skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for whether or not this behavior can be trained "out" but I can share what I have noticed and my own personal experiences.

On the part of people being trained, as I mentioned in another comment, I've seemed to notice that a lot of my Indian and Chinese coworkers, for probably cultural reasons, seem to have this sort of "respect the decisions of 'elders'" mentality and see it as extremely confrontational to disagree with decisions even if in their personal experience they know or have faith that it won't work.

My personal issue was always that I didn't actually know enough about my domain (distributed systems/"backend") to sometimes refute decisions that I had a gut feeling were bad (for example, never had seen anything like a proposed solution being done that way in the open source community or outside of our team -> red flags starting to go off), or that the people who were in my management chain or even more senior coworkers, would refuse to teach/mentor me or even point me toward the correct learning resources.

I ended up spending about 3 years of my free time outside of work learning as much as I could about these subjects (operating system internals, database engines, learning the network stack inside and out, distributed systems primitives, etc etc).

What did I find once I actually started questioning people based on this new knowledge I had? Not a lot of them actually knew what they were talking about. They either couldn't teach me because they themselves didn't know, or they were just afraid to say that they didn't know these things and didn't want to look "stupid".

Long story short, this was the "process" that personally made me extremely confident in being able to call people out on their bullshit since I actually had the means to defend myself objectively.

As a side note, going through this process of intense learning also made me realize that _most_ people don't know any of these things but like to talk as if they do, rather than just admit that they're not experts or unfamiliar with it...
People care more about this topic than Net neutrality. As they should. I mean it's Tex Mex for crying out loud.
See also Pipenv: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
How blind players succeed at sports video games they’ve never seen
Thanks to JavaScript that URL can be something completely different.
They exist. They're required for some roles:

https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/professional-licensure-...
We certainly can define life, it's just that people don't generally agree on a definition. Some people get offended if you don't include their favorite things in your definition.

Even so, we understand it just the same no matter how you define it, because what we understand is not a function of word choice or definition. It's a function of capability.
Lmao, she is a communist, how is she pro-Putin ?
Pass the Piper – Working towards diversity and supporting more mothers in tech
Dropbox IPO priced at $21 per share: sources
If you are flooded with stress, I recommend Finnish sauna a few times a week with continuous adjustment to cold immersion after a few minutes you leave the hot area (try to stay in cold longer every next time until you hit 2 minutes). Try to repeat it 4-5x a session in like 90 minutes. After I started doing it, it usually clears my head completely and makes my evenings absolutely stress-free and happy, and I can tackle the most difficult tasks next day.
mph is the only acronym I've seen it used without mi.
> Well I don't want to give an inch more to gun control proponents because they have already made their intent clear, they believe that a completely gunless society is much more admirable than what we have today.

This is exactly my point. You point to extremism as justification for yet more extremism in the opposite way. This won't end well for anyone. I'm not sure how, but as a society we need to find a way just sit down and walk things back. I'm willing to work towards a compromise. It seems you would rather not budge, and so the extremism continues.

There are plenty of people like me who don't care about 100yr old rifle historians, or hunters, or sport shooting, or the rest. We just want our kids to not get shot, and think that the current level of gun violence is far too high. Where can we turn to? Gun lovers and the NRA specifically don't seem to be able to offer any response at all beyond "my cold dead hand" and "don't give an inch".
Since it seems like you aren't going to follow the guidelines, we've banned the account.
Numberphile: Dealing Cards with Cryptography (with Ron Rivest)
I meant "these" projects. Not this project specifically
At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me
I'm afraid these better workplaces are relatively small and there is not much at stake at positions UP (and not even much room UP). Otherwise it would've attracted people who knows how to make workplace work "as expected" to ensure benefits for their level and up and to some extent for shareholders
I was able to reproduce it.
which dictionary datasource do you suggest? The OED costs money, and i'm not sure i've heard anything either way about the quality of 'free' versions, though there is the 1913 Websters...
Seems to me they could make more fine grained permissions. E.g., I don't like that my javascript disabler Firefox plugin has permissions to 'Access data for all websites', 'Access browser tabs'.
Except the producers is very clearly satirizing and criticizing Nazi propaganda and theater. The structure of these jokes are totally different.
I'm not an Android user, but I feel there's way more data accessible on Android for app developers than many people realize.

Photos (on Android and iOS) contain a wealth of information, and any app having access to photos, can clearly figure out where you have been (based on photo's metadata containing GPS location), what you like to eat (if you take a lot of photos of food), where you like to hangout, time of day/week you do certain activities, purely based on image recognition.

Any wonder why Google Lens is integrated in the Google Photos app?

Add to that, the ability of identifying people from photos (Apple, Facebook and Google do it very well) and you can easily connect the dots, and it'll be hard to escape this kind of data digging, even if you are Jack Reacher.

Even pro-privacy Apple doesn't do much in terms of access to photos on iOS. If I want to share one image on Whatsapp on iOS, I have to give Whatsapp access to Photo Album. And once the access is given, a superficial scan can provide WhatsApp full info of locations from my photos, in a few seconds (even if it is 20 GB of photos).

Privacy on iOS in this aspect is bad. I can only imagine that Android is much worse.
Suffered from RSI for years. This book, a thumb trackball and no-number-pad keyboard changed my life. Its a book of stretches that I still do whenever something flares up. Good luck!

http://a.co/f1v8j5e
It does say in the article that this values the company at over $8.2b, and that they raised $756m in the IPO.

If you mean that the title should describe market cap rather than share price, this does occur sometimes and I agree that it can be a more useful metric. The share price needs to be mentioned as well, though, as it's the actionable term (to invest $210k, you buy 10,000 shares).
Arizona air isn't very humid, to my knowledge.

I wasn't sure about the numbers either, so I looked it up. The levels were higher than I would have guessed, generally ranging from 30%-50% relative humidity.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Arizona/humidity-annu...
> We can't even create life from non-life.

Have you not been following the work of Craig Venter? Depending on your point of view, he's already done it. Even if you don't agree, you have to admit that he's probably one of the few closest to actually doing it.
Ask HN: “It's his company”
I'm a co-founder of a startup in NYC (we're a team of 7 at the moment). Everyone on the team has equity. Repeatedly I've noticed when my co-workers talk about the company they say that it is "his company" (as in mine). I am trying hard to create company that is a team, where everyone feels it's their company. I try to be self aware on the language I use regarding team etc.

Any advice? Is this normal?
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
Not really the company's fault here. Policies like this exist because candidates have and will sue the shit out of you for any flimsy accusation of discrimination they can cobble together.

Companies didn't create these policies arbitrarily and unprovoked. They became necessary because of some people who took advantage of the legal system to get settlements. It's in the company's best interest to protect itself from frivolous lawsuits, so it's better to be safe than sorry.

Which isn't to say that there aren't people who actually are discriminated against, but in this example it's not a company "discarding" someone as much as it is covering its bases.
That is, in the US. I live in San Francisco, but I'm from Italy and have worked (and hired, and fired) people there in the past. I can assure you that all this "legal wall" around everything doesn't really exist in Italy, or at least it's vastly mitigated.

As a consequence, I was able to provide detailed feedback every time I rejected a candidate, for example, without even thinking of the legal consequences.
What's the problem with decent plug-in hybrids? For most people, 50 miles of pure electric range (Chevy Volt, Hyundai Ioniq, Honda Clarity) is more than enough for daily driving, and if you run out of electricity once or twice a month, you just run on petrol.
beauty of github - if you want to do it, just do it and submit the pr: even they don't take it, others might see and want that too
Are you suprised?
Uber is a company that:

* Flouted Taxi regulations

* Living in legal gray zones in regards to contractors vs employees

* Designed a system to avoid law enforcement

* Performed shady tactics with its competitors

* Illegally obtained the private medical records of a rape victim

* Created a workplace where sexual harassment was routine

* Illegally tested self-driving cars on public roads in California without obtaining the required state licenses.

* Possibly stole a LIDAR design from a competitor

Now their vehicle killed a pedestrian in a situation that the self driving vehicles should be much better than humans at (LIDAR can see in the dark, and the reaction time of a computer is much better than humans.)

Uber has exhausted their "benefit of the doubt" reserve. Maybe, they need to be made an example of with massive losses to investors and venture capitalists as an object lesson that ethics really do matter, and that bad ethics will eventually hurt your bank account.
IMHO, this is nonsense. General Motors (the stodgiest of the big old-school car companies) is already, today, mass-producing two EV models (Bolt and Volt) in much bigger numbers than Tesla. Car companies see the writing on the wall. They don't love gas-burning motors, they love making money.
Prototype to production: Preparing assembly materials
>I'm amazed every time when the training is over and it actually works like intended. Everything which is big enough is more than the sum of it's parts.

What about when it doesn't work as intended and fails ridiculously, even though it usually works perfectly well?

http://www.labsix.org/physical-objects-that-fool-neural-nets...
Well, I usually don't care for some time. But if you play a lot and you see this crap every evening for hours... it just starts to dampen the mood. For me at least.
I can not ignore the chat, from time to time there's useful stuff in there.

Actually when I was a teen it didn't bother me at all. I so played counterstrike when it was a HL mod, Ultima Online when killing, cleanlooting, horsekilling, resskilling, notokilling, blocking and cleanlooting, house raids etc were still the norm. Didn't bother me.

Actually the older I get the more I don't have the nerves anymore for all this crap.
Air already has X amount of water, you cannot get more than X. It doesn't matter if X is very tiny like in deserts or very large like in the middle of the pacific ocean.
If you have the cash to pay off your mortgage, that savings will last longer if you save it and pay down the mortgage under the standard schedule than if you blow it all on the mortgage straight away. Your mortgage is a loan, after all--one that you've already pre-qualified for, which comes with tax advantages as well as a subsidy courtesy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Show HW: Collaborative aerial transportation using multiple UAVs
This is the content of the GP to the post you're responding to:

>"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -- Schilling.

>And when that irrationality is not just stupid, but also unjust, then we should not put the burden of such stupidity on the victims of the injustice.

In other words the poster believes that age based discrimination is both economically irrational and unjust.

I'm pointing out that it's unknown whether age discrimination is economically rational, but that proponents of age based discrimination laws must believe that it is. Whether it's rational matters, because if it's more economically efficient to put a young person in a worker slot there may be better ways to help the older worker than punishing the employer for not skirting equal employment opportunity regulations.
>	I'm a software engineer with a full-time job, but I have lots of spare time in my off hours.

You are a SE, you are in the best position ever to work on your own projects, create your own startup, implementing your own ideas.
EXACTLY!

If you have a $20 billion company and sell half of it in the form of 10 billion shares for $1/share, it's not really any different than selling it in the form of 100 million shares for $100/share. The same amount of money will buy the same amount of the company. And since price changes are often given in percent change, it doesn't matter if you buy 100 shares at $1 or 1 share at $100. If the stock doubles, you'll have $200 either way.
I wouldn't be surprised if priests or monks had quite long work hours; imagine the RSI one might get from copying out whole books by hand.

You could reframe as underemployment a lot of the extent to which jobs in the past were less stressful (if they actually were). Trading stress for fantastic material wealth is a highly popular option afforded by technology.
IACA is awesome to understand the behaviour of your own hot loops. Sadly it only works on Intel. Luckily LLVM has recently merged llvm-mca [1] (machine-code analyser) which hopefully will in time bring all the features of IACA and more to other platforms as well.

I am working on making these tools easily accessible from Julia [2] and one of the things missing from llvm-mca is the ability to mark a region of assembly code to be analysed instead of analysing the entire provided assembly.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
[2] https://github.com/vchuravy/IACA.jl
Agreed. Whenever I hear people use authenticity as a litmus test for good food, it always comes across as being snobby for the sake of being snobby. Not only is authenticity in food a very fuzzy concept, but it really has nothing to do with quality (it may even suggest lower quality).

It's like saying that something that's popular must be bad, or that something that's expensive must be good. I mean, if you're a connoisseur of something, then you inevitably end up learning about the more authentic, less well-known, more exclusive versions of that thing. But saying that those are defining qualities of anything is BS, and only reveals the degree to which someone is a connoisseur because they actually appreciate something, vs. it's just part of the personal image they want to project to other people.
I absolutely agree. It baffles me that after TWELVE years from the launch of S3 and EC2, IBM still hasn't understood what made them popular. (hint: the pay-as-you-go model).
The AI that is not explainable is not because it cannot log things, its because the semantic interpretation of what it can log is hard. Starting with the real world input (which we understand) a lot of algorithms progressively apply mathematical transformations till reaching the output. It is the real world "meanings"of these transformations, or what is eventually learned: the stack of these transformations - that is hard to grasp.
The actual paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7) actually gives something very close to numbers you want, although they express it as liters/day/kilogram @ humidity. Here's the abstract:

Water scarcity is a particularly severe challenge in arid and desert climates. While a substantial amount of water is present in the form of vapour in the atmosphere, harvesting this water by state-of-the-art dewing technology can be extremely energy intensive and impractical, particularly when the relative humidity (RH) is low (i.e., below ~40% RH). In contrast, atmospheric water generators that utilise sorbents enable capture of vapour at low RH conditions and can be driven by the abundant source of solar-thermal energy with higher efficiency. Here, we demonstrate an air-cooled sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting device using the metal−organic framework (MOF)-801 [Zr6O4(OH)4(fumarate)6] operating in an exceptionally arid climate (10–40% RH) and sub-zero dew points (Tempe, Arizona, USA) with a thermal efficiency (solar input to water conversion) of ~14%. We predict that this device delivered over 0.25 L of water per kg of MOF for a single daily cycle.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7
...or move up the value chain. The idea behind that is that if Chinese goods are unreasonably cheap, there are bound to be some things that you can manufacture using these cheap Chinese components that would previously have been economically infeasible. Go take advantage of this and stop wasting time trying to build things that can be built better elsewhere.

This was behind the whole hardware bubble of ~2014, along with the Kickstarter/Alibaba/Octopart/Flexport ecosystem and certain new consumer product categories (eg. fitness trackers, smartwatches, VR). The problem is that hardware startups (like any startups, really) are hard, and it's quite challenging to bring together cheap components in a way that actually adds value to a consumer. That, and primary capital markets are fairly inefficient, so oftentimes hardware startups run out of money before they can work out the kinks in their supply chains.
No, what that gets you is smooth normal driving and poor handling of emergency situations. People have tried using supervised learning for that - vision and human actions for training, steering and speed out. Works fine, until it works really badly, because it has no model of what to do in trouble.
> citizens don't lose their free speech rights when they form groups.

... even when those groups are legally obligated to act in service of a profit-driven corporate agenda. It's not really 'free' speech when you take the labor of your employees and use it to promote policy that directly conflicts with their interests.
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No.

Liability as in the more that you have said, the more likely it is that a lawsuit will be filed based on a misunderstanding of what you did say.

It doesn't matter how unlikely the lawsuit is to win on the merits. Fighting in court and discovery both bring costs and distractions that institutions would prefer to avoid.
s/reinvent/disrupt
A quarter liter per day could easily water a tree. Reforestation seems possible with this device.
Automated Dev Workflow for Using Data Science VM on Azure
The 1000 rounds per minute was intended to show that the post was knowingly exaggerated, however in part it was inspired by a "girl fires minigun" post I saw on Reddit. I can't truly recall but I think it was an M134 and that it did maybe 3000 rounds per minute.
Does it mean that humans currently occupy more than half of the Earth?
That's neat. I had heard of the PINE64 board but never the SOPINE. Curious, have you implemented any projects on this? Seems like it might be neat for testing a small distributed system.
Ask HN: Career Decision – Data Scientist or Navy Intel Officer
In the upcoming week I have life decision to make. I have discussed this with a variety of military officers but forgot to ask the tech community their opinion.

Quick background. Prior enlisted military 10 years. Been working as a data scientist for the past 4 years. Have two graduate degrees. Live in the Inland Northwest.

I have an offer right with a cyber-security start-up (5 years old, with steady revenue and investment) to work as data scientist. Salary is $100k (remember inland NW), 10k shares, work from home and the ability to complete my PhD part-time in mathematics. I've spoken with the school and my advisers, both accept this as the employer will allow me to use company time to work on my dissertation when the time arises.

Now I also have an application in to be a Navy Intelligence Officer. I will hear back in the upcoming week if I was selected; 5 - 10% selection rate. Not much need to describe the job or offer here as this is fairly well documented, other than in 10 years I can 'retire' and collect $40k minimum for the rest of my life, and low cost health insurance. If I stay in longer my retirement will go up, probably max out at $60k given time constraints.

Any opinions/thoughts from this community on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
The example was poorly chosen, but obligatory measure words are very much a feature of English; compare "a pair of pants" / "a pair of scissors" / "a pair of glasses" / "a loaf of bread". Note that all of those "pairs" refer to a single object.
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Stress is non-existent now (apart from worrying about family etc). Pay was 0 for the first 3 months - that was scary, but I had some savings and I had an idea I was happy to go along with. My family was against me, but eventually got on board (after a year!). Now pay is an order of magnitude larger than my best salary as an investment banker (1.5 years later). My focus is now technology - it's my passion and I'm good at it. My clients still come primarily from finance, but now have one in healthcare too. I'm also starting to put together a few products I want to sell. Trying to grow organically, with a small team. I don't really want a big team; just a small team of really high quality people that can turn their hand to any task. Overall it's been enjoyable, but the start was tricky (especially because everyone around me thought I'd fail and end up back in a similar investment banking job). It's not for everyone, but at the time, I was so unhappy within myself, that I didn't really have another option.
I work on Kubernetes today, and you could argue it’s on it’s way to being bloated too. Successful platforms grow until they are replaced by younger, hungrier, more purpose built platforms that solve problems the old platforms couldn’t. It’s just the way of the world :)
Google's GDPR EU Consent Policy Effective May 25 2018
My bad I got my math wrong, it's 330 hectares which equals roughly 815 acres.
The Flight of the Zuckerberg
No they did not.
> any of the sci-fi scenarios I had imagined

This is what I don't get. It's entirely possible that I'm particularly unimaginative, but I can't even think of any devices with screens I'd want to bend. All of my devices bend exactly as much as I want them to: none (or at least negligibly).
By permission control they mean: https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...
I don't think it's fearmongering to point out facts!
Self-styled supreme dictators and concentration camps seem highly correlated!

Do you disagree?