skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I'm not making a comment on revoice, I mean I'm not putting any effort into Facebook because they'll eventually move the goalposts and you lose access to your followers
> aren't taking obvious steps

Because none of their peers think those steps are obvious, and their peers determine their funding, status, etc.
If you want to take that a step further leave your family for a year and come back. It wildly changes how all these things work in the mind.
Microsoft forced users to install a password manager with a critical flaw
There is nothing in my statement that suggests that every viewpoint that disagrees with my own should be censored. What I'm arguing is that the world has gotten a WHOLE lot more complex when it comes to mapping peoples' understanding of the world. The signal to noise ratio has turned upside down, and society as a whole has become more volatile as a result. We have to take the threats of this new reality very seriously and avoid broad generalizations.

I think that we can collectively come to a reasonable agreement about what should and should not pass as discourse vs. plain trollery. If someone is parroting "facts" about Barack Obama's secret Kenyan birth and closed door Muslim religion, all of which have been refuted, and cannot offer a standard of evidence that would be sufficient to change their mind, they aren't engaging in a debate, they are simply spreading a lie. That lie, and many others like it, have recently shown the ability to propagate propelled solely by regular repetition. Is censorship the only way to provide a pattern interrupt? I don't really know, but I do know that it is TERRIBLE for a democratic and free society to have huge portions of the population very certain about opinions that are totally, demonstrable false, not to mention that these same opinions also incline these people to be less tolerant, less trusting, and more aggressive. I don't think we should rule out some level of censorship, at least at the interpersonal level, for thoroughly refuted ideas. I'm not saying we should have government intervention, I'm just arguing that you should have every right to tell your angry, misinformed uncle to stop spreading lies at the dinner table.

On a personal level, my own standard is that you earn the right to have a discourse by being willing to let go of your viewpoint if it's refuted, in fact that's part of why you are entering into a conversation - to learn what you are wrong about. Strong beliefs, lightly held. The right to speak comes with a responsibility to engage honestly.
That may be true, but what about the millions of laptops Apple sells to other professionals? Limiting the scope of Apple's pro laptops to developers is really excluding a big part of the pie.

Google, Tesla, Facebook, and tens of thousands of other businesses purchased the 2012-2015 rMBP form factor for a reason - its a great laptop. The number of people who use the laptop that do not code in Swift far outnumber the number who do code Swift.

Still, a greater number use Macbooks casually, and I'm sure the standard Macbooks are great for home and recreational use. To clarify, my focus is on a professional use found in a standard business setting.
shrug, please get in the queue.
I don't think we really expect our children to do that. It's just there aren't any good options right now. The world is so dependent on hydrocarbons and large scale agriculture that there is no viable alternative.
MP3 frames are all full frames, whereas a key frame is a full frame that is followed by incremental updates.
Hi Mike, sorry for the late reply, I'm in exam's rush :P

here is what we are using de determine the range: https://github.com/domaven/xamarin-plugins/tree/master/Geofe...

Thanks for reaching out.
I have to admit I put down my e-reader a long time ago and never picked it up again. FBReader app on the phone means I can read on the go (white text on black which I prefer)

FBreader also syncs with Calibre library on the desktop, and has text to speech. Maybe it's weird but I really got used to the tts reading to me. I "read" while shopping, with the lights off in bed and especially while driving.

Oh and as for what, only science fiction, that's my preference.
Plug and play programming
“Cash” is just another currency. It’s all trading seashells all the way down.
It's a broadcast, you don't know what is the bandwidth of receiving device so you can't adjust accordingly.
Why would assume that it doesn’t pass through the same review process? None of your assumptions are obvious to me.
My company wrote a blog post a while back with some tips for a good cover letter -- it's not specific to engineering but I think it's super helpful anyway: https://blog.aha.io/the-best-cover-letters-that-ceos-love-to...

Two key takeaways (in my opinion):

- If you care about the job, do a little bit of research about the company. What does the job posting focus on and how do you align with that? What's their engineering stack and when have you worked with those technologies? This isn't "required" (i.e. you can certainly find jobs by mass-sending the same generic intro) but investing a little time in finding out about the company goes a long way towards telling them that they should take the time to find out about you in return. I also think this helps with the question of tone -- you probably won't go wrong matching the tone of the job posting itself.

- Make it easy for them to see if they want to hire you. Include your resume and make it easy to read (a short, well-formatted PDF is great). Include a direct link to your GitHub/portfolio/etc. If you don't have any public work, just say so and give them a Cliff's notes instead -- "Most of my recent GitHub contributions are private, but for the past six months I've lead a team of four developers in developing a new widget using React, Redux, and ES6, which I see is a close match to your tech stack."
And what you are inferring is incorrect. I never said eating with your hands is uncivilized. You inferred it in your request for someone else to infer something.
Ok cool. Thanks for the information.

But just to address the original comments: "It's a little insulting to marathon runners to claim this is a 'marathon' IMO.".... We do consider the Boston Marathon to be a marathon, right?
What password managers do HN readers recommend?
Despite some strong criticisms I've made about Pocket, it actually is a pretty good tool, as such things go.

My main complaints are that it's not more useful, though with some tweaks, I've made it just that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...

https://pastebin.com/LjMA5Dms

It needs more help than just CSS, but that's a start.
If you can read french:

http://www.psychomedia.qc.ca/neuropsychologie/2010-09-22/-40...

(Found via tineye.com, a very useful website for tracking down the potential source of images)
How would you determine if they were within the range? That's effectively converting it into a 3D space.
HD Voice isn't common where you live yet?
Yes there's definitely some muscles that need to be built up. Most noticeably for me are the ones on the sides of the foot that control rolling: in a conventional shoe there's a broad heel sole and a ridgid heel cup to give roll support. Without that, your foot wants to roll, even when walking flat. I needed to add some exercises to help supplement, and the ankles are still a little sore. But I'll take sore muscles over tendonitis.
How (and Where) to Get a Great Crash Course in AI
Title should say independent bike dealer
I'm not sure if there has been confirmation anywhere but it would be foolish to assume nobody is storing the messages you send on a closed platform. You don't know how it works so your only safe assumption is the worst case.
The reason the Damore stuff is so insane is because the science he cited is abundant and well replicated over decades!

Look at this piece from Stanford Medical School in the spring! http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-b...

Or here, from 2013: http://atavisionary.com/study-index/intelligence-psychometri...

There is an abundance of highly cited research that backs up what Damore carefully stated in his essay.
I think it's both.

What I was unclear about is that our best method for fighting the current system is to convince a significant portion of the electorate to vote for a third party candidate.

Because we all know the system is against us, we are afraid to work together to circumvent it.

We can't replace the system until we use our votes to do so.
Thanks for pointing that out. Do you know when they began with the program to better manage their soil?

I still feel land management / mismanagement is independent of economic system. One does not intrinsically offer to protect natural resources over another, but i could be wrong.
Sucks for dyslexics even high performing dyslexics like myself find writing cover letters hard and I would only do that for some very specific and life changing jobs - some run of the mill startup not so much.
I paid for a VPN service in 2011 for 0.19 BTC / (~5$ USD or something back then) which is now worth over $3300 USD at today's price...to me it shows that we are not dealing with a currency, if all you can do is hold and avoid spending it in fear of "losing" money then it has no real value except selling at the right time so someone else can buy your share, hold it and eventually sell it and so forth..
It's not like physical movie sales are doing too well themselves. And by the time a sequel is released a physical copy of the original would have been out for a while, meaning it will already be severely discounted online and in bargain bins.
> betting patterns of card counters

Large changes in bet-size are an obvious indicator, so card counters must work in teams. One is the counter, the other gambler is the whale who bets large when the count is favorable.

Unfortunately, the casino has a simple defense: table limits. The whale must sit at the high-roller table, the counter must sit elsewhere. Count cards as much as you like, but you'll never make money at a modern casino ("you" being the aggregate of all card counters, not an individual).
Sorry, but pretty much every argument you make looks like a different flavour of "I already put a lot of effort into mastering other ways, and now that I have they work fine for me, I don't see why we should switch to this one."

Because you seem to suffer from survivor bias, that's why. By comparison, I am a physics drop-out. Allow me to give you the view from below.

First, I know this pdf is about GA in relation to physics, but you're throwing all kinds of names and terms around that only make sense to people who already have studied physics; conscious or not, that's basically gatekeeping via jargon.

Claiming that we'll be unable to make sense of Goldstein and Spivak is also directly contradicting your claim that it's easier once you know the "more conventional stuff" - so learning one thing after the other is easier, but not the other way around? Why would it not be easier to learn the more conventional stuff after you have a solid GA fundation?

Both my own experience and that of many commentators here seem to indicate GA is inherently more intuitive to grasp than the disparate mathematics it connects, precisely because it all seems more logically structured and connected. And perhaps the people who didn't manage to get through have a better idea of what is more intuitive to learn that the people who did here. Similarly, given that GA connects so many things together, I have a hard time believing that it is a "specialised tool", but since I never had to deal with most of the stuff you mention I guess I can't be a good judge of that (did I mention the gatekeeping?).

Anyway, why should people first have to slog through all the other stuff, sometimes learning it more by rote than insight? We don't force kids to learn assembly or punch-cards before we let them play with a higher level programming language either.

I'm not suggesting we throw all the old physics books out the window, but we also managed to stop doing science in Latin. That removed a huge barrier of exclusion, has not lead to a loss of knowledge, and making the field more accessible to everyone has only benefited humankind.
Sorry, not referring to voters. I'm referring to republican political leaders.
I did the same thing for browning of french fries. It turned out that RGB was too highly correlated to be efficient so I mapped into an "application specific" color space where the rate was pretty much along a straight line. Kind of like HSV but more specific to the actual cucumber shape of the RGB distribution.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5818953
This isn't a trick question. Staring at a screen consuming mindless content...whether its from entertainment companies or your friends...is bad. Bad compared to exercising, studying, taking a walk, being out with friends.

Is it worse than being stuck on the couch watching TV? I'm sure you can argue both ways, but I would say its about the same.
If I recall correctly Maxwell's equations are usually reduced to 2 in relativistic formuliations: dF = 0 and d⭑F = J.

GA purports to be useful in combining F and ⭑F into a single object (or rather having a derivative operator D = (d + d⭑)) so that DF = J captures everything. But I don't find that that insightful.
There is also this: Mixture of experts. A massive neural net from Google, with multiple submodules that are activated depending on input.

https://medium.com/@thoszymkowiak/google-brains-new-super-fa...
Is that because they had nowhere to sell sugar anymore, nor money to afford herbicides and fertilizers?
Now I'll get dietary recommendations from Kraft and Coca Cola.
What about logical diagrams? anything for that?
“The most interesting bug in your career” interview question
On a meta-level, I wonder if this writer was paid for their work to create the article?

If you haven't seen it yet, Nautil.us has a very spotty record of paying their workers over the last year at least.

https://nwu.org/an-open-letter-from-freelancers-at-nautilus-...
Your guess is correct! See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fratricide

Key quote: "It appears that two weapons targeted on a silo must arrive at least ten seconds apart to avoid fratricidal fireball effects, and less than one minute or more than one hour apart to avoid fratricidal nuclear dust cloud effects."
I drove 400 miles in Florida at all times of day and night between Daytona Beach and Tampa, including a couple national parks along the coasts, and I only had about 2 bug splatters.

But the mosquitoes north of Cape Canaveral were on to me the moment I got out to take a short hike.

Did similar driving Eastern Kansas/Western Missouri below Kansas City, and no bug splatters. Doesn't matter time of day, traffic, countryside, just nothing.
Smaller people. Smaller boats. And how do we know we are looking at a finished product? This could be by someone still trying to work out what size/shape he wants. Or maybe this is the backup paddle kept for when you really really need one and don't care so much about its size.
Not sure why it was reverse engineered when the source code is publicly available: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/4ddac3fbbd5b9ba8d980fa88...
Yes, but in my case, Them is pure EEEVIL.
TLDR: Losing volume from Amazon isn't so bad.
As I worked support in a UPS hub in Jacksonville, FL, I can confirm that actually, losing some volume from Amazon will help. The facility I worked at was at volume capacity per hour over five years ago. Updating the belt system in the building is problematic due to space available and time lost during the shutdown. Year over year the volume has only grown as more people order more online. The capacity in that hub remains the same which means they have to run more sorts/shifts and the operations start to collide together and so on. A little less volume could be seen as a good thing. As long as revenue holds.
To me this is symptomatic of a long or broken feedback loop in the development process. E.g., a classic waterfall approach where somebody writes a big spec, a team spends a bunch of time implementing, and then sometime at or after the deadline, a working model is produced.

In that setting, nobody's going to say, "Hey, let's just pop this radio into our cars, live with it for a few weeks, and then figure out where we need to go next." It's too late. Instead I think the thing to do is force convergence early and often in the product timeline, so that the supposedly-little things like this have plenty of time to get noticed and fixed.

A good example of this is Apple. I'm told that in consumer electronics the typical number of iterations with physical prototypes is 3-7. For the first iPod, Apple went through more than 100. The difference was enough for them to crush the competition so thoroughly that people these days are surprised to hear that there were MP3 players before the iPod (and smartphones before the iPhone).
Is Israel really homogeneous?
Man the 17" pro was like a table lol. It was a beast though, the screen at the time was top notch
You latched onto the word "conform" when the word "should" was more important. You implied that type systems are better in the same way that utensils are better. If that wasn't your intention, your analogy was extremely confusing.
> Well maybe Safari, not because Apple wouldn't, but because they just don't care enough about ad revenue.

Truthfully, this is why I use Safari. Apple makes money by selling me devices and services, Mozilla and Google are both driven by ad revenue. Even good actors within these companies are working within a framework where the customer is the product.

.. also Safari saves like 15% on battery.
This is generally correct, and certainly aligns with larger trends in commercial real estate. On-premise retail of easily-shipped items, with no value-added ties to online retail, is on its last legs. The strip mall of the future has coffee shops but no clothing stores. Bike shops are fortunate that they have this sort of transition to attempt. Lots of menswear shops have an in-house tailor, but it's not as though they can refocus the business around that.

Bike shops aren't the only party trying to hold back the sea, however. Some specialty equipment distributors are so proud of the "network of bike shops" (often with various goofy "badges" and "qualifications") they had to build 20 years ago that they won't ship outside that. As if it's to their advantage to erect barriers to potential customers! Someone should send e.g. Surly a link to TFA. The author has a better idea of how they ought to run their business than they seem to have.
Archive.org is one of those services that I don't use often but that I feel glad that they exist.

Thanks for letting us know how to contribute. Donated.
I always use the cover letter to sell myself to stand out with extra details directly related to the position, or company. The resume doesn't give a lot of detail at all.
Well there's nothing new here.

Also, such poor headline. "Be ready to lose all your money" sounds like a threat. He really said "be prepared to lose all your money", which sounds more like sound advice.
I don't even think it sounds very good, at least the US HD Radio implementation. Most channels have dialed the bitrate way down so they can jam in subchannels of useless stuff like weather and the audio sounds horrible, worse than analog FM.
I don't look to my browser's implementation to "have a little fun". This is a foolish decision on Mozilla's part.
Ask HN: Preparation Resources for Networking and Big Data Concepts
I have an interview in the upcoming weeks where the job requirements as

1. Experience with networking concepts including: routing, VPNs, load balancers, and firewalls.
2. Experience in and understanding of data and information management (big data trends and issues within businesses).

Can you please advise on appropriate resources to cover the bases here.
I have ape in my userid.
There's no double standard, just randomness. We don't come close to seeing everything. When a bad post hasn't been moderated, the likeliest explanation is simply that we haven't seen it yet.

We've scolded kuschku plenty of times for breaking the guidelines in the past, and you're quite right that he did so there with that uncharitable swipe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome#Social_and_p... , right at the end. As I write this, it's footnote 44.

This is also my meta-answer for those who think that even today the us/them mechanism has no value. I've read some accounts of trying to raise children with Williams Syndrome. Truly defaulting to 100% trust is pathologically dangerous even in the safest places you can imagine in the US. People who are imagining that they are open and trusting still don't realize how much they are defending themselves, until they compare themselves to someone who seems to truly lack those mechanisms.

Which doesn't invalidate the idea that we may need less us/them than we currently have, but that doesn't prove or even provide a lot of evidence for the idea that the correct amount is zero.

(Long before the singularity arrives to wipe us all out, we face a greater danger from someone managing to successfully socially engineer the population, and in their infinite wisdom, doing something very, very stupid, such as setting our outgroup trust to 100% all the time, with no way to modify it based on experience, and rendering the entire population trivially exploitable by the first parasite that comes along or something.)
There are generally high trust and low trust cultures within organisations as well as in societies: https://www.whatsbestnext.com/2011/06/low-trust-cultures-vs-...

Both are effectively stable equilibria, so it's hard to upgrade trust across a society. And where it's possible to profit from breach of trust it becomes profitable for a few to turn a society from high-trust into low-trust, which I suspect is happening at the moment in the West.
Getting Started in Open Source Software
I'm a developer at Habitat (the company mentioned in the article), and have been loving working with RESTyped so far. This has saved me so much time that I would usually spend debugging. It's really nice knowing what you should be passing to an endpoint as you type it. If every API I worked with was RESTyped, life would be a dream.
> Please tell me how I broke the guidelines with this comment.

"Hyperbolic crap" and "leave you to your echo chamber" are name-calling, times 10 when bubbling in the stew of indignation.

> this blatant partisanship on your behalf as a moderator

If I can say this respectfully and not just about you: it always feels like blatant partisanship when oneself or something one likes is moderated, and it always feels like decency and even-handedness when someone from the other side gets the moderation. This is one of the dominant cognitive biases I see on HN.

That doesn't mean we aren't biased in our own right. Inevitably we are. But we do try not to let that govern moderation here, and have put in a lot of hard practice at the effort. Many things that might look like bias outwardly are actually attempts to preserve certain qualities for the community. They're not attempts to promote one view over others, and there's little if any information in there about what we personally agree or disagree with.

But because most HN readers don't know that, they reach for the readier explanation of 'blatant partisan bias'. Combined with only considering the data points that fit this theory and ignoring the other ones, that is a potent bias cocktail in its own right. I'd love to know some effective things to do about this but we are where we are. And to repeat, I'm not talking about you except insofar as you're one of everybody.
This. I love Mozilla, but between automatic change of default search engine in 57.0.1, pushing changes that broke most of my extensions and now this, I am starting to feel anxious...