skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security auditor in 2009/2010. In that job I was traveling the countryside of Afghanistan and visited the major US Army bases to provide information security assessments and write reports. I got to see some of the exotic landscape and talk to many different interesting people. I also got to go on flying adventures that aren't allowed by passenger carriers in the US. This was incredibly rewarding for the reasons not related to the technical qualities of the job.

At the end of my tour I read the ISC2 course book for the CISSP and passed the test on the first attempt. So now I just tell people to read the book and take the test from a management perspective and people look at me like I am crazy, because the test is so hard.

My most rewarding job for purely the software angle was being the A/B test engineer at Travelocity from 2010 to 2012. I learned to master walking the DOM. Some of our tests were extremely ambitious to the point of wildly defacing large areas of complex pages on the site. Your code had to be defect free and execute before the regular areas of the page displayed to the user. Some of our experiments comprised multiple various pages and required altering the browser history and moving people around the site in non-standard ways.

I learned to master my JavaScript browser interaction skills doing this job. You could not wait for framework or library code like jQuery, because it loaded too slowly and would bias the experiment. You simply had to learn to do the job against the actual web technologies. You also had to learn to execute quickly, because there were always more experiments demanding attention than we could ever get to which means potential lost revenue. It was always challenging and always rewarding. This job is what elevated me to a senior developer.
The most fulfilling project I've worked on: SimulaVR (a 3D Linux window manager meant to eventually run on standalone VR/AR headsets).

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

The development has been slow and winding, but the possibility of a successful outcome makes the work very fulfilling. In addition, the other people working on Simula are not only extremely smart, but very open-minded about all sorts of interesting technologies (functional programming, AR/VR, BCIs, etc). The project itself sits at the intersection of lots of things bleeding edge in open-source: Godot, Wayland, Haskell, etc.
A giant warning label should be required for Drupal, Wordpress & any CMS that offers a large market of plugins.

"Plugins are dependencies that if not maintained actively, may cause you to fall behind on updating the core CMS. Not keeping your CMS up to date will crush your website if an emergency security patch comes out & you can't update to it."

I get that this could be said with any framework or code base, but as someone whose job is to update a couple Drupal sites, I've almost been burned on this way to many times. Content editors rely on a plugin. That plugin isn't getting updated as fast as it should & Drupal introduced breaking changes so the plugin won't work with the new Drupal version. We have to hold back an update until the plugin gets patched. Fortunately I had just finished updating our sites before this security announcement.

The best advice I can give to anyone managing multiple Drupal sites would be pick your plugins carefully, make sure you have a testing server, make sure you can set aside some time each month to run updates & fix the many issues created by those updates, and create integration tests.
Diane Abbott Joins Calls for Amber Rudd's Resignation
> Many F2P apps prey on people and something should be done.

Don't play the games then.
It's not data persistence per se, it's just replication to another instance in a different zone. Persistence is not currently available but plans are in place.

Disclaimer: I am an engineer at Google on the managed Redis team.

UPD: replication -> persistence not available
Yeah, we had Italian Football player cards because Italy loves football.
It's exploiting dopamine hits but not as aggressively, and it doesn't - presumably - cost real money every time you try.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the people in these discussions who gloss over the "pay money to roll the dice" portion of the gambling issue.
This is the interview question I ask every candidate
I actually think that is pretty solid variable naming. dependentVariable_flatTax_agree_wave1 isn't the worst but also the researchers are looking at this so long it makes sense for them to shorten. I think pretty vs usable code is one of the reasons researchers don't publish their code as frequently as they should. Writing a paper is already a huge time sink, then having the need to clean up variable names, comment, all of that stuff would be great but they also are trying to publish in a timely fashion. No matter what, I'm not really agreeing or disagreeing with you, just a thought. I do agree with you though, I am glad there is more and more of a trend to publish everything involved in the research process.
Creating iOS games for my daughter - hugely satisfying, moderately complex and insanely fun.
I would contend those fixes -do- add to the bottom line.

Making a user's job take less time frees them to do other things. Those other things may have value; that value is only captured because of the time saved due to your effort.

Even if that time becomes effectively 'free' time for the user, that increase in happiness and morale makes them more likely to be more productive in other areas, less likely to leave the company (however small an effect), etc.

Don't dismiss something that makes someone's life easier as having no monetary value just because you can't easily quantify it.
It's the only company mentioned by name in their Key Points at the top, and then it's one of the first things they talk about, and is the only company they talk about in detail.

To you, that's by chance and doesn't mean anything.

To me, it's because the piece was written with Tesla in mind-- the piece was designed as a vehicle for an opinion on Tesla, disguised as an article about bubbles.
Thanks for feedback!

I can assure you it took longer than 10 minutes but we saw that getting this online was more important than getting it look beautiful.

Of course you can use 3rd party screen recorder to save that, but that's one extra step there.

Auto upload to youtube could be one option, but it requires getting authorization from user.

Converting TVS files to _reasonable_ MP4 is quite hard and time-taking task and we are trying to automate it. With a fee.
Until you need to replace the batteries
More of a "customer service" problem: there were plenty of people telling them it was a bad idea right from the start, but they didn't listen.

> It's not like anyone knew how to run a social network in 2012.

Only if you try hard not to see prior art. "Online communities" of one sort or another have existed as long as the internet, and wrestled with questions of what constitutes abuse.

Really the problem is that Facebook has gone from a mere product to something quite important to society without going through a self-examination period. It's also, oddly, never really tried to have a relationship with its users as a community or communities. Tom being your "friend" on Myspace may have been a gimmick but at least it was pretending that the relationship existed.
The chinese government is working on it - but they are, at the very least, not convinced it is science. Not to mention, most people are horrified.

I don't doubt that IQ, like Social Credit, is a useful administrative tool. However, something being useful from an administrative standpoint does not make it scientific. It also doesn't make it desirable. There are very many things that are absolute inconveniences from an administrative standpoint, that are absolutely necessary from a human one. Rights, basic freedoms, and so on.
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Was this running the AWS Deep Learning AMI or did you build your own.

Because Intel was involved in its development and made a number of tweaks to improve performance.

Be curious if it actually was significant or not.
OK, single gene effects are the easy ones to find, so we find them first. We know height is massively polygenetic though.

The point of the Tibetan story is that they (may) benefit from > 200k years of adaptation to that geography, via these ancestral humans. Whereas the Andean people had < 10k years.

Re transfer of IQ, why is it always beneficial? There are always trade-offs -- more blood to the brain is going to make it harder to survive famines, for instance. Some monkey species are dumber than others because it was not profitable in their niche. Domesticated herbivores are dumb too. It could be that this doesn't apply to us, e.g. if we are the result of some recent breakthrough.
Thanks for sharing and very insightful. Guess the TPUs are the real deal. About 1/2 the cost for similar performance.

Would assume Google is able to do that because of the less power required.

I am actually more curious to get a paper on the new speech NN Google is using. Suppose to be 16k samples a second through a NN is hard to imagine how they did that and was able to roll it out as you would think the cost would be prohibitive.

You are ultimately competing with a much less compute heavy solution.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

Suspect this was only possible because of the TPUs.

Can't think of anything else where controlling the entire stack including the silicon would be more important than AI applications.
Mozilla’s 'Hubs' is a VR chatroom for every headset and browser
Show HN: Cssgr.id – A tool to generate boilerplate code for CSS grid layouts
> apps whose business models prey on gambling tendencies in children

Then it should be the parents' responsibility to educate their children, and not give them a device with a credit/debit card attached to the logged account.
Plenty in an absolute sense, sure. I don't appreciate the implication I was being dishonest, but let's really be honest.

If you pick a random software developer in 2018, they're writing forms over data web apps for a line of business application. It's a fluffy job with no real physical danger. That was my point.
Once, I did a small change on a security software, including a new feature, then I went to update servers in loco, on our clients office.

I went there, and the people of security (my users), once they discovered why I was there, they got very very happy, their eyes were brightening, and started to make calls to their colleagues to tell the great news.

The feature I included on that version was very easy, did not took more than 2 hours to me to develop, but for them, it had a great value.

That day was the first time I remember that I was doing a meaningful work, literally my software was improving people lives.
You mean persistence is not yet available?
To me, it mostly comes down to whether you want to keep living where you are living or live someplace else and (be forced to)/(have the opportunity to) meet new people. Independent of that, more school in something that is/isn't personally interesting factors out as a common denominator. Keep in mind that the choice isn't binary. Moving is orthogonal to whether or not you even choose to pursue an masters. Good luck.
Definitely my current endeavor, bastions [0]. It's the first side project that I've taken this far and I can't wait to see where I can take it from here. In a sentence, bastions allows website owners to easily and automatically test their website. Think testing out contact forms, sales forms, SSL certificates, functionality, etc, in just a few minutes time. It's been rewarding because I've done it all myself and have learned a lot along the way.

I say go for it when it comes to starting your own thing. It's hard, but it's rewarding.

[0] https://bastions.co
Peruse Tesla owner forums and reddit. The model 3 in particular has quality issues on brand new cars. Compare it to buying a Honda or Toyota - you're not going to have the kinds of problems described.
Still no option to disable mouse acceleration? Come on! Default Gnome has had an option for it for multiple years already.
Since it is "my brain", I would think that I would have all of my memories which is largely what makes up me.

I really don't see how then I would be a completely different entity. It would just be me, but in a better body in my case. As someone who suffers from a degenerative disease that causes chronic pain which only continues to get worse over time I would welcome transplanting my brain into an android-like body where I could continue to live, albeit without the suffering.
The author is totally right. As a freelance writer, thinking about selling does make my skin crawl. What really helps me is the persistence outlined in step 4. I keep track of my contacts and what I've done to build relationships with them over time. Eventually, many find themselves needing my services or coming across someone who does.
There’s a bike valet service at a hospital in Portland. About 300 people use it every day to get to work. I made the web app and a few other tools using Google Apps Scripts that make it easy for the valet attendants and customers to check their bikes in and out, send automated emails and text messages.

It’s fun to have made something that so many people actually use and that I hope makes the world a little bit better. Plus I’m a completely self-taught programmer (my day job is content strategy) and it was rewarding to work on a bigger project than the little scripts/games/etc. I usually make for myself.
Being at a 9am meeting is not a sacrifice to any part of anyone's wellbeing.
I do not know where thom got data, but I have used soccer data from Opta (optasports.com) and it was pretty amazing to use. They have made some data available at different times, and they seem very helpful to work with if you are doing research. I worked on a project with a small sample of data that caught the interest of an MLS club. They had purchased a license for a much bigger dataset from Opta, so it definitely seems like something that clubs budget for.
did you try exercising ? I find when I'm exhausted from exercise I sleep very well.
Thank you for the info about numpy.matmul. However this feels quite clumsy to use a function call for a matrix operator, especially when you have several chained. I think that this is an good move to get rid of matrix class (I just didn't find any depreciation info in the documentation, maybe this still needs some time).

I think the python language is very elegant and the principle that there should be only one obvious way to do something has served them quite well. Unfortunately, in numpy you have quite often multiple ways to do things (often in addition to python own mechanism, e.g sum, numpy.sum and the sum method). I deal with students who have little programming experience and this can be confusing. One of the reasons I choose Julia for my lectures was that these issues do not exist in Julia. Julia is quite clean and simple in this regard.

However I completely see that for an experienced programmer (or a scientist with good programming experience), this is not a problem.

But for somebody learning to solve numerical problems, it is quite helpful that Julia code tends to be closer to the mathematical formulation. In addition, for the test I made, Julia code tends to be faster than vectorized numpy code (I can share the code if there is interest). The only major argument against Julia, in my opinion, is that it is still a young language and with a small ecosystem (much smaller in fact than python or R)
The technical audience who actually use Linux desktops want more customization not less, and the crowd that Ubuntu seems to be chasing doesn't seem to actually exist?

Hmm this doesn't make me want to leave xubuntu any time soon, although I too have noticed the recent xfce issues mentioned in the article.
How do people travel the last mile?
How We Bootstrapped Our No-Code Startup to a Team of 20 in 2 Years
I think it does, which seem to make it quite interesting.
One should consider any survivorship bias in thinking about that. Also consider that a series A in biopharma is commonly well above above $30MM, and that doesn't generally even come close to funding proof-of-concpet clinical studies. That combined with any survivorship bias complicates the economic interpretations of cross industry profit margins.
You're optimizing for pure "throughput", which is a good start, but the bus may win on "latency" as well. The bus will make the moving journey faster than cars waiting in traffic.

You could argue time spent at the start/end however. Walking to/from the bus stop or finding/paying for parking. From my experience, my downtown walk from transit to work is very short, on the order of a few minutes.

There are also larger societal reasons to support transit over cars, even if the math doesn't immediately work out:

1. It's healthier for people ("active" transportation)

2. A functioning transit system will attract more ridership and a bus lane is scalable in exactly the way you pointed out.

3. It's environmentally friendly, locally (smog) and globally (carbon)

4. It's safer for society. Car crashes are a significant cause of death.
For whatever it's worth, my question was a genuine moderation policy question. I wasn't trying to suggest a conspiracy or anything. I don't think there is one.
Ubuntu 18.04 BionicBeaver Release Notes
Also a structural recession, which is really hard to cure and there is little the government can do.

You got tons of people with skills X, but skills X is not valuable anymore, and they have to learn new skills and basically start their careers over.
Any Xubuntu review out there? Fingers crossed...
There's BOTH factors, but the master-plans and zoning that require sprawl by forcing major separation between residential, commercial, industry etc. — all that was top down. And by top-down, I mean at the local city planning level, not the federal level per se… except the federal policy helped finance the sprawl…

Also, these big developers are sorta top-down too. They are big powerful entities setting things up for the people who actually use the developments instead of iterative development.

There's a ton of ridiculous patterns built into development that relate to the way it is financed etc. and that along with zoning etc. creates insane sprawl.

https://www.strongtowns.org/ does a remarkable job at addressing all these issues, not taking a dogmatic top-down or bottom-up or whatever view.
Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond
Ubuntu uses Gnome now. This option exists in the Tweaks app.
There's a setting in gnome tweak tool to have workspaces affect both monitors instead of the default, which is just the primary monitor.
I've tried this at 2 companies, one was even my own startup. It seems like a natural separation but in my experience it alienates the makers from the business. Probably that's not an issue if you just work for the tech that is in use. YMMV but if not, it's not the best idea.
QuickTime can record your Apple TV
How much credit should an inventor get if their invention doesn’t work, they can’t make it work, they go out of business and stop working on it, then someone else comes along and figures out how to use it for something useful? I’m not sure what the right answer is exactly, but it seems right to give the second person a substantial part of the credit at least.
I'm surprised to see them have another go at this after the first go flopped. I always thought one of the main issues, which apparently they've addressed but it doesn't seem so, is that they're aimed at an age range that highly prioritises fashion and style - and yet they release a v2 that's almost as ugly as the first, and that my grandma wouldn't be seen dead in.
White nationalists are currently discovering that pure breed is very rare thanks to 23andMe and other cheap genetic tests and going into denial.

I suspect that sexual selection and social class will become bigger elephants in the room than ethnicity in the future.

Traditional class societies had genetic bottleneck between social classes and ethnicity. There was small flow from small upper classes to lower classes (bastards) but upward selection was restricted for a long time. Smart, healthy and beautiful peasant was likely to stay a peasant and marry from the neighborhood. Stupid ugly aristocrat was likely to stay a aristocrat and marry someone from his class. People were not genetically that different. If there was genetic disadvantage it was with higher classes.

In the last 100 years there has been more movement between classes and people move and travel more. Young educated people marry people around the world.

There is a real fear that upper social class will have real gene advantage that makes them smarter, beautiful and healthier and lower classes will have relative disadvantage.
Those super-rare cases are something the press can write about. Nobody would read a headline titled "A 40-year old man spent $500 on virtual in-game stuff". Now, just replace 40YO man with a 10YO kid and you have a story.

The mere fact that we aren't swamped with such stories (I can recall reading maybe 4-5 over the past 5 years) confirms that it's really, really rare thing to happen.
Yearlong acceptable weather suggests to walk.
> "Especially not with all the technology we are going to build in the next 100 years."

On the whole, our technological advances over the past 100 years have increased the rate of unsustainable energy use, despite widespread awareness of climate change for over half of that. What makes you think the technological advances of the next 100 years are going to be led responsibility? The truth is that there are very few people currently making a positive difference, and if we reach a point where climate change starts becoming inconvenient it'll already be too late.
> There are you tube videos my kids liked to watch of people just literally opening pokemon packs. I'd actually be OK with making this illegal.

You want to make something illegal because you don't like it, because you can't be bothered to parent your children.
In my 20s and perhaps 30s, I read the op-eds pretty regularly. At some point after that, my policy changed: if given the headline and the byline I can sketch out the arguments, I generally skip it.
Opta are the biggest player for event data (on-the-ball actions only). Their data is eye-wateringly expensive, but eminently scrapable if you know where to look. However, they did not cover the particular hipster leagues that lay in our budget range, and other providers exist (InStat, for example).
There's something fundamentally different about the dynamic when you have to actually go out into the real world, get a store, etc. It drastically slows down one's ability to get themselves into trouble.
Adopting a consistent/stable writing system is more important standardizing on Latin.

Main goal is to be phonetically consistent with reading. I highly doubt the beauty of expression in Arabic/Hebrew can be represented outside their respective scripts.

Bastardizing on Latin does not give Kazaks anything more than Turkey getting the EU membership.
First job. Writing 6502 assembler for a GTE integrated voice/data PBX system. We cross compiled on some IBM mainframe across the country, burned the ROMs by hand, debugged with in-circuit emulators and a forgotten real-time backtrace device from, I think, Tektronics.

The lessons learned still apply today - machine level thinking, memory management, writing efficient code, etc. And it was the only time I actually had a mentor - actually, a bunch of them. Oh, and the best manager I've ever had. Smart people that were willing to give of their time. They understood that if you were going to build a product, you also have to build the people.