much happier if you accept that being a father is, at least, a 12-hour/day job and not try to rush things. Your kid can pick up on your anxiety and will not react well to being rushed.

Feeling the weight of your little baby in your arms is fleeting so try to really experience it.

After he falls asleep in your lap you can put on some headphones and look at your phone.

From now on getting off the clock at your dayjob is just hour #1 of your night job.
No it will never supplant H.265 and it's open but not necessarily free.

The number of companies supporting H.265 far exceeds AV1/VP9 and the biggest wildcard is: Apple. You simply can't have a codec that doesn't work on iOS or OSX. End of story. And you already know who has won by looking at torrent sites which have almost zero AV1/VP9 content but lots of H.265.

And we already know that VP8 was riddled with patent infringements and ended up getting a license from MPEG-LA. VP9 has not yet been tested in this respect and could easily require royalties from implementers in the future.
A good summary of my go-to Stoicism book:

http://becomingeden.com/summary-of-a-guide-to-the-good-life/

The book they are summarizing:
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195374614/ref=as_li_ss_tl...
That's where this becomes a problem specifically for rentals. This is a car I'm unfamiliar with, my "enough" is a lot higher. My suitcase is in that trunk, I'd like to physically confirm that it's actually locked, and I haven't made some silly wrong assumption about which sound or blinking means locked or if I pressed the wrong button or whatever.

I quickly get used to it, but it's a bit of a barrier every time. But the problem is really around rental cars more than the feature being a bad idea.
> None is necessary since they are both Federally guaranteed and they can’t be discharged by bankruptcy (which is the epitome of stupidity). Indeed, that ‘bargain’ is why Brown is doing this thing.

Just because they can't be discharged in bankruptcy doesn't they're actually repaid. Student loans can and do default - an average rate of 15% a few years ago, though some schools have students that default at more than twice that rate.

External guarantees on loans (in this case federal guarantees) doesn't address the same issue that collateral is typical used for: namely, it doesn't solve the moral hazard problem.

(It's not that Brown has solved the moral hazard problem itself; it's that Brown's able to take on that risk themselves, because it's an incredibly selective, incredibly competitive, and fairly small[0] school).

[0] We're talking specifically about undergraduates
Hugely underrated comment.

Counterparty risk is incredibly difficult to price, and you're going to get adverse selection problems (eg you're more likely to get bids hit on venues that are more difficult to move btc off of).

BRTI (CME real time index) is closing in on 10k (@ 9918.33 right now), but I've heard of issues moving money at all for exchanges used to calculate the index.
> So that's 70 minutes combined up to 163 combined, or a 133% increase, more than double.

That's only true if parents are never together when they spend time with their children.
Culture creates strategy: watching some girls vs. boys
It sick in its own right that society has demonized talking to any children that aren't your own or in your care. Police should not have been called in that situation and just asking if the kids are ok or lost should not be viewed as a creepy action.
Which is, to my best knowledge, a relatively pure todo app, not really suitable for checklists, or am I wrong?
Wow this is a very good idea. FYI if you indent the whole thing with 4 spaces (each line), then

*** HN keeps the formatting
^-> see?
When they successfully popularized the narrative of Founder-as-Ubermensch, as modern-day titans tirelessly hauling human progress forward.

And conversely, the narrative that those with grievance against startups or their actions are anti-progress, that opposition to a tech startup means you're either stupid or corrupt.

When you're operating under the notion that what you're doing will literally move the human race forward, it becomes very easy to rationalize things that don't pass a simple smell test. Surely a bit of minor illegality is acceptable when you're going to Change The World(tm)?

I for one am glad to see this lie finally being challenged en masse.

It's unclear to me still how much of Startup/Founder Mythology was intended for PR purposes, and how much did startup execs end up believing for themselves.
As if that ever was the problem with C.

Multiple return values could have been way more handy but even that would be a though sell.
From the article:

Tabs won't just be for browsers; they'll be for Notepad, or Word, or Visual Studio, or Explorer, or Minecraft.
Wow. And this:

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help...

I really don't want utilities making value judgements for me.
> Do you think Russia enforces its laws in any special way or what?

Yes, very much so.

> No, there are just more laws to enforce. First make everything illegal, then put anyone you don't like behind bars.

Which already is telling you that it's not the rule of law. Selective enforcement is not a thing that should exist under the rule of law, and it exists to a much lesser extent in other countries.

> Don't give your government more tools to oppress you, is what would be my advice.

Well, that's fine. But the solution is not to therefore have a powerless government. Because if your government is powerless, others will take over and oppress you instead. Power doesn't care whether it is exercised by what is nominally your government or any other entity that can in fact exercise power.

The solution to oppression is to keep power distributed, and government absolutely can be a very helpful entity in keeping a healthy power balance. In this case, ISPs want to use the power they have due to their monopolistic position to oppress their customers and internet companies, which is a case where balancing that power of the ISPs with power from the government is a pretty good idea.

Also, I think you might be confusing network neutrality regulation with network content regulation, which are two very different things, if not polar opposites. If you don't have network neutrality, that creates an environment where ISPs can in fact just implement content regulation at will, be it for their own uses, for advertisers, or also as a service they can sell to the government. Network neutrality, on the other hand, is what allows one or two branches of the government to stop anyone else from doing any of that, including the other branches of the government.
Ask HN: Good way to share positive experiences with tech recruiters?
Developer here. A recruiter contacted me over a year ago about a position I was not interested in, and I said I'd be interested in hearing about positions related to X. A couple months ago, I heard from that same recruiter with a message like "the last time we spoke (a year ago), you said you'd be interested in jobs related to X. Is that still true?" I rarely see that kind of followup from a recruiter.

Is there a good resource for sharing these kinds of stories, or recommending recruiters we like? I've never seen a website for finding recruiters with whom other developers had a positive experience.
Agreed. The Stoics allowed themselves to have emotions. It is a common misconception that stoicism is about deadening feelings and reactions to the world. Stoics acknowledge and even embrace our emotions, but what stoics aim for after experiencing emotions and gut reactions is some of the most interesting parts of stoicism for modern readers.

I always direct people to http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/goldsay.html for a taste of Stoicism. It is still tricky because what most Stoics thought of as "God" and what a modern reader would interpret as (the Christian) God are pretty different, but it is still easy reading. Other than that caveat it is pretty easy to understand.

As a sort of random aside, some of the most memorable sections of Epictetus for me are when he would referee to a pupil or discussion partner as a "slave". It always gave me a good chuckle. "My nose is running." "Why do you have hands, you slave?" e.g. quit complaining and wipe your nose. The color of comments like that really gives a feel for when the stoics think someone is being dense or wasting their mind. Some of the time now, when I am feeling particularly sorry for my self, Epictetus will pop up in my mind and call me a slave for complaining and it really helps me get over whatever random thing I was fixated on.
From the numbers, back in the 50s kids probably only saw their fathers on the weekends in married families. It is startling to see how much more time fathers get with their kids nowdays.
I mean uninstalled .
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There are plausible theories about how life arose on Earth.

If you want to assume it came from somewhere else, you either have to invoke some kind of magic, or assume it happened somewhat along the lines that it would have done on Earth, then arrived somehow. It just kicks the can down the road without solving anything, IMO.
I have a few issues with his reasoning.

> "The most famous example of an ISP acting badly was a company called Madison River Communication ... Vonage quickly complained to the FCC, which quickly obtained a consent decree that included a nominal fine and guarantee from Madison River Communications that they would not block such services again."

Basically his defense of the old regulatory framework in this instance is that the FCC took action. I don't have much confidence that Ajit Pai would have the FCC take action if he were faced with this same scenario.

> "Another popularly cited case is Comcast’s attempted throttling of BitTorrent in 2007 ... The FCC ordered Comcast to stop in 2008"

Once again his defense of the old framework is that the FCC will take action should this scenario recur. Chairman Pai doesn't exactly engender confidence in his willingness to take on ISPs.

> "if the furor over net neutrality has demonstrated anything, it is that the media is ready-and-willing to raise a ruckus if ISPs even attempt to do something untoward"

So the author acknowledges that what the ISPs are trying to do with net neutrality is "untoward"? Not sure why he's written this article then... But even so, what good has that furor caused? It has become clear that the ISPs are going to succeed regardless of the ruckus. So this doesn't really support the idea that the media can successfully regulate ISPs.

> "it is an acknowledgment that ISPs can and will self-regulate."

The author may be right that they can and HAVE self-regulated in the past. That does not mean they WILL self regulate in the future.

> "ISPs bear massive fixed costs, which means they are motivated to maximize the number of end users."

Not exactly. They are motivated to maximize profits. Maximizing the number of end users is certainly part of the equation, but monopolies tend to engage in other profit maximizing practices such as price discrimination (which is mentioned shortly after this in the article). However the author seems to assume that ISPs will only engage in price discrimination with regards to companies, and not consumers ("they could price discriminate and charge the Netflix competitor nothing at all!"). I find that unlikely. It is not unreasonable to think that blocking user access to some sites unless the user purchases a certain "package" will be used in service of price discrimination.

> "Ajit Pai is right to RETURN REGULATION [emphasis added] to the same light touch under which the Internet developed and broadband grew for two decades."

In my opinion this is a false equivalency. Though it may nominally be the same regulatory framework, there are differences between the regulatory environment then and now; primarily the FCC's and Chairman Pai's willingness to take on ISPs and support the principles of Net Neutrality.
If we want to be perfect logicians, then there is no reality or absolute truth in anything, but that's just a bit pedantic IMO ;) Conclusions at some point need to be made to progress.
One law professor’s overview of the confusing net neutrality debate
There are some benefits on both sides. Here is the ability to choose the manufacturer of the hardware. Depends on what you need. The problem (for me at least) is when I'm stuck with one of them because of work, entertainment, etc. All of them are greedy bastards. Sometimes I want to wipe everything, install ubuntu and quit my job, but my wife disagrees.
Arbitrary relies on better execution than your competitors. It isn't simply a pitfall or side issue. You really need a way to estimate slippage to make this information realistic.
No, but I do think an increasing share of full-time two-parent families are unmarried (and married families aren't necessarily living together), and people can get married or begin cohabitation after a child is born, so comparing rates of unwed motherhood is misleading on the magnitude (though consistent with the direction, so far) of any change in the share of children living in single-parent families.

There's no reason for an indirect proxy when the actual figure of interest is available:

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-192...
Here's a few random guesses at causation:

1. Kindergarten redshirting

2. Most Kindergartens in the US now are half-day (EDIT: this is false)

3. Helicopter parenting

4. Family & Medical Leave Act ('93) + Longer maternity/paternity leave allowances by employees

5. An increase in single-parent households on some sort of welfare/assistance program (i.e. the single parent is at home and cannot work)

6. Increase in the number of parents allowed to work remotely from home

Really wish they'd give more details on how these statistics were gathered, what age range we're talking about, etc.
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While building stock trading robots, essentially I am automating check lists from the stock selection, trough the trade until the exit... No guess work, can be precisely back tested, etc...

It literally did transform my life and made me free and independent...
The guy states that he wants to make some kind of buck, quick or otherwise, from having his work used. Since it was used on a project that probably makes lots of bucks, and since the graphic probably contributes positively to the marketing and success of said buck-making, that seems reasonable.

I shouldn't put words in the parent commenter's mouth, but it sounded to me like "Stuff like this happens all the time" was just acknowledging reality, not judging right or wrong. Also perhaps indicating (but if they weren't then I am now) that hiring a lawyer is not actually this drastic, horrible outrage to be avoided at all costs, but a rather routine measure advisable for anyone in business for themselves or anyone facing an obviously legal issue such as copyright infringement. Since this seems a pretty clear case, chances are good that he'd get his legal fees paid too, meaning the lawyer is free.
Never thought about that way! By security I do mean camera systems and physical security mostly.
The improvements from AlphaGo -> AG Master -> AG Zero is by adding more generalization techniques and rely less on human intervention/data. AlphaGo Zero learns only from self training.

AGZ probably can be retrained to other board games, but the hardware cost to train is quite expensive. The estimated cost to train AGZ (for 40 days?) was $25M.
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The idea that a Linux laptop even comes close to a Mac one is a pretty laughable statement to make. The driver situation is extremely poor, the trackpads on almost all PC laptops are inferior, the applications are far better on a Mac (i.e. you can't run Photoshop/Office on Linux) and how is connectivity better ?
A different kind of bug https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/t...
Erlang is wonderful. I highly recommend it. It's like discovering programming all over again.

The downsides are:

1. A somewhat flaky build tool(rebar3)

2. Not nearly as many libraries as Python/Java/Ruby/etc..
Many are sharing personal experiences as well.

I have not had CPS called on me. But I do have friends who dealt with that. In fact I know more people whose had CPS called on them than I do people who have been in car accidents. So it doesn't seem to be a super low probability event.

What also has me concerned is that my kids are heading towards puberty. Over 1/4 of all registered sex offenders committed their crime while minors. The single year of your life that you are most likely to become a registered sex offender is 14. It is massively more likely that they will have their lives destroyed that way than by an accident.