skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The parent suggests removing the makefile entirely and running `make main`, and observing the result. That would be a learning experience! But, if you don't want to humor that, the thing to say is: The result is that it works, and correctly builds the program, without a makefile at all.

Exactly my intention. Thank you, I was worried after the first response from the other person that I'd worded myself too poorly and that more people would think I was being "self-impressed and coy" when that was not the intention at all.
You think that having menses somehow makes women the only people who understand the risks of blood thinners?
'We Shall Overcome' was unfortunately forever destroyed for me by a Swedish politician (Birgit Friggebo) who suggested it once in a meeting with a lot of agitated people[1] in order to "lower the mood" (sic). As stated in the Wikipedia article[2] this is probably one of the most embarrassing moments in Swedish politics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqPMROclcM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Shall_Overcome#Widespread_a...
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> and Snowden sitting in Russia of all places.

The US cancelled his passport while he was in transit there. If they had any will to have him go somewhere else and not to the Russians with who-knows-what data they could simply have reversed that action and let Snowden go on to Ecuador or wherever.
They are using different metrics of success. That kind of social hustling that is devoid of any meaningful engineering is indeed a way to make a very decent and respectable personal income, even if none of your businesses are ever that useful or produce any good technology.

Whereas most hackers I think view success as “changing the world for the better directly via the production of software or electronics”.
But then I have to install the virtualenv script in every dev environment, when really the stdlib version is perfectly fine and requires no extra hacks.

It's an annoyance specific to Debian and to this day I'm not sure I understand the rationale for splitting it out of the main python3 package.
My experience with Glassdoor has been terrible. A couple of months ago I found an email notification in my inbox that someone had left us a review. I was surprised because we're an early stage three-person startup. We never hired any employees or contractors. The review was bad, and the reviewer who was anonymous claimed that he/she had done an internship with us. As the "owner" of our company's profile on Glassdoor, I had no access to any information about the reviewer, nothing. I flagged the review hoping that Glassdoor would take care of it. A day later I received an email saying, we're sorry, there's nothing we can do, the review stays. They told me that my only option was to reply to the review and hope they'd see that its not for us and remove it. Needless to say, I was not happy. I took a closer look at the review, and found out that the reviewer had mentioned "our office" in Singapore. I did some digging and found another company with the same name in Singapore. I reached out to Glassdoor again with all this info, screenshots, website links, etc and there response was basically the same. Something about their community policy. I was forced to reply to the reviewer who eventually realized we were not the same company and ended up removing the review. The whole process was a huge waste of time and energy. Never again will I trust Glassdoor or anything on it. By the way, there's no way to remove your company's profile. Think long and hard before you create a profile there.
http://exchange.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-YDC-...

How much does an Uber driver make per mile? How much potentially productive time do they spend not earning, cleaning and otherwise trying to keep their rating up?

https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/amp/

Goddamn that’s not good. I’ll say it again, you can earn orders of magnitude more by begging. I don’t recommend that, but I don’t recommend Uber either.
This won’t happen.

1. Pharmaceutical companies want people to take it.

2. Insurance companies would want humans to take it.

3. Once a drug is invented, if it is kept hidden or secret, the people who administer the drug would want it for their families. There would be whistle blowers, there would be leaks.

As soon as it is leaked labs in China or India or anywhere would reproduce it and longevity tourism would ensue.
My issue was that I wasn't very familiar with ipv6, and my ISP (OVH) apparently gave my server a range of about 256 ipv6 addresses, and I didn't really know how to properly set up reverse DNS and SPF. After spending a day or two getting nowhere, I just decided to turn off ipv6 completely for the server.
If I only have 8 bytes of ram and a program counter I can do it...

For (I=0; I<1<<31; I++)
For (J=0; J<1e6; J++)
If (input[J]==I) print(I);

Shoddy runtime, but hey...
My employer provides free meals, and it's amazing how much of an outsized effect it has on my affection for them, relative to the actual cost to them of the perk. I know there's plenty of other perks that they spend more money on than the free food (office in good location, 401k match, and healthcare for starters), but the free food really sticks out as something I'm appreciative of. I'd definitely miss it once I no longer had it.
What I truly don't get from the tether is how its almost at parity on kraken (https://www.kraken.com/charts) You would expect a sizable discount going on for all the shennaningans.
From the HN Guidelines:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

You may think that encouraging experimentation without giving an explanation is rude, but to me it's just a different way of sharing knowledge.
Weekend fun?
Unleashed in April, as in April 1st? This whole April fools jokes thing in the tech world is getting a bit crazy if the joke is pre-announced three months before.
Taking a quick look at Vigilant Solutions has been interesting. Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company started by ex 8200 IDF 'graduates'.

The founder Adi Pinhas may ring a bell --- he also founded SuperFish!

Worth noting that the EFF have been on ALPR tech for years. Signing up for their emails has given me opportunities to contact representatives regarding ALPR legislation and decisions I would have never heard about otherwise.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aeff.org+ALPR
This all seems quite reasonable though. You want people to be able to signal terrible employers to the rest of the market. It really sucks that you got stuck in that situation, but if Glassdoor starts agreeing to take down bad reviews then they just turn into a shakedown racket like Yelp.
> Why does anyone trust them? Why did anyone trust them?

Greed. I get why people would trust BTC, Ether (before the DAO hardfork, that is) or Dogecoin, as these had real value and usecases (e.g. Bitcoin for getting high quality weed, ecstasy or guns, and Dogecoin for having fun + a quick-and-easy donation way on Reddit other than gold). But the other ~1.5k coins listed on https://coinmarketcap.com/? What in blazes? People stuck billions of dollars into altcoins!
The maximum entropy is what is important, to the encoding challenge, as I understood it.
He used hat's to fund the company and promised this as a joke if the hats hit the sales mark.
> As one of the apparently few remaining people on HN who like Google and are excited about the technology they're producing

Lol, as someone who criticized Google on multiple occasions, just wanted to point out that it’s OK to call them out when they (may be) wrong and still like their technology.
To be honest I never found these things to be anything more than a curiosity. I'm yet to see a system that produces music that I would call "good".
Really depends on the specific loan program, but in general the majority of owners or employees must be black, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. Not sure about the process of proving that though. There are loan programs for woman-owned businesses as well.

http://www.mwbe.com/cert/certification.htm
Tesla's Chademo adapter is $450, so it doesn't sound to me like it's a life-or-death issue for any car company with volume to back the right or wrong fast charging technology.
As cameldrv said, information theory. The late David MacKay has a good free book:

http://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.html

The intro chapters cover the topic of measuring informational entropy.

Aside: One interesting application is to the problem of “use a balance scale only three times to determine which of twelve balls has the wrong weight (too heavy or light)”. You choose the weighings so as as to maximize the entropy of the outcome i.e. so there are many possible outcomes of equal probability.
To quote madam secretary, "at this point, what difference does it make".

People have been more then willing to give up their data to FB, Google, Apple, etc. The only difference is this is captured by governments --who at least in theory represent the voting public.

It'll be interesting to see what the outcome is. Will the public demand the government regulate industry as well as ask it to rein in its own capabilities, or will they just get used to it and accept it?

We'll have to see. Some technologists, libertarians and interestingly an intersection of right wing and left wing ideologies will oppose this for different reasons, but in the end, I think they will be a minority in total.
Walking the Tightrope Between Chaos and Order–An Interview with Jordan Peterson
That doesn't seem that unreasonable though. If a company is going through a rough merger I'd like to know that.
Not that I'm suggesting you do or don't do this, or that it's right or fair, which usually has some form of 'eligibility' for awarding contracts to business, the usual workaround is to hire a figurehead CEO who is a minority (or disabled war veteran, or whatever other status the government determines worth worth investing in).

I say figurehead because that's usually what they are, but there's nothing to suggest that you couldn't find an eligible co-founder or, to really work the system, find an eligible co-founder who is politically connected in some way.
I think it's just selection bias: the people most likely to take the time to write a review are those who either had an amazing experience or an abysmal one. People with feelings in the middle usually aren't as motivated.
That's because this is just another scheme like the hats. The goal is to raise money for the Boring Company, not necessarily to deliver a product. It's a novelty and a way for people to support the company -- that's it.
CharityNavigator entry for Highlander Center: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...
> Latex equations are exported as pngs (for PDF export because I don't think prince does Mathjax, but org mode can export to mathjax).

Prince does MathML, at least, if you want to avoid images.
You don't have a point. Ms. Nichols' argument is that moral face-offs are (and this is an exact quote) "a recent invention that evolved in concert with modern nationalism" -- Beowulf -- Christianized or not -- is a hard counter to that argument. Christ was born, and Beowulf was recorded, much earlier than modern nationalism.

For what it's worth, I can even win the harder argument (considering Beowulf as a piece of non-Christianized Norse mythology), but that's beyond my scope. Margins too small, etc.
This article makes good points. For me the most salient is that the current reward structure ("how many strange new positive results have you published?") skews published research across almost all scientific fields, and that science in general needs to find a better way to incentivize the unglamorous work of reproducing splashy results and useful failures.

The suggested method of pre-registering hypotheses is certainly one way to address these issues. There are also more complicated methods of attacking self-fulfilling analyses through clever statistical tools [1], although I think this technology is not quite ready for wide use.

But I do wish that these articles did a better job of explaining how field specific the "replication crisis" is. It's a huge problem in psychology (such that I know ignore pretty much any experimental psych findings) and a bit less so in medicine. It's far less of a problem in, say, physics or computer science (recent deep learning experimental explosion notwithstanding) and maybe not at all the closer those areas get to math. Painting all scientists with this brush is not entirely fair.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2664
Musk: “I know it’s a little off-brand, but the kids will love it”, this guy never ceases to crack me up!
While I agree that it's bullshit that you can be successful working 4 hours per week, there was a good point in the book: It's not worth making yourself unhappy working relentlessly in an unfulfilling job in order to enjoy the fruits of your labor in some distant future. Better to work less hours so you can enjoy your life while you're young.
He's doing because he can, like we used to do with animated gifs in the early 2000s. It's a gimmick. There's no honor here.
The hat was just an off-the-shelf black hat combined with length of white embroidery thread.
Not for their total worth; maybe for their yearly budget that might be out of place.
The point is that owning property constrains freedom rather than enhances it.

If you take out debt you owe somebody something. You can't just do what you want.
Wait, a 4WD idling attracts spiders?
I find the Glassdoor website unbearably slow and a terrible experience all around.

The negative reviews for the engineering department at the company I work for are mostly accurate. The positive reviews are almost all too generic or over the top to be useful. Some of them are clearly written by HR in a PR campaign.

I'm actually surprised it has much of an impact, given how slow and horrible the UX is and how easily gamed the review system is.
Boring Co is Elon Musk.
While bringing your spending and corresponding expectations in line with that income level.
Of course they won't. The same group of anti government people are very pro hard on crime/ pro police.
This guy has some great points. I can't get past the fact that he didn't review his writing at all, nor did he have anyone else proof-read it. The writing quality is poor.

"... your way your way...", "... just a by standard...", improper uses of "then", "this tasks" etc... all distract from the thesis.
"This is a common, and dangerous, form of selection bias that we often see when old successful people give their wise advice to 'live life to the fullest'."

Common and dangerous.
The statistics and probability are improperly applied to this situation, and fail to accurately model reality.

The numbers are taken as abstractions and untethered from the complex subsystems that generate the results. This decoupling eliminates any understanding of the underlying principles at work.

Human tissues are organized into organs that eventually fail. When you put the tables and figures away, and look at the actual centenarians themselves, there’s no expectation that those people’s organs will continue on an endless plateau of static operation without further incident, in an endless streak of winning coin flips.

The reality is that life at that age isn’t abstract coin flips, there’s definite decline lurking in the background. Externalities like microbial illness could be modeled as coin flips (does the individual catch the flu this year?), but internal deterioration is still a systemic function with a graded slope that varies from person to person.

That declining slope could be altered with transplants, but eventually the brain gets involved, and we lack the metaphysical and philosophical tools to argue about when a zombie robot brain transplant might mean animate brain death or the living exchange and passing of one distinct individual for wholly another living mind.
'reality is subjective, a construct' is one philosophical stance, but by no means the only one possible

I'm not so sure about that. I find Kant is pretty convincing; scientific realism is pretty vulnerable when faced with the fact that theories change. Science is best viewed with an instrumentalist perspective, that's where it is most solid.

We simply don't know if we're brains in vats, or creatures in a simulation. The real reality is unknowable.
"Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation" https://www.theonion.com/starbucks-to-begin-sinister-phase-t...
I've said it elsewhere, but:

This was basically a case about just how publicly and openly corrupt aircraft manufacturers can get away with being. Previously, they at least put some effort in to hide how much they were secretly being subsidized by their respective home governments and how much of a discount their customers got as a result. But this time around Bombardier either didn't bother or didn't succeed in keeping that mostly under wraps, and that seems to've violated an unspoken norm of the industry, which provoked Boeing to go after them. Which then provoked Airbus to get involved to try to spite Boeing. Which then made it a major story that people actually heard about.

I find it hard to conclude that there's a "good" or "winning" outcome here that doesn't involve addressing the underlying industry-wide corruption.
Thanks. I wasn’t looking for individual advice I just wanted to point out that the major barrier to entrepreneurship is not lack of ideas but a lack of access to capital for new businesses.
I felt like this for a long time, but I've come to appreciate it as background/zoning-out music, especially when I'm familiar with the algorithm. I often become quite amazed how a small amount of PRNG can generate interesting melodies, and things which feel emotionally salient.
I pre-ordered one
The Wild Hunt of 1127
The Reagan administration tried this in the Iran-Contra affair. They only succeeded in incentivizing more terrorism and abduction of US citizens.
I’m not really talking about providing a basic income.

What I’m saying is the barrier to having “personal autonomy” in a society where providing the essentials of life has to a high degree already been automated, is too high.
I've recently been messing with very simple generative music with sonic-pi[0], a Ruby DSL which makes things very easy. It's been great fun, and you can get up and running very quickly. Here's the source code for some pretty listenable (IMO) generative music of infinite length[1]. Being able to read source-code comments to something while listening to it is strangely satisfying.

[0]: https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi

[1]: https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/blob/master/etc/example...
Sure, just pick a sorting algorithm that uses constant memory and the optimal O(n lg n) time complexity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Comparison_o...
Measurements of the usefulness and accuracy of models aren't evidence of their truth value, unfortunately.
"(Theracurmin® containing 90 mg of curcumin twice daily)"

Another recent paper studied the beneficial effects of vanillin, which is a curcumin metabolite.

Contrast with: "Turmeric seems to have zero medicinal properties" on qz.com:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517415
The black category seems rather open to abuse given everyone on the planet has origins in the black racial groups of Africa.

I wonder if you could use a 23andme type genetic test to "prove" you have x% black or any other minority genetic background?
Oh, I’d forgotten about that in California. :-/
The fig tree in the diagram is enormous. Is it really that big? And what will they do with all the figs? (Pick your own, perhaps, from whatever the cafeterias can't sell.)
Submarine Cuisine [pdf]
Why We Love the Raspberry Pi
HN might be interested in this statistical analysis of Tether's influence on the cryptocurrency markets: http://www.tetherreport.com/
In Need of Motivation? Try These Simple Tried and True Productivity Tips
I remember reading a paper on confusing road sign recognizers by adding certain bits of noise to the sign that completely baffled the recognizer. I wonder if one could do this to the license plate which would still look normal to a human but be unreadable to an AI.
> The only difference is this is captured by governments --who at least in theory represent the voting public.

Actually I trust a megacorp like Google, Amazon, Twitter or Facebook more with my data than I trust the state.

The state can arrest me based on that data. The tech giants not, and they are fighting like hell that the government does not get access to that data (as that would compromise trust, and by that their business model). Given the massive amounts of money involved, I have no doubt who will win that fight.
Because without strong fraud prevention, stuff like this happens:

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the...
The "flamethrower" is only 20 at harbor freight. Works great for starting charcoal for the smoker.
https://www.harborfreight.com/propane-torch-91033.html
How are computers are a perk? They're required to do your job. And yes, Amazon does provide them. I haven't ever heard of a developer job where you're expected to buy a work computer with your own money, and I've worked at places that had fewer perks than Amazon. I'd flat out refuse to buy my own. Requiring that might even be illegal.
Heh, that big ass makefile is the generic makefile [1] I came up with a few years ago. Definitely a bit of overkill for a single file project, but some of us are lazy when it comes to such things.

[1]: https://github.com/mbcrawfo/GenericMakefile
cfn-builder[0] is my take on simplifying CloudFormation templates and allowing project teams to manage their own stack. I built it specifically to use in a CD/CI environment so it doesn't use things like input parameters that might change from one run to another. Most variables are stored either in a global namespace (AccountId, IP Addresses, AMIs, etc.) or in separate environment namespaces (Subnet IDs, CidrBlocks, etc.) It even includes several built-in commands to help you maintain your environment, including one to update the global namespace with current AMI information.

The CFN coverage is not as complete as I would like but I've built and managed production workloads with it and it does the job. Since it's built on NodeJS so if you know JSON and a little bit of Mustache it's not hard to understand. Anyone want to help?

[0] https://github.com/KangarooBox/cfn-builder
As the "owner" of our company's profile on Glassdoor, I had no access to any information about the reviewer, nothing."

I'm sorry for what happened to your startup here, and the doubtless frustration.

But I'm deeply happy owners can't find out who the reviewers are! Can you imagine the fallout? It'd have such a chilling effect to render the site completely useless.

Regardless of the negativity, I find tremendous value in reading reviews and looking for themes. Most don't care about outliers.
Reminds me of ex-[fill in religion] online forums. It basically filters on people that hate [fill in religion] and so it portrays only an extremely negatively-biased ("toxic hellscape") view of [fill in religion].
It's apparently quite expensive[0]. Once you get maximum purity that distillation allows, it's not worth the cost to process further just for recreational use.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Where-can-you-buy-ethanol
The review was for the wrong company though!

I took a closer look at the review, and found out that the reviewer had mentioned "our office" in Singapore. I did some digging and found another company with the same name in Singapore. I reached out to Glassdoor again with all this info, screenshots, website links, etc and there response was basically the same.