skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think having a quiet place to work with few (or at least more controllable) distractions is paramount to getting in the zone and staying there. It's always been clear, and now we have some hard data, that working from home lets employees deliver better bang-for-the-buck; and shows that making everyone come to the office day in, day out has a real tax to it.

So maybe you don't need to hire more; just better position the people you've got for success.
This one looks a bit better than many. Always bothers me the number of sites based on the apparent premise that all of us want full-time and on-site traditional employment. Even the sites that cater to remote work overlook that at least some of us would prefer to freelance.
In my limited experience, management often uses a shiny iPhone, a shiny iPad, but then a Windows laptop (or none at all). I can't find any statistics to back it up, though.
I agree, that browsing the 2D Web in a VR headset is not very compelling, but I can see it being the first step for many companies to do.

If you're interested, we've built/shipped a full 3D/VR browser as part of the YC W18 batch, ditching the flat 2D Web. http://store.steampowered.com/app/803010/Supermedium/
Depends on who is being hurt. Given the issue of drunk driving killing children, and given the current push to restrict rights to save children, I think informing the public of the number of children killed because of alcohol is important so that we can push for banning it (not a total ban, but a ban of the most dangerous stuff, which I will begin calling assault alcohol).
I wonder what happened behind the scenes to get Taylor Swift on Spotify. I think that was a major test.
Actual title: "The infuriating invisibility of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg"

"Mar. 20, 2018 3:34 PM ET

With criticism swelling about the lack of a public statement from Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company held an open employee meeting today to discuss the matter, but neither Zuckerberg nor Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg attended, the Daily Beast reports."

Source:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3340524-report-zuckerberg-sand...

Could be she is "invisible" because shes just too busy working behind the scenes.

"Sandberg: We did disclose -- on the Russian manipulation, we did disclose. We gave the information to Congress. We made it clear to people if they had seen those pages. There's a place you can go we [oops dont suggest its their responsibilty to look, rephrase] -- every situation we worked to get to the bottom of this we want to disclose. Sometimes, and I would say certainly this past week, we speak too slowly. If I could live this past week again, I would have definitely had Mark and myself out speaking earlier, but we were trying to get to the bottom of this and make sure we could take strong action. Our commitment is clear. We know this is an issue of trust. We know this is a critical moment for our company, for the service we provide. We are going to do everything we can. There will always be bad actors and I don't want to minimize that. But we are going to do everything we can to find bad actors. We're going to open tools transparently so people can help us find the bad actors on our platform. We're gonna notify users and we're gonna shut them down as fast as we can."

Source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcri...
I wonder if it actually "helps" or if it's just the natural escalation of continued revelations about something you have no intention of fixing and no preexisting PR plan for.
My guess is that the intention was "E2E encrypted".
This Exponent episode on Spotify is excellent and they discuss how they don't have quite the same power as Netflix but still more than people appreciate - http://exponent.fm/episode-144-90s-alt-forever/
Found this idea interesting and looked into it and found this:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/062905.asp

Looks like it's allowed, but difficult
I wasn't addressing his argument because I actually agree. I was just pointing out that the 2% is far off in Europe.
Why the hard dependency on MySQL?
I recommend the video, it includes some footage of the printing process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STAHy6hTP14

Unlike traditional 3d metal printing, which works by laying down a powder which is then baked in an oven to fully sinter it, this bridge seems to be constructed by directly welding additional metal to the existing structure.

Here's a fun DIY attempt at the same kind of idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFXniBbgbw0 (and, if you're into home machining, almost all of the other videos on his channel are very enjoyable too).
Is the encryption for Riot.im out of Beta yet? Last time I've looked, about 4 month ago, it came with a big warning. Besides that it had no real concept of identity tied to account or so but generated a new key each time someone opened it in a browser or installed the app on a new device with out prompting, leading to people having as much as 30(!) keys, which of course nobody ever verifies.
Spotify was light years ahead of Pandora when it launched in Europe. I used to VPN through Europe just to use Spotify before it launched in the US. It was a popular work-around for the tech literate in the US circa 2006. People went nuts for the service, though the cachet of it being difficult to access may have helped.
Andrew Ng's deep learning course. For me it struck the perfect balance between being fast and 'easy' enough to not take up too much of my time while still being deep enough that I finally understood the basic math behind deep learning.
Recognizing the defense is different than combating it. Or perhaps I misunderstood - are you saying that the way to combat it is to point out that they have no coherent theory?
Thanks for the comment. It does follow the running thread with most comments that I shouldn't be afraid to distance myself.

> One point that may be lost in all the comments, [...] this was his father's company to begin with.

I've pondered this. There is no disputing (and I try to make this point in the paste) that my father actually brought something to the table. In this case, it was inventory and supplier relationships.

In some respects, the whole thing was so separate from the original company that I used to joke with my father that I should just have the money deposited in my bank account instead of his, and he should just give me a slightly better price on product.

We even discussed changing the name of the company when we transitioned to online-only sales. But, hysterically, the company is named after me, so I argued that it should stay the same, and eventually persuaded him.
The metaphorical value here is that she is perceived as the hire to "be" the adult in the room, because Zuckerberg was perceived as being incapable of fulfilling the role.

Both of them display the same flaws btw. If we should cease to say this, its only because its an impossible goal. But, as a sharp-edged reminder of expectations vs reality it still has some merit. And, humour.

TL;DR no, it doesn't literally mean to be the only adult, it means to be expected to behave like one: age is immaterial
Thank you for posting this. I have attempted to explain this very issue in the past. Women's verbal and non-verbal responses to men are extremely formative in how men learn to behave.
Here's a more easily digestible summary of that paper:

- infographic: https://cmustrudel.github.io/announcement/badges

- summary web page: https://cmustrudel.github.io/projects/badges/
It’s a form of something called “arguing in the alternative.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative

It’s very real.
Some youtuber gave a code for 3 months free of Skillshare, which gave me the impression of being a Coursera for all things design. I already knew how to draw, so I can't say how it is for a newbie, but I did pick a couple new tricks (namely, portraits in Photoshop and watercolor houses).
Seems to work fine for me
You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they favor. This is in the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If you would read them and use HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.

More explanation, for anyone who wants it, is at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16402648, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185062, and plenty more at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
I thought the headline was a bit nonsensical -- of course there are listening devices in DC. Our own intelligence agencies doubtless have such devices throughout the nation's capitol. But it turns out they're worried about listening devices placed by other people's governments. Those, we're not so happy about.
Moscow, Russia
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
adguard 6 ms 8 ms 4 ms 8 ms 11 ms 5 ms 7 ms 4 ms 4 ms 22 ms 7.90
google2nd 4 ms 4 ms 5 ms 22 ms 30 ms 18 ms 3 ms 27 ms 3 ms 3 ms 11.90
yandex 5 ms 9 ms 5 ms 9 ms 87 ms 50 ms 9 ms 9 ms 5 ms 60 ms 24.80
google 3 ms 18 ms 3 ms 20 ms 29 ms 165 ms 3 ms 18 ms 3 ms 19 ms 28.10
cloudflare2nd 45 ms 44 ms 46 ms 44 ms 46 ms 44 ms 44 ms 45 ms 65 ms 48 ms 47.10
quad9 47 ms 48 ms 47 ms 48 ms 46 ms 57 ms 46 ms 44 ms 46 ms 45 ms 47.40
opendns 45 ms 47 ms 46 ms 59 ms 47 ms 45 ms 47 ms 49 ms 51 ms 44 ms 48.00
norton 52 ms 49 ms 53 ms 52 ms 58 ms 56 ms 51 ms 48 ms 54 ms 52 ms 52.50
cleanbrowsing 96 ms 48 ms 60 ms 46 ms 49 ms 46 ms 45 ms 49 ms 44 ms 46 ms 52.90
neustar 54 ms 56 ms 52 ms 59 ms 50 ms 57 ms 55 ms 57 ms 59 ms 54 ms 55.30
comodo 80 ms 88 ms 73 ms 113 ms 79 ms 75 ms 75 ms 74 ms 74 ms 90 ms 82.10
cloudflare 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000.00
Unfortunate, but not unexpected.

A shame about Bloomfield and Gulftown, but the rest of the products seem to be firmly in the legacy/obsolete category.
People have been reinventing IDLs since forever and a day.

S-expressions are the oldest serialization format that I know of. ASN.1 is a fairly ancient IDL that was used for RPC back in the early 80s (ISODE/ROSE). There's ONC RPC, with XDR as the IDL. There's DCE RPC (and MS-RPC). And many many many many others. There's tons of serialization formats, and they all tend to have one or more related sort of RPC frameworks, ad-hoc or otherwise. Perl5 has several, no?

This is the space of NIH.

Take protocol buffers. It's supposed to be an anti-ASN.1, but it's actually remarkably similar to ASN.1's DER (distinguished encoding rules), which means it has lots of the same mistakes. It's all very sad.
Why would animals fart about a book?
> The main distinction I see between "research" and "tinkering" is not what the author calls "scholarship". From personal experience the only serious distinction is that "researchers" tend to have a very long time attention span compared with "tinkerers".

Many aspects of "scholarship" become inevitable when "tinkering over a long timeframe". You build up a knowledge base about the problem and/or methodology you're tinkering with, you eventually form a community around your tinkering, etc.

Lots and lots of tinkerers gratify themselves without contributing any modicum of knowledge to the world. But the most successful tinkerers are almost always effectively scholars in the sense of this post. In the sense that they're familiar with a body of knowledge/the people producing that knowledge. And they contribute genuinely new ways of doing things, or new ideas of things to do, or excellent executions on existing ideas that achieve the aspirations of previously articulated ideas. E.g., Linus is certainly a successful OS scholar in the sense of this post.

> In the case of very successful articles, you can fit all the readers in a (small) bus

This is off by at least an order of magnitude for any even remotely reasonable definition of "successful".

> Researcher B reads what researcher A reports and expresses an opinion, just like any honest reader could

First, the author explicitly kinda-sorta agrees with you here (...Third, it's not really the publication...), so it's pretty clear that publication venue != scholarship.

As an aside, peer review != validation!!! This is something that every young Ph.D. should explicitly learn early on.
Seems the website itself isn't loading? http://diamondmvc.org/
>There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating ``echo chambers" that insulate people from opposing views about current events. We surveyed a large sample of Democrats and Republicans who visit Twitter at least three times each week about a range of social policy issues. One week later, we randomly assigned respondents to a treatment condition in which they were offered financial incentives to follow a Twitter bot for one month that exposed them to messages produced by elected officials, organizations, and other opinion leaders with opposing political ideologies. Respondents were re-surveyed at the end of the month to measure the effect of this treatment, and at regular intervals throughout the study period to monitor treatment compliance. We find that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative post-treatment, and Democrats who followed a conservative Twitter bot became slightly more liberal post-treatment. These findings have important implications for the interdisciplinary literature on political polarization as well as the emerging field of computational social science.

Nope, those findings are BS.

"Exposure to opposing views" means continuous exposure, in a regular manner and in varied circumstances, having people in their social circle holding them, etc -- not merely read a stream of opposing views for a week.

This will only upset and polarize people, since they already dislike those views. This is not much more than taking a Hilary supporter in a Trump rally, or vice versa.
Well, it's not a hard dependency. Diamond works fine without MySQL, it only depends on the mysql-native library, but not on MySql itself. It's fairly light-weight, so it has no big impact on the framework itself.
Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain
there's nothing sound about the 'science of cryogenics' in fact there barely is such science at all if we're talking about the central sales pitch, which is actually bringing you back to life again in one form or another. Freezing you admittedly is straight-forward enough

The brain upload thing is a complete fantasy and science fiction, but even the traditional promise of somehow resurrecting you has never been proven with the exception of a 30-year-old tardigrade two years ago if I remember correctly.
One could argue that the current legalization and decriminalization of cannabis could not have occurred without the medical marijuana forerunners in the 90s, so there may be some merit to your argument.

On the other hand, I suspect the simple profit motive is much stronger. Headlines like “Study suggests one glass of red wine per day reduces heart disease risk” is music to a winery’s ears.
Yep. Probably need to give them a tax break and improve trade relations for them

In fact, we’re rather disinterested in even having a functioning Legislative body, why bother and just let these folks run it all

Sort of the way we’re going
The concern here is on the word 'rogue' because there has always been a need for warranted access to apparently private conversations, and when occasion demands.

There is a persisting belief that governments worldwide including the US government don't even bother with warrants when it suits them.

we don't do that is not a very convincing defence.
It isn't necessarily arguing in bad faith. It's simply an argumentation technique, commonly used in high stake situations. My client can't have killed that person, because they were 1000 miles away. But even if that weren't the case, they have no motive. But even if they had a motive, they have no weapon. But even if they have the weapon and the motive, they have strong personal beliefs against violence.

For the sake of argument, assume all those things are true. That's a perfectly reasonable argument to use in a court situation. When there's going to be a final verdict, from which appeal is impossible or very expensive, you are an idiot if you only bring up the fact they were a 1000 miles away. You marshal every argument you possibly can. This isn't a dialog; you don't get a (cheap) response once the verdict is in.

I think this is a poor essay, blaming a standard argumentation technique for the poor behavior of certain industries. The problem isn't the four dog defense, the problem is the poor behavior of certain industries. I mean, remove the defense from those industries and what would change? Basically nothing; one would have to be some sort of very specific meta-contrarian cynic to claim otherwise. Clearly it's not the real problem.

Also, it's not the "Doggy-Dog World of Politicians"... it's the "Dog-Eat-Dog World of Politicians". I mention this because frankly it struck me as on par with the quality of the rest of the essay. Edit: In fact, on reflection, I've flagged it. It hasn't got much redeeming value.
That would be really cool but the wiring might get a bit too complicated. Also the lighting is slapped on to readymade parts, so it's not like you can do alterations to the silicon that would be necessary for those features. With that said, since we're seeing programmatically controlled RGB lighting getting released, maybe someone could write a lightweight daemon to control it based on those parameters.
MIT cuts ties with brain preservation startup Netcome
Nah, I'm talking about the cgroup _namespace_ specifically, not cgroups in general.
What was the new type of steel they used?
Bug report: Onai's job is listed as located in Bangalore whereas they're located[1] in Silicon Valley and have nothing to do with Bangalore.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16735406
They should submit them to the FCC for approval. We don't want them causing microwave damage to people's brains.
yeah, the idea here is that it might be sufficient, much like cryogenics. their marketing is probably irresponsible, depending on your perspective, but then again you're dead anyway so any shot at a future may be worth it.

unlike cryogenics it will definitely result in a lot of useful and interesting data about the brain, whether it works or not.
I can't get enough of cashless, paper money and coins are about the most inconvenient thing people have had to put up with for thousands of years.

Yes, giving control to the banks, private or run by the government, it's a bad idea. But if nothing else, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies we have proven that it's possible to have digital money that is not controlled by a single central bank, or by any bank at all. We just need to make it a few orders of magnitude more convenient...
Obviously, this can be used to simply lie about not having a dog. On the other hand, it is also the way you deal with any objections that might be raised if you are dealing with a claim that is wrong on many different levels. Say that someone posts what they claim is a video showing a Tesla roadster wrecking on autopilot while the driver was watching a movie.

It is very logical for Tesla to point out if it isn't actually a roadster in the photo. Further, they can say that even if it was, the roadster doesn't have autopilot. Even if it was a roadster and the roadster came with autopilot and the driver was using autopilot, the driver is still responsible for paying attention to the road and keeping hands on the wheel.
It's almost news to me that they manufacture phones (I happen to remember some sort of Oppo smartphone with a camera that you can physically rotate to take front/back photos, but that's about it). My only real experience with them has actually been their AV equipment.
Having at least your interfaces defined in something resembling DCE IDL can give a useful amount of confidence that the system could plausibly interop with something else. (RPC, COM, etc.)
And I've heard of beggars with WeChat QR codes in China.
I can't understand why people are on this site are so allergic to the suburbs. What is it that made you have such a bad quality of life that you had a panic attack? Why can't you have a job in the city if you live in the suburbs?
I bought a 2400G with a motherboard[0] a day after release. It surprised me that the board came with a compatible BIOS out of the box. (I was thinking that I might have to take my 1800X out of my main rig to flash it.) I built the machine for a friend, and he's been doing some light gaming on it (with a discrete GPU). I ask him every now and then how it's doing, and he says there are no problems.

[0]: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681315...
And if you have a weak leader, you have companies running around doing whatever they wish (e.g. Amazon and Google now) because there is no oversight or regulations, and pitiful punishments for betraying their customers.
Circuit and electronics MITx 6.002. Great lectures, a joy to watch. Put me on the path to EE full-time.
> "Great Flexibility. Highly customizable build. You can easily create your own task and do whatever you want."

Usually this is a red flag for me. People's apps really aren't that different, if you're doing some weird customization its going to be a nightmare for the next guy to maintain.
Honestly, I have the opposite opinion. I really don't like it when there are custom bash build scripts. And you have to figure out how they work and what they do. And how to pass additional parameters etc.

If you use Maven for your project, then I expect that if I run `mvn clean install` then it will build the project.

I think that is the whole point of standard build tools: that you can switch projects easily, run the same command and get the same result, and not waste time learning custom scripts for each project.
The operative word here being "simulate." I will admit however that that opens a debate about the nature of consciousness in which I'm not prepared to resolutely say would not count as true consciousness.

So I will reframe and clarify my argument -- I believe that we do not know enough about the brain and the nature on consciousness to be able to conclude that taking this kind of "snapshot" of the brain will in anyway preserve any of the necessary information needed to reproduce or even accurately simulate consciousness, and that the argument that it is or will is based on the flawed assumption that the brain is or functions like a information processor (a flawed metaphor that is very quickly reaching it's limitations).
Sorry, but no. For this to work you will need a select group of people with too much power. Why would I trust those people instead of the original creators? This is just going to create a parasitic industry, with no much value.
you could enforce proper types that do not have any inaccuracies
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously
Social Psychology

It is available on AcademicTorrents with seeders, if one is so inclined.
It's a moot question right now since nothing they're doing could ever conceivably allow for future resurrection. This is purely a way to separate suckers from their money (or, more charitably, perhaps a case of blind optimism outrunning scientific reality).
Probably. It's not like he is top rate talent, he will literally do anything for a check.
They're probably only using query params at that endpoint for referral links. There are a couple high profile subscription news sites that let you in as much as you want as long as your referer header says "facebook.com".