skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many things you can do with a whiteboard other than inverting binary trees. You're thinking too narrowly.
For what it's worth, I maintain a data repository for this outbreak (https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola_drc) and the 2014-2015 outbreak in West Africa (https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola).
When all else fails, just make something up.
In the unlikely event anyone asks, just tell them you have no logs with their IP address. What are they going to do, check themselves?
Satellite data suggests China and other authoritarian regimes are fudging GDP
>"Linus Torvalds said in 2012 that one of his own biggest successes was recognizing how good a developer Hamano was on Git, and trusting him to maintain it."
Interesting that carpooling was once way more important
You can go to terminal-normal mode using ctrl-w N, and then you can select and yank as usual. To paste, you can use ctrl-w " <register>. Also see :help terminal.
Most people do not get their vaccinations at medical research labs. Your corner pharmacy doesn't have one, nor do most doctors' offices.
Yes, and that you get a lot of tasks that you can't prosecute their origin. For example (off the top of my head) solving captchas, cracking passwords, doxing, hacking offers etc. I think there was also the spectre of organized crime enslaving people to do the tasks and taking the profits.
You're probably aware of asm.js, and that we actually started with what you described and moved to WebAssembly. Do you think that we're moving in the wrong direction, then?
It is deadly as a street drug, but it is safe and effective in the hospital setting.

It is used on nearly every patient that has an operation with anesthesia and would be very difficult to find a replacement that is as versatile.
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (2016)
Another thing, independent of personalities. Theranos was well-funded. It built prototypes. Its engineering case was, “You can get sufficiently good testing S/N ratio with much, much smaller blood samples.” They couldn’t. Period. It remains an unsolved problem, just like stick-free blood sugar testing, which has consumed more than $1B of funding, I believe.
Most of the bullet points you've listed can be summed up as "business logic." I'm sure the Stuxnet programmers worked with physicists and industrial controls specialists.

Developing software for, say, jet engines requires sophisticated knowledge of jet engines, which is probably about equally complex. But it's manageable because programmers work with engineers who are subject matter experts.
Your comment led me to wonder if any businesses are considering raising prices for EU customers as a result of this law. I'm not so much wondering about the "we lost revenue because we can't sell your data anymore", but more along the lines of "complying with the regulatory environment in this region is expensive, and we pass the cost of compliance along to customers in the region".

I recently learned about the AU warranty rules, which are very consumer-friendly — and which a commenter pointed out might be the reason that Apple and others charge significantly more when selling products in AU.

Note: I'm not saying anyone should raise prices as a result of GDPR, just wondering if anyone has done so.
It is usually on sale since it is older. Sometimes it is still perfectly good.
There is much less room for interpretation than most people seem to think. Philosophers often go to fairly extreme lengths to define exactly what they mean (e.g. by carefully describing their use of a word or term to avoid confusion/misinterpretation).

Also, scientific methods and processes are based on theories and thoughts developed primarily by philosophers.
> You didn't say that talking to people was like computer code, you are describing talking to people like it's computer code so it is relevant.

That's your opinion, which I disagree with. So from my view it is still irrelevant. I'm willing to agree to disagree on that point.

> And just don't reply if you are going to be done with a discussion, telling people you might not bother replying to them is condescending and uncivil for this board

There was nothing uncivil, nor condescending about what I said. I just said I would continue to disagree even if I didn't continue the conversation.

I think we've pretty much beaten this disagreement to death, and it's time for me to move on.
And that's why you have to practice.

I was the same but I do a lot better now after having done some 200+ technical interviews and a lot of practice on my own.
This sort of explanation has been very popular by people who are trying to reduce the overall concern level of the community. You're not wrong. You very well could be right and this could be how it will work. Let me give a view as to why it doesn't matter.

The problem with this approach is if you run a large or small company or are a sole proprietorship or simply have a hobby site, you can't write off legitimate fears of heavy handed enforcement. No one wants to be the example.

In the former cases, if your company is how people are feeding and clothing their children, do you want to be the person who says "Oh well we tanked the company this year because weren't worried. Someone on the internet told us they'd be gentle! How could we have known they'd be serious about levying the maximum penalty!?"

If this law is "no big deal" or "so easy to implement" or any other version of the arguments proposed this week, it would not be causing so much concern. It's neither an unreasonable ask or a trivial one. People are being impacted in large ways.

I'm on my company's GDPA compliance team and it is serious business. Our European footprint is small but not insignificant. If we were an unreasonable bunch, we'd just shut the whole thing down and move on. The very expensive very well versed German legal counsel we're paying to help us do this right completely disagrees with what many are saying here. We have no reason to not believe them as they have a lot of experience with the German laws the GDPR is based on. We're paying them far more than the fines we'd see because we believe in doing the right thing. Ergo, we must take the "hard" regulator view rather than your "kid glove" view. Our lawyer's underlying point in every discussion is that this is really really serious business and that they're not fooling around. Adding to that is a GDPR like law is likely to be implemented in Canada and other jurisdictions in the future. We must be ready for that as well.

I think GDPR is great for consumers. I think we'd actually be in a better/easier place if it were a requirement in the US since everyone would have to follow the same rules. The problem is that implementing it takes time and effort to do well at scale. To not loose your competitive edge against other large competitors that do not serve the EU and can operate under only US law. These are real concerns that have nothing to do with the regulators and whatever their whims are.

So even if you're right, these are the real costs. You're going to be held accountable to the people you let down if you put your company in peril. You're going to be held accountable if you loose marketshare because you got this wrong and an unencumbered competitor outmaneuvers you. And most of all, you simply cannot assume the best case, kid glove, approach is what is going to happen. THIS is what people are frustrated with.

I do hope that the EU is fair and equitable (which is my belief) but it would be irresponsible for me to act as if that is the only possibility.
In Vermont and New Hampshire ("Live Free or Die"!) you can pump your own gas. New Jersey is the other full-service-only state I believe.
Do people really crave silence? I always seem to crave quiet over pure silence (where the hissing of my tinnitus can become too distracting). There's a hum and a rhythm to a busy room that doesn't need to be loud: the chatting at a coffee shop, the rattle of keyboards in the office, the laughter and splashes at the beach, or of course the sound of a rain storm in full swing. I crave the peace of those moments and the gentle lull of their sound waves.
> My reading of the GDPR says that the MINIMUM fine is 20,000,000 Euros.

€20M is the minimum value for the upper limit of an Article 83(5) or Article 83(6) administrative fine; it's not a minimum fine, and a lesser value (€10M) applies as the corresponding base upper limit for some other violations.
I mean, in my graduate ML classes the first "homework" assignment was always just a problem set of probability and distribution questions. They were simple questions, but you'd be surprised how many people dropped the class after that first assignment.

There are a lot of people out there who have memorized how to implement k-means and PCA but would absolutely struggle to understand what they're actually doing or interpret the results in a meaningful way. A HUGE part of being a data scientist is presenting information in a useful way. That's why PhDs are favored because with their experience having to write grants to get funding for their research they're exactly the type of people that can take a naive problem, work it to a result, and then sit in front of a board room of non-technical people and explain why their result was worth the money that was given to them.
prank your friends:

echo 'imap <esc> there is no escape ' >> ~/.vimrc
I can't access it on Harvard website any more. Luckily the paper is already published so if you have access to the journal, download it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
Opensource though.
It's a blog post, not a peer-reviewed paper. And the tone certainly sounds to me like an invitation to mathematicians "Hey, we're amateurs who found this cool thing, can you tell us more about it?"
This is definitely one of the most difficult aspects, and already something that we've had some good discussions about on Tildes. There are some people involved already that have been moderators of some of the really divisive subreddits, and I've also had a lot of conversations over the last year with mods from subreddits that work very hard to promote civil discussions even on controversial topics - places like /r/ChangeMyView and /r/AskHistorians.

In terms of pure mechanisms, there are a few things. Tildes doesn't have any downvoting, so that alone takes a lot of the "conflict" out of interactions. Also, for the foreseeable future, new groups won't be user-created, so this means that people can't create very "extreme" little sub-groups (on either side) that treat each other like enemies. We've also been talking a lot about a sort of trust/reputation system (https://docs.tildes.net/mechanics-future), which will make it so that if people get banned for being an asshole, they can't just create a new account and immediately carry on doing the same thing.
This information is not that meaningful. Using the median rather than the average would have been useful.
Counterpoint: No, the CLASSICS Act is not a “term extension”

http://www.copyhype.com/2018/05/no-the-classics-act-is-not-a...

I'm hardly a fan of copyright, but the arguments that this is not actually an extension seem sound.
> This has some interesting possibilities—someone filtering out all nsfw posts would also not see anything tagged nsfw.gore, but someone else could choose to filter only nsfw.gore and still see posts with other tags like nsfw.nudity or plain nsfw.

That section from "Mechanics" [0] makes it sound like there will be no adult content ban. There is more that makes me think that, but this makes it pretty clear.

[0]: https://docs.tildes.net/mechanics
For me, there is a fairly clear argument that works - online banking, you will know if there is a problem (the money is gone), online voting, you might not even _know_ it was compromised (in a close election, skewing a few percent of the votes could change the results without it being significantly different to the polls).
How many former US startups such as Google or eBay do you use in the UK? And how many former UK startups does an average US user use? There gotta be a reason for this disparity. And the reason is regulatory capture in the EU.
This claim is delusional. The stories about Jobs' vision, product/engineering judgement, and ability to get others to share it are very convincing. They stretch for decades. He basically worked his entire career to put creative computing tools into people's hands (Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad). He did not just happen to get lucky to "be involved with people with genius and vision."
I find the Technical Goals page particularly interesting and debatable: https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals

Accessibility and i18n aren't mentioned which is unfortunate.
It's been fascinating to watch every online environment almost inevitably turn to mush over time.

Of particular interest to me are Wikipedia and StackOverflow, where the pedantic rule-following, rule-enforcing insider group eventually squeezes all joy and then all productive life from the the system.

Actually, I have little hope for Wikipedia's solving the problem, due to their governance model and political structure, but StackOverflow has economic incentives to solve the problem, so I follow them with interest.

Reddit seems to remain vibrant, albeit often a wretched hive of scum and villainy depending on subreddit…

Add Tildes to the list of projects I'm watching with keen interest. I believe the question of how to keep a massive online community healthy is actually a key problem of our times.
Yes, but my understanding is that you don't need to automate these features, so you would just do it all manually until your scale starts to make building tools worth it.
Hi, I remember you ;) Anyway, quick question: How do you expect to prevent people using "troll" or "noise" comment tags as their alternative to a downvote button?
Shoes – An easy little GUI toolkit for Ruby
I work directly with several top-tier research universities use us for public opinion polling mostly, as we offer a representative sample at a great price point.

Lucid is the creator of the world's largest programmatic survey sample marketplace. We have API integrations with hundreds of US and international panels that allow us to target very specific audiences across dozens of sources, ensuring excellent feasibility.

Happy to discuss any needs the YC community has.

- Cullen Wheatley

Articles for more info:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/10/lucid-60-million/

https://greenbookblog.org/2017/05/16/ceo-series-how-lucid-ce...
Has anyone else read about the cultural factors behind this epidemic? I've been reading about some of the funeral practices. Tradition or not, I couldn't think of a more dangerous thing to do. An understanding of these practices does much to explain the spread in some countries and not others. Religious issues aside, we need to educate people about how idiotic these practices are from a medical perspective. They need to stop. This religion/culture practice is killing people.

From the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26835233

"Hugging is a normal part of religious worship in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and across the region the ritual preparation of bodies for burial involves washing, touching and kissing. Those with the highest status in society are often charged with washing and preparing the body. For a woman this can include braiding the hair, and for a man shaving the head."

On the other hand, I am much less afraid given that I live in a country where such practices do not exist. Cultural barriers can sometimes be a very good thing.
Everyone I know (including myself) who has ridden a dockless rentable electric scooter has found it the inferior personal transit option in SF. What exactly is making these founders think this is a worthwhile option?

The bikeshares, the electric bikes, even boosted boards are all great. A personal non-electric scooter is great. They have designated places to go, or you bring them inside with you.

The public nuisance (lack of sensible parking), the safety concerns/lack of rules (ride on sidewalk or street, helmet or no, etc), the 10mph cap (slower than a manual scooter), and mediocre economics make it seem worse than everything. What are the pros that people care about?
If I had as much extra time as I ever wanted one of the projects I'd work on would be a vim-style modal editor where ctrl-X in insert mode usually corresponded to X in normal mode and where CUA conventions are followed when practical. And where you do move-command rather than command-move and you have both an emacs yank-ring and a vim jump-ring.
If you being paid to research a predictor or a classifier then as soon as you have a model demonstrably better than what’s running in prod, you should be able to just drop it straight into the CICD pipeline and off it goes to make money for your employer - or for you. No more chucking a prototype over the fence to a programming team to rewrite in C++ or Java to make it “prod grade”.

Right now doing this is somewhere between “state of the art” and “new normal” depending on where you sit.
Sorry, I don't even know what CPMs are. Could you provide a link?
This is like the correct way to ask for help on Linux forums. If you simply go and say "How do I do X on Linux?" you'll get rude responses of the form "RTFM, n00b." To get any help you have to go to the forum or IRC chatroom and loudly announce "Linux sucks because you can't do X!" Then watch as the nerds fall all over themselves to help you, thereby proving you wrong.
By law it is enforceable and directed at any entity that tracks European data. There is no clause the limits GDPR to large companies, just like there is no clause that limits or restricts fines outside of the 4%/20M number.

It would be entirely possible for someone to not be compliant with a side project and get fined 20M because there is nothing that explicitly forbids this it is entirely up to interpretation.

Given that US companies have already been targeted in the EU, unfairly [1], I find that law terrifying because I have to trust regulators that don’t have my best interests in mind with possible penalties that are very high.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/treaties...
So, what is it? No screenshots, all talk. The world doesn't need another Digg clone, it needs something brand new. We have enough ripoffs already. Are you going to implement up and down voting? If so, why promote a voting model that empowers the 51% and silences 49%?

Sorry this isn't a popular sentiment, but downvoting my comment proves a point. I have a valid concern, but repeated downvoting on HN leads to a situation where I'm afraid to comment on anything and never provides me the ability to downvote comments myself.

Edit: Hah, what irony https://docs.tildes.net/mechanics#lack-of-downvoting
Yes, but once you've updated the git protocol, ssh support comes for free. Having one mechanism is simpler than having two. And as your sibling notes, setting env vars from ssh has disadvantages. So why bother?
I didn't say this was how science works. I was asking the question whether this was already the existing theory.

I mean what is science if not deduction based on observation?
This is certainly possible. But Jobs decision to impose a design requirement earlier (if that was so) might have been excellent given the data he had; when he got more data (or logic) from John, he made a better decision and knew that it would take a big shove to get everybody else to change direction on a dime. It generally does. The anger wasn't necessarily about the previous decision, all sorts of engineering decisions turn out to be "placeholders": it may have been about not being willing to alter course quickly enough, or just intended to ensure everyone knew the direction had changed.
I don't know about when typewriters were new, but up until recently, many people were actively scared to use a computer. I worked with people who would physically shake when they would use a computer because they terrified of breaking something.

The mouse, while designed to help quell those fears, was still a part of the computer and still scary to those people.

The number of buttons probably didn't matter in the whole scheme of things. They would've been afraid of it regardless. But his instinct was already to remove anything from a design that wasn't absolutely necessary. So it fit with his way of thinking to suggest that people wouldn't use a mouse with two buttons. If eliminating one button could make those people less afraid of the computer, then that was the way to go.

All that said; I too thought that mouse sucked. But I was a power user by then and it wasn't designed for me.
Let that be a reminder to all the coders out there: if you ever design a protocol or file format to communicate between machines always remember to add a version field or some other way to allow for updates and revisions later without breaking everything. Having a way to specify extensions in a backward-compatible way is nice too.
At least in Scandinavia I'd say it's fairly common to have a real office. It seems the cubicle thing never really caught on here, but now there's a trend toward open plan offices, unfortunately. Software companies seem to be among the worst in this regard.

I have a real, quiet office with lots of daylight. That's actually one of the reasons I'm staying at this job. That, and the fact that I'm not subjected to low-status micromanagement techniques like Scrum. In short, I have working conditions befitting a qualified adult.
I agree. This blog is hosted separately from our servers so I went for a quick deployment of WP on google cloud. Learning: do not use google cloud VM micro instance, apparently it cannot support even moderate traffic.
Well, to some extent, yes.

Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever.
This is awesome! Here’s a list of companies with over $240k/year in revenue:

https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/how-to-come-up-with...
> It's also true that there are many international turkers for whom $8/hour or less is still solid pay

> and it's pretty much a win-win for everyone involved too!

It is not; it is a way to pay below minimum wage, and to have simple labor paid to the lowest common denominator wage in the world. Hence people from countries such as Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom would be underpaid with $8 hour. The problem is that these people also have higher expenses than poor countries. My rent alone is 600+ EUR/month, and that's cheap (for NL).
When I started in this game, just being able to put up a website made you hot stuff. HTML and CGI were cutting edge. But for a long time now, those skills are totally commoditized. That’s what I mean.
If it is any consolation, I am thinking you are actually a judgemental person.
In a terminal window, you can type CTRL-W N (with upper case N) to switch the terminal to normal mode, where you can then move in the buffer and copy things in the terminal buffer using regular vim commands. You can go back to typing commands in the terminal by typing i or a (as when going in insert mode). You can paste in the terminal using CTRL-W " followed by the register name.

See :help terminal
https://youtu.be/Dub4nraPLlQ
In fact, developers are allowed to use whichever VCS tool they want on their local machine (or on the online coding in the cloud CitC environment). Some opt to use hg. The canonical repo is in piper though, so the hg commits or git commits get converted before they land.
I switched from material design (react-toolbox) to semantic ui around a year or two ago for similar reasons.

Material design looks great by default but it infects the rest of your app really quickly since any custom components you build have to match it in visual style or it'll look really out of place. This was pretty hard for a small project without a designer.

Semantic basically looks like bootstrap without being bootstrap and is much easier to work with.