skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spend four weeks in India (Pune) recently.

Ola was by far more interesting and cheaper, but.. unavailable to me without local colleagues helping me. To sign up you needed an Indian mobile number (I brought a German and a Singaporean..). Unfortunate.

Uber in India was god awful.
Probably just country specific, we have the ads here in Finland as well.
You’ve thumbnailed elements of the problem, and left out the heart of the matter: The cabalistic forces of uber-rich conservatives (reactionaries) marshaled these propaganda tools to convince justifiably agreived voters to vote for a candidate who is letting them “run wild in the candy store.”

The interests and ideology of the Mercers and the Koch are diametrically opposed to any practical solution to the problem of growing inequality in the US.

They, most of the Republicans, practice a “take no prisoners” form of politics, in which they care little how either the ends or the means of their campaign affect lower class people.

The deceptive elements, and the use of sleazy propaganda, by these neo-reactionary King makers, is of a piece, whether they use modern data mining techniques or not.

If it wasn’t so sad, it would be hilarious. The joke is on all of us.
Didn't you miss two steps - Go to cart, Pick 'Simpl' payment method.

Also - it's basically reinventing the wheel to be similar to how credit cards in the US work, linked to your email/phone instead of a card. (Not dissing the product, though. I do use, and prefer Simpl when it's available).

But honestly, I'm still waiting for a proper payment system which behaves in a responsible manner while giving me a great deal of control and security.

Using credit cards for online payments is kind of ridiculous. I literally have to take pics of both sides to skim you off. Moving liability to the banks is not an ideal solution. The Indian way of OTPs on every transaction, I agree, has too much friction.

Why isn't there a oauth-like permission based system yet? Where I can authorize recurring payments of fixed/variable amounts, authorize one-time payments, etc, and manage all these merchant at one place?
Today, if I have to block a company from charging me, either I go to their website, or get in a long and unfruitful call with my bank.
I clicked the link, but I'm not a bot, I swear!
Even the original DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 was won by a system installed on VW Taureg, an enormous two-tonne SUV.
Safari is so bad.
There may be a way to build it into the loss function so that it happens before the quantization, right?

(and holy crap, look how fast the HN conservatives are getting to my comment)
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What's changed? I've been telling people this for f___ing ages...
> Call it marketing, propaganda, fake news or disinformation, we're being manipulated constantly by numerous unattributable actors.

“The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’s vote.”

Joseph Schumpeter —Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1947)
PayPal is the worst, always use other options before PayPal. Just Google people's experiences with them.
Taken from the blog post

> MOP is a flavour of object-oriented programming (OOP) with the core idea that your objects shouldn’t directly call each other, but communicate by passing messages via a message bus.

Sounds pretty much like a textbook definition of event-drive programming given by someone oblivious to event driven programming.
What are the best places to hire a software developer?
Hello,

How are you all doing? I am sure that most of you have heard this question many times before, but I would like to know what your most efficient way is to find a software engineer. I currently do not live in a state that is full of tech geniuses and most of the schools here have either very unqualified graduates or the ones who really stand out and get hired by large tech-intensive companies on the spot. I have tried Upwork and did not like it. I know that some of you here do not like the "idea" guys, but I would still appreciate if you could offer me any advice. I have done some research with the help of someone and I can tell you shortly about what I am looking for:
- The ability of the frontal camera on the smartphone to measure the dimensions of the different objects very precisely (CNN training on PyTorch which support ONNX export), make a 3D model of the object (probably by using 3D Blender), superimpose different styles on the object (GANs), show the changed object in 3D on the flat screens as well as an augmented reality (maybe ARKit and/or ARCore?). This could be implemented on Amazon Lambda instead of their GPU-accelerated serverless platform due to the difficulty to get them from Amazon because of the craze in cryptocurrency mining that also increased the prices of GPU.
Well, I might be wrong...I have a more thorough feasibility analysis for this project.

I have also tried TopTal and it seems to me that they usually work with the company's tech team. My team currently includes my laptop and me.

If you know any place to find someone who is good at what I described above, or if you are good at it yourself, I would love to talk to you.

Edit: Please do not break my heart by telling me that a "business" guy who can't even hire someone :)
Anecdotally Singapore has (local) Grab and Uber. People seem to use both, I personally made far better experiences with Grab.

Superficially they're the same, still there seems to be room for both and I personally prefer the Uber alternative more.
There is side projects that I literally don't start because I don't want to deal with Webpack and Babel (I don't think I have ever had a project where Babel wasn't complaining it was out of date even on greenfield install).

Another complaint for me is how all tutorials, boilerplates etc mingle nodejs server and react/angulas/vue deps and code where all I want is frontend code and build and I have to remove things by trial and error.
>When they flowed a current across the kagome layers within the crystal, the researchers observed that the triangular arrangement of atoms induced strange, quantum-like behaviors in the passing current. Instead of flowing straight through the lattice, electrons instead veered, or bent back within the lattice.

>This behavior is a three-dimensional cousin of the so-called Quantum Hall effect, in which electrons flowing through a two-dimensional material will exhibit a “chiral, topological state,” in which they bend into tight, circular paths and flow along edges without losing energy.

>“The charges in the crystal feel not only the magnetic fields from these atoms, but also a purely quantum-mechanical magnetic force from the lattice. This could lead to perfect conduction, akin to superconductivity, in future generations of materials.”

Room temperature exotic behaviour, but not specifically superconduction.
We can try. In theory, each self-driving vehicle doesn't have to drive in isolation; they can be networked together and take advantage of each other's sensors and other sensors permanently installed as part of the road infrastructure.

That would increase the chance a particular vehicle could avoid an accident which it couldn't, on its own, anticipate.
You can kind of see that words that are similar have similar looking vector values (that's why there are vertical stripes of yellow / black). But you're right in that most of it just looks like noise. I put the picture there mainly to show what the quantized vectors look like.
Thanks, my mistake (and apparently too late to edit my original comment).
when talking about Cambridge Analytica we should also discuss Palantir

from 5 years ago: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/mysterious...

Palantir ‘wields as much real-world power as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, but unlike them, Palantir operates so far under the radar, it is special ops.’ https://channels.theinnovationenterprise.com/articles/is-pal...

Yes, that's the same Thiel who is suing Gawker for outing him while developing predictive analytics that disproportionately target minorities.

See: Peter Thiel’s Palantir wins $876 million U.S. Army contract https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/peter-thi...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...

not just facebook but Silicon Valley has in general a total disregard for privacy. You can't hate on Facebook from another corner of the swamp. Also we should be thinking about what's ahead in IoT (Turning IOT sensor data into behavioral insights) https://www.sentiance.com/

Not to mention the gazillion IoT devices with poor factory reset which is the web's equivalent to delete-account function which only disables a users login but retains the data.

apologies for my emotional tone, this obviously has hit a nerve.
Yet despite all that VB6 and VBA are very productive, inexperienced users can get things done and experienced users can get things done quickly.
It's not the right wing's exclusive behavior. But if it makes you happy, believe it.
Yeah true. Seems like the more feature complete assistance systems are making their way down to even some of the more low-end brands these days. Level 1 autonomy is getting pretty old hat now I guess.
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You are aware that developers who don't use Microsoft are happier, healthier, more productive and have more skills on their cv's?

I don't bother with them and it's a dream.
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What I did to solve this: I serialized the stack frames and sent it with the messages and later when an exception happened it could be easily traced.
Restore?
Could someone suggest which title sounds better: "at full speed with python" vs "up to speed with python"?

I would like to convey the idea that this is a fast way for people to learn the basic concepts of python. But I'm not sure that "up to speed with X" exists, as I cant find many ocurrences of it in google (i'm not a english native speaker, this is the technique i use to find how certain expressions are used in english).
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Hm not sure, would need to think more about this -- definitely an interesting idea though!
Wow, sentiance is super creepy.
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Oh c'mon, give me your best early curl stories!

/ (curl author)
What do you think all the tens of thousands of free android apps in play store are doing, if not deliberately harvesting data for any means of profit?
They should include sublime text, writing at many places at the same time sounds weird yet it is so useful.
From the theinnovationenterprise.com article you linked to:

> It is essentially an interface that sits on top of existing data sets and displays data to users for analysis, helping to identify connections otherwise impossible to find. Users do not have to use SQL queries or employ engineers to write strings in order to search petabytes of data. Instead, natural language is used to query data and results are returned in real-time. It is not designed to do any single thing, its main strength is that it is flexible and powerful enough to accommodate the requirements of any organization that needs to process large amounts of both personal and abstract data. This makes it more useful for managing HUMINT, or intelligence from human sources, than SIGINT, or intelligence from signals.

The problem with Palantir is that everything it is said to be doing is so vague that it could just be colorful dashboards based on not particularly great or new data. For example, this is how the Bloomberg story you linked to describes it:

> Founded in 2004, Palantir is used by dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to aggregate far-flung data, find patterns and present results in colorful, easy-to-interpret graphics. Its use by police in Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans and elsewhere has raised ethical concerns about the potential for unfairly targeting minorities.

I'm not arguing whether Palantir is living up to its contracts. Just that it doesn't seem to produce or have the unique and expansive kind of data that Facebook, Google, and Amazon have. Though I guess there's nothing that prevented them from doing a massive data pull from FB's API, in the same way CA managed to do it.

FWIW, not everything about Palantir is necessarily a secret. You can see some descriptions of what they offer and at what price via various FOIA requests that have been done: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?q=palantir&status=done&us...
I agree with you - but that's literally the stage we're at. What we have right now is like "advanced" cruise control - the person behind the wheel is still legally defined as the driver and bears responsibility for what happens. The law "allows" these systems on the road, but there is no framework out there which would shift the responsibility to anyone else but the person behind the wheel.

>> It's physically impossible for a human to intervene on the timescales involved in motor accidents.

That remains true even without any automatic driving tech - you are responsible even for accidents which happen too quickly for anyone to intervene. Obviously if you have some evidence(dashcam) showing that you couldn't avoid the accident you should be found not guilty, but the person going to court will be you - not the maker of your car's cruise control/radar system/whatever.
Assuming ABS means "Anti-Lock Braking System" in this context, isn't that already standard? I can't think of a (recent) car with an ANCAP rating of 5 that doesn't have ABS. I'm not sure I would even classify ABS as automation in the same way that something like lane departure is automation. ABS has been around (in some form) since the 1950s, and works by just adjusting braking based on the relative turning rates of each wheel. Compared to lane departure, ABS is more like a tire pressure sensor.
OK, name a prominent politician even 10% as unhinged from reality and fact as Donald Trump.
How does AfterPay (Australia) deal with people who default their payment?
1. How does AfterPay deal with people who default their payment ?
2. How does AfterPay deal with identity theft ?

One scenario would be:
John walks into a store and decided to buy stuff which cost $500 and chooses AfterPay as it's payment option. John signs up with the service using his own Debit Card and Alice's identity (name, address and etc). John got charged with the initial payment and that is okay. Now, John withdraws all the funds from his debit card account and AfterPay could not find him and charge his account. All AfterPay could do is just closing his account.

How does AfterPay deal with people like John ?
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It's a collective moment of "yeah but we didn't think they would ACTUALLY DO those things they asserted their right to do in the TOS."

As you've said, everything has been "above board" (in the sense of it being advised in the TOS) apart from maybe the fact that apps get access to friends' profiles. Everyone's just outraged that someone put some real effort into using the tools that Facebook provided as they were clearly intended to be used.

(Also maybe it's due to the success of the campaigns by Facebook, Google etc. to redefine 'privacy' as 'no-one but us gets your data'. People were fine with Facebook having the data, but despite being told it would happen, are really not fine with other companies getting access to significant chunks of that data.)
How would you know this?

Given that Trump won on the slimmest of margins, if CA’s work resulted in a net increase in Trump’s margin, the “ROI” is huge.
You might be interested in phonetic algorithms for similarly sounding words:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Identification_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

Your specific example would be relevant to word-stemming and lemmatization. Stemming is the process of removing suffixes from words for standardization (e.g. swim, swims, swimming, swimmer could all be stemmed to just "swim") across inflections/conjugations. Lemmatization is similar but uses contexts. Actually, some stemmers wouldn't stem cargo to carg by default, but they definitely could be modified to exhibit that kind of behavior, or used as one step in a multistep standardization process

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmatisation

Levenshtein distance is a good metric for individual comparisons but if you're doing a lot of pairwise comparisons/want to index it's not a great option sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

You definitely want to also look into tries/prefix trees. These take each character in the word and use it for an O(1) index for the next level of the tree. For example, "brea" queries the top node "b", pointing the next node "r", then "e", then "a". If you next read "d", the trie would indicate that this represents a completed word-fragment at the b->r->e->a->d node of the trie. If you combine this data structure with a statistical model, you can use it for things like spell-checking and autocompletion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie

(I've edited this comment twice now to make it more clear, hopefully this is sufficient). Let me know if you'd like me to point you to any other resources. I've worked with NLP a decent amount and could even work with you guys, if interested my email is in my profile and we can arrange further conversations
This job exists today and it is called CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) or other variants :D
Thanks for this interesting source!
I've been currently looking for beautiful and non-common web fonts for my design project. Initially I was tend to use free fonts but then discovered some premium fonts on https://www.templatemonster.com/fonts.php . Gonna use a bundle from there.
I think it's time to finally close the FB account, move on to Firefox and disable 3rd party trackers and start using VPN routinely.
It's worth looking through Zenyep Tufekci's other op-eds [1] and her fantastic book "Twitter and Teargass" [2]. A lot of her analysis borders on prescient. She's someone to pay attention to.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/column/zeynep-tufekci

[2] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215120/twitter-and-te...
I think that term encompasses a wide range of designs.

The article seems to be describing a particular style of event-driven architecture, used to organize code within a single process.
So you had literally never seen a car or crossed a road before?
Thanks for this interesting source!
I've been currently looking for beautiful and non-common web fonts for my design project. Initially I was tend to use free fonts but then discovered some premium fonts on https://www.templatemonster.com/fonts.php . Gonna use a bundle from there....
Thanks for being willing to discuss it. And sorry if I'm complicating your task.

But any interesting release of NLP data has the potential to affect the way the field progresses, so take it as a compliment that I consider this an interesting release of NLP data. That's why I'm asking you to actively consider the downstream effects of word vectors and find out if you can make them better.
wow+1. Truly creepy.

But this is possible because we let them use this data. Thankfully, in EU the GDRP makes this almost impossible.

On a side note, working on a platform that is similar to sentiance in data aquisition, but for totally other purpose and zero effect on privacy, due to a transparent anonymization.
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This. A thousand times.

People lack very basic critical thinking skills.
Thanks for this interesting source..
I've been currently looking for beautiful and non-common web fonts for my design project. Initially I was tend to use free fonts but then discovered some premium fonts on https://www.templatemonster.com/fonts.php . Gonna use a bundle from there.
And the few Web companies from China that took off globally all seem to specialize in selling physical goods originating from China.
My car has a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission). With cruise control enabled, going downhill, it will actually change the effective gear ratio and "downshift" automatically.

(Once or twice when going downhill without cruise control, just using the brake pedal, it "downshifted" automatically while I had the brake pedal pressed.

CVTs are computer controled and better than manual/standard for gas mileage, but with the downaide that you can't tow heavy loads.)
But careful with the VPNs.

They are leaking and selling data too. Can't find the article at this moment, but there was on HN not long ago.
The report also says that these hypothetical new methods may not be able to prove safety. It’s not a straightforward problem. How do you prove that you’ve reduced (or at least not increased) a problem that occurrs so infrequently?

Realistically no one will trust “new methods” and establishing their relevance is really difficult. I would imagine that most of these companies are running lots of simulations, because why wouldn’t you? But how many people will see that and trust it more than data gathered on the road?
Do you think anything will really change over here? I don't really believe it.
Thanks for this interesting source:)
I've been currently looking for beautiful and non-common web fonts for my design project. Initially I was tend to use free fonts but then discovered some premium fonts on https://www.templatemonster.com/fonts.php . Gonna use a bundle from there.
As others said, the problem appears to be with the font. A child comment of one of your sibling comments linked to a side-by-side comparison of how your site looks (left) vs. reader mode (which I forgot about when trying to read the article): https://photos.app.goo.gl/ntvIcKSDTOfdkwAi1
lively.next looks exactly like something I’ve been thinking about. How come though that the demo video shows it in use on Linux but the desktop application is macOS only?
Towards the end of the article, it suggests dissipationless power lines as an application.

Whether "dissipationless" is equivalent to "superconducting" I'm not sure; but it sounds the same to me ;)
Interestingly, according to the NYT Cruz campaign staffers did not think it worked:

"But Cambridge’s psychographic models proved unreliable in the Cruz presidential campaign, according to Rick Tyler, a former Cruz aide, and another consultant involved in the campaign. In one early test, more than half the Oklahoma voters whom Cambridge had identified as Cruz supporters actually favored other candidates. The campaign stopped using Cambridge’s data entirely after the South Carolina primary.

“When they were hired, from the outset it didn’t strike me that they had a wide breadth of experience in the American political landscape,” Mr. Tyler said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
“Is reasonable”? It’s an algorithm in place for when demand outstrips supply.
That sounds like something out of Hustle a TV show the BBC produced about a group of contract artists.
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