skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're working on that with our Portland commissary right now. There are talks of installing a delivery/pick-up window to better operations. Stay tuned!
a zero is potentially being entirely on your own

I met some people in Alaska who were trying to approximate this.

a ten is a very modest utopia where everyone can perpetually live like a student

I guess some people historically would see it as a utopia. One's perspective changes with age and life experience. Some would find it depressing.
The issue isn't "Professionals" it is domain specialist. In the past data specilist didn't have Computer Science specialty. They were awesome in stats and numbers but lacked strong programming skills.

Hadley Wickham is special because he has both the stats, data science AND programming skills.

data.table is also an amazing library. R to me is the most improved language in the history of programming languages over the past 5 years.

Also R allows anyone with basic hackery R skills to create libraries easily and that is why so many of them are not optimal.
Saying the N word once in 2009 in the middle of a game is nothing like being casually and obnoxiously racist. I’m not excusing his behavior, but he never acted like that offline. He was a kind and thoughtful manager.
In search of a bigger boom: multi-stage thermonuclear hydrogen bombs
How to Get Fortnite on Android (Galaxy S7, S8, S9 or Note 8)
> Don't you need a master's degree to be eligible for a doctorate program?

At least at most US schools, you do not. Having one helps your chances of being accepted in most cases though

> How does undergraduates find a research groups to join?

Research fairs like career fairs, or just asking profs from classes you enjoyed - every undergrad I knew in grad school just asked my prof if they could try out research.
Stripe Atlas can incorporate you and includes equity agreements.
I've known Dug Song for close to twenty years. I remember when Duo was just starting about five years ago. It was just four or five employees with their desks pushed together at the Tech Brewery, a local co-working center.

Dug started a weekly entrepreneur meetup at 5 o'clock every Friday where you could have a beer and hangout. Good times!
> Don't you need a master's degree to be eligible for a doctorate program?

There are 8 or 9 former classmates of mine with PhDs and only one went out of his way to get a Master's prior, and only because it was a much more prestigious institution (Georgetown) than our undergrad (unknown liberal arts college). Everyone else either entered their respective programs directly from undergrad or had industry/life experience first.
Server and the contact directory service are two different things. The remote attestation is just for a small part of the code (SGX code have a lot of constraints, including size). Also, I don't know if it changed but the new contact discovery service was not in production last time I checked.
Collapse of desert bird community over the past century driven by climate change
Because he knows that his company hoovers any personal data and violates privacy from digital devices at whim.

Only public shock keeps facebook or instagram apps from trying to take surreptitious pictures or audio to gain extra insight into your private life. If there wouldn't be extreme public shock, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

As criminals often know good ways to defend from theft by understanding the nature of theft, privacy thieves knows' the nature of privacy and take steps to ensure the same cannot be done to them as easily.
$30k in cash is not the same as a $30k car. A $30k car that's been stolen is not worth $30k, then there's liquidity, risk and a bunch of other things. Having your car parked outside is not at all like having a box containing $30k outside your house.
The two aren’t mutex. And publish or perish. The suggestion is that academia should be utilitarian and short-term focused. This will never happen. It’s tantamount to saying “we should get rid of archeologists because they aren’t a profit-center department.”
>> Avoiding the lock-up period was a very important part of our decision to list Spotify directly, but there were also clear financial benefits.

> This was listed as, I think, a positive but I see it as an extreme negative. Why invest in your company if you don't have the conviction that it will be worth more 3-6 months from now.

This is silly. You could make the same statement judging employees for selling at any arbitrary point in time. So why not lock them up for a year? Why not two?

Founders and executives of very successful private companies sell shares during Series B and later rounds, and yet the new investors in those rounds are willing to buy them at close. Are those new investors fools to pay off founders without conviction?
Ask HN: Should we have a $ symbol for premium content
It feels to me that the amount of shared articles which are behind a paywall are rising.

I wonder if HN’s usability would improve if these article would be marked with ($) or so.

I often click there for a cheap read on my commute and find it annoying when seeing a paywall rather than the article.
If I could go back in time 10+ years I'd be putting all my money in bitcoin and Netflix
I know these features exist in some places. But nobody had it before f.lux. And it's still - imo - one of the best implementations.
Haha, her position was filled by the principal's niece. Nepotism is alive and well.

Any school district on Long Island NY will have minimum salaries of like 60-70k I think. 90% of property taxes here (~10k USD per house) go to the school district.

It unfortunately shouldn't be a surprise that someone in Wisconsin paying $600 in property tax per year also has a school district with teachers making 40k, which, once again, isn't even a bad salary for the profession and value delivered. Maybe I'm just jaded, but 13 years of schooling qualified me for barely gainful employment. I could have home-schooled myself for way cheaper and with the same outcome.
No different than Lambda and Aurora. Never marry yourself to the vendor.
Hmm, this seems like an apples to oranges comparison. EV customers are not hybrid customers (even PHEV models like the Prius Prime - full disclosure, I drive a Prime). It's odd to see Forbes claiming people bought Teslas instead of Primes - they're not very similar... It would be more relevant to compare Model 3 sales to the Nissan Leaf[1] and Chevy Bolt[2].

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2018/01/09/niss...

2: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-sells-more-than-20000-c...
This thread is hilarious in how many people apparently have blinkers on about the "find a need and fill it" advice that populates every BizDev-oriented thread here. It makes me wonder how many have any experience in software maintenance.
I was flown out to California for an interview at Google, and while I didn't get the job, it shattered any desire I had to work there. I previously wanted to work "for the giants" because, well, money, and prestige, and "cool problems" etc.

Then I noticed every single person I met was involved with Advertising and tracking and tracking advertising. It was disgusting. I don't want to work on those kinds of "cool" problems.
Only a bit of transport level integrity. But it doesn't make your average hosting provider into a high assurance one or its servers, OSes, software stacks, etc. Quite known problem since the cryptocurrency era.
I got the impression that the police department's system might be suffering from some bit rot.

That could easily be an interpolation on my part, though. I tend to just assume that all critical infrastructure built on Notes is poorly-maintained in the same way that I tend to just assume that all critical infrastructure built on Microsoft Access or Excel is poorly maintained. (I'm sure there's some well-tended stuff out there, it's just being kept hidden from me for some reason.)
Or you could even skip the beverage and join their slack group: https://writethedocs.slack.com
If I look in LinkedIn I find more job offers for Clojure than golang. For some reasons other metrics do not apply, and I guess golang is more open source related than clojure which is more about building private services.
On the contrary, there's lots of information. It's the first real attempt at analyzing the legality of it all that I've seen.
The article does not mention whether this price includes the cost of the peaking facility necessary to cover wind intermittence. The PPA price usually would not. Unless you have excess peaking capacity, bringing a big new wind farm online usually means you need a new big gas peaking facility.
> This is a strong accusation, I know. The thing which convinced me of its truth is Signal’s centralized design and hostile attitude towards forks.

The thing that convinced you that Moxie feels a certain way is that Signal has a 'centralized design'.

Please, if you're going to accuse someone of acting in bad faith with no evidence the least you can do is be honest about it. You have nothing but your feelings for proof of anything.
Yes, adjunct faculty pay is often low for what they’re expected to do at almost all schools.

A lot of tuition paid is not for the instuctor but for infrastructure and administrative costs inherent to running a school. Some of the money paid for your mother’s course probably went toward paying non-adjunct faculty; it’s not like schools charge different rates based on the instructor or what they’re paid.
Before we light the torches and grab pitchforks, have you reached out to your account rep for an explanation / adjustment?
Landlords have been the exception that demonstrates the rule, was my point.

Even landlords who are notoriously cheap and low-tech, are moving away. So called checking accounts don't give you a free checkbook any more, in my experience. I don't think I've had to wait for a person writing a check at the grocery store in the last 20 years.

I don't think some landlords requiring checks (in my case almost a decade ago) mean the USA hasn't moved away from paper checks in general.

People often generalize one group by the actions of a tiny fraction of its members, while comparing to another group characterized by the actions of the vast majority. It was particularly blatant here.
My right eye is missing and I wear an eyepatch.
Are current Silicon Valley trends any better? "Quantumly" doesn't sound very good if I say so myself. :)
> This is addressed in https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ – using Intel SGX, it's possible for the clients to verify that the server is running the code it should be running

Just the code inside the enclave and that's a very small amount of code, definitely not the entire server.
Using the plight of disadvantaged kids to get more money diverted to you, and keeping the kids disadvantage because tax money is a scarce resource as you said - pure genius! A self maintaining scam that can be milked as needed (well, every 5 years as indicated by the OP, to ensure voters have forgotten)

No wonder why some people fight to maintain the status quo!
That is one of the subtler points of the PhD - you can't just do what you want, and certainly not at first. The ideal is to find a professor who has a project that aligns with your own interests. If your hope is to find a professor who will back a wholly new project you thought up, that's kinda hard to do during a Master's.
Grabbing your audiovisual content is not for blackmailing. It is to determine if you are watching a TV show without telling you that an app is doing that. It is for profiling everyone and violating your privacy at scale to making money off the results.
Looks pretty cool! We've built something similar for Google Analytics to make it easier to monitor traffic growth etc.

Here's a link: https://chart.ly/products/google-analytics

By the way... would be cool to see your own stats for this site, assuming it is a Ghost site! :-) . That would be a great lead magnet as well! (like demo.baremetrics.com is for Baremetrics)
It's a shame that completing a mountain of well-defined, but tedious work with little independent thought is considered an original contribution to the field.
The author supports the title of the article based on the Tesla Q2 report that the Prius has been the most common trade-in for the model 3.

When I drive daily in a sea of Prii (pl. of Prius), and I get excited when I see a few model 3's a week, I feel like it's too early to make that strong of a statement.
They don't need to, they're paying a third-party for support. I wouldn't be surprised if the contractor has an IBM support account.
As mentioned in another reply, I don't think LGBT is big enough portion of the population to really drive a huge change, despite having high suicide rates.

I'd be interested to see gender breakdown to see if modesty is an issue. I find it implausible, but would love to see data showing me wrong. Especially because when I grew up Mormon (I'm now atheist), a bikini was pretty risque but now I see conservative Mormons wearing bikinis as often as not. A priori, I would also expect modesty to decrease, not increase suicide rates (especially among the overweight or otherwise less-attractive). I'm not rooting for sexual modesty. I think it's probably good for society, but I don't care for it.

Pornography is interesting. I don't know how much Mormons have focused on it, but I'd be fascinated to see if that was a factor.
Hmm, this seems like an apples to oranges comparison. EV customers are not hybrid customers

Citation? I'm considering both an EV and a hybrid for my next car.
If I arrange five biscuits on a plate, you'd prefer to eat the one at zero offset from the edge, rather than take the first biscuit?

As for "a computer" - unless your actually writing code for memory allocation - you are (should be) writing to an abstract machine anyway (trivially, if you want to sum numbers in a dense 10^6 by 10^6 matrix - wouldn't it be nice to utilise 1024 cores if they are available? Unless you have side effects happening, do you really care about the order of additions? And if the numbers are 256 bit integers - do you want to care if they're stored big or little endian, in 8 or 16 bit words? In two's complement?).
The leiningen setup has been fairly stable, if still a bit obnoxious these days. It's a bit more difficult to get the supporting tools up than the language, in my opinion.
Heh. The Tesla fanboys know me around here. I've been posting Bearish opinions on Tesla for literally years now.

That doesn't change the facts. The article here is an opinion piece. If you want facts, read this one instead: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/tesla-tak...

Seriously, for the betterment of EVERYBODY, you need to know what good factual articles are vs what opinion pieces look like. Hacker News is supposed to be a place where we elevate the discussion and have intelligent talk.

There is certainly a time and place for opinion pieces, but they need to be treated with the proper amount of skepticism whenever you read them.
I wouldn't consider any platforms distributing solely their own titles as a Steam competitor. Aka, Origin, Battle.net, etc. are not Steam competitors. GOG and Humble Bundle are Steam competitors, and I wouldn't argue either of them are on the same scale as Steam. And Discord needs to make a lot of money if they're going to pay back their investors.
From the comments, one of the "Guardian picks":

I strongly, strongly disagree. A PhD should be about science. Not about utility for society. I am pretty sure that Max Planck did not think about the utility of computers when he proposed this completely absurd, little mathematical trick of discretising energy. Still, without quantum theory: no computer, no laser, no magnetic resonance imaging...and I could go on forever.

Progress in science is necessarily chaotic - if you disallow incoherence, absurdity, non-applicability, you will kill science. The author is conceptualizing "science" (maybe he talks about engineering and not science?) only as a tool of problem solving for the society - that is actual the role of science in Orwell's "1984" and that was the role of science to a certain extent in socialism. By making science teleological, one makes science ready for totalitarian abuse. Thank you very much!

By the way, comparing PhD systems from different countries is absolutely rubbish. In Germany, it is already rubbish to compare PhDs from different faculties from the same university....
When they broke the window SOS was triggered. They knew this and that Police were en route.

When they cut the wire in the pillar, they didn't disable SOS, they disabled the triggering mechanism. The idea being that they would return and break the window again only SOS wouldn't be triggered because that wire was cut.
You actually don't need to use Detour hacks to fake QueryPerformanceCounter, this is built into Application Verifier as a check called "TimeRollOver". If you're writing Windows apps or games, it's highly recommended to try to run your app through AppVerifier, it'll catch lots of mistakes by turning all of the super permissive Win32 APIs into super vicious strict versions that try to find mistakes in your code.
The sooner we get rid of the emotion, the better, probably. It’s a bit like arguing that chronic back pain is healthy just because it’s natural.

It’s interesting to consider that technology might be able to solve this. How long till an anti love pill hits the market with few side effects?
Why is that so surprising ? Moving to https:// makes it harder for the GFW to identify people who read specific articles. I can see how China feels news platforms that are https:// only need to be blocked.

Out of curiosity: how do other news outlets fare ?
Thank you very much! I think it will - but the only way for you to figure out is to try it :)
So of course if you get stuck romanticizing them forever, you never quite get over the feeling that something irrevocably lost. One workable strategy is to think of them in a bad light, to consciously say to yourself: they weren't that great, here are all the reasons. And this works. It works because it prompts your mind to consider other options for how your life might go. But one pitfall of the strategy is that it doesn't actually require you to think of better options, it just hints at it. So some people doing the strategy will successfully convince themselves that their ex sucked, but also have absolutely no other emotional options for feeling hope about the future. That's a rough place.

But a different strategy is more like "they WERE great, but also other people can be great, and they can be great in ways I don't currently know, but I can be excited to find out."

Most social support after a breakup involves friends telling you everything will be fine, and you'll find someone better, and anyway the ex was a jerk, so no big deal. Stuff like that totally plays into a healthy process of grieving for the life you thought you were going to have, ie. reimagining that life as a different but equally good or maybe better life.

So yeah, one place to get stuck is failing to let go of the one conception you have of how your life can be good, that was totally predicated of your relationship with your ex continuing.

Another way it can go wrong is if you just refuse to process it at all. You drink yourself into a stupor when it comes up, for example. Sure it blocks the pain, but it also blocks the process of reimagining. And if that's your main coping mechanism you're just drawing out the pain longer, maybe permanently (not to mention the damage many substances do to your body).

So the "real" answer, according to me is that you have to encounter your own pain in a mindful way, acknowledging what is lost and how much it hurts, while staying just ahead of it and questioning the strong feelings that say "nothing can replace this, everything is bad forever." Is it really true? Can you imagine a way that it might not be true?

And yes, staying connected to your social support system and the other things in your life that actually are working, instead of just crawling into a hole of despair and laying down to die.

Grieving is hard, but it's important, and you can't avoid it. Either you face the pain with courage and intelligence, or you let it eat whatever potential for goodness was once there. Either way you have to wrestle it.
... but I don't put a 100% brightness screen in front of my eyes at night. Do people really do that? Don't they know how to adjust brightness?

Indoors, I use about 30% brightness. As the day gets dimmer, that slides down to about 25%. If I'm reading something in bed, I start at about 10% and as my eyes adapt, go down to 1%. When I'm finding it hard to keep my eyes open, I take that as my signal to go to sleep. Am I ridiculously unusual?
The salary is excellent and well above US GDP per capita. The benefits, of course, are even better.

But the pensions are driving housing prices and property taxes through the roof around here. I luckily found 2 other roommates to live with me in a 1br apartment far outside the city, and we're all paying $650 each. Property tax accounts for 33% of our rent contribution.
Is this really a characteristic of the card, rather than the reader? After all, my cards have pins. And often neither a pin nor a signature is required, although the chip is read. And when I buy something online, obviously the chip is not read.
The obvious upside to an IPO vs a debt issuance is that an IPO allows the existing owners to trade shares for cash too.
Review of JIB – Google's pure Java solution for building containers
well then is it closer to having a box with $15k? $10k? $5k? In all these situations, the incentive is still there.
I used to do it too. I figured it was a short term memory flaw, then it became a habit, so it just feels "off" to not double check. I'm actually comforted seeing i wasn't the only one.
I guess you haven't used rust, or ocaml, or haskell.

In those cases, errors are even more like normal values because they're returned using generic types (Optional/Maybe, Result/Either), not using hacky multiple return stuff.

For example, in go you might have a function that returns (string, error), but you can't define a method on that type that was returned, so e.g. you can't have:

func (tuple (string, error)) OrElse(val string) string {
if tuple.1 == nil {
return tuple.0
} else {
return val
}
}

This would let you right such code as:

hostname := os.Hostname().OrElse("localhost")

On the other hand, in rust or haskell you'd return a generic sum type which is either an error or a value and which can be treated as an actually normal value.

This leads to the languages I mentioned above having the ability to have much cleaner and more concise error handling than go.

The fact that go has multiple returns, not tuples or sum types, results in its errors being really awkward to use values, among their other flaws.
> Combine that with Signal keeping the server not-quite-open and being weirdly insistent on not having federation, and I'm suspicious.

I'm not exactly sure what not-quite-open means (I thought the code was available, do you mean the server won't accept modified clients?), but Signal was federated once, with Cyanogen, and they opted not to continue the federated model. I don't think it's weird to not want to coordinate upgrades across servers in multiple organizations. Looking at existing federation models that mostly work, we have things like email, where there's no coordination and some servers never get upgraded, leading to a very low lowest common denominator; there's also IRC, where servers in a network really need to run the same software and are upgraded in lockstep -- that's fine enough if everyone is on board, but it doesn't look that much different than one organization running the servers.