skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do you have friends inside at the launch team? would help to share some of the conversation here, given what we're planning
we're just going to have to go ourselves.
Apple Can’t Resist Playing by China’s Rules
Sounds like:

- induce mania by sleep deprivation

- take lithium to counteract the mania
The most important skills are the ones in demand in your area, or area that interests you - have a look at the job listings, see what they want and learn that stuff
There's a lot of talk about full stack developers lately, I'm still waiting to find the first full stack manager. Someone who's visionary, yet realistic; confident, yet empathic; powerful, yet humble. I feel like there's some truth to the saying that the best leaders are those who don't consider themselves fit to lead.
Multi-Action Face Wash for men
people drop out of shitty things that undervalue them, which is much of the modern world. welcome to the world, 2.0.
Ask HN: Deep Learning startups made by indie founders?
Hey everyone! I'm interested in DL, but it's hard to come up with practical applications for it that I can create on my own.

It would be really cool to make a project that utilizes the recent advances in DL(seems like a big opportunity), but all the applications that come to mind seem to require a ton of resources(data, compute, scientists, developers), and are useful only for huge companies(self driving cars, search, spam, face recognition, etc).

Are there any DL-centered startups made by solo founders on small budgets?

What are some ideas or areas where a solo developer can make something useful and profitable?
Driverless cars will bring safer roads in terms of exposure measures like deaths/injuries per 1 Million/km. They will also lower the monetary cost of transporting a person per km due to reduction in fleet size and optimised driving and resource allocation. This will benefit nations and economies in providing more economic growth, employment etc by moving more people and goods over the same road network and a smaller fleet.

However they won't solve the fundamental problem of roads being a scarce resource that lack a price signal so the demand is infinite. If you set the price too low you get congestion. If hamburgers were free, everyone would want one and a queue will develop, so instead of paying money you pay with time. It's just the same as "free" parking where you pay time instead of money. Obligatory mention of Donald Shoup and "The High Price of Free Parking".
LN is not a Bitcoin-specific technology; it would allow any cryptocurrency to integrate with it. In fact, atomic swaps have been performed between Bitcoin and Litecoin.

A more likely scenario is that Bitcoin remains a store of value and people exchange Bitcoin for some other cryptocurrency like Litecoin which they'll use for their everyday purchases.
> Indeed, between 2002 and 2007, employment at breweries actually declined in the midst of an economic expansion.

I'm not sure this is a bad thing. Although it means loss of jobs, it also means the breweries got more efficient (producing the same or more with less human effort involved). How does this work, economically? More jobs is good, more efficiency is good, but you can't have both when growth is limited.
Well, actually i still didn't get an answer to why humans evolved their brains in the first place to this level.

Any creature can live with less than 10% of our level of thinking. I mean humans brains is more of a threat to nature than advantage!
Wow, that's an impressive recruitment material (apart from being an interesting read, of course)! That works so much better than a bland "We're hiring" page, having the picture painted that way makes it much easier to imagine yourself taking a side in that "war". Is that a new trend?

Good luck to Steve!
I assume one interpretation of 'ride sharing' is sharing the same pool of cars, but not the same car at the same time.
My favourite living author is now my favourite dead author. It has been such a privilege to read her works.

Ursula Le Guin conjured new worlds and and lay them out before my mind's eye -- but that's not what made her special. Many writers have done that. What she could do -- almost uniquely -- was to conjure a new mind's eye. She understood that the world exists at the point of perception, so she built her worlds out of perception itself.

In her 1994 short story, "Solitude" (collected in "The Birthday of the World"), she tells the story of a culture whose world-view is virtually as opposite to my own as it is possible to be. And she made me believe it. To this day, I can feel the pull of that world-view. It's like being haunted by an alien soul. It's still not my world-view -- not remotely -- but being able to cohabitate with such a foreign consciousness feels... valuable. It gives me awareness that my own way of perception is just of many possible ways of perception -- not as a intellectual conceit, but as a visceral, lived understanding.

Thank you for this, Ursula. I am infinitely grateful.
Proving correctness is not the point of a code review. In fact it would be difficult to make such a proof in sufficiently complex software. Functional correctness is typically "proven" by tests.

A code review ensures that the non-functional quality of the code is high. I.e. that the code is understandable/maintainable by someone other than the programmer himself, that there are no anti-patterns or dangerous-but-correct usages of language features, that the implementation fits to the intent of the specification etc.
> You need or look at all related risks

You are right that traffic pollution is very bad for the lungs, it's actually the cause of 30%-60% of all deaths related to lung diseases, but this is true for everyone not just cyclists. It's the same number of deaths as for sucides but with an inverse demographics graph of course, at least in Sweden. Those numbers are staggering and the solution to that is not to stop bicyclists navigating normal commute traffic.

I would like to say that I do look at the combined risks: There are atleast two longitudinal studies on Dutch and Danish bicyclists that show that using bicycling as an active mode of transport means longer life, basically it's an integration test were you get X% increase in a population by just commuting daily.

Here is some commedy that is obvisouly just Norwegians and Swedes being jealous, but it gives you some view on how we think of Danes, and what might affect their lives a bit more than bicycling, as with your link they are very interesting but irrelevant since they do not affect the same population groups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBtV_S8c1c
The manager is your interface to management. It's their job to tell you what you need to know and what to do. To an employee, they're the face of the business.

But at the end of the day, if it's the people that make up a business, then I'd question if they are not the same thing.

I asked a new acquaintance of mine about something bothering me.

I asked him, "so, how often do you fire people? How do find the right people for your businesses?"

"I hardly ever have to fire anyone," he said. "I ask them questions, and they leave."

Damn.

And the thing is, this pressure isn't faked or manufactured. This isn't anyone trying to fire someone. This is just someone needing work done, and answers.

No business wants anyone incompetent, yet, it happens, because of interviewees lying through their teeth and not knowing any better.

So they walk in and fail to do the exact job they won for themselves, then come the questions.

Now they lose their place and have to leave, knowing they got the job by accident.

There is plenty of real pressure to go around in a real business, and we avoid managerial roles because we know the stakes are higher. We know that having a manager is "safer" than being one, because having a manager is having someone responsible for you, and for your well being. It's how America figured out how to hire from the abundant talent pool of those who can't handle tough responsibilities and stay happy on their own, and those who'd rather have it easier. It's the luxury of being managed.

But above that, it gets even worse. Fewer luxuries, just higher pay. Just think of all the bullets the CEO has to catch with their teeth every day. And wen they fail, it's news.
> However, being "okay" often goes beyond correctness, and into business decisions.

Code reviews occur far too late in the development process for an uninvolved developer to provide a good, timely review of “bigger picture” concerns like business consideration (or software design) simply because the reviewing developer needs time to come up to speed on why decisions were made. In these cases it’s better to have the reviewing developer involved in a review of business requirements before the code is written. The code review can then stay focused on code.
Part of me wonders why this is even surprising. Aren't the execs the ones with all the control over the power-levers? Why do employees expect to ever get something in situations like this? (I'm trying to look at this from an outsiders perspective.) What levers can employees even affect to shift the balance of influence in their favour? Coalitions and complaints I guess is the only thing that comes to mind. So in a sense, this article is not really a neutral reporting of the facts. In a sense, the article is one of a fairly limited set of tools that underdogs can use to shift the balance of power more in their favour.
Very well put. Thank you
“Always Coming Home” is unique and powerful. I struggled with it many years ago, and could not quite tell if I liked it. All the chants and digressions bothered me and I don’t really remember much of the story. What I do remember is finding myself thinking about it and humming or sub vocalizing the damn chants for about a year and feeling like some thing had changed in me or in the world, a different emotional tone, or perhaps the light had changed color. The only other book that had that effect on me was “Gravity’s Rainbow” although in an entirely different way.
thanks for sharing, and sorry for your horrible experience. just want to confirm you scrubbed numbers like the number of shares so there's no way someone can deduce your identity.
Would you like to use the handkerchief i carry?
I work for Pinterest. If Google passed us the image hash in the referrer we could fix this. This is not borne of maliciousness but of the problem with crawling dynamic pages that change over time. With the image hash we could surface the image the user clicked on with relevant context. I’m told Google is working on a fix but I do not know the timeline nor do I work for the relevant internal Pinterest team. We have a great collection of images and attribution so I hope to see better synergy between Google Image Search and Pinterest soon. - With love.
So you run everything as root, or your setup would work just as well if you did?
Isn't this a good use case for the iMac Pro?
Heh. It's always interesting seeing the differences between countries.

> Women have their own behaviour-affecting hormones too, you know.

Of course. I was making a half-joke.
Just wanted to point out how happy I am that Steve is blogging again. I've missed that a LOT. Welcome back!
I'm an overly pedantic reviewer because I feel the review is one of the few places where I can counteract the accumulation of technical debt. Once the less than ideal code is in the codebase it's there to stay. I also ask a lot of pretty dumb questions during a review because I want to make sure that my understanding of the requirements matches the understanding the other engineer had.
Which CPU vendor would you switch to? Although Meltdown is (mostly) an Intel bug, all the main CPU vendors, including AMD and ARM, are affected by Spectre, which is what this particular discussion is about.
It would help a lot if it was x times faster than php7, node etc.
> people are becoming dependent on something that is still very unstable.

What industries would you consider stable today...?
TL,DR;

Leverage CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE. This is an OS only fix resulting in effectively zero overhead for chips other than Skylake.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/23/25

There's another possible method to avoid deep stacks on Skylake, without
compiler support:

- Use the existing mcount based function tracing live patching machinery
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y) to install a _very_ fast and simple stack depth
tracking tracer which would issue a retpoline when stack depth crosses
boundaries of ~16 entries.

The overhead of that would _still_ very likely be much cheaper than a hundreds
(thousands) of cycle expensive MSR write at every kernel entry
(syscall entry, IRQ entry, etc.).

Pretty damn cool if it works.
I agree with you that 10X managers exist, but it's utter nonsense to claim that 10X developers don't exist. I've met people who are possibly at the 100X level; it's worth remembering that some tasks cannot be done by an average developer with any amount of time.

I imagine that there are probably tasks that don't allow the 10X or 100X to show through; anything basic and repetitive enough (or so heavily specified that the developer's job is essentially "typing").
In Chromium it worked.
Thank you. While I believe their actions are disgraceful, it only adds fuel to their fire. My belief is we need to find a way to understand their concerns as best we can to show them their fears are un-grounded. Even if it was in jest which I fully appreciate, to the 'other side' it looks like what it was.
Anyone interested in the evolutionary basis of psychiatric conditions would do well to read Robert Trivers, an evolutionary psychologist.
This is a really great observation. A lot of the time when people say "but that problem is NP!" is it still likely that you'd be able to solve it by exploiting some structural properties of the specifics.
So, it's like bitbaloon but with a self destruct timer? I use bitbaloon when needing to host a few static HTML files for demo purpose. Also, please add a message for disabled js users (noscript with site text in it)
A minority of core devs work for blockstream. There are routinely dozens of devs every months comitting to github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin and only half a dozen work for blockstream. Chaincode labs commit more code than Blockstream.

Bitcoin is sound money like gold was a long time ago. MOE is going to happen as a use case, it's just far from being the most important use case.
Sorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it
The rise in viability also comes through the new knowledge we now have on gamification which may prevent the citizens from gaming the system. RIP Ursula.
Ruby on Rails: Active Record Facets and Filters for Searching
Well at least no one seems to be sour over it, unlike the cancellation of the genomics x prize, which really ticked off several of the entrants. Whoever was running that one should be embarrassed.
I know what people mean when they say "dark side of the moon" but it always bothers me. There is no "dark side" to the moon. The picture that got stuck in my head was seeing the moon transit the earth: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/08/21/4296866.ht...

Beautiful picture.
There's an even larger (huge, in fact) graveyard in Tucson, Arizona:

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.1589671,-110.8350419,2145m/d...
The book was mostly about how Anarchism and Capitalism produce power structures that work against the individual.

The communists in the book were not mentioned a lot from what I remember (there was a communist state on Urras?).
The feeling can absolutely be found here too if you are unlucky. Calling it antagonistic would be hyperbolic of me.
FedEx Express offer convenient delivery options for customers in Asia Pacific
This is nice, simple and easy to use. I run a small print shop and have an idea to build something like this, where my customers can upload their design and order from our site.

Is it possible to build something like this without back-end work? Can I build this on static site? I know little bit of JavaScript. We build our static site with Jekyll and GitHub.

Edit: No need to edit the file. They can only upload and order (maybe send it as an email when they push "order"?). That's it, nothing else. Thanks!
How depressing. Our living planet is collapsing at a dizzying and increasing pace, and not only do our 'best and brightest' (if that's what they are) work largely on trivia designed to accelerate the collapsing trend, they advertise their superficiality with this crude purported messianic zeal. Froth and bubble atop the dank turbid waters.
Tellingly, when I interviewed with Intercom their "culture fit" manager was extremely rude and condescending, and constantly interrupted. Everyone else was polite, but if this is the person who gets to decide "yeah, they'd fit in here" that's a pretty huge problem.

People turn you down because of managers, not companies, too.
Its the side of the Moon that's dark when it faces the earth?
A lot of books can be found as PDF or ePub on pirate sites. If you already paid for the physical book there is zero moral issue in pirating a digital version of the book rather than spending your time manually scanning it and having to deal with OCR problems etc.

So yeah I recommend you always look for a pirate version first before you decide to scan.

You will come across a lot of spam, but if you know what to look for it's pretty easy to quickly distinguish fake sites from the legit ones. If you don't know what to look for you will discover that soon enough after you've run across enough fake and real sites.

Edit: I see below that you already do this. Leaving this comment up though in case it helps other users.
You mean sharing a ride like say a big, long vehicle with lots of seats that visits a number of stops on a route? Yeah, that would be a great idea. We could improve this even further by giving the ride-share vehicle it's own lane, then turn both the wheels and the road surface into metal to reduce friction. BRB, going to the patent office...

Not to be too snarky, but as a non-american it has been amazing to watch the internet debate on the future applications of automated cars these last few years. Slowly but surely people are starting to figure out that public transport is a good thing.
Haskell checks all those boxes, plus it’s been around for 28 years. Yes, I am a fanboy. That said, it’s a hard language to learn.

Seems like there’s a mass migration away from Ruby for performance reasons, with people flocking to languages with familiar syntax, e.g., Elixir, Crystal, even though there are very different language semantics.
Is there any hope of seeing your cperl efforts in mainstream perl? Would you be able to disregard recent history with p5p if you were welcomed back?
I have a unique requirement for this sort of thing without any of the locational information but a region of the map highlighted (like a zone map). It’s probably not something you can help with, but these maps are beautiful.. is the tech stack open source?
The burden to track company behaviour shouldn't be on customers. The normal way to counter this is via unions.
Thanks for your comments. This is very much an early prototype and I appreciate your comments. I will be looking to add the ability to comment next. Regarding adding text at the bottom I thought it might be easier for people to read a glimpse of text before deciding to open the link, I’ve found this useful in my own browsing. The actual link has a 5 second redirect because I am using the free tier currently for webhose.io api (a great news scraping provider). if I get enough traction I may look at getting a paid account, but this is very much a side project
>It’s basically non-stories because your OS matters as little as what programming language you use.

>Pick the one that works for you, but don’t become a fucking missionary or tie your personality to your brand of choice.

I do what I want and you can't tell me what to do!

I think RMS was and is right and computing should not be viewed through a purely pragmatic lense, and I'm going to keep mentioning the importance of foss and copyleft to the future of computing and how it enables freedom for the user until I see fit to stop.

I think OS choice greatly matters. I say this as a senior sysadmin who has had to support all 3 major OS's for over a decade. Windows 10 was the final straw for me and I went completely gnu/linux and haven't looked back since except to feel sorry for all the stockholm syndrome I see in those chained to those ecosystems.
Yay! Glad you stayed. We'd be sad to lose you :(

If Disqus built an optional/configurable load-comments-button feature into the product, would you use it?
Wouldn't cheaper housing increase the pool of people willing to work in the SF Bay Area?
>> they shouldn't be in the job

or may be we should find a job where constructive criticism is part of the culture and you then leave the current job! Relatively easier to find where the change exists than investing effort to bring about a change.
>The same with men and women - I think it's fair to say that men drive more powerful, larger cars(on average) than women do. So....they get into more accidents because the cars they drive are objectively more difficult to drive. Which obviously means that you should calculate your premium based on the type of vehicle being insured, not on the gender of the driver - and, by extension, insurance for a man and a woman, on the same vehicle, should be identical. Penalizing a man in this situation because men as a group get into more accidents is absolutely unfair.

The simplest "AI" (linear regression) will already factor this out if it has the data about the car driven and gender. Any remaining gender imbalance is attributable either to another factor or it is actually gender related (e.g. increased road rage, high speed driving and risky following behavior due to testosterone might be a stronger accident predictor than too careful driving (not speed matching fast enough when merging on the highway), too slow driving or worse spatial reasoning which are usually correlated with higher estrogen levels.)

In general the AI will just become a better predictor the more data it has available and the more detailed the data is. But an effeminate man or a manly woman might behave more than the opposite gender and thus be treated wrongly. We could probably solve this by tacking on a recent endocrinological report to every application, but this gets quite privacy invasive at some point.

In general if you get insurance you want to be part of a larger risk group to mitigate your effects. Having no insurance just means you have the most fair risk group, which is just yourself.
When it comes to big issues (eg the UKs EU referendum or national elections in either the US or UK) I don't believe there are a lot of agendas being pushed. If anything, the majority of the mainstream press tend to rally behind the same interests and that position is usually the one that the owners of said news outlet stand to gain the most. (eg leaving the EU, supporting a corporation friendly government such as Trump / Tories, even denying climate change so they have fewer restrictions et al running their business).

Just because there is more choice in "independent" news outlets, it doesn't mean there is more independent opinions being voiced.