skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Canadian army would struggle to invade a locked Tim Hortons. Germany might not be ready for Barbarossa 2: Electric Boogaloo, but they maintain one of the larger and arguably better equipped militaries in Europe.
They are a phenomenally cool drug delivery vehicle as you can get differential uptake based on their surface markers. Check this out:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221138351...

Happy to geek out more offline. Email in my profile.
If you believe that ad hominem is not a fallacy, then all the best to ya
In the last part of the article Sapolsky talks about how to overcome us-versus-them dynamics.

I recently came across an organization that seems to be doing some remarkable work along these lines. It's called Better Angels.

https://better-angels.org/
Sometimes "good, old fashioned" collaboration is best.
There are so many questions and assumptions here that I don't see the point in trying to unravel them all.

Instead, I'll just say neither schizophrenics nor Muslims are necessarily bigots.

Also, you're assuming I'm neither schizophrenic nor Muslim, which is funny. How do you know?
Just a small caveat that the amount of wealth inequality does matter as well. Less so than having a livable floor, but nonetheless. Anyone who watched outraged as Ajit Pai reverted NN yesterday should understand why implicitly.
Why nobody speak how they program people ?? Why bosses in facebook are leaving ??

Why hackernews do not talk net neutrality??

Sad guys.
Timing of this makes me wonder if someone there read that other thread with the "Facebook Free February" idea people were kicking around. No doubt there are plenty of FBers here and if that idea gained enough traction it could do some nontrivial damage to their bottom line. Granted - probably had to be in the works ahead of time.
GMO is just a red herring that distracts people from the fact that most GMO crops are all about pesticide resistance. GMOs are almost definitely sprayed with pesticides, and continue to carry trace amounts into our food supply and habitat. The sprays themselves are blends of many different synthetic chemicals, not just, e.g. glyphosate, alone.

The entire western food system resembles some kind of BNW-esque intelligence test, where you have to wade through this web of lies, and if you can't figure it out, you're basically eating small amounts of poison that dull your thinking, sap your energy, and shorten your lifespan.

Good luck figuring it out!
I loved Mr. Robot season 2 precisely because it refused to follow the first season's buildup to a dramatic peak with some sort of cliche revelation that it was all just part of what would now be an even bigger build up to yet another dramatic peak. Instead, the show did something courageous and compelling by forcing us, along with its characters, to confront the fact that life isn't all about the peaks, to spend some time understanding and dealing with the consequences of what had just happened. In season 3, that is paying off with a broader, more critical understanding of the world the characters are living in, directly challenging any lazy assumptions we viewers may have been making about the significance and moral complexity of the events we're watching.

It's a good show and it continues to engage me. They get the hacking right, and they get the mindset behind the hacking right, so they've bought my trust, and the story they're telling is anything but simple.
because there is a pervasive interest in making alot of money quickly here. i think (and im probably projecting a bit) that this community exaggerates how interested it is in tech and engineering based on merits, and down plays how much its interested in them as means to an end (wealth). it bothers me because its dishonest, and its also a bit sad to not know the difference between liking something because its cool, and liking something because its going to help you get rich. small criticisms, dont apply to everyone, yadda yadda
You're rebutting a point nobody made.
I find it interesting coming from the stocks/bond/etc side of finance. Just interesting to see how other people think of investment. I also trade on orders-of-magnitude shorter timescales, and it's important to see what I'm not seeing on the longer timeframe.
With a Little Help from Their Friends, Agents, Librarians, and Fact-Checkers
So this is the first response from Mozilla in the Gizmodo article:

“Firefox worked with the Mr. Robot team to create a custom experience that would surprise and delight fans of the show and our users. It’s especially important to call out that this collaboration does not compromise our principles or values regarding privacy. The experience does not collect or share any data,” Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, chief marketing officer of Mozilla, said in a statement to Gizmodo. “The experience was kept under wraps to be introduced at the conclusion of the season of Mr. Robot. We gave Mr. Robot fans a unique mystery to solve to deepen their connection and engagement with the show and is only available in Firefox.”

This is horrible. They pushed out this crap under false pretenses as a study and obfuscated it. Don't talk the ethics talk if you're not prepared to do the ethics walk.
> $500k for a 1-acre lot with a shack on it

That sounds low for Cupertino
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I missed the context of your context switch. It reads as if you are saying that 'we' need to repeal the second so that 'we' can be loaded up and forcibly moved by our societal masters (with little resistance)

Is that correct?
1) One day you wake up and somebody is watching TV in your living room.

2) you freak out. Who is this guy? I didn't invite anyone last night!

3) The guy turns around and it's just your mate Chad. He didn't mean any harm, just wanted to watch TV and hang out.

4) This is not on, Chad is a psycho.

Intentions don't really matter: they've just demonstrated a scary and invasive capability without any warning. Minimizing it doesn't help.
That's been happening for a while. I was involved with recruiting for my employer and HR mentioned the COL in the Bay Area is a major barrier to hiring. People love the company, love the area, but just can't afford to move here.

In fact, my employer just open a site in Portland, OR to address a major hiring need. The fact that the lower COL was a major deciding factor was clearly stated.
I'm a longtime Bay Area software engineer, and the problem is it's scary to move to a town that only has a couple tech companies. I'd love to live someplace smaller, but if I find -- and lose -- a job in a small town, I'm out of other options. Here I have recruiters knocking down my door.
Can't recommend Pass enough. It is great. Also you can use it with a smartcard.
In the methods section, they do say that "first author self-citations were excluded." One of the figures in the Nature article also pulls out self-citations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5250
Resume writer here that also writes cover letters for clients, converted to writing after 20 years in tech recruiting. Almost any time that a client asks for a cover letter, my response is "Here it is, and I hope you never have to use it".

If you're using a cover letter to apply for a job, it means you have no human inside the company that is advocating on your behalf. Your friend wouldn't ask you for a cover letter (in most cases) if he/she was going to refer you internally. So when you are required to use a cover letter, it usually means you're applying to a job 100% 'cold' as an outsider.

Unfortunately that may be the case sometimes. If a cover letter is required, there are a few key elements

1 - prove to the reader that you actually paid a bit of attention to the job requirement. I spent 20 years in recruiting, and generic cover letters that clearly weren't written for me ("Dear Esteemed Employer") never got my attention. I want to know what interested you in this opportunity, or briefly what you know about the company (could be lots of things).

2 - Talk a bit about what you're interested in from a work perspective. What kind of work do you want to be doing (and hopefully that is the work we're offering).

3 - Maybe check off a few boxes from the job spec. If they require a degree and n years with Python, a few sentences to check off those boxes will make it easy for the reader (often a recruiter or admin with little experience and limited knowledge of the domain) to say yes to you as a candidate.

Semi-formal tone. You can link to GitHub, but usually I link GitHub and LinkedIn on a resume.
> I generally think it’s helpful for founders who take VC money to understand the business of their investors because it impacts their incentives and how they see the world.

If you're anywhere in the startup ecosystem, it's helpful to know venture mechanics. If you're a VC it's essential since yours and your LPs paycheck are on the line. However if you a founder, a would-be founder, maybe even a senior engineer, ..., it's necessary to understand where your VC is coming from and what the term sheet means.

This is necessary before you get a term sheet.

There's a lot of information out there now that didn't used to be out there. You can find out that Shaquille O'Neal, Tiger Woods, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Henry Kissinger were in on the A round for Google. I don't know if that's useful information. But it's out there.

https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/...

There are a lot more startups and a lot more investors, VCs and angels. Maybe 30 years ago, this was backroom stuff between founders, investors and their lawyers. It isn't anymore.
And not in coastal California. ..
Canadian infantry and SOF are actually really legit
It's just an advert for their product.
What are the factors preventing real estate developers from buying up land and building larger complexes to meet the demand?

Seems like an opportunity to make a lot of money
I'm just beginning my recovery from whatever makes "us vs. them" turn into "everyone vs. me" at a young age, I guess.

I'm pretty sure this way of thinking isn't being instilled systematically from the top down, but it is happening at a very large scale. What's creating this "us vs. them" which kids often interpret as "everyone vs. me," is that there are so many easy ways out of feeling pain (and thus, ways out of learning how to live as a basic human) that we're in the process of forgetting how to deal with our emotions. We opt for solitary escape early on, because that's how our parents dealt with their issues too (their parents likely believed in pulling up bootstraps, or something). And then we/they continue to opt for escape via any sensory experience available in consumer capitalist society, most recently in socially acceptable life-escape games like Facebook and Twitter. We know it's not an authentic social feed, that it's actually designed to be a game you play with yourself where your social circle makes up the characters. What happens if that real-life game turns against you though, or if your mind simply starts to think they're turning against you? Mass shootings[1], terrorism[2], and Trump[3], I think.

If the horrors of modern American childhood don't happen at home, by the hand of adults who also sought solace from their fears in similar ways, these horrors usually happen in school, where they spend the rest of their time. From fellow classmates who figure out that bullies get their way, and clever bullies get their way even more. Us vs. them happens very early on, and when kids seek out solo escape via phones, games, whatever, well that's the beginning of a neverending search via consumer society for some answer that can allow them to live with the thoughts in their head.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States...

[3] https://i.imgur.com/crG3EeQ.jpg
Without a controlled environment, it's unlikely. Life has changed in many other ways in the past 20 years
>So how did that work out for you when the FCC decided to kill net neutrality?

Exactly as it’s supposed to? The Republicans have had eliminating Net Neutrality as part of their platform since at least 2012, and are generally hostile to consumer protection and the like in general. Conversely, the Democrats have supported it, to the extent that Hillary Clinton made it an explicit part of her technology platform. It’s right there on her website still.

Even more then that, when the political coalitions were being formed, the American people had every chance to influence what would go into each coalition. America could have ensured that both supported it. They didn’t, so instead we ended up with two very distinct coalitions on a range of issues, with NN as one of them. The Republicans promised to scrap it. The Democrats promised to keep and enforce it. America democratically voted to hand total power for this cycle over Federal government to a single coalition, the Republicans. There was no significant fraud whatsoever. There were no major national emergencies causing disruption. The Republicans won and have proceeded on policy just as they said they would (as expected, since most politicians work to keep their campaign promises).

Please explain what in this doesn’t reflect “our will” as expressed by the electorate? We all know how it works, what the dates are, etc. It’s easier now to get information and organize and get involved then at any time in history. If America had voted differently we’d have had a different result, simple as that. It’s our government, we are not ruled by anything but a democracy. If we don’t like the results it’s our responsibility to make it change.
As a hiring manager, I always like to see at least a few short sentences. At a minimum you should share a point or two of why you are a good fit for the role. It doesn't need to be overly formal and could just be along the lines of:

"Hello, I noticed that you have a position open using [tech]. I am very familiar with [tech] and have been using it for [x] years. I saw on your website that your company is building a solution to [business model], [show your interest in business model]."

A longer letter is OK, but I don't really value a generic long-form letter any more than a short note showing you are paying attention and have real interest in a role at the company.
Chrome 64 Beta: stronger pop-up blocker, Resize Observer, and import.meta
As a cryptocurrency investor, I can confidently say it's hard not to generate a 10X return.
Really? With the numbers so absolutely at odds, it only takes a single sample to disprove outrageous claims.

So don't believe me if you like (though I could go dig a hole and take a picture of the black line that separates topsoil from subsoil), but its probably more outrageous to cling to the idea that somehow Iowa is at the top end of a curve that goes from 10 years to 1000 years.
I heard there's a 10,000 unit development going forward in MV. Not sure if that doesn't meet your threshold of large-scale buildout.

EDIT: why was this downvoted? I'm adding new information that is directly relevant to the parent comment. If what I've heard is untrue, feel free to say so.
> Citation needed

James Damore was fired from Google for posting his opinion to a mailing list about the topic in question.

Brendan Eich was forced out of Mozilla for voting the “wrong” way years earlier.

Look into “opal-gate” or “dongle-gate”.

Look into Strange Loop banning speakers.

The threat of being fired or hurt professionally for not being left leaning is very real.

EDIT:

My comment providing the requested citations is now being aggressively downvoted. Just further proof that it’s most definitely not ok to question the left in this industry. I simply listed incidents that have happened.
Great insight. This is also true of online discourse, though the presence of {x} voices at once can make it overwhelming.
What vesak has said is partly correct. We are integrating IMs that have the most reach firstly.

We also investigated IMs where users are not registered to a particular number and we deduced that most companies would not want clients to authenticate themselves with accounts that are not attached to a number (when they already have such numbers available).

We stand to be corrected and would gladly integrate with other IMs where demand/interest exists.
Wasn't an argument, but I seem to have ruffled your feathers with my statement. I can tell you are a tad upset by your tone and inflammatory argumentive leaning questions.

Instead of countering my statement, you implied since you never heard of such things happening, it doesn't happen. This is the same argument the left uses for whites not knowing about police violence on minorities. Which is true, minorities are pulled over more by police and have a different viewpoint, just because I/we don't see/know about it, doesn't mean people need to be called out as liars.

This is exactly the "us" vs. "them" in action. Since it doesn't fit your view, its a "them" Argument.

But to answer you for some examples, not sure if you really asked in good faith, but here are some.

Check out Google engineer ousted, James Damore a liberal engineer spoke out about diversity and now is classified as alt-right hero. I would clearly say hes no alt-right or even conservative, but he is now "Them".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/08...

Check out Drupal developer ousted. http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/18/drupal-developer-ousted-ov...

For Github diversity training thats slanted against whites.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/44ttzj/racist_diversi...

Code of Conduct war that happened in Ruby. It gets worse, but here is an example.
https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004

Now I won't say google these topics, because google will return from the anti-right viewpoints. Example, If you tried to google gamergate you would think gamers hate women. Try reading /r/KotakuInAction/ over on reddit for these types of stories, they happen all the time. The sub is very middle of the road and will call both sides bullshit out. Which is refreshing.

The "US" vs. "Them" has invaded all my hobbies, news, and entertainment. And I'm sure I'm not the only tech person around who feels the same. Facebook alone has turned to shit.
Apple’s HomeKit security blunder exposes the risk of smart homes
Just plugging Tox.

https://tox.chat/

Decentralized, DHT-like, no phone numbers.

I've researched all others and Tox is the best choice ATM if you want YOUR data to belong to YOU.
A trick to get into a race (not based on empirical evidence, just my own experience) is to start counting in your head and turn off everything else. I counted 1-2-3 after I almost tripped in the beginning of a half marathon. Instead of focusing on beating myself up for almost tripping I just continued to count. Broke almost all my PB. Keeps you from thinking about messing up.
I was under the impression that low frequency waves (all the studies being on frequencies lower than those used by cell phones, so I still haven't been concerned, but maybe I should be) showed that they could vibrate DNA and chance how it is folded, adjusting its epigenetic profile. Why do you assume that the only way to cause cancer is "molecular damage"?
You bring up a good point: is this _addictive?_
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934367 and marked it off-topic.

The root comment was connected to the topic, of course, but its off topic component has a stronger magnetic pull... that's the way these things grow.
Anyone who's driven cross-country knows that FM is nice and clear for a while, then kind of fades out as you reach the edge of the transmitter's range. There's at least a sense of continuity with the drop in signal strength. Digital has a sharp transition between crystal-clear and completely dead. That's the distinction being made above.
My old boss was into Settlers, and they stayed late to play some games a few times. I got invited once and weird stuff happened.

Somehow I ended up next to both 6's on the map.

As near as I can tell, one of the dice we used would not land on 4. Whatever was going on, the number of 6's and 9's rolled that night were abnormally high. By the time people figured out we were rolling as many 6's as we had 7's and 8's combined, I already had a town on the coast and pretty much steamrolled everybody with sheep and wheat.

Really the game wasn't that fun at that point, so I just tried to end it as fast as possible.

When you're playing an RPG, everybody seems to gravitate toward their 'lucky dice' which are most likely defective in the right way. But if you're playing a game with others you probably want the fairest dice you can find.

I remember years ago seeing a sales video from some retired aerospace engineer that was making geometrically perfect dice. He'd worked out the resins so they cured uniformly. He'd stack his dice next to some random set and point out how the other guy's stack curved to one side while his was perfectly straight.

Probably didn't sell a lot of those to DND players, except perhaps GMs.
I stand corrected.

I can't edit or remove my comment because Hacker News believes they know better than me if I should have the ability to edit or remove my own comments.
Isn't there some kind of law against a living space without access to windows?

I'm all for the idea, but I don't get claustrophobic very easy
Life comes at you fast.
Yes.

You could do the same thing by slipping bugs into place at the ends of wires, and the difference would definitely matter for opsec.
I find it encouraging that they are getting desperate enough to produce crap like this.

Farewell Zucker, make sure you don't stumble over Myspace on your way out.
I'm going to assume you've read a bit about crypto currencies, and are now confident in their superiority to fiat currencies. I recommend spending some time learning about basic macroeconomics before drawing too many conclusions about the government "literally making money out of thin air". You can get the kindle version of Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money for $1 [0] or pick it up from your local library for free!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/General-Theory-Employment-Interest-Il...
The first version of new and revolutionary technology rarely (if ever?) becomes the dominant one. Obvious examples are search (Altavista -> Google) and social networks (MySpace -> Facebook).
It bears a lot of importance, for the reasons I mentioned earlier. But now we're just repeating ourselves repeatedly, which doesn't do anyone any good. In 20 years, when this turns out exactly like the high voltage lines cause cancer scare, we can have a beer and laugh about the whole thing. Especially about all the money wasted.
Every SF techbro is a temporarily embarrassed VC.
You still have to pay to access the Internet. Comcast/AT&T aren't free.
Zoning laws that make it illegal to build tall buildings and insane NIMBYism from property owners who benefited from Prop 13.
Absolutely agree. And it's the gruff and grumpy older bikers that I always go in search of when I walk into a bike shop. This is the kind of relationship I want with the service department in my bike shop:

"Hey you, you look like you've been in here since 1963, what can you tell me about this component?"

"It's shit, get this one instead. It does exactly the same thing, looks the same, feels the same, fits your bike the same. It costs about 20% more but'll last 10 times longer. The older design sheds muck better meaning less wear and the compound it's made from has the same tensile strength as the newer one but it doesn't rust because it was made before they cheaped out and started making shit quality product. I don't even know why the fuck they released this one. The old one was better. We're gonna stop carrying their newer stuff until they get their shit together."

They don't tend to mince words. They tell you exactly how it is, rather than exactly what they think you want to hear to get you to part with your money. In my opinion, you cannot pay enough to have people like this on your team.