skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this a really sinister bargain too. Citizen, allow yourself to be manipulated, or capitalism will crumble. Watch this ad designed to make you buy a car, or the website gets it!

There are other ways. Ask for donations, like Wikipedia (which as I understand it, is rolling in the dough). Fund it with taxes. Set up a plain ol' paywall and revitalise the slow, inefficient banking system until sending money tiny amounts of money is as easy as clicking "I agree" in an Apple EULA. If we're so strapped for cash that websites will crumble unless we all submit ourselves to the Ludovico technique, surely we have enough of an incentive to work on micropayment technology instead.
It would make sense, sure. Good luck getting every bank/utility/store/etc to update the system they set up ten years ago and haven’t updated since to broadcast that information. You’ll probably have to get a law passed.

Until then, this way works.
> When Voucher Codes Pro, a company that offers coupons to internet shoppers, surveyed 2,634 people, nearly 20 percent admitted to having stolen at the self-checkout in the past.

I weep for humanity. But there's no way the grocery stores would tolerate that level of theft. There's obviously strong correlation between people who steal and people who respond to Voucher Codes Pro surveys.
I guess, surprisingly, I'm the good guy for actually paying for my things.

Wonder how many small businesses go under because of this kind of theft.
Urm, if you have the ability to log in with a password to a website, you require the plain text password. Keychain also prompts for your user password before allowing plaintext access, not just the fact you're logged in.

Not sure what else is expected in this case, you'd get the same behavior from most other password managers.
Yup, the most annoying ads I encounter on a daily basis are youtube ads. If they don't block them, I don't know what's the point of a adblocker.
Ask HN: What happened to Soekris Engineering?
Once upon a time, Soekris Engineering (http://soekris.com) was a prominent reseller of multi-interface (one major downsides of most of the ARM-based SBC) embedded x86 devices. Today, their website seem to be empty, only the European store (http://soekris.eu) seem to be still in business (but operate while stock remains only ?)

Were they unable to deal with the competition and went six feet under ?
> Cryptocurrency represents billions of dollars of value exchanged every single day

And a comparatively microscopic proportion of those billions are used to purchase goods or services.
3edgy5me
It'll be interesting to see how sites respond to this. Will they eliminate intrusive ads[1] from their sites entirely? Or start trying to force users to disable their ad blockers before using the site?

I have a feeling this is going to lead to an increase in both of those behaviors.

[1]: https://www.betterads.org/standards/
Our Stay at Nakagin Capsule Tower Tokyo Japan
It takes longer for data to get purged out of backups than it does for the live data stores, but Google does clean up backups for deleted account data.
You need a second factor (physical access to a device already in the circle) to add a device to the iCloud Keychain.

Edit: I see you are worried about devices already linked
jihijvjd 3 minutes ago [flagged] [dead] [-]

Political commentary on HN is bankrupt.

Nothing on the memo, the largest political scandal of our times, apparently all these enlightened HN commentators have nothing to say on incumbent political party using the intelligence apparatus to spy on the opposition during an election year. That's literally the behavior of a third world country but here complete silence, just virtue signaling jokes of being anti Republican

Sadly my comment will be down voted, flagged, disappeared, assuming I am even allowed to post. Disgraceful.
I'm sure you mean "entitlement" in the legal sense, which social security, medicare are (i.e you are entitled to these) - not the pejorative that the word has become. I'm hopeful that "patriotic centrists" will agree with you and finally stand up to the corporate welfare system that is out of control in this country and contributing more to our deficit than social welfare ever has.
You'd have to be an idiot to do that in this day and age of ubiquitous video surveillance and smart machine visual perception.
Obama added $9.3 trillion to the debt, more than any other president. That's an average of about 1.2 trillion a year.

On January 20, 2009, when he was sworn in, the debt was $10.626 trillion. On January 20, 2017, when he left, it was $19.947 trillion.
Intelligence can accomplish many things faster, better, and in less morally-horrifying ways than evolution through natural selection can. I think it's desirable for us to take over the reins.

(Of course, there will still always be natural selection operating, just in a new style. People/ideas that can't participate in society, at least in a way to sexually reproduce, obtain the resources for cloning / life extension, or spread their ideas, won't be selected for.)
They probably turned it off after an increase in support requests when people inevitably at one point don't have the "wallet" around. Of course they don't care for other sites support load enough to look at their 50 entries long list of special cases and think "are we doing this wrong".
> the hypothesis that every company will be a tech company

It's hard to argue that there is a single company in the S&P 500 which does not use technology as part of doing its core business. The idea that a company is a tech company may not be so useful.

What is your definition of a tech company? Almost every company uses technology in one way or another, but if the breakdown of the S&P is an indication of our true beliefs, then one might say we tend not to categorize them as being in the "tech" sector.

I suppose Netflix is an example of a media company that is also a tech company, but I think over time we will restrict the idea of a tech company to harder tech, like semiconductor fabrication and operating system development.
It's pretty efficient if you're in the 1%.
> There's no significant difference in the number of STEM candidates this cycle

What were the numbers in past cycles?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292254
So, given that the article didn't cite which subreddit, which reddit group made those comments?
DoubleClick already has policies[1][2] designed to prevent those ads from being "intrusive" (at least, according to the better ad standards definition[1] of that term). The problem this is intended to solve is other ad networks which don't enforce those rules giving advertising in general a bad reputation. That's not something that could have been fixed by more policies on Google's own ad networks.

[1]: https://support.google.com/webtools/answer/7347327

[2]: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1346295

[3]: https://www.betterads.org/standards/
I cancelled their account. It has a weird policy of deleting backups from hard drives that have not been connected within the last 3 months. Very weird policy.
I agree the financial adoption is fun to watch (from the sidelines, eating popcorn), and I think there will be interesting applications for smart contracts eventually.

However I'm not convinced that Ethereum's "jack of all trades" approach has long-term potential – it looks a lot like an initial vague research prototype that needs to be pared down to specific verticals before you have a product. (Exposing the stupidity of everyone who tries to use it for anything may not be the best way to build a long-term community?)

Personally I like to imagine Ethereum as a 1969 mainframe occupying a giant office floor, and then ask the question: ARPANET was just around the corner in 1969, so what would that change look like this time? In other words, what's the "TCP/IP" for Ethereum's "mainframe on dial-up"?
What have you heard more of in the past year from the Republican party:

1. Tax Cuts.

2. Fiscal Conservatism.

The focus of the GOP has shifted from fiscal responsibility to "starve the beast"
It makes a ton of sense for Impala/Presto, OLAP tends to be about throughput (long queries over lots of data) which benefits from this kind of JIT compilation since the overhead is amortized.

Really excited to see it makes its way into Postgres.
As percentage of GDP, India is running a deficit more than twice as high as the US (6.6% vs 2.8% over the last ten years).

But those numbers are meaningless for proving or disproving "inefficiency". The US is obviously getting far better infrastructure/education/welfare system/research/military/etc.
AFAIK you are wrong, and the other poster is right.

Signed overflow (in int * 2) is an UB. If it happens, compiler is free to do anything. Eg. assume your assert can never happen and remove it.

Let me explain: Because signed overflow is an UB, compiler assumes that you would never write a code that overflows like that (because you write C, the assupmtion is that you are omnipotent), and knowing that, remove the assert that could possibly never ever happen, since it's a dead code anyway.

I've spend more than 6 years writting embedded software in C. God I love Rust.
AFAIK, there are only a handful of DBMSs that do complete query compilation with the LLVM:

* MemSQL (http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/7/code-generation-the...)

* Tableau/TUM HyPer (https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/23/efficiently-compiling-ef...)

* CMU Peloton (http://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2017/p1-menon.pdf)

* Vitesse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEmVuYjhQFo)

I think Greenplum was talking about doing this too, but that was about a year ago (http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/orca-profiling/)

Most systems just compile the predicates (Impala, SparkSQL).

A lot of companies are talking about adding this now. The performance gains are significant.
Even with show dead my comment was removed.

Apparently pointing out the truth is grounds for silencing your opinion.

Disgusting.

Hey mods, not allowing articles and opinions on the greatest political scandal of our times is incredibly disappointing.

Our government spied on the opposition political party, that's the truth. But keep hiding it.

So disgusting.
Yes, people who are using a voucher based site sound like they probably are already on the hunt for deals. I am not surprised that the numbers would be inflated for stealing if it gives them a better deal as well with little risk.
Instead of replying point by point I now post this:

https://www.quora.com/I-think-that-President-Obama-raised-th...
I wonder how many sites reject random A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and -.
He inherited the Great Recession
Thanks! Did you mean Sprig? Looked into them and came across this article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/on-demand-food-startup-spr... that speaks about other similar-models of startups closing as well.

And I agree - I think it's as difficult business model when there are so many other options for the general consumer to purchase from.

I'm currently really interested in food-tech, and how different models/channels/markets could allow for a startup that does end-to-end operations to be successful.
How do you break the cycle of needing experience to find a developer job?
I graduated in 2016 with a degree in computer science. Honestly, I was a crap student at the time dealing with personal issues, plus working my way through school.

Fast forward to now, after working in sales for 1 1/2 years and realizing I do want to do development after all. Problem is, I have no relevant work experience. I've been unemployed for a few months now and have put out ~150 applications with not one interview or call.

I'm really frustrated. I'm curious if anyone has any advice on breaking this endless cycle. It makes me feel like I will never find a job doing development.
jihishuee 8 minutes ago [dead] [-]

jihijvjd 3 minutes ago [flagged] [dead] [-]

Political commentary on HN is bankrupt.

Nothing on the memo, the largest political scandal of our times, apparently all these enlightened HN commentators have nothing to say on incumbent political party using the intelligence apparatus to spy on the opposition during an election year. That's literally the behavior of a third world country but here complete silence, just virtue signaling jokes of being anti Republican

Sadly my comment will be down voted, flagged, disappeared, assuming I am even allowed to post. Disgraceful.

jihijvjd 12 minutes ago [flagged] [dead] [-]

Political commentary on HN is bankrupt.

Nothing on the memo, the largest political scandal of our times, apparently all these enlightened HN commentators have nothing to say on incumbent political party using the intelligence apparatus to spy on the opposition during an election year. That's literally the behavior of a third world country but here complete silence, just virtue signaling jokes of being anti Republican

Sadly my comment will be down voted, flagged, disappeared, assuming I am even allowed to post. Disgraceful.

heymodsihuman2 1 minute ago [flagged] [dead] [-]

Even with show dead my comment was removed.

Apparently pointing out the truth is grounds for silencing your opinion.

Disgusting.

Hey mods, not allowing articles and opinions on the greatest political scandal of our times is incredibly disappointing.

Our government spied on the opposition political party, that's the truth. But keep hiding it.

So disgusting.
Yes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2017/07/10/wework...
Showing up at somebody’s front door is a big line to cross.
I know what you're saying, but I don't think you're catching my meaning. I believe good leadership involves specific skill sets applied to a particular area and that very few people can truly serve in the generalist role that the MBA & politicians try to sell you.
>There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.”

So, here's the link to that particular reddit gem, in case you want to read it in all its glory:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shoplifting/comments/56saoh/selfche...

I'm... almost sympathetic to an argument that amounts to the frustrating/dark side of automated assistance, which is probably something the audience here would do well to consider. I get frustrated with tech too and sometimes want a way around it.

But I wish that discussion was still active so I could reply... WTF, man. They're offering an automated way to complete a purchase, and it's not like you got paid to interact with the checkout cashier before. But let's say you see it that way. Let's assume that cashier was costing the store $25/hr (maybe), so the 6 minutes (maybe) they worked on your purchase might be worth up to $2.50. Are you scrupulously making sure you only evened the score/took the store to the tune of ten quarters?

Unless you can't for some reason, pay for your groceries, don't inflate the prices everyone else has to pay to offset the cost of "external shrinkage," and keep society in the crucial resource of trust.
Great news. Having a blood test with definitive results will give comfort to many families planning what is best for their aged love ones.
Someone on HN mentioned this paper in another thread about life extension. I find it fascinating that old age can be explained as redundant system breakdown and eventually failure.

> Reliability theory is a general theory about systems failure. It allows researchers to predict the age-related failure kinetics for a system of given architecture (reliability structure) and given reliability of its components. Reliability theory predicts that even those systems that are entirely composed of non-aging elements (with a constant failure rate) will nevertheless deteriorate (fail more often) with age, if these systems are redundant in irreplaceable elements. Aging, therefore, is a direct consequence of systems redundancy. Reliability theory also predicts the late-life mortality deceleration with subsequent leveling-off, as well as the late-life mortality plateaus, as an inevitable consequence of redundancy exhaustion at extreme old ages. The theory explains why mortality rates increase exponentially with age (the Gompertz law) in many species, by taking into account the initial flaws (defects) in newly formed systems

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11742523
Are you sure? I remember reading about parents that suffered from a famine had certain genetic effects show up in their grand children. I believe diabetes factored into the story somehow but the details escape me. Sorry.
In my experience, the number of websites doing this has gone down significantly. Of the passwords I have, only around 2-3% are "specialty" passwords generated through Keychain Access rather than Safari.
Planet Money actually interviewed Arthur Laffer of the Laffer Curve in their episode about Kansas' experiment with lowering taxes:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/11/509378842/epis...
People in this country can barely scrap up enough money for a 20 year retirement, if they even do that. If everyone suddenly lived on average another 40-50 years, when do you retire? How does that effect the sustainability of a pension scheme/social security?
It’s quite convenient to present those numbers without context.

In the context of prior performance and international circumstances, Obama brought the deficit down from the end of the Bush era as a recession began to recover, but the first few years required clear action. Trump, meanwhile, is going to drastically increase the deficit during an economic boom.

It should be obvious that Obama’s deficits were strategically necessarily while Trump’s coming deficit makes no financial sense.
Do you also hold the belief that it's OK for three letter government agencies to proactively collect intelligence on all US and foreign citizens, because they could do it previously using tails, phone taps, and cameras?

As you say, quotas have already decided many a employees fate. The difference now is the scale at which the lack of human judgement can be applied. Scale can only hurt affected employees; it can never help them.

You seem to have an unshakable belief in the people you have worked for and hired and their ability to treat their low-paid hires fairly. I've personally had that belief burned away by the realities of working in a minimum-wage job.
This is ongoing practice:
Zen mind, Beginner's mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind
You do realize that most of the deficit is due to massive dip in tax receipts during the Great Recession followed by automatic increase in spending triggered by dramatic rise in unemployment rates. Deficit actually was reduced significantly till Obama’s last year. US economy has been growing over the last 6 years and there is no reason for the deficit to explode in the last 2 years. We should have been looking to reduce deficit during good times so that we can respond to the most vulnerable when going gets tough. We all know there is a recession in the horizon. Imagine how crippled US response will be to the next recession
Don't humans have this too?
Aging research as a whole is miserably underfunded. Perhaps $3-5B/year at most, if you take the NIA budget and then make some sketchy multiplications based on studies of public/private research expenditure and US/rest of world research expenditure. Compare that with the cost of merely coping with age-related disease and disability, added to the opportunity cost of loss of capability and life, which is in the trillions per year. The ratio between costs that might be addressed and research funding is very low in comparison to other fields.

Then bear in mind that most aging research is still purely investigational, not aimed at producing any sort of intervention. Calico falls into this category, more is the pity.

Then bear in mind that of the interventional research, most of that is focused on calorie restriction mimetic or similar stress response tinkering that can't possibly significantly extend human life span.

Then at the far bottom of this funnel, with a tiny amount of funding, is rejuvenation biotechnology of the sort advocated by the SRF, repair the damage that causes aging in order to reverse aging.

So, yes. Very underfunded.

Then if we look at cancer research, there is a different problem and effort to change the split of research strategy and allocation of dollars. Cancer research has progressed very slowly because there are hundreds of subtypes of cancer and researchers have been pursuing strategies that only tackle one, or only tackle a mechanism that cancers can evolve away from. What is needed for progress in cancer research is greater funding and attention for strategies that are general to many or all cancers, and which cancers cannot evolve away from. Such as CAR-T therapies, or a few other types of immunotherapy that are comparatively general, or have low costs of adaptation to different cancers, or interdiction of telomerase and ALT to prevent cancers lengthening their telomeres, or the like. The latter of those is a SENS Research Foundation initiative.
Honestly the thought never even crossed my mind
Statistics proves it is harder than you think.
Yev from Backblaze ->
Great to hear that from both of you! :)
Use WeWork to negotiate for a month to month with Regus.
In all seriousness, the problem with insisting on comparing the US economy and the economies of China and India is that they are at very different points in economic development. The US developed huge swaths of infrastructure post WWII, and that infrastructure is aging out and it clearly shows. India and China on the other have cheap and widely available labor to develop new infrastructure.

What happens when that labor wants better pay and safer working conditions? Things will naturally slow down, and it will be hard to maintain all the infrastructure that was built during growth years. The same applies to healthcare, yes it is egregiously expensive, and life expectancy is falling slightly. On the other hand, comparing the US health care system to India's is silly. Health insurance might have high costs, but the level of care you get is far better than what you get today in India. Ten years from now, that might be a different story.
I agree. My comment about being wrong was regarding neural networks being a dead end. Convex optimization and Bayesian techniques are both incredibly useful.
Keychain doesn't prompt for your user password on iOS. Just your unlock code. That's what bothers me.
Yev from Backblaze here ->
That's right! For better or worse they usually tell it like they see it, and that helps us inform decisions!
one approach i've seen and used to make hiring decisions:

do a great open source project to show you have the skills w/o the experience. ideally something relevant to potential employer.

what they really want to know is if you know the shit, not how long you sat in a desk. people lie about such things so years in a job is a proxy for truth
Thousands of stolen laptops recovered in massive Bay Area car burglary scheme
agreed, if the person is in a where-are-your-daily-commits kinda role, years of non-progress is an obvious firing situation. Sometimes it's less black and white.

let's say you hired two researchers to do some machine learning experiments to develop a new product category. It could easily be years before you see any ROI from that. Especially if their work has to be integrated with the rest of the (functioning) system.

or say you hired someone for their proficiency in one part of the system -- say, they've run a top level domain before, know DNSSEC/IANA/ICANN in and out, etc. If they never get to work on that, or their code never goes to production because of other complications, it doesn't ding ROI. And yet, they are technically doing what they were hired to do..

i guess my point is that ROI is the final output of many, many different factors that determine an employees usefulness and relevance to an organization.
YouTube will start labeling videos that receive government funding