skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are more about saving their jobs and asses than an efficient process and software.

the less cynical view is that moving from a known process to an unknown one presents costs, and the movement could actually result in a less efficient process.

The inverse of this is always trying to move to the most efficient thing all the time, in which case you're going to spend all your time trying to "upgrade" your process, and losing the time too that coordination. You are supposed to do this for your core compentencies! Always improve the things that need improving! But you know what? Most companies don't have book-keeping as their core competency. Book keeping is a thing a company does just like brushing your teeth is a thing you do. When was the last time you optimised your toothbrushing process?

The role of book-keepers and accountants isn't just about "be efficient at accounting", it's almost more about making sure all of this happens transparently to the rest of the company in an efficient way. If you find some thing that cuts the accounting work in half but you have to inform 20k employees on changes, you've just introduced a lot of work for something that (if you're improving all the time) will change soon anyways!

The lesson is that if you're making software you need to actually make people's jobs easier in the entire context and not just optimize on some technical metric. The reality is most people in these roles are overworked, and this accounting software won't mean you don't need an accountant just like Word doesn't make you not need a lawyer. Until it _does_ mean this of course.... but for the most part you need to actually make something that helps people without generating more work.
There are some interesting applications...

Matthias Schulz, Jakob Link, Francesco Gringoli, and Matthias Hollick. Shadow Wi-Fi: Teaching Smartphones to Transmit Raw Signals and to Extract Channel State Information to Implement Practical Covert Channels over Wi-Fi. Accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys 2018, June 2018.

Matthias Schulz. Teaching Your Wireless Card New Tricks: Smartphone Performance and Security Enhancements through Wi-Fi Firmware Modifications. Dr.-Ing. thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, February 2018.

But the papers are nowhere to be found. Just went through peer review and still waiting for public publication?
I work in finance, and one of the many hats I wear at the small ATS (Alternative Trading System) I work at is regulatory analyst. Action probably wont start with SEC, but possibly FINRA or any exchange they're trading through. This definitely wreaks of manipulation. If I knew of any trades on this came through my ATS, it would be my legal and ethical duty to report it. I could still be asked to provide all trade activity for AMD.
I got .6 probability, that's pretty high and last time I checked I could fool the Turing test.
Wouldn't the investigation into E. coli have been more fruitful if information were more centralized? Isn't it already decentralized, wasn't that the problem?
rest (restructured text) has been used for python documentation for a very long time. so -- especially for that particular usage -- it's much more functional and clearly documented and consistent and free of edge-cases than (the far-too-numerous flavors of) markdown.

on the negative side, there aren't many quality authoring-tools for rest.

markdown has a very high profile. but it's questionable whether it deserves it. (i wouldn't say that it doesn't. but i wouldn't say that it does, either.)

another option you could look at is asciidoc. it isn't clearly better or worse than those other two systems, but it is different, and you might end up liking it better. (or you might not.)

light-markup systems are much like static blog systems. there's a lot of them, but it's hard to decide among them, and many people end up inventing their own variant that serves their own individual use-cases.
Thanks for the analogy, I’m actually copying & pasting for future references ;)
Why does nobody think of accessibility when they indulge in these weird 1980's-style-ui-library-in-a-browser fantasies?
I think you need to fix your bot algorithm.
OK, so the new abbreviation is "₡oin".
This article lurches into a rambling story about the biology of psychopathy without defining what psychopathy is, and the font keeps changing size for no apparent reason.
Apologies if this is oversimplified.

In the (time shortly after the) beginning the universe was formless and void, and all that existed was hydrogen and hydrogen was all that existed. Over time the hydrogen clumped together through various forces such as gravity. Eventually enough hydrogen clumped together that the force of gravity was sufficient to trigger nuclear fusion. And then there was light.

Hydrogen can absorb or (suitably excited) emit light at 21cm wavelength specifically, better than all other wavelengths. So from the background smorgasbord of frequencies emitted by the extremely hot hydrogen of the first stars (“First Light”) the cold hydrogen would have absorbed some as heat, and absorbed more at 21cm as excitation energy.

So assuming a relatively linear distribution of wavelengths in First Light (you could call it “white” light) there will be a portion where photons at 21cm were absorbed by hydrogen.

So the Cosmic Dawn signal is distinct because of what it is missing.
The mengle effect ;)
Until you actually need

git add . && git commit -m "message" && git push <remote> <branch>
Did the programmer with the most lines of code do the most work?
Whereas professional physicists can't and haven't taken those maths into account?
Due Disclosure: Worked at Intuit, once upon a time

QuickBooks has network effects (most accountants use it and are familiar with it) and lockin effects (once you have many years of your data in it, there is no way to get it out and into another software. at least that is the way it was when I worked there).

Other products with these characteristics have been disrupted and so can QB. But it will take a lot of work, or a powerful change in perspective. That said, from the article on TC, I don't think Pilot is actually competing with QB.Seems to be more like a layer on top.

I also agree with most of what curun1r says. Intuit is a weird company in many ways, but they do know what they are doing businesswise.
I looked at the GitHub README for the project, which says

> Uses machine learning to classify Twitter accounts as bots or not bots. The default model is 93.53% accurate when classifying bots and 95.32% accurate when classifying non-bots. The fast model is 91.78% accurate when classifying bots and 92.61% accurate when classifying non-bots.

Overall, the default model is correct 93.8% of the time.

Overall, the fast model is correct 91.9% of the time.

How is this accuracy determined? There is no information available explaining how this determination is quantified, nor what the caveats are.
Yup timestamped links TLDRs like indie hackers does would be sick! (But I think you could improve on their site design a bit in terms of how those links work)
Secure mixnet using Android devices would be very cool.
Well, how many other languages are sent over the wire to be interpreted on a ubiquitous client that's been incrementally changing for decades?

Is it a mystery to you why this situation is different from your favorite language that you aren't source-to-source compiling?
But it's not personified to the degree Siri is. I noted this elsewhere in the thread.

Doing that bit of theatre, with some humor, pop culture relevant things, even just good responses, appears to matter more to people than "it can do it", and "it actually did it" hit rates.

OK Google needs a name.

Google is this big, smart thing. People get that.

But, "Ask Siri" has less friction and appears easier to identify with than giving an order to a corporation is, "OK Google."

Maybe just, "Hey Google" would make a subtle difference.

And, in typical Apple fashion, "Ask Siri" is all you need to know to attempt it.

Further, discovery has error. If that can be best guess, combined with some fun, people will play.

"OK Google" lacks these human friendly connotations.

A name would be a follow, hard for Google, but... If it were me, I would flat out own that, get the name, and run ADS. "We hear you... meet [name not common, familiar sounding, friendly, easy to say.]"

There has to be either an old world name with good connotations, or a variant that is catchy, fun, gender fluid.

Lol, use goog. Mostly kidding, but a tiny bit serious.

Better, much better is out there.

Or, let the user name it. Why not?

"OK Google, can I call you inigo?"

"Sure, I will answer to inigo. And OK Google when I'm not properly introduced, OK?"
Looks like the website is not updated with builds from the GitHub repo. The single page HTML and the PDF file on the website are both dated August 2007. The printed book on Amazon is from 2010.

Anyone wanting the latest should get this from GitHub and build it. [1] If you're not familiar with technology and someone pointed you to this to learn Git (like in the case of publishing), this step in itself could be a barrier.

[1]: https://github.com/blynn/gitmagic
yes! for headless/server type applications I think this is the sweet spot right now. In the US, Ameridroid is faster than ordering direct from pine64 (in my experience).

The biggest downside for me is Rock64 doesn't have an OS with the pedigree of Raspbian. I'm running the 'ayufan' minimal ubuntu xenial, and it seems solid. but when I've played around with a monitor in the full xenial build I've seen some crashes and lockups.
The classic Deese–Roediger–McDermott false memory study paradigm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deese%E2%80%93Roediger%E2%80%9...

Basically, semantically related lures can lead to false memories for items not actually presented.

Interestingly, younger children do not have this type of false memories as frequently. That is theorized to be because a)a reliance on verbatim memory traces, an b)under-developed semantic knowledge
Ignoring your comments about other programmers...

Engineering is trade offs. I think the SQLite programmers are well aware of the risk the use of C brings in the context of security vulnerabilities. Given the statistics collected here: https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/9237/Sqlite.html it seems that their choice of C was not a security disaster, because C. It actually seems well within a risk tolerance threshold that I don't sleep uneasy at night recommending its use in systems. If their choice of language came with unavoidable vulnerabilities I'd expect those statistics to be much worse.

So what does a Rust implementation of SQLite offer anyone? That within 8 years there may be one less SQL injection attack or perhaps < 4 overflow vulnerabilities? Will it have better interoperability or performance than SQLite does now or will have once this new version is done? Will the market care?

I'm not saying that care shouldn't given when choosing to use C in a greenfield project today. I am saying that for many problem domains the risks associated with C are tolerable given a well trained, disciplined team.

And I doubt there's much of a market for an in-memory database system that is going to be feature compatible with SQLite in a few years that is also as performant as SQLite and can deployed on as many platforms. But that's just a prediction... maybe I'm wrong.

I've chosen Haskell on a greenfield project recently for many of the safety guarantees it brings... who knows?
Ask HN: What laptop do you use?
I've been a proud macbook user for the last 10 years, but I've been using the latest touchbar model for the last 5 months and I'm starting to lose my mind with it. I have 200 dollars worth of dongles, and yet I constantly find myself without the one I need on hand (usually a usb-a to usb-c). Its frustrating as hell . The lack of SD card slot is nothing short of infuriating as well. And.. on top of that OSX on this is a load of garbage and crashes nearly every time I undock from my external monitor.

For the first time in 10 years I'm considering trading in my shiny aluminum slate and going back to using a linux/windows machine as my daily driver (or maybe just buying a used 2015 model).

What are you using and are you happy with it? What are your recommendations for a good linux daily driver machine with good build quality? Is there anything out there on par with a macbook?
Thanks for your feedback, glad you liked it!

That’s one of the reasons we put that introductory session in; to help get rid of some of the misconceptions surrounding hypnosis.

We know it can be a bit difficult to fit in but think of it as the same amount of time as short tv ep but instead of draining your productivity you’re actually improving yourself.

Cheers! We believe that in order for hypnosis to be successful it needs to be packaged beautifully and intuitively (have you seen any of he other apps out there)
You can look on the back. If it doesn't say what series it is, it's a series 0.
What about Madoff though?

In 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos had informed the SEC that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Madoff claimed to deliver. According to Markopolos, it took him four minutes to conclude that Madoff's numbers did not add up, and another minute to suspect they were likely fraudulent.[73] After four hours of failed attempts to replicate Madoff's numbers, Markopolos believed he had mathematically proved Madoff was a fraud.[74] He was ignored by the SEC's Boston office in 2000 and 2001, as well as by Meaghan Cheung at the SEC's New York office in 2005 and 2007 when he presented further evidence. He has since co-authored a book with Gaytri Kachroo (the leader of his legal team) titled No One Would Listen. The book details the frustrating efforts he and his legal team made over a ten-year period to alert the government, the industry, and the press about Madoff's fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff#Investment_scan...
You should tier this by industry or career goal more closely. For example, many students want to do high-profile consulting or banking gigs after undergrad. These have relatively similar starting salaries so you don’t need to worry about adverse incentives as mentioned below. Basically get the student to say “I will give you 7% of my salary if I get a job at McKinsey Bain or BCG”. That will be a lot of value for many students (7% is probably low pricing frankly). You’ll probably need to do more work on screening and the addressable market is probably much smaller. But the value prop for that market I think is way big vs. just “I want any job thanks”. Those interviews and prep are trainable and there is a pretty robust set of providers there already. Could also add investment banks, larger tech cos, etc. just get specific on goals.
Source and discussion: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/PeFp4zYWY46
I admit those were wrong choice of words.

I have sometimes worked with accountants, overworked ones too, and agree to the larger point that change in processes are painful and costly. My experience has been that accounting law changes nearly every year. And, I find that instead of doing it right, most of them tend to go for the easier option - add a page. Now, this eventually means the software is heavier and cumbersome to use. So, year-over-year software is just adding to the cost of teaching a new person how to use the software while avoiding the cost of changing a process.

Hence the need to write an optimized software. It seems that not many fields have a concept similar to technical debt.
I use the a late 2016 MacBook Pro and had similar issues (even had the keyboard replaced with a 2017 keyboard and it's great now) but overall I'm still happy as the crashing seems to be entirely related to the external monitor usage and that's no longer something I do. FWIW if you have the laptop open when you connect and disconnect the external monitor(s) it doesn't seem to crash in my experience.

That said, some of the people at our office love some of the latest Lenovo ThinkPad models and are running Linux.
`git checkout` has one main responsibility: take stuff from a commit and put it on the filesystem (and put it in the index as well).

All of its functionality is simple variants on that. `-b` is the only real odd man out, and it’s just a shortcut for calling `git branch $branchname` first.
Are you proposing that an ad for a placebo is as damaging as an ad encouraging people to gamble their life savings (bonus: on what may be nothing more than a pump and dump scheme)?

As an aside, I'm not sure what drug discussion or hate speech has to do with this at all.
They're probably not, but the point is to defend against a loss of headquarters and all the resources surrounding it, regardless of the cause. Note that a network partition (where the Bay Area is fine but cut off from communications with the outside world) is functionally equivalent.

There are a number of other scenarios that could conceivably take out all Bay Area offices: nuclear strikes on SF + Moffett Field, wildfires in the Diablo Range that sever all communications, secession of California and following military blockade, large scale protests or civil unrest that do the same, etc. Might as well protect against all of them rather than special-casing earthquakes.
Sorry, I meant the USA, not west! It was a big typo on my part. BC is in much the same boat as Washington, as are Oregon and Idaho to lesser extents.
I'd argue a strong impact for young children, is that they haven't formed but a small fraction of the concepts that adults have. They simply are unable to generate as many or as elaborate of false memories because they lack the necessary array of concepts required for a higher level of creativity an older human can put together.

Simply put, if you're aware of seven concepts, that's a hard limiting wall for your creativity when it comes to inventing false memories. What would the false memories consist of? They can only consist of what you know. And further restricting that limited set, is the ways in which you understand to arrange/rearrange what you know.

You understand the concept table. You know the generally defining characteristics visually of a table. You know some of the ways a table is or can be used, however you only possess a limited knowledge of tables and how they can be used. That limited knowledge set of "table," restricts your ability to utilize the concept "table" in your false memories.
RTL-SDR is RX only.
Pushing the Boundaries of Payments: Innovating with Appsky Labs
Working remotely often isn’t a viable option for junior people, unfortunately.
Thanks for a very useful and clear checklist! Would you say decentralized DNS checks all those boxes (Namecoin is a thing, after all)? Why would a DNS require the notion of transaction?

I'm aware of sites that tell you whether you need a blockchain or not for your application, but they don't say what to use if only one or two of the requirements for a blockchain are not needed. What would a decentralized DNS strictly need if the notion of transaction wasn't required (but only the latest value)?
I can't help but mention Magit [1] here. It's so pleasant compared to the CLI, I've actually found myself Emacs + Magit on machines just to avoid running a few git CLI commands.

[1]: https://magit.vc/
Fractal AI: A fragile theory of intelligence
Apple 2018 Worldwide Developers Conference Announced
From the code (https://github.com/mkearney/botrnot/blob/master/R/features.R), the percents are # correct / # total, which makes sense.

However, the percents are from the training set; there’s no test/validation set, which is a problem when working with bespoke text data as a feature.
Facebook bans Britain First and its leaders
somewhere else on HN this was posted recently:

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

I've known git for years but anything more than push, pull, clone, merge, commit, and add I didn't really touch. This webapp definitely helped expand my git knowledge
It's a reference to Trump as White House (WH) admin.
These might be helpful: https://bench.co/syllabus/guides/
As mentioned in a sibling comment, there are a number of scenarios where the people are fine but all lines of communications are down, which is functionally equivalent to everyone being killed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16590441

(The actual wording on the e-mail is usually far more colorful, and usually involves a zombie apocalypse. Mountain View employees aren't just dead, they're undead.)

I think the assumption is that if the event actually did involve a danger to life & limb, response would be in the hands of Google Physical Security, local first responders, CalFire, FEMA, etc. Those organizations all do drill for rescuing people and treating injured, and will be in a much better position to coordinate responses than Google ops people.
WeChat mini programs one year in
> eschew product categories that men and poor folk flock to like car parts, guns, fishing, Jesus books, crafting, etc.

Other than guns and car parts, I've seen all of the above at Target.

(However I'm in Houston, so product selection may vary regionally)
I'm using 'semantic' as an umbrella term to include facts AND concepts. So we are saying very similar things.
> government managers are evaluated on budget and headcount because the core services they provide are hard to measure.

That’s... untrue. Government managers are judged (in terms of evaluation of job performance) largely on minimizing both costs and negative public attention.

OTOH, managers generally (and not just in the public sector) like to have big budget and headcount numbers on their résumés as proof of scope of responsibility.
The counterpoint to that is Bernie Madoff, who was a big fish and careless and by the time he was caught there was an orgy of evidence against him. I think it has more to do with low-hanging fruit than anything else. That doesn't mean SEC investigators aren't diligent and hardworking, but you need to leave behind evidence. Very few schemes struck me as particularly creative frauds, it's like the most obvious stuff you can think of: either just pocketing money or lying to investors like a dumbass, or simple schemes involving capitalizing expenses, or over-payment scams. No Repo 105 or any sophisticated Enron stuff like that. It's like if you studied cyber security in school, and all the big fish are falling because they set their password to hunter5 or got phished.
Your fork is not the same system though, everyone else considers it a different currency. The argument is whether or not 1 given currency is decentralized, not whether or not you as a human have the freedom to use any currency you want...

In other words, someone creating Bitcoin Cash doesn't somehow prove that Bitcoin is decentralized... We still need to analyze each currency individually if we're going to have any meaningful conversation about their merits.
Closest one is Dell XPS 15 as long as you can live with its weird web cam placement.
I used to have a sliding scale of prices, based on volume, but my customers fall into two camps:

* Those with 1 or 2.

* Those with 10-40.

I suspect lowering the price(s) on a volume-scale would allow me to find customers with 40+ domains, but at the same time I'm happy where I am and seem to have a reasonable niche.
Seems to be skipping over what they are implying.

It's well known Stephen Hawking wasn't even in the top 10 physicist's of his time.

It's cool we had a superstar scientist and if the dumb dumbs want to believe he was the greatest since Einstein that's fine too.

But who's keeping the reality check?

New Scientist shouldn't downplay his achievements as a celebrity and overcoming adversity but they should be telling the truth at least without overplaying it that he wasn't the greatest.
If you ever find yourself with the opportunity to do water egress training, do it; it’s a life changing experience (IMHO) even if you never intend to fly in a helicopter.
@jack, 0.693?