skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say based on my experience on the internet, that spotting sarcasm is frequently beyond human capability ...

In a 1983 Usenet FAQ by Jerry Schwarz: "Avoid sarcasm and facetious remarks."

More recently, aka Poe's Law.
Could you please follow the site guideline that asks you to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A single YouTube channel is flooding Bing’s video search with fake news
None on smaller systems with simple tech that we know will be replaced within 5-10 years because tech moves on.

60% devtime on larger systems with millions of lines of code that will live on.

We used to test on smalller applications as well, but we rarely had a need for it because the systems rarely changed until technology and architecture forced rewrites. Like moving from windows based applications to asp.net web-apps to apis with JS fronts to cloud native.

Our productivity is up by 80% because we mainly do smaller, single to few function apps and our debugging time or the amount of user experienced problems hasn’t increased.
I think this demonstrates some of the bugs:
https://flow.org/try/#0PTAEAEDMBsHsHcBQiCWA7ALgUwE6QIYDGWoAS...
Personal swipes are not allowed in HN comments. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
New Space based solar power designs can get to less than 2 cents per kwh
Wow Tachyons looks really nice, I like the colours a lot.
https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/
This seems like such an easy thing to prevent. Make people lock the bikes to something, a fence, a sign, whatever. If a bike ends up in a tree, the last person to borrow it is responsible. Give customer support some flexibility to avoid this being to harsh. Biggest downside is that it won't work with the locks currently installed on those bikes.
Url changed from https://petapixel.com/2018/01/31/fujifilm-takes-xerox-6-1b-d..., which points to this.
Distributism includes the principle of subsidiarity, it doesn't exclude the fact that you need large organisations to produce some technology, just that you should tend towards the smallest organisation that can achieve what you need. Capitalism seems to be tending towards the opposite where the winner takes all.
This is capitalism isn't it. What should the government encourage? To let the consumers and the producers decide for themselves.
"Use jQuery"
> Star Trek of course conveniently skips over how they got from our primitive world to theirs. Even assuming Ms. Unknown is right, how do we get there? It’s hard to see it happening without a science fiction cliche like a terrible world war or alien invasion, something to force our myopic species to recognize our survival depends on our partnership in sharing spaceship earth and not petty self-interests,

The turning point was the Bell Riots in San Francisco as a consequence of the 'inhumane internment camps for the poor'. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bell_Riots .

Not really a science fiction cliche.
Brevik does/has done consulting and currently does some sort of ambassador type role in China for Tencent's version of Path of Exile too.
Ok, I see, my bad.

Well then, no idea.
If I may ask, what your previous career/education was about? Maybe they are not very relevant, but they are definitely better than nothing and could be a common interest with a potential employer.
The fact that you are a bit technically minded is a good starting point, especially together with the willingness to learn. You love maps, so you could for example learn a bit of python (it's easy and quick to jumpstart, I promise) and use it to play with cartography. Give a look to [Kartograph](http://kartograph.org), [TileMill](https://tilemill-project.github.io/tilemill/), [Leaflet](http://leafletjs.com), [OpenLayers](http://openlayers.org). There is also this interesting list of [Essential Python Geospatial Libraries](http://spatialdemography.org/essential-python-geospatial-lib...).
This will not guarantee a job, but it would be an interesting skill set for which probably there is demand.
I'm not in this field, but in case I could give you some pointers for the Python part.
For those who managed to miss the "Shanghai Tower" video from 2014 - this is what basically put this guy and his friend on the radar. An absolutely fantastic watch.

Incidentally, it also helped putting some much deserved light on N'to and Worakls, whose Trauma track was used for the soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U
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I think the next logical step is to base jump from these towers.
This simple script renders data collected by your ISP unusable
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Wow, this stops and reverses cancer in progress (in mice).

It's not just a preventative measure to eliminate the potential of possible cancers from emerging. The cancers the mice already have goes away.
ISP Data Pollution to Protect Private Browsing History with Obfuscation
We have built https://www.moonlightwork.com using Bulma. It's such a simple and pleasurable framework to use. The Buefy project provided Bulma components in Vue.js, which we also use.
It seems like Waymo's hitting a point of diminishing returns. The past 4 years' worth of disengagements per 1,000 miles driven were:

- 2014 (last 3 months): 1.27 [1]

- 2015: 0.80 [2]

- 2016: 0.20 [2]

- 2017: 0.18 [3]

There are two possible causes off the top of my mind:

1. Waymo's cars are being tested in more demanding environments.

2. There's a floor to the number of disengagements due to technology and road conditions: situations that are different/unique enough that no model could accurately detect/respond to it.

Case 2 would be definitely be a problem for the full-autonomous (i.e. zero user-input) type of car. I'd love to hear other hypotheses/feedback from those closer to this kind of work!

Also, another interesting note: total miles driven on public roads is actually down from 2016 (352k vs. 636k earlier). Perhaps Waymo's finding the simulated/private-road tests more fruitful for winnowing down the final edge cases.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/dff67186-70dd-4042...

[2] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/946b3502-c959-4e3b...

[3] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/42aff875-7ab1-4115...
https://roborace.com/
Keep in mind too that Effective Java was recently updated/rewritten a long time after the second edition was printed. So to the OP make sure you look at the third edition and not the more linked to/blogged about/higher visibility in google second edition.
Show HN: Automated payroll service for Indian startups
Why is it called Oil? That name is so loaded. I think it actually will give it less of a chance.
Indeed many of the victims and their relatives would say that these criminals should be kept locked up, for the protection of others and the betterment of the world.
A punishments primary purpose is not to produce socially great people, the punishment is meant to, you know, punish as well as be fair, and protect others.
Isn't that just a reflection of where jobs are, which is in turn a reflection of our increasing specialisation. I know there are almost no jobs for computer science graduates within ten miles of the village I live in. The choice is to move to the city or work in the local supermarket.
How to find the right brainstorm methods for your team
Forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but would it not be considered a 'treatment' instead of a 'vaccine' if this is a treatment to the pre-existing condition?
Indeed. When I was advocating for A/B testing at the last company I worked for, I tried hard to teach people that every test should have a sane hypothesis behind it based on some kind of usability theory. Not just “let’s try changing the header font color to red and see what happens!”
An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end (2011)
How is this different than Custora (also YC alumn)?
Yes, exactly. That's what I was referring to with "If that is even a problem in their perspective."
nice article this. :) thanks! been wanting to start on this for a little while but didn't have time to research some basics, this sets up just nicely for what i wanted to experiment with!
It's actually a first year statistics homework assignment to do an "AHA Moment" action analysis.

A random forest automatically gives you a "variable importance plot".
Nationalistic swipes aren't allowed here and we ban accounts that post them, so could you please not do that again, regardless of your experiences with Australians?
I am Anuj, the founder of Opfin. Here is the gist of Opfin -

There is plenty of software available in the Indian market to calculate payroll. Such software will typically output how much employees need to be paid, and other deductions like income tax, provident fund, professional tax, ESI etc. The execution is left up to the business owner.

Opfin's USP is that we _execute_ the entire payroll as well. So we pay all the employee's directly though bank transfers, and pay TDS, PF, PT, ESI on behalf of the company so that the company is entirely covered from all legal and compliance aspects.

Apart from basic payroll, we also take care of contractor and vendor payments, reimbursements, employee documents and leave & attendance.
"Lazy"? It seems to me that the ad ecosystem is incredibly complicated (for example, not even Google understands how malvertising gets on Google's ad network).

Any person who knows how to effectively place Internet ads has such high-status skills that they don't have to actually do it.
New Telegram client for Android. It's soo much faster
You see it in my locality, none of the local farmers own their harvesting machines, as a group they own the machinery collectively. This is still a long way from communism though.
Here are all the CA DMV disengagement reports, not just Waymo's.[1]

Cruise is doing a lot of autonomous driving in SF.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
Also circuithub, and potentially tempo automation , once they'll have some more capacity.
Please don't copy and paste from other threads.

The comment itself is sort of a rehashing of by now ultra tedious material, too. You're far from the only one rehashing it—pun intended—but it would be good if everyone doing it would stop. Repetition is the leading anti-value of this site.
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I used it for a few side projects, it has got a good "getting-started" guide with a lot of examples...easy to hack stuff together. It's been a while since Bulma was released and it only gets better. I'm glad it's getting maintained and contributors keep making it better and better! Thank you :)
How about both rolled into one somehow!?!
PID and a large seabird in the pacific (2015)
Waymo is doing a lot more testing outside California now. They've done Mountain View so thoroughly they were seeing the same situations over and over. Last year, they were rear-ended twice at the same intersection.

One disengagement every 5000 miles is a problem. It's too infrequent for humans to remain attentive, and too frequent to ignore.
I've chided that comment for some things, but pointing at the other person when asked not to break the site rules is kind of an antipattern here. You've posted a few unsubstantive comments; that's not what this site is for; so please don't do it. If you stick to the quality level of your more substantive comments you'll be fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please, for the love of God, stop messing with scrolling. JUST STOP.
To the people working on this: please keep at it. You can do it!
Man divorces legally married wife for a sex doll in Botswana (photos)
Attempted kidnapping of a serviceman out for a run in 2016 (not Strava related): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/21/raf-personnel-on-...

Fortunately as a member of the elite RAF Regiment he was able to escape. That’s what they learn on the Five Miles Of Death.
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
Longest-standing video game record ‘impossible,’ thrown out after 35 years
some vaccines can actually treat cancer so the are called cancer treatment vaccines.
We see similar effects when we irradiate tumors with X-rays, called 'abscopal effect'. Sometimes, when you irradiate a tumor, the unirradiated metastases also shrink. It is hypothesized that the immune response is triggered by the irradiation, and there are currently studies being done that try to stimulate the immune system even more.

What I wonder is why this is being discovered only now.
Disappointed that there is not a Postgres hidden game which is what I thought when reading the title.
> One good thing though is they apparently move bikes around in vans to help fill capacity

Much better is NYC's approach of using "Bike Angels" ( http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/09/new_york_s_ci... ) to redistribute. As I understand it, they still use trucks, but this is visionary compared with London's system, which simply adds more (badly driven, polluting) trucks to traffic.
"Treatment" does not convey accurately the strength of this approach.
Thank you dvt!
But I studied CS and never studied philosophy, and I also prefer to write my thoughts down and not do things via calls. I also like to think of myself as a critical thinker skilled in logic (whether I am or not is hard to say in the absence of an objective definition and test).

I learned logic, writing and debating skills from sites like Slashdot, Hacker News and other online forums. Might sound silly, but these sites host huge online written debates all day every day around the clock, for years on end, with real-time scoring and feedback based on what you write and not who you are. It's a pretty great gladiatorial training ground for philosophy.
> The .... who are picking these up without paying and dumping them in a creek are the ones littering

Correct, though the term used for enabling this kind of bad behaviour, as the bike company is doing, is "creating an attractive nuisance" and it's not blameless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
As far as bottle capping machines you end up having to make custom handling parts and those are not cheap. (The chucks alone run several hundred dollars each.) Then the parts to guide the bottles through the machine have to be made specific to the bottle diameter and height. this costs several grand. There is still a lot of adjustment even after this. And if you want to change bottles or caps then outlay a ton more cash.

Capping them by hand despite the time and effort makes sense until you can afford a significant outlay in cost.

(I work for a machine shop that makes handling parts and retrofits capping/filler machines for the bottling industry. I don't fully know our prices but most of them would be far outside the range of any hobbyist starting out.)
You're forgoing all of the sweet cash that C++ legacy maintainers will make in 20-odd years. Like the COBOL people right now.
An "Engagement Strategist dedicated to helping brands grow, evolve & engage" is upset other people are doing her job differently (cheaper?) and wrote a post on medium.

Which is ironic, because I've "met" (aka. had to work with) too many clueless, even useless marketers. And I can definitely understand why a company would pay an influencer instead. Much more direct, and easier to gauge the effectiveness of spend.
Amateur astronomer discovers NASA satellite that's been lost for 12 years
A bizarre stunt, of sorts.

The Prime Minister refused to accept his resignation and he returned some time later.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/31/lord-bates-...
[struggling to find a credible news source to link to]
In the Netherlands, it's pretty typical to work 32 hours a week.
Over 5 days, that's less than 7 hours a day. Though most people prefer having 8 times 4 and take a day off :)
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Not clear whether mobile apps for farmers really add value according to research
We have cured cancer in mice many times. The trick is getting it formulated for humans in ways that are similarly effective and non-lethal. Put another way, signs of efficacy in mice is necessary, but not sufficient, of a human-applicable treatment.
very cool, especially considering that Semantic UI comes in at a whopping >500 kb (without careful optimization) and needs additional tweaking to make it responsive :)
Have you ever seen footage of a white blood cell taking apart a cancer cell? This is worlds closer to unlocking that power than hoping a stray radioactive particle bumps the right lever. Perhaps the need for two separate medicines/agents to make this special cocktail and trigger the perfect immune response has been the elusive part?
> Research shows that businesses lose a staggering average of 15% to 30% revenue in unlogged time-entries.

Doesn't this just mean that their services are 15-30% cheaper? If those time entries are properly reported, won't their clients just be more hard pressed to find cheaper alternatives?

At least this the exact argument that is used against salary increases.
I think this highlights how out of touch you (and the Facebook developers) are.

I’ve had a Facebook account since the days of needing a edu email account to register. During my college years Facebook was a very important thing and all of my friends were very active and it was nice being able to see what people were up to and doing.

Over time Facebook started optimizing away to whatever it is now. I’ve deleted the Facebook app because it’s simply garbage. My friends don’t really post personal things anymore (most don’t even post anything anymore) and the influx of users and this “retweet” culture has made it so my Facebook feed is essentially spam. Why should I have to bother and waste time to curate what I see? Why should I have to hide so many individual pages?

Furthermore, the recent(?) addition of these marketplaces made it just way worse. My news feed activity is constantly telling me about new things for sale here and I just don’t care. I thought I’ve disabled these notifications but apparently I haven’t because they still show up. To be honest I don’t even know how to disable these messages because everything is hidden under 20 layers of options.

Not to mention the whole age/generation issue:

I’m 30, and my sister is 20. I’m at that age where I don’t really meet a lot of new people anymore, so my friends list has been very stagnant. I really just keep a Facebook profile just to let the occasional old friend/family contact me or find me. My sister and her friends look at Facebook and think it’s something old people use. For her everything is Snapchat.
Yes but can it be done with minimal side effect?

Curing cancer with a bullet works too but the host suffers some adverse side effects.
(You're right of course, not sure what I was thinking)
One word: Boost.

C++ went off into template la-la land some years back. C++ templates were not supposed to be a programming language. But they turned into one, and not a good one.

Look up the implementation of "max" and "min" in C++ templates.

Now there's a push for "move semantics", to keep up with Rust and the cool kids. But not with language support and a borrow checker. With templates and cute tricks with the type system.
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I imagine it is a more senior role. While it's not uncommon somebody has "experience" in those items listed, it all comes down to what exactly that experience is. Dabbling in miscellaneous AWS services IMHO is a lot different from someone managing 11 billion requests/day and the challenges there.

So true re: binary search trees, merge sorts, and the like. I think web dev's need to realize their real world work has more to do with plumbing than it does dealing with programming puzzles.

Unless you're FB or operating at web scale.
Weex actually produces a native app similar to React Native, doesn't it?
I'm not sure if I understand what you're asking, and as an Android user I don't have any direct experience of this on iOS, but I presume you're just looking for a good Git client for iPad?

> spend time manually cloning/syncing/resyncing/downloading/uploading repos. This quickly gets tedious

These should all take little-or-no-time and be far from tedious in any half-decent Git client. Have you tried Working Copy? (I haven't but it seems competent from reviews)
It is indeed a cancer treatment that needs a tumor to work. The authors call their technique "in situ vaccination" because it stimulates antibodies against that specific cancer, which can work throughout the body to destroy metastases.
This seems to be the actual paper: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/426/eaan4488

I hope this translates well to humans and other mammals.
> And likely do it faster than with a pick-and-place, because they require quite a lot of work to configure.

So lets figure out ways to bring down the amount of work required to configure it! ;)
He comes.
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Airdrop Bikes: On growing slowly
Europe and Japan also seem to have cooler temperatures on average than Australia and the southern United States.

Southern Europe isn’t particularly bike friendly either.
Cool, thanks for your reply (and those replies below also). I briefly skimmed the article however was sidetracked with work, and admittedly a lot went over my head anyway.
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I quit Facebook immediately after it became a platform for political wars.

Don't know any of my friends who use it actively, and the only time or reason why I log into Facebook is when I have to talk to people who are only on Facebook.

If I were Facebook I would be seriously afraid at this point. The whole thing could be the next Aol or Yahoo. Things go down the drain pretty quickly in products like this.

The biggest change can be noticed, if young people don't create new accounts there. And I think we have already arrived at that part.
Thank you. I found choosing a name for the shell harder than writing any of the code
If I'm understanding the article correctly, it actually can't be used as a strictly preventative measure. It relies on the fact that the subject already has a tumor and that the subject's immune system has made progress in targetting the tumor.
use decentralized p2p technology to archive your information, like https://datproject.org
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That’s a silly take.

I’ve hidden friends before who I have close relationships with, simply because the content they post is trash:

- reshares of “inspirational” and “motivational” memes
- post frequency too high
- constantly posting pictures of their kids
- unfortunately a close aunt is into MLM and I can’t just unfriend her without causing drama
- generally only posting things I don’t care for enough to see like guns, cars, etc

Like, just because we are friends, doesn’t mean we have to share the same interests nor does it mean I want to hear everything you have to say on every topic.
Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Report 2017 [pdf]
How to fix the DNS records could not be found error in Google App Engine
> It doesn't make any sense at low scale, unless you want to spend endless time tinkering with the machine proper.

For 3D printing this is becoming less true every day. 3D Printers are now extremely cheap, where sub-$300 printers make sense at low scale usage. A typical print from an outsourced printer like Shapeways might cost you about $20, and once you factor in the cost of the material when you print yourself, it only takes about 20 prints for the printer to pay for itself, and you have the added benefit of having your print in an hour rather than a week.
I'd be careful calling the immune approach easy. Triggering a systemic immune response can also kill you very quickly.