skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just signed up and installed their iOS app. You are correct: drinking coffee or tea in the morning starts the non-fasting period. This will be rough for me because I usually have coffee at 5:30am, read or study for 90 minutes, then have breakfast and go to work. I will shift my morning coffee to when I have breakfast.

I have been non-fasting and fasting with an even split of 12 hours / 12 hours per day, so this will be an adjustment.
I wouldn't call it a hidden agenda. You work for Facebook. Pretty out in the open these days.

Open source or not; it's a tough pill to swallow using these freebie frameworks and tools from massive companies like fb and google.

It obviously benefits these companies when we make your products de facto standards, open source or not.

Not sure I want the tech giants controlling the internet at large, as well as the tech behind it.
That the firing of the whole staff was stupid and illegal was not in doubt, which is why I didn't really bother addressing it.

Rather, I wish the article had bothered to answer your question. I can hypothesize all day that they were in financial trouble and making rash decisions as a result, but the author didn't bother trying to find the truth, only present a narrative.
> Rank	﻿Location 1	Algeria 2	Iraq 3	Yemen 4	Myanmar 5	North Korea 6	Afghanistan

So your point is?
I recently saw a video about scrum where they explained how Cognitive Biases has been an impediment in SDLC. They explained Status Quo Biases and Planning Fallacy, the whole video although was about Scrum but had also intrigued me regarding Cognitive Biases.
Really happy to have found a relative link about it.

Nisbett writes in his 2015 book, Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking, “I know from my own research on teaching people how to reason statistically that just a few examples in two or three domains are sufficient to improve people’s reasoning for an indefinitely large number of events.”
It struck me that using OpenCV to get the coordinates of a button might actually be _simpler_ (from a code writing perspective...) than many of the solutions to these sorts of problems I’ve used in the past. This is a pretty straightforward, maybe even 1:1 pixel mapped match you are looking for, returning the coordinates to click could be accomplished in very few lines of code with OpenCV. You could build a pretty sweet little automation library that just consumes screen captures of the things you want to click. Would greatly reduce the tedium often found in automation coding. This strikes me as so obvious I’m guessing such a library probably already exists...
When the means of production is concentrated, some kind of worker combination is a logical response.

But we're richer now, well-fed and well-entertained, so although the concentration is greater than ever (cf agrarian or industrial times), it's not as motivating.
A year of education is a useless metric. Staying one more year in college does not make you smarter. Junk article.
Tesla CEO angrily headbutted car after safety sensor paused assembly line
He’s joking, it’s a reference to something his dismembered head says in the final level of the game

/edit: “To win the game you must kill me, John Romero”
Unfortunate but It looks like signs of growth (VC triggered) though! Why do people still use it? Guess there are no alternatives in Mexico?
There is a murder-investigation going on and people are trying to be protective about their Facebook password. What kind of world am i living in?
Why would they care? Companies never seem to be held accountable for being hacked.
> Did not freakanomics come up with a famous (and to me more convincing) argument that it legalized abortion was the reason for the drop in crime? At they very least it dispels the arguments we don't have a better explanation and doesn't even mention it.

There was a bug in Donohue and Levitt's code which, combined with other factors, makes the effect go away, supposedly:
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2005/12/01/o...
Reminds me of this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17779751 about DoorDash which was false. Given some of the same investors are in Rappi, I would not immediately assume they have funky terms.
Right now AI is displacing man hours, not people. Police are able to eliminate costly evidence gathering with video surveillance and LPR. More capabilities are coming available now.

When the economy blows up again, that’s where AI will start eating jobs. You’ll be able to afford the capital investment in technology by shedding people.

My guess is that the most initial impact will be for supporting the operations of traditional process based computing. First they’ll come for the sysadmins and low level BA types, then the armies of CRUD developers slinging java.

Honestly, “AI” can mean many things. My employer used to have many people managing old school SANs. Cloud storage makes them moot. Is that AI? Probably not. But I would certainly pitch it as AI related to claim my share of the open savings.
The origin of the education doesn't matter so much as the implied lack of real-world experience. I'd hazard a guess that a third of the engineers I've worked with had a CS degree, and in the world of web and mobile there aren't many places that matters.

On the other hand, bootcamps in particular teach you a basic grasp of the "in" technologies that will look good on a resume. Having a few on your team is often a good thing. Having too many, or having too pressing of a deadline to properly mentor them is a terrible thing for everyone involved.
Calif. Senate approves net neutrality rules, sends bill to governor
Angular Momentum Demo: Hoberman Sphere
The backgroundColor vs background-color thing has nothing to do with React.

That is more JSS which is one attempt at CSS-in-JSS. The removed hyphen is needed because JSS requires property names as object property names where hyphens can be problematic.

Other CSS-in-JSS libraries, such as emotion.sh, has support for CSS (vs JSS above) inside of JS, including React components, and can keep default CSS syntax. Example from the emotion.sh homepage:

const Link = styled.a`
min-width: 12rem;
margin: 0 auto 20px;
padding: ${props => props.primary ? 18 : 16}px;
border-radius: 5px;
text-decoration: none;
border: ${props =>
props.primary ? 'none' : '3px solid currentColor'};
background: ${props =>
props.primary &&
'linear-gradient(90deg, #D26AC2, #46C9E5)'};
color: ${props =>
props.primary ? '#1D2029' : '#D26AC2'};
&:hover {
opacity: 0.95;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
margin: 0 20px 0 0;
&:last-child {
margin: 0;
}
}
`

If you notice variables and props are available via string interpolation. emotion.sh also makes inline styling easier:

render(
<div
className={css`
background-color: hotpink;
&:hover {
color: ${color};
}
`}>
This has a hotpink background.
</div>
)

[edited for formatting and word choice]
The core idea in this essay is that Theranos' decision to take big risks in order to scale disproportionately compared to product readiness can decoupled from their decision to trick others into sharing those risks. I'm left unconvinced.

For example, Reid suggests Theranos could have have started by offering traditional blood drawing services transparently, instead of taking the pin pricks. Why would CVS have permitted access to their stores for such an incremental test? Would investors have financed such a mundane trial?

Theranos' access to patients and capital seems to have depended explicitly on falsifying how close they were to a breakthrough. That's not a hustle that happens to be dishonest, it's a business model that can't progress without dishonesty.

Strip away the potential for dishonesty, and "blitzscaling" is just "grow as fast as you can by honestly engaging your market"... Duh?
I doubt they would do these experiments unless, one way or another, they also apply to us. They are not trying to make mice live longer :)
Great article on this pattern:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Then they’d be excellent management material. Motivating friends to do random, high quality code patches. Very impressive.
As you said there might be some "basic ML" involved in credit rating but that can probably replaced by mean/median/mode kind of computation easily. Although this is one area which ML can completely take over, i.e. instead of maintaining a static score, ML can predict the likelihood of an individual returning the loan based on gender/age/income/zip code and tonnes of other info.
>A very bizarre set of reaction tweets, was Terry big among the alt-right/4chan crowds?

What makes you say that? And what does the alt-right have to do with 4chan?
Although I don't disagree with the premise of the article, there seems to be a lot of hand waving. Are relying on underlying data for proof or just putting up hypothesis?
Sun, DEC, and so on were very successful until they weren’t. To say Sun was always a failure ignores the 90s when they weren’t.
You mean something like Sensetime. The political aspect aside, here no jobs were replaced but actually created.
> those are libertarian values

As a libertarian voter, in the USA, I find this kind of position to be juvenile. They are conservative values, that happen to overlap with libertarian goals. Libertarian values are neither fundamental (old enough to be the basis for any other system) nor complete enough to be considered a value system at all. They are just rough applied values (eg limiting government is a general preference, not an ideology). Trying to exaggerate libertarian values to mean something absolute shows a deep misunderstanding of the movement.
Ask HN: What makes your product unique?
1- What is your product?

2- In one sentence (just one) explain what makes your product unique from the rest of the market.

3- In one more sentence (just one more) explain how you got to find the niche you're building the product for.

4- Are you pre or post-revenue (any revenue). Just say Pre or Post.
Tink: Google's Crypto Library
If this device truly did exist in the marketplace, I would pay a very good price for it.
But 8am to 6pm would be a ten hour window. So you could have your coffee and a big breakfast.

That wouldn’t be so bad. It really just mirrors the advice our lacrosse coaches have been telling us all along. Don’t snack at night.
Those folks do physical security. Aside from access to buildings and stuff they have access to little else, plus they have supervisors and people at the company who supervise them, plus doing weird things will trigger alerts and stuff, so I don't think they can do a lot beside ignore alarms for an intruder who would not have access to digital assets. Plus, NDAs are pretty powerful tools.

I mean, if a guard lets you in, what are you gonna do, steal a laptop which is encrypted and requires 2FA? The only places which might have richer targets are research and prototyping facilities which I imagine have additional safeguards.
My point was that, without knowing the management's perspective, it's entirely possible that gender was merely a coincidence of having senior males available, and hiring junior females either because they were the best available or the company wanted to look diverse. Perhaps they were flagging and needed to cut the junior developers so the senior developers could focus on getting back on track.

Either way, it's impossible to know, because without more details all we are left with is the agenda of an author who isn't interested in presenting the truth (or providing sufficient evidence to support it).

Edit: consider the following scenario: you have a team of male developerd; maybe they were friends when they pitched the idea for a product to you. After a few months, there's a big backlog, and they want to hire junior developers to train and take off some of the pressure. To embrace diversity, you hire a bunch of women who recently graduated from a boot camp to round out your all white male staff.

Fast forward a year. Everyone has become a tight knit team, but the pressure to deliver mounts. Instead of getting faster, they're all bogged down with refactors and endless pull request revisions of things that aren't working out. You are running out of money, so you decide to cut the junior developers, and try to bribe the senior devs with some of the cost savings to make up for all the extra hours they'll now be working. Uh oh! You're only firing the women! They all band together, oblivious to the fact that you literally won't be able to keep them all on.

I'm not saying this is what happened. What happened could have been pure sexism and anti-labor mentality. BUT pushing such an agenda without KNOWING that is the case here doesn't do anyone any favors.
> __licence__ = "GPLv3"

Does this actually work or can be enforced?
I was on the fence about them. I had the Sennheiser BTNC 4.5 shortlisted since they're cheaper. Is Bose's noise canceling significantly better than Sennheiser's?
Well, in languages released in the past 15 years, sure. But many languages are not that recent.
I just find it sad that you can’t get anything out of just listening to good music. It’s certainly not an “unhealthy” activity.
What’s rational is that people are accepting positions at those pay rates. If you don’t want $12 per hour, go somewhere willing to pay more — even fast food pays more than that in the Bay Area. Entry level at Target pays over $15. They don’t need a union, they just need to quit and go work somewhere else. No shortages of jobs in the Bay Area— essentially everyone is hiring right now.

Why should the company be blamed when people keep lining up to work for the wages on offer?

Does anyone buying bananas at Safeway just randomly decide to pay more than the asking price? Of course not. It’s the same with companies.
I thought the Chinese government put a stop to mass phantom ticketing a couple of years ago? Either the party didn’t do a good job or western news sources are incredibly late in reporting on scandals in China.
"Being able to rely on buses as a piece of infrastructure" is the reason. Because you don't want to buy a car for two parties a year that run late. Just as you wouldn't want a disused sidewalk or a country road or a bridge to close completely during periods when they're not being worked to capacity.

This isn't a major advantage of buses, it's a major cost: They're so expensive to run that you only get to deploy them for peak periods.

If you _do_ have to buy a car for two parties a year that run late, well then why not use the car for the daily commute?

If everyone made that choice, it would destroy the city.

The availability of Uber et al is a massive public good for a city, because it can patch over failures like this in our public transportation system in a demand-responsive way without inducing a lot of additional traffic.
And workers can quit. There are jobs everywhere.
A witty quip, and I totally agree with the sentiment, but I'm wondering what other way we have to test hypotheses in vivo. Animal models are pretty key, but my knowledge of the field is incomplete.
Stats Digital: San Diego Digital Agency
>Combine that opportunity, with the fact that many VPN providers have minimal name recognition - in case of bad press, spend $10 on a new domain name

meanwhile, if comcast/spectrum is injecting ads or monetizing your browsing history, you have no recourse. what are you going to do, switch ISPs?
Fear and loathing in Bangkok – inside the world's first budding Bitcoin hash war
Tech companies used the same strategy in the 1970s, offering employees high salaries and sweet perks to make collective action less appetizing.

That doesn't make sense to me... I think it's more likely that tech workers get higher salaries because they were/are in high demand, not to prevent unionization.

Employees suspected Lanetix planned to fire lower-level female engineers, many of whom graduated from Hackbright, an all women’s coding boot camp

I am generally skeptical about bootcamps. In my experience they typically only teach very specific skills, but don't teach fundamental concepts. That makes it hard to pick up new skills, which is required from software engineers. Is it possible that this is the reason Lanetix was planning on firing them?

EDIT: I took a look at the website of Hackbright. I'm very skeptical about this bootcamp. The bootcamps is 16k for 12 weeks. They seem to teach full-stack programming in 8 weeks (python, flask, postgres, html, css, javascript, jquery, git). That gives students about a half a week per technology.

The last four weeks seem to be reserved only for interview prep and computer science fundamentals that are needed for interviews.

Their website implies that the skills they teach will empower students to work at famous tech companies, e.g. "Companies that use Python include Google, Yelp and Dropbox to name a few. Mastering Python here will help you start thinking like an engineer. You can feel confident that you’ll walk out of the door ready to tackle any engineering role.".
A good ORM should map pretty directly and logically to SQL, and in my experience is about convenience more than anything. In all fairness, you practically have to be able to write your own ORM to use an ORM effectively; understanding all the black magic under the hood so it doesn't shoot you in the foot. I still think it's worth it though. There are also very light weight ORMs which take in a sql query and just do object mapping with the result. As with everything, it depends on your use case.
Were junior male engineers also fired? We’re female senior engineers retained? It seems like seniority was the issue.
ADHD is somewhat misleadingly named. It often isn't truly a deficit of attention but that the focus is itself misfocused ironically. Attention Control Deficit Disorder perhaps?
i dream of cars with an array of speakers around the wheels to cancel the road noise.
>This effectively excludes every bus line, because there is no reason for bus lines to run the same route all day long. This is one of the major advantages of buses.

I can't think of a single bus line in my city that actually changes it's route throughout the day. Sure there's some that don't go as far into the suburbs after a certain time, but the part in the city would still qualify as "all day" by that definition. And as a rider, I would hate to use a bus that goes by one neighborhood in the morning and another in the afternoon. That's what different route numbers are for, there's no reason to have the confusion.
There’s not many tests. Why not just use a BLAS implementation like OpenBLAS and use gemm?
What I am stating is that the definition of being vertically integrated has changed. The OP is arguing it is bad because of the history of capital costs associated with manufacturing.

It is not longer cost prohibitive to be vertically integrated because you don't have the upfront capital costs of manufacturing. With that, Apple is excelling at what they are doing. AMD is excelling at it as well. Historically, this type of behavior would be risky if not foolish.
Constructor Chaining in Java with Examples
Wal-Mart and ilk have been union busting for decades, this company likely thought they could get away with union busting just fine.
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Jokes aside I distinctly remember seeing it a lot in ircs and AOL chat rooms. I guess this article is based on easy to search publicly available data. Makes me wonder what other linguistic minutia have we lost because it's behind closed doors.
Thanks. They only relevant part of that article says “they have gaps between their ideals and the reality“. But why is that? What are their ideals?
There was a part in Kings Quest where I got stuck trying to cross a bridge from an island, and one of the planks kept falling out, and no matter what it seemed like I couldn't get by. Never played it again after trying what I felt like was everything...
I think this is a good question. My suspicion is that the policy resulted from legal, rather than market forces. If that's true, then the fact that we the readers, viewers, listeners are the product sold to the advertisers is irrelevant.
A Theranos employee committed suicide during and partially as a result of Holmes' scam. There were deaths inside the company – nevermind the potential ones inside.
Yes, a Theranos employee committed suicide.
Why I Switched to SuperMemo After Using Anki for 5 Years, with Over 50,000 Cards
Bimodal distribution: Extended family all spend either 3+ days per week at church or zero days per year.
That's a very odd complaint or a very specific feature request.
I guess I’m not sure why we’re to believe that your perspective on the situation is somehow more valid or absent a similar “agenda” you ascribe to the journalist. The journalist spoke to the people involved who described their motivations (which sure seems to be at least partially informed by perceived sexism), while you’re just making speculative assertions about “management’s perspective.” And because management seemingly handled the situation so poorly and in violation of labor laws, it’s not like they’re going to go on the record anyway...
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If it would work on humans, I guess I am good; I cannot (i am never hungry that early) eat before 10am and I cannot sleep if I eat after 8 pm.
> 2) null-result publication is useful in and of itself, sometimes.

I want to believe, but try getting a null result peer reviewed.
> In the game, players were fashioned as “planeswalkers,” who cast spells and travel between planes of existence. The spells themselves were the cards, ...

I played 1999-2004 and now 2016+, mostly non-tournament casual for this exact idea that most players seem to have forgotten. Decks with an emphasis on flavor feel more in line with the core theme of the game, and it's a very rewarding experience to roleplay a Planeswalker using their library of spells.

Many new players (especially tournament-minded) seem to treat the art and flavor as tertiary to the mechanics. One person told me they'd still play the game even if it was black text on plain white cards. Apparently the point was to win, not enjoy the aestetic.

Win or lose, I enjoy the fact that my decks have a rock solid roleplay theme and are usually under $40 each.
"I guess doing strange things to rodents and measuring the outcomes is useful, but going so far as to turn it into health advice for humans is absurd." 16 days ago I said that.

This one seems a little more legitimate and a target for further research.

Animal models are a start, but you shouldn't use them to give definitive advice or conclusions. The headline is "	Eating in 10-hour window can override disease-causing genetic defects" and it is a deception. You are not a mouse, health advice for mice and health advice for humans surely overlaps but there are certainly very many differences.

You solve this by doing a human study. It is a lot harder.
Its reasonable not to trust your ISP. However, the majority of VPN services seem remarkably less trust worthy.
I certainly agree with this, but both Sun and DEC started out very 'open' and then got more and more closed and vertical and then they died. I have a couple of custom chips in my PDP-8, perhaps a dozen in my PDP-11, and a whole bunch in the VAX. Similar pattern with Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun4, and then Sun 10/20/Ultra... It was the very success that they were experiencing that lead them to believe that they could capture more and more of the 'value chain' until they couldn't any more. I expect this will end badly for Apple but I am open to other ideas about why it won't.