skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of startups are looking for people to serve on their advisory board, if that's what you mean. Qualifications are usually pretty loose - basically if the founder(s) think you have something to offer. But as far as I know, pretty much nobody pays a salary for this... at best you might get a half a percent of equity or something (unless you're famous or have something "special" to bring to the table).

OTOH, if you just want to be a consultant who sells advice to startups, it shouldn't be much different than being a consultant of any other form. Hang out a shingle, work your network, cold call, etc., and convince people that you can help their company be more successful. If you can do that, you're golden.

That said, please don't do what so many people do... send out cold emails saying "I can help your startup generate more leads" where your own pitch email is worse than what I could write myself. Every "lead gen" firm that pings me sends me some mail-merge form letter crap that shows they don't understand rule #1 ("make it about the customer"), have done no research, know nothing about what we do, and couldn't spend 2 minutes personalizing their pitch. If that's the way you generate leads for yourself, no way in hell am I going to trust you to do anything on my behalf, ya know?
As seen from an extreme right point of view, every reasonable position that is not deep conservative is seen as biased far to the left.
Those are all run by great people and they do great work, pointed in particulary interesting and different directions.
Please don't use this site for refighting old ideological battles, regardless of how right you are or feel. There's nothing more destructive of the intellectual curiosity that is HN's raison d'être.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think they probably haven't even sorted out their intentions at this point. But you know, these things just have a way of developing on their own just by tiny nudges at the beginning.

For an overview of the GP-write project, see the following:

1) Science article: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/The%20human%20genome%20p...

2) timeline: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Synthetic%20human%20geno...

3) fact sheet: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/HGP-write-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Really I'd like to somehow get EFF to ride to my rescue but I've sort of got myself into this mess on my own so it's not really on them. EFF doesn't focus on biological freedom issues like these, anyway. At least not yet.
>Google’s algorithms were able to predict whether someone had high blood pressure or was at risk of a heart attack or stroke

How is that different from just measuring the blood pressure (with really inexpensive device)?
If taxation isn’t the problem, and the US tax system is more progressive than many European counterparts, why the hell lead with the tax reform point? If he had led with: we spend too much on middle class welfare and not enough on really poor people, as the WaPo article explains, he would’ve had a point.
Assume yes, particularly if you are connecting to local service endpoints.
IMHO this feels like quibbling as the author doesn't make clear when this would actually make a difference.
Your example is not persuasive. There are perfectly enforceable EULAs that contain terms potentially far in excess of the value of your home and all of its contents. And there are enforceable EULAs that contain rather onerous audit provisions. And in this case, it is hard to see the comparison to physical action.

I am not familiar with the flight sim license in question, but there are a number of general terms it might contain that would allow for the collection behavior. Telemetry, anti-piracy, anti-cheat, audit, fitness of purpose, and many other provisions could cover this particular behavior.

Further, if their claims are to be believed, they only initiated this action against a someone in already in breach of contract, so the law isn't going to protect the pirate anyway.

Again, I think the company's behavior is unethical - they should have contacted law enforcement. But illegal? That is not at all clear.
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I've been interviewing the products of many of those types of classes lately and discovering that none of them seem particularly interested in computers outside a classroom.

If you haven't even booted up a VM on a cloud provider to try stuff out, why do you expect to have a career in it?
PECL down
PECL (the service) seems down for me, but the website still works. can anybody confirm?
Or they can pay with community service like any other person who can’t afford a fine. Maybe they can be forced to clean up the poo in other parts of the city.
Some of these bugs are crazy:

> Prodigal contracts. In Figure 6, we give an example of a prodigal contract. The function 'tap' seems to lock Ether because the condition at line 4, semantically, can never be true. However, the compiler optimization of Solidity allows this condition to pass when an input greater than 20 bytes is used to call the function 'tap'. Note, on a byte-code level, the EVM can only load chunks of 32 bytes of input data. At line 3 in 'tap' the first 20 bytes of 'nickname' are assigned to the global variable 'prev' , while neglecting the remaining 12 bytes. The error occurs because EVM at line 4, correctly nullifies the 12 bytes in 'prev', but not in 'nickname'. Thus if 'nickname' has non-zero values in these 12 bytes then the inequality is true. This contract so far has lost 5.0001 Ether to different addresses on real Ethereum blockchain.

Whaaa?
Is it true that Elm is going to remove custom operators in the next release?
I was also curious about this (and thanks for the article, very informative!)

Are you saying that at one point the servers would crash relatively often, which would leave sockets clients hanging, unless some complicated client-side code was written - whereas without sockets, a load-balancer could automatically switch clients to functional servers, without extra coding, and mitigate the issue? Isn't the problem the crashy servers?
This is heavy snowfall? It looks like only an inch or two.
Ask HN: Where to find startups that share an apartment and work there?
i wish to work where:

1. Works at home

2. Lives with all or most of the developers

How can I find a job like this?
The longest discussion about this article on hacker news so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706

I wonder why Microsoft payed him to do develop this kind of algorithm.
Feels to me like the response content type shouldn't be "application/json" anymore (it is what's returned on that first example).
Who says jail time is the only way out of that?
A fantastic classic paper (but ancient history)
Once they ship malware in any one form, anything else from a developer is eternally suspect. Even if they don't do something like this in their apps' main executables _now_ doesn't mean they won't in the future.

Once a company pulls shit like this, they are dead to me, and they should be dead to everyone else as well.
From what I can tell it looks like the pedestrian’s vector is heading away from the car (right to left) for a few frames before he pauses. Couldn’t a level 5 model infer intentionality in a direction based on the way the pedestrian was walking?
If a secret has ever been in Git then you probably can't know where it's been copied to and should treat it as likely to have been leaked.
Johnny Ive desperately needs an editor.
Ask HN: How do I coach junior devs who wont listen?
Two months ago I joined a dev team at a large company as a senior software engineer on a web app. I joined a team where their last app that they worked on before I joined became maintainable and failed after 6 months (they blame the fact that they used React over Angular). I have been trying to suggest architectural changes as well as suggestions for how to make the app more maintainable, but the junior developers don’t want to listen. (For example, they want to replace our Postgres DB with MongoDB because they don’t understand normalization well enough). Our software lead, despite being a bright guy who knows what he is doing, mostly lets them get away with doing whatever they want to avoid conflict. How should I handle this situation?
http://mypy.readthedocs.io/
Canadian perspective: This is very clear. Much more challenging is something like a multi-lane highway where the road markings have completely disappeared under snow. I'll be impressed when it can drive from Hope into the BC interior in winter in conditions that a human driver can handle with winter tires and possibly studs, but no need for chains.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=coq...
Well, there's also Detroit.
Is there an implementation of this anywhere?
> 1. They are more likely to be assaulted or robbed in a shelter. Shelter staff may or may not do shit to help you.

I'm not sure you can still call something like that a shelter to be honest.
Bought a Pi 3 starter kit from a local place near me. It came with:

- Raspberry Pi 3

- 1⁄2-sized breadboard

- 4GiB microSD card

- microSD card USB adapter

- CP2102 USB TTL adapter w/4 jumper cables

- 10 female-male DuPont jumper cables

And I had to buy:

- 10 multicolored LEDs

- 4 100 ohm resistors

- 4 1k ohm resistors

- 10 male-male DuPont jumper cables

Specifically this kit: http://tinkersphere.com/raspberry-pi-orange-pi-boards/1538-r...
They're openly hostile to both free speech and the presumption of innocence as values and general practices (less opposed to the technical Constitutional restraints on the state, for now).

I don't know about "general democratic principles" but I would include these as ideas valued by liberalism and not by leftism.
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If you're referring to me, I'm actually somewhere in the middle. But I simply can't stand seeing political propaganda masquerading as legitimate news or facts - on either side of the aisle. So when I see such things, I'm going to point it out.
I want to see AI trained to drive like people in Russia: https://i.imgur.com/wDhO25d.gif
That was the problem, it was not economically viable to mass-produce. I'm sure it will be solved, the question is when...
Got my first security gig by reaching out to someone here on HN.

Lots of high quality discussions here, with quite a range of experts. Where else can you find more than one lawyer who is also a compiler developer? World-class experts in small business, cryptography, breaking cryptography, old war stories, and lively discussion on many topics.
I love this paper !
Has anyone come up with an interactive pixel art tool using this algorithm ?
My BA thesis is in the school's library and I was able to use any software/format I wanted in writing it.
in 50 years, I better be able to say, "Robot, 3d print a few copies of yourself, 3d print an oven, a table, some chairs, some organic ingredients, and cook me a pizza"

in parallel, and all FLOSS.
This is next level stuff, I say your comment is taking bits and pieces of my comment instead of addressing the whole thing, so you take bits and pieces of your own comment to prove that you're not taking bits and pieces of mine?

Let me just spell out what's wrong with your original comment then:

>>You are committing so obvious fallacies it's just not really believable that you aren't aware.

Great start. Really, I wish the internet had never learned the word "fallacy" to insert it at the drop of a hat

--

>> They assume "If Spotify is free, they must be baking the cost into non-Spotify data". Which is not true.

>>So, how is that data paid for then? Or are you saying that there are no costs associated with providing that service? Does it not cost anything to operate the cell towers that transmit the spotify data?

Well if you kept reading I spell that out:

Zero rating lets ISPs allow usages that would otherwise turn people away from data completely, while still charging from uses that are incidental. You'll be more likely to use your phone's data if you also have it on while in the car to stream music, the sum for the ISP is less money per MB on average, but more MBs in total.

Again. The sum for the ISP is less money per MB on average, but more MBs in total.

--

>> Zero rating lets ISPs allow usages that would otherwise turn people away >>from data completely,

>>So, let's compare two scenarios that only differ in whether there is zero >>rating involved:

>>1. The customer has a data cap of 100 GB for n $/month.

>>2. The customer has a data cap of 10 GB plus an average (across customers, not enforced for individual customers) 90 GB of bandwidth that is limited to specific services for n $/month.

What advantages/additional usages does the limitation to specific services in the latter case allow that the former does not?

Now you also need to also actually know how zero rating is being used, they give you unlimited to those services, but they're allowed to limit the quality of service. They're allowed to form partnerships with the zero rated services. They're allowed to use their own services. These are all factors that add up to either saving cost or generating additional revenue over normal data usage.

I take it that a person genuinely interested in net neutrality understands some context of it's real world effects so I didn't think I'd have to spell that about but apparently not.

--

And I'll mention the one part of your second comment that isn't just restating your first comment:

>>Yes, a minute of video takes much more bandwidth to transfer than a minute of text to read, in that sense, that's true, but that's not relevant to the discussion at hand.

It's not relevant because it doesn't support your point of view...

The peak bandwidth and total bandwidth needed to let people consume the internet increases if the media the internet is composed of requires... more peak bandwidth and total bandwidth.

You could read 1990s style HTML and ultra compressed low res JPEG for a year and not use as much data as 4k Netflix does in an hour. That's extremely relevant when suddenly all your customers want to be able to do that.
Oh man I've driven through canada to blue mountain during a blizzard. That was scary. I really have to wonder how computer vision will account for that. Or similarly torrential downpours here in the Tropics.
The author thinks that the physics of Musk's original hyperloop proposal aren't going to work out, at least with today's technology -- in particular he focuses on the difficulty of building a suitable axial compressor without a major advance in technology.

As a lay-person I can't really evaluate his argument. But even if he's right, I think he may be drawing too strong a conclusion. To my knowledge all of the current experimental hyperloop systems have already dropped one aspect of Musk's original proposal: instead of using air bearings they're all using maglev systems now. I am expecting that sometime soon we'll also see variants on hyperloop which dispense with the static air column in the tube and instead are designed around the idea of blasting the air through the tube at the same velocity as the car. Of course you've got drag throughout the entire tube, but on the other hand if the air in the tube is a not-quite-hard vacuum as in the original hyperloop proposal, there's maybe not that much drag when you add it all up.
Most niche languages have an FFI escape hatch for when you really need a library and don't want to re-invent a wheel. Elm, Purescript, Bucklescript, and ghcjs can all interoperate with javascript; Scala and Clojure work with most (all?) native java libraries; F# has access to most (all?) .NET libraries. Haskell, Idris, ATS, Erlang, and SBCL Common Lisp all allow you to access native system libraries.

FFIs can have warts, but in the general case library support isn't the obstacle people make it out to be.
Indian? You mean native Americans? Europeans are solely responsible for bringing new diseases to South America - that wiped out most of the population, far more than swords and guns.

Britain also killed a lot of people in India, but they didn't commit genocide.
> How it should be is just covering the cost of a moving-average window for the previous x amount of years of spending mapping according to a integration across income.

No, it shouldn't. If you wanted to target a balanced budget that wouldn't work, and I don't know why you would want to target perpetual deficits as a locked-in rule.

> It's nonsensically inefficient to debate on taxation without consideration of spending, and vice versa.

Whether or not a bill included mandates on both sides, IME, it's very rare for either spending it taxed to be debated without consideration (even if the quality is poor) of the other.
Great idea! Thanks for linking to that tool.
Your argument makes no sense and is predicated upon an unknown future. Logically, you support who you vote for.

Every politician breaks campaign promises and Trump is no exception. Now if you donate or otherwise contribute a lot of money to a candidate then they will support you. That much is clear and it does not take a lot of money. The only reason we don't have gun control is because the gun lobby has enough votes in Congress.
This is a popular talking point for folks who don’t want to talk about the effects of European colonization. It’s so absurd that it’s kind of hard to unpack; which makes it kind of effective.

Nobody ever in any circumstances is stating or implying that native peoples did not engage in war, murder, etc before and during the arrival and colonization by Europeans. But that’s not the point. Native peoples died of natural causes while diseases Europeans introduced wiped them out en masse. The natural causes are not the point of the discussion.

The reality is there is a history of European empires colonizing and wiping out native peoples. If we refuse to look at this critically and learn from it then we have not improved beyond our ancestors. when this topic gets brought up, don’t bring up straw men based distractions. Engage in the discussion meaningfully with an open mind.
>a modicum of financial safety net

This is why I'm generally in favour of policies that create jobs, as the welfare system has utterly failed in creating upward-mobility for those in need and their progeny. (Edit: it's worth nothing that many charitable organisations do incredible work, with more cents of the dollars donated reaching those in need that gov. programs).

This is based on my presupposition that those people could, and would, thrive in an environment with more opportunities for work.

Edit: the downvote heat for non-socialist perspectives on HN is unreal. Simply unreal.
Maybe fabrics, too.

Last November, I visited the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. There were woven fabrics that showed lovely colors and designs after at least 4 millennia.

Our forebears had lots of coloration options for their art. I doubt they did everything in neutral color. I'm glad we're using our technology to see better the beautiful things they made so long ago.
Is there some way in which side project experience is different than professional experience no one has ever informed me of?
There are some isolated incidents. One of my favorites is the English expedition to New England in 1602 led by Bartholomew Gosnold. Upon reaching the vicinity, the English were surprised to find Native Americans hailing them in a Basque fishing vessel wearing European clothes. The Indians boarded the English ship and the two groups made themselves understood through the language barrier. It turns out, the Native Americans had been trading and fishing with Europeans for years. The whole affair ended amicably with the parties going their separate ways. Primary sources exist, but here is a quick summary [1]

[1] http://www.woodsholemuseum.org/oldpages/sprtsl/v16n2-Gosnold... (page 11)
IANAL but I don't think a SW license can have the provision where they say that they will take all your Chrome passwords without your consent and transmit them over a non-secured connection [1], and still be considered legal, at least in the EU. Some protections and rights can't be waived in a private contract, even if both parties agree[2].

[1] https://www.fidusinfosec.com/fslabs-flight-simulation-labs-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive#Prin...
Thank you for succinctly describing what I've been struggling to put into words for a long time. It was confusing and disorienting to learn that my left-wing peers in college had so little in common with the values and principles of the liberalism I grew up in, even if we arrived at the same policy prescriptions on most of the issues surfacing in the news. Being able to conceptualize these things as separate political alignments is helpful.
> Imagine how open the highways would be if this was how everyone worked/lived.

What does this even mean? If everyone worked away from the city, there would be no city to drive to. And of course the people in the city, or on the outskirts of the city, don't need to drive—they can take public transit anyway, or bike, or walk, or whatever.

More people living outside the city and driving into it is how the roads get congested, not how they get clear. If they only go into it sometimes rather than all at the same time the roads might be less congested at rush hour, but on the other hand, unless they're all setting up in another, similarly dense city, you're just creating sprawl, and the roads between the little towns and suburbs are probably going to be pretty crowded as people go between them to run errands, meet friends, dine, etc., since by hypothesis everyone's all spread out, and therefore so are all the conveniences, shops, entertainments, etc.
selinux can help in some of these situations (not saying it will necessarily in this case). Generally speaking, the browser context is not allowed to read user private data like ssh keys. However, since the browser context in this case needs to read passwords, it doesn't apply 1:1. You probably need a different context from the general browser context that can read password data.
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Just starting with the first part of what you said, I see a big disagreement about what "free speech" is. If you say something offensive, and a billion people speak back that you're being offensive, that's also free speech.
Do you or does anyone know of any similar websites that are similar but slightly less-tech focused? I love it here but the coding articles / jobs can occasionally lose me.
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They play a lot of bullshit games with people. When my dad was transported for a minor infection, he ended up stuck for at an ER, incurring about $3k in expense (his insurance doesn’t fully cover ER visits without admissions) and about $900 for ambulance and $450 for medivan transport.

When a person is admitted with Medicare coverage, reimbursement rates drop over time. They want to kick out patients with lower lifetime value to get “fresher” patients, patients with assets to liquidate for long term stays, or rehab patients with private insurance.
It'd be very illegal in the US as well.
Who mentioned corporate tax rates? There is a simple widely accepted measure for economic inequality, the Ginii index, where the USA have steadily moved towards greater inequality, from a starting point that is already a lot more unequal than other NATO or western nations. You even seem to agree that this latest tax reform will not fundamentally change this course.

This is a much more comprehensive measure than looking at individual tax rates or even the tax systems progressiveness. Sure, of what poor Americans earn, they might keep comparably more but that is of little use when illness costs them their job and many times their net worth - their companions in Germany, France and Sweden might pay a 40% tax rate but they are not paying out of pocket for healthcare.
Apple doesn't hold the keys, they've outsourced responsibility to Guizhou on the Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co., Ltd.