skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about this a bit, and decided that doing 'the Wikipedia thing' ('Citation Needed') was minimally confrontational, in that it's kind of a standard, somewhat 'mechanical' approach.

I had no idea that some would consider it 'very confrontational'; that's the exact opposite of my intent.

Speaking transparently, when I write 'Citation Needed', it's usually because I do disagree with the statement in question, but that my disagreement is not sufficiently supported. It also means that I'm open to being corrected with additional information.
TrueCar | Santa Monica, CA | Full Time

TrueCar is continuing to grow our technology team in 2018. We are hiring engineers with interest in the below positions and others which can be found on our career site:

* Software Engineers (Rails)

* DevOps / Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineers (AWS)

* Sr. React Engineers

* Financial Systems Analyst

* Security Engineers

We acquired the talent of quite a few Carwoo (YCS09) alums a few years ago. We've been around for over 10 years and went public 3+ years ago. The company has big plans for the coming years and is looking for good developers to help us grow. See www.truecar.com/careers/ for the full scoop.

* We prefer you work with us in-person in our Santa Monica HQ.

* Benefits are exceptional: Your health premiums are 100% paid for, we match your 401k (up to 3% of your contributions), and give stock packages. We also pay for your gym membership (up to $50/month) and have catered lunches every Wednesday.

* Our Santa Monica HQ is right by the beach and Third Street Promenade, so expect fresh air, amazing views, and plenty of food options.

We just completed our first TrueCar Hackathon which our CTO, Tommy McClung, wrote a blog post about. You can read about it on our technology blog: https://www.drivenbycode.com/hack-a-thon-winners/
Here is a video that documented the hackathon as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlfEvPMNxuc&list=PL4s6FxzGb8...

Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Redis, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch

* VISAS are handled under the right circumstances.

Send an email to me (Brett) (bemma AT truecar.com) with your resume and/or GitHub profile. Even if you're not applying but just have questions, drop me a line
Applied (and was interviewed) to YC with 3 co-founders. It was a total disaster. If I ever do it again I will be a solo founder and I'll hire those I need.
The irony is that what precipitated (AFAIU) Prop 13 was an informal practice by many tax offices to systematically underassess the homes of seniors. This lead to perceptions of unfair and capricious assessments by the public. All the noise probably made seniors feel even more insecure. But in any event by the time Prop 13 passed the issue had evolved from one of protecting seniors to general fear and insecurity[1] of homeowners, which is why the solution was so extreme.

[1] No doubt fanned by the usual anti-government, anti-civic rabble rousers that would eventually come to completely dominate politics.
Land rights are not free. Landowner has to convince other people that he can occupy his land. How? He pays a fee proportional to his land's market value so that others don't squat there. Now this fee is just named Land Value Tax for convenience despite it not being a tax.

This would be the ethically fair system. Of course in the present world the landowner class successfully lobbied that the fees are subsidized by other people from their income and similar taxes. There you have an explanation of the perpetual housing boom, because it is highly subsidized investment and there is only so much of it.

This doesn't apply just for land but for anything life necessary which can't be easily created anew. If someone poisoned 90% of water on earth you'd have the same thing.
A/B testing is a great tool for incrementally improving upon a product design given the correct business strategy. Just don't let the limitations of A/B testing drive how you choose your business strategy. The strategy is ultimately about maximizing total profit, and not necessarily short term profit per user.
What's the evidence to show that the Chinese Funds are government backed?
Ah, the classical network pentester's problem. There's really no one good way to go about this.

Certificate transparency tools like CTFR (https://github.com/UnaPibaGeek/ctfr) work only if certs are registered.

You could go old school and use a tool like Sublist3r (https://github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r) or Punter (https://github.com/nethunteros/punter), but ymmv as API endpoints are savvy to these tools and actively work to snub them out.

AXFR queries can be useful if the DNS server allows for it (my experience: 0-15).

Best of luck.
They can also match on personal information - tracking pixel or not, letting you know if user X, of which you know any piece of information, is in the target audience or not. Specify the target audience sufficiently, and you can find out what facebook knows about user X.

Big deal, really.
The culprit in question tried to do the same thing to a Voice Search Chrome extension in the past[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1014240895095300096
There's side-by-side diff (it appears on spacebar press). You can also use external diff tools.

Update: both features are available in Mac version and will appear on Windows platform soon.
> Are you advocating buying internet service from two different companies and paying for both every month in case one fails for a brief period of time?

That's not an unreasonable solution, considering most people already pay two ISPs (one fixed, and another for their phone/tablet). When your home wifi goes down, you're going to fall-back to your mobile anyway. I'm thinking of getting an extra data SIM, an LTE modem and do auto-failover.

--edit--

My needs are somewhat unique - my traveling laptop is on its last legs (and will be replaced by a cheap chromebook. Desktops/servers get better bang for the buck compared to laptops. Go figure!), so I tunnel onto a server at home for heavy-lift computing. If the internet fails when I'm not home, I'd be left stranded (and this has happened).
I am looking for a python library that handles tensors, in the precise mathematical sense. Can you recommend one please?
There are lots of assumptions in that entry-level physics exercise, for instance that all the energy can be dissipated without destroying anything (that the brakes are able to utilize the full friction available) and also that the entire weight of the vehicle rests on top of the wheels performing the braking.
That's a massive oversimplification and you know it.

+ Just because something isnt "necessary" it doesn't mean it doesn't add value. The problem is just sites that make JS a requirement rather than an optional feature enhancement.

+ Youre talking about stuff from a too recent perspective.
Eg Before CSS came into its own, JS was the only reliable way to do mouse over effects (which can add a lot to usability even on regular web pages)

+ Just because JS is abused on current news sites, blogs and other sites that are really just static pages, it doesn't mean that Scheme wouldn't have been abused in the same way.

+ You also wouldn't see fewer developers writing frontend code. They would just use a transpiler (like we see with TypeScript et al) except instead of compiling from a stricter language (in TypeScripts case) it would transpile from a lazier language into a stricter one.

+ Or instead of the previous point (though more likely as well as) you'd still have a non-scheme language in the browser. Possibly even VBScript. Or maybe something derived from Perl. But I guess at least we wouldn't have a language monopoly on browser scripting languages.

Honestly though, I hate JavaScript just as much as you do. But let's not get carried away with our exaggerations :)
Photostory: An open-source workflow for creating slideshows
How about using some sort of advance signal?
Well it is a little more complicated then that. Although it wasn't explicitly listed ( and I have no idea why it wasn't given most other countries had ), China would have to open up its market "more" to allow proper competition. Those deals, were signed after WTO, where it was beneficials to both in the long term. China gets to learn about the tech, and have US companies hiring there people, making investment into China under some partnership conditions. After 10 years it was suppose to be loosen. Instead US was trapped with investment money that cant be easily transferred out, and a market so big that they cant ignore.
weird... that link is blocked for me in the UK (redireting to contentcontrol.vodafone.co.uk).
Wonder what thats is about since its basically the network topology of a, albeit crazy, home network..
Power outages are fairly common in my locale so that's what I've primarily optimized for. Cable modem + WiFi hub on one UPS, desktop on another. Desktop stays on through short (<15 minutes) outages, wifi+internet for 3-4 hours. Power is still my primary point of failure, with probably 1-2 days of outages longer than 3 hrs per year, although in many of those cases the cable will also go out.
As I noted in another comment, when I reply 'Citation Needed', it's because I weakly disagree with the statement, but that disagreement is insufficiently supported. In many cases, I'll go off and do some independent research at the same time, but mostly I'm requesting that the person provide some additional support for their thought.

It also means that I'm open to being wrong in my disagreement.

So, in short, I don't state disagreement in these cases because the strength of my opinion is too weak to merit it.
Professional advice is a good idea.

One suggestion that helped for an acquaintance: if it's RSI from typing on a standard keyboard, but isn't too severe, switch to a fancy split ergonomic keyboard (provided that's different to what you currently use), change the key layout to Dvorak, throw away your existing typing habits and slowly learn to touch type again.

Another relative was diagnosed with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel_syndrome . Surgery can help.
There is a lot more part time work in Japan, and this skews elderly; not sure but that would seem like one way the data could be more accurate than you think.
Probably far more difficult than #DeleteFacebook
> You are protected from the cloud-providers, who otherwise to monetize open-source projects that enterprise vendors develop.

What if I don't care if other monetize my work?

An example: People monetize BSD all the time, -yet I rarely see them discussing licensing changes out in the open at least.

To take it even further: it seems like even if the source code is completely free companies gives back.

As for now my only reason to go with AGPL would be if I wanted to provide a dual licensed library, with AGPL for open source version and a separate commercial version.

I think for the time being I'd actually feel bad if I made a brilliant libary and only released it under AGPL. Why? Because it could have been even more useful to humanity if everyone (including other developers of commercial software like me) could use it.
Yes, thanks for correcting me.
Completely agree.

My home network is built with Mikrotik kit which is priced where it's affordable to have spares. I have yet to encounter a failure, but could drop in a new router in a couple of minutes with the saved configs.

I have SNMP monitoring feeding from telegraf into influxdb on an RPI. Dashboard rendered with Grafana on PC. Also have telegraf pinging to all 24x7 devices and collecting data from electricity meter, smartplugs, and Nests. It's been fun to do.
Wifi roaming is pretty poor because it's entirely a client side decision (unless you have the AP forcibly disassociate a client - this is rarely done as it interrupts streaming / VoIP etc).

APs can provide the client with a list of neighboring APs and things like 802.11r speed up the reassociation process when there's a complex backend authentication process like 802.1x, but it's still entirely up to the client when to roam. Ubiquiti's early products did provide a "zero roaming" option which faked one big network, but this was very inefficient bandwidth-wise as it required all APs to share a single channel.

Proper network design such as minimizing TX power to encourage a client to roam due to a "weak" signal and maximizing coverage with lots of APs typically is the best way to get clients to roam reliably.
My brain skipped ahead in reading "Bankruptcy" rather than "US IPO".
Late to reply but thanks for the comments

The UK at the moment seems to have a bad case of regulation == nanny == bad

Whenever I hear someone saying thing s are over regulated, it means they have a great wheeze to scam someone out of cash if only it was allowed.

I fully believe that education is great and sensible regulation to the benefit of all but my core assumption about designing a society is to have sane defaults

The simplest would be something like SAYE (Save As You Earn) where your employer pushes 10% of your paycheck into a index isa each month from the age of 18.

Basically if you do nothing but accept the default, you arrive at 55 years old with a pension.

(effectively that's what is happening now in UK with pensions)

The defaults for society should leave us with a decent floor - and it's up to us to raise the ceiling.

Call it a nanny state, sensible regulation, or the only way to release a distro
Not really. I don't use a Google account.
> if you use an English word as a command, such as ‘return’, it means you can never type out that word.

Not exactly true. The word by itself would be recognized as a command, but in a sentence it’ll be treated as any other word, assuming you don’t pause for too long before it.
And at some point they preach about the benefits of the free market.
Hey xiphias (sibling comment), I can't reply to you directly since your comment shows as [dead]. It seems you've been hellbanned for more than three months, and nothing in your recent comment history suggests any bad behaviour.

If you happen to read this, I suggest you email the HN mods and demand them to tell you why they have been tricking you to waste your time writing perfectly good comments that they have set to be invisible to a large portion of the userbase, for more than three months.

FFS I can't believe they're still doing this hellbanning shit on HN. Just set an account to "scream into the void indefinitely" and forget about it. The admins are otherwise quite reasonable so I can't fathom how they're actually okay with this.

FWIW, I clicked "vouch". AFAIK this sends a message to the admins to reconsider the hellban. But now I wonder what it actually does, cause I can't imagine nobody but me clicked that for all of three months.
Sprint’s ties to China firm Huawei could complicate T-Mobile merger
Put another way...Being the politician who does the right thing for her / his constituents is a political death sentence.
In fairness, the Python also should be broken up. It should be:

[
found_node.get("value")
for node in tree
if (found_node := node.find(SOME_XPATH)) is not None
]

I think I also prefer Ruby/Javascript style comprehensions, but it's worth comparing well formatted code.
SVG is one of those technologies that never really caught on, even though it would have made life much easier for everyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448254

I can already see the followup HN news: "Google attacking developers on Chrome Web Store and breaking free web!"

That's uncanny!
I live in a one-party gerrymandered state, not a democracy. It makes perfect sense in my case to blame the politicians.
Wikipedia describes Lucian's True Story as a novel written circa 200 AD. I had to read it in high school. I'm sure there are other examples.

On other comments you describe Quixote as one of the first novels ever written, not just still read, which is definitely very, very far from the case. Don quixote itself cites legions of prior novels!
Does this work on any other dataset than Cifar-10 with ResNets? I ask because I worked on reproducing this paper for ICLR 2018 Reproducibility Challenge and the paper noted that this was the only setup in which super-convergence would be observed.

The paper's authors didn't succeed with Adam (which this article seems to have overcome) so I'm curious if they attempted this training method on any other datasets?

From the last paragraph of: https://openreview.net/forum?id=H1A5ztj3b

> Our experiments with Densenets and all our experiments with the Imagenet dataset for a wide variety
of architectures failed to produce the super-convergence phenomenon. Here we will list some of the
experiments we tried that failed to produce the super-convergence behavior. Super-convergence did not occur when training with the Imagenet dataset; that is, we ran Imagenet experiments with Resnets,
ResNeXt, GoogleNet/Inception, VGG, AlexNet, and Densenet without success. Other architectures
we tried with Cifar-10 that did not show super-convergence capability included ResNeXt, Densenet,
and a bottleneck version of Resnet.

EDIT: I see now that they mention a few other datasets: Cars Stanford Dataset and Wikitext-2.
Car drivers underestimate the amount of space it takes a car to stop.
The whole motivation behind Prop 13 was to cap increases below inflation and protect existing owners' positions.
Create various difficulties with speed and an amounts of wild cards.

I got really bored and quit when it dropped me a bunch of letters that couldn't be made into words in any order.

The interface is also shit. Holding down the down button (I'm using a mouse) should just drop it.

The cubes feel much to big.

Extra fun could be had if one could rotate the u into an n, the Z into an N, the p into a d, q into a b and I into H.
Meh, if anything, Denino's stream exposes how poor our systems are in general.

For example, how trivial it is to leverage our militarized police with a fake call. With no effort to vet the call, they'll happily drive over to your house and shoot your dog or ground the plane for five hours.

Or Yelp where anyone can organize to nuke the ratings of a single place. (Yelp and Steam, two examples I know of, have recently put systems in place to filter out mass 1-star spam)

You're barking up the wrong tree if you think this is a "people will do anything for views" problem. And the examples you cite of people getting criminally charged for stealing stop signs and brandishing arms sound like system successes. They don't seem relevant

It's like getting upset that people use CloudFlare instead of realizing how hilariously vulnerable our internet still is to things like IP address spoofing and the fact that your IoT toaster can be nuking a website without you, the owner, realizing it. I bet you'd notice if it showed up on your bill. Maybe you'd think twice about buying in to IoT devices next time (incentives are now aligned!).

Maybe it's time to ask why our systems are so vulnerable to abuse. Getting mad at abusers and their incentives isn't going to fix the problem because they will always exist.

To suggest otherwise is to suggest that our systems should depend on the Deninos of the world not existing, and that should give you a good, long chuckle.
Hey let's not forget that business insider is part owned by Bezos who competes with Musk in the rocket business so articles like this should be taken with a grain of salt.

I saw my first parked model 3 about a week ago and got out to do a walk around. It's a much more impressive car in real life that it is in the photos. In particular the wide track and the design evoke very much a Porsche though, of course, it would have better performance and handling.

Full disclosure I don't own any Tesla (or SpaceX :) But I do have a soft spot for very nicely engineered objects of all kinds. I wouldn't be betting against the Tesla 3 because there's every reason to believe that, at a manufactured cost of $28k, this will be the best automotive value for quite some time.
The Epstein drive is great for generating gravity directly from acceleration, but electric propulsion that's much less efficient than fiction would be just fine. If you can go to Mars in weeks and to Saturn in months using electric propulsion and a relatively small nuclear power plant on your rotating ship and do multiple trips without the need to stop by a large chunk of ice and hydrocarbons to make more propellant, then the kind of multi-planetary society depicted in The Expanse becomes viable.

What it's not is self-starting. Why would someone want to move permanently to the Moon? I can imagine a community starting around scientific research, first government-sponsored, then, maybe, if costs can be driven down enough (thinking SpaceX and lots of hardware reused from previous missions - maybe a couple cyclers that can be replenished/refurbished while in transit) universities in partnership with governments and then, eventually, we'd have critical mass for partners and others unrelated to scientific research to bootstrap a functional society. If manufacturing of equipment can be automated in part and done on the Moon, then using the Moon as a stepping stone to more research on Mars is viable too. In that scenario, I'd consider paying my own ticket.

But, still, we need to bootstrap it with a government sponsored research station that can grow into a self-sustaining colony.
Very surprising to me! I thought facial recognition was supposed to work on the relative size and separation of major anatomical features — eyes, nose, mouth, jawline, ears, that sort of thing.

Any such recogniser which can be fooled by the usual surface details, especially given that roughly half the adult population of rich western nations have significant social pressure to apply such decoration, it would not be fit for purpose.

That said, the examples given in the article seem rather more extreme than any conventional makup. I can easily believe this would fool an AI that scored perfectly on conventional (non subculture) western levels of makup.
Are politicians and appointed elected officials - that is those with power and influence - required to publish their investiment holdings?

The companies, by definition, act in the best interest of their shareholders. What if those also happen to be shareholders of a given company looking for a good deal?
I would be extremely interested in any tools that have been developed to maintain a Common Pool Resource community, open source software or otherwise.
I'm happy to stand corrected. However, zero visual visibility doesn't seem like a limitation for a remotely piloted robot. Can't they just as easily use sonar, radar, or some other form of non-optical "vision"? Fishermen use "fish finders" which are non-optical, so I'd guess the tech is pervasive and cheap.
Who do you think enforces property rights? And by what basis do they lay claim to make other people respect those rights?
Last night I randomly decided that today I'd like to work from the cosy city next door. (It's a one hour train ride.)

Before heading out, I did a bit of homework about coffee shops from where I can work from. I woke up early, biked to the station and took a pleasant one hour train ride to my destination city. After a small walk, I arrived at a good Coffee Bar / Roastery (with a decent internet connection). Spent three hours of my productive morning work day there.

Then, a longer walk for lunch break at a not-too-expensive vegetarian place. Following that, walk to a calming and tastefully designed book café that I already researched about; it was one of the most relaxing and productive coffee shops I've ever been to. I worked a good three-ish hours there. During my break time there, I also discovered a wonderful book. Then I walked back to the station, took the return train, and biked back home.

It was a long day, but a nice change in scenery. Glad I work remotely.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17452718