skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that what keybase.io is for? Associating a single ID and trust graph across multiple accounts, devices and keys?
Dropbox Paper is an absolute delight to use, and it shows that they definitely have greater ambitions in the entire productivity space.
The problem for me is that if other software developers decide to join together in a union then the government lets them negotiate on my behalf even though I do not consent.
This does not work!

The entire theory does not work!

This is a good example of how broken the NGO industry is!!!

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/106/2/667/455...

Here's a really interesting article

How a Tsunami in Japan Endangered Children in Cambodia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/health/tsunami-japan-camb...

It has a simple solution (Fix the salt machines) but it's not cool like these fish.

Iodine issue has a lot more to it. I could link more, but it's off topic.

But it's a simple solution that would save millions of $ and help thousands for the rest of their lives.

Q: Why are people paying to improve education in these regions when step one we need to stop permanent retardation of IQ's for cheap.

A: Like the fish it's not cool.
I love Rust when it's refactoring time, the compiler essentially spits out a checklist that you just need to work through. And once it's done complaining it feels pretty confidence inspiring.

But I'll agree that Rust is unpleasant for prototyping. What I find myself doing a lot when starting out a project is just figuring out if some snippet of code will work. There's no REPL to just run it in. Then I have to either set up a scaffolding project just to run it, or just shove it somewhere along the working path and move it to it's real spot later. Except sometimes that messes up the borrow, or the signature and I have to decide between temporarily altering my working code to accommodate this small test or writing mode code without testing to reach the next test point.

And after everything works with your scaffolds and shims, you have to rip it all out and put your snippet where you wanted it in the first place. And then fill in all the gaps that prevented you from testing that snippet where it is in the first; hopefully it works, otherwise you're backtracking and rebuilding scaffolds you just ripped out.

There are times I just want to write a function and not declare return type, and not have the compiler complain about non-exhaustive matching cause there's only one usage and it's output is going straight into a `println!("{:?}", thingy)` anyway.

I guess the C++ equivalent is: I know when the code reaches this point it'll segfault and blow up, but I don't care because if it made it that far that means the thing I'm prototyping ran and gave me some feedback that I could act on. Rust just forces you to write everything instead of just things up til the prototype point.
different people most likely is my guess
I looked at that as an option here (Toronto) to escape ridiculous rents and the price of a berth is absolutely astronomical. The boats themselves sell in excess of $700K, which while cheaper than a house, a house doesn't have $3000/mo. plus in berthing fees.
I’m under the impression that proof of work that verifies the authenticity of transactions on a blockchain cannot must depend on those specific transactions as its input. If there are other uses for the work that are unrelated to securing specific transactions, then the fact that you performed the work says nothing about the authenticity of those transactions.
WPEngine Is All Set to Increase the Hosting Price: All Details
What a bad language design... I thought they mostly copied javascript but not even that one works in javascript so who knows what they thought when designing the operators.
Anyone applying for an engineer position that lists MS Office as a skill won't be getting a call back.
I think this article could have used a few more Amazon affiliate links. I always enjoy a well-researched article with lots of irrelevant cross-references.
Hi, I just asked my question in the GAE slack channel. Please check what can I do.
I visited it with a ton of blocking/privacy plugins including NoScript, it was all broken site. I clicked Firefox's "reader" feature and read the article. It was a clear, effective read.
There's an interesting theory, which I can't recall the name of, that says that poor people understand the rich because they can empathize with them, but it takes too much energy for the rich to empathize with the poor because there are so many of them and their burden is overwhelming. So the rich don't understand the poor but the poor understand the rich, which explains why we have the laws we have.
For those saying something along the lines of "should we expect a massive reaction every time a few people get upset?" - just look at the UK and the Nazi pug story [1]. It seems as though a mass of outraged people on social media can have very real life consequences as there's no evidence for it stopping anytime soon.

Personally I think this is more towards a vigilante mob culture and in most cases it's counterproductive to throw people under the bus. The real failure here was Marriott failing to envision somebody one day accidentally pressing a button in "error" (at least to cause negative PR). They've set a dangerous standard for themselves that large negative PR should result in job losses.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/09/nazi-pug-man-arr...
The issue is that people not in the union are not free to pursue their own negotiations.
Images of Bike-Share Oversupply in China
OK so the debt load became unserviceable and the company went bankrupt. But why doesn't the administrator keep the stores running? The creditors would get an asset worth $200 million per year which is better than nothing
Facebook's Sandberg backs FOSTA
> If you have three reviewers, no one feels personally responsible for checking it line by line and thinking about the code in depth. Instead a cursory glance seems acceptable, because, after all, other people are looking at it.

There is no way I am looking at every single line, and even if I did it doesn't mean I understand the code.
Plenty of white collar businesses in the US use performance improvement plans. But that would be a ridiculous remedy in a business with thin margins like a restaurant - some businesses need the freedom to hire and fire quicker.
I feel like that's the wrong view. The union is negotiating with the company and saying, work with only union employees or the union leaves en masse. Why would you have the right to just override the unions deal with the company?
Plus a satellite doesn't have intrinsic value. If a moving truck lost all my stuff I didn't intrinsically value I'd just contact my insurance company and buy a new one. Obviously it takes time to build a satellite, but it's not like it was personal.
Ronald Reagan liked to describe the sequence of actions that government typically takes toward private business: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it."
I have coded Solidity a bit, and it's pretty obvious the language is not up for the task. I mean its 2018 and we have a brand new "business language" that can have overflows and stuff. It's like making all mistakes over again. Many problematic vulnerabilities and lost funds (e.g. parity freeze) is due to this language being not the right choice. If "code is law" we need a better language and not just tooling on top of a broken one.

I don't know, how about Cobol? I'm serious, that was designed as business language at least.
Agree a million percent.
just use messenger.com ?
Not kissing China's feet in this case could have cost Marriot many millions of dollars, so yes.

Welcome to the future of humanity, I guess we'll see if everyone is so casual about this type of thing when it's them who crossed the petulant monster child the West has created.
Why not use Nextcloud?
Clicking 'like' on tweets positive toward the brand is a common job for employees in social media teams. Making connections around the brand is the whole job of those employees. (Not saying whether or not he should have liked this particular tweet, or whether it was an accident or whatever—just that it's common and part of the job to like a tweet.)
It's also possible that Uber's self-driving cars are many times deadlier than regular cars, but the other players in the space are more responsible.
It's a way to filter out the really 'out there' people. Say your example of a disagreement with your manager. You may have all kinds of reasonable points. The next guy could come back with 'I slashed his tires' or 'I decided to call out for a week'.

Clearly, the second guy should be throwing up red flags. However, it can be hard to uncover that type of thing if you were to only ask technical questions.
"It won’t be glossy Java-heavy "Web 2.0" of course, it will be Tor, Mastadon, and encrypted communications."

The problem is that unless these alternatives are made brain-dead easy to use securely, they won't be used by the majority, or they'll be misused.

It's the same problem as with PGP, which is too complicated and too much of a pain for most people to use -- even for relatively computer savvy people to bother with.

Without many people using them, they won't be very effective or appealing alternatives.
> Plus this is not about China at all

Am I misunderstanding you? How can you say this story is not about China?
yup, redundancies can be used to dismiss employees. The caveat is that you can't rehire for that role for a certain period of time. This is simply to avoid the problem of companies claiming random employees are no longer needed.

It is not uncommon for smaller employers to fire a manager, and hire a new supervisor though. Same job - different title.

I'm unsure if it's been challenged at the FWC - I doubt it would stand.
Yes it's unevenly distributed, but we hackers have to believe our work is worth something to the greater good, even if it's work for the megacorps.

Nah, you're just enriching someone else while building chat apps less capable than what existed 20 years ago while telling yourself you're doing good. That same effort would probably have a bigger impact somewhere else. You can tell yourself that but it's a justification for cash. "Wealth" and "progress" aren't inherently good.

I know people who build stuff that people around the world use, they don't talk about how Einstein would've used their stuff or drop "enlightened" multiple times in posts. They shut their mouths and work. I know people who volunteer their time and money to make other people's lives better. None of them are billionaires.

This puffy stuff associating yourself with some kind of moral and technological revolution is the worst part of tech and is the justification for the same kinds of abuses we've seen at Facebook this past week. It'd be better if people would just say "yeah, we wanted to be rich, we made a great app". The overwrought language is the stuff of parody and is tone deaf.

Remember, this is a self-congratulatory post celebrating the founders becoming incredibly wealthy. This ethos of not only needing to be incredibly wealthy but also acting like you're great people because you are wealthy and needing other people to know that you're both wealthy and good is empty and vain and ultimately destructive because at the end of the day, there are lots of people who are just greedy. The cryptocurrency scams and Juicero people use the same language and are empowered by doing so. I've seen rooms of non-tech academics (whose work actually has changed the world) laugh about stuff like Juicero, the tech world often doesn't realize how they look to outsiders.

It's surprising and not surprising that VC money has become so central to the hacker ethic, but it's distressing we can't just talk like people and be realistic about what we're achieving and enabling.
First (and main) step to solve the inequality problem.
Also note: The number of miles per intervention isn't a metric of AI driving skill, but of how safe the company is being to other road users.
Yep, the rub is that this time of year we get people from all over bringing their "drive badly in very different ways" with them which makes for some interesting interactions on the roadways.

Summertime, not so bad -- nobody willingly comes to Phoenix when it's 117° except the conventioneers who don't have a lot of money to burn and get a discounted rate on hotels and the convention centers.
Moxie toes the line so that Signal's strengths always outweigh its faults for most people, which prevents an alternative from reaching a critical mass.

Signal is released under the GPL, meaning that if something did happen to shake user faith (data breach, data mining) a fork pointing at different servers could be instantly created with complete feature parity.

Every traditional barrier to user migration is removed. Features are the same. UX is the same. Compatibility is the same.

That's a precarious line to toe.

Also, Mastodon is built on open standards that have several competing and compatible implementations (GNUSocial and Pleorma are the main two), which are run by their own maintainers.

Yes, Mastodon is inter-operable with OStatus and ActivityPub. However I do not know of any significant user base that interacts with Mastodon through an alternative platform. Given the will, Mastodon could implement its own extensions to ActivityPub and break compatibility, with most users unaffected due to the strength behind the core development team.
You obviously don't know the British.
If it isn't some hipster trend, they should hit up some Seattle companies...

not to be crass, but in the past week I've had a few recruiters from there write me about interesting (and probably better paying compared to here) job opportunities that I've had to turn down because I'm 1) not very interested in moving to the US right now, and 2) somewhat rooted here in Toronto at the moment.

Unrelated to the last bit, but related to my experience: sounds like just hipster stuff to me. That, or maybe a quiet protest of sorts— or both. If they're happy, and functional, and it's not a problem to people, then I'm not sure it's worth much worry.

Just a little further north in Vancouver... now that's a homeless problem. (East Hastings area, for the unaware)
I'm already paying for it. Partly because I can't be bothered to clean up the clutter I keep on it, which would easily get me back down to free tier - but partly because I got so much value from using Dropbox that it's only fair to give back.
Hopefully these and other smart contract analysis tools can become a part of a CI/CD system for Ethereum. It seems like that would have prevented some of the massive losses due to simple programming errors.
Great idea and I am glad somebody actually tries to make an implementation.

But unfortunately this won't replace mining: the large scale mining farms have high end GPUs in their rigs, but the rest of the HW is very low end, because that works perfectly for mining and they want their ROI as low as possible.

I have a 6 GTX 1070 GPU rig, which would be decent GPUs for AI/ML, but the rest of the rig has a Celeron CPU, 4gb RAM,and a 5400 RPM HDD. Oh, and to be able to see all the GPUs, I had to downgrade all the PCIEx slots to 1x.

I am curious what kind of ML tasks would be able to fully utilize these GPUs, on such a low end hardware.
IATA hints at rising cost of Heathrow’s expansion – Aviation
OK, no problem, I am convinced because Europe has tons of successful startups.

That works great until the next time I am interviewed by French TV about why the EU doesn't have as many startups as Silicon Valley.
In California it probably adds up to 35% for an average person making $100k. Lots of variables like if you are married, have kids, own a house, etc. And health care benefits depends of the employer through the ACA is helping for the time being.
It's not meant for professional data analysis use. It's a gimmick for kids or for printing in a magazine article.
In my experience, simplifying a solution over time is the best way to ensure its adoption and long-term success. That applies both to UX/UI and the supporting computation/ML.
"If liking a tweet will infuriate the largest (by population) country in the world, maybe $14/hr support agents shouldn't be able to one-click like tweets.

Another question does occur - if it's such a big deal for them, why is/was Tibet listed as its own country in their system that prompted the liked tweet in the first place?"

> I really hope this doesn't become the moral of all this.

It's two very rare mistakes in a row. One listing Tibet, which actually got noticed. Another was the misclick, which also got noticed.

But it would be extremely costly if we suddenly had a confirmation dialog on low level employees liking tweets, or if every form drop-down needs to be approved by senior management.
Can confirm, I run a business. The biggest expense to my company are the employees. All the regulatory requirements and bullshit that comes along with it, not to mention the risk of an employee suing the company for whatever reason. There's a lot of risk hiring employees, that's why I try to minimize the number of employees I have to hire, whenever possible.
I suggest reading "Ross-Chernoff Glyphs
Or: How Do We Kill Bad Ideas in
Visualization?" (https://research.tableau.com/sites/default/files/altCHI-prep...), a paper on why Chernoff faces are bad by taking them to the extreme with Bob Ross.
The same Ronald Reagan who subsidized the crack cocaine and Latin America democracy industries?
> I'd put it akin to some fake news sites.

Could you provide any actual evidence of any "fake news" that they've broadcast? Or in 2018 is simply an association with another group proof enough?
Principal of management (Interview questions and answers)
Same here. But then I have 5 years of experience writing Rust. Wow, that feels like a totally ridiculous thing to write, but it's true.

These days I work at a startup where we are writing everything in Rust and then write C binding and Python binding to Rust code in order to connect to the outside world.
I buy all of that, but does that preclude us from ever seeing more women-only or majority-women companies out there that behave as a unit differently from the traditionally predominantly-male companies?
You seem to be attempting to change the subject.

I said: "Extradition for? Doing something that is legal in my country while in my country?"

You said: "Yes, that is possible."

Please provide some precedent for your assertion.

To extradite someone, you must first arrest them. In the United States, to arrest someone, you must have probable cause that that person violated a US law[0].

In every case you are going to be able to find, the person wanted by the dest country was either:

a. In that country when they broke the law (which is a different subject with plenty of caveats).

b. Violated US law and the foreign law while in the US (also a different subject).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
Will Cryptocurrency Ban Disrupt Legit Crypto Businesses?
RV is unstable housing which is categorized as homeless. Boat slips are long term housing.
I mean, QE was the medicine prescribed post 2008. Seems to have worked out well for the asset holders. Everyone else, not so much. Thanks Obama!
U.K. launches cryptocurrency task force
I am neither American nor Chinese, but your oversimplification will be taken more seriously if

(i) US stops borrowing insane amounts of money from China to fund its grand lifestyle (aka beggars cannot be choosers)

(ii) you could spend some time introspecting on the said grand lifestyle which plays a major role in having to deal mainly with first world problems (are we living our ideals?) vs third world ones (how to manage so many poor people without access to a lot of resources?)

(iii) US itself didn't have an extremely hypocritical stance wherever it suits them. I don't see too many Americans talking about the labor rights in oil rich countries

You know, its a complex system. Although I do agree with your thesis (no company should bow to these kind of petty demands), its not because the demand is coming from China. I would say the same thing to those who profit from, say, the lunatic patent system imposed via US on other countries.
It wasn't. But the article is comparing points in time (14th century vs. 21st century), so the path from one to the other doesn't matter for this discussion.
Keep in mind the goal of the internet, decentralization initially.

ARPANET Definition. ARPANET was a pioneering wide area network (WAN) that was created by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in 1969. ... In order to provide reliable communication in the face of equipment failure, ARPANET was designed so that no one point or link was more critical than any other.

We have only partially implemented this at a systems level but have centralized at the information level. The internet can bring information to free people and allow people to live in 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' but it is being twisted to limit those things due to edge cases and extremes. The battle continues...
I’m in SF and get paid 13,750 USD a month and take home $8328 after taxes (no 401k deferral) which is roughly 39.5%.
Or the real story is how much businesses kowtow to the Chinese government and enable their human rights abuses. I would be quite happy to see Marriott face blowback in the US and other parts of the world over this as people show their support for a free Tibet. Letting China browbeat businesses into submission for the privilege of operating in that market isn't a good thing and more businesses need to be made to decide between China and the rest of the world. Otherwise, the Chinese government will continue to get away with this.

But it was the Chinese government that blew a single like out of proportion and threatened Marriott with millions of dollars in lost business. Marriott's response to scapegoat and fire the individual to appease China makes complete sense so long as we continue to allow companies to get away with that behavior. It won't stop until we make an example out of one or two companies to show that they at least need to consider the financial ramifications of appeasement too.
You could randomize the tests + test everyone at the same time. So every r(n) cycles send a micro problem with a known precomputed locally verified solution. Compare solutions, kick and ban node if wrong.
I mean.... I'd mistake those photos for fractal images.

When heard mentality venture capitalism meets the manufacturing might of China (?)

How many have never been ridden...
Yes, the whole "route around censorship" vibe.

And if laws like this take down stuff that enough people care about, there will be alternatives. Given that Google, Facebook, Reddit and so on are vulnerable, they may be unable to provide them. But that just disrupts stuff to the next level.
I thought we're already past He-3 hype?
> That's why it's not the best idea to use subsidies to lure one of the largest tech companies in the world to your town. Available housing declines, it takes far too long in the feedback cycle for new housing to be built, and you've made the city marginally worse for anyone who isn't a tech worker.

On the other hand, your city gets a ton more wealthy and existing homeowners essentially win the lottery.
Upvote: Google's open source, multi-platform binary whitelisting solution
Yes, a lot of people live in vans or on the streets. The issue is saying that's the new middle class. That's the part that's not at all true. Most people living in a sketchy RV by the stadium are not 9-5 office workers who are priced out of the city.