skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically, the issue is that banks can't be trusted,...

And crypto exchanges, and all the other intermediaries you'll probably end up dealing with in practice, can be trusted?

I get the usefulness of a decentralized permissionless network for peer-to-peer transactions. But Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies today are looking pretty darn far away from that promise.
Finagle proper is written in Scala, but you can use java as well for building services with it:

https://github.com/jghoman/finagle-java-example
My workplace includes a small optics shop where they polish optics that are roughly 2 or 3 inches in diameter. Even in such a modest little shop, the process is just fascinating. The whole shop runs in slow motion, and there is a high level of skill and judgment necessary to make and test the optics while at the same time maintaining the condition of the abrasives and tooling.

Optical manufacturing processes are a wonderful mixture of old and new. Many of the basic techniques are centuries old, but have been updated with sophisticated laser measurements and computer controls.
Yeah, because those are all equivalent.

"People who smoke are getting lung cancer. We'd better investigate the carcinogenic properties of tobacco."

"People who get too much sun are exhibiting symptoms from melanoma to premature aging. Could this be related to UV exposure?"

"People who work with radioactive material are dropping like flies. What the heck's up with that?"

"People who consume excessive sugar are experiencing symptoms from obesity to insulin resistance to heart disease. Could there be a connection?"

"Kids who spend a lot of time on iPhones are ... well, fine, I guess, but there's got to be some grant money in there somewhere."
I really enjoyed the bananas when I was in Vietnam. It was a shame to come back to Cavendish bananas at home, I find that they are almost chalky in flavour to me.
Formed a Florida S-Corp for my side project about 5 months ago (Single member LLCs in Florida don't provide as much liability protection as they do in the rest of the country).

Started accepting sign-ups about 5 days ago. Have had 2 trial sign-ups, $0 revenue so far

Maybe I should advertise? :D
With Australia, submarine transport costs to Singapore (nearest 'major' Internet hub) or all the way to North America or Europe for the largest hubs is an order of magnitude more expensive than continental terrestrial transport within North America or within Europe. So that Netflix offers free caching boxes to ISP's meeting minimum traffic levels allows the Australian networks to save substantially on their overall bandwidth costs. It's reasonable for them to zero-rate that traffic as they're effectively passing their cost savings on to their customers, as opposed to trying to double dip by charging content networks for access to their subscribers. This may violate more pure definitions of net neutrality, but should be desirable behaviour as it's pro consumer.

This goes back to the distinction between the real problem, the lack of competition in many markets compared to net neutrality which mitigates situations where there's a lack of competition, but it's not necessarily a win all across the board. What's needed is to separate last mile access, from eyeball network service, from carrier network service, from content network service, from actual content. This would ensure competition across the board, and prevent excessive power accumulated by such a small number of large corporations as is currently the case. However, the nearly religious reverence to capitalism in the US would make such a solution nearly impossible to legislate.
This entire Dopamine Labs thing looks and feels like a really good parody.
Isn't this just building a guide to Congressmen based on their stats, and selling it to lobbyists? I don't mean to say "just" to minimize it, it sounds like a valuable product, but if you tripled or quadrupled that 160 headcount, I'd bet you could build this guide to the same quality and usefulness without using computers.

It doesn't threaten lobbyists, it's a product for lobbyists.
Hi HN, thanks for having us back!

I'm the coFounder and CEO of Dopamine Labs, the company behind Space. Happy to answer any questions!
How large is their search index and how much funding does it take to build an index that can compete with Google?
I had a side project that made some money and was eventually sold. Of course it became an official business entity much after I started working on it. I don't remember the exact timing.

At a later time, when I was applying for a job at a big company, I was informed by HR there was a mistake on my resume. They said I had the wrong start date on my one man company! I assume they looked at the incorporation date and then thought I was fudging my resume.
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This looks awesome! I would love to do something like this with my wife. I would be very interested to see how it works out for you after launch.
I haven't incorporated and don't intend to. I don't need limited liability, and I am not working with companies that require me to incorporate.

Incorporation would mean a ton of paper work, more taxes (in Canada at least), more complications, and 3x the accountant's fees.

For what it's worth, my project nets 200k, is 3 year-old, and I have a degree in accounting and taxation.
My brother made some of the instrumentation for one of the earlier telescopes in Chile at the NOAO in Tucson.
Yes, the "nanometer level" is local flatness not the position. The mirror itself is only polished ~20nm flat.
It is temperature controlled and made of a low expansion ceramic (zerodur?), but still bent by active optics to make the focus of "guide star" perfect (and to deal with any high altitude atmospheric "seeing" artifacts).
This is like a bad parody. If you are seriously considering downloading another app to control your app addiction, maybe it's time to just get a dumb phone or no phone whatsoever.
Maybe, just maybe, they want to get you addicted to that Zen moment. And then they want to make sure that you can only get that Zen moment on their app. Third step? $$$?
Ok, "App Addiction"? Snapchat isn't heroin.
Wow. I didn't know about that.

Kind of casts the whole dispute with Uber thing into a whole different light, doesn't it?
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We don't see it as penance; We see it as part of the same mission.

Sometimes, you wish you did something more (or more regularly). The Dopamine API helps you do that. (go to the gym, pick water over soda, ect)

Sometimes you wish that you did something less. Space helps with that.

They're both tools for making change easier -- for making it easier to be who you want to be.
Yeah, usually this is something customers find out about after-the-fact after they're already using it.

Seems like a weird way to "sell" the app to the end user.
I agree. Their website boasts "Praised and Feared on (Graphic of news outlets)"
It seems like there is a single exact fungus which is causing the trouble.

Can someone explain why it is not possible to create some sort of targeted fungus killer, maybe using something like CRISPR?
Yes, but the rest is not solved by that. Google has really let the search game slide for a while.
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See https://www.sensetime.com/cases#0

There are already companies that are doing that.
How did you incorporate at 2am?
i would think Martin Fowler would know better than this.

to argue that the meaningful rubric of effort ought to be a "product", he creates a straw-man called a "project"

the much more meaningful comparison is to compare products versus "platforms" and "tools/infrastructure"

if he had done that, then he i bet that he would conclude that all three rubrics of effort are necessary, and preferring one vs the other is a question of priority, not "do one instead of the other"

ie: some things you built to sell; other things you build so you can build those things better and more efficiently; and still others you build for use as reusable or modular components across multiple future products, so you don't have to build the same component over again for each product that requires it

"tools", eg: the 250-developer-hours spent on a "project" to create an automated testing & deployment pipeline, will likely net out in a few months and result in higher quality products almost immediately

"platform": a "project" to factor out code common across many workflows in a typical web app, and re-implement that code as microservices having endpoints available to any of the multiple data flows that need them (for instance, "user-login & authentication", "user-profile fetch", "re-ordering user-search results using learning-to-rank algorithm" etc

a project to build such reusable utility micro-services obviously don't result in a "product", and yet such a project is usually cost-justified (in CFO terms) even over short-term periods (< 90 days)
I find it worrying that the buzzfeed template has found its way to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Granted, they did dedicate an entire paragraph to fifty different complicated topics, but the feeling is the same.
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To get Walmart cards, first, you have to apply at any local store to them. You have to apply in the prescribed application which is obtained from the store, fill it completely and return it. Here we check the guide for how to check the status of my Walmart credit card application online. You have to provide some basic information such as contact details, etc.
We get a lot of strong reactions to our work. ;)
In my jurisdiction the actual incorporation is actually quite cheap (don't remember exact numbers unfortunately, but cost wasn't an issue at all). What's expensive is the services of a lawyer, but you really don't need it for a basic incorporation, the process is pretty self-explanatory. (Of course, if it's a startup with multiple co-founders, outside investment, etc, then a lawyer is definitely a must-have). The major cost, for me, is all of the ongoing tax accounting - you either need to pay for expensive bookkeping+accounting, or spend a lot of your time learning to do it yourself.
Trying to "harden" million-parameter models trained on a relatively small number of relevant examples will be a nightmare to make web security look easy.

PS -- NIPS is in Long Beach now? What a shame.
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Ask HN: How do you keep your many projects and subtasks organized?
Really. Whitespace around em dashes hurts my ability to communicate? Please explain.
I would think this is Jana's move and CalSTRS is just a pawn. Rosenstein is scrappy and happy to stir the pot to invoke a stock price spike (see PetSmart sale and Whole Foods).
9. DNS query failed. This often happens with wifi networks that first hijack the connection show their login / ToS
Well, the whole point of encryption is that you can send your message through despite the fact that your adversary can see it.

Replacing that with a system where your adversary can't see your message, and neither can your correspondent, is a downgrade, not an upgrade.
No, but behavioral addictions are a real thing, and (by some measures) they are much more common than drug addiction. As Technologies get better at targeting our learning systems, the promise and parol of these technologies is only going to increase.
Panini's grammar is closest to an instance of a Post canonical system. It is basically a set of general rewriting rules, with features going beyond BNF in power.

This is for pretty much the same reason that the grammatical formalisms modern linguists use also go beyond BNF. Linguists are interested in issues of grammaticality that actually do need context (such as subject-verb agreement) and so obviously context-free grammars can't do the whole job!

(For a programming example, you can see type correctness as a case of how well-formedness of programs depends on context -- whether a variable can be used in an expression depends on its type.)
A tangential comment, but - what excellent styles of both writing and exposition!
Thanks for the endorsement and the HN post arikr!
Why should I say sorry if the OS lost my file?
So.... Can you at least say, "Ok, but I'll pay for more" in the event you find you need more (due to digestive issues)?

I mean, unless that 70cm is soft double plied tissue, you are not gonna get many wipes out of it.
One of the most effective things about capitalism is that when new things replace old things, the new things are preferred by consumers over the things they replace.

This is an extremely good feature when talking about most consumer goods. Modern cups are just as good as old cups but way less expensive. Modern cars are significantly better in basically all ways (perhaps excepting repairability).

There may be a danger, however, when talking about technologies that people use, in part, to keep themselves from being bored - to absorb their attention in other words.

For me personally, Facebook/Internet/Computer Games >> TV >> Radio >> Books at capturing my attention. I suspect that this isn't a very unusual experience.

It may seem reasonable on its face to not let technological artifacts push you around or manipulate you, but honestly, it's not just a computer or a TV. Between TV, the Internet and Computer Games, it's the very best and most able of hundreds of thousands of people working every day to capture your attention.

Honestly, I have no idea if the current generation of attention capturing technology is dangerous. But I do know that what ever displaces what we have now will be better at capturing our attention. And the next generation will be better than that. And eventually, if the trend continues, there will be something that's so good at capturing attention that it is dangerous.
Trademarks only apply within a common industry. Kik the company isn't in the business of creating NPM packages. It's perfectly legal to use the same name for something unrelated to messaging even after the founding date of the commercial entity.
It's disappointing that this needs to be spelled out. It really should be common sense, minimal competency.
I have only ever heard 'steep learning curve' used to indicate that learning efforts have very small returns initially (think about 'how much you know' on the Y and 'competency' on the X)
University of Arizona, U of A or just UA
And from that article...
"It’s also worth noting that, even before future poor doors in New York were banned, 40 Riverside Blvd. had 88,000 applications for 55 low-income units."
> Different psychotherapies do not differ in efficacy on average. The superiority of cognitive-behavioral therapy, etc. is a myth.

Slight nitpick: CBT has a much larger and more reliable body of evidence than most other therapies. It's probably no more effective than other therapies, but it is very cost-effective, mainly because of the short duration of treatment. There is some evidence to suggest that self-guided or internet-delivered CBT may be as effective as traditional CBT delivered by a trained clinical psychologist, which would be a huge win in terms of cost and availability.

On a personal level, I'd recommend trying a wide range of psychotherapies if you can afford it. On a societal level, I endorse mass adoption of CBT. It's not necessarily the best therapy, but it's the easiest to deliver at scale. Access to treatment is the issue right now, especially in lower-income countries.
Better touch tool is my favorite app purchase to date. I'm considering setting up a yearly donation because of how useful it has been for me.
Minister to developer: "people are stealing toilet paper from stalls We have to stop this!"

developer to Minister: "ideal use case for Machine Learning--i'm on it"
Yes, of course, everything seems obvious in hindsight.
You are right. Based on an image in this article [1], the EELT would be the largest optical telescope, once completed in 2022, two years after the GMT, if the dates are correct.

And in the battle for superlatives, the cancelled OLT would have been the largest of them all.

[1] https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/worlds-largest-telesco...
Excellent article! I love to see go more and more in big enterprise companies.

Have you guys looked at moving to rust for any services?
How about using the above example and showing where the third entry is made?
You have clearly never had Giardia or it seems known anyone who has. I have, and let me say that it gives you a deep and terrifyingly intimate knowledge of your bowels, the places available to relieve yourself, and the contents of your excrement. You can spend many hours each day in wonder and awe. Note that although you can live untreated you will become a vector for the disease... it may be that an immune response will allow it to pass in a few days (if you've had it several times before), but you can still pass it on to others. Often symptoms last for several weeks or months unless treated with flagyl (typical treatments last 1-2 weeks). It is quite bad for your liver.

Many of the livestock around the world have it (or other parasites). I don't want to be near anyone else who has any of them, and I think immuno-compromised, elderly, children or pregnant women would be rationally quite afraid.
And Republicans want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
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And what's more, television certainly did drastically change people's attention spans, the nature of news and the public debate, etc. Compare the rhetoric of 19th-Century politicians with what you hear today.
> 13% of people say they are “engaged” in their work – they find it meaningful and look forward to it. Some 63% say they are “not engaged”, which is defined as “sleepwalking through their workday”. And 24% are “actively disengaged”: they hate it.

In my opinion this should be a national emergency on par with something like the opioid crisis (a symptom of this). We're a nation of depressed, drugged up zombies sleepwalking to our unfulfilling office jobs everyday to pay off our student loan / mortgage debt (yes I know not everyone is in that situation, but even if only 10% are that's 30 million people).
Thanks, but I think I've recovered from my curiosity.
> The bill also does not preclude zero-rating

I know I'm in the minority, but I've never seen zero rating as part of NN.

What I worry about is people playing games where services are slowed or blocked.
I actually had the same experience as you. Finding a solution using topological sort. I agree that familiarity with basic data structure and algorithm is a must for engineer. But for interviews that solely depending on fancy coding algorithms that must be done within 15 minutes is insane. Combining grasping of algorithm with problem solving with real project experiences and willingness to learn new tech would be more effective in interview.
Jana is raising a fund for activist socially responsible investing, so that's clearly their motivation [1]. CalSTRS is $1.3B of the combined $2B so I doubt they're "just a pawn".

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-fighters-do-gooders...
Buzzfeed did not invent lists
You must not know anyone well who has depression then. A person can intellectually see that their life is not so bad ... but their emotional and corresponding physical state are an entirely different matter.

An analogy I make sometimes is this. Have you ever been scared while watching a scary movie, or laughed at a comedy or teared up at a fictional drama? Even though your intellect knows the thing you are watching is an artificial event that never really happened, your emotional state and your physical state don't care what your intellectual understanding is.
It's not a relative thing - Camels may not be more addictive than Marlboros, but either company would presumably want to understand the impact of its products addictive tendencies to stay ahead of any regulation.
The complication is that Mr. Snowden did more than that. He also pilfered, and leaked, information about a separate overseas NSA Internet-monitoring program, PRISM, that was both clearly legal and not clearly threatening to privacy. (It was also not permanent; the law authorizing it expires next year.) Worse — far worse — he also leaked details of basically defensible international intelligence operations: cooperation with Scandinavian services against Russia; spying on the wife of an Osama bin Laden associate; and certain offensive cyber operations in China.
That's really interesting. Back in my college days, the lab next to me would run experiments that would routinely pickup vibrations from the road nearby. Even when stabilized on an actively controlled optical table. Which isn't that big of a deal, their experiments would run for a few hours. So they would run it in the middle of the night.

The telescope lab is directly under a stadium, their process for a single mirror is several months/years long. I wonder how they manage their process. Do they just pause and continue once the people leave? I also wonder how damaging the starts and stops (if they do it) are to the final quality of the product.
I wouldn’t say it’s virtue signaling. It’s more like Phillip Morris conducting a study on smoking, or Exxon-Mobil conducting a study on climate change.
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> I just recently learned that Sanskrit was the first language to have its grammar formally specified. Pāṇini in the 4th century BCE wrote down the complete one.

People can say this, but that won't make it true. There are unexaggerated 100% odds that what Pāṇini specified was not a complete description of the speech of his time or any other point in history, just as no complete description of any modern language exists today. It's not for lack of scholastic effort; the idea of completely specifying a human language isn't even well defined.

> I want to know how much of BNF grammar functionality is represented in it. Perhaps BNF is just a rediscovering/reformatting of the Sanskrit grammar?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GUBIJ8/ describes the style in which Pāṇini's rules are written. (I'm not saying this is the best source to answer that question, just that it's a book I've read and its description is probably enough for your purposes.)
Thanks for changing the senseless title in the submission.
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And resources for scientific snipe hunts are basically unlimited.
>I've seen versions of several of these ruin people's lives very close to me.

Well your ones of anecdotes have sold me.
Does anyone care to actually rebut this, or is it just going to be silent downvotes?
> Gold standard. In the domains of psychological and psychiatric assessment, there are precious few, if any, genuine "gold standards." Essentially all measures, even those with high levels of validity for their intended purposes, are necessarily fallible indicators of their respective constructs.

The reason we refer to double blind trials as being the "gold standard" isn't to imply that they have some level of validity, but because they were popularized by Harry Gold.