skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very similar to cigarettes, the really nasty effects don't usually materialise until quite far down the road -- when you don't have much opportunity to deal with them.

However, I don't think it has to be like this. I sometimes call mocking "wish based design". Sometimes you don't really know what shape is going to be good. You know ahead of time that TDDing a solution is likely to churn a lot of time writing stuff you are going to ultimately throw away. You can spike a solution to get some more information, but there is often a lot of pressure to ship whatever you spiked, no matter how successful you were (or how bad your tests ended up being).

With a mocking approach you think to yourself, "If this were already written and I was using it, ideally how would it work?" You mock your wish and you write the use side of the code in your tests. Quite frequently this reveals most of your naivety and allows you to design what it is you need. At that point, you replace the mocks with real implementation. It's at this point where I differ from the main proponents of the style (or at least last time I talked to them, which is admittedly several years ago). I will TDD my implementation, removing the mocks as I go.

So, on reflection, I guess I use it in places where I would otherwise spike a solution. Again, for fairly junior people, it can be a great technique to help them understand where to start. Often I find that junior people can't do TDD because they simply can't envision what they are building. They will spike a solution, jam a couple of tests in to show that it's basically working and call it a day. A mocked solution often ends up exposing state in the places where it needs to be. This is frequently better than the spiked solution which is usually an encapsulated ball of mud.

As I said before, though, I use it as a technique of last resort, not a technique of first resort.
FB also uses addiction techniques to encourage the worst of people (impulsiveness, tribalism, etc.)
a lot of this stuff is already generated using generative adversairal networks, so i think the AI to fool is just as good as the one thats trying not to be fooled by design.
I actually don't associate this with liberalism. To me this seems an extension of the "real gamers" phenomenon, where certain gamers think that gaming and streaming should correspond to some good-at-the-game, purely-about-the-game ideal, which the sex appeal streams clearly do not fall into.
Blackrock is using kubeless for serverless apps
At kubecon, Blackrock went on stage to publicly announce that they were using kubeless https://github.com/kubeless/kubeless for serverless
As the parent noted, society will adjust expectations about how to determine facts. When radio first came along, some people were fooled that Orson Welles's War of the Worlds [1] was actually happening, because it was in the style of a news broadcast. We learn and adjust how to process data as systems change around us.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-r...
Finally! Common sense is being able to predict the consequences of your actions. I've wanted to do that for years, but I was thinking in terms of planning and trial and error against low-resolution physics models of the world. Sort of like A* on steroids. This has limited applicability, although some video games try to do something like that. The new approach here is more promising, because it needs less of a world model.

Getting through the next few seconds without a major screwup is the big problem in unstructured robotics. This approach may not be the right answer, but it's addressing the right question.
>at some point realized myself how empty and depressed I felt after watching it.

Herin lies the problem with moral crusading. I feel awesome after watching internet porn. Keep your opinions from bleeding into others' rights.
"Are you a user, or being used?"

- Petra, "Computer Brains"
DRUNK BASS PLAYER Fail
Not really a fan of SMEQL, but I do wonder why we don't have more specialist languages that can transpile to sql. It might be the case that that a better sql only offers minor improvements and work needs to be done elsewhere, like in the hydration back into non-2d data, the current solutions I've seen require multiple repetitive sql statements and we might be better off making the hydrators smarter.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but I generally agree.

This is why I propose the best solution is to take away the majority of both parties, and force them to shape up. The problem is education and media have already been, well I don't know how to say this very diplomatically, infiltrated and subverted, so that the main avenues open to educating and informing the people of what is going on are specifically not used for such.

This is why they want the internet next. TPTB finally began to recognize the internet for the anarchistic freedom of thought bastion by design it is, and have determined it is a threat to their oligarchical, neo-fuedal, inverted totalitarian plans.

As for the FCC chair position, lets get to root-cause analysis. The problem is that politics are so controlled by donors that presidents appoint to cabinet those who they are told to by their mega-donors. This happened with Obama and citigroup[1], I'm sure something similar happened with Bush, and it has happened with Trump. This isn't a Trump only problem.(so be wary of those who would claim the solution is to get rid of Trump) The political parties themselves, and the donors that corrupt them (largely K-street) are a root cause problem.

1: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3560
Well, it wouldn't help much with the topic of this article.

Maybe cryptographically verifying that a porn video happened is someone's fetish, but I don't think most people involved in the production or consumption of porn would care.
you'd be too hungry to drive the jet ski
Ask HN: Increasing shipment fails on Amazon/Woot sale items: bait and switch?
Is anybody else having problems with Amazon/Woot having mysterious shipment problems on sale or limited-pricing items on Amazon/Woot?

I use Amazon Locker whenever it's available. But it's never available for Woot orders, and they have odd space constraints even on Amazon orders. But even for small items, there's a mysterious black hole shipments can fall into.

FOUR of my last five orders failed in transit and were refunded without so much as a conversation. I requested Locker for all 3 that were eligible for Amazon Locker shipment

For those, I received "Your Amazon.com order of ... has shipped!" emails, but I never received the corresponding "Amazon.com Locker Pickup Code enclosed" emails, even well after tracking showed them as "delivered". You CAN'T pick them up without the code; there's no staff there. I spent over a half-hour with customer service before they acknowledged that no pickup codes has been issued. Their solution? Just cancel the orders; no explanation. I could repurchase everything all over again, but they REFUSED TO HONOR THE SALE PRICES on replacement orders.

The most important order was on the Woot side for a computer and I ordered a compatible case on Amazon). After waiting over a WEEK, they claimed that it had been DELIVERED(!) to my mailbox business after 10:30PM on a Saturday when nobody is there and noplace to "deliver" besides leaving it in the middle of the street. I sent an email to Woot to that effect, and they promptly just CANCELED the order without explanation. They are out of that item and will not honor similar pricing on anything else.

In all cases, they were special-priced items for which the discounts were not honored for reorder/replacement. In walk-up retail, this is a classic sign of bait-and-switch. Is anybody else having similar experiences with Amazon/Woot in the past 8 weeks? The computer ripoff really hurt because I had already waited almost 2 weeks and have to do something now.
For learning a language, I like and have used exercism but personally I prefer Codewars (and am a subscriber) because while exercises alone are a great way to get experience, perhaps the most valuable part of Codewars is being able to see what better coders did to solve the very same challenge.

I have learned so much about what was capable in my favorite from those other answers.
The term "mechanical turk" has been used to describe "fake AI" since before Amazon Mechanical Turk was released.
Does anyone have a good resource for using the iOS and Android wrappers for Turbolinks? I find the official documentation to be kind of lacking.
Ah, the passive-aggressive old school OSS defence.

That's not an argument, that's basic herd mentality and can literally apply to any kind of critic legitimate or otherwise. Even Linus does not get a pass nowadays and there is really no reason on HN where we can be so critical of even the most minor design mistake.
I am hoping kids' parents are tax sheltering some of this money.
I'm betting its because their ratings are tanking right now. Americans generally became apathetic about the game when players and teams started disrespecting the American flag.

The NFL lost their audience and has to find a new one.
Works fine on the iPhone 6 running iOS 11
fwiw that translation is wrong. 大器晚成 means "The bigger the cauldron/pot, the longer it will take to cast/make [the cauldron]."
So, (actual) virtue signaling?
That's incorrect. There is no such censoring. At least as far as I've seen, and I live in Europe, in the country that has accepted the most refugees from Syria per person in the country (plus many migrants/refugees from other places in the Middle East and Africa).

Everyone is free to discuss the immigration politics on the Internet and elsewhere, and plenty of people are angry about it. There are even political parties that have this thing as their main agenda.
Many of others like the name too: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217308...
I followed up over there :)
You can now offer new apps for pre-order on the App Store
Don Jon, for those wondering. (At least I think that's the one sjg007 is talking about.)
What is Google doing with all of these images and videos?

It has to monetize on these somehow or someway?

Are they trying to get us addicted to taking photos and videos?

Very confused.
The next time this political battle comes up the ISPs will have the legal authority to censor any pro neutrality voices.
Almost certainly not. The quantum computer is useful to get around the exponential scaling of problem difficulty in simulating quantum systems. In plasma physics that's not the issue. It's the crazy large size of the problem that scales in a classical and otherwise reasonable manner.
Filing a patent takes about 2 months, they've been on this nonsense for 4 years or so.

Edit: 14 years...
Reduce disk bloat in PostgreSQL with pg_repack
No, plasma physics is one of the few areas of modern physics in which quantum mechanics is not relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/3nohxy/plasma_p...
Thanks very much netule! I updated it.
As mentioned above, this is already running to do OK Google detection. It's also not scanning 100% of the audio, as far as I understand, it analyzes samples roughly each minute. I'm sure they would not make this a feature if it had a big impact. From my own experience, turning this feature on or off made no difference in battery life.
True, but a ddos also doesn't exactly mean the content is "exploitable".

I presume future clients would block nodes that share false content (if clients don't already).
Maybe coinbase should shut down on weekends and on weekday evenings.
What percentage of people only buy apps off the reviews? I know I am skeptical when I do not see reviews on an app.

It would be awesome if the app store did what steam does and gives users a free trial.
Good interview, there are a bunch of bits I feel like I ought to be Quoting For Truth but then I'd end up with a pretty bloated reply.

> I want to emphasize that historically, from the very first moment somebody thought of computers, there has been a notion of: “Oh, can the computer talk to me, can it learn to love?” And somebody, some yahoo, will be like, “Oh absolutely!” And then a bunch of people will put money into it, and then they'll be disappointed.

Reminds me of a pre-transistor computing quote from Charles Babbage, about some overeager British politicians:

> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I agree that some agencies are not intended to serve the public; I believe that many government agencies in our current regime are designed to keep the public sedentary and docile, at the tax expense of the public. In this case, the FCC attempted to placate the people by asking for comments to aid in the decision making process, then generated massive numbers of fake comments that supported the repeal of net neutrality.

And I wholly agree with your second point.
Google Project Zero shares details on OS 11.1.2 exploit
> that doesn't stop op-eds from being deliberately dishonest about it.

I think you need to do a lot more work than you have to prove that someone is being deliberately dishonest; otherwise you're just lobbing slander around.
I once had a Peugeot with "sport leather seats", or something - it was a rather nice coarse woven cloth in some synthetic material in the centre, and nice leather everywhere else. Awesome.

In my current car, I really wanted the adaptive cruise control, but opted out because of the mandatory leather seats in that trim.
Judges have lifetime tenure so maybe requiring a lengthy resume isn’t such a bad idea. This strikes me as nominating a young conservative who will serve for a long time when Republicans stonewalled Obama’s very qualified nominees.
Location: Washington DC

Remote: No

Willing to relocate:Yes

Technologies:Python, Web

Résumé/CV: http://www.gashok.com

Email:gwty93@gmail.com
The Effect of Primary Care Visits on Health Care Utilization [pdf]
I guess what I mean is that I can feel for people who got duped into taking out a risky loan for a house they can't really afford. Shelter is something anybody can appreciate. I can't explain going all in on Bitcoin except by a combination of greed and stupidity.
Parenting is not a data driven activity. It's an art because children are people not statistics.
Sorta true but see what bbatha said.

There are people who distinguish changeset oriented and snapshot oriented and will hotly debate that one or the other is better.

But as you say, restoration of state is a necessary and defining feature.
Happened to me once. I have my PE score on my resume and during the first technical interview on the phone the interviewer commented positively on it. I moved on to onsite interviews after that, but I'm unsure how much my PE score helped in that regard.
Yea, for a real world example.

Acura TLX has the option for automatic cruse control, lane followings, and automatic breaking. It has a second option for blind spot detection and several other things. Want both? They have a third option that includes both plus some other stuff but it costs even more.

I mean why blind spot detection as part of the safty package when you can charge 3x as much to include it.
Perhaps I have limited understanding of running a £40m a year business, but why does an app like Shazam need 400 employees?

Even if selling data and/or advertising, do they need (say) a 200 people sales team.. ?
The 11/03 release is still finishing up OCR'ing, so perhaps once that is loaded, I can post to github. That should be over the next couple of days. Thanks everyone for the feedback as well--I don't have a big interest in JFK or anything, but needed a good project.
I remember from reading about O'Neill cylinders that an object spinning on it's long axis will, under the influence of random perturbation, eventually start tumbling. So I'm wondering, if we take Oumuamua's angular momentum and figure out the rate of axial spin required to get the same angular momentum, do you get anything like earth-gravity equivalent centrifugal force near the surface of the object?
Long-distance shipping: A weak link in IoT security
Yeah, no, not when your primary language still can't get lexical scope right, or distinguish between arrays and hashtables.
I'd like to repeat this point from the last time this was discussed: these no-battery devices do NOT "connect" to the WiFi protocol in any way. They simply modify the electromagnetic characteristics of existing packets/signals. This still requires some powered device to interpret these backscatter signals.
HPSBHF03564 Rev 1 – Synaptics Touchpad Driver Potential, Loss of Confidentiality
Similar to this, I'd recommend people check out Codewars, which has challenges that you then submit and get compared/graded against others' solutions. It's a real neat way to learn other ways of achieving some solution than the one you came up with.

https://www.codewars.com/
An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing
> Nintendo has always been going strong, knows exactly WTF they're doing, executes with precision more or less, and is pretty much always successful

Perhaps, but I'd definitely class the Wii U as a misstep - sold poorly and clearly wasn't the right device for the market at that time. I really don't think Nintendo was sure at all what it was doing with the Wii U.

I've seen some theories that the reason the Switch has been so great is that given the relative failure of the Wii U they didn't have time to screw up the Switch with the usual supply of badly implemented software features that Nintendo have a bad habit of doing. Unlike the Wii, 3DS etc there is no step counters, web browsers, virtual console, streaming services, audio recorder, pointless low quality stereo cameras etc at launch on Switch - just a simple, lean focus on fun games. The 3DS and Wii were especially bad for pointless built in extra software. I'd honestly be perfectly happy with my Switch if none of those features, perhaps with the exception of Virtual Console, ever come back.

I also love how Nintendo are really embracing the indie game community with the Switch, a pleasant surprise given the less than brilliant relationship Nintendo has had there in the past.
Shouldn't we have some much better pictures and a better idea of it's shape at that distance?
Major Cause of Dementia Discovered
Ask HN: SaaS to sell physical subscriptions online?
Hi!

I'm starting a physical subscription service and I need a SaaS to manage that. I'm using WordPress for the main website so content management is not a requirement.

Is there a company that:

1. Integrates with PayPal
2. Allows the user to register and update custom defined fields
3. Charge recurring payments every month
4. Let me know of new sign-ups/cancel

I looked into WordPress plugins, but they are all expensive and too much for my needs. I want something zero friction. Is there such a thing?

Thanks!
Ask HN: Telling my boss about a Headhunter
I work for a tech company in Taiwan. My boss is a good friend who I've known for 7 years.

On Sunday night, I got an email from an Engineering Director of a very famous company, asking if I want to meet them to talk about work.

My current job actually doesn't keep me busy enough, so I do many personal projects in addition to my corporate work. I know my skills could be used well at the Famous Company. I wrote back to tell the Famous Company about several personal projects I did that might interest them. They were pleased.

I also said that I want to tell my boss about the conversation. I just signed a contract for all of 2018, but I could ask my boss about doing some part-time work earlier on a contract basis.

The Famous Company says that it would be unusual to introduce my boss, I'll need to sign an NDA if I want to talk about actual projects, and they offered to have a video chat instead of meeting in real life.

I feel uncomfortable "flirting" with a Famous Company if I can't also tell my boss. If a pretty girl tries to seduce me, I will tell my girlfriend about the incident.

This also seems to be a cultural difference. See "Connections and contacts" in Yang Liu's photos.

http://bsix12.com/east-meets-west/

It would be a dream to work for the Famous Company. I know they'd pay at least 10x my current salary. But I want to be loyal and maintain good "關係" (guanxi) with my boss here, and money doesn't buy commitment.

If I tell my boss, he knows I'm under-utilised, and maybe he will want me to go to the Famous Company. But then the Famous Company will be angry because I told him. So then both of them don't want me.

If I reject the Famous Company, I might lose an amazing opportunity. I want to be friends and build 關係 with them too, because I will be available in 2019.

The only person I told about this whole thing is my girlfriend. (not even my parents yet).

Who should I tell, and what should I tell them?
Either way, you're not going to get around that proving general program properties beyond very basic ones is very difficult to automate and very challenging to do manually. Even with decades of work and teams of researchers, we still can't make this easy for pure functional programs yet. Have you tried existing theorem provers?
Canadian doctor says there's evidence the 'man flu' is actually real
BGP peering is expensive. It's especially expensive when you have $encrypted_internet_video_provider which is almost entirely unidirectional data flow with zero caching possible. $encrypted_internet_video_provider wants the FCC, which has debatable authority on the matter, to instruct ISPs to pay for the bill of accepting that bandwidth on the networks ISPs own. In the case of cable company ISPs, bearing that cost to the benefit of a direct competitor.

If $encrypted_internet_video_provider wants to dictate how traffic is routed on a network, perhaps they should buy their own network.

As an example, Apple has over $200Billion stashed away in overseas accounts avoiding taxes. They could just buy Comcast, which has a market cap of $181Billion. Then it's their network, and they can run it however they see fit.

I bet Apple would rather have Comcast deal with the messy business of handling customer support for millions of boomers who can't "program" their VCR, while Apple siphons all the profits from online video streaming. That sounds a lot cheaper to owning and operating the networks themselves.
Simply by collectively believing it to be so.
FANTASTIC, many many thanks!!! With that in mind, I can move forward in relative peace, again, very grateful!! :)
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’m now a proud patron adding $1/mo. The number went up to $325 per month and I hope it keeps going up!
You can already fake a political speech if you've got the resources. A look-alike and a good make-up artist can do a lot. The danger isn't a really good fake that can be discussed, but a high volume of OK fakes.
East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait by Yang Liu (2007)
I’ve seen things like that. They’re awesome and I look forward to more cad programs having features like this. But it still takes a human to define the system requirements - we just get more powerful tools.
2580 was also the middle digits of the keypad, making it even easier. I made heavy use of the service back in the day.

There was another service around the same time called Any Question Answered. This was before high quality internet on phones, and you could SMS them reasonably complicated questions and (at first) get good replies. Notable successes were their getting me ownership information for a pub, and telling me which local shops had an iPad in store. Service degraded significantly over time.
Sidenote: Stewart Brand's full quote is more complex: "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive...That tension will not go away."