skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trading at 24x GAAP '19 EPS. A modest premium to the S&P500 for a stock growing EPS at 2-3x the rate of the index. And a company that has a duopoly in mobile advertising. Greater fool indeed!
Speaking for myself, I have 20 years of C like language experience and I can't stand the scoping rules or functional nature of javascript. This is why I like PHP. It comes natural when switching between C, bourne shell, perl and PHP. Throw in the ever changing frameworks a casual user encounters and I want to avoid javascript at all costs.
Cash-crunch in Russia?

Avoiding asset freeze?
> Why would companies know who's getting their products to review and why would reviewers know which products they're getting?

Amazon Vine reviewer here, for a handful of years, probably longer. They've changed how things are handled, so I'll say how it is now.

When I remember (they did away with an email of items you could select from years ago), I log into the Amazon Vine portal and see about ten things I can select to review. It seems to be somewhat based upon what I'm shopping for on Amazon, as more than once I've seen something in Vine a few days, weeks, or months after I've been looking for the item online (and sometimes have purchased something similar).

Anyway, I select the items I want to review and then get them within a week. We used to have 30 days (or four week, I forget which) to use and review the item, but now there's no date, at least not one that we can see. To review the item we go back into the portal, leave our review using essentially the same interface you use whenever you leave a review, and then move on.

When it displays on the site our reviews automatically get a badge that it's a Vine review. If the product ends up getting too many Vine reviews (or some other criteria) our reviews could be removed without notice.

So companies don't necessarily have a hand in deciding who gets their product, but I'm sure if they cared they could see who did.

A few times I got something just because, back when we didn't have to pay tax on the items we received, since Amazon could technically ask for them back at any time, as they still owned them, and my reviews were generally lower than my usual reviews because I didn't want the item to begin with.

Now that we need to pay tax I'm much more selective on what I want, and probably give more 4- to 5-star reviews because of it. If I just got something and had to review it, then it would be more likely I'd get something I didn't want (women's wear in a size my other half doesn't wear, or kid toys for a different gender or age range), and it's score would suffer.

From Amazon's perspective, I'm sure they rely upon the fact that reviews tend to be either overly positive or overly negative (when was the last time you left a review on something that was okay, or sufficient?) so that they can move product. Perhaps Vine helped with that. Perhaps their new program (the name of which I've forgotten) does too.

Personally, I can sleep at night because I'm okay with the scores I've given the items I've reviewed. Five-point scales are pretty easy; 1 = hate it, 2 = don't like it, 3 = no feelings either way, 4 = like it, 5 = love it. I've also gone back and changed scores because of what I've experienced later.

Back when they had forums there were clearly some people that just wanted the free products, and would then turn around and sell the item after a few weeks or months. I know I definitely wasn't one of those people.
TensorFuzz: Debugging Neural Networks with Coverage-Guided Fuzzing
agreed. modernize it all you want, change the colors, make it "flat", make it "metro", make it "material", I don't care.

as long as it's a fox chasing its tail. That IS Firefox.
It’s kinda like that Asimov story, Profession:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
I agree that passive investing works, but the real story, I think, is that the economy is guaranteed to grow on average if the population keeps increasing and innovation keeps happening.

If the population grows 3%, we have to produce roughly 3% more, so revenues go up roughly 3%, number of employed goes up roughly 3%, so the economy grows 3%.

If I invent a steel manufacturing process that makes steel 3% cheaper, expenses go down 3%, profits go up, supply goes up, prices go down, the economy grows.

If all you do is passively invest, then over large periods of time you should on average see returns of, roughly, population growth + innovation. Even if everyone is passively investing, it's the same thing. If you actively invest, but still invest in the whole market (as any diversified investor does), you get the same thing, minus ~1% towards. If everyone was actively investing before, and the market grew ~8% per year, and now they passively invested, why would the market not gain the same?
It means that a person can get the little things done while knowing very little. But it also means that this person probably will never learn enough to get the big things done.

To be honest, I get secretly frustrated with the lower-level people who now exist in giant hordes. (I rarely tell anyone that.) To me, they are like people who have decided to learn 5% of their field in order to get a few things done, have some fun, and make a living.

These people use tools to create little applications for everyday use. But remember: The tools themselves are also software. But they are a level of software far beyond anything these people could dream of creating. They use languages, editors, compilers, and operating systems; but they don't have the first clue about how to create any of these things or even how they really work.

The most disturbing thing to me, based on interviews I've conducted, is that this seems to include some large fraction of people graduating with a Computer Science degree from supposedly top tier schools with high GPAs that supposedly mean something.

If you want to make really interesting exciting things that have never existed before, if you want to make a tiny little difference in the industry and change the world just a little bit, then you do need that degree. If you want to make the tools and libraries that the lower-level people use, you do need that degree.

The tools and libraries aren't sentient AI yet. If you want to use the tools and libraries at a high level, then you really need to have some knowledge about how they work. The disturbing thing I might be seeing, is that something like 40% of graduates from even good schools have that Computer Science degree, yet really only have that 5% knowledge, yet have been led to think that they know more.
Through $1.2M in philanthropic funding primarily led by a Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes [1]. It is not funded whatsoever through taxation.

[1] https://economicsecurityproject.org/
Comparison: https://imgur.com/a/x7yrzZx

Is it the lack of an arm you don't like, or the fact it's more flat?
I've worked for years as a self-taught developer before going back to get my CS degree, I've taught at a bootcamp, and I've hired bootcamp graduates.

Bootcamps can be valuable, but they are in no way comparable to a 4 year degree from a decent CS program. The top performing bootcamps are either functioning as an extended job interview that you have to pay for, or they are very good at selecting experienced students who only need a 12 week course to be ready to be productive developers. In my opinion, the reason we've seen bootcamps close or fail to expand is that there is a limited supply of these types of students.

For the vast majority of people a 12 week course, no matter how intensive, is a good introduction, but a lot of training is still necessary to be useful. If you are prepared to invest in that training, they can be great hires. However, you need to be aware that it's likely going to be months before you get real productive work without hand-holding. It takes most people a lot longer than 12 weeks to be comfortable with the basics of moving up and down through levels of abstraction.
When I first joined Vine a long time ago I think you had to have passed a certain threshold for number and quality (based upon helpful votes) before you were offered a place. That definitely changed over the last couple of years.

Once it opened up to people that had never left reviews, naturally the quality is going to drop by some amount.
I have tried supplementing with the amino acid in the past. I have tried with 50 100 200 and 400mg
The best dose for me was 200mg
It makes me very sleepy and it does not help with concentration.
I tried to combine it with caffeine but the result was not good.
For concentration, coffee is the best for me. For sleeping I use melatonin but only if I pull a long night
Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor
> Have no wifi functions in your router!!!

Separating the ISP-controlled modem from the router is certainly good advice, but I can't see any strong reason to recommend separating the AP from the router. If you know your AP needs to be located far from the router in order to provide decent coverage, then it makes sense. Otherwise, there's no technological or economic justification for putting three exclamation marks on that point. You just make your setup a lot more complicated (a whole extra VM for the admin tools?!)
> One can argue that PHP is the least suitable language to write web servers in

Of course, because you don't write a web server in PHP. You put it behind nginx or apache and those can fork off PHP processes (or you use FPM, or etc.) to do everything for you.
I mean, I'm still making less (around 80% of what they make or less) than them. And I will for the next 4-5 years if I can hack it at Amazon FT.
Reflections on a Swatting: Inside One Bitcoin Engineer's Security Battle
When that story originally came out this week, somebody crunched the numbers of the percentage of target-age internet users that actually exist, taking out China and other places where Facebook is blocked, and users too young to actually consent to be on there. I can't find it now, but Facebook's user numbers were approaching saturation. So there's not really anywhere to go for exponential user growth, unless you admit that most of your users are bots, and that it's a stupid metric. At some point everyone who wants a Facebook account has one.
Also use pigz instead of gzip so it can use multiple threads on decoding (although you're probably Limited by sending bandwidth)
Excess money was absorbed by real estate price increase. It takes time, but this will tricke down to inflation; everybody needs to rent or buy a place to live at some point of the future.
How to Apply for the 2018 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security
News from Australia today: Australia's largest apartment developer Meriton fined $3 million for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor by preventing guests Meriton suspected would give negative reviews from receiving TripAdvisor’s ‘Review Express’ prompt email.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17649912
I just cancelled my subscription and put this as the reason. It's too unpredictable to use the app. I have no idea how much money it's going to cost me to see movies with it anymore.
Good advice.

"Please forward to marketing" is based on one of my highest-rated HN comments. It starts:

Tell me what your product is. What it does, where it works, how it does it, what it requires. Is it a physical product (or is it shipped in one), an interactive application, a Web service, a programming language / tool? As a reader notes, don't make me use Wikipedia to figure out WTF your company does.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_...
> If you want to make the tools and libraries that the lower-level people use, you do need that degree.

No, you need to somehow invest more time to build more features than another sucker out there. That's almost entirely it. Period. Shit is just fast enough these days, and if your industry cares about performance, well then maybe understanding something about caching that can be learned in less than a day from a blog article will help you with 80% of your problems.

There's plenty of work out there that craves better solutions, and a degree is absolutely not even a nice to have at this point. Let me repeat: there are fundamentally basic applications and software solutions that various industries are dying to have exist, millions of dollars on the line if you know what industries in question, that simply just take a damn long time to implement but every individual piece is so far removed from so much as a basic comp sci 101 algo class, that you're literally just talking about business logic at that point.
Julia comes fairly close.
I don't think he's implying that literally everybody trades passively, of course Zuckerberg is going to actively trade his Facebook shares, I'm going to actively trade my stock options at Public Company X, the guy down the street will still rent his house out instead of selling it and investing passively.

Plus, it's not like passive investing causes securities to never be traded, when I buy into a mutual fund I'm buying stock from someone. That someone is probably retiring and selling their securities.

Lastly, most "active traders" just buy a bunch of Blackrock/Vanguard/SPDR index funds anyway and call it a diversified portfolio that only they could deliver.
I for one really like the new logo.
More like politicians and union bosses lobbied for taxpayer funded pensions to be exempt from laws like ERISA and PPA so that they could play games with the pension fund money and purchase votes from the union members without stating real benefit costs.
The authors of the report couldn't find any reasons why either of the pilots, or anyone else on board, might do this though.
TRON is a dpos blockchain with a port of the ethereum virtual machine. Not sure where you get the IPFS part from.
It’s fast and works well?
>>before 1984, AT&T's logo

84 was shortly after AT&T was forcibly broken up and essentially became a different company.

>>Also, Firefox's logo was a Phoenix from 2002 - 2004

yeah, when it was firebird
I deliberately left the OEM firmware on my Archer C7 because OpenWRT cuts the WiFi performance by ~40%: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500

In the end mucking with open source firmware, while interesting, just wasn’t worth it. I found the ubiquiti solution stable and the UniFi management software (especially their iOS app) are excellent for my needs. Plus mounting my AP in the ceiling means I can cover the entire house from one AP and at the same time keep the rest of my networking equipment stored away in the basement.
Good luck -- straight from their Terms of Service:

> You are expected to read these Terms of Use because your use of our Site and Service constitutes your agreement to the Arbitration Agreement and Class Action waiver described in Sections 17 and 18 below to resolve any disputes with us.

Another damn arbitration clause. I'm so conflicted about these things -- on the one hand, I'm sure they defer many frivolous lawsuits. On the other, they seem to tilt the balance of power overwhelmingly toward the company/business/service. Do any lawyers out there know if there are situations in which these arbitration clauses wouldn't be legal & binding?
Did you know that 1.3 MILLION people die in car accidents on a yearly basis? There are extremely good reasons to believe that a mature, self-driving car industry will lower that figure by orders of magnitude.

It is a shame that there have been a few accidents now that the technology is in its infancy, but it is very short-sighted to wish that Uber halts its experiments and delays the technology from taking off.
probably went to credit cards, some house price stabilization and the stock market.
> it's almost certainly because you got fooled into buying hardware that requires closed-source drivers.

Bingo, that seems to be about all that's available. I'm looking at off the shelf hardware I can purchase locally, hardware I know works with local ISP's, I have no idea if we use the same standards as America for this stuff, what connections and adapters I'll need, etc. Buying locally eliminates these variables.

If there's a happy path by all means share. I only looked into this stuff in the first place so I could get set up a home server and my current modem/router is woefully out of date and has a very suspect definition of DMZ.
> Or just pass laws to regulate reviews

Australia just today fined a company for manipulating TripAdvisor reviews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17649912
Or use Audible credits for the audio-book companion to Kindle books? For that matter, is there any device I can access the audio companions I've purchased for my books other than the mobile phone Kindle apps? Can't do it on the PC app, the web app, on my actual Kindle, or my Fire tablet.
JS had the advantage of being the default language of the web current younger generation of programmers grew up with, and then tons of resources were thrown at it.

I'm sure Python, Ruby and PHP would benefit just as much from such attention, although I guess Python has had that in scientific computing, and PHP with recent 7 version and FB.
And the market might recover in 2 days and that day trader would lose money for nothing.

In reality, trying to time the market rarely works out, and when it does it can often be attributed to luck. In general, just investing every month is the best strategy.
Rio Tinto, the 2nd largest mining company in the world, has been working on autonomous trains and mining trucks for quite a while now.

Only recently approved, though: https://www.smartrailworld.com/mind-blowing-rio-tinto-autono...
One of Eisenhower's goals for the Interstate system was building emergency takeoff/landing strips for aircraft.
Everyone is hating on these (like any and every logo redesign ever) but I just want to know how I can get that blue tshirt.
Hmmm...can't edit, but: I just looked at this again, and it's interesting to note that the Kindle version has an A rating and the print version has an F rating, even though they appear to share the same set of reviews.

Scroll down to see the first two entries in the product list here: https://www.fakespot.com/company/donald-j-trump
This is quite possibly overkill, but I'm pleased with this setup at home:

Cost | Purpose | What
$109 | Router | PCEngines apu2c2 http://pcengines.ch/apu2c2.htm
$10 | Router Case | http://pcengines.ch/case1d2blku.htm
$17 | Router Storage | http://pcengines.ch/msata16g.htm
$30 | Gigabit Switch | https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Gigabit-Unmanaged-Desktop-DGS-108/dp/B000BCC0LO/
$80 | Wifi | Ubiquiti Unifi Lite https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Unifi-Ap-AC-Lite-UAPACLITEUS/dp/B015PR20GY/

With this setup, the router only does _routing_, so you also need a Wireless Access Point (WAP). Connect it like so: Modem->Router->Switch->WAP.

Install pfSense on the router, configure the Unifi using Ubiquiti's Java app, and you're done. It's about $250 all together which _is_ more expensive than consumer routers, but IMHO it's worth the superior quality. The APU board is well-documented (PCEngines provides schematics!) and the firmware is based on Coreboot. The processor supports AES acceleration for faster encryption (great if you use VPNs!) PfSense is an enterprise-grade router/firewall with scads of graphs and features. And the Unifi has a great antenna with excellent range. Not to mention this setup leaves you with six spare ethernet ports on the switch.
he points out that MIT degrees are for the people who make the chips.

You never know when background knowledge and first principles might come in handy. One of my favorite YouTuber practical engineers has this story about going on a boat trip. The new coffee maker on board was freaked out by the noise from the inverter and kept shutting itself off. A total disaster! There would be no coffee the whole trip. So he turned on the blender while making the coffee, and the coffee maker started working. How did he know? He knew what kind of motor was in the blender, and knew its windings would increase the inductance of the circuit the kitchen appliances, filtering out the higher frequencies put out by the cheap inverter.

This guy isn't an electrician. ("Elekchicken") His day job is just to put pieces of "industrial lego" together -- just like how so many programmer jobs now are mainly about gluing libraries together. But he never shies away from knowledge of first principles, and he demonstrates all the time why such knowledge is valuable.
Right, I never said they didn't. But the trucking industry is still by far the main mode of moving freight within the US.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-staggering-statistics-be...
Newsroom employment dropped by nearly 1/4 in 10 years
Wow, It's so weird recognizing so many people in this discussion. Thanks for giving examples.

I have a subreddit (/r/pushshift) that gives examples on how to use the API. I'm always happy to answer questions about the API and take suggestions to improve it.

I'm very very close to launching the new API which will have a lot more features and a better design than the current one.

Edit: I just realized my username on this site got truncated to uhhh ... wow.
> Physical objects, events, and processes, and the correlations between them, are all patterns in the experiences of minds

But there is no evidence of such minds, right? We have no ideas about where or what they are, or actually anything anything at all about them?

> whereas an idealist can explain them in terms of minds generating brains

But the difference is that causality is moving in a particular direction in the example I gave about brains being poked or having chemicals added to them, where the mind is affected by such actions. However, it has never been demonstrated in the opposite direction: there is an absence of a brain somewhere, then a mind does something, then a brain manifests. If the causality there were actually bi-directional, then that sort of thing would be observed too.

Now I know that when you say 'mind' you are referring to something else, and I partly just give the above answer to show how misleading it is to use the same term for what you're talking about (which I assume is more like the 'mind' of a monistic panpsychism).

I can grant your assertion that there is a mind-like something underlying everything, it's the substrate through which all matter appears (including brains), and actually believe something a little like that myself—but it doesn't change the fact that at the end of the days we're left with the matter thus generated, and that it is governed by certain predictable rules, etc. So for spiritual purposes perhaps it makes sense go ahead and contemplate the mind-medium that is more fundamental than our physical reality; but for the purpose of understanding how our universe works, you want to engage the materialist perspective.

So I think we agree that at least for transcendent, truly fundamental matters, materialism is insufficient. I think where we disagree is about which sort of things are fundamental/transcendent or not: 'knowledge' is something that I believe to be totally mundane and amenable to scientific description (same with 'justice' and the best way of governing), whereas philosophers have a tendency to elevate it. It makes sense that they would elevate it because in the days of its original elevation it was as unapproachable and mysterious to them as anything—as say, the notion of an afterlife, is to us. But time has passed, science encroached on that territory, and a lot of philosophers need to catch up.
uTorrent 2.x for lyfe.

Can be easily found on various mirror sites - just gotta be sure to never, ever, let it update beyond 2.2.1.