skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely true. Working in good teams has the great benefit that even a mediocre person's productivity and skills go up if they're curious and open-minded enough to learn. And working in SV means that hopefully you have a better chance of working with high-performance and highly-functional teams.

I guess what I wonder is that even after getting all the benefits of working in the bay, whether everyone can reach the productivity/skill level that commands compensation that makes up for living in a high CoL Metro area. I do not believe that is the case, but I may be wrong.
> Because one problem at a time

This is dealing with one problem at a time. The problem is unchecked commercialized mass surveillance, and any laws that come out of this should apply to Google, Facebook, and every other company that has been engaging in these practices.

Your attempt to spin these as unrelated with that last line doesn't even make sense.
And in business or first class, always go for the rear facing seats...
I'm afraid I have no idea. I vaguely remember reading about it, do not remember where.
Why is the doctor sending your data to some public address shown on your phone, and not to your phone directly?
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​What's the most popular Linux of them all?
> Python which is very slow

well it might in relative terms, but a pyqt app is almost certainly going to be an order of magnitude faster than electron.
JP Morgan has launched a test of logging transaction data from debt issuance onto the blockchain.
This title seems quite misleading, dream control has been practiced by individuals for thousands of years and is easy to learn if you just do some reading and dedicate yourself to it ('lucid dreaming' and everything related to it). It doesn't require any devices or technology, although some techniques can involve using technology to make various things easier or more reliable. If you learn it well you should be able to perform just as well as this device allows you to, although this device seems a bit more focused on the state before lucid dreams, it could be just as useful as a consistent trigger to attain lucidity.

It's strange that the title says 'dream control' yet 'lucid dreaming' is barely mentioned once in the article. It seems like they just mean more awareness in a hypnagogic state, or the ability to wake up quickly after entering one, which can also be attained just by practicing.

The data provided attempting to show the benefits of this is severely lacking as well. A sample size of six with little specific description of their alternative use task is not useful in the same way saying they spent 158 seconds longer writing stories is not. I'm sure someone who remembers all their dreams can tell you a long and 'interesting' story, but it's not necessarily useful.
I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write
Yes, exactly. Around 2% of purchase value.

You'd be surprised what you can get renting, area depending.
How totally incorrect.
Stocks are typically highly leveraged by big investors. Otherwise the gains are highly limited.

Large bigcorps ate also vulnerable to market downturns and can fail. This has been shown in the recent lending crisis and car manufacturer problems.

Stock require maintenance as in you have to watch the prices and the general condition of the market at the very least or you stand to lose a lot of money.

Stocks are not even immune to power outages. (E.g. one at certain flash manufacturing plant of Samsung)
Media are less predictable than weather and affect stock prices a lot. Main factor in prices of mortgages is supply of houses and interest rates which are relatively predictable.

Stocks are taxed at capital gains tax level when you sell them like everything else.

Whole you can technically sell stocks to anyone, not anyone will want to buy your stocks anyway or will buy it for a massive discount.

The remaining point about not moving is moot when you have a family. Want to move yearly with a kid or two in tow? Good luck!
And then you also presume there are always better opportunities to move to. This might be true in a score of professions but not most of them.
I think he means it becomes covered in algae
The other answers are good - For my experience specifically it was at a very very small agency, so the client chose us specifically for this purpose and knowingly agreed to it.

The first few months aren't just us working silently. It was always a very intensive process, I'd be on the phone with the client a few times a day to work through issues. They also get valuable tidbits of data early on. Most clients had ideas about how they expected data to look (70% of my revenue comes from product x) but often times the reality is different and they see immediate value.

Clients sign up for a contract that auto-renews every three months and they have to give 30 days notice to terminate. At a small agency you have the luxury of denying clients all the time too that you don't want to work with.
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agree, the modals are insane! iOS does better, it's pretty crazy how poorly the desktop has kept up.
This is the biggest weakness of the article, I think.

Rent growth is included in the Rachel/Owen example, but it's set at 2%/year to get the 15 year equilibrium. And during the P/R discussion, that rate is implicit in the analysis of what's an acceptable P/R to buy at. But rent growth is obviously tied to housing price growth - the highest P/R markets range from 5% to 10% per year of rent increases, which is exactly what's driving renters to demand housing at high prices.

On a more theoretical level, we can observe that the article uses national averages to show that housing prices track inflation. That only holds where new housing stock is built to match rising populations. More accurately housing prices track (inflation + population growth - new stock), substantially changing a lot of these conclusions.
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Immutability is useful for medical records for accountability purposes, to prevent doctoring (no pun intended).
The "problem" of standardized medical record storage and distribution has been thoroughly solved in France. There you have a nationwide system of healthcare and there are largely no issues with medical record access.

What happens when a French citizens moves to another country? Some people even live a few months every year on different countries, what happens then?
>I will say, though, that I for one don't want to be caught on the side of the discussion where I don't learn enough about what is possible with AI/ML, and then get left behind.

I understand that feeling. On the other hand, aren't there a lot of trains you can miss? Do you try to guess which trains are the critical ones (and can you, really?) or do you try to keep up with all of them?

AI/machine learning, quantum, block chain...the list goes on. It seems like the best you can do is not be blindingly ignorant of any of the technologies and their potential...I think few people can really "keep up" unless they have the luck (or misfortune?) to have a job like "Quantum Crypto AI Researcher".
> but does anyone see some media narrative happening here?

WSJ is owned by Murdoch's News Corp. He has been in a anti-Google crusade for a while.

2009: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2009/11/murdoch_vs_google...

2014: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/rupert_murdoch_says...
I'm of an opposite mind. The tech world has known about these issues for years and nothing has happened. When the Verge or Wired write about these privacy issues the outside world really is not of much concern. But when the NYT and WaPo write about it, and when there are Congressional hearings about it changes is much more likely to occur.
Thank you very very much.
Lot of these is debatable. For example, I have preferred FirstName or even “[First Name]” instead of first_name in sql because lot of tooling uses these names to generate UX. Similarly using Person.PersonID instead of Person.ID gives consistency in diagrams and foreign key naming. I have used both approaches with its own pro and cons.
Not orthoganal, I'd say. They're diametrically opposed. I want the no-code thing to work. I just don't think it's going to.
They don't have a choice under existing data protection legislation in much of the EU either, but that doesn't appear to have stopped them.
The obvious answer to that is "because you are familiar and comfortable with JS and don't want to (or ATM don't have time to) learn the ins-and-outs of another language and its ecosystem."

That seems to be one of the main drivers behind Electron's popularity, others being easier cross-platform support (or at least the perception of that) and the vote of confidence in its stability from the likes of MS using it in their products (primarily VSCode in MS's case).

What would be your alternate suggestion, and why? (genuine question rather than a rhetorical dig: I plan to tinker with Electron for a couple of projects soon so if there is something better (or simply that is a suitable alternative to consider) out there I'm not aware of, I'd like to be made aware)
> What exactly is so different about China?

The companies are fully or partially state owned, so the political pressure may be greater. https://qz.com/1000541/norway-wants-china-to-forget-about-th...

You do not want to give too much power to a single actor. Doesn't matter if this is China, USA, EU.
There is always demand. The issue is that sometimes demand exceeds supply. Taking away supply has the same net effect as increasing demand.

EDIT: with the one caveat of transmission capacity, which certainly can be an issue.
That is not even the worst of it. There are people leasing vehicles (more expensive vehicles then they could buy) without saving the money they need to put down on a new vehicle after the term is up. Worse yet they drive the car past the mileage limits and then after the term is up they then roll the old lease into the financing for a new lease. It is a vicious cycle.
My grandmother used to spend the Winter in a country and the rest of the time in another. Health data portability was absolutely an issue.
Not sure how you built your minimal example, but current versions of Java will allow you to produce much smaller native bundles using jlink. Steve Perkins did a nice little writeup with an example repo at https://github.com/steve-perkins/jlink-demo.
This can certainly happen but it's definitely uncommon bordering on rare, especially for folks who keep paying (or with whom you're willing to work out a deal). And running credit and background checks on prospective renters goes a long way toward eliminating folks who are going to be prone to stop paying a lease halfway through.
As a classic example, how about music or movie recommendations? You have a giant set of attributes about songs and a binary classification (thumbs up/thumbs down) from millions of listeners. You can use this this to train a random forest or neural net (or other algorithms) to make song recommendations to someone based on that person's pattern of thumbs up/down. I'd guess most recommendation systems do something along these lines, though I don't really know.

I'm not sure how I'd do this with SQL. That certainly doesn't mean you couldn't take a SQL approach to the problem of "how do I make recommendations based on this training set and this particular individual's attributes" and do something creative and useful. But I do think you can, in this situation, get something out of ML that would be difficult (ok, I'll say impossible) to get with a pure SQL approach.

To be clear, I love SQL. I still get a little flash of anger when I remember my arguments with "architects" who announced to a room full of non-technical people that I was pretty much a dinosaur unwilling to move away from an obsolete technology when they advocated no-sql approaches to data that was deeply relational. And I'm sure that there are plenty of people who think "need answer from data, must use ML" and end up somehow trying to train a neural net to perform a WHERE clause. Having seen the hype cycle several times, I am absolutely certain this has occurred in boardrooms/open office cubicle farms all across the you ess aye and beyond.

But keep in mind, even though reports of SQL's death were remarkably exaggerated, "nosql" approaches often do make the most sense. Plenty of good ideas and technologies came from nosql, and many of the people who created them and advocated them continued to use (and argue for) SQL and relational databases depending on the problem. A graph database is a vastly superior approach to some types of network problems than standard SQL, and not helpful for others. When the hype cycle around ML dies down (and some people start writing articles that ML is "dead" or whatever), ML will continue to be used effectively in all kinds of places, as it is now.
Except everyone has been conditioned over the latest ~100 years to assume that everything they see in a video is real. That is: unless explicitly contextualised as fake, like when watching a movie.

Your premise that everyone should just "apply some critical thinking" directly contradicts the events of the last couple of years, not just in the field of video but within any form of media.
The biggest ones produce over 5 megawatts at peak capacity, I think someone has built over 10 megawatts but I'm not sure.

5 megawatts is a pretty useless figure for most people to imagine, and I think imagining it in units of homes-powered isn't great either because we don't have a sense of the heat or kinetic energy equivalent because our homes are quiet machines. A 260 horsepower car (think new minivan) at full throttle is producing about .2 megawatts, so the worlds largest turbines are generating the same power as 10/.2=20 minivans at full power.

Another way to think of it is in terms of heat. A big stovetop burner will generate about 3000 watts of heat, so a minivan is like 65 burners at full blast, and a 10 megawatt turbine is like 3300 burners.
While everyone fights about Electron I have a slightly off topic question- why are programs like these called a terminal emulator (emphasis on emulator)?
When power gets more expensive in the evenings, a lot of heating/cooling/charging loads may shift in time. Also, hvdc grids let you transmit over a couple of timezones.

(And wind does not have the problem the first place, obviously)
I haven't used their API in a long time, but I don't think there is a reliable way to get the sidebar that isn't worse than HTML.

For example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisio...

returns

{{Infobox website | name = Hacker News | logo = File:hackernews_logo.png | logo_size = 100px | type = [[News aggregator]] | url = {{url|https://news.ycombinator.com/}} | screenshot = File:hn_screenshot.png | registration = Optional | programming_language = [[Arc (programming language)|Arc]] | founder = [[Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]] | launch date = {{start date and age|2007|02|19}} | current status = Online | owner = [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] | language = [[English language|English]] }} '''Hacker News''' is a [[social news]] website focusing on [[Computer Science|computer science]] and [[Startup company|entrepreneurship]]. It is run by [[Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]]'s investment fund and startup incubator, [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]]. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".<ref>{{cite news | first = Paul | last = Graham | title = Hacker News Guidelines | url = http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | accessdate = 2009-04-29 }}</ref>

Which isn't very easy to parse either. From a cursory search, a better format doesn't seem possible without using a 3rd party like dbpedia.

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Wikipedia-API-give-structured...

I tried it for OSX, and it actually just returns a redirect statement to MacOS. So expect your tool consuming the API to break if you don't handle that in advance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisio...

And then when trying it for MacOS, I can't actually find the version info anywhere in the response data. So you couldn't even get that data without scraping the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisio...
Noone is saying Facebook hasn't done anything wrong. We just don't want Google to get away with it.

Whataboutism would be if we were to suggest Facebook isn't that bad because Google does it too. But articles like this are trying to point out that both companies are doing bad things: We should be going after both of them.
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Oh yeah, it certainly wasn't perfect, but the good far outweighed the bad IMO. Also, I'm now realizing there are probably a lot of parallels in building those sorts of communities with the Eternal September problem: getting too big and people betraying the ethics. It'd be a fun historical analogy to explore...

> I miss that time in my life.

Me too. I'm still in my 20s, but given that I now have a lot more means working in the tech world than I had when I was a teenager, I've been thinking a lot about how I might be able to help foster communities like that for younger generations (opening a venue, starting a small label, patronizing high school bands that want to record, etc.) Curious if you've thought about the same?

EDIT: Holy crap, just realized you're the subject of the article. Definitely didn't mean to imply you didn't play a role, FYI, but I imagine you played a large part given your humility on the matter. ;) Keep up the good fight, man.
We're rooting for you.
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Very cool data visualization. Are there any particular reasons you chose not to a library like THREE? Bundle size perhaps?
I think it's interesting. Tech to create a feedback loop to keep you in a particular state.

When I was a kid I really had this thing for switching a light switch between off and on. Know what I mean? There's a spot you can hold it between off and on where the light flickers, and buzzes, at low power, sort of randomly.

I guess this is like that for wake-sleep. Cool state to be in and to get there without drugs, concentration, or whatever else. Very simple.

Can you lucid dream/OBE? Was it possible to learn?
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This particular work, requires forcing transmission of CTS-to- self to avoid transmission by nearby stations. The effect of the tag on the signal strength/ CSI can be measured at software level. Both enforcing the CT-to-Self and measuring the impact on CSI should be doable in software level and on the off the shelf APs. The downside of this method is low range, and low data rates, at Wavelite, we are leveraging the same backscattering concept, where we use off the shelf routers with no software modification, and using a separate device (a cellphone or laptop or router)as the receiver. Here is a link to a demo video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wprRR7LhPNwy07JjDlB0Hv804D7...
You might want to do some actual research on non-US medical systems before investing your cash into this.

There are already several international standards on the interchange of medical records. There are some limits on requesting your own medical records (for apparently good reasons) but basically the system you describe already exists, minus the need for blockchain (which apparently is more "convenient" than a thumb drive... how?) outside the USA.

Also, the problem with Chinese-Americans collaborating on sensitive data is that they don't want to, not that they don't have a suitable format for data interchange.

Again, solution chasing problem... as always with blockchain...
I think the author already patched it and that's why you're not seeing the same problem. Now it runs faster for me, too. (But HN doesn't allow me to edit my original comment anymore)
For news we can assume that it's signed by the journalists and news agencies who created the content. Or who researched the origin and are willing to put their credibility on the line.

Edit: To clarify, this doesn't prove if something is real or fake. It just makes attribution of the origin easier and creates a traceable chain of trust.
> In five years you are going to try to go buy coffee with fiat currency and they are going to laugh at you because you're not using crypto

There isn't a version of a universe where I can imagine this happening so quickly. If he truly believes this will be the case, then he must be living in some echo chamber.
> Does your bank send you messages on WhatsApp?

Was setting up an account in India (Yes Bank, I believe). Banker messaged me on WhatsApp.
I had conversations that went like that.
Oh god what have you guys done to my native tongue.
Made me think of this comic by commitstrip [1]

- Some day, we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself.

- Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more.

- Exactly

- And do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program?

- Uh... no...

- Code, it's called code.

In the end, we'll just move the abstraction layer to another level, that's it.

[1] http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv...
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"Informed voter"

Ha! An oxymoron that Socrates would have chided you for. :)
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Google's security is as good as they cover their own rear on it. For instance, Google Chrome is hailed as being incredible at security, but they allow extensions which can read and modify the contents of every website you visit with little to no scrutiny. Malware is rampant and distributed directly from Google's extension market, but Chrome is "secure", because by definition, Chrome permits the extensions to be malicious, so it isn't a break in Chrome's definition of security.

In this case, they just blame you for installing an extension that behaves badly.
I solve this problem by using vim, so my terminal is my editor.
I'm confused about the down votes here. What isn't true about this?
> Few complain about middle eastern or american companies buying up europe. What exactly is so different about China?

I would suspect it's because a lot of China's foreign buying spree involves state owned/controlled companies. If the US used the Federal Open Market Committee to purchase big chunks of foreign assets, especially in "critical" infrastructure, other countries might start to get a little worried.

Though, honestly, we brought it on ourselves -- China has ~4 trillion in foreign reserves which we happily gave to them in exchange for cheap consumer gadgets (totally ignoring why the government has these funds instead of the producers of said gadgets) which we've always known they would someday want to cash in on some real goods. Well, it turns out they like to buy "critical infrastructure" so woe is us.
A physical "terminal" is a piece of hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100
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I'm not sure "handle" necessarily means "prevent" or "halt".

It seems reasonable, upon observing a growing trend in Chinese ownership of one's domestic economy, to want to formulate a plan to monitor and understand that trend, and to be ready to regulate or mitigate it if it proves to be pernicious to to have unwanted consequences.

And, while I cannot say that I know what is in the minds of those officials in Europe, i suppose the main difference (as compared to US or middle eastern companies) might be the suddenness/newness of the trend and the rate at which they are buying up the economy.

Of course, this could be the "Summer of the Shark", as discussed in an HN thread last week.
Weird question isn't it? We should be happy there are several great places to host code :)