skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The constructor syntax can be a source of confusion. People have to be taught that the class declaration parameter list is actually the primary constructor, and that the body of the class is also the body of the primary constructor, except for any method definitions, some of which may be secondary constructors!

Scoping is hard.
Yes, they did sign a non-aggression pact. No, they were not allies.
A quick Google check of dedicated server offerings in Iceland from various vendors reveals ridiculously high prices, so what gives?
As I pointed out, most of India’s exemplary humans left.

The people who got the material, as opposed to just memorizing it, and could explain it in their native language - they’re not here.

While culturally there are issues, these are not responsible for the whole of the problem.

Also do note - Japan, China, and other nations also have this pattern for education.

At our population scale, the American system ceases to be useful since the classroom size is far too large. The problems am imdividual child has multiplied by the class of 40 students means that no teacher has the ability to customize fully.
Which series are you using? I have nothing but positive things to say about the T-series. I think the E-series is just a garden variety commodity laptop with the ThinkPad branding, though.
I wonder how long it took to compile all of this. Great work!
Back in 2006 or so when I last used Flickr, one of my biggest problems was spam and noise. One of the biggest annoyances was the constant comments from "award groups" that wanted you to join them, enticing you with some arbitrary "award", which consisted of some kind of gaudy badge.

To be honest, most of the Flickr groups seemed completely useless, full of HDR junk and asinine motivational stuff. Though I'm sure it's a bit like Reddit — the good communities are small and hidden.

Follower spam is another example of noise, and something Instagram is also rife with.
When Siri becomes a real human
For the last 2 months we've been working on Hal (halisback.com): a network of live personal assistants living in your phone. We're like Siri, but human.

We're building Hal because AI doesn't work yet, so why try to turn a computer into a human when there’s a lot of us out there? s?

Take a look a the site and if you like the product we can give you a free one-year subscription. Just to know your feedback about it.

W​e​'ll be around if you have any questions for us!
Well at the same time it out competes other miners, so may reduce greenhouse gas emissions on net.
What is programming other than a way of embedding human knowledge into machines in order to generate value?
I don't see why you need QM for that.

In the classical GR picture, at a BH (black hole) event horizon there are no timelike worldlines that leave the BH; inside the horizon there are no lightlike ones that leave the BH either. All worldlines are thus directionally constrained and any object can only march further inwards towards the gravitational singularity. This is a feature of a BH metric.

It isn't that much of a stretch to have a classical BB (big bang) metric constrain all worldlines to march outwards from the gravitational singularity. Shazam: the arrow of time is then set by global geometry.

QM isn't even needed for half of the BH information loss problem to manifest itself: if you drop a spherical shell of mass M into a Schwarzschild BH or two spherical shells each of mass M/2 into a Schwarzschild BH, at late times who can know this? In the classical case, no BH evaporation means no information lost (it's just locked up somewhere else); but if we allow complete evaporation then we have to have stored that information somewhere. Non-evaporating growing black hole has a clear arrow-of-time due to global asymmetry; evaporating black hole formed by collapse should in principle be fully time-reversible. QM just sharpens the picture by providing a mechanism for evaporation, bringing in unitarity and other features, and letting us drop in collections of particles into arbitrary black holes such that a no-hair black hole can hide an awful lot of quantum numbers inside. It also gives us hope for a structure that replaces the gravitational singularity.

Likewise in the BB case, we'd like to avoid marching back to a gravitational singularity so we can bring in a similar QM structure to replace it (although you can do that with "throat" models fully classically, see slide 17 at https://www.slideshare.net/seanmcarroll/what-we-dont-know-ab... and refs therein). Similarly, we expect there to be an enormous number of quantum numbers in the hot dense phase of the universe, and unitarity, and so forth.

In these cases the thermodynamic arrow of time is the set of transformations that leave the equilibrium state unchanged. We can do that in the classical regime as well as the quantum one, given some additional symmetries (including but likely not limited to translation invariance and Gallilean boost invariance) and keeping well away from the ultrarelativistic limit. With a small positive cosmological constant, much of the early universe gas can be constrained to remain at essentially the same comoving coordinates as its daughter products that collapse into structures like galaxies, although things get ugly in the infinite temperature limit.

Statements arguing that the arrow of time is driven by increasing quantum correlations are great slogans, certainly enough to help focus theorists' attention, but I think they do not capture a required feature of an expanding FLRW universe's early epochs.
Your website is pretty good as is; works well on the phone. Not sure why would I install an app. I particularly like the fact that some of the pay walled stories open up fine within your site (not sure for how long you'd be able to do this - minus the WSJ). The only missing piece sometimes, is the name of the author, if it is an opinion piece.
I though the article would have just one line saying "Use Elm"
> However mortgages are something that rarely have side effects surprise the signers.

I really don’t agree with this. Are you aware of the existence of adjustable rate mortgages?
Perhaps I didn't explain it as well as I could have, but there was no mismatch. The contributor knew what they were getting into, but it just didn't end up being as great a fit for both parties involved. To give more context: I think there is a lot more space for these kinds of hacker types to fit in at a larger company where their skills can truly add value. But at a small to mid sized tech company where that's not the primary business focus, it's not going to work out so well. On the other hand, if you as an engineer want to write business logic, these kind of companies are great places to be.
I have a talk about these ideas in the Context of a React Application last year at React.js Conf - https://youtu.be/395ou6k6C6k. It might be worth a watch if you’re interested in how to build applications like this on your own.
They ARE scary. It means that no matter what Yahoo or OATH do to your account or any data in your account, they will not be held liable. And if there is any dispute between you and the company, you will be FORCED into arbitration, and forced to accept the arbitrator's decision. Your chances as a consumer for winning an arbitrated dispute resemble the set of numbers less than zero.
You can blame colonialism, it’s not an issue.

Blaming doesn’t fix the problem, which we can agree on.

My point is that expectations of what can be achieved will have to be adjusted. India needs a huge investment of talent and money, and people would rather spend that talent and money to earn US$. The rational choice for individuals is clear.

On top of it class size, difficulty in testing at scale, job scarcity, language issues, discrimination, lack of teachers - make it an intractable problem.
The headline is completely wrong. Bundesgerichtshof is not the German Supreme court. It's the second highest court.
I read my mortgage note cover to cover, and also the Facebook T&C front to back. They both seem pretty easy to understand to me, tbh. The standard CA home purchase contract is the scariest of the three, because there are so many options that can cause huge swings in value and liability.
Epidemiology Faces Its Limits [1995][pdf]
Given just how many variables are at play and how imprecise the categories of problem-solving are, a study with a sample size of 20 is...unconvincing.
This is incorrect. A considerable amount of opposition to slavery came from "Free Soil" farmers, laborers, and mechanics who did not want to compete with slave labor. After the war they continued to pursue their class interests and supported labor rights and, eventually, unionization.

The northern capitalists who ultimately constituted the financial engine of the Republican Party did turn against labor rights, also in accordance with their class interests (and, depending on the industry they were in pre-war, some of them had been pro-slavery or pro-southern 'Copperheads').
The question is whether all the data that is collected from online consumers is actually required in order to fulfill the ever-growing number of online transactions. What data is needed to purchase a product or subscribe to a paid service? Perhaps name, billing address, payment details, etc. Any data collected above and beyond that minimum may be rightfully questioned and might reasonably be considered "optional".

Facebook's data policy has now increased from something like 2700 words to 4200 words.[1] Putting aside the question of whether this makes it more or less digestible by users, some are saying the new policy may make more clear what data Facebook is collecting. However the question remains: Why are they collecting it? This is perhaps the fundamental question and one that underlies the GDPR. With respect to each item of user data: Is it neccessary to collect it in order to provide the product or service.

Is there a minimum amount of data that must be collected? Is the amount of user data that Facebook is collecting above that minimum?

Facebook is clearly a business. It is selling a service. There are paying customers. However there is a question whether users are actually the "customers". Is the relationship between Facebook and users a commercial one?

How does one quantify the "price" that users pay. What are the users affirmative obligations under the agreement? What is the user's end of the bargain. An agreement to allow herself to be studied?

What is Facebook's end of the bargain? Does it have any affirmative obligations regarding service? What happens if Facebook fails to perform their end of the bargain? How is the value of the service quantified?

Does this arrangement at times seem tantamount to users agreeing to take part in an elaborate, ongoing "marketing survey", where their behaviour online will be recorded, observed and analysed? Does this make the user agreement different from a traditional commercial transaction?

Is the relationship between Facebook and advertisers more like a traditional commercial transaction? What data does Facebook collect about its customers, advertisers? Is it only the minimum needed to provide the service?

Is joining Facebook the modern equivalent of taking part in Nielson ratings, agreeing to have a monitoring device attached to ones television recording ones viewing habits.

1. https://gizmodo.com/weekend-long-reads-facebooks-new-data-po...
I agree. I have not heard of Smugmug before now; although I did use to have a paid Flickr account at one time and I hope they do better with it than Yahoo.

But yes, that announcement page is god awful. The scrolling is slow, over done and a crazy bandwidth hog. That weird scroll hijacking shit needs to die in a fire. Some are cute if done right, but lately they're just super over done and useless.
There isn't any one spot where he explicitly states the idea that wire-up is handled centrally, but the idea is threaded throughout the article.

It's discussed a bit more explicitly by Mark Seemann here: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2011/07/28/CompositionRoot/

As for how this fits with abstract factories, in DI they exist to handle a specific problem: sometimes (but not always), actual instance construction has to be delayed until the last minute. But you still want things to be loosely coupled, and do the wire-up at the same place where you handle all the other object composition. So you do that by declaring an abstract factory, and then generating its concrete implementation at wire-up time. That way the details of the composition are still being injected, even if they're being executed at the site where they'll be consumed.
I never thought bz2 was worth it over gzip, but xz is much much better in many common cases (particularly text files, but also other things). Source code can often be xz compressed to about half the size as gzip. If you are downloading multiple things at once or a whole operating system or uploading something then even on slower DSL lines it makes a huge difference IMO. I wish more package systems provided deltas.

The only issue I've had with xz is that it doesn't notice if it is not actually compressing the file like other utilities do and then just store the file uncompressed, so if you try to xz a tar file with a bunch of already highly compressed media files then it both takes forever and and you end up with a nontrivially larger file than you started with.

Also, I like that, unlike gzip, xz can sha256 the uncompressed data if you use the -C sha256 option, providing a good integrity check. Yes, I would really like to use a format that doesn't silently decompress incorrect data and I can't understand why the author of this article thinks that is a bad thing. For backups I keep an mtree file inside the tar file with sha512 of each file and then the -C sha256 option to be able to easily test the compressed tar file without needing another file. In some cases I encrypt the txz with the scrypt utility (which stores HMAC-SHA256 of the encrypted data).
Hi Don,

I've been a Pro user of Flickr since 2005 or so. I actually thought for the first time this year that I would cancel it. My number-one complaint is speed. It's so slow. As a professional infrastructure guy, it just kills me and I wished I could buy the company myself and make it fast again. I really hope you will invest in revitalizing this service because I really don't want to go.

My life--from young skier/mountaineer guy--to Army soldier--to dating a girl--marriage--kids--it's all documented there. I look at my old photos all the time but it's just so unbearably slow.

Chris aka https://flickr.com/photos/Defender90
Relative to a salary of $90k / year, $1 billion fine is roughly equivalent to a $1k fine.. or roughly a parking ticket in downtown SF.
The problem is those slides hinder the readability of the actual article.

For a reader, you get into the rhythm of the writer's voice, only to be interrupted by a giant image of text every other paragraph. It's a battle between just skimming the slides, or trying to read the content.

If the author had just swapped out the "loud" text images for subtle headers, the article would actually flow.
That is a very rude thing to say.
Agreed. Scarily, a lot of consultants and industry watchers foresee the healthcare industry going through the same wave of consolidation that banks did in the 1980s and 1990s -- they even use it as a metaphor for what they think will happen. I think that's something to worry about
Duplicate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889760
Reminds me a lot of the book Never Split the Difference. If you enjoyed this post, I highly recommend that book. It's fantastic and really opened my eyes to all the areas I could improve my ability to relate to other people and negotiate more effectively.
So it's overhyped, overbudget, and a decade late?
Apparently Facebook's well-trained legal team disagrees with your assessment of European law. Facebook isn't stupid; they wouldn't have done this if it weren't legal.
As you wish. Comments on old articles get moderated, but they still get posted (I just have moderation turned on as an anti-spam measure). And a fair number of people are subscribed to my comment stream so you may get better feedback there.
No, I'm talking about consulting for the employee as a kind of ethical Machiavellian. Otherwise the interests don't align.

It may just be the examples this author gave that made me think of this. An initial temporary team where everyone is clearly less skilled than you are? Dear lord, feed them the answers so that they get credit for fixing the security issue. Everyone will then sing the praises of working with such a team player.

Work closely and non-combatively with the tech-lead to get a full picture of their knowledge and level of defensiveness. Then stay out of the tech-lead's way while you slowly begin building up a robust testing system. Make sure each pull request is short and easy to read. Space them out so you don't make a pile of work for your colleagues.

Pretty soon you'll have a bunch of allies, probably including the tech-lead. Or if the tech-lead is still defensive, you'll have a big, fortified wall of unit tests between the two of you. They'll be forced to argue with failed tests instead of with you directly, which is one of the few (and perhaps one of the only) benefits of technological progress.
The images are labeled for accessibility reasons; they're used as fallback descriptions for figures and images. The slides are wrapped with `<figure>` tags, and the captions with `<figcaption>` tags. They're so that screen readers can interpret the figure, which is why the text is often redundant.
same here, pro user for 10+ years and I rarely use flickr these days but have been letting my credit card renew nonetheless. please revive flickr.
Start Coding on NeoMutt (with help)
I agree. I had never heard of Smugmug until just now. I want to call it "Smug hug" or "Smug hub" .. no one is going to remember that name correctly. It's awful.
Depending on the container format, you may not need to re-encode anything. .mp4 supports "edit lists". You can create a .mp4 file that starts at the latest key frame <= the starting timestamp of interest, onward through the ending timestamp of interest. And has an edit list that tells the player to skip the unwanted prefix. You can have arbitrarily many of these in one file. I do this as part of a larger program (security camera NVR), although directly writing the .mp4 rather than instructing ffmpeg to do so.

Afraid I don't know how to do what you want with the ffmpeg commandline tool, though, either by partial re-encoding or by edit lists.
Thoughts on entering software development after 20+ years
I think the focus should be less on the specific virtues that Franklin held - and mo0re that he had them in the first place.

defining your virtues or your values like that, helps you make decisions. If/when in doubt, what do your values say?

Here are mine:

1. Social

2. health

3. Creativity

4. Leadership

5. Strength

6. Nature

7. Thoughtfulness

8. Love

9. Science

each of these have sub values that are umbrella'd under the broader category; and some overlap.

But while these are my values, they are not absolute. I still eat ice cream, for example. That doesn't change health as a value of mine - but it is an opportunity for reflection.
The point is that they don't have to have short contracts. If you choose to use their services, then you should review the agreements, or at least not complain when they exercise their rights under those agreements that you falsely claimed to read.
I forgot about those gaudy animated badges.

Social media does have tough challenges ahead, especially as bots/spam become more and more prevalent.

I would love to work on a bot-prevention team somewhere, but my background isn't in ML.
I'd guess that "ugly Americanism" gets a lot of extra mileage just for being a play on the well-known pejorative "ugly American" (which also happens to be the title of a novel and a movie):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)
> It isn't that much of a stretch to have a classical BB (big bang) metric constrain all worldlines to march outwards from the gravitational singularity.

Not only isn't it "much of a stretch", this is exactly how the idealized Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes in GR work. They have an initial singularity which is to the past of all events in the spacetime, which is the time reverse of the way in which the black hole singularity is to the future of all events inside the horizon.

However, there are also time reversed versions of the FRW spacetimes, which have a final singularity instead of an initial one--just as there are time reversed versions of black holes (white holes), where the singularity inside the horizon is initial, not final (and where nothing can travel from outside the horizon to inside). So you still need to explain why we observe the "forward" versions of these solutions, but not the "reversed" ones.
Earth in realtime
CBC is destroying its broadcast archives after they’re digitized
We’re in the Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising
The rail is not nationalized, the passenger service is.
Minnesota Supreme Court Ruling Will Shed Light on Police Use of Biometric Tech
China escalates the war on jaywalkers with automated shouting laser/squirtguns
I was curious about this and did a little research.
It seems like the higher court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) can't be appealed to for this case; it has authority to rule on the matter, but only as a result of the law being found unconstitutional.

Easiest citation for this would be from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_court#Germany

> When it comes to civil and criminal cases, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) is at the top of the hierarchy of courts.
DOJ opens investigation into wireless carriers
>I would max out my data cap in 5 minutes..

It is important to note that data is not consumed at the same speed it is downloaded at.
Memebox in SF Is Hiring a Director of Growth
Hi

I'm a 2x Founder, serial entrepreneur and growth strategist. I founded and exited online tuxedo rental company SimpleTux before starting my second venture, Renly, an Airbnb for commercial business space, where I am currently CEO. Additionally, I've led growth at a number of startups, including alumni from such prestigious programs as Y Combinator and Techstars. My speciality is growth hacking. I'm sure I can help and would love to set aside a time for us to discuss your goals and how we can accomplish them together. See my startup resume at www.chrissheng.com

While every company's growth hack is different due to the product/service and marketing mix, the method to discovering that hack is the same. It's an incredible amount of testing, the ability to come up with a never ending source of creative content and channels, benchmarking and optimizing. It takes discipline to stay the course and set the variables. Usually a growth hacker is either really good at analytics or creative, I pride myself on being strong in both.

Look forward to connecting.

Chris Sheng
www.chrissheng.com
I'm curious to know more about the kinds of bugs you are seeing and if there might be a tool to help. Can you provide your email or email ryan@rcpsystems.com? I'd like to ask you some questions.
If no one archived it, and the board is relatively active, its probably gone.
This is orwellian and dystopian! Who else thinks so?
Whether a roomba is AI or not depends on what it actually does. Moving around randomly based on a computer program is not intelligence.