skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steven Degutis is a registered sex offender. Moreover, he's a REPEAT sex-offender.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sex-off...
Who gets to swim in the ocean of knowledge? (Editorial)
Is it possible that you perhaps have an engineering or physics background (or one sympathetic to the same- say mathematics or computer science) and pay more attention to others who are like yourself? Would you make similar statements regarding people from, say art backgrounds who make great contributions in engineering, physics and other sciences-Morse, Hedy Lamarr, Santiago Cajal to name a few? I think it's pretty common for clever people who do well in one field and decide to switch to do well in another, no matter what the two fields are.
While Kelvin claimed that "when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind", it is interesting to note that he also maintained that "I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism."

https://books.google.com/books?id=kdm9nmAkKvIC&pg=PA1103&lpg...
When I was stuffed to the neck writing my Thesis and could not exactly quantify my progress, I sometimes did a "stand up meeting" with myself and wrote short answers to three questions :

- What did I work on last week?

- What do I plan to do this week?

- What were the obstacles I encountered, and what I think will hinder me this week?
Not if it can be reasonably assumed, no. It is allowed if it is necessary, and it's hard to argue why for b)-f) why making the data public is necessary to satisfy these points, vs e.g. the data being made available on request if an appropriate need is demonstrated, or only some contact information being provided.

Core part of all this that you can not just say "this is how we work", you have to justify why you work like that if you require data/processing of it.
I don't know. I wish I did.

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Though I suspected, I didn't fully realize how much "playing the part" mattered until I participated in the endorsement process before, during and after my own candidacy.

I used to care about a candidate's policies, platform, positions. Now I only care about a candidate's ability to get elected.

Before, I didn't understand the "realpolitick" viewpoint, and actively criticized it. Imagine my chagrin after I flipped my worldview.

To get a glimpse of what I'm talking about, watch a bunch of endorsement interviews. Many jurisdictions post a video voter's guide. Some orgs and publications will post their interviews. Better is to show up and watch. As in join your local party (whatever flavor). Best would be to run for office and see it from the other side.

I know that a huge under appreciated aspect is learning that successful candidates are not like normal people. Going to all the same events, even carpooling with your opponents, you see what it takes to win. Politicians are super human. And have to love it. Doubly so for electeds.

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As for the Mars Hill guy... That's a story as old as religion.

We now know that some percentage of people are predisposed to authoritarianism. Let's say 15%. If it wasn't Mark Driscoll (?), they'd follow some other charismatic leader.

Well, 15% is a lot. If you have 100, or even 1,000, devoted followers, you have the start of a movement. I've I read up on Mars Hill (and others). Their origins stories are all kinda the same. They sell a great story. Everyone believes their part of something bigger than themselves.

I still don't know what to make of all this.
zx2c4: I've looked at the Go version on your homepage, but the initial text in the git project. "This is not a complete implementation of WireGuard ..... There is no group of users that should use the code in this repository here under any circumstances at the moment, not even beta testers or dare devils.", is this the one that you refer to or do you have a closed git project with a newer version?

Either way. The L2TP/IPSec implementation in Windows 7 I use now is also closed-source proprietary software. So I can't see that TunSafe should be worse since the author is public. I guess TunSafe will not be able to communicate with the wireguard servers if it does not use the correct encryption and protocol scheme?
Skype now optimized for Android devices running 4.0.3 to 5.1
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis in HN comments, regardless of how annoying something is. It's basically yelling, and the site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
...and then a buyout by Facebook?
But what was Freud right about?

Another measure of the success of a scientist is how well their theories stand the test of time, and by that standard, mathematical rigor probably contributes a lot.
I think that's just BOOTSTRA.386[1] but it's probably the best usage I've seen of it.

[1] https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
View->Page Style->No Style usually works for me. Obviously pages become a lot more bland and...style-less, but the text and images I'm usually after will still be there.
It's too bad the field of positive psychology is left to people like this, because it asks useful questions and would benefit a lot from serious research.
SRE from Zero: Instrumentation
I'm not in SV and the market where I make my living doesn't have nearly the high salaries or costs, but I've considered getting chickens a few times. I didn't plan to do it for health reasons, environmental reasons, or any sort of activism. I considered it because working in tech consistently makes me feel very far removed from the kind of lives that many people lived only two generations ago and having backyard chickens has always appealed to me as a way to slow down a bit and do something that's completely different from my usual routine of going to work in a corporate office all day and feeling like everything I do is completely ephemeral.

I've been very blessed to get into tech and have a nice living for the last 20 years but some days I really wonder what it would be like to live an existence that wasn't almost completely dedicated to technology. The reason I've never followed through on chickens is because I suspect that having them won't really evoke the kind of connection to simpler times that I crave.

I don't really enjoy articles like this. Am I supposed to decide that all backyard chickens are anachronistic foolishness or only that it's silly if it's taken to the extreme presented here?
If people get pleasure out of backyard chickens that's nice, regardless of whether they feed them scraps or grilled salmon. I can think of many other pastimes that are far more pernicious.
The de Young in San Francisco is $26 weekdays and $29 weekends, and while it's a fine museum, it's not the Met.
That's interesting, I find myself in a similar position.

I like coding and I like to improve my coding skills and knowledge, but I feel I am more of generalist than a specialist, I am always lurking around HN, PH, IH, looking at products, trying to always get a little bit more about product strategy, marketing, design and UX.

I have considered a transition into a PM role but I'm still not sure I'm quite ready to step away from the developer role, a part of me would like to have an awesome project that I could build my own company around but I'm just not there yet either.

Either way, I'll be lurking the responses in this thread. Good luck with your move.
About secrets of the Universe and primordial first principles of life.
You start with a prior, but you assume that it is not the optimal solution.
> Yan was even able to embed an ultrasonic version of the Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up,” which became audible at the point where the two signals crossed.

At 33C3 I rode an escalator when I suddenly heard "Never Gonna Give You Up" but apparently no one else did. It was over after a few seconds. At the top of escalator there was a guy pointing a directional speaker at random people.

Only reference I could find is in German, but it has a picture [1].
The story says the guy on the picture is not the inventor of the device.

EDIT: The thing is a parametric ultrasonic speaker and the design files and software are on GitHub [2].

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/de/article/784z74/33c3--hacker-...

[2] https://github.com/niklasfauth/parametricspeaker
Or as in Kotlin.
Founders of big tech companies deal with politics on a level you can’t imagine.
Why not just make a conscious decision to stop developing new features and dedicate all the effort to refactoring then?
I don't see this flag on my version of Chrome (64.0 on Mac). Are you on the beta branch?
I needed my score to come up! I didn’t have much on there but everything that’s there was negative to the point where I couldn’t even get approved for anything to get my numbers up. So my colleague at work told me of an expert that helps in fixing credit, she said he’s tested and trusted. It was so hard to believe at first because I’ve never heard of that. But she gave the assurance that I have nothing to worry about by telling me how her scores increased from bad to excellent with his help. Then, few days after making a down payment to the hacker for help...he got me the best results I could ever wish for. My credit score moved from 456 to 790. Spy Stealth is the best. Here’s is email address for those who’d like to work with him spystealth dot org at gmail dot com. You’ll be glad I did this.
I'm seeing a lot more APL-related submissions in the past few months. What's going on?
Hum, any ways to make it work with Safari IOS?
That isn’t a correct way of thinking about this problem and in more than one way.

The first reason is that you want your car to be able to localize it self with its onboard sensors alone, this is always faster and more resilient than using GPS.

GPS would put you in the ballpark and your localization goes from there.

Second GPS and any other simmilar positioning system is only as good as your maps because they give you coordinates if your map isn’t accurate or the resolution of your map is lower than the resolution of your positioning system then you again lose localization accuracy.

Galileo and GPS offer about the same resolution however high precision is costly (both in time and compute power) for both systems and you still need HD maps to be able to localize yourself on a centimeter scale.
"Almost Done" . -- Elon Musk suffers from the typical engineer's optimistic feature task/project estimation.

Some people have wrongly attributed his overpromising, and delivering late, as Elon being a salesman, while the more obvious explanation is that he is just an optimistic engineer that tends to miss deadlines because 'estimating is hard'.

We all have been there

My expectation is that when it comes it, it will kick ass, but it will be late, always a bit late, like most of our projects...
What's the use case for this? You can pretty easily do this already with React + styled-components + CSS grid and still keep it pretty DRY.

Would help if you added more/different examples to show what else it can do beyond that first example.
In the document you linked, city revenues are based on property tax, sales tax, utility charges, fees, and fines. None of those things are meant to be proportional to profit. 9% does come from state and federal grants; Google-the-corporate-entity is maybe not contributing its fair share towards those, but its employees certainly are, and then some (the progressiveness of the progressive income tax curve is not cost-of-living adjusted).
Elegance and eloquence.

Or to put it another way, “it doesn’t really matter what you call a flower, it still smells just as good”
Design files and software for a parametric ultrasonic speaker
As a product manager you OWN IT. If the product is clumsy or doesn't make sense to the end user you are failing. If the product doesn't drive target revenue then you have absolutely failed.

Keeping that in mind the objectives vary pretty broadly. Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind is that product management is NOT project management. Your goal is to deliver product success in order to hit a revenue target. That said product quality and product exposure are more important than release timelines, which is perhaps opposite of a project management role.

To really understand product management you must understand what drives user behavior in the choice and usage of your product versus the competition. Research helps a lot, but you still always find yourself surprised by the behavior of your users. Your assumptions of your users' behavior is probably often flawed.
How much can PM make I wonder?
What makes you think people understand the reasons for their own beliefs? How do you know the reasons they give you when asked are the correct ones? Why do you believe that challenging those statements respectfully will change their minds?

The actual requirement for persuasion is a believable narrative with a bit of moral weight, and a random selection of standard persuasive tricks that politicians and lawyers have been deploying with outrageous success for millennia.

Generally, being objectively correct is one of the least effective ways to change anyone's mind. You might have some hope in a scientific setting. But in popular debate, facts and rationality are almost completely powerless.
>Tacky? It's either information of value or it's not.

The world isn't black and white. It can be information and be tacky.

This is a less offensive case, given that the person had a long life and died under fairly positive circumstances; but what if someone used a public shooting to spin sales into their gun safe company? What if a company that engraved tombstones hung around sites of mass tragedies offering free catalogs to the bereaved?

At what point does trying to spin someones personal tragedy into your own gain or profit turn tacky? To me : instantly. To others : it varies.

Personally I very much DO want to know if a person giving me advice stands to gain from it. You can use that information to filter out perceived biases and make better decisions oneself.
Constructing human-grade parsers
sigh. well i hope the support is good.
> Well, thinking abstractly, if there are only finitely many rational solutions, then there certainly exists a second equation, g(x,y) = 0, giving another curve C' that intersects C at only the rational points. (Because any finite set of points can be interpolated by a curve, e.g. by Newton interpolation. [shrug] Nothing deep about this!)

Ok, any finite set of points can be interpolated by a curve.

Why is it obvious that one of these interpolated curves will necessarily avoid intersecting C at any other point?
Sound from ultrasound
Looks more like "minor change to map GUI". "The main difference seems that it enables a significantly more important zoom and smoother engine."
> It uses by default BigDecimal and BigInteger for literal numeric types

Apache Groovy uses by default BigDecimal for literal decimal types, but only uses BigInteger for literal integral types when it would overflow the largest available primitive type for that literal. You can force a BigInteger by using the suffix `g` on the integral literal. Perhaps misunderstanding this is the source of some hard-to-find bugs in some of your Groovy code.
There's actually a free tier of 1500 requests a day for development.
> 0 °C is special to water-based lifeforms.

Only those who happen to live at exactly 1 atmosphere of pressure.

And ordinary (unpurified) water doesn't freeze at exactly 0 anyway.
The benefit of Linux is that you can customize it for deferent groups of people: that’s what distros are. You can have one where the defaults cater to technical users and one where it’s focused on the needs of the general population.
Agreed on the physical access issue... I guess I'd feel better if some computer security companies put their names on an independent review or something.
Jest Puppeteer
Well, it is supposed to be a hit piece after all.
Really, I'm so much less bewildered that these folks have figured out how to raise the simplest of farm animals. The "Raw Water" and high-priced Esselen kookiness bothered me more because they took something that used to be nice (or just safe) and turned it into woo-woo for the stock-option mentally impaired.

Raising chickens can be done in less than 50sq ft pretty much anywhere. It doesn't make a huge amount of sense for most folks and there's a real risk of salmonella, if you're not careful... and don't get a rooster, if you want to have neighbors who like you. But expensive, or time consuming... only if you're trying to put diapers on them.

But hey, these folks discover what it's like to raise the animals they use for food, feed them properly, and protect them from predators, etc. That's good, even if they're douche bags about it. You could do a hit piece on the self important waste of time that is President Carter's Houses for Humanity too, but why bother.
It's only for proxy without auth. So mainly local ones. There is no way to use username and a password right now for proxy with headless chrome.
I see it on Brave and Chrome for Android, versions 64.x

Maybe it's only for mobile?
The great senegalese sheep bubble of 2018. WP would lap it up.
I'd probably do the same thing. If I'm not using a service a lot I don't want to pay for it or I only want to pay when I use it.

Otherwise for constant usage I'd prefer to be able to know my spending ahead of time.
The researchers and article both write that one can not draw any conclusion if those traits are being selected by others or is self selected. It could be bias, or it could be traits that correlate to higher leadership ambitions. The research data do not provide any insight to that question.

Instead of speculating which one of those is the correct answer, maybe we should ask what kind of research data would conclusively prove or disprove either theory. Just like this study attempted to establish some data on the theory that senior management tend to share common traits regardless of gender, what kind of study would help to establish date on the theory behind why those traits are common among senior management?
Have you tried growing your own food as a way to get that connection back?

For me, ive found it an invaluable way to "get out of my head" and calm down my mind. It's very peaceful, plus you get to eat fresh food. But mostly I do it to stay grounded, pun partially intended
This is exactly wrong. It's not having an opinion on a controversial topic that makes one a crank, it's whether that opinion is well supported and respectfully expressed.

In fact, mike_hearn's first link is to a blog post where he debunks claims of evidence that Russian bots influenced the Brexit vote. (He doesn't offer evidence that that didn't happen; what kind of evidence could exist? But he does argue that the alleged evidence offered by others that there was such influence is unconvincing.)
I suspect they're doing that already. I don't think the bandwidth is an issue, unless they plan on reporting full frames of visual data (ie pixel maps) rather than vectorized or telemetry data.

They can always use a store & forward approach if they want to limit their interface usage to WiFi.

For real time data (like traffic conditions), even their 3G network should be sufficient (remember that they are already streaming music over it).
$X could be spread out over the lifetime of the consumer to remove the initial costs of setup.
Whenever I visit my mother-in-law’s house, she always prepares fresh chicken for us, and by that I mean she keeps a few live ones (provided by a farm, she doesn’t raise them) in a storage locker outside of her apartment that she then kills with her hands when they are going to be eaten. She doesn’t even live in a rural area, china is just flexible like that.

I looked into it here, but it seems like keeping live chickens in your storage space is a nono in most USA cities.
That sounds extremely powerful. How general is the method? Could it provide a handle on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture?
Only if you could successfully argue that anyone would kill themselves in those circumstances. I won't hold my breath.
Sorry if I've misunderstood your comment, but the parent was mentioning a bash key binding, not an emacs one.
It's just a fork. Of course fork will have different transaction history starting from fork point.
The kind of do and don't use Google maps. The center display shows Google maps, however the instrument cluster map and nav system uses an on-board traditional GPS system (like the tom-tom or garmin systems) due to them not being allowed to use Google for routing. The differences in the maps are sometimes jarring. Eg, the Nav will be telling you to turn onto "unnamed road" when the center console clearly displays the name.
You don't need it in Mobile Safari. Tap the paragraph icon to the left of the address bar and it'll go into Reader View, which eliminates all that rubbish.
It's not important for a lot of programming jobs but is important for research, same in psychology, it is not important for being a therapist in most cases but is important to doing research.

I had to develop some simulation for psychology research, it is not only that a lot of them don't know statistics, it is also the way they collect data and interpret it, it is simply not scientific in the most basic common sense of the word scientific. Nobody manage to repeat or recreate those "researches", not that anybody is trying.

Those "sciences" are one big joke especially because they are so feminised that there are not enough people there with basic logic capabilities, innovation or creativity. Good luck finding the next Freud or Jung, it will be as hard as finding any important open source project created by a woman. They should incentivised men to leave STEM and go to psychology if they want this science to move forward in any way.
I find this style a bit frustrating to read. I just want to know what his proof is, but there's so much fluff in the article that the actual meat is kind of hidden. So anyway, "his" proof is to drop a height to the hypotenuse and use similar triangles. Ah, right, I know this proof and I remember it as the canonical proof my grade 9 geometry textbook presented.
You'd be surprised how much math can actually help get into advanced juggling. Similar to origami. Sure, basics don't benefit from math. Advanced practices, though, do.

Regardless of that, the point of the example was precisely the point you seem to be using against me. Most practices in many fields, including much of physics and engineering, don't actually need advanced math. They are helped considerably by it, though.
Age doesn't matter. Passion matters. If you have an interest, give it a try: either ask to take some responsibility writing specs for the product you're currently working on, or ask if you can transition to a team as a junior PM.

I've known three engineers in their 30s who transitioned into PM roles. One went back to school and got an MBA first. One simply changed roles. And one tried being a junior PM for a couple of quarters before deciding, fuck this shit, I'm going back to coding.

One difficult part of the transition is pay ranges. At least in SF where engineers are difficult to find, the PMs pay range is generally lower. You may be asked to take a salary adjustment when you adjust roles. If so, and your life situation makes this difficult, it might not be right for you.

Also, ask yourself, how are my soft skills? As an engineer you can maybe get away without many, but you will not succeed as a PM without them. Am I good or great at talking, explaining, persuading, negotiating, and mediating? This matters way more than your current age.
Ok, but who has ultrasonic emitters around? Were it America own spionage gadgets?
"Maintain multiple independent identities" is extremely good advice.

As a student I had a moment when I decided that the standard geek "identity package" of things one was supposed to like and do was ... limiting, and that it would be better to have a wider set of interests.