skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait till the hipsters in brooklyn hear about salt-infused graphene. Itll be making an appearance at your local food truck there soon!! :P
The diamond problem
I agree with the sentiment here, but PR driven pressure is probably not the best leverage to use in all cases. There’s real value to having internal say in the direction of the company you’re building.
That's probably true for now. Less noise in their detection than in a real life, public space, situation.
Programmers seem in general to know that 0-based works best, but mathematicians (and mathematical and statistical programming languages) seem to prefer 1-based, and I don't understand why that is? Isn't mathematics also easier with 0-based?

E.g. if you divide a matrix of 100 columns into 20 vertical bands of width 5 each.

Mathematicians use 1-based indexing for both the element index and the band index, so there band n would start at coordinate "(n - 1) * 100 / 20 + 1"

For a programmer, band n would start at "n * 100 / 20"

That's two correction terms that you need to add in math which programmers don't!

I had to use Matlab for microphone arrays once and it was full of + 1's and - 1's everywhere due to that.

Another example of mathematics and off by one errors: a polynomial. They call it "degree n" if the highest power is n, except I see n+1 coefficients in there and need to allocate an n+1 sized array to contain its coefficients, so why not call its degree the amount of terms, including the "x^0" one. The powers themselves in the polynomial are already hinting at 0-based indexing in this case.

Mathematicians, please use coordinate "0,0" for the top left element of a matrix :)
DC may not be the biggest metro area, but it's arguably the richest overall in terms of per household or per capita incomes. 5 of the top 10 richest counties in the US are DC 'burbs:

1 Loudoun Co, VA
2 Fairfax Co, VA
3 Howard Co, MD
...
5 Arlington Co, VA
6 Stafford, Co, VA

With Montgomery Co, MD and Prince William County at 11 and 12 respectively.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/richest-counties-in-the-...
If we lived in a fantasy dystopia inwhich computers were outlawed to all but the silicon valley elite and the rest of the populace had to rent from them or be left in the cold, maybe your argument would have some weight.

In the world we do live in, speech for your small niche community is literally a 30 dollar raspberry pi and an internet connection away. No one has any moral (or legal authority for that matter) to shut down the nazi chat rooms of others (under your views at least); just like Microsoft and others have no moral obligation to host content that breaks their terms of service and will drive others off of their platform.

Arguing what is "right" in a law abiding society is nonsense. If the laws are flawed you argue against the laws, if they aren't pretending that people or groups of people should conform to your ideals is ultimately a waste of time.
LHX Attack Chopper had a similar thing where you had to look up combat vehicle stats. Fortunately, if you kept restarting you would pretty quickly get something like "How many wheels does X armored car have?", which even a 12-year-old should be able to get in 3 guesses.
Sounds like smart thinking to me. I do similar rationalizing myself, and I wouldn’t worry too much what others think.

These things are tough to reconcile but we are all wrestling with them, and we have to keep our heads healthy to contend.

The only mistake I’d warn against is letting this influence your judgement of others, or your prescription for future generations. They are counting on us and we are counting on them. The point about the military speaks to the reality that you are not alone, but the bottom line is we have been dealt an injustice. We must not pass this nonsense on to those depending on us to make it right. We’ve got to stand together against the agregious opportunism undermining the livelihoods of Americans.

If nothing else, I don’t want to bare this weight through my middle age and still have the kids speaking of me in the way they speak of baby-boomers today. This isn’t to say the baby-boomers are to blame, but it is tough to feel sorry for them given the opportunities they had.

I’d much rather get the praise the Great Generation gets. Let’s work for it.

Love yourself, and all the moreso by loving others as well.
A few points:

* Even to the extent that degrees are just signaling devices, they are still useful because many people with power over your career care a lot about those signals.

* If you choose a useful major, that one-years-worth of your undergraduate education certainly has utilitarian value in preparing you for a related career or for further instruction.

* The other three-years-worth of courses may make you more worldly and well-rounded, but their instructional value is nowhere near the $150,000 you'll pay for them at a private university.

>the thinking is that a formal multi-year undergraduate course of study that ensures a minimum knowledge core on a topic will better prepare you for a formal multi-year graduate course of study on that topic than simply working in the field and acquiring a random assortment of specific skills based on what you needed on the jobs that you took.

* Yes, of course, but this only applies to the quarter of the undergraduate courses that are actually relevant. It doesn’t explain why should you need three years worth of courses in underwater basketweaving or gender studies as a prerequisite to a masters in cybersecurity.
So is it a coincidence this is priced $10 a month less than the smallest paid Shodan license?
Software engineers have already begun unionizing.
If the world ate USDA-recommended diet, there wouldn't be enough land to grow it
let's recap who are they? The Congress passed the pay caps if you show me any evidence that there is a broad voter support for removing those caps the "they" claim might have some merit otherwise "they"="we"
I think Swift is the closest thing to a GC’d Rust. However, since Windows isn’t a first class platform for Swift, I’d recommend checking out Scala.

I think they’re doing a compiler rewrite that steals the good ideas from Rust (like good error messages).
This is not surprising. On my last two visits to late night urgent care I encountered complete incompetence. On the first occurrence, the Doctor did not know how to suture my hand. She put in four sutures when at least twice as many were needed and placed them way to close to the margin. She failed to even clean it properly. It ripped open again while I was sleeping. On the next, unrelated visit, the doctor was drunk. His face was all red and he reeked of alcohol.
And this helped me when I was building micromouse. One of the best designed competition to actually help learn interdisciplinary technology.
Those are about $1/ea, which is annoying if you're losing them to 'theft' them all the time, but if you end up losing only a few a month and occasionally get them back when you see them on coworkers' desk and ask "hey is that my pen" then it may not be worth the anxiety of hoarding or burden of stocking a pile of shitty loaner-pens.
I'd venture a guess based on B) that GP believes that inequality happens in part due to tax laws that support the idea that wealth trickles down, while GP believes (as do I), that it absolutely does not. A proposed fix would be to stop giving tax cuts to the rich/businesses in hopes that the not rich will somehow magically get some trickled down benefit and instead do things that actively benefit the lower economic classes.
I have used that. I also sometimes say, "You have arrived" or "Welcome!", or "First floor!". Many of these folks are passive aggressive devs that I have to work with, so I have to tip-toe on the tulips to some degree.
Melbourne teen hacked into Apple's secure computer network
Both my sister and I received A few days worth of Hydros despite being particularly gentle wisdom teeth removals, in her case eating solid food hours later. I took one and probably didn't even need that. This was a very drug prone and poor area.

If they wanted to, they could have gotten away with "take extra strength Ibuprofen", but what is their incentive to do that? They don't want patients telling the next guy "It hurt a lot" after.
"(Also, after seeing the below 350-line function that's part of a 3113-line file, I now know that whenever I'm yelling at CSS layout behaving weirdly, there's someone with a much, much more frustrating job.)"

At my job, our group recently refactored a file from over 30000 lines down to 17000. I've also seen, on multiple occasions, single methods in Smalltalk applications that exceeded 32KB and therefore broke the compiler! (The egregious sins of Smalltalk shops were weirdly parallel. The egregious sins of Smalltalk vendors were also weirdly parallel, come to think of it.)
There's a huge difference between signing a letter arguing against capitulating to state censorship, and authoring a memo using junk science and taking studies way out of context to say that half your coworkers don't deserve to be there.
Toward defining privacy expectations in an age of oversharing
> We cannot in one breath say we are in favor of free speech, then in another breath say we want corporations to censor people whose views we don't like.

Pretend you own a publishing company. You publish books by authors you like.

Then I ask you to publish my book, called "99 Reasons Why We Should Murder Puppies and Abuse Our Children."

If you choose to pass on my book, is that censorship? I would say, as a publisher, you have freedom of the press, including editorial discretion. The right to free speech isn't the right to an audience.

Now how is this different from Twitter? Well people say Twitter is not a publisher, but a platform. They take submissions from everywhere, so they shouldn't have the freedom to pick and choose who they want to publish on their site. It's more like a phone company than a publisher.

But I don't buy that argument. Here's why:

1. For a long time, Twitter has made rules about what content belongs on their network. My phone company doesn't tell me who I can call or what I can say.

2. Twitter is completely owned by a single company and tightly controlled. With phone companies, there is interoperability between networks.

3. Twitter is not regulated like a phone company.

5. Twitter has an editorial team which curates "moments," which further blurs the publisher / platform distinction.

5. Twitter does not treat content on it's network in an equal way. Their algorithm determines the "best tweets" for you and displays them more prominently. They also make suggestions as who you should follow. My phone doesn't ring louder depending on who is calling. This is crucial, because when you see far-right content, it's not only because you have subscribed to it. In many ways, Twitter's algorithm is helping it spread.

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So Twitter if not a neutral platform that has to cater to everyone. They have always tried to control their network - how it can be used, what you can say on it. As long as they do that, they bear some responsibility for what people say on their website.

If they don't want to do that, that's fine. But then don't censor any content at all. Open up your API. Stop recommending certain tweets and posts. Give users a chronological feed option, and make the "best tweets" algorithm transparent.
> So instead of finding the NES next to your other PCs at the time, it was near the toy aisle?

> Anyone who maybe was able to witness the revival able to comment with their anecdotes?

That is NOT my recollection. I bought my Atari games from the same isle I bought my NES games from at Toys R Us (obviously in different years).

I think there is truth that game console marketing shifted into its own more toy like thing, distinct from computers, but I think that shift was already underway by the heyday of the 2600. I remember an entire display of just video games (2600, ColecoVision, and others), which was separate from other software, computers, and the consoles.

With the Toys R Us closure, I wrote an article about my memories of Toys R Us and The Great Video Game crash (and recovery) that tries to fill in for people what living through the crash actually felt like.

https://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/memories-of-the-g...
Ah sure. IME, that's a pretty neutral & symmetric observation: I can't imagine living in Marin (at this pt in my life) instead of DT SF because it doesn't suit me in the same way. This is compatible with your observation that you feel the same way about SF.
For me, mostly useless.
I do however, enjoy using Touch ID for sudo permissions.

HT to: https://twitter.com/cabel/status/931292107372838912
I looked at your downvoted comments. Most are unsubstantive or off-topic. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17775283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367226

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637719

The solution is not to make more off-topic posts, but rather to stop posting unsubstantive comments.
Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?
It's already here to an extent. Pig heart valves have already been transplanted into humans.
Currently we are not in a position to do this, it would be great of course. At the moment we do contribute to the upstream projects.

Please note, what we have is not a true app store with pay-per-app, but the subscription is to ensure we have the resources to package, test and support the apps on Cloudron. We have elaborate unit tests for each app as well as do manual testing, since we want to deliver a saas style update experience.
Saying you don't know what you're talking about is not a personal attack when you seem to be going out of your way to prove me right.

"The government" is not a gigantic neolithic behemoth doing whatever it wants whenever it wants. You might be surprised to learn that there are in fact three branches of government in the United States. Congress has passed more than one law detailing the manner in which federal employees can be paid, and limiting how much each given position may be paid.[0] Similarly, Congress sets the budget for the Executive agencies. Because the Pentagon get billions of dollars does not mean that it's trivial to raise the salary of everyone at the Food & Drug Administration.

USG employees make significantly less than their private sector counterparts (usually) because they get quite a few benefits unavailable to the private sector:

* Generous paid leave in the form of sick time, vacation time, comp time, and scheduled holidays

* Accrued paid leave is paid out when you leave government employment

* Government pension
Ignoring the completely nonsensical "rent-seeking gatekeepers" comment, Lockheed and BAH receive government contracts through open bid procurement processes. You'll get no argument from me that often times these bids are written so only 1-3 firms in the world even qualify, but that's sort of the nature of the beast when the bid is to develop a new missile or something.

[0] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Yeah I work at a F500 and there are VP's with hundreds to thousands of people in their org chart for them earn about the same as SWE at Google including stock and bonuses.
PubNub Is a Valuable Skill for the Developer's Resume
In the end, I expect politicians to try and sabotage public trust in such systems. It'll be easy, as 99% of people woulndn't have enough knowledge to verify the results, or even distinguish them from a clever RNG.
Heroin Addiction Killed My Parents and Brother
I would suggest the quality of the drug matters far more than the digestive system. And that the difference between first-time experience and hundredth-time (which I don't think is a particularly healthy number of times to hit) is quite large.
really love your guys styling. is it all custom?

Maybe its so much text in one space, or maybe the cool animation in the background, or maybe just my tired eyes, but I'm having a bit of trouble focusing on what to read in the top section. I am not immediately faced with the value prop because there is so much content!
Good point about travel to China.

However, Google employees are unlikely to be "seen as difficult" at Google for signing a petition involving a project they're not even working on. Nobody keeps track of this stuff. To get noticed, you have to show more leadership than that.
>> You publish books by authors you like.

Right there your analogy breaks down; Twitter publishes content it doesn't like. It publishes all content that doesn't break the law or its rules.

But it's beside the point. Do we want Facebook, Google, and other social media companies deciding what we can and cannot say?

If we are consistent in our libertarianism, we must answer no.
No, because those aren't plans.
Not to be snarky but aren't they censoring at home as well? Whatever you think of Alex Jones or whatever you think you think about him and his ilk, censoring speech is for the feeble minded and tyrannous. Let's leave thought policing to the politicians and the government.
Your Workplace Isn't Your Family (and That's OK)
Universities would probably stop offering humanities and push kids to professional courses.
Yeah, on some magical world where there being a couple of powerful people on your area that decide if you'll have enough to eat or will starve isn't an obstacle for personal freedom.

I wouldn't get lifetips from Friedman. Has was an important economist, and certainly pushed our knowledge forward... but I don't think there is any of his personal opinions on the theory that wasn't proven false already.
Oh yes, and it's a shame because software development used to be meaningful, until accountants took over the world...
Scientists Race to Improve 'Living Drugs' to Fight Cancer
No. If anything, coming out in support of Maven or google.cn would make you a target of the 1000 or so bleeding hearts that sign the petitions. From the James Damore lawsuit, there are managers who share lists of 'not to work with' people who have committed wrong-think.
> Do workers own the means of production? No. Are they going toward that? No. It's not "communist" then.

Newsflash: workers never owned the means of production in any communist state. They were told they would, but they were subjected to compulsory work to cater to the communist regime's elite goals while owning nothing at all.

That sort of bait and switch is pretty much the hallmark of every single communist regime since the very beginning.
Skim Reaper Device That Detects Wide Range of Skimmer Devices
"Such business." A local deli, on the rare possibility that they sell their own white-labeled baked good, would probably tell you where it came from anyway. The fig bar in question was not a white labeled or private label good anyway. But if you asked the guy where the greek salad, potato salad and pasta salad come from he would tell you.

A retailer is also different than a direct seller/manufacturer (your example).
Combinatorial Algorithms [pdf]
While "gaining admission to NYU medical school" is likely correlated with good socio-economic background (as do all accomplishment), the correlation is not 100%.

You can get into NYU from a poor socio-economic background, if you work hard and attain academic excellence.

And while all students will appreciate this discount, it will make more of a difference to those who are not "fine without it", i.e. those below the top richest and most privileged (for whom spending $200-300k on education is easily affordable).

Finally, this isn't exactly pure charity out of the kindness of NYU's heart. It's a response to medical candidates choosing other fields due to cost and debt issues:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-search-of-more-doctors-new-t...

These are the exact candidates this subsidy seeks to relieve.
There are of course two sides to every coin. The flip side is, cell carriers never signed up to be a secure identification mechanism. SMS wasn't designed for security, and there's little financial incentive for them to invest in those changes, i.e., they don't charge you more for secure authorization of 3rd party platforms. I think its very akin to the US Social Security Number being used as a 'secure' identification in many cases.

I imagine a world where you go into the cell store, and they demand three forms of identification including a utility bill to talk to you. I can already hear the complaints from a much larger portion of their customer base.
That's the idea behind lambda school. Interesting podcast interview from Indie Hackers[1]. They only collect if your salary is above $55k if I recall correctly and there is a max amount that they take in total.

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/046-austen-allred-of-la...
As I understand it, salaries are only one of the many ways that doctors make money. Many "providers" are doctor-owned. Perhaps a more general statement would be that decreasing the cost of medical care will unavoidably decrease the income and/or wealth of doctors.

I don't see a problem with this, so long as doctors can earn a decent living. An idea I've thought about is that medical school is free, but doctors primarily earn their income by working for the government, for a salary. It might attract different people, who stand to benefit from that bargain.

What I've noticed about the debate is that everybody who is getting rich, is pointing the finger of blame at everybody else. Chances are, they're all gouging us.
Thank you so much! That makes the paper a lot easier to understand.
errcheck is a good tool to help with this.
I would argue that it hasn't been "conclusively" disproven. One key study "disproved" it in the aggregate across all insurance, but not on a specific specialty-by-specialty basis[1]. The malpractice costs of OB-GYN's for example are reflective of the potentially catastrophic tort liability exposure despite an overall low level of influence of tort reform on insurance costs generally.

However, this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536953/ demonstrated that tort reform resulted in a larger percentage of growth in the number of physicians which would indicate that tort reform does have an important effect on medical care provisioning simply because tort reform, according to that study, resulted in a larger number of practitioners, which would, necessarily increase access to care.

So while tort reform may not have reduced costs across all of insurance, it does have an effect on medical care supply and it could have an effect on costs on a specialty-by-specialty basis.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701901/

"An important consideration when interpreting our results is that our analysis provides evidence that the Texas reform had little influence on levels of health insurance losses, in the aggregate, across a variety of patient groups and provider specialties... As a result, if tort reform’s effects on provider behavior differ by the provider’s specialty type or the type of patient, then different analyses presented in the literature, utilizing different but relatively homogenous samples of provider or insured types, may yield conflicting results regarding the influence of malpractice exposure on healthcare cost and health insurance markets. Further research may consider how specific provider specialties and patient groups are influenced by changes in medical malpractice liability exposure."
guns can be made with 3d printed plastic. https://defdist.org/
And as long as they can recruit candidates, remember. Tho’ it’s not clear where those candidates would go instead, none of the FANG companies have entirely clean hands.
Those are the real questions. And the last decade has been answering unfortunatly "no" as soon as you get outside of tech saavy bubbles.
You knows it's purposeful when they've obfuscated the CSS selectors: ##.ArticlePage__isOpen__1YrKK.ArticlePage__mustWatchContainer__1fa3e
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech."

- Noam Chomsky