skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These big tech giants have learned from Microsoft's failures in the 90's of beating back government. They all have a well funded government relations program going on with lobbyists in every important region.
> potentially expending much less effort and suffering a great deal less stress than we experience

How do we measure this? I've been less well off in the past, having to spend more time doing chores like that, and not having a 9-5 job filling up that part of my day. Compared to now - working more, but with more money - I was more stressed and less fulfilled and very aware of all the effort I was expending because I couldn't afford all the conveniences I would've wanted.
While reflecting on this--and ethical issues aside--it did occur to me that there's probably a lot more data you could collect from the audio gathered in the rainforest, i.e. what animals are active in what areas of the rainforest and what times, weather data such as intensity of rain or wind, volume of animal activity in a particular area of the rainforest, etc.
This. The video is incredibly misleading. Perhaps criminally so.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
Recommendations for engineering authoritative DNS servers [pdf]
I would add, it is time to use properly managed keys. i.e. ssh keys with passwords and IP restrictions. Even better, a centralized CA and expiration of keys.

Keys can be equally as dangerous as passwords if not managed correctly. Public keys, even more so. What systems and accounts trust my public key? Who knows? What is managing and mapping that? Did I have sudo for a while and shove my public key into your authorized_keys file? Are your ssh instances using the default location for authorized_keys that users can write to? Is this appropriate in your use case? Certainly not for production machines, right?

Do you rotate your ssh keys that are used in automation? Are your keys limited to specific CIDR blocks? etc... things to consider.
As an interested user, what is the difference here between traditional instrumentation like Application Insights?

I understand this is intended for AWS Lambda, but what is it doing that makes it more suited?
Forgot your (/s) tag buddy.
There's also no mention in the article about what Facebook does with all of the data you've surrendered to them while using the platform. Do they actually remove your history of likes and your node in the social graph?

I'm very doubtful they voluntarily delete your data.
Ask HN: Does HN respect the GDPR?
Specifically, does HN/Y Combinator plan to allow contributors from the EU to request their contributed content to be deleted after May 25?

Note that they currently do not allow bulk deletes of one contributor's messages, "as that would wreck havoc in the discussion threads".

Basically you can ask nicely to delete some few posts, but if you want to delete all of your contributions you will get a no. This is at odds with the GDPR.
Dynamic dispatch will surely always be faster to compile than static dispatch, but static dispatch has crucial runtime performance advantages (e.g. it enables inlining, which is the ultimate meta-optimization). And extreme runtime performance is one of Rust's raisons d'etre. Having fast compilation is surely a worthwhile goal, but, for Rust, not if it comes at the expense of runtime performance.

What do you mean by "prevent reusability"? There's nothing about static vs. dynamic dispatch that prevents code or types from being used across different compilation units.
So does that mean Nevada can sue the federal government because it is legal there?
> First, I think the entire "liberal" v. "conservative" distinction does far more harm than good to productive public conversation. It causes people to pay more attention to where ideas come from rather than to the ideas themselves.

You might have noticed already but in case anyone else didn't: yes, I partly agree with you on this (and I also to some degree think this behaviour is childish.)

> Second, it is a kind of ad hominem fallacy to claim that there exists some kind of unspecified (and no doubt nefarious) "liberal agenda" to which advocates subscribe.

It seems to me a majority of HN thinks Youtube is even more "liberal".

> Especially given that 97% of the US supports universal background checks, how can the o.p. be so sure that this is the product of a "liberal agenda" and not instead a sensible response to an epidemic-level problem?

Many of us (me included) would like more background checks etc.

The problem for me is that a number of people see background checks only as a first small step towards banning guns.

I think there is still room in USA for a European style collaboration between hunters, sports shooters and police.

That would be a win-win. But as long as everyone with a brain can see a ratchet I guess enthusiasm will be limited in the NRA/2A camp.
> What you think and what you do, how you were raised and how you were educated -- these often matter far more than age and gender

But age and gender have huge effects on what you think and what you do, how you were raised and how you were educated.

To name just one example: because of Title IX, women who went to school in the U.S. prior to 1972 (tens of millions of people) had fewer opportunities in various sports, clubs, committees, activities, and even academic programs, than women to attended school in, say, the 1990s. These differences during childhood have produced differences in the careers, personalities, mindsets, and expectations of women of different generations.

This is just one specific difference in childhood that plausibly leads to different adult outcomes based on age and gender.

I haven't seen you provide any specifics. Instead what I see is vague pablum that reduces to "all people are different and each individual is unique." While that is true to some extent, by itself, that sentiment does not acknowledge or engage with the very real differences that people alive today experienced during their lives, based on their age, gender, race, ethnic background, nationality, etc.

> This is why people should be judged by the content of their character.

See, the problem is that you come out of a particular narrow formative experience too, which has affected your ability to neutrally judge the content of a person's character. You're not alone; it's true of everyone.

That's why looking at measurable diversity is important. The accusation that it's racist is beside the point; everything about human society in 2018 is affected by age, gender, race, etc. Intentionally and consistently considering diversity is how we consciously address and compensate for what would otherwise be hidden or unconscious bias and rejection.

You are right that mental factors matter most. But different mentalities are impossible to measure directly, and impossible to intuitively understand, because we are each limited by our circumstances. We know that different mentalities arise from different circumstances, so we must consciously consider a diversity of circumstances.
If you tailor your resume you are wasting your time, period.
You are being manipulated. Your strong belief is based on a hugely misleading video.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
I hate to be "that guy", but that website is incredibly annoying for what amounts to a few paragraphs of text. Not everything needs to be animated.
The biggest influence was Salesforce's threat to leave after just acquiring Indianapolis based ExactTarget. Benioff was very persuasive along with NCAA, GenCon and most of the Indiana business community.
... yes, certainly there are no elites scheming in concert to illegally protect their self interest on the continent.
They only sold ~10% of the company.

So pre-IPO shareholders still get most of the upside. $250 million to the float, $2.2 billion to the rest of the shareholders.

It can still be a mispricing, but it isn't so drastically painful if you look at it that way.
Do this:

1. Write a list of 5-10 places you'd love to work and the role you'd want to have

2. Research the people who work there, the company's mission, and the company's marketing materials

3. Spend a few hours writing a job description from the employers perspective, to get you in their mindset and see the importance of certain attributes and skills over others

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After you do the above steps, you'll be able to see the parts of your resume/cover letter/portfolio that are important and the ones that can be left out.

All you need to do is learn how to shift your perspective... which is a hard thing to do. By doing the above steps, you should be able to achieve it, however.

In my experience, the insights you'll get from doing so are invaluable.

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Also, use a professional paid-for resume generating service, subscribe for a month, and then cancel. I'd recommend: https://resume.io/?ref=producthunt (I left the parameter on the url so you'll get the 80% discount)
On a similar note, the UK's longest ever trial[1] was a libel case about a leaflet that was discovered, 16 years later, to have been co-written by an undercover cop. One of the defendents unwittingly had a two year relationship with another undercover cop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
Sure that may have been one individual's motivation for the plan, but the public and subsequent governments thought it was a the best way to prevent drugs from infecting society.

When lawmakers seek to punish someone, they aren't doing it because they relish the suffering of the other person, but because they hope that person's pain will dissuade others from committing those same crimes.
Ask HN: What can I do if someone dupes me into working for free?
Hey HN,
I recently gave an interview and was asked to make a webpage, I can see that the page is live now on the main website but the founder is not replying to my messages. What can I do in this case?
What's irrational is to expect people to share your principles of extricating themselves from all logging.
What's with the Boston VC's? The minute I saw the original Dropbox video here on HN it looked like a can't miss product. I told all my friends about it. Heck not only did Sequoia invest, but Steve Jobs tried early to buy the entire company.

There are some companies where it's easy to see why they were missed. I never saw the point of AirBnB, never would use the service myself. But DropBox had almost universal appeal.
> function pointer type declarations inside anonymized unions inside parameter definition lists

Could you please provide a code snippet of this kind? Hard for me to visualize otherwise. Thanks.
Really? A product of circumstance? How so?
> #deletefacebook is about Deleting Facebook. If you try to make it about something else you clearly aren't getting it. Delete Facebook means Delete Facebook. Get off it. Break the links. Make everything go away.

From the perspective of Facebook, this is like an immune response. Those "infected" with #deletefacebook drop of and fail to spread the mimetic contagion to other users.

The best thing, from a #deletefacebook perspective, is to clear you profile of information and replace it with protest messages (including profile pic). Spread the message, explain why you think Facebook is bad and why you're going to delete your profile. Then, in a week or a month or whatever, circle back and actually delete it.
Being pedantic: In GEO, with an orbital radius of about 42Mm, and earth having a radius of 7Mm, that gives a radius of 7Mm * acos( 7Mm / 42Mm ) ~ 9800km around 4°W (almost a hemisphere), for which it would be overhead.

But admittedly it would only give service to a portion of that.
> the most bizarre way

Installing via PPA is much more common and trusted than installing a random binary from a random website.

> to add this little line for clarification.

That’s too late anyway, from May 8 on the GDPR comes into force, and then this will require explicit opt-in from the user, and the rest of the software has to continue working even if the user does not explicitly opt-in.

So, I’ll just wait for that. Also waiting for the day that the analytics on about:addons becomes explicitly opt-in, instead of being connected to the DNT setting.
One of the authors here. One thing about quaternion convolution is that you can write a color image into quaternion space by considering each channel as an imaginary axis. This lets the convolution act on the entire color space in a different way compared to real-valued networks, which may it do better for things like segmentation where you need to be more sensitive to changes in the color space.
Hi:))

Thanks:)

So I just broke those this week with an update & some refactoring, but they are for soundscapes, like rain, ocean, cafe background noise ect. - still thinking about how to group things

You know, open sourcing with multiple devs is something I haven’t put much thought into - at least for this project. I will have to move around some configs and do some readme stuff but growing that collaboration muscle seems important. Ill let that stir in my head, its still my baby, but I don’t see any harm, so maybe in a little:)

Soundcloud is a great idea:) I didn’t think of that either! - probably bc I don’t use it enough. Im definitely going to look into that this weekend.

Thanks and I’m really glad u guys like it this made my day:)
What's with the weird cryptic, trigraphish syntax for something common as constructors and destructors?

How are _init(struct obj o) _cleanup(sturct o) not enough? Okay, except those rare cases when you need a _new(struct obj o).
Is there a single Amazon or Google server in East Europe?
I think your statement in the form of a question boils down to "banning high powered weapons affects less people than banning sites with personals". Perhaps youre right in that angle but you originally said "Why is the right to skeet shoot with a military weapon in the same breath as forums for free speech?" and from the standpoint of eroding citizen rights and privacy to government in the name of safety they are _absolutely_ the same.
> Rust was voted the most loved technology on StackOverflow, which is unbelievable to me.

I absolutely adore Rust because my code has an order of magnitude fewer bugs when it is time to actually run the end result.

A lot of programmers have an ugly tendency to blame the language/library/framework/weather for their problems before questioning their skills or knowledge. They are absolutely not suitable to be Rust developers.
Sure. I’m saying my degree was worthless.

You don’t need school if you don’t need a degree for your job.

Learning is my all time hands-down favorite hobby. If you put in the work you can learn all the things you learn in a CS degree on your own and in a much shorter time.

The problem is getting good text books since they’re expensive (when I was in school you couldnt google everything).

I realized I could social engineer my way to free books by appropriating college letterhead, pretending to be a professor, and writing to publishers asking for evaluation copies of books I wanted to read.
I don't think there's anything wrong about instant messaging anyone on a work-approved platform, about work, at any time of day. Expecting a real-time response is unrealistic though.
That statement works equally well for both CEOs.
The protests against the Iraq war is considered the largest global protest in history. I would call that "widely".
The cost of the pop on the float is ~$250 million ($8 on 36 million shares). There's something like 400 million shares in the company.

It's not so bad.
I lean towards what Velodyne is saying in this situation. I have been working with LiDAR systems for over 4 years of which the last 1.5 years have been towards building autonomous driving vehicles. When I saw the videos, I was truly baffled by how a LiDAR can miss that. I worked with different types of LiDARs (from different manufacturers) and there is a very high chance that the LiDAR point cloud contains all the information corresponding to the person and the bicycle to make a decision.

What we need to keep in mind is that sensing an object is different from deciding whether or not to take an action (e.g., hitting brakes, raising alarms, swerving, etc.).

Most LiDAR/RADAR/Camera manufacturers only provide input data. It's like saying "hey, I see this". It's up to the perception software to decide whether or not to make a decision.

In most cars, relatively simpler decisions are made by the car's perception software (e.g., adaptive cruise control, lane change warning, automatic braking, etc.).

Self-driving companies override such systems, and rewire the car such that it is their perception software that makes the decision. So the onus is completely on the self-driving company's software. In this case, it is the perception software developed by Uber to be critiqued - not Velodyne, not Volvo, not the camera manufacturer.

It looks like the engineers at Velodyne feel confident that they should (and would have) sensed the person, and hence their statement. I wouldn't doubt them much as they have been in the LiDAR game since DARPA days when self driving was considered experimental.

From a different angle, Velodyne may not have much to loose by throwing Uber under the bus - especially when compared to how much their reputation is at stake. This is because Velodyne has several big customers (e.g., Waymo, and almost every other self-driving, mapping company that is serious about getting big).

NTSB should and will get access to the point clouds. Uber has a choice of releasing the point clouds to the public - but I highly doubt they will.
STL, RTTI and Exceptions should be avoided on embedded platforms (talking about 8 bit µCs here). I've extensively used both templates and lambdas on 8 bit AVRs (both the Tiny and Mega series); actually, writing templated code for µCs is a great way to avoid overhead stemming from function pointers etc. while still having well maintainable code.
It means to go for revenue first :-)
I feel like one is taken for a fool's ride if you lead discussion on legislation based on legislative intent, rather than function. Where does one find the purpose of voter literacy laws? Or California's Proposition 8? Based on the overt statements of individual legislators?
Sounds to me like the market suddenly has new pent up demand for a personals site. Who will disrupt?
Is your argument that it's the author's fault that the bugs aren't being fixed because he volunteers on open source software when he instead should have found a way to get paid to work on it?
My resume has been in LaTeX for years. In fact, it's the only thing I use LaTeX for these days.

Sometimes I get a recruiter who demands I send them my resume as an editable Word document rather than a PDF, so not having one at the ready makes it easier to just say no :)
There should be an alert of some sort and the car refusing to drive if the LIDAR is obstructed.
Simple... they relocate to Ontario.
Depends on the business. Entertainment venue? Live music/special events/etc? Almost every spot in my town seems to use Facebook to advertise these events, and NOTHING ELSE.

I don't like it... but it's what people do. It's the only reason I have a facebook.
Is that true? My understanding is that objective categorizations end up matching traditional categories pretty closely, e.g., http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2010/08/connect-dots.html
I'm overall not that familiar with Chinese culture, so asking with genuine curiosity - why would the availability of 1984, a piece of Western work depicting the Western world with very little mention of China, be an interesting benchmark?

If the average Chinese person has no prior interest in wanting to read that book or even knowing of its existence, why would the Chinese government care about banning it?
Condoleeza Rice did not spearhead the Iraq War by any reasonable standard. (If you can fairly credit anyone other than President Bush with that, its Vice President Cheney, who was actively pushing for aggressive war with Iraq and arranging for it both before 9/11 in the administration, and even advocating it publicly for many years before joining the administration.)

I'm not saying that there might not be some basis for finding her culpable for some acts of the Administration that amount to war crimes, crimes against peace (launching a war of aggression is that, not a war crime), or crimes against humanity, but spearheading the Iraq War clearly isn't on the list, either from advocacy or authority standpoint. Knowingly helping to provide the false pretext for it might be, however.
There is still time, right? Lots of standards update efforts have moved in and out of ISO and IETF.
That's nothing unique to legislation surrounding sex. Rebranding creationism to "intelligent design" and "teach the controversy" are great examples of disingenuous legislation attempting to create precedent and chip away at at issues in the background. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that things like literacy tests and poll taxes were such examples. It's standard fare for the course in politics. Law is one of those areas where the "slippery slope" argument does actually reflect reality.
"As a person frequently prone to various forms of inflammation, is there something I can do to minimize this risk?"

I think you should consider fasting - or, at the very least, reducing the size of your "feeding window".

This is quite simple, actually - don't have any calories of any kind after dinner, and then wait until noon to have any calories of any kind.

Just like that, you've increased by 50% the time your body spends in fasting state.

If you think of what your metabolic markers look like when you wake up in the morning (blood pressure, free cholesterol, insulin levels, blood sugar ...) imagine what you're doing for yourself when you extend the length of that state by 50% a few days per week.

It's quite easy and I think you may find that markers of inflammation (like eczema, asthma, etc.) decrease in ways they never did with changes in diet.

Remember: no matter how "whole" or "healthy" or "nutritious" your diet is, you're still stoking all the fires of metabolism when you eat it - and that radiates out through your entire body.
The world's largest animal study on cell tower radiation is more likely one of several cohort studies on humans (often with more than a million subjects) which indicate that if there is a non-ionizing radiation link to brain cancer, it is extremely tenuous and completely overshadowed by genetic factors and other lifestyle factors. If cell tower radiation significantly increased the likelihood of malignant cancers, we would know it by all the extra dead people.
I see the same phenomena in response to Sam Harris. I would blame shortened attention spans for the misreadings (which seems the fashionable scapegoat today) but even other academics spout nonsense with regards to Pinker and Harris.

I am, I confess, deeply puzzled by the responses I read and hear about these two (and a few others).
I also use messenger to communicate with friends, but i think im going to make the effort to convince them to move to a privacy focused and non data mining platform, such as telegram.
That's interesting to hear. I have a number of people working for me who are in our Hyderabad office and when they showed me their school on a map, I found it was usually extremely small, hardly looked like a college at all. And there seem to be a lot of schools, pretty much everywhere. I get that India is extremely large to that makes some sense, but it's interesting to hear another perspective from someone who has been through the schooling.

Anecdotally, the people on my team seem quite smart and capable, regardless of whatever quality of education they received, but we did have an intern locally who had a bachelor's from a school in India and was working on his masters at Oregon State University -- he knew so little about how to even use computers, much less write code that wasn't copy/paste from Stack Overflow, I was amazed that he was an actual master's student.
gw groups are the only thing keeping me on reddit at this point.
Musk deletes Facebook pages of Tesla, SpaceX after challenged on Twitter