skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To translate what was just said: payday lenders do, in fact, delude themsleves into thinking they are making an impact. It’s always the same material about “helping people in their time of need”.

But the point isn’t about the immediate impact on people’s lives at the moment of funding ... rather the longer impact during the time that they will hold the debt, and the high interest cost to those who can afford it least. Multiply that into man-years per your Steve Jobs anecdote! ‍️(smh)

There’s a reason usury is illegal, and why payday lenders have to pair with sovereign nations and shady legal structures, and why google won’t even list you, etc.

shame.

But oh no. I’ve just bad-mouthed a YC company on HN! Here comes dang!!
What's scary about it? The risk individual (natural) persons might be rude to each other based on political opinions?

Dude — already happening.
Dan at Goodcover.

The later. It's a factor for insurance premiums, because being in an urban landscape vs a wooded area has a massively different fire risk.
I loved Mr. Rogers, and several other PBS shows.

I can also understand why we might not want to spend government money to produce the shows.
Sonnenborn and his "Die Partei" are a blessing in disguise.

It's also extremely weird how a satire political party regularly makes the most sense by bluntly stating like it is.

Maybe that's the actual secret to proper politics: Saying it like it is, spiced up with some fun.
I'm not sure I have a good sense of what mental tasks require 2nd order cognition - what are some examples of the tasks that you saw?
That does ring a bell.
Hello Martin - slightly off topic. There's no pricing section on your website. Does one have to get in touch with sales for a quote?
Google finally updates its Inbox email app for the iPhone X
I'm well aware of the origins of LISP, but reality is that C model is much closer to hardware architecture used in commodity hardware at the time. C made a lot of sense under the constraints, and that's the reason it became popular.
For the last several months I've been in a perpetual state of switching back and forth between Atom and VS Code. So far, I find myself continually frustrated.

Undoubtedly, Atom is slow to start up in a new folder. But in exchange for that initial speed, I get:

* Universally better keybinds. From better split editor(even using the newest VS Code Insiders, which has new split editing binds/tools), to better Vim integration(having to spam j or k to go up/down lines), Atom keybinds(whether official or from the community) seem to just work intelligently.

* Teletype in VS Code is just rough.(CAVEAT: I've not used Atom's, so it may be just as bad.) From it breaking many keybinds for as long as you have your experience shared(using vim `o` to newline and indent is genuinely a 50/50 as to whether it works, and there's a lot more where that came from), to difficulty for the sharer to track the people they've shared with, to the inbuilt console just failing to let one of my sharees to run my tests.

* The number and usefulness of addons in the VS Code community seems to be just consistently a step below. ElixirLS[1] is official on VS Code, yet breaks fairly often- yet never does on Atom, despite it being merely a test! There's no alternative for Advanced Open File[2]. I understand this is an ecosystem problem and that I can contribute to fixing it, but with it being so frequent I often get frustrated.

Furthermore, I really want to know the future of these two projects, plus atom/xray[3]. Because if Atom can get VSCode's speed, I don't see a point to Atom. Alternatively, if VSCode could just get better along the edges, that would similarly be a huge improvement. Both are so fantastic and so close to my ideal(at this point, I have more language issues than editor issues), so both being under the same roof I don't see as inherently negative- but investing in either also seems foolhardy.

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1. https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls
2. https://atom.io/packages/advanced-open-file
3. https://github.com/atom/xray
Matlab style guide
Is fooling a computer system into thinking you are a police officer the same thing as fooling a person?
It may seem obvious to our modern eyes, but the notion that objects of different mass fall at the same rate is not at all obvious outside of the framework of physics that Galileo helped build.

Without proper notions of force, gravity, mass, density, and the form of the laws of gravity, surely you realize that the answer to your hypothetical is not trivial. This was kind of the whole point of Principia.
Corporations like Alphabet don't spend 1% of their revenue on something unless they're very confident it will pan out.
Well yes, especially if they fall vertically as the bottom cannonballs would pull the top ones and that would make them fall a lot faster.
I imagine it would be hard to find a society that is "less worthy in every dimension" than another (and I'd be especially wary of making that comparison with your own society and another). That strikes me as close to the viewpoint Jefferson was espousing, and while I wouldn't suggest romanticizing Native American cultures (also popular, in other circles), they clearly had (and still have) their strengths and weaknesses. So I doubt there could (or should) be any kind of agreement on who are "savages" - in part because that seems to be a much more loaded value judgement than bland but less-loaded glosses like "simpler societies" - plus it's not clear what they're being found wanting for, failing to produce their own Industrial Revolution? Not developing modern medicine? Not writing novels or symphonies? Those are good things, but hardly all that humans are capable of.
Well if Chimps can't then Baboons sure as hell can. Have a read of A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky. The vast majority of human social and politic interactions are stereotypical of almost all primates, the only difference is that we have the gall to think that walking erect seems to have freed us from our vicious primate past.

I thought the difference is that by dint of our language use and our ability to modify our environment, we have the potential reproduce all the different social behaviors that the various primate species have - as well as social behaviors from even non-primate species.

Sure, it's wrong to image one is entirely outside of a social species, that things like dominance and submission don't play any part. But it seems just as wrong to make a single analogy to a single species and be done. We can be like wolves (predictors), sheep (prey), chimps (violently competitive), Bonabos (nonviolently cooperative), and so-forth but it's the complex structures of human society that are going to determine which of these sorts of animal we wind-up with.

It's important not to let the shock of realization "wow, human are just animals" stand in the way of thinking, "but we can still collectively shape which animals we will resemble".
Most of the apps on the app store that make money are in app purchases for games and to a lesser extent the streaming media apps. I doubt that either of these categories would go web anytime soon.

There are no in app purchases for most of the apps that people are claiming that could be PWA's
No. The annual production of Pacificas is only 65K vehicles or so. Google ordered those vehicles in the same way that airplanes are bought. The "62,000" is over many years, and is purely speculative, and cancellable/modifiable as needed.

Google is buying a couple thousand Pacificas in the near future. That's it. It's more or less a commitment to keep buying a couple thousand a year for the next however-many years, in exchange for a discount.

It is NOT the case that Google is going to open a big box and find 62,000 vehicles inside in late 2018.
> Indeed, it simply adds a middleman between the content producer and the final consumer.

No, it does not, not for the clients you seem to think about. The regular RSS feed does not vanish.

For platforms like facebook using schemes like this, see https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Facebook-implement-PubSubHu... and https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/webhooks
Skyrim VR Sells ~1M Copies on Steam and PSVR – But Actual Usage Still Seems Low
Fashion certainly seems like an explanation for a lot of what Apple does. Whether it's selling thin phones while knowing they bend, insisting on a metal unibody that drops calls, or converting to an 'elegant' touchbar for function keys that cripple usability, it's not hard to find bad decisions made for style reasons.
Death of culture. Death of variety. Death of everything that made America an interesting place to visit.

Every city used to have its own local shops, brands, traditions, cultural events. Cleveland and Rochester were worlds apart despite being geographically close.

Now it's the same stores, the same malls, the same cookie-cutter McMansions. The only variety left is the color of the police cars and minor variations in the speed limit.
Really? Even for "x is a prime number"?
just do like browsers did with user agent strings. call your bot "botx (google crawler compatible)" and crawl everything that allows Google bot without any weight on your conscience.
If "Texas" is a downside for Austin, then surely Portland has the same problem? Isn't the rest of the state strongly conservative?

Honestly I doubt it will be a city on the tier of Austin/Portland/Seattle, when San Francisco was still the obvious place to go for people who wanted to do weird things it was much cheaper relatively. The same goes for NYC back when it was a musical/artistic hotspot - living space was much much more affordable than any of these cities.
Citing the Uber case is particularly egregious. Have we all forgotten the NTSB report? It was only a few weeks ago. The Uber car tried to brake, but Uber had deliberately disabled the brakes for a more comfortable ride.
I second that. Today I was using it, and I thought: Microsoft messed so many things up beyond recognition, but what a brilliant product did they make with vscode!
Agreed. Daniel Tiger is as much for me as it is for my son. It seems like they have handy little songs for many toddler challenges. We still sing the "flush and wash and be on your way" song, as well as "take a deep breath".

It's a very different format from Mr Roger's, but maybe it has to be in order to be relevant to the ages.
YouTube videos do this sometimes. I've seen it in the StarCraft space.
Is saying that DynamoDB is a columnar database rather than a K/V database splitting hairs?
Which chapter is that in? I don't remember that from the book.
wouldn’t shader libraries be better?
The grid editor layout is a major improvement I have been waiting for! Can’t wait any longer to try it out.
> The Iraq war had significant buy-in from (some now mainstream) libertarian writers and thinkers.

Identifying someone who claims to support an idea and then makes an argument inconsistent with that idea is a valid criticism of the person and their bad argument, not of the original idea.

> I don't want to single out libertarians here though, I just want to point out interventionist policies have widespread support in the United States across the political spectrum (after all "even the liberal New Republic" supported it)

Sure, right after 9/11 when everybody was angry. Angry makes for irrational. Maybe it's time to revisit a lot of that stuff and roll it back.

> and I don't see that trend reversing any time soon.

The public is made up of people. Things change when somebody changes them.
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-A decision was made to do nothing based on ambiguity in perception, and the emergency braking was turned off because it got too many false alarms from the sensor”

So instead of solving this problem it was decided to go forward;abominable.
At least the truth came out.
Fantastic news. Nobody needs rhino horn "supplements", ivory anything or giraffe skin items. Killing these endangered animals for pure vanity and/or commercial gain is barbaric. Time for poachers to get what's coming to them. Now this needs to happen in Tanzanian law also.
You’re right and wrong here. Humans are cultural creatures to the point where humans not exposed to some sort of cultural milieu simply don’t develop correctly. Walking erect didn’t free us from our vicious primate past: but culture absolutely can. You’re right in that many of our more basic instincts and psychology are a direct continuation of those evident in our evolutionary relatives, and even many of our cultural structures echo that. But we are no more bound by our instincts to be violent and selfish than we are bound by our physiology to be incapable of flight. Of course, exactly like chimpanzees, we could never fly by flapping our arms, but unlike chimpanzees we can figure out how to build and operate an airplane. Likewise, no matter how saddled we may be with primate psychology, we are capable of structuring our society to overcome that.
> 30) Existential angst is part of life.

Definitely a 20-30 thing, never even crossed my mind before I was 25.
I would not just assume that downloading courses I paid for is outside the intended purpose.
It's fortunate that the committee had someone on it that cared enough to champion for the others. Many seem not to have anyone on them at all.
A couple of folks I helped mentor at a Startup Weekend founded a company called Anteater.

I’m not much of a believer in a western culture change that will see us eating whole insects like we’re living in dystopian Soylent Green.

But I can see protein powder derived from insects being palatable for western audiences.

But can it be produced profitably at scale?

I’ve eaten a bug on a stick streetfood in Cambodia, I’m not a fan.
In a study conducted by University of Turku, 70% of the Finnish respondents were interested in edible insects and 50% said they would buy food made of insects, if it were available [0].

Supermarkets in my area here in Helsinki have sold insect foods (breads, bars) for several months already. I can't comment on the taste as I am a vegetarian :)

[0]: http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/fff/palvelut/kehitysprojektit/h...
I don't think that your conclusion follows from your argument. You could say the same thing about directly eating vegetables -- they can be fed to animals we normally eat (e.g., cattle).

More directly to your point, isn't there significant energy inefficiency from eating higher on the food chain?
> It's actually hard to be fully aware of the high levels of conformity one finds elsewhere until you have spent 6+ months in SF.

I haven't found this to be the case at all, at least compared to LA/NY/Seattle.
Thanks for posting that Waymo vid, that's the best processing of Lidar in adverse conditions that I've seen. I think the million dollar question is how far Waymo (or others) can push noise reduction with Lidar. The video seems impressive in isolation, but if you compare it to what Nvidia was doing with cameras two years ago (object recognition in snow/fog that appears to outperform humans[1]), it quickly becomes apparent that Lidar is still nowhere close. But maybe they can get it good enough to bridge us between specific and general techniques.

Personally, I'm long on the camera-based approach because I think reliable autonomy will require a generalized vision solution, and once you've achieved that, the Lidar is redundant.

1: https://youtu.be/HJ58dbd5g8g?t=7m20s
Ask HN: How do you survive the tech hub market with no contacts?
Whereas some people want to jump right into a big company like Intel or Google right off the bat, with no room for "stepping stone" companies in between, I took the other route. Since I graduated in something other than CS or STEM related, I assumed that high-profile companies won't look at my resume for entry level work.

Now I've worked at five different small, local companies, taking on different kinds of projects and facing different challenges. Ten years later I want to finally move to one of the large tech hubs, either in SV or Seattle.

I have no friends or contacts there and generally speaking, I don't use referrals to get any of my job interviews, and people don't really vet for me. However the cold approach doesn't seem to work as well over there. Sending in applications to large SV places is falling on deaf ears. I know the competition is high. What is needed now to survive without referrals?
have you tried ninite it can install lots of free software without interaction
Not enough, that's what! Let's hope for another holiday market spike.
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Not too bad. I was expecting the first shaving step to be about the OS media requiring 520 byte sectors and thus needing a "fancier" CD writer/reader. Maybe that was Sun, not SGI?
Ask HN: IS a ML model derivative of the data it was trained on?
Curious on what people think about this. If I use an open source dataset to train a model is my model bound by the same license as the dataset? or do I have more control over my own model?
> What must have seemed like a benign social media strategy managed to fall foul of Facebook’s algorithmic censors, which labeled sections of the declaration hate speech and removed the posts.

Do we know that this was the action of an "algorithmic censor"? I mean, one of the automated censors? My impression was that Facebook still has many human censors [0] in its employ, many of them outsourced in non-U.S. countries. It's possible that a human user flagged this Declaration of Independence post, and a human censor approved the flagging/censoring of it.

Yes, I know that "algorithm", broadly defined, could include a process in which a human user flags something for a human censor, but that's not how "algorithmic censors" is typically used in this context.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook...
Comprehensive and useful explanation, thanks!
For me, the pendulum has swung far enough that I'm planning to drop Netflix for at least 6 months. We don't watch that much stuff on Netflix these days (mostly Amazon Prime or current seasons from CBS, ABC, etc.), and the stuff I watch on Netflix isn't time-sensitive. That is, I use Netflix to watch seasons of shows several months after they've aired on TV. Obviously I don't care about watching them in real-time, and it doesn't matter to me whether I'm 3 months behind or 9 months behind. Might as well just bunch up my Netflix watching into 6 months of the year and drop the subscription the rest of the time.

It's not a huge deal to save 6 months worth of Netflix, but as the monthly price creeps up, this is becoming more material.
Very much so though the market is super hot now I just took a job locally on Monday (no godam commute on the shit show that is thames link ) and thought I did well to get 5K bump.

since then I just got pitched a 100,000 K euro Job in Portugal (flat 20% tax!!!!) and a £60K one in London maybe I jumped to soon.
If you rely on `(` instead of `{` to create a subshell and you don't comment the heck out of it, you are doing evil
I had a strong preference for a "dumb tv" and I would have paid slightly more for that, specifically so that the TV and its controls don't try to hassle me.

That being said, IIRC my TV was ~$900, and at the time the most equivalent consumer smart TV was ~1050. So I figured that I saved a bit of money. But there wasn't exactly feature parity even at that price point (e.g. the Consumer tv had another HDMI input or two).
I'm still curious, where can one get a comprehensive list of Apps published in the app store, date uploaded, number of downloads, etc?
Pretty much any intro to QC (and in particular, any of the intros I've written, and linked to elsewhere on this thread) will make the point about Hilbert space (that's what it's called) having a dimension that grows exponentially with the number of particles in your system. This is because every possible classical configuration of the system is its own orthogonal "direction" in Hilbert space, and the full state can be an arbitrary superposition (i.e., complex linear combination) of those directions.
I think it would be good to specify what kind of policy you are talking about. You are apparently doing just renters and homeowners policies, but comments even within this discussion are talking about medical insurance.

I don't know what a good, succinct term would be for both renters and homeowners coverage. I know that various kinds of real estate related magazines fall under the umbrella term of shelter magazines. A lot of people seem to not know that, which just highlights how hard it is to come up with a good umbrella term for such diverse things. But I think you need to try to clarify that somehow on your landing page.

And if your advice app is broader than the renters/homeowners insurance niche, then specify that as well. I feel this is just not really clear at the moment.

Best of luck. Insurance R hard. ;)
A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
This article talks about issues with deep learning than admits it's not used on these projects. Making most of the article not relevant to self driving cars despite being about them.
This was at the height of the Web 2.0 phase and many platforms were preparing to go the HTML/JS/CSS route for applications. At the time, it seemed like the trajectory application development was heading.

Palm's WebOS put web technology first on its platform, and sought to compete with the existing mobile platforms.
Somebody brought a bunch of salty crisp mealworms to work. It was a little wierd first, but they basically taste like thin paper chips; not at all a bad taste.

For those of you on diets, if I recall correctly they had pretty high fat, pretty high protein (like 50ish %) and very low amounts of carbs). Might be worth considering for health issue.
There are pockets where there's cultural differences, but you really need to dig to hit the bedrock. Superficially there's almost no difference. The things that once made places like San Francisco unique and interesting are being destroyed by gentrification, and Utah itself is being gentrified just the same.

I'm not arguing against cosmopolitanism, but that's not what you think it is. That's where wildly different cultures can co-exist, side by side, and you can move seamlessly from one to another. Manhattan used to be a good example of this, but now it's getting extremely bland, with all the character being paved over by crushingly dull uniformity.

A lot of Americans think accepting diversity means allowing non-white people to act as if they were white, and this is where all this gentrification comes from. Yes, our condo is progressive because we don't discriminate. Anyone who can afford the cripplingly high costs are welcome to live there!
I am always impressed how powerful and efficient shell scripts are but the syntax is just a killer. Is there a strong reason why all shells have this crazy syntax? Is it not possible to create a shell with a more expressive syntax like Java, C# or whatever?
wondering why those benchmarks weren't run on Linux distros like Ubuntu, Debian, etc.