skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So that the $20 donation one minute can turn into $50 the next minute... Oops i mean $15, no $35, whoops $12, wait $27.

Edit: $14

Edit: $117

Edit: got hacked
I've had the complete opposite experience in Berlin. In Berlin, most of the "houses" here are 5 story walk ups - and DHL drivers (the main delivery service here) are so lazy they don't even bother ringing the door bell. Instead, if you are lucky, they leave your package at a neighbours house and tell you where it is. Usually they drop it off at some terrible centre where you have to go pick it up (defeating the purpose of getting something delivered), or even worse dropping it off somewhere and not telling you where!

Amazon so far actually delivers the package... when they don't contract it out to DHL.
That's fine. Educate 'em on financial literacy at public middle schools and high schools. Let the colleges and universities make the argument that their education is worth the cost.
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Sample size isn't small if the power is high. Biological studies are generally (and correctly) done with 8-20 subjects. All the ones I and my lab published in grad school were around here, and there's no arbitrary line over which a sample size is no longer small.
Interesting. I will try it out. It seems somewhat heavy though with 191 files. Probably because it supports way more then what I need.

I have already implemented most of the functionality I need in a single file with just 395 lines of code.
Group Mentality
I don't know all the tax implications around huge salaries like these, but every time I read one of these stories I always wonder why they don't just stick their money in t-bills or CDs. Something completely risk free that will get a modest return. If you have 20 million in the bank do you really need to invest in high risk stuff to try to double your money?

The problem is everyone they've ever known comes out of the woodwork and is hitting them up for money or pitching some great investment. That's the hard part. Saying "no" to these people.
The ""1%"" have more than half the world wealth: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-ri...

This is becoming an increasingly serious problem, that contributions from the general public don't outspend rich people who are keen to push an idea.

http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2017/11/19/the-theory-of-th...

(and http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/26/pro-market-pro-b... )
Why you are scared of Functional Programming
I doubt they destroyed evidence - if they acted nefariously, they probably just operated in a manner that did not generate evidence. I'm just a middling employee in a big company and it is drilled into my head how to, basically, not leave a paper trail for important topics.
There might also just be the ability for the developers to understand what actually went wrong. I think the guys at Epic spent a lot of time building their system so they can understand it and I'm not sure that PUBG developers started out with that in mind.
Your point is a good one, but to me it confirms the comment you are responding to.

> The idea that med school or law school teach you "all the knowledge required to become a lawyer or a doctor" is laughable and a truly absurd statement. The sheer size of the problem domains these subjects cover alone renders this impossible

You seem to be an example of a programmer that can be good and proficient in many different fields, languages, and scopes. You don't really see that in law or medicine. Doctors can't jump around from orthopedic surgeon to psychiatrist to dermatologist. And it's very uncommon (at least for lawyers under 60 or so) to be both a corporate lawyer and a litigator.

As giobox mentioned, the sheer size of the domains of law and medicine all but require doctors and lawyers to specialize. That's certainly true to some extent with computer science but it doesn't seem to be quite as strong in that field.
Adventures in Malware-Free Hacking
That's not really true. If learn a trade secret you cannot use it. If it became public knowledge through no fault of your own, it's no longer a trade secret.

Put if you steal the recipe to Coke and email it to Pepsi, they can't use it, even if use doesn't disclose it.
They're all awful boilerplate. Almost every single toolkit or getting started example I looked at involved cloning something of boilerplate, including React, Vue, etc. I couldn't even find decent clean examples, and as I tried putting them together, there was just a total lack of documentation and frustrating amounts of searching and finding dead/unanswered fourm and stackoverflow posts.
Trinary logic hardware will perform better for the PoW in low energy environments, which is extremely important for IoT. It's either ambitious and visionary, or else insane. Personally I think it's the former, cutting edge technology always seems insane until it doesn't. Time will be the judge.
For me the takeaway has been the exact opposite. I was skittish about putting retirement money into the stock market circa 2010 cuz I saw ten years of no net gains and feared that was a new normal. But I was doubly wrong - I hadn't factored in dividends, and a few years later stocks were double their pre-2008 peak. The bottom ended up being a rare chance (for the still-employed majority) to quadruple those upcoming returns. Even now, another 50%-bottom from peak would be double the previous bottom. The fundamentals behind the expectations of capitalistic returns seem less shaken than ever.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/febfde34-fc2b-415a...

"The vehicle(s) listed below will not be operated, moved, or left standing (parked) upon any California highway[....]"
>Because I've not been in a SCIF I don't know if it gets janitorial service or any regular maintenance at all but if it did, then that might be how this might work.

Janitorial service, etc are usually limited to a sign telling whoever works there to take out their own trash and clean up their own spilled coffee. Everything else (like changing a light-bulb) is done in accordance with procedures specifically designed to make it damn near impossible for a single person to do anything they shouldn't.
Love the mission. Any room for remote?
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True. Should have read the full changelog. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll give it a try.

The change is that VLC now supports H.265 hardware decoding on mac.

Great that VLC iterates so quickly!
You're correct, this is Raytheon -- https://jobs.raytheon.com/location/melbourne-florida-united-...
Cannabinoids Are Easier on the Brain Than Booze
I don't understand why people use Gentoo in production servers. Is it good practice? I can see so many downsides.
The Power of Clojure: Debugging
> Yeah, sorry, I'm not actually well versed in these matters ...

Perhaps you should not be accusing others then if you aren't even certain what you're accusing them of.

> Anyway, you do attribute certain characteristics to members of whole nations without any kind of proof

Homogeneous groups of people often share similar attributes, I don't see what is incorrect or wrong about that.

You are correct though, I do not have proof, but it is something that I hear from and discuss with colleagues, as well as have observed myself.
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Nice debugging skills, but I can't help think that's what you get for running Gentoo in production. You should be using what everyone else uses (i.e. Debian or CentOS) so they run into problems before you.
Testing and Releasing Stable Ethereum Applications
I think I don't know enough about lower level programming to know if I'm dynamic linking or not. I feel like I have a casual understanding of it, but not enough to take on personal liability.
> "Amazon has reportedly been working on making its own logistics network a reality after a disappointing holiday season in 2013 during which countless packages were delivered late."

From their perspective, seems a bit necessary.
Don't they have a few hundred thousand manual labor employees already?
Privilege is a lens through which you look at the world and analyze things. It's more or less an analytical tool developed as a response to various flavors of social darwinism.

The idea behind privilege theory is to say that, when you compare people, you don't say "the more successful one is more successful because they are better", but instead "there are a number of factors, many of which are difficult to quantify, that contribute to the varying levels of success between two people (or especially groups)".

It's not one dimensional, and there's no objective way to measure or compare things as generic as "success". Privilege theory being explicit about this makes it superior to many of the alternatives.

"Do what" is such a broad question that I can't really answer it. Are you an academic, or a company or a government or something else? The answer depends on that. It's a malformed question, like asking "What do you do with Kantianism?" or something. The best answer I can give is "use it as an analytical lens to guide your decision making", which is a bad answer precisely because its a bad question.

A better one might be "What value does analyzing situations/systems via the lens that privilege provides give?" Which is incidentally also a pretty good question to ask about Kantianism.

The answer to that question also depends on exactly who you are and what you're doing, but at least it makes sense. For example, for me personally, I think that looking at things via a lens of privilege helps me to be a more empathetic person, on the whole.

For an academic, it might help you decide whether or not you are asking the right questions in an experiment.

As a very straightforward historical example, for many years in the US, there was explicit bias against African Americans in segregated schools. This was justified in many cases, through a social darwinistic lens: black people are less intelligent, the proof is that they perform worse, and so we should devote fewer resources to their education.

Looking at the same data through a lens of privilege though, one might instead conclude that segregated schools performed worse because they had fewer resources. In other words, the same correlation is explained in two vastly different ways.

I use that example specifically because today the same thing still happens, as a result of most school systems getting funding based on property taxes, and historical reasons so you still have a world where, in practice, predominantly black schools have much less funding. Ostensibly, this is "fair", since you use the same rule to fund everyone, but clearly it isn't actually. Privilege is one way of accounting for how things that are ostensibly fair may not be in practice.

As an aside, in a much more mathematical sense, I think that privilege theory is all about picking the right bayesian priors when doing an analysis.
Thanks for linking, VLC has been one of my favorite pieces of software for, idk, at least 15 years, so donating is a no brainer.
I think it comes from a combination of a good set of the potential populace being children, the content being mostly emotional and not needing to be professionally employed to use the game. Those 3 things alone are great filters in getting good users and you are lacking that in games.
I would think that this is something Artificial Intelligence can handle.

A perimeter defense would need to be established, with radars for long range scanning. And cameras for short range confirmation. It will also need infrared cameras to operate at night.

A computer system would monitor the perimeter, for all incoming threats. This computer system must be very powerful, as it is processing a lot of data in real time. However, this kind of technology should now be in the realms of deep learning AI that is currently being developed now.

Once a positive visual confirmation is made, to determine that the aerial object is an intrusion drone, then an alert can be given to the human commander, of the incoming threat. And a human can still stay in the loop to order the execution.

Then, a turret mounted laser cannon, can be used to burn down the drone. Or even a rifle can be used to kill the drone with a kinetic impact. The accuracy of a bullet fired by a robot, should far exceed the skill of the best human sniper. But bullets still follow a parabolic path, so a turret mounted laser cannon is more flexible to destroy drones.
Uber lost two key employees and paid Waymo for the trouble.

Waymo/Google counsel earned their annual bonus.
When I left Epic, they had just reneged on an equity compensation promise by issuing me some form of "shadow" stock tokens, because they didn't want to bring their number of real owners up past a point that would trigger automatic financial disclosures. I read the accompanying paperwork, and decided that I needed to kick my job search into an even higher gear, immediately. Just one of the many reasons I had for moving on. (2007)

At that time, they were not offering salaries that were even competitive with other companies in Madison. Never mind about Seattle or SV. I had four managers in 2.25 years, because three of them left for higher pay elsewhere almost as soon as they got promoted. I left the fourth for ~20% higher pay.

I would guess that any major tech employer could stroll into town and hire the best 50% from under Epic's feet in less than two weeks, while still saving money on salaries compared to SV. Queen Judy is not taking that company public, and would rather divert her profits to charity than to employees. There won't be options or RSUs. The only reason people might stick around is the cult-like atmosphere.
> .. currently unclear to us and support why our writes are being queued ..

You think GCP offers better support on spanner et al when customer is having performance problems? In this case probably yes, because an Epic sized monthly spend is highly effective at escalating through support.

It takes low effort to find <cloud persistence horror story> around here so we know cloud is not a special magic that is immune from integration performance problems. But the economic incentives are meaningfully different and especially so at runtime.
100% agree. I would argue Big 0, or [insert abstract CS concept here] is drastically overrated in importance. We're much more interested in someones propensity to learn new skills and curiosity than we are in how closely they align with a traditional CS grad. To be honest, some of the best developers we've hired have had no formal schooling whatsoever.
now it's whales and mining farms
Bingo. The key is your pipeline.
Imagine a swarm of small robots, say drones with sufficient compute power on board.

If I understand the repercussions of this correctly, could this be applied so that the swarm be able to learn from the mistakes of a single individual?
But the draw is near fantasy levels of misunderstanding and delusion. Monetary policy is not that simple.
I'm curious as to how hockey is any more expensive than any other sport that has player equipment and a privileged background is more beneficial to making it to the professional level than any other sport.

Could it be that black kids as a group just isn't that interested in playing hockey?
I am having trouble on MacOS. I have version 10.11.6

When I select Playback > Renderer, it's connected to Chromecast alright, but when I press play, nothing happens.

Edit: Ok, it happens to some videos (they are h.264 videos), other videos seem to work fine, but for some reason, changing volume doesn't seem to have any effect on it. Is it by design?
It's fantastic that people want to tackle the complexity that is Emacs Lisp and work on a JIT for it. It might not be the most fashionable thing these days, but a faster Emacs would make life significantly better for countless developers.

I am having high hopes for this project.
I've found it depends on the bootcamp. There are a select few that do a good job and produce solid junior developers, but the VAST majority are trash and produce developers similar to what you describe.
How about I just give Google an SSH cert for my router and then they can proactively monitor my entire network to make sure I'm not being MITM'ed.
> realize that you're not entitled to what you have

That's ridiculous. The fact that his parents worked hard is what entitled him to the life he has, all the way up the chain to the ones that emigrated to America and earlier. This 'original sin' stuff that people are trying to push just because we are born in the US is crap.
Why I moved to Kotlin from Java
This looks pretty sweet so far. I love having multiple panes, multiple tabs, and good shortcuts. When you click on a row it also appears in a vertical orientation in the sidebar on the right, that's a nice touch.

Today, I use mysql in the terminal most of the time. The main reason I've been using the terminal instead of SequelPro is my terminal has the scrollback available from my previous queries. This is great for comparing results, printing out a few table schemas to help write a query, and acting as kind of a log of my thought process. Terminal has a lot of other disadvantages, but I've accumulated a lot of tricks to mitigate them.

A nice implementation of tabs and panes could chip-away at that advantage, definitely, so this app is exciting. One limitation in the current implementation is it looks like table views need to take up the whole tab. It would be nice to have a table view in one pane, and a query editor in the next.

The app has a nice query history sidebar. In addition to the query, it has the timestamp; my terminal doesn't have that. Could this concept be expanded to include query results? My first instinct was also to try dragging and dropping one of the queries from my history into the desired pane. That didn't work, but its behavior of adding it to the pane where the cursor was last works well.

All in all, I think this will definitely find a regular place in my tool set; thank you for making something cool!
I got a peek at the recall instructions, for those inclined to check themselves: https://twitter.com/JustinFrankel/status/962056021156945920
I haven't, and I'm disappointed to see that the display I used is now discontinued. That will push me to use a more effective one in the next iteration, which I'll write up.
Getting sort of tired of the SpaceX Circle Jerk all over the Internet. Go ahead and downvote me.
Siri can be turned off on iPhones. I don’t see how buying a phone gets you in the same situation as buying a device that has a voice-only interface.
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Those are probably supported version numbers.
This must be awesome to look at live.
Also amazing to see drone swarms move out of labs with nets to a major event.
That's my big concern as well. Hidden trigger phrases and self-incrimination issues (i.e., valid trigger phrase + sending potentially incriminating speech) - either separately (or worse, combined) are something I'd rather not worry about in my own home.
How One Book Changed My Relationship with Money
I accidentally selected "always continue playback from where you left off" for audio files instead of restarting from the beginning, how can I undo this change? I don't see any relevant settings in preferences (on macOS 10.12).
s/Uber/Google
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>No matter how many iterations it goes through, it's still intelligible to would-be time travelers from the past. I.e. didn't get caught up in the "must change the UX around for change's sake" epidemic that still seems rampant.

Well amen to that. If it works, why change it?
did not see that, thanks for the link
I think in some areas google is being pressured by various govts. However in many areas they are self censoring for different reasons by different people and groups of people within the G sphere. Both are bad and are going to far IMO.

I understand the reality you speak of, I've read a lot of news regarding this for years.

My proposed search disruptor idea is to have it vary the top results on various verticals and the results as a whole based upon region, even state by state, city by city. Some of this due the regulatory pressures that exist, some due to the community standards that exist and vary town by town, state by sate, country by country..
but also as a wise business move.. as getting the accepted content to those in city X and ads that city X is likely to enjoy is a win win, and keeps the san fran ads from freaking out the small town groups on the other side of the state will bring less pressure..

So yes it's possible to do this much better. I know big G could do it - but they are thinking on a bigger more scale-able and move on issues, so a niche nimble engine can do this better..

There also appears to be groups at G that want to censor more and more things that are not illegal, what was the term for the last ceo? Make them grow up and adult or need a babysitter or something?

Anyhow, they are censoring a LOT of results based on negative push down factors from their hatred of SEO from years back - and that is making the engine server a lot less of what people are looking for as well - no pressure from and regulatory there - just a moby dick thing where they are cutting their nose off despite their adwords..

There is money on the table, it's a problem that could use fixing, and we can do it better than they can. It will only effectively target 20% of G's searches..

and we'd probably only get about 8% of the adwords type money that G is getting.. but I think a nimble search portal could provide a decent living for a group of coders and investors on that kind of money for a while.
Maybe FLOSS abbreviates Free/Libre Open Source Software
Yes. I don't think one can escape from the fact that punishment and reward go hand-in-hand. By the contrast principle, absence of reward is logically equivalent to punishment. Even without explicit rewards and punishments, children will pick up their parents' emotions. And if there are no emotions to pick up, the child will choose another parent figure. Because children want to grow.
Without the syntactic sugar provided by Haskell most parser combinators in other languages tend to be ugly, difficult to read and difficult to write.
Well it's not an OS upon which they "run a comprehensive functional, regression, and stress test suite ... on a continuous basis" for starters (CentOS and Ubuntu, only)

http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/os-recommendations/
where, exactly, do you think the miners for bitcoin are located?

Hint: China
You know what was a bigger Facebook engagement factor/time suck than fake political news?

Pieces of flair.
Completely agree

Also add to this the trend or rise language servers .. emacs can continue to be used as a solid ide alternatives

And .. guile emacs hopefully one day

Any work to improve and re-use emacs is good for everyone
It’s almost impossible to achieve any sort of reproducibility when all packages are built from source.

Portage is a great tool, but I always thought it was better suited to build packages and operating systems as opposed being an end user package management solution.