skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to be using artificial habitats to have more living space, 416 is a very small number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8
In what ways is svn light years ahead of Perforce?
Cisco Systems Looks at Second Technology Fund to Invest in Indian Startups
Yes, that's exactly what I wanted.

Now I have a problem with either Gmail, or Register.com because the username/password for my new domain-specific email address is not working. I've reset via register.com, then going back to gmail, still doesn't work. Awesome! (insert sarcasm here)
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Just because it is hard doesn't mean the companies get a pass for not doing it. If you don't have a brand that users want to "pull" from you, what are you even doing as a publisher? That's almost Publishing 101. It's easy to blame Facebook for the hard work that they should have done all along, is all I'm saying here. ;)

As an RSS fan (and still an active user), I do agree that one of the prime failings here was that publishers in general too strongly backed the Facebook horse instead of, say, training users about the advantages of RSS. But yeah, why do the hard work today when you can wait for the rug to pulled out from under you by a third party and then do the hard work anyway?
This is why I'm big in favor of Universal Health Care. I'd like to do that too, but I need the insurance. And I've not got a spouse that can help with that :(
Continued Decentralization and the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol
Someone might have rm -rf / --no-preserve-root'd them! :)
And execute arbitrary commands as root:

https://twitter.com/Manawyrm/status/969230542578348033
> Perhaps they’re passing this command to a secured container?

That would indicate they were concerned about shell injection while writing the code. But if that were true, why would they skip the much simpler step of sanitizing/escaping the input?
The simple solution is to always require a certificate by Let's Encrypt, and allow the website to optionally present a second OV/EV certificate in addition to the Let's Encrypt DV certificate.

Although it's unlikely that's of any use, since unsophisticated users aren't going to differentiate, and sophisticated ones can use other means to verify identity.
If it ever came down to it, I think I lack the sangfroid to actually kill someone over a political disagreement. But I'd definitely throw him in an oubliette for a while and take his best stuff, especially if he got all his stuff by killing people or throwing them in oubliettes.

Voting is easy. Participation is difficult. In most cases, the local political system has evolved to perpetuate the interests of those who have been in power the longest. Creating change is 100x more difficult than maintaining the status quo. And that built-in resistance to change is corruptible.

Think about how blatantly unfair gerrymandering is, how unpopular it is, and how prevalent it remains in spite of that. It's almost as if the system is designed to capture the energy of passionate dissidents and dissipate it, such that it cannot be used to perform useful work. The wild goose chase and the snipe hunt are revered traditions for tiring people out and redirecting their energy into useless effort.

It's not entirely apathy. It's a rejection of the established political system as the most efficient means of producing the desired effects. You can vote your whole life, and never see a speck of change until after you join a general strike or boycott. The money follows the power that follows the money. Your side isn't going to win unless you can use your energy efficiently.

You're metaphorically taking on the role of the casino complaining that fewer people want to play the games that give you a 5% house advantage, instead of the ones that only give you a 0.5% house advantage. Nobody wants to play a game they can't win in the long run. They pick up the gun to say "this game is over, let's play another." If the game were actually fair, it could go on forever without permanent winners or losers.
These guys are incredible
Show HN: Machinery – A State Machinery Library for Elixir (and Phoenix)
Looks like they are trying to tap into the goliath pile of cash that is Medicare by offering better service with the same billing structure. Most of the companies in this space are either regular taxi companies or fly-by-night transportation "companies" because of how easy the money is.
How London’s 7/7 Bombings Led to “Unprecedented” Surveillance Tactics
I see. I don't know the details of HIPAA but that seems reasonable. What kinds of needs justify use of the data?
Faster iterations on Kubernetes with freshpod
Riding The Waves of Crypto Whales
Trump to Impose Stiff Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum
Highly insightful, thank you!
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Do you need computer vision to tell a have is running? Do you need an app to prevent you paying games? Did you start a for-profit tech company just to "help" people?
D-Wave to Commercialize Public Cloud Quantum Computing by Mid-2018 – The Merkle
Introducing Uber Health
The statistics for gender are misleading. If you're just comparing the average wage of men and women then of course women are going to earn less: they work less than men on average. If you control for age and whether women have children the gap shrinks a lot (in some areas it reverses).

And an increasing share of wages going to the top income brackets isn't in itself cause for concern, only if the members of the top income brackets are largely static does it matter (since it means income is going to a small group of individuals, rather than a broader group of individuals who are swapped in and out of the top income groups).

So these statistics are hardly "disturbing", though they do merit further research to see how much of a problem these things actually are.
Microsoft advances several of its hosted artificial intelligence algorithms
No, unfortunately it looks like it makes heavy use of non-ObjC-bridgeable Swift features including structs, rich enums, etc. It _might_ be feasible to write a wrapper around it using ObjC-compatible Swift, but I don't know enough about it to say for sure.
Talking to users during growth: The role of product marketing
Interesting. Some real challenges getting started on day 1.

Now I'm seeing that the Github bot is created by something called Linovi Developments which has a busted ass website and fewer than 100 Github users authorized it... fishing?
Such a better posting than the other by 'smarketshiring'. Thanks for the detail
We X-Rayed Some MLB Baseballs. Here’s What We Found
I don't quite agree with the author about modernity. I argue that the modern Ultra-Orthodox are modern, specifically in the way they justify their beliefs. Most of what I'm going to say is just a summary of this lovely paper by Haym Soloveitchik then at Yeshiva University: https://www.lookstein.org/professional-dev/rupture-reconstru...

The basic point is that modernity has destroyed tradition as a justification for a way of life. Look, before people were often happy to say "We do this because our ancestors did it." and that alone was enough. And when the sacred texts was a little off with tradition, people were happy to try and make sure that they could be read to agree with tradition. But now, you have to try and fall back and argue from higher authority. In the end this often looks the same, but it lends much greater power to those who interpret sacred texts, and pushes people to more and more extreme interpretations.

There's a book I just read, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell. It's a travelogue though the Middle East meeting the small religious movements that survived Christianity and Islam over the last ~2000 years: Mandaeans, Yezidis, Coptic Christians, Samaritans, and the Kalasha. The Kalasha are a tiny group of pagans who live on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and one of the interesting things that comes up when Russell visits them is that they don't really have explanations for a lot of their rituals. They do things because their parents did them, and so on. and it's troublesome because when faced with Islam, or outsiders, it's hard for them to justify what they're doing, there's no intellectual basis.

And I think that, on a much smaller scale (Judaism has had a more formal intellectual basis for a long long time) is what modernity, chiefly through literacy and improved communication, brings. I also think that blanket rejection of groups like the Ultra-Orthodox or fundamentalist Christians as "dated" or just wrong isn't very helpful, certainly they're not going away any time soon.
Time to move to C11 atomics? (2016)
src http://linuxfr.org/news/de-la-necessite-d-adopter-les-operat...
Most of us think writing code by hand is incredibly slow, because it is. If you add in trying to make it beautiful, now you're really crawling.
The entire process is a complete waste of time for all involved as it is not linked to anything. Not raises, not promotions... nothing. It's like the people in the adminisphere were told that they needed to do them to be considered a "real" company so last year we started having them shoved down our throats. This year the engineering team was told that we score too high and make the rest of the company look bad. Give me a bleeping break!
The backend engineer position does not seem to have a listing in English, but it does in French - is that intentional?
It seems like software salaries really cap out at like ~150. I don't see how jumping around jobs is going to push you past that, unless the new skill you learned was a PHD.
How do you deal with patients keeping the doctor there for an hour? Drives taking an hour in between? It's nice and I'd love it, but I can't see how it's feasible against an office where they can see 6 patients an hour. Great pricing however. Is it really $99 total? That's cheaper than driving and a copay.
Hmm. I see, you're quite right - they either cited the wrong skin suit study or potentially assumed not too many people will click on "They did [sleep better with cooling suits]."
It's some Spencerian variation, indeed. I can't fathom why he uses that paper format... Those pages are annoyingly narrow!

Also, I agree with you, Spencerian (or any other ornate script) is not the best for coding notes.
What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debt
Correct. The difference between a programmer and code monkey is that a programmer can adapt known algorithms and devise new ones. A* is not mentioned but using heuristics to speed up searches is. (Which is the core of A* - it is Dijkstra's with a heuristic guess.) The general approaches are typically much better than an explicitly memorized algorithm that may or may not work in your case.

I used the book as an example of commonly available piece of literature from 90s, not as best source.

Requiring everything to be given in any easy and digested form is actually a weakness... and it might not even save time.

Having read a few books that were explicitly game oriented, none of them tackled big problems efficiently. Either they threw out vague ideas (no better than the actual algorithm book, often worse) or they fixated on the specific game.

Websites are no better nowadays. No depth and no breadth inn most of them. Stack Overflow is the epitome of no depth.

Toy get much more mileage by reading and understanding say Knuth's books than any gaming relayed book. Despite them not even roughing the subject. Now for details, true, access to actual papers and research is very useful, but I bet few game developers have that anyway.

The trap as in most rushed development is that you will choose the wrong direction then get to live with consequences. Internet does not help with it as one cannot properly communicate a problem you can't solve, and once you do the solution is almost always known.
The best you would get is a set of recommendations which is most useful if you're completely green...

Time, experience and experiment trumps slightly better sources 9/10.
Sounds like Raytheon
One of the best things about being a contractor in the UK is getting off the pointless appraisal treadmill.
That class is free. Everybody should take it. Lots if insights on how to deal with procrastination, effect of physical activities on our brain efficiency, etc...
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It's pretty trivial to get older Mac Pro's on the latest OS release, and it works fine. I've been running High Sierra since the day it was release without issue on my 2008. 32GB of RAM, and still the old 2600XT video card. No problem editing 45.7 megapixel raw files from my D850 for a side marketing business. With that said, it has its slowdown with just too much shit running, 3+ VM's, IDE's, whatever else I'm developing. Definitely is a powerhouse for ten years later though.
I mean if they are unrelated, shouldn't they have separate discussions?
Anyone know how the LimeSDR Mini compares to the LimeSDR or HackRF?
My first programming class was in high school in 1980. The teacher, Mr. Schultz, invented a pared-down, abstract assembly language he called SIMPLE (Schultz's Imaginary Machine Programming Language for Everyone). We spent the first month of class writing out solutions to programming problems in SIMPLE on paper before we ever touched a computer. And even then, we only had the one machine, so we had to take turns on it. We coded our BASIC programs on paper and checked them as thoroughly as we could to maximize the effectiveness of our precious time with the actual hardware.
I wish I'd thought of that, now I have bad handwriting and a plethora of D's.
Freshpod: Restart Pods on Minikube automatically on image rebuilds
> If I am looking for a job at a company and I don't agree with the unions politics, high fees, etc. and I would like to make the contract between me and my employer by myself, what is wrong with that.

That employer already entered a contract with another group of people, that lists them as a sole supplier of labour for said employer.

Imagine if I had a cabbage farm. I don't care about corporate politics, I just want Whole Foods to buy cabbages from me.

But they won't. They already have an exclusive supplier contract for cabbages with Dole, or Sunrise Produce, or whatever.

Is this unfair? I don't like it? That's my problem. I should not be demanding that there be a law that forbids sole suppliers, of cabbages, or labour.

If I still want to sell cabbages, I should talk to Dole, Sunrise Produce, or start my own grocery store. Or negotiate a new contract with Whole Foods, after their current contract expires.

Providing services to an organization isn't a god-given right. If you don't like the working environment, the requirements of the job, the pay, or the hoops you have to jump through to sell to a company, that's your problem. Go work for a non-union shop, or start your own company.

> They let two independent people make an employment agreement without anything interfering with them.

If one of those two people entered into an agreement with a third party, that lists the third party as a sole supplier of services for them, that's your problem. The law should allow that person to make such an agreement with said third party, to the detriment of you.

That's the libertarian response. They are bad because they stop people from entering into voluntary contracts.

The socialist argument is that they are bad because employment negotiation is not done on a person-to person level. It is done on an organization to person level. The organization has more power, and this power imbalance produces unfair contracts.

This imbalance is solved when you allow employees to negotiate as an organization. Right to work laws let scabs and freeloaders parasitically leech off the negotiations of others, without paying into the system that benefits them. The only way to deal with that is to exclude them.
Reminds me of one example of the dangers of "predictive policing", when controlled by one unchecked group: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/tyranny-algorithms-pre...

And https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/israeli-intell... and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/israeli-intell....
Healthy body, (probably) healthy mind.

The food industry makes us sick (meat full of anti biotics etc. killing good and bad gut bacteria) and the pharma industry makes the money (anti depressants etc.). Nobody wants you either dead or living. The industry wants you on the edge. Then you are a money machine for them.

Everybody should evaluate their blood results once every month and get a copy of it. At home, graph your blood data in Excel/whatnot. Eat healthy, live healthy, look how your blood results change. Zinc deficit is also very important to treat, as it keeps the whole immune system running etc.

As long everybody seems to only want to find "the right anti depressant" the pharma industry laughs its ass of for the fools not treating the root problems.
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Lol, CloudFlare is what's breaking the web if you need to have a stupidly complicated JavaScript engine enabled and accessible to a webpage you don't trust (and can't trust) to be able to access the said webpage.

Based on how it's done, you can't check first if the page hidden behind clouflare is something you'd want to enable javascript for, because clouflare will not let you see the HTML code of the page, without enabling javascript for it first.

That is broken.
One post per company please (this is in the instructions at the top).
The Google AI courses are also good for old seasoned ML practitioners who want to learn more about more recent deep learning techniques
Doesn't that depend on how big the artificial habitats are?
just to play devil's advocate. Why should you get paid for time at all? Why not only for value delivered? You dont pay the grocery store based on how long you're in the store or how long each item took to shelve. You pay for the value delivered (approximately the goods in your basket).

So why should you get paid for hours that deliver no value? Or to make it a spectrum, why should you get paid a fixed rate for hours where you deliver less than the fixed rate of value?
Just wanted to say that I met Sanketh ^ along with some of the rest of the Smartcar team at a HackDuke last fall and was really impressed. The team was enthusiastic and their pre-production API beat so many of the production APIs that I've encountered in the past. Definitely check them out if their work sounds interesting!
Show HN: Chat without leaving your terminal
Uber has strong internal data access controls at this point, and any user data access need a ticket and a justification before accessing.
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Code reviews are something that is completely separate, to me. They should not be considered in performance reviews, otherwise you lose a lot of their effectiveness (the one exception would be if someone was being toxic in their comments)