skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's becoming clear that the 70s and certainly the 60s were just a different time, with different standards of behavior. While much of the behavior[0] we're learning about is probably indefensible, I also don't know how I feel about telling people who don't feel bothered by what they experienced that it was wrong and they should feel it was wrong. Perhaps that isn't what people who tweeted #NoNolan meant to do, I admit though.

[0] speaking in general, not just this story
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I don’t see the value in sticking to this legal technicality. She could have accepted the ticket using an anonymous trust, but since she signed it with her own name instead, she’s not allowed to change it. Since anonymous trusts are already legal there, there’s no threat of “losing openness.”

I mean come on, that’s such a petty technicality for such a massive life event. Just let her set up the anonymous trust and move the ticket to it.
I restrict screen time, but I also am careful about what goes on the screen. The kid is more than happy is the selection, and I am happy to avoid some bad suggestion by the content algos.

I find just picking different projects and giving broad exposure to a number of different fields a better framework. Even if you are assisting them in a project, the exposure they gain builds confidence that they can carry on in that field if they so choose.
I usually receive between 5 and 40 spam mails per day (best and worst day of january 2017), manually sorted.

That's with SPF, DKIM, DMARC checks automatically rejecting emails. SpamAssassin and custom ML filters to presort.
I didn't say they couldn't. What I said is that such a list wouldn't make as much sense because it would always be out of date. A programmer looks at that problem and sees that an API makes more sense.
By that line of reasoning, they should stop their product and close the company.

No really, this is about money. Free customers don't pay the bills.
I don't necessarily see code reviews as the problem here. I think it's a very important aspect of development that unfortunately seems first in line to get cut back when other parts of the organization fail, when for the sake of quality I believe that the organization should be designed to always accommodate it.

For example, you mention waiting until the last minute and throwing away work. If this is such a big deal, maybe the units of work are too big or too loosely defined. Loosely defined as in "eh, we never needed this in the first place" or big as in "sorry about that but your 2000 LOC commit just isn't the right approach". Maybe github style reviews/pull requests are also not the best way to go about it. IMO the github style is pretty weird and shouldn't be conflated with reviewing in general.

At my current workplace, we use gerrit to review every commit. The only way that they'll ever get to master or a shared development branch is if they get a +2 vote. Maybe this is closer to a "managed push"? It's not rare that someone finds an issue, and when that happens it's very rare that it means scrapping the entire patch, and when that happens, it's usually a very small patch for a problem/feature that ended up being fixed elsewhere, so I definitely don't think it's a waste of time. Instead I am grateful that many of the patches didn't enter the codebase in their initial state.
Search engines and browser vendors have had a big influence on configuration, layout, mobile friendliness and other things long before HTTPS All The Things started to gain traction.
Rule 1: No new bullshit hacks make it in.

Rule 2: One bullshit hack must be removed per sprint.

Over time, you'll have better software.
> If that were the case Chrome's disruptive ad blocker would have been released shortly after the rise of flash ads

This seems like an odd argument. Are uBlock's incentives unaligned with yours because they didn't release their adblocker earlier? What does the timing of the release have to do with anything?

> If that were the case I would be able to completely opt out of tracking and accept slightly less targeted ads

You can opt out of tracking and ad targeting
https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/privacy
Photographer here. The amount of attention this has received has caught me a bit off guard – this is really just a somewhat pretty picture of what is a standard technique in physics by now.

I'm putting together a short post with answers to some of the most commonly asked questions, but in the meantime, check out this great comment by a well-informed Redditor:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/7x4o27/p...
I don't know dude, I've seen you post about this many times.

I suspect it has something to do with the way you (a) look, or (b) socially interact with people. I don't mean this in an offensive way, but if you look / sound like Donald Knuth you probably won't get a job because you're not Donald Knuth. You're just some quirky eccentric person that probably won't fit in because you can't make small talk around a water fountain or you don't have an interesting story to tell after a weekend because you probably don't actually do anything on weekends that's fun. I don't know, it could be a hundred reasons. I bet it's got absolutely nothing to do with how smart you are, what you know, or who you studied under. I mean, for starters, why not just go back to academia? Are they rejecting you too?

At some point, if you're being rejected for 1000 jobs, I think you need to have an honest talk with yourself and ask whether the problem is you or whether the problem is the job market. You're a smart guy, I'm sure you can run the math and answer that question.
Best of luck!
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Sadly, the US courts have held that many of these terms are binding.
This is the Flattr model https://flattr.com/ that they recently moved to. I wish they moved to this model years ago, but I guess it was too soon for the time.
>Is illusion real because we experience it?

Consciousness is the experiencing.
You're correct. I did it more for the reviews, so that I can charge appropriate rates later on.

I spent probably 2-3 hours for that $15 (and 3 hours more for additional $30) and then about 2 hours for that $100 (expected $50). These are all excluding messaging, just actual work.
Agree, one thing I observe in many kids that have screen-time restriction is that they tend to sneakily watch at any chance they can find: at their friend house, at BestBuy, Target,.. you name it.

Since my daughter turned 3, I allowed her to watch 1 hour/day (2 hours during weekend), and have been very consistent to this rule. After a few weeks, she voluntarily turns off her iPad after the quota ends and plays with her toys, lego,... And she shows no desire to sneakily watch like other kids that being restricted, and never throws tantrum over it. I don't know if this is considered "self driven" but I'm very happy with the way she behaves.

Technology is part of our life, don't understand why parents chose to exclude it from their kids.
> pay for cancer research

This is an appeal to emotion. It's not very honest to cherry pick a nice sounding example. How about taxes spent for wars and so on?

> Isn't that more socially useful than giving everyone the right to watch Snow White on YouTube for free?

The money that people saved by not paying disney do not disappear. They will be spent, perhaps on cancer research, or something else.
>For example, Google could offer a search engine free of any ads, as they did in the early days.FN1 They have more than enough cash to do it.

Doesn't google still make like 80% of its revenue off advertising in search? If its true, then they really don't have the money to drop it

And instead of viewing it as double-betting, it can just as easily be seen as a compromise. They still want to advertise, and makes sense for them to want to, and the truly troublesome ads are poisoning the water for everyone, by leading (normal) people to total solutions ie adblock. Which is bad for business. In which case, you should expect them to find a middle-ground solution, and it would be absurd for google to move in either direction too strongly (because the money's not there).

Its not that they're taking sides, but that they're trying not to.
> The question is whether the law establishing the lottery permits that

But that’s shouldn’t be the question. The question should be whether that law is extremely dumb (obviously it is), and whether it threatens to place undeserved stress on an individual going through a major life event (it does).
I have really wanted something like this. Right now I am just using Google bookmarks, but it sort of feels like I am just dumping links into a giant black hole.

I find it hard to locate something I added over 6 months ago. The tagging is minimally useful, but I think there has to be a better way of organizing these links for easier retrieval.
It was more for the reviews than the money. I assume after having few positive reviews, it's easier to get higher paying jobs.

It's a standard guide when joining new freelance sites.
Before all those came the Major General Smedley Butler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

https://ia802605.us.archive.org/29/items/WarIsARacket/WarIsA...
Remaining anonymous goes a long way to help you keeping sane and your friends and family intact
Common core standards for English and math were released 2012 with adoption spread out across years for many states. Development of the standards started in 2009. Gate's youngest child would have been starting school ~2008.
The problem is allowing people to challenge the process, ex post facto, by which a winner is established. You can't think of any reason why making it easier to challenge that process--to change the outcome--might be problematic for an agency tasked with giving away hundreds of millions of dollars? Finality is one of the primary functions of rules and laws--of justice--often more important than getting a "correct" outcome in any particular case, especially in cases such as this where the woman is free to return to the status quo ante by forgoing the winnings altogether.

And in as much as courts can make and change laws, they must do so on principle, almost always by applying or extending some pre-existing principle of law. It can be difficult to articulate a principle cabined to the particular facts of a single case. It's much easier for legislatures to do that--to craft a rule that literally recites the facts of this woman's case so that the exception only applies to her and to people facing her exact same circumstance.

Maybe the court can do that in this case. We just shouldn't make the mistake of thinking it's an easy case to resolve.
The users installing ad blockers were doing okay
It is true but what cryptocurrency you can mine with a supercomputer that gives you a profit?
She can likely afford some pretty good security with her winnings.

Her problem is not unique; any wealthy celebrity has had to deal with the same after all.
So did I? I'm not sure what your point is. My post was framed around the current users of adblockers.
Don't underestimate how terrible the low-incoming housing stock was beforehand. It was already decades behind the standards that you'd find in, say, an American city (mostly because London had grown huge earlier than they had, so a lot of expansion had been constructed to an earlier standard) Having chunks of it bombed flat in WW2 didn't help, either.
> The GF is invested in big pharma companies

That's talked about in the article.
I really interested reading your comment. Thanks for sharing your experiences, I hope other users also found your comment enlightening.
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Do you have a source for that Cuckoo filter proposal?
Good, a tax on the uneducated, desperate, and mathematically illiterate is cruel and morally reprehensible to begin with. Propping it all up with publicity generated at the direct expense of the winners is pathetic.
>1) I'm in a couple specific regional groups that AFAIK have no non-Facebook counterpart (though they easily could). I think Facebook does groups poorly, but they serve the "non-technical community space" use case much better than any other popular offering that I know of.

These used to be called "forums" and were very popular until Facebook invented groups and murdered them all.
Hm, I think I disagree with this. The famous statistician and scientist RA Fisher said "To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of." and less-statistically-inclined researchers in academia have often observed this to be true: when statistical/analytical/"data" related considerations are not taken into account during the early stages (design, planning) of a project, it is very difficult (and time and money consuming) to "bolt them on" after the fact. If "AI" (or whatever you want to call it) is going to be a fundamental feature of a product, data scientists (or whatever you want to call them) should be involved right from the very beginning.
For me they bring to the table everything you just mentioned, except I don't have to do it.

> run a mailserver with bogofilter, which, with a few months of training, is surprisingly effective.
When I bought from Oreilly they maintained a download anytime list, and sent me free update lists. Who if anyone does this now?
I wonder what happened to the 20yo from Florida who won a few months ago
Well isn't that the point of these: to see that they don't churn out crap, but do a decent job.
Looks like it keeps your mind from replaying the traumatic events in a traumatic fashion early on if Tetris can keep your mind off it, makes sense
Shoehorning Shopify to your SaaS is probably quite straightforward. There are plugins for accounting stuff, too. [0]

[0] https://apps.shopify.com/featured/accounting
And suddenly the principals of the lottery company start spending huge amounts of cash...
My university had us take the same ethics class as civil engineers, etc., and there was plenty of case study material where lax standards in engineering (including computer systems) had killed people. We can live without technology, but it's a lot harder to live when the optional technology that a lot of people choose to use starts killing people. It's important for engineers to understand the role they can and should play in advocating for safety and high standards.

It needn't be a focus of the education, but it should be a concern of universities to ensure students graduate with an understanding of the importance of integrity for society's good and how they can ensure their projects are ethical.
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I believe the issue with state's auditing their own lotteries is that it still leaves a fair bit of room for public corruption. By declaring winners openly, it avails anyone among the public to research potential corrupt connections between lottery winners and lottery operators.
Hi David,

I like the idea a lot, but I think it is up to the team and hiring manager and not the tool the decide whether to use a time box or not. I haven't tried the tool yet so I'm only speculating here, but as a potential user from the team / hiring manager side I would expect I could disable the time boxing completely if I wanted.

Cheers!
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But in this case she would have been allowed to accept the ticket under an anonymous trust. The only problem is that she signed the ticket, and there is an incredibly stupid legal technicality which prevents you from changing the signature.

It is ludicrous that it would take a judge more than a few hours to review the law and make a decision to allow her to change the ticket to an anonymous trust.
I don't really appreciate skirting "technicalities", especially in a precedent-setting legal decision. If the law is wrong (or even if the spirit/intent of the law does not apply here), she should win and the law should change or be struck down. I wouldn't mind if the judge decided "it's illegal to make someone who signed a lottery ticket with their real name not change to a trust and keep their name hidden." But I would mind if the judge decided "I feel sorry for her, in this one instance she can remain anonymous."
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>9/10 of the technical screens I take are bunk. It boils down to what's fresh on my mind that moment; random trivia.

Real talk. Being able to define the term singleton or explain the difference between an interface and an abstract class is not much of a metric.
But all this is irrelevant to his original point, and how blockchain was referenced within it. People are reacting to the word and their preconceptions and ignoring the point, which is a real shame because those same preconceptions actually strengthen the point being made.
It's called PoW. Go for the highest total work in the chain. If you go for anything else you are either allowing your self to be attacked by a malicious branch, or you are yourself attacking the network.
There's at any given moment exactly one chain that has the most PoW (by definition).
That's the reason why Ethereum is switching to PoS, because they know they can't just take over Bitcoin on total PoW.
Be advised that PoS means it's not really a public ledger, but a private chain set up by a very large private club.
In the UK, lotteries are well regulated and audited by commissions who confirm payouts, etc.

It's OK to stay anonymous, particularly in the largest lotteries (National Lottery and Euromillions, both operated in the UK by Camelot Plc), and you can not be publicly named without opting into it.

It's my understanding that every person who gets a prize over £500k on the national/euro lotteries gets a visit from a Camelot employee to ensure they're prepared to handle the money and are speaking to suitable people who are not going to destroy their good fortune.

I don't see why other lotteries in other countries can't do the same without the risk of fraud increasing.
I don't think you're up to speed. Ethereum's 'gpu support' on a second layer is called truebit and is supported by the end. It is well into development.

Further, ethereum's lightning already has a minimum viable plasma implementation (one of the lightning founders is leading the project)
When Snow Leopard 10.6 came out in August 2009, it only supported Intel Macs, which were at earliest from January 2006, about three and a half years earlier. Typical Mac OS X releases up to El Capitan (september 2015) supported 10 years of Macintosh computers. Sierra/High Sierra still do, essentially.
Sort of. But the moment they sign that software, they’ve created a backdoor which didn’t previously exist, and that fundamentally weakens the security of the platform.
A lot of people are cheated out of their winning each year by sales clerks that check the ticket, tell the buyer "nope, it's a loser", then pull the ticket out of the trash once the buyer has left.

Signing the back upon purchase is a strong defense against this fraud. So it's not as black-and-white as it seems.
Are there any good models for transfer learning with audio ?
"Over the last week, Kotaku interviewed 12 of Atari’s earliest female employees, in the hopes of hearing their stories—good or bad—about working at Atari in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The culture they told us about was certainly, as Playboy described it, one of “sex, drugs, and video games,” but one in which all 12 employees say they freely participated, if they participated at all. Many interviewees said it was the best job they ever had, adding that news of Bushnell’s rescinded award struck them as shocking or unfair."
Don't forget about the infamous McDonald's Monopoly fraud!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Fraud

>In 2000, the U.S. promotion was halted after fraud was uncovered. A subcontracting company called Simon Marketing (a then-subsidiary of Cyrk), which had been hired by McDonald's to organize and promote the game, failed to recognize a flaw in its procedures. Chief of security Jerome P. Jacobson[3] was able to remove the most expensive game pieces, which he then passed to associates who would redeem them and share the proceeds. The associates won almost all of the top prizes between 1995 and 2000, including McDonald's giveaways that did not have the Monopoly theme. The associates netted over $24 million.
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Upwork can be a stepping stone for talented developers who don't necessarily have the exposure, community or connections and may not have the accessibility to compete in other market places like Toptal.

In my experience Upwork support has always been slow and cut-rate. I realize the irony as Upwork most likely employs contractors from its platform who aren't necessarily invested in building a product or community. It's unfortunate but this is a huge shortcoming both from a support and policy (ToS) standpoint. Support needs to be invested in the product.

FWIW no freelancer (or gig economy worker for that manner) should be dependent on a single platform for income. There are so many job platforms to invest time and energy on - Upwork, Toptal, Gun.io, RemoteOk, etc. And the plethora of developer focused Q&A sites. Leverage those to augment your personal profile (site).
The lottery should provide 2 options:

- Public + full money

- Anonymous + half money

Win-win for both parties.
Cultural relativism is lost to many, i feel
It's better for my immediate family, worse for my social network as a whole.
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Thanks for submitting! Can you tell me how this differs from something like https://algorithmia.com/ ? I am curious to understand the main differences between their approach and yours! Cheers :)
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Going into a meeting to be disruptive is not "participating in democracy". She went there to get arrested. She succeeded.
Not exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(physics)

For most of the history of the word “reflect”, its meaning was definitely not “absorb and re-emit photons of the same frequency”.
> I really believe Facebook is grossly overvalued as an internet property

You could have made this exact argument in 2012 when FB was worth $20/share. Was this argument wrong in 2012 but correct in 2018?
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You would think the legislature would lend a kind ear to their next great donor.
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I will bookmark this, and hopefully someone updates the story of what happened when the case has been settled.

On one side, you can see why the lady was asking for anonymity - exposing her could really endanger her life. She would be a target for anyone, who would want a piece of that $500 million dollars of reason. On the other side, you see that the state wants to advertise and use this as a marketing ploy to entice other people to play.
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Given the name, you should assume that it specifically prevent from overwriting files.

The windows filesystem has more than a dozen specific permissions, similar to advanced acl on Linux, that allows very fine grained permissions.

This allows to have shared folders where users can do anything, except delete the directory itself or modify files created by other users.
I wonder if she can have her name legally changed prior to picking up the ticket, and then changed back afterwards. I'm not sure if the signature on the back matters in that case.
No, design the curriculum so that it's pick your adventure.
Not the parent poster, but I use NoScript on desktop Firefox. Beyond whitelisting observablehq.com and observableusercontent.com I found that the content was completely missing until I also unblocked objects from fonts.gstatic.com. Could be a clue.