skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I just opened your site and it has nearly the exact same list of articles/headlines/sources that my Google News page has. I wonder what is different about my settings and the settings of those who feel their news feed is highly edited.

Generally for news I prefer Blendle, and no I don't mind paying per story although I think some papers are pretty extreme in what they think their journalism is worth.
That doesn't change the fact that posted speed limits are almost always slower than is reasonable. 38 mph is a reasonable speed on all but the windiest of roads.
Yes and no. It's generalizing sure, but it's doing so based on my own experience. I have no doubt that there are some Canadian organizations that have adopted this strategy, I just haven't seen it nearly as bad myself.

Take my original post with a grain of unproductive salt.
He was thinking about both! The track is 2 parts, the first is Mount St. Michel, second is St. Michael's Mount. I believe it was written in France, as he wrote the following on his site a few moths ago: "Been asked quite a few times about the bell at the beginning of Mt Saint Michel. Yes it is from the bell in the smaller chapel on the island, I was staying in a house very close to it with a lovely french girl, I sampled it while I was having my breakfast on a very lush sunny morning. Track was about half written by that point and fitted in just right at the beginning. Just recorded it with the internal mic on the laptop :)"
Strictly speaking, it's a big improvement because you're hearing about a phase 1 trial, and predictably so - not surprising at all.

Phase 1 trials typically get little publicity unless they either kill someone or turn in a statistically-significant improvement. (A phase 1 trial in which the controls do exactly as well as the experimentals and no side-effects are observed, which is highly likely for even excellent treatments because of the tiny sample size, will very rarely be written up because it's boring.) And because their sample sizes are always tiny, any statistically-significant improvement will always be an extremely large effect size. If the effect hadn't been improbably large, you would almost certainly not be reading about it now on HN.

And because of this selection bias, the effects you hear about tend to be massively overestimated. This is one of Andrew Gelman's points: the 'statistical significance filter' massively inflates effect sizes, a type M error, which then subsequently regress to the mean of the true smaller effect. This is why you're not supposed to take Phase I trials as meaningful estimates of the effect size, why statisticians emphasize they're supposed to be about safety, and why you don't do power analysis based on the observed results (either post hoc or for designing the next big ones). This is also part of why you hear about so many amazing pilot experiments in animals or humans but then the big followup trials are much more modest or nulls.
Are you sure that this is a national issue, rather than a problem with whatever company you're dealing with?
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Meetings, meetings, more meetings and meetings about meetings, meetings about making meetings productive, etc. We need fewer of them and the ones we do have should have a point (i.e. decisive)

They shouldn't by default be thinking out loud brainstorming sessions to be investigated and possibly executed later some day after it's trickled through proper approval requiring additional meetings.
It seems to work fine with my Fedora 27 system (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0) using a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 running proprietary linux drivers (v390.25).
I use the web client and it works fibe. I suspect the desktop clients are Electron based.
Not yet, but we would welcome contributions as an open source project!
Aha, yes, OK, I agree. Good example.
Actually, it is being reported that it wasn’t Uber’s fault.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/20/uber-fault-pedestrian-fa...

Although, I think everyone would feel better if we found out the car took measures to avoid the accident.
Surely you've deleted your own FB account, and went on to convince your friends and family to follow suit, prior to suggesting that?
The licenses used by Oracle, Microsoft, and friends are there to protect the monetary interests of Oracle, Microsoft, and friends. So, when you are caught violating the license, they offer to make their license good, conditioned on you serving their monetary interest.

The licenses used by the FSF are there to protect the liberty of users. So, when you are caught violating the license, they offer to make their license good, conditioned on you restoring the users' liberty.
Certainly I am guilty of deliberately glossing over some of the most functional distinctions between cardboard and more sophisticated setups, but in my view, the lack of positional tracking is so limiting to what can be achieved in software that any VR/AR device without it is permanently relegated to "cool novelty" status and will never be able to pull off a mass-appeal that will create a blockbuster "must have" device.
You're welcome to edit it! if you take out the crust I will detach my complaint :)

Edit: detached.
>>It's also completely possible (and this is my belief) that he eventually drunk his own Kool-Aid and came to genuinely believe that Facebook really was about making the world a better place by connecting people.

Possible is one thing, but there's no chance anyone with a micron of common sense could believe in that marketing tag line.

Facebook was a better, "cleaner looking" social network in an era of MySpaces, that's all.

The user profiling and data collection is the essential part to building audience demographics for better targeting ads, which they needed to compete with Google's PPC domination.
Why should Zuckerberg unnecessarily antagonize one half of the voters by becoming a party's candidate? No, Zuckerberg's best bet would be to run as an independent. Both parties are in shambles anyway and would be more a liability than a help for someone like him.
The problem is that if those countries raise their taxes companies will just find other tax havens. I think that's why they are trying to find a solution that will work no matter where someone is technically headquartered
I don't understand why most of the comment here are negative. On the bright side, being able to train a model in any sort of cloud (doesn't matter if it is Azure, Google, AWS, or IBM) and then directly create CoreML models, and iterate from model feedback, is a pretty special and unique position. It's a hybrid edge + cloud approach to running A.I. for end applications, and I do see it to benefit developers who want to roll their own models and create new applications particularly to computer vision, photography, and videos.
Here's the raw data on productivity growth visualized in FRED:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPU4910063

The author missed the small peak in productivity around the recession but the main premise of the article stands - productivity growth has hit a wall in recent years.
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Signal deprecated their Chrome App client months ago. The desktop client they have right now is not a Chrome app.
An off the cuff anti-trump comment on hacker news. You are an incredibly courageous human being.
It would be simple for a bill to carve out exception for veterans. An example of this type of thing is that many laws against government employees forming a union exempt firefighters and police officers.
Employees aren't really incentivized to stay very long at positions, especially if you're looking for income growth. Most companies will cap you at 2-3% raises that basically incentivize you to switch positions for XX% salary increases
the real news is they forgot to optimize the images on that site!
Signal has an electron desktop client.
They are supposed to do that or they are cooperating? How does it work? The local binary uploads encryption keys? The server tells the client to disable e2e?

There are public reports[1] that they are refusing to comply with similar requests eg in the UK.

[1] who knows what goes on behind closed doors... https://news.sky.com/story/whatsapp-denies-government-access...
Agreed. What world are people living in when they present payment links on an insecure page in 2018? Um, no dude. I'm not going to click on your link now, nor will I ever. Byyye.
I changed my mind as well after reading through the source material itself. I am not defending the leak.

Once again, there is no evidence he is an “asset” or collaborator. Maybe there will be actual public evidence in the future, but at the moment it is not useful as an argument as nobody will believe it without hard evidence. Vague quotes from officials do not meet that standard.
Simple Guess: Laywer, LEO?
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The standard argument for why student loan debt survives bankruptcy is that otherwise students would declare bankruptcy on graduation. At least with our current system, where bankruptcy is wiped from your record after 7 (or 10) years this would be a good move for most students.
It's a shame /etc/hosts doesn't support wildcards

0.0.0.0 *.facebook.com
> Handwaving is all I can do, I am just the tech taking orders.

Even "the tech" can have some understanding of finite precision integers and floats, and how they behave, given they're building blocks of the trade. It seems somewhat relevant to knowing what changes are valid to code. http://floating-point-gui.de/ is a great place to start if you're interested in learning more. :)

> Edit: _All_ numbers in JS are floating point numbers, there are no integers... <hmmm>

Not having any native integers is unfortunate and annoying, but there are various tricks to ensure numbers are integers (e.g. floats exactly represent integers up to 2^53) plus various tricks to convince the JS engines that things are guaranteed to be integers for optimizations. These are clunky and ugly hacks, but they're possible and even more possible when using JS as a compilation target from a different language (e.g. asm.js in the extreme).

> I guess this is a well known issue

Indeed, it very much is. As you demonstrate, even R doesn't allow doing your example calculation natively, you need to import a library... something that can be done just fine in JS too: for arbitrary size integers https://github.com/Yaffle/BigInteger and for arbitrary precision floats https://github.com/charto/bigfloat (among many examples). It's true that these won't approach the performance of GMP due to lack of access to the specialized instructions it uses, but they offer the same basic functionality.

That said, I agree with the general sentiment that JS is suboptimal for scientific computing, but mostly because of performance (although R's performance falls off very quickly when using anything other than vector operations) rather than inaccurate concerns about precision.
My friends used to use Signal, but we were put off by needing real phone numbers, as well as some persistent errors in the app (communication-breaking ones).

Personally, I'm rather unhappy that Signal isn't federated, and they don't allow third-party apps to use their server.

Finally, the Signal app isn't compatible with my phone. Conversations (XMPP+OMEMO) and older versions of Riot.im (MAtrix) are available to me.
They should go to prison
To escape silly EU laws like this one, while still being a part of the continent and close to the market.
Is there some new fangled means for embryos to grow into babies that don't involve a human womb?
Amazon tops Google as second most valuable company in US
Re-replying with the same counter-question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15462992)

Who is 'they'?
You brought up a term you don't like, and then complained about it.

> If you want to get into the head of Russian paranoia towards the US and the anglosphere in general, look at the US for what its ruling elites have historically demonstrated itself to do, to dominate everything that exists by any means necessary which includes wiping out inconvenient peoples both culturally and literally.

That's quite a statement. The Americas are generally free, independent democracies, including U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico. The places conquered by the US in WWII soon became, free, prosperous and completely independent allies, Germany and Japan being the leading examples.

In fact, at the end of the war the US was the only nuclear armed power, had half the world's GDP (!) with a fully functioning economy while competitors were physically and economically devastated, and had a massive military spread around the globe. They could have chosen to become dictators to the world; instead they withdrew and helped form international institutions, such as the UN, World Bank, IMF, GATT/WTO, and others, to promote international peace and prosperity.

Yes, the US also did bad things, but the parent's statement is false and, of course, Russia does not compare.
Great question! I am just getting going with interviews. We'll see how things go with the offer. I've definitely had employers give a range and state "your experience puts you at the low end of this".

That's all I have for you, unfortunately.
Excellent point. Let's schedule a meeting to discuss this further.
Yes. Our system is based on the premise that people are "innocent until proven guilty" but in practice, people that have money can bail out of jail and people who don't, remain in jail. This is fundamentally unfair. While incarcerated, someone can loose their job, housing, and cause sever disruption to their family. Because of these pressures, people will often plead guilty to a crime just to get out of jail. And to your later point, we agree and we have spoken with potential clients who are also interested in increasing the number of people who are able to serve their sentences outside of physical jails.
It's dangerous to stereotype but from my experience US companies are much more prone to have meetings for every little thing than German ones. And then meetings to prepare for meetings. And meetings to process results from previous meetings. And hopefully sometimes you get time to work on something.
I doubt this program would be offered to those being charged with violent and serious crimes, cases where you're held without bail.
I think it makes sense to have multiple possible ways to compel someone to behave as you'd like. Money can be a way, but I agree that other ways could be as or more effective and accessible.
I highly recommend using uMatrix[1][2] if you're very privacy-conscious. It's the full-blown everything-at-your-fingertips console.

By default, it blocks third-party scripts/cookies/XHRs/frames (with an additional explicit blacklist). You then manually whitelist on a matrix which types of requests from which domains you want to allow. Your preferences are saved.

It is a bit annoying the first time you visit any new domain, because you need to go through a bootstrapping whitelist process to make it work. After a while I find I do it almost automatically though.

I use it in conjunction with uBlock Origin and Disconnect, and it still catches the vast majority of things. As a nice side-effect, I find I keep pretty up-to-date with new SAAS companies coming out!

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[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
The energy output of a jumbo jet is four orders of magnitude less then that of a rocket. A jet engine is equivalent to a controlled fire. A rocket is equivalent to a controlled nuclear explosion.

There's almost as much energy stored in a BFR as there is in the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This energy is released over 3 minutes.
"... that push has prompted complaints from American tech giants, which argue that they are being unfairly singled out by Brussels. European officials strongly deny those claims..."

After so many targeted requirements, restrictions, investigations, fines, and taxes no one's really buying that denial.

It's tariff by other name, which lends credence to Trump's rhetoric about how we haven't been treated fairly by our so called allies.

EU governance and enforcement lends itself to be hijacked by the bloc's most powerful members (france and germany, in this particular case the french) and use them as a cudgel against perceived business threats.
This might be my favorite paragraph in a news article ever:

"Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co. agreed in February to pay $40 million for Westminster Choir College, an affiliate of Rider University that trains students for careers as singers, conductors and music teachers. The announcement came just weeks after the government-controlled Chinese company changed its name from Jiangsu Zhongtai Bridge Steel Structure Co."

Bridge steel -> Music education. Now that's innovation!
Here's the problem with measures of productivity: they are uniformly terrible.

Productivity exists nicely in the minds of economic theoreticians but concrete measures if it so often seem unable to capture nuances of the modern economy. It's not that it's impossible to do, it's just hard to consider all the product offerings available to consumers. If we take some time to think out of the box, we see that productivity has definitely gone up over the past decade.

For instance, let's consider content-delivery-to-consumer productivity. Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc have all vastly increased the ratio (video content)/(cost to aquire) and (video content)/(time to aquire). Not only have consumers been spared the once necessary and time consuming trek to Blockbuster, $15 which would have once afforded you a few video rentals a month now gives you access to the entirety of Netflix's library of content. Amazing!

This is a textbook example of productivity, possible only because of technological advances, but it is not captured in traditional measures of productivity.

So we must disregard them.
You could sort of work around that by just blocking their IP ranges:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11164738
> The driver, Rafael Vasquez, 44, served time in prison for armed robbery and other charges in the early 2000s, according to Arizona prison and Maricopa County Superior Court records. Uber declined to comment on Vasquez’s criminal record.

I didn't realize that people with criminal records like this could become Uber drivers. That is, these types of crimes are relevant to working as an Uber driver—more than things like tax fraud or failure to pay child support.
Or, at least he claims to have that appreciation to get the sale done.
>What do you mean by leverage?

Use our freedom to implement a fair trading system. We are free to buy and sell here, but not in China. China takes advantage of us because of this, and up till now, we have had no recourse accept "trade wars".

Instead of a trade war with tariffs and accusations and bickering, why not remove all possible complaints and treat others as they want to be treated?

Use Chinese rules for the Chinese. Completely and utterly balanced trade. If they don't like it, they can change their rules to be more free, and they get more freedom to buy here.

How would the Chinese government complain to the international community about the US applying their own rules to land ownership? How could anyone complain? It would be the height of hypocrisy, so they wouldn't.

So why not use our freedom as the ultimate bargaining tool to create a balance in the world? Other countries could do the same to us, and we couldn't complain either. It seems there has to be a game theory equation to explain this, it can't be the first time it's been considered.
>I've addressed it. People who cannot afford to pay bail (or for a bail bond) will be able to work and be with their families rather than stay in jail. Do you disagree that this is "making things better?"

It's not evidence. You're answer defines a success criteria, but does not give evidence. I agree that if fewer people stay in jail that would be a success. What proof does Promise have that they will achieve that?

>Are you over-thinking this? We will know this is happening when people show up for work and then go home to their families at the end of the day.

And how am I supposed to know that is happening? Is Promise going to publish numbers? What is their control group?
No it doesn't stand, and your link doesn't back up the article.

Your chart shows an increase every single year. Not one data point on that chart shows a decline.
"...other member states like Ireland have opposed changes to a system in which they can use tax policy to attract businesses."

They don't like it.
Wow, that's pretty cool. One of the things I worked on a couple companies back was this: https://www.centervue.com/products/compass/ which is a system used to measure how much people are losing their vision from things like macular degeneration.
How are you going to address the concern of people that will see this as a way for the government to exploit labor, and put activists and people that disagree with them into a forced-labor program? Wouldn't you essentially be offering an incentive for exploitation?
LOL, and who owns WhatsApp /facepalm

I don't like the "always on" part of WhatsApp and the like. I like FB because I can go on when I fell like. Who are you to tell me what I should use?
> That tends to be a good idea when you've got a billion users.

Telegram has a lot of users as well. It's a design choice for sure, but I disagree with it and it doesn't work for me personally. Their lack of support for anything but phones is my primary concern though - I could maybe stomach the requirement for my primary device to be online, but simply not making at least an iPad and preferably a macOS app is a no go for me.

> Including "secret chats"?

No, Telegram secret chats are device to device and can't be backed up or transferred. This is also why I rarely used them.
Right. That would have the correct feedback to properly represent what a poor investment investing in students actually is (not a good investment). This would cause interest rates for student loans to be much higher and there would be more rigor in who is allowed a loan.
I assumed it was mostly culture within my company and industry, but then an article was posted about how there is a major loss in productivity across the nation so I thought I'd share a small example that I have witnessed and see if others notice the same.

edit: for what it's worth, I use to be Canadian focused in my role, and this was not an issue. Then I became more globally focused and it became instantly a problem, but consistently only in America. Not in Europe, not in Asia, Canada still mostly chill, but America wants to have a call to discuss.
CUDA only on the GPU? That doesn't sound good.
Among other possibilities, they might work in the criminal justice system. I guess it's possible they might have been incarcerated in all of those places, but that doesn't seem as likely to me :)
Funny. I have the opposite experience with US companies (extremely few meetings at US companies in my experience compared to Canada especially), but my experience with German software companies is all about meetings, meetings, meetings, bureaucracy, documents, meetings, very hard to get actual work done.

Maybe culture is a factor. But to me, it's almost as if everyone's experience is completely different from everyone else's and that companies operate differently. None of us have worked at enough companies in enough countries to accurately identify what is what.

It's all anecdotes and none of them matter. Some people are lazy and some people are not. Some people schedule too many meetings and some do not. That's all there is to it.
You are really into something. You want a system that will block access to a resource until some process/workflow requirements are satisfied.
You only need to open a few channels to reliably connect to the network - the network allows you to transact with those you don't have a direct channel with. And in actual usage you won't ever need to close them. Lightning solves transaction costs.