skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good part design reduces the requirement of tight mechanical tolerances to perform correctly. Manufacturing costs can be reduced. This is preferable to a design that requires tight tolerances to function equivalently. Maybe in terms of fit and finish of the interior or the exterior panels superior 'precision' is a desirable attribute. But this still reads a little odd to an engineer.
I have to admit it's amusing seeing cryptocurrency true believers slowly start to realize why banks, regulation and the SEC are critical to a functioning system. "There oughta be a law!"
Spot on. It's good for those living in the cities, obviously, but the rising wages generated by this is good for those of us who live in suburban/rural regions and commute to the city
> What's the advantage of docker over this?

To be honest, I don't know enough about vagrant to fully answer this.

I'm curious if there are any advantages with vagrant over Docker?
Actions have consequences.
Presumably (hopefully?) not in 2020, when it stops getting security fixes?

https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
They might be attempting to get you to call back, but likely they're calling more numbers than they can actually connect. It increases the odds of getting answers on particular attempt, but they can also keep track of those that answered even if their talking robot can't service every connection. Now they know they've got a live number and will try you again.
The only people who like hoteling/hotdesking are upper management because it means they can rent a smaller office space. For employees, it can be a hassle to coordinate with other coworkers, and not being able to leave stuff at the office can be negative for some (e.g. folks with ergonomic equipment or spare set of workout clothes).
I guess I should elaborate a little more on what I am looking for. I already have a hybrid approach working where batch processing informs and improves the ALS models and these models are stored in memory to do some (Near)real time recommendations. The attractive bit about using something like Solr is that the user behavior on the app/front-end is easily modeled in terms or query parameters that could help serve better recommendations and also improve the model. It also seems to be the most commonly used approach based on what I have seen. I am wondering if there are other ways of doing this. In the broader sense, I guess my question is what are the next steps to build on this basic recommendation system? What is a good way to serve recommendations based on user behavior in near-real time and how do these systems take feedback to improve the models.
This is a complex topic, but it seems like there are a couple of questions about the character of people who work in executive roles which should fundamentally matter in due diligence discussions.

Do they implicitly respect the agency of others? Do they see people as individuals with their own goals and the fundamental right to decide what those goals are?

These people make a lot of decisions on behalf of others, and I believe that asking those questions isn't that far off from asking: can you trust them to act in the interests of their employees, clients, and customers? Or at the very least, are they likely to have some sense of fiduciary duty towards the people who they agree to perform work for?

So, from my perspective, "a private mistake which we all agree was not business-related" sounds...well I don't know the right word, but who is 'we' in that phrase?

And I don't know which institutional investor balked at the fund based on the perceived character of its decision-makers, but I appreciate that they considered that angle in their process.
Well, there is meetup.com for that: it's all about local groups organized around common interests. It's not meant for dating specifically (though there are singles' groups), but many people do say a good way to meet dating partners is to attend events that you have an interest in so you might meet someone who shares that interest.
Toxic is one of those words like racism, someone accused of being a racist has no accepted mechanism to prove otherwise.
Seems like this has been a common thread in tech for a long time. In Douglas Couplamd's 1995 novel 'Microserfs' one of the main characters lamented how tech employers infantile their employees. Perhaps this is a lingering effect from the early days of home computer when there was a large explosion in very young programmers and things have just carried over through the years?
Also, JS is a more suitable target for most managed languages like clojure, typescript, elm, etc.
Google already does this anytime I clear my cookies.
Why would they allow someone using the service if they didn't get something back?
They must be good at selling if they can convince people to get 100+ million with no "revenue, code, product, or customers." You can't hate on someone for making it.
Well you should take some solace in the fact that doing your day job won't land you in prison. ICOs are a good way to launder money and defraud impressionable speculators out of their money. It'll take a while but the securities regulators and prosecutors will have their day. The people that get away with securities fraud hide it with complex corporate accounting structures, ICOs are the dumb version of securities fraud. It is not too difficult to convince a jury when they guy is tweeting pictures of beer on the beach.
Why is is_anonymous = true for a tor relay? Why are relays and exit nodes given the same flag? As a tor relay operator, I anticipate this being misused, like so many before it, to arbitrarily block all tor relays by people who don't know or care how tor works.
Amazing. A pitch entirely made of memes...
(Edit: When I wrote this comment, the parent comment only contained what is now the first paragraph. I didn't know about the entrance fee.)

And yet I agree with the author. I also hear about toxic posts and the terrible community, but I do not experience it myself. Having people try to put a finger on it would be good. When the $10k is to be paid is indeed unfortunately unclear, but I do like the competition, and I do hope that people that have experienced it will try to quantify it, even if they can't meet the 10% requirement.
I would expect him to lay low instead of mocking investors via memes and tweets.
It really depends on the child and what their interests are. In my experience open ended toys are better, like legos and wooden blocks, or sticks collected on nature walks. Avoid more linear toys.
One of the issues that I faced during my short stint building ML models for fraud detection in debit card transactions was dealing with class imbalance. I was not completely convinced that over sampling techniques or under sampling techniques would work. My initial experiments just resulted in more false positives. Just curious if you guys faced similar problems.

The other point I bring about is rather rhetorical - There are no open standards, model baselines and datasets in the Fraud domain. Compare building a model for fraud detection to building a model for image recognition or object detection There is a standard baseline, standard datasets and your model competes against that baseline. Because of the open nature of image recognition, the models have improved astronomically. I feel that a lack of such openness is fraud is holding back on innovation. I could be wrong in this assessment so please correct me if so.
Thanks! Weird I got down voted for my comment..
They could argue that keeping you logged in with cookies makes it easier for you to use.
The language itself is (usually) the easy part. If you need a senior frontend engineer, JavaScript knowledge is table stakes. You need someone who can collaborate with product and design, and work with the engineering team on platform and implementation decisions. If you need a senior backend engineer you need someone who's really familiar with server side APIs, database behavior, and data model patterns who can advise the product team on what is reasonably possible and what is practically impossible. And these are just the baselines; we're not talking about emergencies, outages, modern software development (continuous integration, testing, deployment, etc.), or "intangibles" like attitude.

Basically that's why hiring engineers is so hard. There are 1000 variables and really they're all important.
Why solutions to the digital attention crisis will emerge from Google not Apple
> I automatically consider every ICO to be a scam outright

Welcome to 1933 [1], when America learned this about unregistered securities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Act_of_1933
That sounds about right. I loved the first two of those books.
Exactly. That popular, cute 'craft' style is winning out because it resonates with the target audience. (Same with that popular, functional aesthetic you describe.)

I guess I am against the softening of traditionally 'hard' things. Painful to watch our world (even software!) devolve into bright colors and cute mascots.

One could also interpret this phenomenon as young adults refusing to grow up -- hanging on to childish symbolism concomitant with the rest of millennials' (economically necessary) delayed development into adulthood.

And for the record I am (unwillingly) part of the millennial set and do not have a beard.
IBM was controlling, not infantilizing (at least with that example).

Infantilizing is companies thinking that they can win over employees with ping pong tables, free sodas, and not give them, you know, actual compensation.

Of course, as the dot com boom demonstrated, many in our industry fell for it.
Maybe even a standardized auditing process, that lets investors verify that funds raised from the public during the ICO are spent responsibly?
Good video on how they built out Radar. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/stripe-machine-learning
I know lots of people are worry about Oracle. But the license is extremely clear, it is the same as Java.

So like the JVM or JDK, there is nothing stopping you from for forking the code, as long as you don't call it Java, and "your" JVM would not get the test suit.

GPL 2 with Classpath exception has been with us for so long. I know you hate Oracle, but I don't see any downside to it. I mean half of the Internet literally runs on JVM and MySQL.

I had to look hard and it doesn't seems to have any strings attached.
There's not much of interest in this story. Glaenzer was caught, by police witnesses, sexually assaulting a woman in a London train. He was convicted. He retained his role at the VC firm he cofounded for several years, but discovered that institutional investors --- the people who fund VC funds --- were unwilling to allocate capital to a firm that included Glaenzer. He left the firm.

The job of a VC partner is about trust, judgement, and persuasion. Flagrant violations by partners redound to the reputation of the whole firm. When you understand just what it is a VC firm is, how they're essentially middlemen simultaneously pitching themselves to operators and to capital, it becomes clear how important reputation is. Really, it's all there is. Without it, you can't do the job.
I tried too, but finally gave up. We just couldn't see eye-to-eye on it, and I am not willing to try again.

My new girlfriend comes from an entirely different culture geographically, but has extremely similar money-management practices as me, even though she didn't grow up in the same country (though it was also a rich first-world nation). There's challenges with her too, but finances aren't one of them.
Downtime and taxes: an open letter to the IRS
Agree - your life in a 3rd world country with $50 mil is going to be far better than in a 1st world country. I don't think that one was a good argument.

The only good argument is that stealing from people is immoral.
I don't have a horse in the race either way, but I love watching the Tesla bulls and bears comment on everything. It's an amazing spectator sport.
It's never appropriate for, e.g., a PostgreSQL package to create a postgres account and configure a postgres service running as that account -- this is not how I want to run postgres,

That is exactly how I want and do configuration management!

The main PostgreSQL package brings on the software and the SMF method. It depends on the postgres-user package which creates the technical user account and group. That's exactly what I want, because I plug that into JumpStart and I can churn out database servers all day long!

The postgres-application-db configuration overlay package depends on the postgres-user and postgres packages, starts the database via SMF, and then runs CREATE DATABASE in the postinstall. That's exactly what I want! It works a treat for Oracle databases, it works for anything. I can churn ready to run database servers all day long. I love it. That's exactly how it should work, infrastructure with no human interaction whatsoever: plug in the cable, scan the chassis serial barcode and call it a day.

Sun had many problems, but IPS was the final nail in the coffin, as a customer, and as a professional whose bread depended on that ecosystem, and who is now forced to work with substandard, shoddy Linux, I feel I have a much better insight and far more right to decide what has been done wrong at Sun Microsystems. That's for us as customers to say, not for anyone else. And ultimately customers voted with their wallets. I know I sure did, I ran Solaris 10 on generic intel 19" rack servers (and I still do) because it is a far better value for the money.

Overpriced hardware and unwillingness to listen to people like me, who were your core customers was like turbo acceleration of the company's demise. And if you lose your core customers, you lost your business. You lost the purpose of your business' existence. Proof is in the pudding, Sun is no more, and as usual, I'm right about the wrong thing.

If I'm paying you, you don't argue, you do as I say, or you have no business. Now there is no business and competition rules supreme. It's a terrible business decision to argue with one's customers, because they are the ones who decide what they will give you money for. IPS is not a thing I would ever give Sun or any other company which uses it money for. IRIX's inst(1M), I'd give tons of money in a heartbeat if I knew how; but IPS - never!

IPS is the single reason why I don't run operating systems which sport it, like OmniOS.
Hi f2n, thank you for raising this concern. is_tor and is_anonymous are true for any and all nodes on the Tor network. I'd love to hear more about your concerns, please send me an email at jonathan at ipdata dot co
I have two kids, 4 and 7. They have a lot of trouble even typing basic things, it is pretty frustrating for everyone. If you absolutely must do something on the computer, I'd recommend something that teaches the basic skills of typing and moving the mouse around to start before getting into more advanced things. My kids, for example, seem to enjoy just typing in a word processor and seeing their name show up or writing down secret codes or whatever.

I also have list of things that they want to do / ask for, they like checking out that list and editing it.
Could you elaborate a little bit on how figwheel is challenging for people with JS background and how shadow-cljs differs?
Ben Golub: From Storage to Docker and Back to Storage but Now with Blockchain
Game devs putting up a Bitcoin bounty on their logic game
Not fan of the term "countersteering". If you changed the mechanical direction that the handlebars rotated the front wheel I doubt anyone would bother to call it "prosteering".

A better way to think about this is that bikes turn by banking. The method of controlling the angle of bank does not map in a simple way to the direction of turn.
GUI development is broken
Why would they allow someone using the service if they didn't get something back?

That's a good question, but once GDPR is in effect, the law is going to require that all consent is genuine, informed, active consent. A consequence of that is that someone must be able to withhold their consent without suffering for it, unless the thing they're consenting to is essential to whatever else they're doing.

If you're thinking this fundamentally undermines the current business model of sites like Facebook, you're probably right, and given the political rhetoric around the GDPR, it's possible that this was the intention of the EU from the start.
I’m not up on my history - where is this?

EDIT: oh. Are you saying Afghanistan?
We've gotten a few weeks extension, but at some point I'm pretty sure things will be enforced.

Regarding Paypal, I believe the fraud that hurts the most is credit card (chargebacks, threshold maximums and card programs!), and Paypal in general is not that bad at that (not as bad as other things).

If Sift sticks with their new pricing, I think it comes down to doing some math.

Our Current Sift Scenario: 3,000 USD a year.

Proposed Sift Scenario: 12,000 USD a year.

Potential Stripe Radar Only Scenario: 0.

Assuming Stripe is as good or possibly better than Sift at catching fraud/automating flows, then we've got 3 to 12k to offset any potential PayPal fraud and still come out on top.

Ok, Not proper math, but worth considering...

Edit: formatting.
He does address this:

> An independent panel that both you and I agree upon will define what it means to be “toxic”.

But the author is right so there's zero chance of anyone taking him up on this offer.
This is cool for sure, but that is a large bolus of reading to do. Maybe this is an obvious insight for his community, but the bottleneck in greater biology/medicine is quickly moving from data generation to data analysis (I guess where it has been for genomics for a quite while).
I too consider every ICO to be an outright scam. That's actually what led me to build (shameless plug) https://initialcornoffering.com, which pokes fun at many of the ICO anti-patterns I've seen.
> "The following demonstrates the fallacy in the context of a prosecutor questioning an expert witness: “the odds of finding this evidence on an innocent man are so small that the jury can safely disregard the possibility that this defendant is innocent”.[1] The fallacy obscures that the odds of a defendant being innocent given said evidence in fact depends on the likely higher prior odds of the defendant being innocent, the explicitly lesser odds of the evidence in the case that he was innocent as mentioned, as well as the underlying cumulative odds of the evidence being on the defendant."

Care to explain how this fallacy is related to the above competition?
Who's your target market for the front page? If it's people who don't know what Clojurescript is, why confuse them with hundreds of characters of incomprehensible code, with no understanding of why it's there or what it does?

On the other hand, if it's people who are familiar with Clojurescript...also why is it there? It's given no motivation on the page, and gets in the way of people finding what they're looking for.
> NSLs can only be used to get non-content data, like whom an email was sent from and to. China intercepts and filters the actual content of all communication. https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/960948/what-happens-when....

There's also the fact that the NSA has been archiving all data. Even if the law says the government can't do something with that data, or that NSLs can only be used to get non-content data, laws can change on a whim, while Facebook's dominance of a market cannot be easily removed. How effective do you think China suing the US for breaking or changing a law would be, if the whole point of the law is to leverage power against a nation? The possibility exists for potential antagonistic use if the data is stored in the US or owned by a US company, as everything in the US is under US jurisdiction.

If I have a gun pointed at your head and you tell me your current laws say that you will not use the gun against me if I give it to you, why would I believe you? Once I give you the gun, you have the power and will no longer need to follow your own laws.

> Apple had a "backdoor" to access data on its own phones via installing a build that disabled password attempt throttling. The FBI simply asked Apple to use its backdoor on the FBI's behalf, not to create a new backdoor that the FBI could use on its own. In China, Apple acceded to the government's demands to block any VPN service that prevents front door access by the government. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2017/07/30/apple....

This is not true. Please provide a source (I was unable to locate one).
How fast does a change made by a private actor to the money supply propagate? Surely not instantaneously?
He'll be extradited.
> rent hikes caused by zoning codes and regulations that push the price of building up higher and higher

-bostonjeff
This is my /etc/pihole/adlists.list
https://pastebin.com/ssqea2nW
Have fun being on the run the rest of your life. Sure, some countries don't have extradition to the US, but politics change. Not to mention some of those countries would not hesitate to blackmail you once they know who you are and how much money you have.

I can't imagine growing old and never having remorse for a scam like this.
How long before the masses identify the airport and that beach? Homeboy is an (edit: rich) idiot.
If been using a lot of Python/JS/TypeScript in the last couple of years and it seems like each new release brings them closer together.
> juggling private and pro time/space.

Your employer will pay for office space, but when you're working remotely, you're providing the office space.

Since our living space is normally underutilized when we're at work, it's a fairly low cost to you, but as your remarks indicate, it's not 0 either.

> being capable to communicate efficiently asynchronously

Have you mentored anyone remotely?

And I'm curious how you think it affects your opportunities for promotion.
Ooh, I did not know this. Thank you for the clarification!
Judging from your confrontational tone I will probably regret commenting but here goes.

Arguments accepted in __init__() are not necessarily tied to the so-called "shape of the type" at runtime. Fields with init=False, and the presence of ClassVar and InitVar is just two examples.

In terms of types of arguments passed to __init__(), they totally can be incompatible with the runtime type of the given field. There's nothing wrong with that. On the contrary, that is a useful feature. The obvious example is factories for field defaults. E.g. you can't store a list instance as a default value, it would be reused across your type's instances. Instead, you use default_factory=list. But when you do, what type does the respective argument to __init__ accept? Well, it's Union[YourType, MISSING] because you can omit it and it will initialize your type for you.

Type conversion is another common example. Your __init__ might accept timestamps as strings but always convert them to datetimes. Maybe you accept Unicode strings but internally store as bytes or vice versa? Maybe you support an external API so you have to accept a bunch of arguments that you later convert to a saner internal state? There are numerous use cases.

Summing up, don't confuse the signature of __init__ with the type shape.
A distributed decentralized ledger is a neat and useful thing, but it should be as exciting as a new database–not the social revolution the excitable advocates think it is.

When you hear people talking about cryptos what you hear them say is exciting things about libertarian currency and being free of control. What they're actually excited about is money laundering and tax avoidance–foolishly at that. Avoiding government control by using a currency where everyone can easily get the entire transaction log for every exchange is just ridiculous. With really great ops-sec you can _maybe_ achieve it, but it's really easy to slip up and get caught.
> It is believed that the ICO raised around 40 million Euros, or $50 million USD via the token sale

How do we know any of this is real? What if the entire thing is fake?
I see the exact opposite but.. k.