skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Four year college tends to be a great equalizer for other social injustices, however. While Northwestern may be a complete waste of time for the demographic you're advocating for (the well-educated and likely affluent), it does act as a way to retard the development of those people and allow the children from under served communities to catch up. For as much as your plan would allow the top 0.1% female to close the gap with the 0.1% male, it would also severely deepen the divide between wealthy/poor and probably further suppress African American achievement. You'd have to fix our problems with equal educational opportunity in much earlier stages of development to take the burden off of colleges.
What about deleting data in backups for an EU resident who submitted a request for data deletion? If a company is using mysqldump or equivalent it seems difficult to just drop certain records from those .sql files.
Well the world has changed clearly. When facebook/myspace started out, would they have been able to achieve success if they were bogged down with data privacy compliance?
I'm an EU citizen and I disagree, so I guess that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I'm going to disagree and say I don't like the wood.

Personally, I think glass fiber reinforced nylon -- the kind of plastic you see in high end power tools -- would be a much better aesthetic, as well as being far more durable than any hardwood. It's also much easier to scale if you want to make 100,000 of these things.

Also not a huge fan of the square body. If it's dark, all I have to orient the remote is those two chevrons. Maybe that works, maybe it doesn't, but I'm still partial to the rectangle.
I'm working with my family managing our supermarket.
It is not cool at all.

I got a Bachelors degree in CS at UFPE. I have been studying for a while to get back to software developer career.
Plenty of EU people are forced to follow certain US laws, from DMCA etc, to banking laws.
It's not about the "HN Web Bubble". I'm on the opposite coast and keep my eye on the job market. There are relatively few jobs for WPF compared to web - even in the enterprise market. Most internal apps these days are web based because of ease of deployment, and TCO. No one wants to maintain a bunch of PCs with the only alternative being a bunch of Citrix Terminals when they can use a web browser.

The writing is on the wall - not even MS is falling over itself to support WPF in .Net Core.
Location is useful if you're searching for things like restaurants though.

But Google is stupid, yesterday I read this commentary about a movie about a plane hijacking in the 70's that landed the plane in Entebbe, Uganda:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/07/entebb...

Being interested in the historical context, I googled the name of the city. Later on Google showed me as one of its results "Flights to Entebbe". Gee, how clever.
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I have one of these, and love it. It's so much nicer than the plasticky remotes that come with anything else, and the system support out of the box is great. Sam is very responsive on the forums too.

I have written a raspberry pi server component[1] that can be extended to support any smart device (if you've got an API for it).

You can, if you wish, use the device completely without any supplied software, it operates via bluetooth only so does not phone home. If you want to class up your own hacked together/secure smart home setup, this is a great device.

1: https://github.com/fredley/raspi-turntouch
They have a closed beta program for an "Enterprise" version that is supposed to have an API. Seems like a good way to monetize.
I guess it depends what "post-scarcity" is supposed to mean, but I don't consider a situation where people die because of lack of access to resources post-scarcity, even if someone is hoarding all the necessary resources somewhere.
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Thank you for the reminder. I was emotional, and I went way over the line. I am sorry for the trouble, and for bringing down the quality of discourse.
Anecdatum, I wouldn’t even consider this if it wasn’t wood.
Don't let the price fool you. The price is why I bought the original Leap Motion hand tracker and I was so disappointed. The technology was very good, but its design as a human interface device was abysmal. I am still really confused why they thought it would be good to require that an interface be created for every piece of software it interacted with, rather than allowing that as an option but also having a consistent, operating system level driver that worked across apps with a set of basic gestures.

I basically got no use out of it and strongly regret the purchase. That's the catch though, the price was just low enough to make me not that enraged, kind of like this thing here. Am I going to do it again? Oh gosh, I might.
Because:

* in open source software projects, professional designers are rare.

* functionality or documentation might have been higher priorities

* it would be unfair to deprive you of the opportunity to contribute a better design to this open source projet
Agreed, but I meant public schools as K-12 schools. Public universities (IMO because they have to compete) are part of my "expensive but good" bucket.
Don’t know what else to say besides “Come on over to the US and see for yourself.” We are in the stone age when it comes to payment processing.
I haven’t looked in a while but I don’t believe there was a way to get notified on a mention. With a small community that would be key
Namecheap.
A friend told me that there is really cheap. :P
Don't knock it til you've tried it. It's easier than you think to orient the remote in your hand without looking. That north ridge (the chevron) is quite pronounced by feel and you can feel it through clothing.

As for the wood, I agree that different tastes are something I should strive to accommodate. Plastic is next and I also love the feel of glass filled nylon. I'll be looking into it as soon as the wood remotes do well enough.
As an embedded developer that has done contracting for people with all of the capital, and none of the misunderstanding of electronics, I'd like to offer a thought experiment. I realize that Amazon has all sorts of guardrails in place, but I can control anything in my house with Alexa today, regardless of Amazon's prior approval, because I can make anything in my house appear to my Alexa as a Hue hub.

The internet has already reverse engineered Alexa to make it a weapon, and unsavvy people like shiny things. So how long until an unsavvy wealthy person hires an embedded developer to integrate his entire house to work under the emulated hue model? Because the day its up and running, that unsavvy rich guy is going to throw a party. And that embedded developer might just show up and say "Hey alexa, set a timer for everyone's sleep monitors within your geofence. when they're all asleep, disarm the security system for 1 hour, turn up everyones binaural sleep aids for one hour, and hire me three ubers so I can make a clean getaway with the goldbars in the basement. Oh yeah, Alexa, unlock the vault.
Just out of curiosity, why did you post this now?

It's a pretty stable situation at the moment, and the worst was probably at the time of the various FLQ crises.

Today, the party Bloc Quebecois represents a traditionally pro-sovereignty point of view in the House of Commons of Canada and the Parti Quebecois in the provincial legislature of Quebec.

The last referendum for separation did not receive enough votes to leave Canada.
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That's not passive. You have to keep writing content to keep people coming back.
It has a desktop app for MacOS, Linux and Windows.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop
JWT itself is a nice container for signing a small amount of JSON and being able to easily pass that around. I use it a lot for situations where I want to ensure someone hasn't futzed with the data, and/or I want an auto-expiring token of some sort.

JWT, by itself, is not an authentication and authorization system, but people often use it as such.
This right here, how can such a basic step to protect your users be skipped?
This is why I am disappointed GitHub has become the defacto standard. It's not clear what this is or even why this exists. And that seems to be the case with the vast majority of projects on the site.
Rental properties, managed by a 3rd-party professional company.
I would hope not, that certificate is powered by Shopify. The other certificate on turntouch.com proper is a Let's Encrypt cert.
You can actually play your YouTube videos in the background on your phone
I disagree. Here's an outline of what a response to the letter in that first link should look like for a small, well-meaning* startup:

The letter is nicely formatted into 9 bullets. All are optional for small companies, and all can be automated - the answer should be the same for all users.

1. This is a "yes" or "no" question. If the answer is "no", you can ignore the rest of the letter. If yes, the answer is the same for all users.

2. Simple, short, same for all users.

3. You can avoid doing if you want. If you are doing this, you're signing up to take on this additional burden of informing your users. Consider this when making this decision. This is the only bullet in the list that is in any way burdensome as you will need to update this text in your automated response whenever you take on 3rd-parties (if at all).

4. Simple, short, same for all users.

5. and 6. are "if" conditionals that you shouldn't be doing. The answer should be "No".

7. Amounts to "has my data been hacked". If yes, that's unfortunate, but obviously you have a moral obligation to respond here regardless. Presuming you're hacked once, you provide full details once and send automatically to any users who ask.

8. and 9. are out of place. GDPR doesn't require you to respond to these questions within this quoted 1 month time limit (you do have to have what's detailed within them in place to comply with GDPR but that's tangential to info requests). These seem to have been put into this blog post as extra scaremongering.

* by "well-meaning" I basically mean "not selling all of your users personal data to myriad nefarious 3rd-parties"
Almost the same thing... the ETF with the ticker SPY.

When I researched this years ago, I concluded the costs were less expensive than any S&P 500 mutual find I could find. Not sure if that's still true or not.
And very capital-intensive. Most people would benefit more from passive but labour-intensive ideas.
Does this work for finding all objects in a bucket that match a criteria?

i.e. SELECT name FROM myBucket where object.name LIKE '%.log'
I've always found "CRUD" work ends up being way more complicated, interesting and challenging than its reputation indicates.

Moreover, when it becomes tedious, it's almost always a result of poor tools, bad decisions or developers doing manually what should have been automated.

I'm also pretty sure if there were no intellectual challenge involved I wouldn't see so many unnormalized databases.
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I once had similar thoughts about, say, movie rating systems like IMDB. But you can pretty quickly convince yourself that straightforward ways of implementing this would open themselves up to horrific levels of system gaming very easily: a user who gives everyone a 2 but occasionally gives their best friend a 5 will wind up having that "5" normalized to some astronomically great rating (which even by itself could heavily inflate the friend's average). And every fix for that sort of thing that I came up with opened the door to yet another exploitable flaw or failure to accurately reflect user preferences.

It's a hard problem. And especially in cases like Uber, I don't think there's a technical fix: as long as the company puts the cutoff for continued employment above the second-highest rating, there's a high perceived moral cost to giving a rating less than the maximum.
Programming Erlang.
in_EU(company) means the company is involved in

“offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or
the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.”

So Facebook US cannot divest itself as long as it serves customers in the EU or exchanges data about data subjects in the EU with its EU subsidiary.
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https://github.com/signalapp
For consumers, credit cards offer benefits, such as cash back, "point rewards" systems, and so on. The price is the same, credit or debit, so why not credit?
People won't see it when looking at you app with blinders on. However, they will feel the difference when using the competition's app.

They won't be able to tell you why they prefer the one with more time invested in the UX/UI, but they will almost always choose that one.

There are universal rules in design and everyone is using them. We are actively training the users into feeling those rules as superior.

(This is also why huge paradigm changes feel so refreshing. Breaking the rules on purpose is very strong.)
I'm very hopeful this reverse engineering effort will enable the creation of a tool to export my conversations (WhatsApp can do email export, which let's be real, doesn't cut it for most cases).

A point to those that support migrating to alternatives such as Signal. Signal is good, but far from great for a single reason: you need a phone number. This is very bad in necsec and reliability terms, my case:

Reliability: like more and more people, I travel all the time between countries and live out of Airbnbs. Hence my pre-paid phone numbers changes very regularly. If I lose my phone, I lose the phone number, I also lose my Whatsapp/Signal key associated with my phone number.

Netsec: A phone number is associated with your physical identity, you might not care, but more and more people do care about this stuff. Yes there are ways around that, but nothing straightforward and actually practical.

I'm patiently, but eagerly, looking forward to status.im .
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Difficult yes, impossible not.
As dfox mentions, I think you are confusing "Windows MSDOS Executive" with DOSSHell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Shell
Rather than throwing away the definitions and creating one that is very loosely supported, it may make more sense to divide scarcity into 'artificial' and 'innate' or something similar where artificial scarcity is created by 'attaching property rights' to something like in the air example; though you are correct, I do think that is a ridiculous example despite some people arguing for it.
Every RSS reader I've used had a "click here to go to the original article" button. Does that not do what you want?
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Lucky you to have a neural networks 101! My CS degree is now 12 years old, and I crave simple examples like this one. Hence the upvote.
Exec MBAs are not for top execs. "exec" is just the marketing tag. It's exactly the same as exec Masters that GATech and UW do to extract tuition reimbursement funds from big companies like Microsoft
So is part of the idea of releasing the schematics that it might push VR headset makers to adopt a design similar to this?
This is a nice button - openhab is an entire home automation platform. With no buttons.

Kinda like saying ‘that’s a nice keyboard, but Linux is cooler’
The price of $15k according their YouTube video is ridiculously low. Decent robot arm costs you $5k alone. Not sure how they will plan to make some profit even buying parts in bulk.
Things are a little more complicated than that...for one thing, pretty much all genetics work done today requires customized primers for the process of creating lots of identical DNA strands. If you accidentally sent off for chickenpox primers and used them with DNA from your gene donor vegetable/fruit/flower/jellyfish/etc, you would not get chickenpox DNA. Further, I believe that the way DNA strands are identified and recovered is by estimating their size in base pairs and comparing that to the expected result. And samples from the results are sequenced to verify their accuracy, anyways.

I believe that there are also similar targeting steps with the CAS-9 proteins, but I don't know very much about this subject.

I do think that I know enough to say that accidentally clicking the wrong file will not put chickenpox into a potato anytime soon, though.
Not very likely any time soon. There was a long debate about it and they decided that putting your trust entirely in the CA system and Signal's servers every time to not serve a malicious client that couldn't be validated by the user wasn't acceptable.
If you use a secret token you would compare the token from the first user 123 to what’s stored in the DB (for the second user ID) see that it doesn’t match and not log them in.

Because they used a signed user ID, there was no way to differentiate the user 123 from before the system restore and after.
>Jerry pournelle used to rave about the golden bow defragger

Yes, that would be (for those not familiar with the matter) Vopt, the article on Wikipedia quotes Jerry Pournelle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vopt

Now (since early 2016) "abandonware/free" for all:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160816083906/http://www.golden...
With Turo (I'd imagine this service is similar), the service or the customer has to provide it. The risk with these services is competition: the better it is, the more people start using it...and then the parent business takes a bigger cut (see AirBnB).
How loud is loud enough, and how loud is too loud?
I just ate at The Modern in NYC the other day. The Modern is a Michelin star restaurant. I didn't smell cooking. Half the dining experience at Michelin restaurants is all about tightly controlling the inflow of stimuli to your senses. No good restaurant would want you to smell someone else's seafood cooking while you start on desert. Is your experience limited solely to to restaurants with poor HVAC?
Whg is stats full of goofy names to make everything sound more unique and complex than it is?
Speaking of which, it is now possible to run full linux and android apps on chromebooks which support containers (and vms?) in a tab with the new official Google Crostini project. Makes the Pixelbook more attractive.

https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/981579699833880576

More info on Crostini https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/7ytpb1/project_cr... …
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But do you think this effect could be culturally formed? That would still make it worth tackling.
I don't think it is, because the acceleration of the process radically changes the viable range of intentionally targeted outcomes.

People focus on the positive of these modifications but seem to forget that the purpose of companies in gene modification is not to create healthier food, but to increase their profit margins. This conflict is a regular one, but it's made even worse by the fact that, for whatever reason, some of the most historically unethical companies, such as Monsanto, Bayer, and DuPont are the primary players in genetically engineering foodstuffs.

So for instance our bodies have not caught up to our technological and socioeconomic developments that have practically eliminated food scarcity. So we enjoy things that make no sense to enjoy, presumably as a product of evolution, like high calorie foodstuffs that at one time would have been key to survival, yet today are a great way to shorten your life expectancy.

Imagine now you eat two pineapples. One tastes incredibly sweet and like nothing you've had before. And you find yourself craving more and more of it. The other tastes well... like a pineapple. The former is going to increase sales at the cost of healthfulness. And of course for fruits and vegetables, nutritional labels are completely optional. And of course the FDA has come down hard against labeling of genetically engineered foods. The customer would have nothing to go on but their horribly flawed and exploitable intuition and responses to the foods.

And this is also just at a base level. Somehow we also develop addictions to things that make no sense, evolutionary or otherwise, to get addicted to. Would it be hypothetically possible to begin to translate this response to traditional foodstuffs? It'd be incredibly profitable if so. And we might never even see anything overt happen. Instead we'd just see everybody's waistlines continue to increase seemingly to no end without immediately apparent explanation, as a country feverishly ate itself to death.

At this point, aren't people realizing that just trusting companies to behave ethically is not a good idea? Even moreso when that behavior and the most profitable behavior often come directly into conflict.
Would you exercise these stock options?
Hey all,

I have a scenario I'd love to get the community here to weigh in on.

I've been working at a startup the past 5 years. I was roughly employee #1 and have helped grow the business from no revenue to a run-rate of $7M. I've worked alongside the CEO the entire time running sales for the organization. I've closed more than 85% of our clients thus far.

I was awarded a fair amount of equity early on at the unit price of ~$0.35 with a 4-year vesting cliff. All the documentation has standard language regarding exercising and vesting periods etc. The current fair market price is in the ballpark of $1.50.

I'm ready to move on to my next opportunity and I'm considering buying my options which I have the cash on hand to do so. Well, the problem is the CEO is saying that equity granted is not eligible for purchase by departing employees, despite the legal documents saying the contrary. He's stated that he views equity as valuable only to employees who stay long enough until a liquidity event.

The situation isn't whether legally I'm able to purchase my options, or whether their value will appreciate. The issue is that my CEO has been a mentor who has helped me build an invaluable skill set and a friend but is pushing back on my ask to purchase my options.

He is extremely set in his view and feels that by me wanting to purchase my options I'm somehow am personally taking advantage of him or his business. My thinking is either: I exercise these options at the risk of being blacklisted by my CEO and the connections in our networks with a vendetta held over my head or deciding to move on and invest my money in myself and future projects I embark on while maintaining a professional relationship with my CEO.

Thoughts?
>From what I'm seeing around me, people usually grab small short term advantages over other people even if they suffer long term consequences together

I would argue this is a symptom of capitalism, not an inherent property of human nature. We live in a system that requires us to compete to sell our labour in order to survive. This leads us to think of everything in terms of competition.

This is why so many people in creative jobs (including software development) end up feeling like they can't do their work efficiently because their manager won't let them. Because the employer-employee relationship is based on exchange, it is fundamentally antagonistic.
No. You definitely don't want to look at C code when you want to learn NN basics.
There are many ways, some more in your control than others.

Offer more compensation: cash is highly motivating.

Offer competitive work arrangements: remote work, highly flexible work hours, and highly flexible time off policies can inspire loyalty and longevity if not passion and excitement.

The work you're doing is done in the context of another industry: consider asking if that industry is interesting.