skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small gripe but could Apple please stop touting "the most powerful X ever" whenever they release a new generation product.

I wonder if the iPhone 9/XI will be the most powerful iPhone ever? Guess I need to wait for an apple announcement to make sure it doesn't revert back to an A7 chip :/
I hear you. Math isn't arithmetic. Exploring math from the discrete math and geometry side often is a good approach for those kinds of kids.
I upvoted you. Sometimes we need a laugh.
Yeah, usually the people with the best advice are the tougher older bikers who just want to ride. They've seen the hype cycle come and go a dozen times, and they just don't have time for that kind of BS anymore.
"Public" and "private" spaces are not so clear-cut. Not all public space is publicly owned. Again, see the shopping mall: https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2015/03/complex-role-mall.... As the article points out, the notion of "public space" is really a sort of conflict zone with ever-shifting boundaries. (If you remember "free speech zones" you can see how even fully public space gets attacked when protest becomes inconvenient.)

I completely agree that it would be impractical to legislate moderation or terms of service, except on maybe a very coarse scale. I'm not sure what the answer is. Like much in the political sphere, this may just be a space where law and litigation has to fight it out with private industry until the end of time. A "solution" that satisfies all parties may not be possible.

Thanks for the discussion.
Its too late, tech is growing more divided in hiring and its customer base.

Now that google and other tech startups make blacklists of "them" that they want to block promotions and ban from working with people and groups, it seems us vs them is well embraced by the tech community.

And left-leaning google/facebook/youtube/twitter using alt-right as a banner to ban conservatives, then using "Truth masters" like snopes/politifact to confirm a viewpoint as the only truth, then SPLC/RightWingWatch to confirm anyone not spouting the common truth must be outcasts, and all followers of them are also "them". Easier for patreon/kickstarter and other crowdfunding to avoid supporting "them".

Then when programmers are on a list, or a project doesn't support the diversity license, you get banned from github, hackathons or talks.

Tech is sick with "us" vs "them" mentality and its spreading.
Except they didn't install whatever software they want. They said they can install software to check metrics and more. Which is what this is.
Huh, the rare case where Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn't apply.

The focus on tiny incremental changes is not surprising from Facebook. Great, you made a tool for people to avoid their ex's, but that doesn't fix the core conceit of your service.
> Essentially, there were many "doomsday scenarios" wherein the context of the late 1800s was that vast supplies of natural fertilizer were used up and people were very worried about food supplies.

Assuming scientists will come up with a new technology is a bad survival strategy. At this rate, we expect our children to find a way around climate change, ocean acidification and soil erosion. Mankind is one fat dude who'd rather dream about diet pills than stop eating.
I repeat parts of their job description and explain why I fulfill it.

Example: Job ad says "we look for a proactive and self-reliant person" then my cover letter says "to successfully finish my PhD, being proactive and self-reliant was important". This technique works even better for the technical parts.

I'm not sure if it was worth the effort. In the german job market, employers are quite desperate these days. A friend sent out simple template letters and got interviews just as easily.

I always sent a PDF. If sent by email, I duplicated the cover letter in the email. My experience is that many had a print out at the interview and PDF works best to ensure a good print.
Ah yes, the Dutch government, which is so good at digital security choices cough Diginotar cough.
Regulator warns Bitcoin buyers: Be ready to lose all your money
I've pitched this before, but here goes:

If someone can come up with an adequate filter for pharmaceuticals, it seems that the recapture of human waste is our best path forward. Yes, there is a logistics problem for transferring it, potentially, dehydration is the best method, but we consume the output of our farms, and it seems that on a conservation of mass basis, we should be sending it back to the farms when we're done with it.
I’ve come to the exact opposite conclusion. We live in a world driven by marketing/advertising, hyper politicalization of all things, dark user patterns, spy-ware, government agendas...

Entering any relationship with a default of distrust and allowing trust to be earned seems very prudent in 2017 (and probably any other time period).
@appleiigs tailwinds typically make official time records illegal
http://running.competitor.com/2012/04/news/should-the-boston...
I appreciate that they're making an effort at looking into it. However, my newsfeed will still remain blocked/removed until I have more control over what I can see. The snooze functionality is a step in the right direction.
> I think it is hard to disagree that historically, women who wished to live a life outside of the cultural norm at the time were oppressed

I absolutely agree (especially that beauty standards have nothing to do with oppression); however, our culture seems to take this as proof that women as a class are oppressed (optionally oppressed by men, depending on who you talk to). Of course, this is trivially refuted--life is difficult for men who wish to live outside the norm as well; however, despite being clearly false, the myth has a strong hold over our culture.

On the subject of beauty standards, it's particularly hard to make the case that they're used to oppress women given that they equally oppress men, and while I think that 'beauty' affects women more than men, it's important to note that (1) there are lots of other social factors that impact men more strongly than women and (2) this also means above-average beauty affords women more social capital than it does men.

The folks who claim that women are oppressed almost exclusively sample poorly--they focus exclusively on criteria that favor men over women or they focus on the top 10% of a distribution such that men appear favored favored for their disproportionate representation, failing to note that men are even more represented in the bottom 10%. If they're not sampling wrongly, they're looking at criteria like 'beauty' and double-dipping: beautiful women and homely women are both wronged while beautiful men and homely men are both privileged. It's hard not to conclude that the folks who hold these positions are acting in bad faith.
Sure, but that's on the receiver side for carrier recovery. Wouldn't it be problematic if you mashed a bunch of channels/allocations sufficiently close together that they started wandering on top of each other?
> Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their permission

"In related news, unknown website developers can distribute programs and run them in your browser. Additionally, it's been determined that browsers sometimes download changed versions of themselves without your permission. Worst of all, we've determined that sometimes the program you download and run yourself on your computer does stuff it didn't say it would do!"

In all seriousness, I understand this is an important issue, and needs to be addressed, but we've obviously gotten to the point as a society recently where no news can't be played up for hype by pundits and commentators for their own benefit (and probably without realizing they are doing it in a lot of cases).

The whole way this is being presented (by many here, not to pick on the parent) as a new chunk of the sky falling is what I find really troublesome. No, chicken littles, the sky isn't falling, but there is some interesting shit going on up there that deserves a look.

I fail to see how getting half the people frothing at the mouth and the other half downplaying it just to try to keep some sanity in the discussion helps for a good outcome.
Rivalry, Dissent, and Computing Strategy in Supercomputer Selection at Los Alamos
Here's more from the article

> Simply broadcasting status updates wasn’t enough; people had to interact one-on-one with others in their network.
"Duck and cover" dates from a time when an all-out nuclear war would have resembled General Turgidson's description of an outcome where we "get our hair mussed." It still would have been devastating beyond anything in human history (except for what would have happened to Europe and the USSR) but it the country would have been left largely intact. Most of what you describe is what would have been the aftermath of a war some decades later, when the USSR's ability to strike the US had increased by orders of magnitude.

Fallout is the one thing that would have been a major danger, but it tends to be directional depending on winds. Lots of people would have been close enough to an explosion to benefit from "duck and cover" without being subjected to lethal amounts of fallout.
My own cover letter consists of two sentences plus a little informal or formal fluff around it:

1. Who am I, short description of career so far.

2. Why I think hiring me would be good for your company. This is essentially a sales pitch, based on prior research on the company I'm applying for.

It is also what I like to see when being on the other side. It helps filtering out people that have an actual interest vs the ones that send mass mails, and also it already gives a first personal impression about a candidate.
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I think the best cover letter explains what you can do on day one, in three months, six months, and 1 year for the company that may potentially hire you.

Attach the cover letter as a separate document. If you can, get the email of the hiring manager and let them know that you've applied through the standard HR interface. Tone should always be professional and cordial. If you can craft this cover letter well enough you will stand out from others who don't customize their cover letters. Do your research on the company and find where your strengths can play to their business objectives and communicate why you are the one they should choose (then you can link to GitHub projects accordingly). Good luck.
"Can't deliver the service as expected" is par for the course in innovative early stage startups. Veteran tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, etc., struggled hard and failed to deliver as expected for many years. And still do. Apple computers and OSes in the 90s were unusable garbage; you spent more time twiddling extensions than actual use. Remember Windows 3.1x? It was an utter failure of an OS but the only available solution to many businesses. Time will tell how Coinbase evolves but my take is they'll continue to improve and catch up to demand.
I was talking more about the point of internal researchers investigating themselves.
Hopefully this helped people who were scared by it learn how to analyze add-ons for trustworthiness.
>Even so, the company suggests the discovery highlights that building management systems are often installed by electricians and engineers that need to know more about cyber-security.

Or maybe if you release a product with a network jack that replaces a legacy item you put safeguards in place and don't expect your customer to hire a electrician who also happens to have a cyber security degree...
TIL the Hoplites didn't run an official marathon
Well, actually, a cook and kitchen shop in a big city just closed. They did all that and still people just ordered from the web
If you like to eat fruit and vegetables in the winter then you need to thank California. It has 6 growing seasons feeding a lot of the USA all year around with fresh produce.

It is the breadbasket of North America.
How are you blocking the news feed?
I've no issue with what you describe, I will question whether a high density London road may not be representative, anecdotally a foreign guest commented that he was amused by my concept of a busy place, he remarked that even in the busiest places in London his personal space was respected in a way he would not expect in his local village. Peer to peer has loads of potential, I can imagine a combination approach that makes the best of all available spectrum and falls back to a paid access tier if things get bad, this is an interesting area of technology as investment and innovation is less likely to come from the incumbent.
California has lots of water resources. Just a little bit better management and all those orchards can get watered. Nuts are high value in dollars, nutrition, and taste. We need something the Chinese want to trade for iPhones.
Don’t keep cell phones next to your body, California Health Department warns
the friend/enemy distinction is embedded in humanity. Overcoming the distinction is like asking humanity to move beyond Good and Evil, it might be possible for the ubermensch but the ubermensch is an elevated version of present day humanity.

The real question is how you're allowed to interact with The Enemy. Refusing to work with The Enemy is something one does at their own peril.
In the U.S., at least on AT&T, there is a difference between 4G and LTE. When my iPhone 6S+ switches the indicator from LTE to 4G, the data speeds are many times slower.
When (not if) will the Primecoins arrive?
Frontend development-as-a-service
Is the "Unknown" part in the title really unknown, or just Mozilla trying to protect its developer(s) from pitchforks? If it's really "unknown", then that's the really concerning part.
What I think is sort of funny is that you've just described two poles, but seemingly can't grasp the infinite gradient in between those poles where people with different risk tolerances and security requirements can exist.
LiPoly Battery Charging Best Practices
So there's a lot of conflicting stories out there on the net about how you should treat lithium polymer batteries, to the point that it is _very_ hard to tell what is truth and what isn't. I'm wondering if there is anyone in the HN community who knows about battery chemistry and things and can provide reliable information on best practices for charging your LiPoly powered devices.
I'm sorry, I just don't see what we are argumenting about, to be honest.
I was hoping this would be about three-way decisions[0].

[0]: http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~twd/
Huh? In SF I can walk down the street or go into a restaurant and hear people saying how bad Trump is. In China if someone hears you, they will report you and you will be taken in. How in the world is this the same reaction?
What they're saying is: smoking isn't the worst thing ever, in moderation. We'll still sell you packs of twenty, but don't smoke them all in one day.
>If someone distrusts their add-ons, why trust their browser at all?

You mean like when they set the default search to Bing?
As far as them showing up, at least in VIM they show as a caret followed by 64+code (so ^^ and ^_ for RS and US), and can be entered by ctrl v ctrl ^ and ctrl v ctrl _. Kind of awkward to enter though. Of course, like you said, this is domain-specific knowledge.

I've converted much of my workflow to use these (I have a script that un-escapes data from mysql, and replaces tabs/newlines with RS and US). Most filter commands can have an arbitrary field delimiter specified, but not all of them can have something other than newline or null for a line terminator. For these cases I've had to maintain local copies of the commands (sed, sort, join).
It has some kind of equivalent from my understanding. MP3 has frames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#File_structure and I'd assume all methods do, otherwise how could you start decompression if you don't have a starting point?
And here I am with my iPhone 7 that does not have an headphone jack.
But that's not the point here, is it?

It can't provide the level of service expected for financial services of this sort. That doesn't imply they should give up and go home, but it does mean that one should temper one's expectations of being taken fully seriously.
GMO produce fetches about the same market price, and is produced at about the same efficiency as modern non-GMO produce, so I also can't appreciate the "benefits".

[ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-fall... ]
Wow, HBO really sounds like a hot mess. I have heard from someone there that they have high turnover as well. I guess it should be no surprise.
There are browser add-ons.
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I work for Fox-IT (but don't speak for Fox-IT here).

CTMp network sensors are servers storing and filtering network traffic, and generating alerts. We use these sensors for our own monitoring services, and provide these sensors to others as part of the Cyber Threat Management platform (software to run your own Security Operations Center, with greater or lesser involvement of Fox-IT experts).
Hmm that's interesting. I could imagine some social network which asks you for basic but controversial details about yourself and treats those as your hidden cards, say religious affiliation, political beliefs, etc. and non-controversial details about yourself. It would match you up with potential friends based on the "seen cards" (non-controversial facts) and would schedule the release of hidden card information to the match over time. In that sense it would be almost like forcing the progression of friendship, sometimes your hidden cards match and you're both happy, sometimes they don't and you have to work through it.
> for video, key frames are compressed

But they're compressed in such a way that doesn't require any previous frame. It's compressed like a picture would be.
Of course the UUSR government would have evacuated and dispersed into remote outposts, just as the US and UK planned to. (Although lacking space and possibly security, it's not obvious the UK government centres would have survived for long.)

A more challenging question is - what happens when you get hundreds of warheads detonating in a small area? At a guess that number of explosions would punch its way down into the bedrock. It might even leave a lake of molten crust that would take years, if not decades, to cool.

Detonations in seismic areas might trigger huge earthquakes. (SF would be a very bad place to be.)

Whatever the outcome, it's a fair guess there would be unplanned consequences of all kinds. Most would be very negative, which makes rational (?) planning difficult.
Switzerland's Border-Busting Streetcar Rolls into France and Germany
You'd still need the additional tuner(s) to provide the data to cache.
Most large organizations have been compromised by the NSA already, and with the leaking of tools by the shadowbrokers...

We could say that we will keep seeing more and more hacks.
I dont understand the biology behind biontechs spleen targeting secret sauce (i dont think they did either, but it got them a patent on an otherwise standard lipid formulation). there is a really good nature paper from summer 2016 that outlines a lot of their preclinical dev; the CEO said he sort of regrets publishing that as a lot of competitors sprang up afterwards

out of curiousity, what's the exosome hype? ive heard a few strong life sci VCs mention it, but i talked to a ceo of an exosome company and didnt quite understand the specific therapeutic potential
Structure and Purpose matters.

For Stack Overflow in particular, and some Stack Exchange sites (usually the more successful ones) there is a clear purpose and we can all judge whether a Question, an Answer, a Comment is useful towards that purpose. Without a clear Purpose everything becomes a popularity contest. There is also a useful Structure, the Q&A itself is structure, and there are tags putting related material near by.

Examples:

1. WowHead is (was? I don't play any more) a site for the MMO World of Warcraft, built by scraping all the data that powers the game and then with the ability for its members to comment on anything from the resulting data set.

The scraped data provides Structure, linking related things together and putting some useful bare-bones information in for everything. So you would visit Wowhead even without expecting to read any human contributions that were relevant, because the data on its own might be helpful. The game could track whether an item had significantly changed since you wrote a comment, and automatically differentiated things with similar names based on their underlying ID.

The game provides Purpose. I write a two paragraph description of how to perform a tricky but rewarding quest correctly, someone else makes a pun about the name of the quest, I get up-voted more because it's more helpful.

2. community.letsencrypt.org uses Discourse in an effective way

c.l.o is weaker on Structure, because it's very often being used by inexpert users seeking help, the same sort of cognitive shortcomings that can cause someone to not read and understand an error message can cause them to decide "Issuance Tech" is the right category for their question about how to configure Apache.

But the Purpose of c.l.o is pretty strong, most new topics on c.l.o start with a user who has a clear goal ("I want my web site to work in Firefox") and the community can help reach that goal without getting too distracted ("Why does your site use Comic Sans?") because the central topic, Let's Encrypt, is very clear and not a huge political minefield.

3. Youtube comments for _very specific channels_

Sometimes a Youtube channel ends up bringing together people with a very clear purpose. The only "Structure" here is provided by the videos themselves, comments about Episode 3 belong with the Episode 3 video, duh. But Purpose can be brought by a community.

Minecraft players focused on challenge gameplay (e.g. people building Agrarian Skies, or Project Ozone 2) attract a community of other people playing the same or similar challenges and the comments are naturally attracted to suggestions. "Use a Loot recycler, then merge all the lesser bags, nothing less than Epic is useful to you".
It makes sense that you don’t know much about this stuff as an iOS dev. But it’s reasonable to expect you to have at least basic knowledge of major technologies adjacent to iOS dev. After all, your iOS apps will likely communicate with systems built on these technologies. Certainly it’s necessary to have at least a passing familiarity with them.

Therefore, if you feel weak during the interview when asked about one of these technologies, you should defer to speaking about your experience interacting with it as an iOS dev. For example, speak about a backend API you had to interact with, and how the queries it allowed you to make impacted your iOS architecture. Talk about JSON, relations, indexes, etc. Challenges you faced, problems you discovered, lessons you learned. Make it relevant to both iOS and whatever technology the interviewer is asking about.

It’s never a bad idea to tell a story.