skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Premise: I study in Austria, so this is the Austrian legal market.

> Does that mean some lawyers or law firms which make good use of the technology might offer lower prices and gain market share?

In law, lower prices do not necessarily reflect on getting bigger market share. A lot of clients come from hear-say or publicly defended or publicly known cases. When such companies make good use of such technology they will most definitely gain market share by being able to accept more clients/increase "output" so to speak.

> Is there latent demand that may be induced into the legal market once the costs are cheaper?

That I unfortunately cannot answer, but interesting question!

> Can lawyers retrain to specialize in other laws and thus increase supply and lower costs for less automatable areas over time?

In Austria, that is common practice for law firms. You generally do a broad service, usually only divided into criminal law and tort/contract law and maybe public law. But within those, you specialise (e.g. NDAs etc...). Lawyers tend not to retrain, rather hire someone who is trained in specified subject. So maybe yes, "AI-hostile" trained lawysers will tend to be more sought after. Whether that is in criminal law or somewhere else, I cannot say.
Hi everyone,

This is not my first attempt to show my product to HN's audience, the previous ones were off the mark, hopefully that's because I hadn't provided any details about it. This time I will.

Ratesome is a mixture of an Q&A platform and a message board. But I like to call it 'Search engine for opinions'. Here are some examples of what it is and how it actually works:

https://ratesome.com/topic/Buying-a-used-2006-Nissan-Maxima-...

A person who wants to buy a used car created this topic asking for opinions... The overall opinion right now is -12 (negative), based on 37 opinions, meaning that people think that's not a great idea to buy the car considering the details provided by the asker.

*A newly created topic starts with 0. A positive opinion gives +1, a negative opinion gives -1.

Other topics of this kind:

https://ratesome.com/topic/Replacing-2012-Macbook-Pro-with-2...
https://ratesome.com/topic/Check-these-winter-boots-
https://ratesome.com/topic/name-Ariel-for-a-girl

Here is a different kind of topics, the above mentioned topics are all about something personal of a topic-starter, these ones are of a more general nature:

https://ratesome.com/topic/Bitcoin
https://ratesome.com/topic/Online-dating
https://ratesome.com/topic/Pizza
https://ratesome.com/topic/Morgan-Freeman
https://ratesome.com/topic/rainy-day

It can give you an idea of what people think on this or that at a glance, no need to read through a countless number of comments.

But as an addition, all topics have a comments section for discussions as well.

That's basically it.

I really hope for your feedback/questions. Thanks.
Top 3 open-source subscription billing systems in 2018
Hah, I will not deny that it's probably very cost efficient, but 7k is only a cheap car relative to a new car. A cheap early 2000's late 1990's civic that runs is somewhere around 5 times less than that.
Glad to see NJ get some positive mention here. Been living in NJ all my life and it's always sad to see people bash it based on a few trips they've had on the Turnpike up around NYC.

The state really has it all. Expensive, but an excellent mix of suburbia, rural lands to the west and south, and (somewhat) easy access to one of the greatest cities in the world.
We really won’t know until Xi dies in office. Seeing as the NPC is just a rubber stamp congress, there are no other checks and balances on the core leader’s power except what happens between old men in smoky rooms. What will happen is entirely opaque.
> That's the problem with HackerRank: You can't!

Agreed, this is why I give my own coding quizzes, so I can have a discussion about it. I'm more interested in the thinking than the answer.

But, I do have sections in my interview that test knowledge and not skill, so I can still see the usefulness of letting Hackerrank be a part of the process.

The one thing I don't claim is that HackerRank or coding quizzes are perfect. This is why coding quizzes are only one of maybe six phases of an interview.
Tesla Model 3 gets hacked, reveals more details of potential future upgrades
Does anyone else want to weigh in about geographical differences in the use of drugs or the perception of those who do? It's very interesting to me how different your experience is from those, say, in the Bay Area or in big coastal cities.
I like to wear hiking pants that are synthetic blends - the grey ones without outside pockets look fine and are very stretchy, enough to do yoga
But nobody said that.

I wrote "So now anything that I do that has to have an effect in the real world is put together with the absolute minimum in interface hardware and the remainder is software." and the other person wrote "virtually".
Different kind of tech. Boston is the world's capital of biotech.
Agreed, I notice that QZ often has two different titles, one for the link and one for the headline. I'm guessing a senior editor spices it up once the author is done.

Here are the words from the link:
The Dropbox IPO is a transformative moment for Y Combinator
How to set up multiple secure websites using LXD containers (& HAProxy) (2016)
Striking Practical Computational Balance
FYI, there's no guarantee of delivery, ever, where e-mails are involved. Guaranteed delivery is not one of its features. Best-effort store-and-forward, yes; for guaranteed delivery, you need a different tool.

(I do wonder what's in it for Jumprock, too)
Akka.NET – Build powerful concurrent and distributed applications more easily
Vodafone's mobile data to be deployed to fight epidemics in Ghana
For many decades American guides to design residential areas have promoted cul-de-sacs (with false and/or unproven assertions), resulting in less foot traffic and less concern for foot traffic. Culture has said these are "safer for children" which also promotes their use. From the air, you can often identify the age of a suburb by seeing how nested the cul-de-sacs are.

Meanwhile, American culture also says transit is distasteful and for the poor. (Taxi exceptions granted for very dense urban areas, but only if they are VERY dense).

You are correct that there is a lot of inertia for these issues. Even if we magically changed culture overnight (and replaced past/recent media to avoid immediate backslide) the infrastructural issues don't go away.
I would apply a grain of salt to the claims of people who are avid drug users, as to the popularity of drugs. There is an incredibly strong “birds of a feather flock together,” effect at play. The social circles of people who think they need drugs to do their job are going to only minimally overlap with people who find that notion crazy and dangerous.
I'm developing Talkyard which has its own voting system: there's the Like vote, and the Disagree vote.

But the Disagree vote isn't a downvote — it doesn't affect karma or sort order. It justs shows how many people disagree about something. That can be good to know, so one can avoid harmful advice. Or just because one is curious about others' opinions.

There is a downvote too, actually, but only available for staff and core members. It works a bit like the downvote here at HN (e.g. removes "karma" and moves the comment downwards, dims it a bit).

Here's how the disagree vote looks: https://www.talkyard.io/please-note-2
It was about accomplished people getting the same treatment as newbies or wannabes that have no clue what they are doing. You don't see it in other industries. E.g. I wrote this new language/library everybody uses, but I am forced to solve some crappy puzzles I probably was solving when I was 14 and match the current mood/skills/tunnel vision of the interviewer. As a consequence, I rather start my own company and charge you much more for the same service you'd get if you employed me with a bit of a good will on your part, or by simply reading my CV and clicking on the links there.
> It's a matter of judiciously investing my time on the right opportunities. I get about 3 to 4 calls from recruiters everyday.

I agree completely, I was under the assumption that this entire conversation is about what happens after you (the candidate) submit an initial job application, or respond to a recruiter about a job you're actually interested in.

I'd never do Hackerrank tests in response to recruiter spam.
The strangest thing about this is that children know this without any input, and then go bad. I've watched my older son (now 5) go from having a perfect squat and hip hinge to starting to bend over "like an adult" with the arched back.

There must be some reason that everyone, to some good approximation -- I'm in the US and this is what I see, does this the wrong way. Even people who know better seem to require conscious effort to do the motion correctly, myself included.

Maybe it's because squatting and hip hinging are thing that require that you work into the position, rather than "falling" into it. It is strange that it follows cultural lines; possibly it's just imitating what people around you are doing, so fixing this would require some pretty large-scale brainwashing.
> On Wall Street, new computer engineers get hired at $120,000, but senior managers can make $400,000 plus the bonuses Wall Street hands out every winter

This always bums me out. Why do managers make so much more money than engineers?
Could someone please explain to me why this is relevant to anything?
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I’m that squeaky clean guy in high school that (unbelievably) never even encountered anyone smoking marijuana back then. My social circle did not and still doesn’t really include much drug use. Yet I’ve directly observed Adderall abuse in Silicon Valley. That’s how prevalent it must be.
Substituted phenethylamines[1] are derivative compounds of phenethylamine. Many substituted phenethylamines are stimulants, while some are psychedelic too. Dopamine, epinephrine, amphetamine, pseudoephedrine, MDMA, and many others are considered to be substitued phenethylamines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substituted_phenethylamine
This is tangentially related but I attend a leading CS university which sends a lot of students into highly sought after tech, consulting, and investment banking jobs. Students here do every drug under the rainbow and they do them a lot. When I talk to students at other schools the problem doesn't seem to be anywhere near as widespread.
Windows dosent have the concept of an inode, so there is nothing for a file handle (what windows calls a file descriptor) to bind to except a file name, this means that a filename cannot be removed while it is being accessed somehow.

This is the cause of a lot of woes on windows, such as random access denied errors when attempting to delete stuff, and what forces a reboot when you update nearly anything on windows.

One of my favourite things related to this is that the Windows XP explorer had a bug where clicking on a file would generate a dynamic preview of an audio/video file in the sidebar, which would lock the file, rendering it impossible to delete because you had to click on it first....
You can get a reasonable 20 minute summary of the books ideas from Pinker's recent talk "Be Positive, The World Is Not Falling Apart"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s2qyYQIRQE
What I need to do is restore the original Altair 8800 I already own. It mainly needs a severe cleaning of dirt and dust, plus likely capacitor reforming or replacement in the PSU; I have yet to plug it into power, because it would likely burst into flames. Once I get it working, I would then need to find some sheet-metal shop to custom build me a top for the enclosure. It didn't come with one, and the original manufacturer of the case stopped making the case several years back, and doesn't have the plans any longer...
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has a lot of interesting things to say about this:

Why it's so Hard to Sit Down and Study/Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFmQ5waavJY

How to Always Achieve Your Goals - No Matter What

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvc9zguunhc

Sort Yourself Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Qm8I2cCAE

Clean Your Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gcMm_aL3Cc
Excellent questions. It is free unless you want to use custom fields. The emails go into a queue which is listened for and processed when items are added. I have 3 that listeners that run simultaneously to handle email sending.

If the site goes down then the emails are lost. I'm still working on a solution of multi region load balancing with high availability to ensure this doesn't happen.
Okay let me think about this problem this week, I'll probably have something in the next ~2 weeks.

I totally agree about jeans having limited ROM. I think the future of fabrics is a 90%+ Polyester and 4%+ Spandex blend. These stretch so they look really good, and they can make plenty of colors/prints(But I'd probably do black)

Not sure how the durability is for this, they are stretchy, so they wont tear at the seams, but they might not be good for laying bricks.

Other concerns:

>The pattern. The best designer is Victoria Secret. To get 1 pair of their technology to tear down and reverse engineer is 40$, but it wont be perfect because they are designed for females.

>Culture. I'm ultra paranoid about my clothes being workplace inappropriate. The idea is to be Business Alternative(Business Casual is lazy, Business Professional is try hard). I have dark blue hair but a business professional looking haircut. I believe we will still need belts and pockets to look professional. For my first pair I'll probably do navy or black. The goal here is to change Fit, not colors or details.

>Tightness- Fitting clothes look better than loose clothing. I think the biggest issue would be to have it fit around the hip, but not be ultra right around the butt and thigh. This is going to be the most critical.

Finishing my thoughts now-

This is giving me the idea that instead of belts, we should merely have a 'collar' around the waist to keep the pants up. This collar is stretchy and will allow bending.

Any other thoughts, I'd like to hear. I dont see many people trying to innovate on mens business clothes, but there are new fabrics that didnt exist 100 years ago, and I think there just arent enough men complaining.
I moved from Australia to NYC, the one trick I worked out was changing my location on LinkedIn prior to the move. You'll show up on all the recruiters radars then (if that's what you want).

I'd be happy to talk with you, my company is always keen to speak with talented engineers.
I work for a well known software company now and of the 20 or so developers I work with closely I can confidently say that 50% of them don't even drink alcohol (mostly cultural) and the other 45% stick to craft beers and 5% might smoke some pot here and there but nobody really lets on.

I don't have any data but in my experience the most drug use and abuse has been in the sales org. My hunch it is a mix of personality type, environment and the way they are compensated (always a reason to party big) thing but they are best described as frat houses and make the tech side look like monasteries. And this isn't just small tech companies. Oracle, Salesforce, AWS etc.
Programmer in NYC working at various companies for almost 10 years. Never seen any drug use, or even heard of any. People drink a lot of coffee and tea, but that's it.
> I know, DL works only if you have massive datasets, DRL is even worse for the number of training episodes. Maybe you've heard about recent craziness of using GANs to generate training set fillers when your training sets are small, i.e. you have only 1,000 examples but need 10,000 for reasonable performance. Instead of gathering more examples, you use GAN to create believable training data, and it seems to be working quite well (i.e. a bump from 60% accuracy to 80% while bigger training dataset with real examples would bump you to 90%).

Sounds a bit like Baron Münchhausen pulling himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a mire by his own hair.

I'd assume that instead of pulling such stunts, a reasonable generative model might have done the trick.

> What I observed is that many ML companies now run two pipelines in parallel, one based on Deep Learning and the other on classical ML, then cherry pick solutions that work best for the problem/scale they have.

Putting it this way, I agree. And my personal addendum here is: classical ML outperforms DL more often than the hype might make people think.
wow, what an intense journey.
How many times has this actually happened?
Linguistics lab applies scientific methods to studying how we communicate
I don't really understand why power obsessed people don't seem to recognize that at some point retirement is graceful. (Thinking of Robert Mugabe, for example.)
I'm sure most people here are already familiar with how to make unique and strong passwords but for those who aren't:

https://inspiredelearning.com/resource/create-strong-passwor...
Could you elaborate? Presumably, that's a sarcastic "the good ol' days before child labour laws".
Would you be willing to share the rough range of your household income? If you bought a house 10 years ago then it doesn't count, you can probably raise a family on almost any income in that case ;)
Does that make you think it's a problem in computer software more than other professions?
Well, if by "lifting weight", you mean "resistance exercise", then I believe you're mistaken on a few points:

1. It doesn't have to take place in a gym

2. No fancy equipment is needed. Can be done using the weight of your own body (i.e. calisthenics) or a kettlebell.

3. Is as necessary as cardio to the continued healthy functioning of your body into old age.
http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(18)30079-0/fu...
View CI build status via your Razer keyboard
All of the Big4 are in Kendall Square (on the same street even!). Bunches of neat startups out of Harvard/MIT.

I think its a pretty good tech scene all things considered, more notable companies than the tech hub I grew up in IMHO.
Poloniex statement: https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2018.02.26-Poloniex-join...

Circle statement: https://blog.circle.com/2018/02/26/circle-acquires-poloniex/

As a Poloniex customer, I am concerned. I haven't heard of Circle before and wonder if they are trustworthy.
Shorter version: menstruation probably only exists to potentially flush failed pregnancies.
seems to be what I'm finding too, thank you.
AIs are terrible at open-ended questions, and interpretation of law is usually open-ended. In this experiment they had pretty well-defined structure and evaluation criteria, which sets the AI up to be successful, whereas in real life there is rarely such definition.
I think you just described Dickies / "work pants".
I'm sure NYC is doing quite well, but a New York based website is saying NYC is doing great without any context or even a reporting of the full list? You could write the same article about Boston, Denver, Austin, etc.
Since Steve Jobs returned to Apple and Tim Cook took over operation, Apple has always been running "Asset Light" approach. The less asset the better. They value flexibility over the little benefits of owning those asset. Hence why they were very late into building their own DC, the also view the Cash they have as another asset they dont want too much. [1]

Apple also view Data Storage, as another aspect that depreciate quickly and offer no strategic advantage to owning all of it.

Ever Since Apple merged and moved all(?) of its Cloud operation using Mesos, things has been great every since. Last time they said it was the world largest Mesos cluster running in operation. I suspect it is even bigger by now.

I wonder what happen to Project McQueen. [2]

[1]www.asymco.com/2018/01/18/the-apple-cash-faq/

[2]venturebeat.com/2016/03/17/apple-cloud-project-mcqueen/
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Up to two TB now at 3yro kid. Part of the problem is the video resolutions grew a lot, and having to snapshot the whole phone whenever it fills up. (Though I did some deduping and the redundancy is not as high as I thought...)

I doubt my usage is an outlier. But I suspect that I keep more video than most people just because I can.
I assume you've see this sort of thing among those in sales are your company, yes? Is it coke or all kinds of things? And any idea why? Is sales particularly stressful or somehow more intense than the tech side of things?
I can't help but wonder if the recent tax changes will have any effect in consolidating East Coast tech jobs. Previously you could live in NJ and work in Manhattan and write off the respective taxes of each. Now it's my understanding you'd be better served (for example) living and working solely in New Jersey.

See [1] for an actual discussion on the tax law changes

State and local taxes.
Taxpayers can deduct a maximum of $10,000
from the total of their state and local income
taxes or sales taxes, and their property taxes
(added together), a measure that might hurt
itemizers in high-tax states such as California,
New York and New Jersey. The $10,000 cap applies
whether you are single or married filing jointly;
if you are married filing separately, it drops to
$5,000.

[1]
https://www.investopedia.com/taxes/how-gop-tax-bill-affects-...

Based on that maybe we'll see clustering on each side of the river? Entirely speculation on my part, of course.
It binds directly to the TensorFlow C API, if you run it in NodeJS, which is awesome. I get tired of having to setup a python env anytime I want to play around with ML.
I also started on an Electron too, though we later got a juicier Master 128.
Um, also, in some cases, I might win the lottery.
The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism
I'm actually not familiar with this exam-I'll look into it!
I would posit that if I refer to the public perception and you think I am speaking personally you don’t actually know what reading comprehension is
I've read that the microbiome can and does influence our sense of taste, altering it in such a way that the foods that certain species of bacteria prefer to metabolize end up tasting better. Although I've anecdotally found this to be true, I think it is commonly accepted that the gut affects the mind whether the conscious self is aware of it or not. A lot of the mindful meditation I've practiced doesn't have the goal of making the mind quiet. Quite the opposite, it is a technique to quiet conscious thinking that takes effort so that one can be more aware of thoughts that seemingly arise out of nowhere...like when you're stuck with a difficult problem only to have a solution pop into your head over the weekend while going out for a run, without any conscious effort
The encryption technique sounds like convergent encryption.

Convergent encryption is a fairly standard way storing encrypted data that might duplicate across users. It allows for deduping of data while in an encrypted state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_encryption
Is there a daily/monthly limit?
So it's two separate cultures at work in the same industry--people who pretty much have no experience or want of drugs and a culture of using drugs, trying lots of things to get a productivity and efficiency boost?
My longest and latest job interview lasted 3 hours but we talked about the goals and the visions of the company (that part doesn't bother me), the technical part (code with a pen + questions) lasted about 15 mins. But to set a threshold, generally i ask if the test requires more than 1 hour, if yes, I decline politely.
Check out Banana Republic "Rapid Movement Denim" and also Calvin Klein. There are undoubtably others in a range of styles and price points.