skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. I wish more managers/coaches/masters understood this.

Features are done when they're done (for a given definition of "done"). Once we're satisfied with what we have, we release it. Otherwise we keep working, or we scope down.

Strict deadlines are seemingly based on financial period expectations, rather than on what actually produces better software, and thus, ironically, more revenue for the same stockholders who were demanding a date. It seems more of a short-term strategy than long-term.

Anyway, that's my pessimistic, armchair interpretation of it.
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This has became the most complained problem since years ago. I just read an article that might be helpful for anyone at https://www.lemberglaw.com/what-are-robocalls/. It talks about robocalls, and how we could avoid them. Hope this helps.
> nationalism makes some people emotional,

I'm not sure where you thought I was being nationalistic. I stated my nationality to make the context clearer. My country is an odious cesspool in many ways. We're just lucky not to have a fully militarised police force.
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Pre-heating is great, but if your commute is very long it can't make much difference. Traditionally, vehicles are very poorly insulated and it isn't a big problem because their heat is a free waste product. Electric vehicles really need a level of insulation they haven't even considered yet.
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It's a house on a trailer, I think that's the essence of a trailer. I'm sure you can buy quality trailers in the same way that you can build quality tiny homes. Likewise, you can build a terrible-quality tiny home.

If you want to compare similar sizes, you can start looking at campers, which are also tiny homes on wheels. Nobody considers them glorious to live in, either. A tiny home might be more comparable to a hand-built camper / towable RV.
> If it vanished tomorrow, and was replaced

But it won’t vanish. I’m still waiting. If you can make bitcoin vanish I’d give you some credibility. Until then you’re amongst a sea of journalists declaring the death of crypto. I’m waiting for it and I mean that sincerely. Yet here we are.
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Kansas has felony murder and the death penalty, so let's home they find a way to get the swatter executed. Will set a strong example for others.
Boxing had a similar problem, but the solution was that they changed the rules and the fan base dwindled after that. "Football" will likely take a similar path.
Here is some food for thought: Look up the number of "deadly swatting incidents" outside of North America, they don't exist.
This is a phenomenon which, in its severity, is pretty much exclusive to the USA, with some cases also happening in Cannada, but that's about it.

Does that mean that police in other countries don't get fake calls? They also get them, but they usually react to them in a somewhat more reasonable manner which prevents the worst from happening.

The same doesn't seem to work for US police due to cultural differences (abundance of firearms everywhere) and the resulting police mentality (better shoot first than to get shot first).

In that regard, some of these "pro-gun ownership" and "guns are not the problem" comments here are simply mind-boggling, still denying a problem exists. A problem pretty much everybody recognizes as such, except for the people who still think that their AR-15's will prevent the US from becoming some fascist police state.

Not a week goes by where not another totally absurd case of irresponsible gun owners end up getting somebody killed or hurt: Babysitters getting babies killed [0], dogs shooting their owners [1], parents getting shot by their own toddlers [2], heck even when people are meeting at church to discuss a shooting spree, they end up shooting each other by accident [3] it's a collection of absurdities that wouldn't be possible anywhere else, but in the US it seems to be considered "normal".

At least that's the only way I can explain how some people still pretend there isn't a problem. It becomes especially grating when these very same people use countries with high ownership rates (and pretty strict regulations) to argue for their case of "everybody should have a gun!", straight out of the NRA meme book.
Case in point: Citing Germany and Switzerland as examples for societies where "high gun ownership and low crime" exists, while at the same time completely ignoring the massive gun-regulation laws in said countries.
Similarly: Hitler could only take over because he banned all the guns, when in fact he did the exact opposite to arm his SA thugs.

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/23/justice/texas-babysitter-g...

[1] http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/27/dog-accidentally-...

[2] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/toddler-shoots-mom-...

[3] http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-accidentally-shoots-wife-church...
She’s always been against legalization. Still is AFAIK.
Because you don't understand, know how, or can figure out how to use an Alexa style device to its full potential, it must make it worthless? I have the same thoughts for a motorcycle, where I live, that is a death machine with little benefit. Yet, I understand why some people like to drive them, why they drive them, and why I shouldn't (because I would not become proficient with one). Here you have all the same symptoms.
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I'm no different as an an architect. I don't always choose the best technology. I sometimes choose the most popular. The practical reason being its easier to find people who know it and there is plenty of documentation. The CYA reason is that if things go south, It's much easier to say it came highly reccomended. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM."
Surprised no one has said Tresorit, or am I missing some flaw in their service? I’ve been happy with their service, treat it as Dropbox with end to end encryption.
Gwern edits articles as new information arrives. The links were added after the initial article was written. Gwern rarely submits their own content. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gwern
Huh, that's interesting. I remember transferring a few euros for shared pizza to a friend's account a few months back and it took a day. This was between two very large, modern Dutch banks.
Whether IQ tests measure intelligence depends on how you define "intelligence". IQ tests measure ability to solve visual and/or verbal puzzles, and it's reasonable to call that a type of intelligence. I'm not saying that's the only form of intelligence, but it's clear that IQ scores have _something_ to do with intelligence.

But that question is ultimately a red herring. IQ scores are partially biologically heritable. IQ scores are correlated with job performance. So there exists a biologically heritable factor that's correlated with job performance. That's very relevant for discussions about social mobility, whether or not you want to call that factor "intelligence".

You asked for a citation. The strongest evidence for the claim that IQ is biologically heritable comes from studies of twins. A meta-analysis of 111 separate studies (https://sci-hub.la/10.1126/science.7195071) found that when identical twins were separated and raised in different families, their IQs were correlated at 0.72. Fraternal twins raised together had IQs correlated at only 0.60. Biologically unrelated children raised together (an adopted child and a biological child) had IQs correlated at 0.29. (Side note: Before you demand someone provide a citation, try googling it for yourself. This result isn't hard to find.)

You have a good point that the mechanism could be epigenetic rather than genetic. Here's a study that found a hint of a link between epigentic factors and intelligence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892514/. Here's a study finding that epigenetics are correlated strongly between identical twins: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063335/ On the other hand, the epigenetic correlation decreases as the twin pairs get older, but the IQ correlation actually increases as twin pairs get older. So it's not clear.

It's also worth noting that IQ correlates with income at only 0.23 according to http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intellige....

In general, I agree it's difficult to draw unambiguous conclusions from the data we have. I think the data are consistent with the possibility that genetic inheritance of intelligence plays a major role in reducing social mobility, and also consistent with the opposite possibility. But you are demanding a much higher standard of evidence for the claim that intelligence is genetic than for the claim that it isn't, and I don't think that's fair.
Maybe an interesting discussion that would keep the link relevant is what the difference actually is? The table of contents do differ, but are very similar. Thanks for pointing that out, I was mostly going on memory, but looking at the ToC there are some differences between the two, but how much would be interesting to ascertain.
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Set a "verbal password". Most banks support these, but most customer service reps haven't heard of them (this is slowly improving). And it seems if you "forget" this verbal password there's no guarantee the bank won't give you an alternate work around like asking for more answers to stupid security questions.

Anyway, it's worth a shot:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/simple-banking-security-...
> Millions of Europeans were murdered by their governments within living memory, with records of similar atrocities going back hundreds of years.

Once your country has been around for a bit longer, you will also have a long history with plenty of atrocities to point back at.
How many native Americans were killed during the "colonization" of the American continent? Or do these not count because they hadn't been US citizens back then?
Yup. My mother didn't change her name after marrying and my middle name is her last name.

I'm sure it's secure to use her maiden name as part of my account confirmation, though (/s).
Actually, homicide can even be accidental. It sounds like you’re describing manslaughter or murder.
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You can have an easier time if the solar panels are mounted on the bottom of the drone, and you shine a large laser at them. Disclaimer: I am involved with a company that does it this way.

Nasa has built[0] a drone awhile back that flies on solar power, though it was limited to flights during daylight hours as not enough mass was available for enough batteries to last the night.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/Era...
> If you are a Nascar driver, you can confidently say that you are a better than average driver.

Better at going fast and turning left?
This came at the perfect time, thanks!
You can write a cheque on anything as it's just a written instruction. Sadly the story of the farmer who wrote one on the side of a cow turns out to be false.
My claim was that I fear it, which is true, although I cannot provide a citation. I could certainly point to many instances of people preemptively calling police (i.e. not reporting a crime) and the police showing up and doing horrible things.
You jest, but I've been noticing over time that that kind of joke is, very gradually, but definitely, becoming less of a joke that gets as big a laugh as it might have in, say, 2006.
In this sentence the word "unilaterally" is used incorrectly in a way that raises a red flag for me:

"I would say the people who are the most confident about self-identifying as data scientists are almost unilaterally frauds."
Two words. Shit show.
CS shouldn't be in the title. If you learn everything in this set of notes you will have learned something close to a standard 3 year undergraduate math curriculum. So the only way it's related to CS is that undergraduate math is applicable to CS, as expected.
What are you citing? There's nothing in that article about hours or benefits that accrue to FTEs only. Did you even read it?
Sorry - just fixed it.
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From the FAQ:

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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They are very likely to note perceived threats to an officer's safety, as that helps them both avoid injuring an officer and helps cover their ass if they decide to kill something innocent. They are NOT likely to note things like you mention because it open them up to liability. If they have a note on your property saying someone is likely to make a fake call about it, and then someone does and they show up and decide to kill something innocent anyway, it's going to look a little worse for them if there's a note telling them that.
A small (or maybe large) army of well-paid moderators who will boot people for abuse would be a good first step. Sure, it's not cheap, but it's got to be worth a shot.
The Gameboy CPU shares the same octal-structured opcode format as the Z80 from which it was derived, so it is possible to decode it even more concisely: http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm

You can see that in octal, 1xx are all moves while 2xx is all ALU ops.
"Active shooter" scenarios usually only apply to areas with more than a few potential victims, e.g. not a single household.
Or perhaps like the Eastern suburb of Germany.

We'll never know for sure.
I don't think that would do much to shield you from patent/copyright claims.

It actually sounds more like he wanted to classify all of your work as Research & Development so he could amortize the cost of your salary or write it off on the company's taxes.
People most definitely should not but very much are expecting a level of isolation between containers that does not exist.
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By "not everywhere" you mean... Massachusetts? Benefits like paid sick leave are rounding errors compared to health care.
Publishers are buying traffic that is too good to be true from dubious networks and then it is being laundered through the programmatic ad tech machine at scale.

Brands looking to build awareness are buying access to this fraudulent traffic.

Advertising agencies, ad tech companies, and publishers more times than not are incentivized to look the other way and not investigate what is going on too closely as long as it is profitable.

Digital display advertising has long been considered a channel of questionable effectiveness. But the current state of programmatic advertising has made things much worse and will ultimately lead to Advertisers pulling billions of dollars out of this space unless there are significant improvements in getting more transparency into their advertising investments.
Can either of you define "great demographics" in a way that is not overtly racist? I mean really, move to Sweden to get away from the criminals?
>And when I say refactor, I don't really mean "code cleanup" so much as "removing technical debt that doesn't change the current buisness logic".

Well yeah, but in a lot of cases, at least when there's a build of up more than a minimal amount of technical debt, the maintenance of working around the debt-y parts can be a significant drag on development, and itself becomes toil-like. Reducing that isn't something I'd consider toil, and when approached correctly, can be an impactful change.

>Keep in mind, my original definition of "Top Performer" was someone who resented even 10% Toil and basically would rather automate it shoddily than deal with it.

Fair, although I would say that many positions and teams even, can be toil free (or nearly so).
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Dollar to a donut, there is or was a mainframe involved in authentication that has an 8 character password. I even bet the company that sold it was IBM. I remember finding out at one job that the "reason" for the 8 character password requirement for one of our logins, was "you can type as much as you want, but eventually we just take the first 8 characters and use that to log you into the mainframe as thats all it accepts".

Mainframes are weird, and not all that dynamic.
We email them resumes and they got the attachment printed so that their managers could draw circles and lines on it, with a pen.
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When SWAT is deployed, the chances of someone getting injured are increased. Some gamers are calling in more SWAT false positives, leading to an increased likelihood of injury to the public.

To begin, talk of swatting someone ought not be sanctioned on these communication channels. Mod down the comments or suspend their privileges/account.

We agree, use of force is far to casual in the US, especially with the reduced rate of violent crimes.

In the time being, we could also start dealing with the false positives directly. For example, while SWAT is gearing up, the operator could ask who is calling and how they learned of the issue. Without that information, the odds of a false report go up and the trigger bias should be going down.
This is a fascinating set of checklists; thanks for sharing it.
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We're going to hold strangers who use their Xboxes as an excuse to attempt to kill people accountable, independent of anything else we do. Respectfully: this is pretty simple grown-up logic.
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even if you hit your head really hard on the front, it's the back of your brain that ends up getting wrecked, due to the rippling of the kinetic energy through your skull-confined brain matter.

The thing about concussion is that it's not the first impact that does the most damage - it's your brain sloshing and shearing/splitting itself, near the rear, against the inside of your skull as the recoil causes neuronal connections to essentially splinter..

like if you were to grab a dish-washing sponge with both hands, and tear it apart by pulling it apart by stretching it (a downwards-rolling wrist motion) you would notice the unfurling and disintegration of the middle section. essentially that's what happens during concussion; a 3 dimensional shearing tensor that is kind of like plunging your thumb into a ball of playdoh..

that's why even the mildest concussions are a seriously underrated danger
The charges still exist even if the end user doesn’t pay them. If you don’t then the shop/restaurant has decided to pay the fees (depending on country this can be mandated by law or just a custom to do it one way or the other)
Yeah it's shitty, but I mean at least they have a 100% guarantee on all online stuff where if you didn't give away your pin/password/card, and didn't make it your name/address/number/other personal info they will refund you. Which I mean isn't much help but at least is something. I wish they had 2FA.
People are leaving fuel technology for safe environment. Thanks for taking major step https://www.travelntoursindia.co.uk/
I agree: they literally don't give a shit whether someone is going to get shot or not. It's entirely abstract to them.
Sure, in some areas. But it's a pretty annoying drawback when temperatures hover around 0F and the car can't even start defrosting the windshield for 10-15 minutes.
Greeeeeeeeeat. So we can go down the rabbit hole of dissecting SWATting and criminal culpability of those who SWAT, but I'm sitting here wondering how safe we are in general.

Cops get addresses wrong on warrants and execute SWAT raids on the wrong house. I recollect at least one innocent guy killed this way. Let's see what a quick Google search turns up:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/10/31/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/2...

https://www.vox.com/2014/10/29/7083371/swat-no-knock-raids-p...

If a person directs a dog to maul another person, the person is responsible and the dog needs to be put down. If a person reports a hostage situation that directs SWAT to raid a home where somebody dies, the person directing the action must be accountable and the police who killed in error must be, at minimum, removed from police work. A police officer who shoots an unarmed person has positively proven their unsuitability for the work. I'd like to see the officer charged with negligent homicide, but as case after case has shown, the US public is unwilling to convict officers.
Out of curiosity did you do regular oil changes for the first 40-60k miles? In my experience once the engine is broken in there's little harm in changing oil only as needed. I've gone 60k between oil changes before. As long as the oil in the engine isn't filthy I just top it to meet levels. Never had any problems.
Some airdrops ask you to prove ownership of a wallet, which can be achieved by using private-key to sign a message (usually the address of the wallet).
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That's crazy. Thanks for context.
What kinds of bugs? It's been pretty bulletproof for me, including playing 4K content. I love that my 4K TV has the Plex app built into it from the factory.
Well for growers you can get better quality on a smaller scale so the grow side of the business will always have a door open for people who can grow high quality medicines.
I have no idea what happened to the OP, but I have had my plate stolen and I did report this to the police. When I reported it stolen, they warned me that anyone caught driving around with it was going to get pulled over at gunpoint, so I'd better report it if I somehow found that it had fallen off or whatever.

I got new plates soon after that, I never found out what happened to mine.
A lot of the math in the notes are not covered in the standard engineering mathematics curriculum. Chapter 1 is not. No one taught me about rings except in discrete (just briefly), and the next time I visited it would be in algorithm and cryptography class. I honestly cannot recall my exact curriculum, but a quick glance at the table of content, more than half unknown to me.

Now, different school, different teacher will have additional materials. That's possible. Most importantly, the author of this PDF created this for the CS students, so it CAN be in the title.
update: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/29/ukraine-kidn...
Why can't we do ad payments based on location? I know it's not foolproof but that will at least not reward click farms or IOTs from third world countries.
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There's a lot of crypto celbs getting rich on XRP at the expensive of those believing the hype, pump and dump.