skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once read a critique of high school science textbooks which pointed out the great many "lies" that could be found even in the best of them - basically highly inaccurate or misleading descriptions and illustrations of basic scientific concepts. The thing is, though, that I recognized a great many of those same "lies" as being in my college science textbooks, too!
I was wondering that too. Mormons would be a good subject group as well.
Depends on how simple you want to get. If literally displaying text once in a while, you don't even need jekyll. If you are a blog writer, want some sort of templating / reusable snippets, or want cool themes then jekyll is good.
> But at the same time shutting out the poor from college unless they're also straight-A students and somehow magically come from an area with good schools despite being poor...

Is this better or worse than the credential treadmill and a lifetime servicing debt? At least when college was cheap in the 70s, you could pay for it with a summer job and part time work during school.

> more aggressive about weeding out people who are not cut out for school

This would never happen.
You can cherry pick all you want, the fact of the matter is that Linux is not what anyone on this planet installs for a gaming platform. CounterStrike was also originally an indie game.
Those people generally aren't of the same caliber as Matlab programmers.

I'm talking about professional-grade numerical work. People use matlab or R for this currently. Mathematica too.

These people, who are very talented mathematical minds but maybe not necessarily the most talented programmers, are going to eventually find Julia to be more convenient and more attentive to their needs doing numerical work than Python+PyJunk libraries.

Python sucks. Plain and simple. No types, no macros, it's slow, it can be a pain to get gpu support up and running, the main guy just up and left (?!?!?), and the primary survival trait of the community at large is figuring out how to write python and make something other than python do the work.

It would be like buying a car and the dealer hands you a complimentary bus pass and says "try and keep her off the road if you can help it."

So yeah. I don't consider it a major threat to the ecosystem.
These CEO compensation comparisons are almost always bullshit because of the way CEOs are usually periodically compensated with a large stock award that vests some number of years later.

Using Cook as an example, given he was previously awarded 7 million shares of AAPL, if you averaged that out over time he'd be right at or near the top. From another article:

> Cook did not receive a stock award in 2017, after receiving a large award of 7 million shares that vests on an elongated schedule through 2021 upon being named the successor to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011. That award was valued at $378 million at the time, making him the highest paid CEO of that year.
If you are the kind of person who is irritated by phrases like "check your privilege" or "I identify as ___" you will not enjoy the their training process. It's very little to do with CS or teaching and all about indoctrination into a postmodernist / Marxist / SJW worldview.

There was literally a privilege checking group exercise where we had to go around in a circle and talk about our experiences of either being privileged (i.e. if we were white) or not privileged (if we were not white).We also had assigned readings consisting of several articles and blog posts. One was titled something to the effect of "What White Folks Need to Understand About Coming Into the Hood To Teach."

I'm all about helping young people. I like mentoring and teaching. But I'm not comfortable with all of the leftist stuff.
The 'hero' graphic/screenshot says 'Thrusday', heads up: https://standups.io/static/media/app.130e8c9b.jpg
Define "rich". I know someone who had an almost 20x ROI with BTC and is still holding it since 2013 I think. That is _VERY_ good ROI, I think. But the invested sum was a paltry $1000 that was a lot for him at the time.
I once tried to sell a software library as a product. Bad timing, concept, and execution, so it flopped. The thing I remember most is putting the phrase "slam dunk" in my initial product announcement. I took a lot of flack about that from non-Americans. That wasn't so bad, but I let that very temporary error distract and derail my marketing efforts, and that was a mistake. Personally, I'd have stuck with the underwear logo and put that energy elsewhere.
My first thought too:

http://time.com/2807413/safe-private-jets/

The article seems to conclude that private jets seem to be a little less safe than commercial jets, and they hint at, but don't/can't pick apart sub groups of say a corporate maintained jet vs a charter jet.
The Canadian system is bifurcated - a physician has to either accept govt insurance or private insurance, they can’t get both.

I think the UK system is a good compromise - if you want more you pay more.

Private insurance in Canada tends to cover things the govt system doesn’t.
Thanks, I appreciate the idea! I think part of the problem is believing I can do it, I’m not sure how to overcome that
eh, i disagree. even if linux distros were objectively better than windows in every possible way (not speaking to the truth of that claim) if computers shipped with windows the vast majority of people would use windows.
"ignorance of new technologies"

Smartphone addiction is a major problem. Limiting its destructive grip during school so that kids can be prepared for the real world and life in general is a good thing. It's not ignorance of technology that drives these bans, but a profound understanding of its effects on kids.
That's useless because everybody else tunes out. Nobody cares what debugging methods you tried on some project they've never touched. If you need help you can just ask somebody.
Doesn't seem that deep, I mean the NN itself :) Any particular reason for that? I mean it is pretty hard to imagine that this net can build a model of the problem area.

Edit: thanks for the response, it is interesting result that more layers don't improve the situation.
Hah, yeah, this stuff is hard and acquisitions make it even harder.

I think you started a month after I left. We built a lot at MoPub in a short period of time and when we were acquired I had a mile-long backlog. The Twitter security team was great though and built a war-room during integration. We worked some intense hours leading up to the IPO and over the Holidays, and I’m proud of the work we all did. We migrated a sprawling stack that supported what was then the largest mobile ad exchange and billions of sub-second auctions over just a few weeks. Most of the MoPub team transitioned to other projects and teams quickly though and I left not that long after.

Totally agree that it starts at the top. If the C-level doesn’t care, there just won’t be the resources it takes to build good, secure software. We intend to focus on supporting companies who do care, and we think this focus will also impact how companies using Federacy interact with researchers. We want outside researchers to be viewed as allies, not as a burden.

Have any thoughts on how we can best accomplish this?
It means both (look it up): to leave, or to force someone to leave.
Apartment building systems are rife with profiteering. One company gives the landlord a kickback to be the only provider in the building and they has free reign to be as shitty and overpriced as they want. Your landlord is making money, the ISP is making money, nobody has an incentive to change the system.

Maybe it's different now, but when I lived in apartments nobody advertised "good internet" or "competitive ISP choices" in the listings. It's something you can't discover until you've already signed the lease and moved in.

It's kind of a missed opportunity from the resident's point of view. You could wire a building with Cat6 and run a mini-ISP connected to some bulk transport to provide faster service at a lower price, but that's more work and requires some technical expertise. Plus, it's so easy to just get that Comcast kickback every year.
I'm an (veteran?) Software Dev with close to 20 years experience. I've never had a portfolio, I always thought a resumé and a list of successfully completed projects was enough. HR usually only looks at resumé, freelance customers usually couldn't care less of it seems. Only devs would care about another devs portfolio (in my opinion).

Any other opinions?
Reminds me of the effort to get people in Boston to map the neighborhood boundaries

https://bostonography.com/2012/crowdsourced-neighborhood-bou...

You've got a weirder situation in Cambridge, where there are 'official neighborhoods' which everybody ignores (except for maybe Cambridgeport) and instead divides the city into squares.
For employee contributions the max is $18,500k and for employer contributions it’s $32,500. You can also add $6,000 more if you are over a certain age.
Exactly. Voice and SMS work both.

I love Huawei products, because as you said it is very cheap. The alternatives are several hundreds to get a working gsm pop.
Yeah it's a dubious case IMO. The 1st amendment is incredibly important and even more so in journalism, but this seems like a retroactive last ditch defense.

They clearly wanted to profit off of the sex industry in places where it was still illegal to do so.
There was a bad (malicious) .htaccess file. I've removed it, but there remains the question of how it got there.

Added: The domterm.org directory in my home directory on DreamHost (from which domterm.org is hosted) was group and world-writable. Don't know how that happened (probably my carelessness), but I fixed it.
Prohibition scares me and that only lasted 13 years. If it fails we can always revert back but if it succeeds it'll lift up more people than we could imagine. Stress kills.
I'd guess this is probably only possible at a cash flush company where the devs personally use the product and fully understand the cost/benefit trade offs. Also, those sorts of meetings aren't for the sole benefit of the engineers.
>The sellers claimed they didn’t have any money to fix it

Did you ask whether they could just discount the sell price of the home or was it just not worth the time and effort at that point?
Can't immediately see any mention of of how to accommodate file access on local system (or permanent storage within sandbox) - any pointers?
Not quite. I think there's an important distinction. That caveat says: "I think you should do things this way, it might work for you." But what I'm asking for is: "I think, under these conditions, you should do things this way."

But you're right to point this out. I think I phrased my post badly. The caveat isn't the important part. The second point is the really important one. The decision framework for when to take any specific piece of advice is more important than the advice itself. In general (and this is definitely true with development process advice), advice is plentiful and often conflicting, and most of it gives you ideas of what to do, but doesn't tell you when it's applicable. The really good books, courses, and blog posts I've found do exactly that.
Same with TGV in France. The high-speed train logo, when rotated upside-down turned out to be… a snail.

https://yannigroth.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/logo-tgv-esca...
"Not really."

Yes, really. You're trying to deflect to another subject using extremely shoddy calculations (and don't use the "It's a back of the envelope calculation" excuse) because you have no defense for the topic at hand.

"Afaict, you should complain about both or prioritize the larger waste if your true goal is to reduce the amount of wasted energy."

AFAICT, you should stop deflecting and concentrate at the subject at hand before trying to veer off.
Yes, because a single buyer has enormous purchasing power.

That can't be the reason as United Healthcare (largest US insurer with 40M lives) pays much more than Canada (total population 35M).
Except you don't exist in a vacuum.
Very practical, but elegant feeling. A new appreciation for blue. I recall your cool backgrounds project. Looking forward to further essays. Thankyou!
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I heard rumors that this was coming, but I’m disappointed it is iOS/Android only.

I’m working on a ordering kiosk for restaurants, but iOS and Android are not the best fit for such appliances.

Are there plans to support native integrations on Linux? Ideally it would also support node.js, but I would be willing to build that connection myself, if necessary.
I don't think people expect old clients to be maintained, but I generally don't like auto-updating. I don't want my computer to use CPU, disk I/O, or network bandwidth for updates except when it's convenient for me. Also, in some cases it can be worth it to stick with an older version if a newer version introduces a bug or something.
Descent was a game where you could be in any orientation at any time... I'm not sure I'd want to have to stand in my head and face backwards to get into a monster closet...

This seems much more suited for something like a drone that needs to be more or less level with the ground most of the time.
Yes! At my last workplace we switched from person-to-person to task-to-task and it worked great.
I built mine about 6 years ago, and it's starting to look a touch dated now, but I'm still pretty proud of it. It's helped me land my last two full-time jobs as well as a few freelance things here and there.

http://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio/
I've got a pretty minimalist one:
www.zainrizvi.io

Just realized I need to update my bio to now say I'm working at Google instead of Microsoft
I'm seeing a whole lot of "whataboutism", but I'm not seeing anything relevant to the current conversation.
I tried more than one hidden layer and it didn't seem to improve the accuracy.
So make things more complex for very little gain.
But then they don't get a patent and anybody is free to legally copy it.

Do you have a source for that? There are drug covered by patent in France that the gov't doesn't cover.
Capitalism is such a core part of the ethos of the United States that we believe it is the best answer for all problems. Problem is, healthcare is about as inelastic a market as you can have.

I really think we might be close to the tipping point now. Plenty of people on both sides of the great political divide are starting to appreciate that no matter what we try, health costs continue to spiral out of control. That and the hard core folks are starting to die off.
Cybersecurity Threat Breakdown [TimeHop, Bithumb]
Standups are awesome when done right... but unfortunately, given that my team works fairly independently, standups end up getting stretched because some member of the team prolongs his/her update to get a team opinion on either a design issue or a technical problem (or a product issue).

The simple way we time-box our stand ups is by planking [1] while giving standup updates. This ensures each person speaks for <1 min. All other issues are discussed at the end of the standup. Better core strength is an unintended benefit of the same! :-P

[1] https://www.livestrong.com/article/538593-what-is-the-planki...
This is exactly why people need to explore alternative energy options other than solar. The best off-grid setup I’ve seen is a bunch of conductive pipes lay over the ground that heated water from the sun, that in turn was used to generate enough energy to pump water to a storage tank during the day up a large hill. At night the tank was drained and water came back down and the resulting pressure was used to generate power, supply back to the grid. It used minimal components (& simple ones), no batteries, nothing fancy but was enough energy to supply a community of several single family homes in a completely off grid system.
In 2017 companies may only use up to $270,000 when calculating company matches to a 401k * whatever their max limit is for normal staff. 275 * 6% = 16.2k which sounds about right.

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/401k-plans-deferrals-an...
Sounds interesting - how can I actually use it?
I took some Arabic at university. It's a fascinating language. My impression was that the morphology is quite regular, I wonder how complicated an old fashioned, hand-written parser with comparable accuracy would be.
Sonos CEO: We might offer services
came across this on producthunt a while ago - love it! any plans for an app?
How much you have to earn to be in the top 0.01% in every US state
High blood pressure is not an immediate problem for the individual, but it can lead to heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems and more if it isn't treated. So that pill is preventative of bad outcomes.

If you are diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes you should be referred to a dietician, personal trainer, etc. to improve your lifestyle. This is preventative medicine against amputations and other complications.

Now the advice they give diabetics is the same advice everybody should get. Health promotion is pretty hard to do, however. In all it is a good thing but some people who do the right thing will fall victim anyway like running guru Jim Fixx, or Jerome Rodale who died on the Dick Cavett show in 1971.
I don't take offense to it personally as I no longer work on the project, but...did you bother to open bug reports and share logs...or do you just throw a fit on public forums? I still run the geo server used in installation, and can assure you the vast majority (>99%) of folks do not have installation troubles. If they do, they aren't reporting it.

Comments like these, which are common, are what pushed me away from open source. Everyone feels entitled. Fix it, report bugs, ask for features. Frankly, as an open source contributor, I want it to work for people, but, if it doesn't work for your specific setup and you offer nothing of value, I don't care that it doesn't.
> real estate agents you trust

The buyer's second mistake.
I think some CEOs with salaries in the 10's of millions might disagree.
We have been fighting that fight for a while in viz. Spreading the word already in 2012 in "Rainbow colormaps - What are they good for? Absolutely nothing!" [0]

That article/post reached some audience and was referenced quite well at the time. Keep spreading the word I guess.

[0] http://medvis.org/2012/08/21/rainbow-colormaps-what-are-they...
Yeah, this doesn't help with a MITM because what happens is the victim is at Mallory's site thinking it's their real sign on site, Mallory is taking to their real sign on service. The victim types in real credentials, and says OK let's use Duo Push... Mallory now has their credentials and does Duo Push. The push is securely sent to the victim's phone, and they press OK because they really are trying to sign in. Mallory is allowed in.

FIDO tokens break this attack because the token is talking to the victim's web browser, and that's not visiting the real site so it doesn't work. If Mallory lets the victim's browser talk to the real site, sign in works but Mallory is cut out of the loop.

It's a Confused Deputy problem. Push 2FA assumes that if you confirm that you're trying to sign in at 9:14 and there's an attempted sign in at 9:14 then that's one event, but unlike U2F the only thing connecting the two is the timing, which Mallory can choose.
Must be terrible for those in your team who aren't predisposed to waking early
Here's my personal website:
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I'm a fan of personal sites, too. Some of the ones that I like most, in no particular order:

https://macwright.org

https://zachholman.com

https://warpspire.com

https://paulstamatiou.com

http://francisco.dance

https://craigmod.com
As a naive example, if in a CPU you are doing some specific 3-step algorithm which would normally require 3 clock cycles, you can instead bake that algorithm into a circuit along with the memory it needs that will run in 1 cycle. In Elon's terminology, the CPU has to "emulate" what the baked-in circuit simply is.

But from the sounds of it this chip goes beyond that. It sounds like some kind of RAM/GPU hybrid with matrix-specific instructions specifically targeting NN inference for Tesla's specific style of NNs, which as a first guess I take to mean "lots and lots of layers."

In the call they mentioned increasing their investment in the chip team and technology, which is a sign that they're confident it's going to pay off.
> a main point of a crypto currency is realizing there's no reason to back a monetary currency with anything

I'd argue that BTC is very much backed with something - lots and lots of thermal dissipation. The entire argument for why it should be accepted as a stable, reliable, trustworthy store of value is based on proof of work.

If BTC is challenging anything about money, it's challenging the idea that money needs to be something that exists under the auspices of a government body.
It also calls government buildings businesses and other nonreligious nonprofits businesses. They're just using it as a generic way to say 'public building in our location database'.
How do you feel about "Tribeca" and "Times Square"?
That broad brush of a judgment doesn't work. Wikipedia is so massive, no human will ever have even a tiny clue what's all there. Go look at articles on botany or something and you'll see basically all facts and no opinions. Look at articles on people and politics… well, what would you expect?

I'm sure there's some way to create an evaluation of of the network of editors. We'd see that there are sections of Wikipedia where the editors all overlap and sections with near-zero connections, and those different sections are almost different worlds.
I've seen that in some UK univs they call it Computing. I think that's a better term. One short word, too.
I'm not normally one to defend upper management, but that's a dick thing to say to someone who probably genuinely wants to help, but isn't authorized to pay for and ship an expensive snack machine into a random building in a giant company.

"I'll see if I can give you some pointers of how to make some progress on that ask"

probably means

"I'm not the god damn office facilities manager, and I'm not spending my limited time and social capital to quarterback your request for you, but I'll see if I can figure out who in god's name in this 70,000+ person company you should talk to, and tips for how you might convince them to change their budget to give you free snacks".
Being a backend developer I am not quite good at making a good looking portfolio. My current site(http://adnansiddiqi.me) home page is the inspiration I took from some other site. All links are clicked by visitors but the blog one. Although my blog gives me more traffic(and work) than the actual home site. Will seek her advice for sure.

PS: In case if one wonders what I mean, check this Googe Analytics heatmap for my home page: https://imgur.com/a/swtufo9