skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An au pair usually lives in your home and takes care of the children for 6-8 hours a day, for 6-12 months. Are you suggesting she shouldn’t have a voice?
I would certainly consider courses in professional practice, law and ethics to be far more supportive and on topic than generalised requirements to take a certain number of "humanities" courses.
Thanks for the heads up! Have you used it? What do you know about it?
You know Android?
Thank you.

#3 is probably to specific to the specific circumstances to work as any kind of general guideine)

I can think of some folks who would be better off taking a break and sorting their personal problems rather than continuing to piss and moan about what meanies the mods are or whatever. I am far from the only person here whose personal issues are sometimes a significant part of the problem.
Effective tax rate on capital in the USA is much lower.

FANG pays ~10% on income.

Our official capital gains is 20%; I have no idea what the effective rate is.

But I still regret attributing low wages solely to shifting tax burden. Labor glut is probably the biggest factor.

Though I do think automation will be biggest factor in the near future.
"Avoid dwarven deaths"
> I disagree. Conscious thinking is a crucial process that's inherently single-threaded, even though it runs on highly parallel hardware (the billions of neurons).

I don't even know what to make of that. What do you mean by "single-threaded" if at the same time you recognize that it "runs on highly parallel hardware"? If you actually mean that our consciousness emerges from a purely sequential process that happens to go on in a highly parallel system, no, that's clearly wrong. Experience, the fundamental basis of consciousness, actuates many parts of the brain at the same time. They process this information largely independently in different ways, and sometimes those processes result in a clear "train of thought" but most of the time they do not. You can not reason about the inherent nature of our consciousness in terms of trains of thought if you recognize any subjectivity to our experience that exists without reasoning or language. That's a matter of definition, of course, and without agreeing on a precise definition it's probably no use talking about what is inherent about it.

If that's not what you mean, CPU execution models are probably not a very helpful metaphor to explain your idea. The clearly defined layer of abstraction that separates a fully pipelined CPU design built with simultaneously operating logic gates from "single threaded" programs being executed on it doesn't exist in brains. I guess that's what bugs me most about this type of discussion on HN. It seems developers are very fond of taking their (admittedly versatile) hammers and hammer away at anything they can think of, for better or for worse.
How is BitWardens UX on mobile? Does it support autofill and automatically adding/updating passwords you enter on apps or the browser?
> where we might prefer more explicit and local ones.

could you expand on this? who is "we" and what are those explicit and local relationships? are you talking about an opensource ecosystem or a private enterprise?
For starters I would separate them out.

Paid I would consider traditional forms of advertising and marketing such as TV, FB, Google, ads, etc.

Organic or community driven advertising has it's costs as well but I would separate that out to a different section. This would include budgets like meetups, some conferences (though many I would actually lump into traditional ad spend), t-shirts, stickers, credits to customers, community expenses and so forth.

Then for non-tracked customers I would assume that percentages work well. Meaning if 25% of my customers come from community, then 25% of my non-tracked organic customers are from community. If 5% are from paid, I would say 5% of my organic non tracked are paid.

If you do the break out this way you will see that old-gaurd paid advertising is 80% of the cost of the entire sales and marketing function, but brings in an overall 5-10% of net new sales.

Now if you are profitable, or near profitability go for it, but if you are losing a sizable portion of yearly revenue, say 50% or more due to sales and marketing and you see it broken out this way you will immediately realize how false this spend is.

Just because something is done a certain way and accepted, doesn't mean that it's correct.
The ethics and actions that spring from libertarian thought certainly appear to be suited more to perfectly rational robots than to imperfect, fleshy and irrational humans, and how people actually live their lives.
The Hudson River rail tunnels were built eons ago. Why can't we build a new one?
> Imagine asking a computer to diagnose an illness or conduct a business negotiation.

To beat humans at this, it just has to have a lower misdiagnosis rate.
Lean project management
> And there’s nothing stopping people with poor genetics from breeding promiscuously with multiple women anyway, leaving behind single mothers in their wake.

There's nothing that stops any people from "breeding promiscuously", provided they find suitable and willing partner. It is when you start talking about who is worth access to reproduction and who is too genetically inferior to be allowed that is where trouble starts. The humanity has terrible track record with this. Surely, you say, this time it would be different - we have The Science on our side which won't lead us astray! Which would be very reassuring, if only that wasn't the same thing, word for word, that was said in all previous attempts.

> People with excellent genetic traits need some sort of advantage to meet each other.

Why? If they're so excellent, they may find each other using their own excellent facilities. While it still sounds terrifying and offputting, I have no problem with people trying things that are terrifying and offputting to me in their own bedrooms. It's when this is proposed as some kind of societal norm where the really terrifying part begins, because we've been on that road, and not once, and we know it leads to hell.
I've considered adding Github public key support to EnvKey[1]. Currently, when inviting a user, you need to send a token out of band in order to not trust our servers during the invite process. Using the Github public key could potentially eliminate this step.

My only concern is that these might have a tendency to get out of date or not be managed securely, in which case it could be more trouble than it's worth.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
I'm computer science, everyone is publishing on arxiv.org . why can't other fields?
This is not a specific criticism of a regulation that would meet the standard of removing regulations that would not produce harmful effects, it is a blanket criticism that dismisses the reason why the regulations exist at all.

Yes, moving more quickly would save more lives... but at what expense? That expense would be more human lives diminished by medical experimentation. Perhaps those patients would accept that cost if there were a possibility of life saving drugs being more rapidly discovered.

In that case, we have to ask, what is the likely actual result of revoking regulations? Most of those regulations are written in blood. This broad critique that doesn't specifically analyze a particular regulation is dangerous, because it neglects the role of the profit motive. Profit motive results in the externalization of costs to acquire more money. In general this results in snake oil, addictive medicines, wars, and ruined bodies. It also results in processes being cost optimized, though often the costs are simply externalized by the corporation, cheating, rather than making real progress.

I strongly suspect that taking the leash off the corporate drug makers and researchers will result in an increase in human misery, rather than a reduction. A non-profit with secure (i.e. public) funding might be more well equipped to use their good sense in the absence of some regulations.

I'll grant there may be some unproductive regulations, but the argument must be specific and evidence based rather than a generic broadside at all of them.
They are the exception for sure, but their platform also supports a tremendous amount of video and that's the real killer for them. This is the same problem that youtube had, video just consumes many times more bandwidth than doing a similar service in text (twitter), or images (instagram). So that's not surprising.

But one exception doesn't make a rule.
Last paragraph in the whitepaper:

> MobileCoin is designed so that a mobile messaging application like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Signal could integrate with a MobileCoin wallet.

Pretty sure we're gonna see a separate product that works with IM apps when installed simultaneously.
Do you think he's in a position to donate the organisation to someone?
I'd say the same way any criticism hurts the party believing it, not the one it's directed at. It increases your confidence in yourself without any corresponding increase in you real performance. In this case, public perception of superiority might lead to the US keeping its drug trials slow and expensive, reducing the amount of medical technology invented there compared to China.
I still remain unconvinced at the lack of lockfiles. I’m in complete agreement with rsc the minimum version algorithm produces more reliable builds, ie version selection is deterministic. However, lockfiles do more than select versions deterministically, they also hash the packages so that you can be guaranteed that version 1.1 today is the same as 1.1 tomorrow.

I also have philosophical concerns about selecting the minimum version: people release patch versions for a reason. I hope vgo only uses the minimum for minor versions not patches (even then I still prefer the newest minor — most of the fixes I release are not back ported as patches). However, I don’t think this algorithm is a bad choice and it seems to fit the go philosophy nicely as it’s simple and to make it “better” gets into many thornier issues that may even involve language changes ala project jigsaw for Java.
> Android devs. We can find iOS easily. No one wants to do Android. Seems weird given that android is OS.

Having done both, Android development is a pain and just not fun. The simulator/emulator situation has improved a lot which helps, but it used to be a terrible development experience.
I think it comes down to psychology more than anything, albeit I'm not a psychologist. Games are designed for immersion. When you play the best kinds of video games that can get you really invested in them most people can express the feelings of struggle, victory, and defeat they can project through their narratives and interactivity. So psychologically if you "save the world" or "catch / slay a monster" with complete engagement with others your brain can really impress that in your brain with that degree of impact. Personally I will never forget the first time my guild beat Ragnaros in World of Warcraft back in 2006, and I still keep in touch with a lot of the members of that guild despite substantial divergence of interests and lives since then because it was such a well articulated accomplishment at the time.

Sports and books respectively are missing an element of that formula. Sports aren't immersive. The obstacle is always just a game, for fun. Except when it isn't. There is a reason major sports professionals form lifelong bonds amongst each other while a volleyball club doesn't have as profound an impact. Your brain doesn't create a mountain of importance out of the sport.

For books, there is no common enemy to struggle and persevere against. You can get really immersed, but that makes the book memorable, not the people you talk about it with. In the same sense it is better than nothing and can produce friendship, but its not nearly as effective.

The trick is that none of it can be forced. You can't "make" yourself care, and nobody else can. It has to be a legitimate struggle with legitimate engagement and sense of comradery. Kids in school can feel that sense. Immersed gamers can feel it. If you are passionate about game development you can feel that with your codevs. But you need both pieces for the magical result.
Vendoring is not supported by vgo so it’s not an issue
Doesn't it blow your mind that you can represent imperative computations using a purely functional language? (like Haskell do-blocks, or lambda calculus itself).

The beauty of a declarative notation is not that you get to ditch representation of state, is that you can represent such state in a much more compact and tractable way than what is required by theoretical representations of imperative machines. Trying to do mathematical reasoning with Hoare logic is a pain in the ass.
Forgive my ignorance but why is submitting a hash a problem? Because Troy knows which passwords have been checked? Why should I care about that? I get that it’s like submitting your password in the clear if it’s in the DB, but in that case surely you have bigger problems.
Fancy salary? Where did you get the idea that con men have fancy salaries? You're literally saying that fraud should have no consequences.
I think this is the one: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulations-docs...

> You must submit a classification request or self-classification report to BIS for mass market encryption commodities and software eligible for the Cryptography Note employing a key length greater than 64 bits for the symmetric algorithm (or, for commodities and software not implementing any symmetric algorithms, employing a key length greater than 768 bits for asymmetric algorithms or greater than 128 bits for elliptic curve algorithms) in accordance with the requirements of § 740.17(b) of the EAR in order to be released from the “EI” and “NS” controls of ECCN 5A002 or 5D002.
There was a factory in a town somewhere that paid all its workers' bonuses in $2 bills so that the town could see the effect that the factory had on the local economy.
A Bitcoin exchange bug sees one user try to cash out $20 trillion
10 free programming books you can read this year
Stream Processing 101: From SQL to Streaming SQL in 10 Minutes
You can use probability models to get better churn metrics. One we used in business school was the beta-geometric which gives a discrete model for heterogeneous churns (the population uses a beta distribution to describe probability of churning). http://www.brucehardie.com/papers/021/sbg_2006-05-30.pdf
Home ownership rate is currently near averages maintained since the 70s. But it increased substantially in the 40s-70s (from ~45% to 65%). So to the extent that rise was enabled by dual income households you’re absolutely right more demand for housing drives up housing prices and saps up the extra income.
Yep - and a lot of this stuff is nicely high margin. I've bought tiny sandbags, 32mm circles that look like zen gardens, and a ton of other stuff for my hobby. There's tons of small shops out there making neat hobby materials.

I always thought the people who use "lifestyle business" as a pejorative were missing out.
Computer Programs Aren't Pure Abstractions. They Live in the World
> I can think of some folks who would be better off taking a break and sorting their personal problems rather than continuing to piss and moan about what meanies the mods are or whatever. I am far from the only person here whose personal issues are sometimes a significant part of the problem.

Oh, I certainly agree; what I meant would perhaps be more clearly expressed as "#3 probably has more need of rewriting into a more general form before being included as a general guideline"; recognizing and, where appropriate, taking an extended break to address personal issues is something that makes a good bit of general advice, the other three were just more in a form that worked as general advice without rewriting from the account of what had worked for you than that one was, IMO.
Doesn't that get you dwarven overpopulation and sad dwarves?
The Retraction Watch website http://retractionwatch.com/ is one good method of highlighting retracted work. For researchers in any given field, keeping current on literature is hard work given the pace of publication but does include seeing retractions.

So, the answer to your question depends on which researchers we mean. Experts in a field have the best chance of noticing relevant retractions in their own field. If you are a researcher in one field who has interests in many other fields, it is probably much less likely that you will be able to follow the retractions in those peripheral fields. That is why Retraction Watch and other mechanisms of highlighting such errors is useful.
Well, I have a few objections to that:

1. There are other differences in Japan -- most obviously a very different diet

2. Obesity rates in other countries are catching up to the United States.

3. The first two points call into question your claim that Americans are uniquely lacking in willpower.

4. I don't want to live in a society where people are fired or ostracized for being fat because it is cruel and inhumane.

5. The US has a $66 billion weight loss market, suggesting many Americans do want to lose weight (cf., https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-weight-loss-mark...), but I'll leave it to the oracles to decipher what you mean by "really" want.
In the case of wells Fargo it wasn't just corruption but outright fraud. Hundreds of people should have been brought up on criminal charges for the last of their many scandals
>The reason people don't use torrents as much as they used to is because people are afraid of getting sued by their ISPs and content owners.

do you have any proof of this? That may be one reason, but surely streaming and availability to buy on itunes/amazon etc has to be a factor.
Running Slack. Gosh
IPFS is important because all devices need:

- Computation

- Storage

- Bandwidth

Ethereum tackles computation and Filecoin storage. Our system

IPFS and Ethereum are well recognized because they actually exist and work. Our system, which also exists, and is ranked #2 "Blockchain" by developers on GitHub ( https://github.com/topics/blockchain ), will be tackling the bandwidth incentive problem.

Juan and I met a while back (we all have been doing P2P stuff since before 2014) and I'm trying to convince him + us + ethereum team to partner together, so app developers have a single solution to build any dApp on top of, using real tech (not vaporware!) that already exists.

Financial transactions academically must solve the double-spending problem, which Bitcoin addresses, and you are right, requires a form of Strong Consistency (via the CAP Theorem) that bottlenecks global throughput.

However, storage (IPFS) and data sync/bandwidth (us) don't have those requirements, so they can be much more scalable.
Sometimes it can be intimidating to see the resources and lobbying power that these behemoths have. They have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.

At the same time I'm inspired by projects like Discrete Analysis (http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/) and Fermat's Library (https://fermatslibrary.com/) - there are actually a lot of smart, well intentioned folks pushing for a move towards more openness and collaboration in science and research.
Yes but apparently the Model 3 uses permanent magnet motors. I would be interested to see the detailed engineering trade offs between these two choices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/6strnb/model_3...

EDIT:
Here's a bit of thought on why they might have switched technologies in the motor:

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/auto-industry/2017-tesla-mo...
Does the Dallas story (low demand for devs, high availability of devs) line up with the experience of those here familiar with the market? Based on just looking at job postings, it didn't seem like there was a lack of demand for devs in that area, but I know that postings don't necessarily equate to high demand.

Also if that's true, do alot of the Dallas devs in need of work go to Austin? Or is that not done for some reason?
Citymapper launches bus-taxi hybrid Smart Ride in London
100 tabs on Chrome?
No, it's a matter of economics. Those zXX chips are not cheap, nor is what they interface to.
SD is paradise for hardware devs, though!
You keep ignoring the primary point in order to argue semantics. Laws impact the economics of businesses operation, no matter how you define a business. The data tells us that our laws are maximizing wages for a small subset of the population. Other countries are not seeing this same divergence.

The laws in those countries are more similar to a time in the US where income was much more evenly distributed than today’s US laws. For those of us interested in improving the wage distribution for those in the bottom half, this is worth discussing. If you don’t think there is a problem, no need to comment.
I don't think that's really an obstacle. New biotech companies form all the time to try and bring new tech to market. They get zero money from any existing drugs.
Think of it as "...will continue to donate and will continue to advise the organization," with the repetition taken out.
Is 24 not a personal assistant? :) Yes, taskrabbit seems appropriate for discrete tasks (wait from 12PM to 3:27PM for my repair window)... but I'd insist on bonded people, not randos, even ones with lots of 5-star ratings, to be in my home.

Maybe something in a chatbot for text-based interfaces? Make it speak/listen with text->speech and voice recognition? Since most of the human interactions on the other side of bad customer service are scripted, should be possible to build counter-scripts.

But after all that I don't think I'd pay anything just for this on an ongoing basis. So who is the market? Impatient wealthy people? We're back to assistants!
Yeah, I agree that I would not want official guidelines to sound like "The problem is you and we wish you would go the fuck away and stop bothering us." Which number 3 could easily sound like if not stated very carefully.
I was basing my comment on the (former) effective tax rate of the US, which was previously high across the board.

The former effective US corporate income tax rate, for all corporations, was higher than Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark's statutory rate.

The effective rate for the S&P 500 was higher than the statutory rate for Finland, Sweden, and comparable to Denmark. And that's for the elite of the elite of tax avoiding companies. eg:

"The average effective tax rate among S&P companies that had posted calendar fourth-quarter results as of Friday was 24.11 percent"

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/tax-cuts-sp-500-may-not-get-...

"The United States’ corporate tax ranks relatively high on all three measures [among the G20]. The U.S. has the highest statutory rate (39.1 percent), the third highest average effective tax rate (29 percent), and the fourth highest marginal effective tax rate (18.6 percent)."

https://taxfoundation.org/cbo-report-compares-us-corporate-t...
Touch less gesture recognition
> - A desktop app. I'd pay for a native one, without Electron.

I'm working on a native app that supports Signal, Slack, Twitter etc. It's only 90 KB (!).

https://eul.im

*edit Signal support is coming in early March.
I use it regularly. The only real drawback is that the database has to be updated manually (e.g. from DropBox or wherever). Outside of that issue it has lots of features and config options and is generally easy to use.
Are We Running Out of Trademarks?
Same way I learned it the first time.

1. Rails for Zombies to learn basics without setting up a local env.

2. Sam Ruby book, assuming it’s up to date.

3. Make an app from scratch.
You're not addressing what I said. I didn't ask if it should be legal for companies to purposely misinform the public, but rather if under present law it actually is. The answer is no. That is why the tobacco companies settled for a hundred billion dollars once the the evidence became public that they had been doing that.