skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of this horrendousity: https://jalopnik.com/the-flying-crowbar-the-insane-doomsday-...
Early Gamification.

Similar solutions were also mentioned in "Ready Player One".

I'd love to see more applications of this applied to the more tedious and boring aspects of system administration.
That’s great you’ve had 3 years. Do you think you are writing good code? Or you still want to learn a bit more on the job? If you feel you are ready, 3 years is more than enough to start applying for non-junior roles. Good luck.
I’m not sure that it’s charitable to characterize either fund as being “built around gathering insider information and profiting”.

Raj Rajaratnam started at Needham & Co. in 1985, and worked his way up to firm president in 1991. He eventually bought the firm, and renamed it Galleon Group. If you look at the history of returns for Galleon, the most lucrative years were 1999 through 2002. Raj rode the tech bubble up, and got out before it burst. You don’t generate outsize, 90%+ returns solely on the basis of insider information.

As for SAC, for the vast majority of his career, Stephen A Cohen was a momentum trader in the style of Paul Tudor Jones. If you read the book Black Edge or watch the PBS documentary To Catch a Trader, at some point in the late 90s to early 2000s, Cohen started employing expert networks. The use of expert networks was legal at the time, and remains a grey area. Obviously, at some point Cohen crossed the line into outright insider trading.

My point for both of these examples was that both men were overwhelmingly rich by the time they got involved in insider trading. We can speculate on why they did it, but to suggest that they made their first hundred millions or billion with insider trading is inaccurate.
Because I thought I could do without one?
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Not communication directly, but I’ve been reading Future Shock and found many of the points relevant even 50 years later. One that comes to mind: the past few generations have seen an enermous erosion of belief in institutions and systems that once gave people purpose (religion, family, community, craftsmanship, ...) This, combined with extremely rapid change, has left a lot of people feeling unmoored and lost in their own time. How they react to this is unpredictable but it is often strange or sad, and sometimes even dangerous
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>> China leaned heavily on major internet companies when Guo Wengui, a Chinese tycoon in self-imposed exile, went on Facebook and YouTube to accuse a number of Chinese officials of corruption...

> Facebook suspended Mr. Guo’s account. In a statement, the company said the account published the personal information of others without their consent, which violated the platform’s policies.

One way to test the truthfulness of Facebook's claim is to see whether or not they suspend the accounts of users who make corruption claims about US officials. Surely there were a lot of such claims involving personal information about politicians during the last election cycle. Did Facebook suspend those accounts?
Government bureaucracies need, more than anything else, butts in seats. The work doesn't require so much talent as it does somebody making sure that work doesn't get lost or forgotten about, and works its way through a process pipeline. Like a factory, but for paperwork.

The bar is pretty low. If there's no reason to distrust you (i.e. can pass a low-level background check / clearance), and you have a college degree (to "certify" that you can read and write emails and reports in an office environment), and you can wait the amount of time it takes to get hired (because of the clearance etc.), then yeah, pretty much, the government has an enormous hiring quota and they're looking for warm bodies to fill it up.
> Now that everyone is communicating with everyone else

Where did you get this idea? Only 47% of the world is using the Internet [0]. Only 20% speaks English [1]. Hell, even the "most commonly spoken language" Mandarin consists of dialects that vary between mutually intelligible to total unintelligible.

If AI allows us to convincingly translate among languages when speaking to each other, it would remove any need for people to learn a common language. Given how much research is going into that problem, we might see that problem solved faster than the time when "everyone is communicating with everyone else."

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/22...
[1]https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-eng...
Prices would be a little lower if merchants were not beholden to fraudsters.
> I think it should be White Asian, do you say white americans?

We do say "White Americans", meaning Americans who are "white", which means people whose ancestors were Europeans (including Russia), or from Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, North Africa, or some (but not all) other Muslim areas.

Then "Asian" includes everyone else whose ancestors were from Asia: China, Japan, India, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, etc.

When combined with nationality or geographical location, race is said first, so "White Asian" would mean someone living in Asia whose ancestors were European, most likely, though it's not a phrase I've heard.
This is very dependent on the families involved. To some, the most important event of someone's life is their child's marriage. For some, it's considered disrespectful to not spend huge amounts of money on it, and this can create resentment in the long run.
Yeah it's tough, try bringing yourself down over a week with weaker and weaker coffees. It took a long time for me to properly recuperate but worth it.
He is drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand.
Sounds like he could be teaching his class how to make solar panels.
My wife and I were just in Kumasi with our Subaru a few months ago -- amazing people. I was able to find a gentleman to run all over the markets in search of the peculiar Japanese lugnuts that I had lost one of. He came back in an hour with 5 examples, and was stoked to get $2 from me. He helped me re-install and re-torque all of my lugnuts.

I enjoyed nearly complete cell and data at 4G speed throughout Ghana, both on T-Mobile and Project Fi, who I assume use the same carrier.

Phone top-up cards are sold everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. The guy who sells airtime in a small village will also have a bank of power strips and will charge the villager's phones for them. I assume there is a small fee for this service. Many of the ones I saw had clever battery systems. There was a system to use your phone to pay with cell credits for merchandise, so it acts as a second currency.

This was pretty common all over West Africa. They're not as far behind as you think, and they enjoy skipping over landline POTS infrastructure costs and just get to hoist a few towers all over their countries.

Ghana's a great place. The optimism and nationalism make a great combo -- everyone's excited to see where they're headed next. It was one of our favorite stops on our road trip.

$0.02 (or 0.09 Cedi :) )

- Mike
1. Since you didn't mentioned any services I would recommend doing grocery shopping via internet. It's not a big time saver on the begining. Chosing products in the "real" world is faster, especially when someone is in hurry etc. But if you use shopping lists usually built into software you can do it faster and also not waste time on commuting to your shop. You even can automate that 100%.
2. I don't have experience with it but a lot of people are recommending Vorwerk Thermomix cooking robot/device.

Good luck and if you find something interesting please let us know :-)
> Iranian Contras

The Iran-Contra affair did not involve Iranian Contras, it involved American officials making illegal arms sales to Iran and funneling the proceeds illegally to the Nicaraguan Contras.

> Obama won a noble prize

“Nobel”

> and then became the first president to spend every day of his term at war

Not even close. The US involvement in the Vietnam War began in the Eisenhower Administration and ended in the Ford Administration, so all of Kennedy, (Lyndon) Johnson, and Nixon spent every day of their terms in that war.

But even they weren't the first, the US was continuously at war (in an overlapping series of conflicts) from 1855-1875 (nearly exactly 100 years before Vietnam, both start and end; should we be particularly worried about 2055-2075?), with Buchanan, Lincoln, and (Andrew) Johnson spending their entire terms at war.

> since America has not technically been at war in a long time because we like changing the names of things to pretend they're not true

The United States has legally been in a war every time it's been in a Congressionally authorized military conflict (as well as certain other cases, perhaps, resulting from foreign attacks); the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that Congress need not use any particular language in exercising it's power to declare war, and that Congressional authorization in any language suffices to create a legal state of war, even if the effect is distinct from that of a formal declaration—this as far back as Bas v. Tingy, 4 U.S. 37 (1800).
Looks really nice and it's fun to play around with. Maybe a control for inversing the chords would be fun? That would mean support for chords like A7/c# and maybe also closer chord voicings.

I should also add that the app became much more fun when I accidentally read the "Help" menu and became aware of "play" and "root" - maybe that information should be a bit more visible?

I'm interested in what if any library you've used for the theory - did you just built one yourself? You could take a look at teoria(https://github.com/saebekassebil/teoria) which is a by now pretty seasoned music theory library in js, with a chord parser included.

EDIT: (PS: Also add9 add11 chords would be nice)
Then there’s the even more perverse situations - big companies holding out the fruit of a Big Deal to a small company that they consider to be a possible threat, with the express intention of getting the small company to do things that will end up killing them.

Been there, seen that.
Oh haha, TIL. My bad.
I appreciate the frank response. This is a topic that I don't usually see addressed.
> Do you think HN as it is now is the place to constructively have these discussions?

I see your point about the fitness of a platform for challenging the prevailing viewpoints in Silicon Valley, and for making sure that people can develop rapport and reputation that makes them accountable. Those are all great points.

We would agree fully if HN banned all articles on contentious topics or unapologetically allowed all viewpoints with all the mess that brings.

Where I think we differ is what the right action is when highlighting a viewpoint that cause social dissonance. My opinion is that giving the stage only to people that shout the loudest when opposing viewpoints speak is a terrible choice, as in general the most extreme people are the loudest and I doubt those represent the majority. We gave the stage to the extremes in communism and fascism, and it didn't end so well. We do not need to repeat that experiment again.
Speculating on the future of initial coin offerings
Heya! Depends what's your definition of "successful", of course, but would like to plug in CJL - job board for blockchain companies.

- https://cryptojobslist.com

- current progress https://twitter.com/ksaitor/status/968690695031500800

- will share revenue figures shortly, but TL;DR — it's ramen profitable

Been running it solo and launched in October 2017. Previously did a few other consumer+saas startups with a team, funding, etc — and this simple job board seems to be having way more traction and revenue than other funded projects with fancy apps that I've built before. AMA :)
>Sure. Microsoft was also a member of Khronos 15–20 years ago, when (according to an acquaintance who used to work for a GPU vendor) they did every underhanded thing they could to disrupt the OpenGL spec / committee, while simultaneously working on their end to make sure it wouldn’t be a competitive way to develop Windows software.

You're talking about the pre-Khronos OpenGL Fahrenheit deal, which is largely public knowledge. Microsoft announced a joint project with SGI to support OpenGL on Windows, then put all their resources into DirectX while SGI spent two years building their section. The only unprovable part is that this was their goal all along, but the leaked combat plan against free software at the same time leaves little doubt.
Worth noting, gopherjs has been around forever, and is mature:

https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

...and already has a reasonable js interop story, whereas my understanding is that calling the dom api from wasm is not the simplest thing.
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I think the main difference was regular people used to write HTML as far as into the myspace days. Now they just share photos and write posts in broken english or within 140 chars.
Seems strange it was flashing light compared to mice in a dark box? Maybe visual stimulation of any kind is better than sitting in darkness. I’d imagine more brain activity is probably helpful in preventing dimentia?
Only if the company outside of the US trades in the US. But that normally involves setting up a subsidiary, in which case they do have a US company.

There is no such thing as an international patent.
> c) how long batteries last if you only ever use 5% of their capability

not very long if they're alkaline. And its doubtful anything but their phones got li-on batteries in ghana, the markup probably isn't worth it. And there probably are hardly any phones. so mostly no li-on batteries anywhere.

but i've never been there, just economically speaking.
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Oh absolutely they do. NSA specializes in mass surveillance and cryptography (both design thereof for national security and breaking thereof to spy on others - they probably have way more cryptographers and mathematicians than any other agency). But even then all the other intelligence agencies will do a lot of online spying, hacking, and following of people of their own, in alignment with their respective missions - that's just the world we live in now, where there's no way to run an intelligence agency and not have a massive online surveillance apparatus. FBI will do it nationally for federal investigations, CIA will do it 'on foreign soil' (although this is extended to nationally as well whenever there's a counterintelligence justification) and they'll do it both to screen for and keep tabs on potential threats (e.g. terrorists) and for knowing their plans, and maybe know where they will be at a given time for e.g. drone strikes, rendition or special forces ops. The regime change wing of the CIA will undoubtedly also be monitoring any regime they want to overthrow and supplying insurgents with intel to help them, warn them if they are hunted. On top of this there's the different army ones under the Defense umbrella that will do similar things as the CIA but under a 'cyberwarfare' moniker and in coordination with their respective troops. And finally there's agencies with State, Justice and Energy that will indubitably also have their fair share of hackers - the full list of agencies is pretty long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com... I'm sure books could be written about the effort required to coordinate them all and prevent too much redundancy, but you can be damn sure they all monitor people online and don't just leave that to the NSA.
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That strategy has been shown to work. And people are more angry about the beneficiary being called out about it, than they are that they stole a reserved spot in the first place.
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A few thoughts on Ben Northrop's "Reflections of an 'Old' Programmer"
I don't see how you can say that. Section 230 was made to allow service providers to monitor content without becoming responsible for all the content that gets posted by users.

Let's say you run a small forum and someone starts harrassing users and creates a very toxic environment. 230 allows you to delete this person's comments/account without suddenly being liable for everything users post on your site.

Big companies will just have a team create an automatic filtering tool with strong rules to prevent lawsuits. The forum runner doesn't have the money or resources for that. Maybe startups would pop up and sell filtering services but Joe Smith who was just trying to host a community gardening forum isn't going to want to/be able to pay for that. Either he pays, let's trolls run wild, or brings down the site. It's a lose-lose scenario.
What do you call healthcare that doesn't work, but is commonly used anyways? For example, Propublica's article says stents usually don't help improve patients' conditions:

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but...

I like the term 'monopoly medicine', but maybe there's a better term.
Thanks for the reply, I'll reply to the points here:

>* Postpandrial crashes are insulin-blood sugar crashes. Just keep the glycemic load in check and you're good to go.

Not had much success with this, but not experimented with it too much either. What would be an example where you do this?

>* Carbohydrates can also make you crash hard afterwards. Unless you start snowballing them, but that's a horrible idea.

I had foods like pasta/rice and bananas in mind. I think some high carb foods do act as you say, but generally in small proportions they tend to be beneficial. I think you only get a hard crash (like sugar) when you have too much.

>* Effects similar to that of caffeine can be obtained without having to resort to psychoactive drugs. Meditation, for one, can have a tremendous effect on focus.

I found meditation completely ineffective, but I already have my own form of reducing stress and putting everything into perspective.

Also, there have been plenty of studies done showing that caffeine in general has a net benefit. Other than people with existing heart issues, sensible consumption of caffeine tends to have a net benefit.

>* Brain growth? What is that?

I'm still relatively young and my reasoning is that I haven't stopped growing yet as far as I know, or at least my brain needs to replace this stuff when new connections are made. It's also generally good for every other part of your body.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200301/brain-power-...

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/role-protein-brain-function-...

>* Some fatty acids are essential for survival as we cannot synthesize them ourselves. Also, why small quantities? Dietary fat is generally by no means a bad thing.

I agree, but I think it's easy to have too much in a diet.

>* Exactly. And I'd go further and add some electrolytes and other vitamins, too.

My assumption is that most people are eating enough mixture of foods to get this stuff anyway. If someone was running low on a vitamin, I think it's more beneficial to eat an associated food.

Iron seems to generally be low for a lot of people from speaking to doctors, a lot of people are anemic and not even aware. Of course, eating green vegetables is a great way to get iron.

>Edit: I'm also not a doctor nor a medical professional and this is all based on opinion, papers I've read and personal experience.

Same.
>You know why we don’t use them? They suck. Even in WWI, after people figured out what they were about, casualties from chemical agents were never as extreme as in their initial deployment. Militaries train and equip soldiers to handle chemical agents, which rely on favorable atmospheric conditions as well.

My understanding is that chemical weapons are largely effective in that they force your enemy to run around in protective gear; you shouldn't measure direct casualties so much as how much time and effort is spent dealing with it. From reading the world war one era literature, chemical weapons have an outsized effect on morale.

Really, I think the reasons for not using chemical weapons in world war two are more similar to the reasons why even small nukes haven't been used since world war two; sure, there, are have been plenty of situations where tactical nukes would have made sense from a tactical perspective... but there's a certain psychology involved, I think; Using a chemical weapon is crossing a line in a way that using a landmine is not, in the same way that using a small tactical nuke to destroy a bunker is crossing a line in the same way that using a MOAB is not.

(I do think the landmine example is interesting just 'cause you can make an argument that landmines are more likely to cause unintentional casualties after the conflict has ended than most chemical agents, and yet chemical warfare is over the line, while landmines are not)
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SMS is already 2fa. You need the sim card and the pin code. Hence a hijacked phone could be seen as stronger than a 1fa password.
Ha, I'm old. I remember seeing this when it originally showed up on shashdot.
Why not full domain names?
Couldn't double the frequency? And get similar waves..

The idea that certain light frequencies can have an effect isn't crazy. I recently bought a cold soar treatment device that used some special light frequency.
(Note: I have yet to test it, but it's FDA approved)
The photos might be from contributions on Google maps, which users grant rights to Google.
Ask HN: Who among the current lot is in the league of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs?
It's not evil, it's foolish.
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The difference is that I believe in a sense of justice and recourse, and that is something social justice warriors do not believe in for their actions. I also believe that evidence can prove me wrong, which is clearly outside the realm of social justice warriors. I continue to seek out evidence when forming my opinions, and do not form ideas uncritically in my head.
because it was

> - closed and proprietary
ah that's very nice. I started building a "blogchain", which is a decentralized blogging platform, to learn how to use ethereum. probably won't release anything as I learnt what I wanted, but it's nice to see some other projects like that. congrats :)