skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The world still needs plenty of professions where the pay sucks and college is required

Quite a self-contradictory statement. I mean, if the world was in such a dire need of said professions in such quantities, then their pay wouldn’t suck in the first place.
I would blow any dust out, and do a basic visual inspection of the logic board before you power it on. Macs of a certain age (like that LC630) have PRAM batteries which may have leaked/exploded, and capacitors which also may have leaked.
I happen to subscribe to a rather uncommon school of conflict. Once you have identified an existential threat to you, annihilate it utterly, and don't look back. But be absolutely certain before you start, because that's not a transaction you can easily roll back. And if you can't win, try not to lose for as long as possible.

I'm about 98% of the way to certainty that the current crop of ruling elites present an existential threat to (mostly) peaceful human civilization. Thinking about Putin, Kim, and Trump--all with their fingers on their launch buttons--inspired me to think about possible strategies and tactics for 5th generation warfare, and I'm sorry to say that I believe a shockingly large number of innocents are going to die in this century.

Your choice isn't going to be a matter of some people getting hurt and no one getting hurt. Your choice will be whether seven billion people die, or just a few hundred million, possibly including you and your whole family.

All those "preppers" out there are very likely planning for the wrong kinds of disasters. This is not going to be a conflict whose outcome hinges on the number or quality of the guns, or the number of years of stored provisions. It will instead depend upon one's ability to discriminate friend from foe. It doesn't manner how many guns you have if the one in your hand is pointed at your own foot, particularly if you have psyops-induced agnosia.

I'm not certain if I have the fortitude for war. And I'm not sure if I have the moxie for covert ops. I'm not even sure who would be in the smallest possible set of people that have to die in order for the least-bleak future to come about. My heart wants there to be a solution where no one has to die, but my head has already run too many thought experiments where passive acquiescence leads directly to ruin. There's no doubt in my mind that killing people and destroying property hurts one's own moral center, and that those who grow skilled at war become less suited to serve non-destructive roles in a world at peace. I think maybe I'm just too selfish to make a choice based on the proposition that a future might not exist unless I actively disqualify myself from being a part of it.

I'm certainly not going to be the one that moves first. But I am thinking about the second and third moves.
> I mean this in the most non-confrontational way: have you actually used/looked at Rust?

I follow Rust since Graydon Hoare's initial vision for it. Which i love it when it first came out. The garbage collected Rust had so much potential, in my point of view.

Then when i started to follow it, it was chaging into this current encarnation trying to chase C++, and market as a better C++.

I've coded in it for a period of 6 months, i like it, i understand its value, but somehow with the explicit lifetime thing, it started to become even more painful to code in it, even compared to C++, where you still have to create a header file and a impl file, without a proper module system.

The first Rust vision, now was re-created even more beautifully in Swift.

I get it what Rust is, i think it has its value and its place, im just saying that it will get a time where it will be very harsh to Rust get more adoption, because, even if you like it, you just cant get out of the great ecosystem all coded in C and C++. Interfacing with C for other languages is pretty easy, but you still have to wrap C++ interfaces, and use just some features, because you lost access to the whole thing (think LLVM for instance).

So C++ has this net effect, which it achieved by the virtue of all this amazing software ecosystem, where giving its talking its native language its much easear to interact with.
The place is an autocracy. The only way they will run out, is if nobody, and i mean absolutely nobody, wants to trade with them, officially or under the table.

And with NK slaves showing up in Polish shipyards, that is highly unlikely.
I am sorry for the mockery, and I appreciate the rules. They are good ones. Though I'm sure you see that when someone takes a dig at your home, it is very easy to forget them.
I have one. Do I like the privacy aspect? No. But my wife breastfeeds our baby for 3 hours a day and she needs music and audiobooks that she can control without using her hands. It's a simple trade off. My privacy is worth something but not infinitely valuable.
This requires physical access. You can plant surveillance gear all over the place if you have physical access.
Banks are FDIC insured.
That was poor wording. It was in reference to the science "cheerleaders" who, from my own observations, are often equally as clueless about science as there anti-science counterparts.
From coinbase TOS:

You acknowledge that the quoted Buy Price Conversion Rate may not be the same as the Sell Price Conversion Rate at any given time, and that Coinbase may add a margin or “spread” to the quoted Conversion Rate.
I yet have no reason to believe anything else but articles like this having just a single reason: to drive BTC price down so people can make money off the dip.
> you can trade bitcoin for cash balances at various exchanges but actually withdrawing those balances is subject to miniscule daily/monthly withdrawal limits and if there's a run on the market those exchanges will almost certainly collapse.

Afaik Bitstamp doesn't have any withdrawal limits for verified users.
The Clapper was a big hit for a reason.
Well, privacy is not binary. Nothing is ever fully public or fully private. Something being more or less private just describes how hard it is for someone to get this information. The inertia of this information.

Do they have to drive to your house to find out where they can break in or can they see from Google StreetView? Do they have to collect a whole bunch of phone books to find out your name+number or is it readily available in a dataset online? Can they just access your PC without hindrance or do they need to strap you to a torture rack to get your password out of you?

And just as well, information loses value over time. Either because it's not anymore correct / particularly relevant, or because it's covered up by more accessible information.

Why worry about fingerprinting one user's browser when billions of people don't even clear their cookies? Why sift through a data leak of 10000 people when a data leak with millions of people is just as well available? Why try to steal the identity of that guy who's data got leaked in one data leak, if there's this other guy with cross-referencable entries in 8 data leaks?

As such, it's still always going to be worth something to try to reduce your data footprint. If you're smarter about your data than most other people are, you'll stop being interesting to data brokers, because you're just too much effort.
Personalized Education ICOs. Everyone gets their own token redeemable for a portion of lifetime earnings and tradable on an exchange. Traders can go long on an investment or short you if they forsee the market digesting an event decreasing your likely lifetime earnings.
Maybe ask the people who've served in it? Most people I know who were in the military don't regret it.
How come no one is talking about the actual costs of schools? Why are they so expensive? Perhaps bloated budgets, systemic mismanagement across the country...?
Sorry but this disparagement is not called for and my guess is that this account was created to disparage him.

He has been applying ML for the last decade+ at Microsoft, Amazon, Uber and now Unity so he is relevant.
> Because all the above have tangible negative effects on society.

Let's see your evidence for this. Otherwise, bullshit.

> We need an engineering code of conduct

No. What we need is a no-bullshit code of conduct- All actions should be based on evidence, instead of belief. Engineering included. That would solve this, and many many many other problems occurring now.
Great article a few years ago from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-...
Most programming languages fall short of some ideal. It doesn't mean you're not able to be productive or do interesting things.
There's a line between genuine useful products and extras. Smartphones for all of their addictive games and chat bots are still very useful.

A smart speaker isn't so useful that the tradeoff in privacy is worth it.

I think a lot of people are starting to have a tech hangover. We're not turning into luddites and embracing FUD, we're just tired of the major tech co's telling us that every new gadget is life changing when they aren't.
How would they prove it? Twitter a picture of the bank balance?
yes, and make sure to include a blockchain.
The important part that everyone seems to be ignoring is Kyllo v United States[1]. When new technology is involved, the 4th Amendment's protections against searches is present if and only if the technology "is not in general public use"[2]. If a technology becomes common and familiar to the public, a warrant is no longer needed to use it to see "details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion"[3]

The details of how your internet microphone works doesn't matter, because it's not thoe microphone that you should be worrying about. If these devices are in "general public use", you no longer have an expectation of privacy from the technology itself (not any particular product). The police in Kyllo v United States brought their own infrared camera.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

[2] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/533/27.html

[3] Ibid.
Actually, it is already happening: holberton school, make school, lambda school, etc... :)
> For example: The members of the defending team adopt fielding positions based on a maximum potential for fielding a hit ball. But if there is even a threat of a stolen base attempt, the defense must change their positioning accordingly, affecting their ability to field a ball put into play.

Yeah, that was the biggest flaw I spotted in the analysis of base-stealing: it doesn't seem to capture effect of the threat of base stealing on the defense's behavior, which is very probably non-zero and in favor of the offense. If you never, ever steal, and the defense knows that (someone'll notice before long), they can play better defense against the batter. It may still work out that a never-steal rule still provides better outcomes (by a smaller margin), but I'm guessing "rarely steal" ends up being the better guideline, overall.
> Conduit's Rust-based data plane proxies run in less than 10mb RSS and have sub-millisecond p99 latencies.

I love seeing things move from Java/PHP/Ruby to Go (or better) Rust. Memory usage plummets.
OP didn't say to join the military to get an education he said to do it as an alternative to college. It's a good career path that teaches useful skills. Most people in the military aren't employed in combat roles.
Anecdote. I live by myself and rarely speak to myself. My office in the back has no alexa or any microphones - my phone stays out of this room. The rest of the apartment is generally silent. True - it may listen to what I'm watching on TV but the cable company already knows that?
Very useful so far and I'm not not paranoid...
Might find some help getting things working on the Steam discussion forum for the game:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/42960/discussions/

It appears to be still for sale ($20), without overwhelming reports of technical issues:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/42960/Victoria_II/
People leveled the exact same complaint against the TV remote. And yet, here we are.
"People should stop carrying mobile phones" is an interesting proposition, but a fairly tangential one.
Do all the other workers get a proportionately large cut (relative to their incomes)?
Vacuum tube radar, anyone?
A team lead position on a team that has autonomy is also a good place to be as a generalist. It's where I see myself providing the most value to my company. I've had some opportunities to move up to Director+ but blegh.
I don't think this is any secret, and it's why I support outright banning these types of sites from HN submissions. They never have anything remotely unique or insightful, it's just dog piling on the controversy du jour, or expounding some extremely simplistic, cliche take on a complex topic . It's no coincidence that these are the worst offenders when it comes to paywalling and punishing adblock users either. Their entire business model is predicated on clickbait, so the actual content is secondary.
It is a theory that came from those who do not hire people.
I consider that a feature, not a bug - if mining data from always-on devices protected kids who were actually being abused, that would be a win. False positives can be tuned out.
Good point -- mental math failure on my part.
As if the world was a free market, and compensation was tied to value.
> No offense, but the banks should take on risk if they're charging interest. Right now, they can have their cake and eat it, too, which is stupid - no offense.

i'll skip the faux politeness of "no offense" and just point out that this is foolish.

even if payback is literally guaranteed, interest is still required, because money now is worth more than money later, due to opportunity costs. the US federal government, which everyone considers the pinnacle of credit worthiness, still has to pay interest.

further, just because the debt can't be discharged doesn't mean its paid off in a timely fashion. the interest rate has to be further increased to account for folks who just don't make payments for years at a time.
Well my real name starts with "ad", so I'm not sure what I can do about that :D

My first name is Adhityaa, and my initial is C. So if you try saying adtac (the alphabets), you'll roughly pronounce my name with the initial.

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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15839837

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15834656

I think most here appreciate the hustle, but hammering HN with posts is not a path the community appreciates.
I chose to take 6 years, held a job, paid my own tuition/rent/expenses, graduated with no debt. For me the reduced risk (debt) outweighed the opportunity cost (time).

I've always been prideful about money and don't like people paying for my stuff. So I wouldn't ask my parents to pay or co-sign, so I basically couldn't get a loan given those constraints (at the time, late 90s into early 00s).
Is this true? Everything I've read says they use mobile launchers (that they bought from China on the basis they had been de-militarized and converted for "logging").
From "If you can afford it, and you like your friend a ton, the Blast is a great addition to anyone’s life." to "Think long and hard about buying an Amazon Echo or a Google Home for your friends and family. They might not like it. In my opinion, they shouldn’t."

Ugh. This story really was just written to be controversial clickbait. Utter lack of journalistic integrity.
No, because skyscrapers are tall. They allow you to get a lot of working space out of relatively little of Earth's surface area. This thing doesn't offer anywhere near that sort of surface-area economy. They could get away with putting it in London, because London. Elongated buildings are commonplace in London, apparently because of local laws. If Google wants to build in a place where land surface area is precious -- downtown Manhattan, say, or any city in Japan -- it'll be hard to beat the good old skyscraper.
it would seem that in practice you can go even further, essentially writing exhaustive proofs. However F* already supports this and compiles to F#, so I would say if you want that level of correctness you should probably use a language which is better at describing the totality of a function.
Is there a non-pay-walled site to read the whole article?
My 2 cents

At Globality[1], we use microcosm [2], an internally built framework for crafting applications. We have 45+ microservices, all built on top of it, and it's a joy.

I was looking for a framework that will give me similar benefits with Golang. Something that I can take out of the box with some convention-over-configuration.

I found micro [3] and gizmo [4]. (There are more)

It seems to me that a full-blown web app doesn't come very natural to Golang yet. There isn't a framework that will give you what you are used for from other languages/frameworks.

I have a lot of experience with Golang and built many tools, and it always felt more natural to me when there is no database/models involved.

[1] https://www.globality.com/en-us/

[2] https://github.com/globality-corp/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=microcos...

[3] https://github.com/micro/go-micro

[4] https://github.com/NYTimes/gizmo
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Yep. I have a friend whose house is almost exclusively using Hue bulbs and Google Home for voice control of them, and it's the worst experience I could ever imagine having in my house. Instead of a quick switch flick you have to say the command and pray that the device understood you correctly. It's borderline idiotic - we walked into a room and he had to repeat himself THREE times before google home understood and turned on the lights. He laughed about it and said "usually it works better". I don't give a damn. A switch has the exact same utility and works 100% of the time, always.
This also confused me when I saw it as well. I wasn't sure if the first echo was an April fool's joke or if they were serious.

I was even more confused when people actually started buying them. It's always startling when I go to a friend's house and Alexa gets triggered accidentally.
do you have a source on that?
It's an "open source service mesh." They're assuming you know what that is, and what their existing product (Linkerd) does in that space. I think that's reasonable for a blog post, and you can go look at their solid documentation if you don't.
Supporting Treble does not mean you will get updates on a Treble certified device, because Google is not requiring OEMs to actually push updates.

It is up to each OEM to choose to update, or not.

Also, there are many OEMs that only now are starting to sell new devices with Android 7, who knows if and when they will bother to move to Android 8.
market is a closed system.
> Why can't you just stand up and, you know, flick the light switch?

Fine if you have a standard home with one switch and one light on the ceiling.

I live in a loft style appartment and have about six lamps in the main area. I would much rather tell an app "set dining table light to dim" than walk around the room across the two floors to turn lamps on and off.

Much better, you can tell the app "set a sexy mood" and have all half my lamps turn off, dim some of them and put the few color hue bulbs to pink. All of this with one word.

Right now, I do all of that with my phone. Problem is that when I am at home my phone is often on the kitchen table or charging next to the bed. I have to go and pick it up to interact with my smart(ish) home.

Investing in a vocal interface such as the Echo or Google thingy sounds very interesting to me. If buying all those smart lights didn't kill my budget, I would have one already.
Sorry about that, I will try to refrain from inciting political arguments in future.
That can't be right because the amplitude of EM waves has nothing to do with spatial displacements (unlike guitar strings). The way it works is that every point in space has an E (electric) and B (magnetic) field vector which can oscillate around a 3D space. The vectors point towards other places in space, but their meaning is a field strength and direction at a single point. So this diagram[1] is actually describing the EM fields along a single line, not in the volume of space that the (purely illustrative) arrows are drawn in.

The correct understanding of Faraday cages is that their holes must be small relative to the wavelength: this is easy to remember because on a very large wavelength scale you would expect the tiny holes to not be very noticeable, and on a very short wavelength scale you're essentially talking about the light that you can see your food with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light#/media/File:Light-wave.s...
That ability to withdraw even from Bitfinex appears to be limited to small (1 BTC) amounts. They like others have quite onerous verificatiin and anti-moneylaundering documentation requirements and give themselves at least a month to review your papers. You, like most people, won't need to get out a lot of money, until you do... and then you may not be able to. Good luck :^)
Is ETH a better alternative?
How would you forbid someone from using their knowledge?
Since you are a geek (I suppose), can't you figure out a way for her to play audio without sending private information to Amazon?

Anyway, pretty soon we'll have open source speech recognition, so I guess then you'll really have no excuses left.
Do you really think that's even in the realm of possibility? There is so much paranoia-driven FUD in these comments.

But let's say that yes, this absurd hypothetical is possible and happens.

Someone is capturing full audio from your device even though it allegedly only transmits when certain phrases are used (e.g., "Alexa..."). They've tunneled through your modem, router and AP and are capturing directly from your device.

That same someone is somehow able to process hours of ambient sounds, conversations and everything else to pick out someone using an inappropriate tone with their children.

They then take these recordings to a local child protection agency (e.g., CPS) and present the audio along with your information to develop an actionable case against you.

That child protection agency then decides your tone was strong enough that they need to pursue legal action.

How does this hold up in court? How does illegally-obtained audio stand as evidence? How are they able to prove it was you and not a relative or visitor?

It won't hold up; this is insane. Your point about the wrong tone being used against you is insane. I get being paranoid and not trusting these devices but get real!
>"America-first" features would probably be looked down upon by most here

Can you show any examples of this happening? I've never seen this here.
> ... better attention to whom you give a loan to.

which translates to "fewer people getting loans". i'm fine with that, but a huge chunk of the population and >=51% of politicians thought it was terrible that there were people who were denied loans.
The quietest Razer laptop is probably the Blade Stealth since it doesn't have a discrete GPU like the Blade and Blade Pro. It's also the lightest and the one available in gunmetal grey.
You're fundamentally missing the main idea here. If you don't understand the fake Tether situation then in this case consider:

Someone makes 1M of counterfeit US Dollars using their own printing machine and puts it in a suitcase, and they exchange that suitcase with you, and in return you give them 1M of bitcoin in their digital wallets.

Now do you understand the thread?
Well if he's trying to end malaria just to look like a nice guy, it's working. More disliked celebrities should follow suit
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Telling a machine to turn off the downstairs lights is easier than walking downstairs, turning off everything manually, walking back upstairs.
Well, he led the company while its value went from $10 billion to $69 billion in 7 years. Doesn't seem ridiculous.
Natex, NewEgg, SuperBiiz, PCPartPicker, sometimes eBay.

If you mean pre-built? Dell, I guess.....