skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drive for Uber as a mental and emotional health break between contracts.

Uber partners do not have to accept every request. In fact, I don’t accept any passenger with a low score. As it turns out, there’s no shortage of passengers in San Francisco. Be nice to your driver!

Most passengers appear to be completely unaware that it is a “privilege” for a passenger to ride in my car, (not a “right”)

Resultingly, a very small group of terrible passengers feel that their abusive behavior towards others or my property is justified.

With informed consent, I do indeed record all activity in and out of the car.

If it starts to get abusive I will simply end the ride when and where it is safe to do so.

When one enters my car, they’re inside my privately owned vehicle. If they don’t like being recorded - They can probably easily find a ride with a different driver.

Of course, everybody I drive seems to be OK with this arrangement, as my driver score is 4.99 stars.

This is what I have written / posted:
——————————

First, welcome to my car!

If you’re reasonable, decent, empathetic human who understands how painful it is for me to have to write the following informed consent disclaimer, thanks.

You are appreciated, friend.

• This car is equipped with video capture and broadcast devices.

• This equipment protects you (the passenger), Joshua (the driver), and the vehicle from a "He Said - She Said" scenario in the event of accident or an incident.

• In California, video recording does not require two party consent; only “informed consent” I.e me informing you - which this just did.

• There is no audio recording - that would require your consent.

• In addition, an abbreviated notice of active filming has been posted on all exterior passenger windows.

• If at any time you feel uncomfortable with video being captured, please inform me as soon as possible. We will work together to find a agreeable safe place to promptly end this trip. You will only be charged for the partial trip. Note that video capture and recording will continue in the event of a rapid escalation of hostilities.

Thanks for understanding!
Mondragon is basically a corporation. It is not flat.
Google Translate glitch predicts the second coming of Christ
How playing an instrument benefits the brain
Anyone who has read even the tiniest amount outside of HN and Zed Shaw knows that there is no such thing as a group of humans where everyone is equally powerful. It is a stupid fantasy or deliberate lie in all circumstances.
Companies with "flat" engineering hierarchies -- a CTO/cofounder and everyone else as senior engineer -- often exhibit the same phenomenon. Some senior engineers are more senior than others.
lymphadenopathy is caused by a variety of conditions, including but not limited to infections, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. To your point, the article you linked only states that "she'd noticed lumps in both her armpits two weeks prior - a common symptom of lymphoma."

Granulomatous change in the lymph node (when phagocytes eat up the pigment from the tattoo) is not "serious" per say, especially considering that in this case the patient had no other associated symptoms.

If you can read the original case report (paywall) that ScienceAlert linked: http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2656481/tattoo-pigmen..., you will find that the major point of the article was that getting a good history from a patient with tattoos is important so that you don't misdiagnose them with lymphoma if they do not actually have it.
As a pathologist who sees tattoo ink in lymph nodes routinely (along with other pigments), it's slightly shocking to me that this got reported as a finding.

There is, however, an interesting suggestion of correlation between certain red pigments, particularly from tattoos made in Asia it seems, that stimulate the immune system to mount a severe epidermolytic reaction. And it can be a delayed reaction. We had one where the dermatologists brought in pictures. It looked like the entire tattoo was being cut out with a cookie cutter, just totally separated from the surrounding skin. Horrible.
I look upon this mess as a barometer of how traumatic our educational system is to people.
wow i have never heard anyone say anything that bad about intellij! their support is actually fantastic. if you find a bug, report it. you'll probably see it fixed asap
Is this supposed to mean something?
And this is worth the distinction, why?
ELI5... what’s a p-hack?
Same. Runs as fine on Windows 10 as it did on Windows 98 20 years ago.

Just because it didn't get a new release in years doesn't mean it's somehow got worse.

Some software just works.
I forgot add- I only keep recordings for me.
Doing the same experiment again and again until you get the answer you want.
No need to use asyncio as a beginner. Not all problems require concurrency to solve. The vast majority of the automation scripts I write have no need for it.
This may indeed be interesting, but that is not what this paper focuses on.
Not an easy ELI5, but consider these resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf3egy7TQ2Q
Don't need a medicinal card in California. Just walk in and buy. Or order with an app and get it delivered promptly to you.
Just FYI, there are a few known security vulnerabilities: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7545...
Honestly, I think the examples she gave of bad looks, look great. But I love bizarre and ugly architecture, so what do I know.
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“the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant when in fact there is no real underlying effect. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only paying attention to those that come back with significant results, instead of stating a single hypothesis about an underlying effect before the analysis and then conducting a single test for it.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

And here’s a great example of real life P-Hacking to get a catchy article about the health benefits of chocolate:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choc...
This is pretty on point. I work as a consultant in the Bay Area with a number of startups and I see these trends.

I know several startups doing Berlin offices. Also, contracting work seems pretty easy to come by over here.
Compilations of Buffett, Munger, and Other Investors
> "The mentally ill and their obnoxious smells and fecal matter", seriously?

Come to SF sometime. I literally have to dodge poop daily.
HHS Deleted 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines
> Per your last point, let's not worry too much about Assange's personality or character. The important thing to focus on is the leaked information, not the messenger.

The post I was responding to was saying they wished Assange were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Don't you think somebody's personality and character is relevant to that?
Yanis Veroufakis on how pay is determined[1]:

> This is a haphazard process. The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So the contracts usually have a minimum pay segment in it, which is more or less established by tradition. And then the interesting part in this contract is how much is left to the peer review process, which is very complicated. It involves various layers of mutual assessment.

Yanis Veroufakis. Greece's former finance minister, known for his ability to describe Greece's financial collapse and negotiations with the EU in terms that the average Greek citizen could grasp-- called the Valve's bonus system "complicated."

This in a piece where his position as Valve's economist-in-residence ostensibly meant he was trying his best to paint Valve in a positive light.

Did anyone here decide to work for Valve after reading his interview at Gamasutra[1]? If so I would love to have a glimpse at the decision tree that led down that path. I can only imagine three nodes in that tree, one of which is, "Must eat."

[1] (linked from the article) https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187296/How_Valve_hires_h...
And we will seem happier, fitter, more attractive, better traveled, more socially connected, and more politically engaged than we ever were.
In statistics, a p-value [1] is a the odds of getting a result by chance if there's not actually an effect from the thing you're testing. A common threshold to use is .05, which means that you'd expect the given result less than 5% of the time by chance. Typically this indicates a relationship, but if you simultaneously test enough things that aren't causally linked you'd expect some to have p<0.05. A good example is this xkcd [2]. In the example, green jelly beans aren't actually related to acne, but just by chance the result seems to indicate they are.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
[2] https://xkcd.com/882/
Evolution of Infrastructure Monitoring at ThousandEyes Engineering
Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries
Optimizely being for large enterprises, curious how people do A/B tests at their respective startups. Do most roll their own? How do you make sure your science is sound?
It's worth reading the whole series of tweets, even if twitter is kind of an inconvenient medium for this. I read them a few days ago after a friend recommend the read, was a little disturbed at how closely it matched my experience working at a much less visible and less developed "self-organized" organization. I especially enjoyed his references to "Barons" and "Supporters", with the implication being that the actual dynamic of a decentralized self-organizing company with a few ultra-influencers (founders / board of directors) is much closer that to feudalism than to the ideal of a democratic or syndicalist meritocracy.
Yes and you should give them time inside the office hours to work on their side projects even it's totally unrelated to your activity. They'll feel better and will be more productive.
Death row inmate describes the convict snitch code
In this case though I think they mean stopping the experiment early if there seems to be a positive result rather than experimenting again
I remember this being posted years ago. Anyway, I think it's a great write-up. It's one of those things where I don't know why it looks so awful, but I can tell it does- nice to read about why.
How can A/B testing tools be improved to prevent p-value hacking?

Could it be as simple as declaring your test duration before starting the experiment, and having the tool add an asterisk to your results if you stop the experiment early?
Did you do zero research on him? He still runs a marketing business with real customers. He also invested early in FB, Snapchat, and Uber.

He had a challenge this year on flipping items from free section of Craigslist, yard sales, thrift stores for profit.

What is this all pretty much useless? He gives away 99% of information for free (I've been watching his videos for 3 years). He comes out with a book once every two or three years that's a synthesis of mostly what he has already given away. Think of Tim Ferris' book Tools of Titans.

Do you think advise like work to make money so you can fund your own businesses if no one else wants to fund you is useless? How about figuring what you want and reverse engineering the path? Or to successful entrepreneur who doesn't find money rewarding anymore, that it's good thing, because most people never get past the phase of chasing money, that he can focus on what he wants and finds meaningful.
Feels accurate, though they’re called narks where I was raised.
A lot of NetBSD platforms predate USB3, so presumably not an effect. Keep in mind it runs on very old stuff like the Dreamcast and OMRON LUNA and very small stuff like tiny ARM boards and MIPS routers.
Its a pervasive problem with every ride hailing company-- there are not enough measures to prevent bad individuals working for the company.
> Rather odd choice of Texas cities in my opinion. If you're going to go with Texas, I'd think Dallas and Austin are more obvious choices for technical people.

Why?

Dallas is too expensive, and imho the only good thing about Dallas is the Stars and Mark Cuban. Austin is good but also small and saturated but also Austin is 2.5 hours away from Houston and 1 hour from San Antonio, so it's not hard to poach talent if needed.

San Antonio has a similar military–industrial complex to SV with it being a major area for bases for the Air Force. It also has the infrastructure scaffold from when ATT was headquartered there. They've got 5-6 F500s headquartered there. So, there's plenty of engineering talent for all types.

Houston is #2 in the USA for F500 HQs following NYC with 19 based here. [0] Houston is massive, 11k sq miles for the metro area. There is plenty of space and Cost of Living is low. You have a major DOD/NASA source of engineering talent plus all the F500s. You've also got massive medial research with the largest medical center in the world while UTMB-Galveston runs one of the most important labs in the country for biocon. It's a major shipping port(s) and the port of Houston is #2 in trade. However, I will yield that the traffic sucks and parts are worst than LA; It's very hot during the summers, particularly August; and, that hurricanes suck. We also don't have earthquakes.

Overall with Texas is you've got the Texas Triangle, it's also a safe bet infrastructure wise because the state has it's own power grid. There's tons of link points for data/bandwith.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_in_Houston
S-expression toolkit for Python
mostly subjective. architectural beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder.
This title is severely misleading, the article discusses pigments in tattoo ink, not tattoo ink in general. I am covered in tattoos, none of my tattoos have color.

"but researchers suggest dirty needles aren’t the only risk of the age-old practice"

I have also never seen an artist use a dirty needle, and would never let a dirty needle hit my skin with ink.
I think a thought leader might be one of those dudes/ladies you see giving a keynote at any given convention...full of hot air and self confidence...no substance.
Ask HN: How can I create something creative/artsy from Facetime screenshots
Me and my Fiance FaceTime (on iPhone) almost everyday and I screenshot her a lot. Want to make something nice for her. Wondering if anyone has ideas or knows of services that automatically generates awesome artwork from a lot of similar images. The image should definitely have metadata/timestamp for a timeline type of thing.

I could do a simple flipbook but come on we ain't playin checkers out here...I wanna play chess.

Also if someone wants to work on this idea I'm down

Post-also if anyone wants to SEO optimize for the keywords "collage or artwork from facetime photos" go right ahead.
Audacious is a great music player that has support for Winamp 2 skins. I use it all the time to stream online radio stations. It's so nice to use a music player thats not trying to be iTunes.
FiveThirtyEight actually has a pretty good demo of p-hacking that demonstrates how one underlying dataset can be used to derive any desired conclusion(s) by deciding which factors to include / exclude.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/
LinkedIn has applied GDPR rules worldwide. You can do that from anywhere.
Yeah, I agree. IMO the house's that she showcased as good looked quite boring to me.
Ask HN: What is a secure alternative to ssh-agent?
It seems like using ssh-agent is quite insecure.

What do you use instead?
A standard developed by 4+ competing companies is a lot harder to co-opt.
I've never understood the view of owning a home to live in, it doesn't make sense to me financially. Perhaps because I didn't grow up here in the US. I'd rather buy a home and rent it, or buy a duplex somewhere else and rent units.
Wikileaks.
Microsoft PowerShell Core for Linux Now Available as a Snap – BetaNews
Yes, not just "allow", I would actually encourage them. I don't manage people, but have been in tech lead roles. I encouraged co-workers and reportees to experiment and learn things outside of what was required for employer's work.

IMO, side projects always help expand technical skills. They usually also drive people towards improving their social or communication skills. An employee whose feelings of freedom and autonomy have been encouraged by a company is usually a happier productive employee. It also brings second order benefits for the employer - such an employee is more likely to describe the employer as providing work satisfaction and recommending them in their social circles.

I have experienced both types of employers - the open-minded ones, as well as the paranoid/narcissistic/control freak types. I have good things to say only about the former.

Just adding a productivity/work satisfaction angle here, because most answers so far seemed to be from the perspective of legality.
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It seems mainstream media takes so long to get actual news, people have been using CBD for years but now that it's becoming more popular it's okay to report on it.

I wonder what other great medical news the mainstream media is refusing to report.
>I thought his agenda was exposing privacy violations and the implications for authoritarian snooping without cause.

Keyword 'was'. In the run to the election after it, it became all about hating on one political party, colluding with the other, and influencing the election.
Given what comes out of the majority of those startups, SV ones included, it's not a very compelling argument that the people that brought us such glorious advanced technologies as Theranos, Juicero, or MongoDB are somehow better at technology than people who get stuff done somewhere in the middle of the Corn Belt.
They're too busy making 100s of millions of dollars with dota2 and steam
So are there any banned LinkedIn endorsements? I imagine it would still be pretty doable to string together several normal endorsements to make something hilarious.
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d...

Here the same person was much more positive about the system (easy to understand he is not, at least not to me), wonder were he was telling the truth.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...
Also Michael Abrash thinks it is a swell place to work for - I guess if you have something to say within such a company then the experience is way better.
I would add for the inside of the house, a poor or illogical use of space. I remember one house where the stairway to the upper floor bisected the main floor, causing there to be a hallway on one side, then a strange sort of "bumpout" under the stairway (once it had risen past 8 feet in height) on the other side. If you didn't use the hallway you had to walk through a sort of small sitting room before then entering the farthest part of the dining room.
Ballard’s homelessness quadrupled last year, and anger is spilling over
Happy to see this is back online and that Zillow backed off [0].

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15896146/zillow-will-not-...
Trigger Me Elmo – World's First Race Detecting Toy
I think division is normally framed rather as the existence of multiplicative inverses for all non-zero elements of the ring. That is, R is a division ring if

a) there exists a 1 in R

b) for all x in R, there exists y in R such that x * y = 1.

I'm pretty sure these are equivalent.

Proof:

(==>) Let a = 1, and b in R be arbitrary. Then there exists a c such that b * c = 1. So inverses exist!

(<==) Let a and b in R be arbitrary. Then a = a * b^-1 * b, so c = a * b^-1. QED.
Would be awesome if it stored your skin preference in local storage.
im very sympathetic to this blog and the writer, especially because she's a socialist. there are many interesting and entertaining ideas presented that i'd never considered before. but i agree with you here. in the end, when it comes to aesthetics: beauty really is in the eye of the beholder
That's quite a positive take. When I see "lean" startups offshoring/using Upwork to build their offerings, I think the magic has left the bay and that people are trying to squeeze water from rocks. Partying all night might make investors and parents of 2.5 children wince, but that was part of what made unexpected, innovative software possible. It's ominous that startups are forced to outsource because cost of living has priced them out of local talent.

When I look at the bay now, I see a bunch of FANG drones measuring their RSU dicks. People caring more about buying a home and whining about NIMBYs than making cool shit with cool tech. Of course most startups are stodgy B2B and not moon shot B2C, you can't build B2C when your experience is so separate from a normal person's. But another JIRA/GitHub/Slack integration? Ooh, that's the good stuff we can relate to.

Maybe the bay got old, but I don't believe that when I see fresh grads falling over themselves to work at a FANG. Whatever happened, there's not much serendipity left. There will be a tipping point where enough cool stuff is coming out of Detroit/Atlanta/wherever that an investor would be a fool to fixate on the bay.
I’m not a fan of the examples given simply because it feels like they are comparing bigger McMansion houses to smaller, simpler houses. I’d rather have the comparisons be of “proper” mansions to McMansions, because abiding by the stated principals is obviously going to be easier in smaller houses.

Like the primary / secondary mass bit is obviously going to be harder to deal with the bigger the house gets.
If you’ve taken some statistics or econometrics, you’ve probably heard of “significance levels” and “p-values”. For some reason, academia choose 0.05 as a threshold for “meaningful” or “significant” results.

Generally, a 0.05 p-value means that you would observe your result in 5% of experiments due to random sampling error. I.e. if I tested “is X correlated with cancer”, and my null hypothesis is “X isn’t correlated with cancer”, a 0.05 p-value would meet the threshold to reject that null hypothesis. Generally, a lower p-value means a more statistically significant result.

The problem is that 0.05 seems to be much too high of a p-value. I.e. clever experimental design and cherry picking can generate many results that are statistically significant at that level. Many academics advocate for moving to a 0.01 or even 0.001 significance threshold.

Recently, in some academic fields, there’s been widespread concern that many research studies were p-hacked. See for example, this paper that blew up last year in the finance community, because it suggests a significant number of finance papers, including some seminal ones, had p-hacked results: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017677.

The counter-argument is that for certain scientific fields, you may never be able to reach a p-value threshold of 0.001. This means the vast majority of research couldn’t be published in journals, academics wouldn’t be able to get promoted etc.
I am very happy to report that the classic top bar easter egg[1] was reproduced in webamp.

[1]: http://forums.shoutcast.com/showthread.php?t=72571
Yes, exactly. Primates gonna prime. There was an extended tweetstorm from a former Valve employee that just screamed "tyranny of structurelessness": https://www.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_...

I strongly believe that there must be better organizational structures than the white-collar neo-feudalism that is the average American corporation. But I think we have enough examples to say the pure "leaderless" model is on average worse once you get above a very modest number of people.