skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not shock by the facts that they are collecting data. The fact they are designing a psychological procedure to feed their narrative and agenda to you in an unconscious way, shaping and changing your world view, with that message only tailored to you, is very creepy to me. This doesn't sound like advertising to me, this is manipulation and brainwashing.
> Isn’t harvesting data prohibited by Facebook TOS?

This should be the main takeaway from this article--that Facebook relies on the honor system for protecting user data.

Breaking a company's TOS isn't a crime in and of itself, and social media data has been used for political targeting for years now. Insinuating that Trump won because of a nefarious brain control operation fueled by data from a "data breach" is irresponsible.
They're also really high latency, unless ridiculous-amounts-of-ram server technology has gotten better in the past few years.

Here's one I found that supports up to 48 TB:

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/servers/integrity-...

They don't include a price, so I'd assume it's in the low millions or high six figures.
I do agree that we all can choose what to share on HN. Usernames can be as arbitrary as you like, and not linked in any way to meatspace identity. HN allows registration and posting via VPN services. And maybe even via Tor.

However, it does appear that GDPR will require that HN delete a user's posts upon request. It might even require that HN delete posts that mention other people, including nonusers.

Edit: Yes, also via Tor. It did ask for an email address, for password resets.
Do an Amazon search for "add success stories", there's a couple of books on this topic.
Why did they file an IPO? Revenue growth is unimpressive, they don’t make any money and their product is terrible according to those who have to implement it.
While extremely guilty of this, I see it as a cache of good knowledge in different areas - I can generally remember what I’ve saved - their general titles and genres. If I need to dive deeper into something, I already have good starting points saved.
There is a lot of good content I come across on FT. I never post it because I figure it won’t be able to amass enough traction as there’s a paywall.

I’ve been happy paying for FT (it’s not cheap!) but I like the idea that more than half of FT’s revenue comes from subscribership than advertising (heard this on I believe an AlphaChat podcast).

So it’s interesting seeing my two primary news channels intersect (FT / HN), and I wonder what other news sources people read that aren’t accelerant-enabled (i.e. they’re paywalled).
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On the other hand, if you save something to read later, this is a way to avoid reading it now. Might this be better than getting too distracted? Maybe you won't need to read it at all?

Also, it's a way of collecting things you could read; a wishlist, if you like. Having a wishlist is fine for things you don't need to do.

A couple of things I do:

- I don't buy books on Kindle. I just send a sample to my tablet. If I finish the sample, maybe I'll buy it. Otherwise, I avoided paying for it.

- Similarly, for any purchase on Amazon that's not urgent, I just add it to the shopping cart. If I decide I don't want it later, I avoided buying it.
Praise? :/

Just diagnosed as an adult partially due to parents not "believing in it," refused testing then and I was blind to it until now. Currently friendless, jobless, broke, homeless and a bazillion unfinished projects not exactly the picture of praiseworthy. ADHD is a misnomer, it's an executive function disorder, but the name will never change because it's embedded in disability laws. Medicating for emotional regulation, continuity of thought, completing tasks and not coming-off as weird are lifesaving... don't avoid medication out of some antivaxx nonsense.

Worth watching:

- ADHD Child vs. Non-ADHD Child Interview https://youtu.be/-IO6zqIm88s

- How To Know If You Have ADHD
https://youtu.be/5GBMS7WPFSs

- This is how you treat ADHD based off science, Dr Russell Barkley part of 2012 Burnett Lecture
https://youtu.be/_tpB-B8BXk0

- Dr Russell Barkley on ADHD Meds and how they all work differently from each other https://youtu.be/LnS0PfNyj4U

- The Neuroanatomy of ADHD and thus how to treat ADHD - CADDAC - Dr Russel Barkley part 1c https://youtu.be/wccW-KB2OsI
I wouldn't be surprised if this was directly funded by TEPCO or some other "thinktank" that fears new contracts might be cancelled.

If there's one thing the Japanese would do different in hindsight, it would not be ignoring a massive explosion of a reactor containment building.

It would be never building that power plant.

The disaster, even ignoring the deaths and long-term effects on the population, will cost over $100 Billion to the Japanese. That's some pretty fucking expensive electricity they got. And the source is still FT, I guess before they got bought.

https://www.ft.com/content/97c88560-e05b-11e5-8d9b-e88a2a889...
I don't think it is a weighted average. I believe you have to divide at some point for averaging to be going on. Convolutions just add up the neighborhood based on the kernel, and output their sum.
Direct primary care, no-insurance healthcare
Here are some answers, If by companies you mean industries. That is, a type of company that only exist if blockchain exists.

Because cryptocurrency exists because of blockchain, then bitcoin Mining and Ether mining companies exist due to blockchain.

ICO marketing and engineering.
Or it was due to collusion in a niche controlled by a duopoly (WD and Seagate).
Google's Open Source AI Lets Anyone Hunt for Alien Planets at Home
Well, Mirimir can just request that his posts be deleted.

However, I do see an issue: quotes by other users. That's one of the leaks that took down DPR. He deleted his old posts about Silk Road. But another user had quoted part of a post, which didn't get deleted.
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Most local drag strips I have been to aren't much better. If you are going to watch cars go over 100 mph, there's always a risk.
1 in 3 Michigan workers tested opened fake 'phishing' email
Yes, my point was that the proximity to VCs should not be relevant, and if it’s that important to be in the Bay Area, for the number of times you would actually need to meet with VCs, you could set up in places like Tracy. I’m sure many workers would like to live in more affordable and less dense areas.

The other point is exactly what you said. Set up anywhere in the country and fly in to meet VCs. You’d still come out ahead.
Until about the mid-90s of last century the Medieval Warm Period was for climate researchers an undisputed fact. The IPCC itself reported this as such in their 1990 report and included this graph.

https://i1.wp.com/www.science-skeptical.de/wp-content/upload...

Here is another chart published by IPCC in 1995 it shows both the Medieval warm period and the 1930s as being hotter than it is now.

https://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/screenhunt...

Since then there has been an effort to erase this data from the record because it contradicts current climate change narrative. None of what Im saying is a theory. These are facts and there are loads of leaked emails and testimony under oath that says as much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1rj00BoItw

Up your research game my friend.
Every time any new regulation comes out, doesn't matter what law it is, Small Business™ trots out the same sob story: "Woe is us, we are too small to follow this new burdensome law!" I get it--it's going to be costly. This cost is one of many that founders will need to consider when they decide between go and no-go. If founders can't afford to follow (and prove they follow) the law, I think they should re-think their start-up idea. The ADA has done enormous good, in part, because of that industry of lawyers keeping a close watch for opportunities to sue. Same is probably true for HIPPA. Same will, hopefully, be true for GDPR.
You can be a center-right neoliberal, a center-left neoliberal, or something in between. The sub leans center-left, while traditionally neoliberals have been more center-right.
Maybe it's time to move beyond the "optimize for stat X" phase of business and society and start thinking about bigger problems.

I mean I get that the MBA programs and stats professors will be upset, but I think we're due.
> they just have a really bad day

And those who end up in hospital, in the US, possibly without insurance? I guess that, and the ensuing bills is "just" an _extremely_ bad day then?
Cool! How did you get it working on Safari iOS?
It's fascinating to me how behind-the-times some areas of the world are. Not surprising, given I know family members who would have clicked on a similar email, but it's bizarre that it's still a thing within itself.
[video] the Wide World of Actors Or, Can I Have an Erlang Pony?
Yes, this backpack is expensive but just perfect for nomads. Worth its price. I have 3 sets of headphones / earphones because I'm a music producer and I need several devices for mastering. The sunglasses are expensive because they are high quality and have polarized glasses. I would typically buy cheap ones, made an exception on that one.
Why is ADHD more common in boys than girls?
WTH?

ADHD is a neurogenetic disorder of executive function, it's not contagious, not acquired, not caused by video games, screens or the age at which schooling starts.
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>an improvement in human welfare

Was this generally the outcome of the Roman Empire's collapse? Intuitively, I would expect breakdowns in law and order and the collapse of complex supply chain systems (particularly food delivery) to result in mass human suffering, at least in the short term.
Shortest path search on time-dependent graphs
Reading through the "nightmare" letter, I was looking for something I'd consider unreasonable for a user to be concerned with or ask about, and couldn't find anything. Honestly, this seems like a pretty low bar. If you can't answer these questions about your business, I'd be loathe to continue doing business with you. I'd surely be reluctant to let you collect my personal information.
“Why is any of this news?”

Primarily because Obama could do no wrong! wink

And this time is Trump, who obviously did not win the election! double wink
I can think of a few off the top of my head.

Bouncycastle (a crypto library) is hosted in Australia because I think the US crypt laws want to ban the export (download) of military grade munitions.

Great Gatsby (the novel) is free to download if hosted in Australia. In the US, the copyright laws forbid the download of Great Gatsby mainly because of Disney. Ever wonder why Mickey Mouse isn't in public domain?

Also, if your product that you can source cheaper over in the US is only popular in England, you would of course go to England's Amazon and eBay sites to sell it. For instance, umbrellas won't sell as well in Arizona as they would in England.
Books, as traditionally written, are too big for the amount of information which they typically contain. We need knowledge representation which is capable of coherently and consistently storing information in a more direct, relational format.
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Harvesting Facebook Profiles (The Guardian)
Part of the Great Barrier Reef exposed to more CO₂; results are grim
Thanks for the recommendation. Also "Historia Civilis" [1] is a great YouTube channel on ancient Rome, with a particular focus on its military campaigns.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_vLHiWVBh_FR9vbeuiY-A
The answer is going to be automation. You don't hire a person to physically handle each of those 1000 requests, just like you don't have someone typing in each employee's pay stub and calculating their tax withholdings.
Work is not your family
> 3. Please provide a list of all third parties with whom you have (or may have) shared my personal data.

I wonder whether this includes police and TLAs.
I prefer the data representation comes first, especially in a language like C++.

Maybe you can represent 1000 squares with 1000 integers. If you need polymorphism on top of that, there are plenty of approaches without rearranging or copying the data to make it fit a type taxonomy.
Turkey is the largest prison for journalists they recently started a genocide on Kurdish population in Syria in city of afrin and they are hugely cracking down on anyone who is criticisizing their war on kurdish civilians. Unfortunately they have extended their censorship outside turkey and even in United States to get Kurdish accounts banned for criticizing erdogan's government
Yahoo finance improved IMO.

I can’t use google finance, some stocks I’m interested in have a share price is < 1 cent, but google finance charts have a minimum increment of 1 cent.
That's simpler than I thought. Thank you for the wonderful diagram!
Maybe it would help to think of the turing machine as analogous. Many programming languages are Turing complete, you can express any computation in any of them, but some languages are more expressive than others and let you reach and work with ideas you wouldn't conceive in a less expressive language.

Lots of things in math are similar. Simon Altmann's Icons and Symmetries makes a case that using representations with insufficient symmetry impeded our learning of the laws of magnetism.
Yeah.

It’s kinda sad how the nuclear industry has captured the Silicon Valley environment movement too.

At the height of the peak oil panic it kind of made sense, in a “contrarian thinking” way. Oil was getting more expensive, renewables weren’t price competitive and what other option was there?

But that was 10 years ago, and things change.

Fracking got us past that first peak oil problem, and cheap solar/wind/batteries has killed any chance the nuclear power industry had of ever growing again. But still they keep trying...

My counter argument these days is easy. Solar+batteries is down to ~6c/kWh with zero subsidies, and can be built in ~6 months. Beat that, nuclear power.

Now if they get fusion working, I’ll be very excited.
I skipped to the table at the end. The gains don't seem enormous. Is there a kind of problem where we would expect quaternions to perform dramatically better than other kinds of numbers?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

Are you sure it wasnt something like this?
Hope Hicks approved his access, and Steve Bannon confirmed much of what he wrote.
I'm just a random privacy-centric geek, and I'm getting spam about GDPR compliance.
Isn’t “overseas digital goods and services tax” for overseas companies only ?
Serious question here. On the island I live, we have a tax roughly translatable as « Sea tax » which is added even on locally produced good (sounds stupid? It is...)
Well maybe, but then the part that should be criticised is not the evacuation itself but the recovery efforts.

Indeed it looks like the recovery is not going as well as it could. However it's a bit weird to phrase it as if they are at fault for even evacuating in the first place.
You might be right, but most of those reasons don’t actually matter. To be frank, the only things I miss when not using Google maps is their highlighting of high activity areas.

Both maps have similarly good cartography where it matters. In most countries, both maps are similarly accurate.
Here's the switch statement, if you're looking for it: https://github.com/jakogut/tinyvm/blob/master/include/tvm/tv...
Correct see i.e. https://book.varnish-software.com/4.0/chapters/Tuning.html#t... - a worker thread is used per request rather than industry standard polling loops for this kind of application. That doesn't mean you are setting up and tearing down a thread each time in varnish. Most modern data movers are based on something like epoll/kqueue/IOCP. A polling loop is more efficient because the kernel notifies a worker of only the lo/hi wat socket buffers and you only fill exactly when you need to in a tight loop. Using polling doesn't mean you give up multiple process or multiple thread workers, see nginx I/O model for a nice one [1]. With sendfile(2) and splice(2) you are only wiring up the activity to be done in your event loop, the data doesn't need to copyin/copyout from the kernel and back.

[1] https://www.nginx.com/blog/socket-sharding-nginx-release-1-9...
Facebook bans political data company Cambridge Analytica -
Stack Overflow Culture
Anybody knows whether Google's or MapMyIndia's is better? http://www.mapmyindia.com/eloc/
I would consider my personal life and career a success both because of my ADHD and in spite of my ADHD. Notebooks, lists, and routines are a constant struggle, but are how I cope.

My current and most effective solution to date is an Android Wear 2.0 watchface that does the following things.

1. Has a list of granular routines I can select. "Work - Start", "Work - Priority", "Home - End", "Let's get started" are all examples of such.

2. I can "load" a list such that I can iterate through tasks one by one _linearly_ and I don't tap my wrist to denote "done" until the task is done.

3. While a list is loaded, my wrist vibrates every thirty seconds to keep me on task.

4. I can "Clear" a list at any time to stop my wrist from buzzing and to return to a "select a routine / priority list" mode, it also stops when I complete a list.

This keeps me on task, reminds me that I've decided to work towards a singular goal, and keeps my current "cursor" at a glance. A part of me wishes I didn't have to live this way, but it's a coping mechanism that keeps me more effective than I've ever been and I will likely use it and improve upon it for the rest of my days.

So, ama if you're curious about any other details. I am interested to know if a system like this would work for others. Right now it's literally an APK I load onto my watch that hits an API running on kubernetes. Simple, but effective.
>> Pay attention to ssh lag, even if it seems minor

I noticed this one time while investigating a machine that was have varied upload speeds - the only one in the server room.

Ended up being the port on the switch was set on autonegotiate, and there was some issue with the firmware version on some of our NICs.
Ask HN: Doing a master in CS with engineering background?
I hope to get some advice regarding my career choice.

I got a Batchelor in engineering(robotics) and I am currently half way though my master of Computer Science.

I am considering dropping out and looking at jobs. Main reason is because this feels like a job, except I am not getting paid. I work about 10 hrs a day right now, given classes, lab work and TA.
I’be had a year long internship so I did get to see what a more corporate environment is like, and there is little difference in my experience.

In terms of opportunities down the road, will finishing the masters (1 year left) be worth it compared to working for this one year?

I intend to work at startups and smaller for the next 5 years at least, and move into a more entrepreneurial direction.

I live in Canada, and doing undergrad and grad at top 5 uni in the country (did not change schools). I’ve also worked in this lab in undergrad so I have 2 years of research experience now, but no publications.

Any advice would be great. Cheers
http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=true&sort=p

https://angel.co/jobs (startup focused — when searching, hit the “Remote OK” checkbox under “Job Type”)

https://www.flexjobs.com/

https://remoteworkhub.com/remote-jobs/

https://weworkremotely.com

https://remoteok.io

http://www.workingnomads.co/jobs

https://jobspresso.co/#s=1

https://jobs.github.com/positions?description=remote&locatio...

https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs (not typically remote, but can occasionally find a few)

(https://www.3riverdev.com/how-to-find-a-remote-job)
Loloophole
Ha, reminds me of a juice booth/startup the other day at the tech fair named "Suja," which means dirty or obscene in Portuguese!
I had to reach the bottom of the page to find the only 2 commentors that understand that ADHD is an umbrella diagnosis and medication is often a crime. And of course both are downvoted to hell and about to be flagged and deleted.

Who the fuck would medicate a 5 or 10 year old child for being "too active"? This is like the 50s shock therapy for unruly teenagers, but done with chemistry instead. Less blood and morbidity, more mental castration. Many people who take up Ritalin and Adderal, especially from a young age, have issues with mental development and end up addicts for life. If/when they finally take off their meds, they find themselves 10x worse because of the long-term withdrawal.

This thread is filled with reddit-tier pseudoscience about ADHD being some kind of evolutionary trait relating to hunter gatherer communities. What a load of bullshit, I don't know if I should be laughing or not. It's worrisome that even serious people and many psychologists believe that shit.
Grad student here. I have thought about this a lot. I think governmental funding sources have problems similar to those from companies. They may not be as explicitly biased, but agendas will exist. There's also the problem that the people approving the funding don't necessarily make good choices. I might prefer an explicit lottery to the current system.

My plan right now is to save money, retire early, and then doing whatever research I want that fits my budget. This avoids many of the problems with the current system, but is not possible for many.

This would allow me to pursue more risky research (in the sense that the research may fail to produce useful results) than an assistant professor trying to get tenure could. I also wouldn't have to raise funds, so I could focus on projects I believe are important, not just what can get funded.

In the book "Invention" by Norbert Weiner, as I recall, he suggests that the government could fund independent researchers to encourage better research. I don't think that will happen, so I have a DIY solution instead.
yeah...they are non-profit right? :)) Let's take Amazon for example, or Google or Facebook...how much do they invest in R&D? Last time I've checked they reported billions in profit every quarter.
>You could download the manual from the internet, instead of buying cheap junk and the demanding people fix your stuff for free.

1. I did not know it came with a manual. You don't expect everything to have one. Does your non-electric toothbrush have one? Just today I bought a tool from Home Depot. No manual. The table lamp I have on my table right now? No manual.

2. I didn't demand anything. If the guy said "Sorry, this is too much of a headache to fix", I'd be fine.

3. It was not "cheap junk". It was in very good condition when I bought it, and fairly pricey brand new. In the shape it was in when I bought it, it was better than buying a cheap one brand new.

4. Buying used stuff from Goodwill is a bad idea? The whole point behind these repair cafes is that one does not waste. Buying used stuff from Goodwill is very much in the spirit of what these people are doing. If someone had said that to me in a repair cafe for this item, I would have said "You're right. Crazy idea I had to try to repair things instead of just buying another one."

5. If he had merely informed me that it had gone bad due to poor maintenance, and suggested I Google how to take care of it, I would have really appreciated it. There's a world of a difference between "I think you should learn how to take care of this tool" and "You are an irresponsible owner who refuses to read the manual. Let me guess, you threw it away as soon as you bought it, right?"

6. I know it's shocking to hear, but yes, I expect that people will not charge me when they advertise their services as being free.

It's amazing how much you can assume based on a small comment. I strongly suggest you not volunteer at such a place - these types of repair people are a disservice to the spirit of these cafes.
Advertisers in the EU markets could see a surcharge on their bill of 3% for the tax.
Jinx Debugger (aka Heisenbug Finding Debugger)