skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony was there in the ebook reader market in the timeframe people in this thread are fantasming to Microsoft.

And it didn’t go anywhere, partly because like Microsoft, Sony relied heavily on a host computer for devices that should have been standalone at any cost, and also because unlike Amazon they had no mindshare regarding books. It just looked like an also ran product that could be gone at any time.
Confirms seem like a strong word to use after reading the article. ‘Indicates’ or ‘appears to show’ is more fitting than ‘confirms’. In any case is this a surprise to anyone? Companies do this all the time, unless you’re 21 years old it’s hard to be surprised. By the time people are 30 they’re wise to the perverse incentives and are doing their work slower or stretching things out and the companies know this. Now in some cases the worker is still more productive given their experience but it seems for whatever reason they’ve calculated the experience isn’t valuable in this case.
but what is IBM about these days as you mention?

Since they sold off their consumer hardware businesses, it's all about their Global Services consulting and a little bit of big iron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer).
If you do want to extrapolate from their data, it would be worth looking at the total number of accidents--not just fatalities. Insurance companies say people file an accident claim every 18 years on average. If the average miles someone drives each year is 12,000 miles, this means they get in an accident every 216,000 miles on average. If Uber drove 3 million miles, we should expect them to have been involved in about 14 accidents over those 3 million miles if the cars are on par with humans.

(I'm guestimating on some of those numbers, but the should be somewhere in the ballpark.)
> The opposite side of this is that the value of knowledge held by such workers is enormous and getting rid of them because the bean-counters will see a savings in wages and salaries is counter-productive to the long term health and viability of the company.

Sure, but it's not illegal to be stupid.
This is something I have given a lot of thought to.

I saw footage of a gazelle being hunted by a cheetah. My reflexive thought is -- how unimaginably horrible. Here is an animal which is evolved specifically to hunt you down and kill you. And every moment you spend trying to live is a moment lived in fear of this awful creature. What a life! My horror does not even compare to the horror of this life.

But, watching the gazelle slalom and jump with incredible precision and grace, there is another thought: that the gazelle was also born to run. It uses its God given abilities to the absolute maximum possible extent. During the chase, it is in a state of complete flow, more complete than any Olympic athlete could ever hope for. The sheer concentration required, the exertion, the split-second decision-making required to avoid getting caught. To master this state is to escape the predator, and it must feel incredible to outrun a cheetah. Incredible in a way that is impossible for a human living a modern lifestyle to fathom.

To fail means to die, of course, and that cannot feel good to a gazelle. But it's just death. We all die anyway. Human beings, gazelle, cheetahs. It is a simple fact that you will die.

So, then, whose life is better? The gazelle's, whose time is spent performing in the most integrated and pure way possible? Or the human's?

The human's life, which is spent doing activities its body was not designed for, in social situations his brain is not built for, eating things his stomach was not designed for? And then, we die. Just like the gazelle.

Interesting to think about for sure. I myself have no option — synthetic insulin keeps me alive.
Freezing the 'hunger nerve' could help with weight loss
A few months ago the number of ebooks outnumbered the physical books in Japan. I don’t know if that what we’d call a tiny market, and even if Kindle devices are not the primary support, it helped tremendously to anchor Amazon as the first choice provider for ebooks.
I use knowledge of Stats and experiment design to work on A/B testing websites (Website Optimization).

It comes in handy to think through use cases to ensure you can actually learn from the experiment, and you can develop it in ways to avoid confounding variables, such as cell jumping.
That is a nice article. What a strange maneuver from his second wife! He must have been desperately in love, to sign a prenup like that.

...their only regrets were employees who would be losing their jobs, suppliers who would be losing their best customer and all the kids who won’t grow up with Toys “R” Us.

Ugh, if my nieces and nephews are any indication, kids will still get way too many toys even without this store.
As has been said before: e-mail. I moved to Canada from Spain but go back from time to time, on holidays. Every time I go, I pick up the list of people I want to see and send them an e-mail. Has worked every single time.
If it's a GRU machine, I find it highly likely that the NSA would at least be trying to monitor communications from it[1]. It's possible that they can't get an active tap on the GRU's internal network (at least on-going, and doing so might not immediately reveal the source if the documents are only transferred over the active VPN connection -- having network access doesn't necessarily imply access to endpoints), but can tap the upstream connection. Once the source has been identified as a particular connection/building, I can think of a number of ways it could then be narrowed to an individual:

* Agent embedded in the office - they might not know about the operation beforehand if it's well compartmentalised, but may be able to find out more now they have that initial information, or rule out enough people to narrow it down

* Breach the internal network, knowing that access will be short-lived and discovered, but for long enough to get the information you need

* A further slip-up that, e.g., includes a name or some other identifying piece of information (e.g. cookie to a non-HTTP site), or accessing GRU systems that the US have previously breached or are otherwise improperly secured from the same machine

* Forge the VPN set up so that the user connects to NSA-controlled servers -- doesn't seem out of the realm of the NAS's capabilities; or

* Work with Elite VPN (unlikely--they appear to be a Russian company) or breach their systems (I imagine their security is less than GRU's, especially if they have servers in France which would likely allow the NSA or their French counterparts to compel physical access) to gain access to the VPN traffic. Once you have that, insert a zero-day into the traffic to gain access to the GRU machine

* Use a QUANTUM-style attack to embed a zero-day into non-VPN requests made over that connection

It's unlikely that you could immediately go from IP address to GRU officer, but working from that IP address you certainly have options that could lead you to an individual. I think it's quite clear why NSA would not want to reveal which technique(s) they used, particularly as it could lead GRU's countermeasures to be specifically targeted against useful methods.

I'm also not particularly sure it matters all that much. It's quite possibly the work of a team (even if the actual postings come from an individual) and will at least (presumably) have command authorisation. The article notes "[s]ometime after its hasty launch, the Guccifer persona was handed off to a more experienced GRU officer". Attributing it to an individual, rather than just the GRU, doesn't seem to make much difference.

[1] I find it possible that traffic analysis was used to uncover this -- find that Guccifer 2.0 is posting via Elite VPN, then correlate traffic in to Elite with possible sources. I'm surprised that GRU wouldn't use a machine that is forced to connect to a VPN for this, particularly if the machine's public IP points back to GRU/Russia, so it being something more that "agent forgot to enable VPN" would not be shocking.

Edit: fix list formatting
One data point? So if Uber had driven a billion miles with zero deaths, they'd have zero data?
I'm not sure how guns flowing from the US to Mexico hurts the prospect of gun control in the US.

The logic that makes more sense to me is gun control in the US would result in less guns going over the border to Mexico.
Deep learning has enough randomness. The random weight initialization, the random choice of samples (as in name Stochastic Gradient Descent), the random flip/crop/noise in data augmentation, and randomness injected by dropout.
In part I agree with you. The big difference is that we don't understand the fundamental difference between what is alive and what isn't. We have many different ideas about the quality that is called "life" or living. We have no clue about what it is.

We have little or no understanding of the complex protocols that occur within a cell. If we did, our standard manufacturing techniques would be vastly different.

We can modify DNA and RNA in interesting ways, but they are not living. It is not until we put them into an already existing living cell that we can reprogram some characteristics of that cell.
Can we get this tagged with a year (2013)? It's especially relevant because the article links to a previous HN discussion about the article.
Yeah, I am sure The Daily Beast got this story because they are such a well respected journalistic outlet.

More like nobody at the NYT or WP willing to tarnish their reputation with this crap. Which is pretty bad given what they will publish.
If any project whats to have good UI just look at what gnome does and do the opposite.
How is this not called qrcp? :/
The point remains: it isn't fair to decide what the probability is with only one data point on one side- especially for rare events.

Would it have been fair if Uber last week were to declare that they have a 0% probability of pedestrian deaths, since they'd never had one yet?

The goal of these statistics is to predict future outcomes. But with such a small data sample, you cannot fairly predict the future- just as in my lottery example.
Actually, it seems like you're feigning naivety to spur specific claims that will be brushed aside as deviating too far from the mainstream narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Commi... . If you don't see the pattern of behavior described therein as concrete probable cause for an in-depth investigation and (at the very least) future data-retention mandate on this "institution", then you don't want to see.

Furthermore, if you don't see the entire contemporary political apparatus as essentially collusion against the people, I can't help you. I personally welcome any leaks that expose the dealings of these parasites, and refuse to be distracted by a narrative of condemning a foreign messenger rather than condemning the domestic actual corruption.
Was looking for the comments about getting a droid that understands the binary language of their moisture vaporator.
What about those who work late away from computers?
they're slow and if you had even an approximate analytical solution, you'd use that instead.

evolutionary algorithms are used in practice when there is no real alternative. eg. bin packing for CNC/laser machines (self-plug svgnest.com)
We'll need to design a new economic system to make this work well, or we'll end up like Japan. Stagnant population growth == Stagnant economy.
As a previously commentator mentioned, "colonized" is a much more fitting word than "discovery." The deeper problem, I think, with "discovery" is that it obscures the violence of the European settlement process -- the meta-genocides of the North American peoples and the transatlantic Slave Trade.
VanillaJS: Re-implement popular framework sample apps in vanilla JavaScript
How enforceable is something like that?
Uh, just throwing this out there, people gave up all that information voluntarily. I'd blame them, or more likely their parents, for not using better PII heigene. This article is sensationalist bullshit though... Really, shame on you, comparing FB's use of data that people gave to it with the hack on Target, or with 'losing nukes'... Whoever gave this guy a job writing tech articles made a pretty aweful mistake.
Nice talk! I just 1.5x-ed thru the first ~30 mins.

I still think we're talking at cross purposes though - I'm not disputing Zeus works, I'm disputing that it's "super easy" to identify and then infect a machine attributable to "an intelligence official in another country".

I mean - if all I need to do is make a tcp connection - all I need is an <img> tag in a web page - the big problem is getting that webpage and/or RAT onto a GRU officer's work computer.

(And if you _do_ cover how to do that in the remaining bit of the talk, I'd love to know...)
One of the things I was taught whilst studying engineering (in Australia) was if you, whilst acting in capacity as a professional engineer certify something knowing it is unsafe then you can be found personally liable.

Likewise if you knowingly observe anyone else in your company breaching safety/regulatory guidelines then as a professionally certified engineer you have a legal responsibility around ethical disclosure.

See: http://www.professionalengineers.org.au/rpeng/ethical-commit...

I do not know how things work in the US but in Australia these rights are protected by law. The company legally can not fire an engineer in this situation.
Hm. That 16% difference reminds me of the 60% point Miles Mathis makes in his infamous 'pi'='4' [single quotes INTENTIONAL.] paper (which ISN'T what people think. Numerous people tried to debunk it and I would absolutely LOVE to see a proper debunking of it, but each 'debunker' actually only skimmed his writing, or only read one of his papers on it instead of all of them, and constructed bad counter arguments as a consequence.)

http://milesmathis.com/pi.html
http://milesmathis.com/pi2.html
http://milesmathis.com/pi3.html
https://sagacityssentinel.wordpress.com/ (the debunk reply there is from 2011 and doesn't factor in the fact that Mathis indeed didn't realized the rather obvious link to the Hilbert/Taxicab metric until 2012, see the pi2.html page there.)
Male school teachers I know in Canada tell me its common sense to never be alone with a female student in a room. One false accusation and your livelihood is DOA.
> We don't need redundant brakes & steering or a fancy new car; we need better software," wrote engineer Anthony Levandowski

Any engineer with this attitude needs to learn the lesson of the Therac-25. The issues in the Ars article are very similar to section 4 "Causal Factors" of the report[1].

> To get to that better software faster we should deploy the first 1000 cars asap.

Is that admitting that they do not have the "better software" and intend to deploy 1000 cars using "lesser software"? That's treading dangerously close to potential manslaughter charges if prove this willful contempt for safety to a court.

[1] http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
No way, those baby corns are "objectively" a culinary nightmare.
This is such a tired argument when alcohol is legal, far more toxic of a substance, far more addictive, and it actively kills people daily. People can and should make decisions for themselves about what they put in their bodies.

It’s natural to balk at doing drugs. It’s harmful, however, to talk about weed without comparing it to harder substances, especially when it has been a prime reason for imprisoning people for decades. Even if weed is physiologically harmful at all, prohibition is socially a crippling disease.
Given time industry would adapt, but the impact can be devastating in the short term. EU gas dependence was and still is a big factor in the annexation of Crimea and politics across the region.

The BBC reports that this dependence is still growing, further tying the hands of the EU against Russian aggression.

Now if Russia itself was just another western style free market democracy, dependence wouldn’t be such a national security risk.
Yes. Yes I can imagine that... :sigh:
Nope. We often know exactly who we want to hire. The more specialized you are the better. Find a niche you really love working in say crypto for example and work to be known for that type of work. General = bad.

Also network with designers and agencies. I’m a ux designer and a ton of my work comes from agencies. You could even cold email them and introduce yourself politely. I know this sounds like bad advice but it really isn’t.
Gah, their own university press office doesn't even link to the latest paper.

Here is it after a quick search, open access too:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7

Seems interesting, for small, possibly off the grid, desert communities. Not sure how the overall lifecycle energy demands would compare to say desalination for most of the coastal population centers.
This times 1000.
Are you suggesting they knowingly mitigated risk without any attempt to redirect the PR backlash, or the government investigation that would result?

That doesn't seem like something that would happen.
As long as you are clear that you are accusing the authors of outright fraud, I appreciate and applaud your logic!

I think you are wrong, though.

Ask yourself, if the system works passively (i.e. ambient temperature), why do they need a heat sink?

Because as you say, they need a cooler surface than the ambient for the water to condense on. Ambient temperature in this case refers to the temperature inside the solar chamber containing the saturated sorbent and insulated by the translucent aerogel. In the "legit" view, the heatsink is cooled relative to this ambient by being thermally coupled to the cooler outside air. In the paper, Figure 3 shows the temperature differential as about 40C: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7/figures/3

Would attaching a heat sink to my shed cool it off?

Well, if the inside of the shed has been heated by the sun so that it is warmer than the outside air, then yes. The heatpipes are effectively windows for heat to escape from the relative hot interior to the relatively cool exterior. Isn't this exactly how a passive heatpipe cooler like the Noctua works when installed as designed to cool a CPU? Some airflow over the radiating fins doesn't hurt, but convection takes care of this if the surface is large enough.
Why China Loves American Chain Restaurants So Much
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What happens if Mastodon scales up 100x? Would it continue to operate smoothly?
Pretty much anyone can get a gun, right? Because of the Constitution, right? Where's the magic thinking?

You say most people would support a tyrant, which may not be true but let's go with that. Given that, why wouldn't you want the opposition to that tyrrany to have guns? Your take seems defeatist. You want to just try to live peacefully as tyranny spreads?
The best way to fight fascism is with censorship ... obviously.
Dropbox Priced at $21 a Share in I.P.O., Valuing Company at $9.2B
> If gun owners are actively advertising to people they perceive to be likely mass shooters

That's an extraordinarily absurd setup legally. How do you perceive someone to be a likely mass shooter exactly? What the hell is likely? Perceive what? Your entire concept is legally broken top to bottom, it would never stand up to a challenge.

And how do you define that they're specifically advertising to that person?

So: first, you have to magically perceive that someone is "likely" to be a mass shooter. Then the company has to be caught having identified someone as a likely mass shooter. Then the company has to intentionally advertise to them. Then it has to be shown that they intentionally advertised to them. Beyond being a non-functioning legal premise, in the best case scenario you just narrowed the risk for the gun maker down to zero.
Thank you. I would love to meet around with POWER, but I don't have any way to get my hands on it for a price I can justify.
Ask HN: Are there any things you learned but wish you hadn't?
I've found countless pieces of advice in HN of the following nature:

>things you wish you had learned earlier in your careers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10026146

>what do you wish you knew 4 years into programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366070

>things you wish you knew when you started programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10026146

>...etc

But I couldn't find a single instance of the opposite, namely:

Are there any things you learned but wish you hadn't?

For instance, are there things you wish you hadn't spend as much time and effort on. Or things that you would have been better off not knowing because of the way they shaped your mental frameworks or outcomes. Or tools that limited your abilities. Think anti-patterns. Have you had such instances of 'bad knowledge'?
The worst thing though is being at a particularly bad company, expressing this to a trusted few, and having them say "oh yeah, that's just corporate life, every place has it that bad."

They don't all have it uniformly bad in all areas in exactly the same way, and there is no shame looking for something that better matches your ethics, personality, productive style of working, etc. Don't stay at a place you know is wrong longer than you need to for being called "naive".
Still believing that fuel cells might become the future in sometime is only an excuse for doing nothing atm in my opinion.
Do:

1. Get out of the building. That means finding other people's problems.

2. Show up. After work, offer to take a coffee with the CEO, or an the exec of a company you know, just to talk about their problems and challenges they are facing, and if applicable, tell them you could help them with that. The simple fact of showing up often in a place will give the impression to people that you are available for some work.

3. Know your value in the market. Unless you know your value, you won't make a significant amount of money to justify the time you put in. Which leads me to point #4:

4. If you still don't find anything to do for profit, try offering your skills to a non-profit organization that would benefit a lot from your skills. For their website, or an internal app. These projects are sometimes fun to do and you can get some valuable experience in an interesting tech you like, in a project that you know will be useful and meaningful to others.

Don't:

1. ...say yes too often.

2. ...under-estimate the time it would take to finish up the project.

3. ...ignore your gut feeling when starting a relationship with people. Bad people don't look that bad on first impression.

Good luck!
Speculating but addiction is a disease, and corporate HR usually terminates for something like refusing to attend treatment / etc.
In some form or another access to the courts is supposed to be a right... and yet it isn't in many cases.

I can't get phone or internet access at my home through any of the providers without an arbitration agreement of some kind.

It stops being an optional legal agreement when you have no choice....
> if he's smart

I bet you can do css better than him. Maybe you should run for the President and beat the favourite and favoured candidate next time ;)
Can't solve the entire workaholic problem at once, baby steps. Next steps would be to nuke service access after business hours (email, remote desktop, etc).

Both Germany [1] and France [2] passed laws restricting the use of business email after work hours to ensure proper work/life balance.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/12/01/366806938/...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/world/europe/france-work-...
It's just getting a JSON from a spreadsheet.
Some Galaxy S9 Screens Not Registering Touches (Updated)
Here's a demo of Mastodon and PeerTube federation (on a PeerTube instance): https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a...