skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing the score jump up and down, this seems controversial, I'll expand a bit:

Our economy is a dissipative structure, not unlike fire, nuclear chain reactions and living organisms. It consumes energy (dissipates it, actually, increasing total entropy) in order to perpetuate itself.

Its real currency isn't money, but energy. Money and finance are tools to set its goals and direct its actions.

Fundamentally, supply is energy/matter/recipes to transform either.

Demand stems from survival instinct and reflexes. Humans demand material security, the market provides it in exchange for labor. The economy demands to be kept running through our work and keeps us mostly safe in exchange.

Those instincts/reflexes were acquired by anything alive thanks to evolution.

Currently, companies are subject to heavy selection pressure. They've been morphing at an impressive pace thanks to technological progress, becoming ever more efficient thanks to automation. Only the most efficient stay afloat. At some point, feeding humans will not be the most efficient way to keep themselves up and running, and when that occurs, we will be too dependent to survivie without them.

The primary and secondary sectors are becoming autonomous fast (autonomous tractors, trucks and mining equipment), and so is the industry. The tertiary sector is only useful as long as humans themselves are useful to the first two sectors.
Since all you need is one instance, let me share. I am a runner. I run a lot to stay in shape. I am not particularly slow, and ran track in school. I ran once with a friend of mine who had a natural runners build, but wasn't a runner and hadn't run in years. He smoked me, trotting along effortlessly while leaving me behind absolutely breathless.

It depends on what you are doing but sometimes people are just wired for something better than others. But everyone can almost always get much better with training.
> The extraordinary claim is that whiteboard testing (or take-home projects, or...well, anything in the current tech interview) does any of those things.

This is just a naked assertion. This kind of testing happens in many places and industries, and many people seem to believe it's useful. Maybe they're all deluded, but that's precisely why I'm calling it an extraordinary claim.

Do you really think it is obvious, prima facie, that asking people to demonstrate some skills on their feet, or to do a short sample of work for you, tells you nothing about their ability to do good work? If so then I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree.

Edit: I'll add that I personally "interviewed for excellence" as a professor for many years. There was, as far as I could tell, no doubt among professors that interviewing was a non-trivially useful part of evaluating a candidate for graduate school. Again, maybe we were all deluded. But that's a claim that demands some proof.
Ah, "trust the VPN". Sounds naive :) at least the Tor exit node can't directly match my traffic with my payment information.
Have they even started tracking transfer yet? For years, it was unlimited. Then, they implemented the tiers but told people they weren’t actually tracking it, and that all old accounts were grandfathered in.
End-to-end encryption with full search and chat history is pretty hard to do.
All those who jumped on that bandwagon found they couldn't get it rolling, because the wheels looked like hexagons in order to make d = 2πr work out.
Yes, that would be fine and is fully realizable. In the client-server model of end-to-end encryption, a server self-hosted by the user is isomorphic with a user's client. They're effectively the same thing.

The tricky part here is defining who the user is. If you're implementing end-to-end encryption for data on a per-employee basis, you're back to square one with a self-hosted server. But if you're implementing end-to-end encryption for data on a per-organization basis, and the organization has a self-hosted instance it controls, then yes, end-to-end encryption is compatible with organization-wide message search.
I'd be surprised if he shunned collectivism if it were a kind that he agreed with, ie: the Judeo-Christian pro-family values (ie: men and women are destined to for monogamous marriage, homosexuality is sinful) collectivism.

He sounds like a hardcore libertarian but I think it's a smokescreen for ideologically-driven oppression under another name.
I am reminded of three texts: "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" by Wayne R. Moore[1], Tektronix's "Low Level Measurement Handbook"[2] and LTC Application Note 47 "High Speed Amplifier Techniques"[3]. All three deal with systems at the limits of precision, whether mechanical, electrical, or temporal.

Say you want to measure a length. Easy right? Just take a measuring tape or ruler and put it next to the thing to be measured. But what if you need really high accuracy over a reasonably long distance. Say, to within a tenth of a millimeter (100 μ) over a meter long distance or more. Now temperature matters: your scale will expand differently than the object being measured if they aren't the same material. Humidity has similar effects. Traditional length standards were metal bars, but metal bars sag under their own weight, changing the distance between the ends. Modern standards use interferometers to create a length standard, but those require very good mirrors and monochromatic light sources for proper operation. That's without getting into electronic measurement systems for the interferometers, and the required sensitivity there...

And you still need a way to transfer the accuracy from the interferometer to a practical measuring scale. That brings back concerns of temperature. Human handlers transfer heat, leading to local expansion. Light is absorbed differently by objects of different color, leading to different expansion. Etc.

The further you try to push the accuracy and precision the more details start to matter, and the more disciplines start to get involved.

[1] http://mooretool.com/publications.html (it can be found on Gen Lib, but is worth the price)

[2] https://www.tek.com/document/handbook/low-level-measurements...

[3] https://cds.linear.com/docs/en/application-note/an47fa.pdf
Why Chrome only? Any Safari support planned?
Yes - my point is that the VPN is itself an exit node too.
I don't see much skepticism about blockchain technology itself. Skepticism regarding the value of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies are warranted, IMO.
I worked on self governing teams without manager, twice. Never again. Relationships were hell with constant power struggle between wanna be micromanagers over who is going to be non existent leader and get to have his vision.

Clear responsibilities, accountability and personal autonomy are so much, so much, better arrangement then self governing team.
The magic of heat pumps
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Here's a good article about this law, with many examples:
http://asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
Have been using Chargebee for our B2C subscription product since December 2016, with plenty of European customers, and can heartily vouch for it.
Right, but Tor itself includes their own implementation of "cert pinning", so you are protected from an insecure Wifi network by using it (of course, you are then at the mercy of the exit node, but that's another matter).
Is "Enterprise rental" some sort of auto-text substitution error?
Fully agree, Schneider Weisse is excellent. Other great Bavarian Weißbier breweries are Hopf and Unertl, but they're probably even harder to get outside of Bavaria.
I use Netflix all the time, every time I check Amazon video the landing page looks the same, no new shows or movies. In fact my video landing page has looked the same for a good 2 months now. I'm not sure if they haven't added anything new or they just suck at promoting the new additions...
I think that says more about the sad state of the living situation we Americans have engineered ourselves into over a few generations, with suburban sprawl and car culture, more than anything. If we think about it even just a tiny bit, it seems absurd that the majority of our society has little choice but to live in a situation where most of our material needs aren't a 15 minute walking distance away.
Where are you getting a 50% tax rate from?
SpaceX ran a promotion for employees where everything was 50% off. A few of my friends worked there and I was broke so for 2.50 for cofee mugs, hats and shirts was pretty attractive. I was a spacex brand whore for 6 months due to poverty. Love tge company though, if you can ever tour that facility I cant recommend it enough
User testing is a must have for digital design, otherwise the designers you work with are just graphic designers who pretend to know the tenets of UX through skimming some medium articles occasionally and do a great disservice to us folks who come from academia with degrees in HCI.
German vehicles are very beautiful, but they are meh. Seriously all style, low tech, high cost.

Japanese vehicles. No style, low tech, reliable.

GM and Ford. Style, high tech, risk into reliability.

The appeal is just like buying an Apple or Nintendo product. Its the brand name you pay for, not the features.
Well, if you want slack to be able to search chats history, it needs to be able to access it in some way.

So if your 'resonable expectation of security' involves slack not being able to read your chat history, you are going to have to give up search.

Otherwise, the reasonable expectation of security will have to rely on trusting slack to properly secure their side of things.
A hotel has banned YouTubers and Instagram stars
Congratulations, you counted mobile usage, not desktop usage.

I mentioned a 43% desktop ussge for Firefox.
>Afaik the tax situation in Europe is super complicated and you have to charge the tax of the country the customer is from.

This is why you have to keep in mind of possibility of setting up a fulfillment centre outside of EU economic area and countries with which EU has tax deals with, but on the border with it.
I would strongly suggest you spend a decade in the cancer business before making claims like this.
In one on one or small group conversations, I say I don't know all the time.

In one to many conversations like a thread on Hacker News, why would I say "I don't know" unless I'm specifically addressed or have a side point to make? It's noise, and doesn't help anyone.
I’ve never encountered this interpretation before either.

The only way I can make some sense of it is by drawing a correspondence between postmodernism’s “there is no absolute truth, only convenient fictions” and marxism’s class warfare.
At this point, given Amazon's increasing reputation for selling knockoffs, I would rather trust big-box stores with any purchase more than $50, or on anything more complex than a coffetable.
> Take out things that are irrelevant to the job

I would also say that these reflect poorly on the candidate:

- listing hobbies
- personal website (good candidates don't need to pad their resumes with one)
- links of poor quality. It's a turn-off to see a link to github full of forks of learning material from code schools, or a twitter account that is talking about overwatch.
Reg. last point:

I think there is a little dissatisfaction deep down in all of us. i.e there is a little yin in our yang and vice-versa.

But i often wondered why is that, the answer i found is thats whats help move us forward, that little unstability. I donno maybe its life's design.

The more you think about it, more you will like this idea and see positive relaxed in tough situations.

But, that little deep pain is really bad on arrival. Meditations and mind tools works great for me, in these situations.

something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkrhH-bkpk
You were one of that day's lucky 10,000:

https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
Unless I'm mistaken, this isn't actually open source, as it's under a non-commercial clause.

edit: there is an open issue about it: https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu/issues/4
There is nothing stopping an on-prem appliance from being able to automatically update. Of course, once you do that, you are again putting trust back into the third party, so you lose some of what you gained.
You’re not helping your case when you say that a mistake in common courtesy could lead to suicide.
It is “well known” as in “this was worked out 200 years ago and is a foundational idea for several branches of mathematics and every undergraduate studying science, mathematics, or engineering learns this several times in multiple classes before the end of college, and readers of a mathematician’s blog post about his new research results can be expected to be well familiar with the idea, and if they aren’t the research will not be meaningful to them anyway”.
Well pi does equal 3 if you round it down.
I know it's Laws of UX, but I first read the domain name as Law of Sux.
In MMA, pretty much everyone who gets into the octagon is already training as hard as they can, so in this case you're correct that innate advantages dominate outcomes.

I was more thinking outside the top 1% of any particular skill, for example when you're hiring a designer or sales staff in a normal company (as in, a not-1% company, such as a refrigerator manufacturer or something).

I'm willing to concede that if you're looking exclusively at top 1% or top 0.01% candidates, you may profit best by taking their innate abilities into account, but if you're trying to find a top 80% or top 70% candidate (if you're trying to play moneyball with your organization or something) I personally would weight the depth and breadth of experience most.
> It’s worth pointing out that Peterson is actually not against using a variety of gender pronouns per se.

At some point, what someone literally says they are or aren't against starts to pale in comparison to the perception of their stance. And if that perception persists, at some point, one has to call into question their sincerity.
Combining process (source) and destination rule combos, the Little Snitch could be customized to "solve" this issue. Process A is allowed to talk to domains X, Y and Z.

"Solve" not solve because, for me, setting up baseline rule sets was too intrusive to my workflow.
"Wealthy, advanced economies" is quite extensible concept. There are some small, not so wealthy countries on the list. No real correlation here.

And if you are wondering, why Nigeria is not on the list — well, isn't it obvious? I mean, even if the country was very successful during its history, but barely keeping on the float right now — probably the 1000 y.o. family business wouldn't be currently active as well.
Little evidence that not completing antibiotic course contributes to resistance
Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear has a tip I found really useful: set the navigation device so north is up, "you'll never get lost again" (he exaggerates a lot).
So it is open source, but you're not free to do what you want with it.
That comment makes me chuckle. These days, I have close to zero faith in commercial software that is "free", assuming that the business model is selling my data.

I happily paid for Little Snitch and was comforted by the fact that I was the customer.
So what is the author trying to say? This post seems pretty incoherent. I don't understand the point, and he just flip flops through topics without connecting the dots. Also not a fan of this writing style..

> This ought probably to mean

> Meanwhile, the same applies somewhat even

> accelerating and interlocking ... discontinuous and cascading
I don't know if the inverse correlation exists, but I doubt the explanation provided (that smart people often do not know or won't admit what they don't know).

Coming from academic circles, we consider such people as the "mildly" smart. As in, being uninformed is OK (you know you are uninformed). Being only a little informed is dangerous (you don't know what you don't know). And the most informed are OK too (they know quite well the limits of their knowledge). The smart people you are talking about do not usually survive academia.

In my own personal experience, I find the false confidence to be quite orthogonal to intelligence. I see plenty of low intelligence folks have the same problem, and plenty of high intelligence folks have it, and do not see a clear relation where one is more prone to it than the other. More like: You are humble and always doubt yourself (which is the academic's concept of "smart" - continually trying to tear down your own theories), or you are arrogant and do not. Intelligence is unrelated.
> I've come to understand that what all their excuses amount to is that they're just not interested in creating.

I don't think this is true. If they were uninterested, they would simply say so, rather than making a series of excuses. What seems more likely to me is that they are (on a deep level) scared of creating.

Creativity of any sort requires you to project your personality and be vulnerable in a way that people don't normally do. This can be pretty scary when most actions people do don't open themselves up to possibly being criticized on such a personal level. I think when people aren't creative it's not that they don't care, but rather that the fear of being judged (whether conscious or unconscious) is too strong to overcome. This is why people "don't have any creative ideas" - it's not that they don't have ANY, but instead that they reject the ideas that they do have because they think they are not good enough.

This is also the basis of writers block.
Obviously there's no "right" for a kid to get into one of those high demand schools though. Otherwise we're already violating the rights of everyone who doesn't get a spot

That's not obvious, since it depends on the state and even the district.

In districts that determine enrollment geographically, a child does have the right to go their local high school if they are within the zone assigned to that school. This has been a contentious issue in districts in CA and NY when they redraw school feeder zones (usually when opening up new schools or closing non-performant schools).

[Note that like all rights, it can be limited, if for example the student gets suspended or expelled for disciplinary issues. This is similar in context to the prohibition on firearm ownership by felons.]
me :)
I remember in 2000 when I first installed ZoneAlarm as a trial I noticed that Word wanted to connect to something, and I was thinking "why would Word want to escape my PC?

Later I switched to McAfee Corporate Firewall (in which I could even allow/block IPs/ports).

Now I am proudly using WFC that someone mentioned in another post earlier.
Just because I didn't have time do everything on the todo list and in the end I had to make the call that the target audience are likely to have Chrome installed.

It will support all modern browsers in time when I get time to examine why it doesn't work on other browsers.
Acting U.S. Register of Copyrights Sounds Alarm Over Copyright Act Restatement
If you sincerely wanted that, then I would at least try to respect that.

You don't need to. You can choose to or not to. And they can choose to think you're an asshole. That's their choice.

You can't control what they think of you just as they can't control what you call them.
Reminds me of the difficulty of measuring the heights of mountains like Everest.
There's the academic philosophical postmodernism, which rejects metanarratives. Then there's a derived ideology taken up as the basis for a lot of Intersectional activism which can be termed "Social Constructionism." As is the case for many activist derivations of ideology, there is some straying away from the original academic version.

While postmodernism claims it rejects metanarratives, like the one in Marxism, the derived ideologies share a lot of parallels in effect. They both result in opposing groups which can't effectively talk to each other, so must coerce each other by force. (Doesn't this remind you of the Intersectional "Stack Ranking" and the "Oppression Olympics?") They both effectively result in a rejection of logic. They both effectively create their own forms of obscurantist alternative "logic." The ideological effect of both Marxism and Social Constructionism is to come up with a pretext for rejecting existing standards and tearing society apart -- one which is ideologically sealed against negotiation, logic, and adaptation to evidence.
I question how handy a handyman who only charges minimum wage could possibly be. The union guys who put together the furniture in my last office were getting $50 or $60/hr IIRC.
Dejavu 1.4 release – the missing web UI for Elasticsearch
You are calling someone's sincerity into question because other people have an incorrect perception of what they are saying?
It was my impression that he intentionally cultivates those aspects of his public persona. That is, if I can't deal with those particular points of personal obnoxiousness, I probably also won't hang credulously on his every word. In that case why would he want to interact with me at all? He's not the only person to employ this strategy. Personally I'm more willing to endure the idiosyncrasies of e.g. RMS.
The site looks nice, but I had to do way to much clicking to see the information. I gave up after the thrid law.
If you have a better data set on which to make decisions, feel free to share it. People need to make the best decisions they can with the information available to them.
"The genetic lottery is unfair; and some people are just better than you no matter what you do, and no matter what they don't do."

This is clearer in some fields than others -- particularly in fields where there are child prodigies, like in chess, music, or mathematics.

In other fields, child prodigies are rare or perhaps even non-existent.

There are, to my knowledge, no child prodigies who've written brilliant novels, or earned the Nobel Prize for Literature (as flawed a measure of talent as it is). There are no children who've composed poems which are considered to be among the greatest in the world.

These fields tend to draw upon a whole life's worth of experience -- something that children obviously lack and can't make up for through "winning the genetic lottery".
This is the THIRD tether FUD article to make it to the front page today. What's the deal?
A breakdown step in your development process breaks down work into equally sized chunks, that all count against WIP limits. If you're interested in using Kanban for software development I suggest checking out Eric Brechner's book and youtube videos.
I love the ease and concept of digital ocean, but for some reason my billing for $5 droplets always charged $5 a month per droplet and then some seemingly random smaller amounts of money here and there during a month.

I never could figure out the plan, mainly because I thought it was just $5 a month period
So you don't use broadcast tv, radio, most free apps, any road with signs/billboards, etc.? Advertising is in more places than you think.
Based only on glancing through the linked product page... here are some LS features LuLu currently lacks:

* Reporting domain names rather than just reporting destination IPs.

* Inbound monitoring & rules

* Temporary rules that auto-expire (e.g. Once, next 15 mins, etc.)

* Fine-grained control over protocol/domain/subdomain in blocking rules (at least when prompted)

* Graphical monitor of recent blocked/allowed traffic

* Profiles to easily change rule sets based on network, etc.

* Unclear whether LuLu provides special handling of connection attempts during startup, software updates, etc.

* Graphical installer, polish, support, etc.

...OTOH, LuLu does provide features I don’t recall seeing in LS:

* Icon indicating whether originating binary has been signed by system/third party/unsigned

* Button to optionally check binary hash against VirusTotal
Good point - there we have our margin for exceptional language stability: ~20 years, set by both Java and C++. I guess Go v1 still needs a few more years to even be half that old... :-)
What Is CryptoArt?
There are five lights!

https://youtu.be/o_eSwq1ewsU