skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's to stop law enforcement circumventing the phone and just going this route to get user data for court cases? Or, is there stuff on the phone that won't be included here?
I'd be pretty surprised if you couldn't using a spectrogram [1]. But, honestly you wouldn't know until you look. You might be able to use audio from youtube videos or something as training data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram
> 1. I don't think you understand how how student loans or taxes in the US work.

That may be the case. Which points of how student loans or taxes work in the US are relevant?

Student loans represent a bet that your degree will improve your job prospects and that your future earnings will more than pay for your degree. The loan is you paying for your own further education. Society could have paid for it through taxes, like it did for K - 12 education. I would like to point out that I will pay for future generations throughout my working life.

Taxes is a way of providing goods and services for society (read: people in a community) by having society pay for it. Taxes is a pool of resource that people in government are able to spend.

> 2. Your misplaced anger should be pointed at the rotten system that forced you to live on ramen noodles for 3 years even after getting a degree and presumably a good job.

Hmm. It's hard for me to redirect my anger to the system. Let me show my thinking and maybe someone can clear up where my thoughts are going astray.

All levels of Education has a price. I was not producing while I was going through college; I instead was taking. Society could have paid for my education, like it did for my K - 12 education. But instead I paid for my own education, by taking out loans and working while earning my degree. This puts an onus on me to choose a degree that could pay for my loans after college.

I like the idea of bearing the responsibility for later success by my choice in degree. I don't know if I would have the same sense of responsibility if I knew society was paying for my degree.

When I think about paying for other's degrees I think of the students who didn't consider the situation appropriately, and instead chose a degree that has little job prospects and aren't entrepreneurial enough to use their education to further their income. This is a very transactional way of framing the issue but I think this is the right way to frame it.

I suspect that the price of education is so high because of how much easy money there is out there. Everyone can get a loan, no matter what degree they're investing in. Since the supply of money is so readily available, schools are able to demand more for their product. I am slightly mad at that because the market of education was meddled with by the U.S. government.

What is rotten about this system, beyond the U.S. government messing with Education's market forces?
Woah! Settle down! It was just a question dude; no need to go all fire and brimstone.
I wish I understood the community college path when I went to school - as in get all your GEs and intro courses out of the way then finish at a 4 year university. It’d be a lie to say I hadn’t heard of it, but the high school I went to told all students that taking such a path would damage their career. Most of the trouble I had with college was me being a stupid 18/19 year old, and I wish I’d done in a place that wasn’t so expensive.

Thankfully I got a fantastic job that lets me pay it off rather quickly, but it feels weird to be living more or less paycheck to paycheck working at a tech giant (‘emergency fund’ is mainly not spending any bonus money). I realize I’m damn lucky, and I worked (and still do work) damn hard, but I just can’t help but feel something is a bit wrong with the whole situation.

My parents both went to college, but they were able to leave school, my dad being the only one to get a job of the two of them (at low pay for the time) in the economic recession of the early 90’s, and they managed to pay off their student loans and buy a house within two years of graduating. Yet here I am, nearly 3 years after graduating living paycheck to paycheck with my cat in my little studio apartment.

Part of it is my choice, I didn’t have to elect to pay off my loans in 5 years, could’ve taken a longer note, but I hate being in debt. I hate the concept. Owing more money than I could reasonably produce at any given moment bothers the hell out of me.
The FFT algorithm is perhaps the most elegant and useful work of the 20th century. Modern communications would probably not be possible with out it but it's utility isn't limited to electronics It is used across the list of scientific disciplines and even in finance and economics. Next time you make a call on your smart phone, hoist a beer to Cooley, Tukey, and Carl Gauss
Maybe I should clarify my issues with updates. I know for certain that some games have had massive updates on the order of the original title, including Grand Theft Auto, Metal Gear Solid, and Mortal Kombat (I particularly know the last one because I have a credit in that boondoggle of a game).

Secondly, at home I have a modest internet connection and a busy home life that leaves me at most an hour to play games at a time, and usually less than that. If I open Steam infrequently and there are multiple patches on the order of gigabytes, then that eats into my play time and makes my PC gaming experience feel like a PC update experience.

When you consider how large some of these games are like The Witcher or Final Fantasy or MGS5, the number of games in my library, and the shortage of time I have, I easily spend more time installing or updating any of my games than playing them.

Any way you cut it, it's a bad experience.

Steam doesn't allow players to play out-of-date games in online mode and doesn't allow multiplayer games in offline mode. When going between online and offline mode it keeps track of which games are out-of-date as well. Whether using on-demand updates or leaving my computer on with Steam running I'm either wasting my time or wasting power and bandwidth (with a monthly cap).

I didn't make my post to complain about the state of things (which I found poor). What I am saying is that I think there are creative engineering solutions to this problem that would make experiences like mine better. Google found a creative way to compress Chrome updates by using disassembly changes rather than file diffs to push small critical updates. I'm sure Valve could spend any amount of resources looking for solutions like that tailored to game assets.

What's more, you can get the exact experience I described by playing Fortnite on an iPad on a weekly basis.
I would think that says something about the quality of their education[al institution], and perhaps why they're having trouble finding a lucrative job.
Google thinks I need to login to read this.

edit: which is funny, Google won't let me in, East Germany wouldn't let you out.
Yeah, at this point in my career the idea of doing a cold interview is nearly unthinkable. When I am looking for work, I just reach out to the people I have worked with before that I like and let them know I am in the market.

Cold interviews should probably only happen for your first job.
If the “obtain your data” option isn’t immediately available, it may still take time to roll out to all customers.
I saw an architect with a family depending on him get fired from Trunk Club (selling your car back to you kind of company) and he was probably in his 40's. What I decided was that the company didn't care about quality just the bottom line. Which not only makes you unemployable for life Gen X can't even get a job because of capitalism.
My mom is a music teacher, and she finds that she often will get new students who were previously self-taught with blind spots. Ideally, one of the main perks of school, which is difficult if not impossible to get with auto-didacticism, is that you get continuous feedback from someone who knows what common mistakes look like.

My technical background is largely from reading books and manuals on my own, but I'm under no delusion that I would benefit greatly from some more formal instruction for certain topics, if nothing else because then I would have someone challenge me immediately when I'm wrong.
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There may be ageism but I hate to admit appearance also matters to some degree, in case that may be a factor.

Also, a lot of what people call "ageism" should more rightfully be called "culturalism" IMHO, and it's harder to fault people for simply getting less along with someone much older (on the other hand, I've had MANY older friends)
At my work, we have a simulation system that uses Tarjan's algorithm to determine the order that update's need to be applied in order to properly propagate to all downstream nodes. Thought it was pretty neat when I realized our connected components code could do that for us.
Why doesn't nginx default to using TLS v1.2 yet? It came out over a decade ago!
Very cool series from PBS!
I've been very lucky to get on a federal program to repay my loans for staying in research. Or perhaps I can leave research and earn more money. Ahh well, I still appreciate the 20k they payed off this year.
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I disagree. Seizing data stored on a server in your house is much, much more difficult that seizing data stored on a cloud server.
Isn’t it fantastic to be lectured from up on high by the hypocritical elite? Us dirty, common, poor people are the problem, and people like Gates could be assured of living in utopia for eternity if only we’d listen to their “Do as I say, not as I do” platitudes.

EDIT: His house is much larger than his and Melinda's needs. His blog easily uses 20x more energy than it needs (uBlock origin counts 19 attempted connections). He doesn't need to fly anywhere for conferences/meetings with the power of the Internet and teleconferencing. Is he a vegetarian/vegan again, or was that just something he tried in his 20s? He doesn't need to eat meat. He wants everyone else to sacrifice while he himself isn't willing to give up his lavish lifestyle. It's gross, hypocritical, and no amount of cashy-money donations make up for him not following his own preachings.
Couldn't an old (or a new?) HP graphic calculator do the job? It's not technically basic, but you can do tons of stuff on it in addition to arithmetics and function plotting - including programming games, etc.

Plus, it's organized as a LIFO stack. To do e.g. 2 * (2 + 2) you'd enter: 2, 2, 2, +, *. Which helps train the mind to think far ahead about what you want to calculate and how.
I worked for #15 on that list and let me tell you those guys are some real jerks. This is their COO yelling at their carriers https://youtube.com/watch?v=ooTmdOyKYpQ
This doesn’t download data from the phone at all. This only downloads data that was already stored with Apple.

This doesn’t make any additional information available to law enforcement.
It's also critical for factoring prime numbers and SETI signal intelligence processing. Truly a gem.
> The publisher of video game Grand Theft Auto V has been granted the right to search the homes of five people

Is that even possible?
Yeah, there'a a lot of confusion about "the cloud". Consumer SaaS (Gmail, Facebook, Alexa, etc.) is "evil" and privacy-invading but B2B IaaS (EC2, GCP, etc.) is not bad. Often these services come from the same companies so we can't simply claim that Amazon or Google are wholly good or evil when it comes to privacy.
Re: the solar system we live in seems more unusual

We and we alone have the one and only Trump ;-)
In reality, does anyone see anything other than a bad ending to all of this? I wish I could start a poll here, but does anyone really think there's still time? Really?

Political-economic forces, they're just not going to cave until it's too late. 10 years? Unless the economy fumbles soon Trump will have the next six of those. So, four left. Four damn years to change everything. I think a lot of the focus goes on reducing energy emissions because it's easy political blame gaming. But it's too late and it's not going to work. We're going to destroy the Earth while bickering about it.

Assume consumption will continue to rise, assume that oil will continue to own politicians. People will continue to consume, expect to maintain their standard of living off cheap goods shipped from China, heating for ever-larger homes, buying from companies with huge carbon footprints, and blaming others.

I think the reasonable thing to do is invest more in the cleanup scenario. But that doesn't score political gotcha points and it's not profitable /right now/, so that probably won't happen either.
> Most of them could be started for between $10-100k.

If you're in the US (or able to get a visa to work here a few years – admittedly a much harder prospect recently than it should be) and have technical skills, it's not difficult to find a job that will allow you to save $100k in 2-3 years if you're willing to live very frugally. At that point, you'll have the freedom to bootstrap your own company without giving up any equity.
I block fonts with uBlock and see this all the time. Usually the icons are pointless and I don't miss them. In bad cases I'll toggle fonts on and reload the page.
No, I mean the browsers that are part of accepting testing from project delivery contracts.

If it doesn't make the list, it is a nice to have only, in case someone on the team bothers with it.

Microsoft by using mostly Chrome at BUILD 2018 has given the sign to many businesses that it isn't worthwhile to list EDGE as a requirement.
> health and wellness type stuff

This is very crucial and I really don't see any alternative services to the ones like Strava and RunKeeper for iOS.

Even an app that does the job w/o any social features would do (in fact I never use the social feature aspect of these apps)
"Many cheaters may believe that it's a relatively harmless activity - but they ruin the fun for legitimate players."
As someone who played gta online for a while I can tell you that the cheaters always had a line of people asking them for free money or to do things like give everyone in the lobby access to all weapons, even the single player exclusive ones. I think the only ones having their fun ruined are the shareholders.
Specifically only 4 states allow taking the Bar Exam without attending law school: California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Only a tiny number of people successfully do that each year.

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Ha, I like the way you think! The truth is, most VCs are fairly undifferentiated. We provide value in a number of ways, but then again, it's hard to say why we're better than any other decent seed fund.

Another why many of our investments come through referrals. People who know how we operate as a fund and as value-add investors recommend us to companies just as much as they recommend companies to us.

Thinking of it in the other direction: our LPs invested into us based on our access and ability to get into good deals that match our fund thesis. We are able to find companies that match that thesis, and able to get founders to accept an investment. Rarely do these deals end up being the same ones that cold email us.

If you're a hedge fund with a specific strategy, you go out and specifically pick stocks, it isn't the stocks coming to you to pitch you. VC investing isn't that different. We are strategically positioned such that we hear about companies as they're fundraising and find a way to invest in the ones we like that match our thesis.
I agree with most of your comment, but I have a question about this: "You can't student loans for any expenses."

Tuition is only a part of college expenses. How do students pay the rest?
What about this topic makes you feel so strongly that you created a throwaway just to flood the comments with spam and derision?
I'd be outraged if my government favored foreign corporations over its own citizens.
There's something fundamentally appealing about Genetic Algorithms to me. Even though they don't apply everywhere, and even though "hill climbing with random restart" can be just as effective in many cases, there's just something awe inspiring about the idea of mimicking evolution.

I also really like other related "nature inspired algorithms"[1] like Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, etc.

[1]: http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html
Thanks for this comment. I was thinking of replacing it with alcohol due to legality but this gives me second thoughts...

Although it'd be nice to not need anything, but it helps so much with anxiety (and other stuff).
selling your fat* back to you. if you need a car head to CarMax. thanks Gboard. programmed by geniuses
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Also the fact that we can't run servers from our home connections is ripe for a challenge if we ever get net neutrality protections back.

The 2015 Order said this, "A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable network management."

I would argue that banning personal email servers or personal servers at all is not reasonable network management (e.g. a nest thermometer or a smart microwave or an Alexa/Siri thing is a server), and if we're looking to explore home appliances that decentralize the web, we need to ensure that broadband providers' policies don't block them. Google Fiber screwed this up too.
Looks like they improved a ton with the v4.0 release. I used this just a few months ago and it was painful. Undocumented components, lack of basic customization, some bugs. Seems like that stuff has been addressed. I remember Evergreen adding about 60kB to my bundle size though (mostly due to its icons). I hope that's been reduced.
Very nicely put.

People really do need to be taught how to make out buzzwords from real tech; and the major responsibility falls in the hands of universities.

Maybe it's just because most people are just trying make their way out of poverty, and this kind of work _looks_ like a sure shot, get out of slum ticket.

Maybe it's because most people are led to believe that money is the only thing that matters..
Looking more into this, it seems to me a carbon tax is not an effective approach at all. Instead, we should be looking at the cattle/feed lifecycle. Encourage totally or mostly pasture-fed beef, and discourage corn feeding. That could be done in part by more strictly limiting use of antibiotics, which are used to make cattle tolerate the corn-feed diet without it completely wrecking their digestive systems.

This would raise the price of beef, sure, but more importantly, it would help break the use of farmed (and heavily subsidized) corn, and the use of antibiotics, which are problematic for reasons that have nothing to do with beef. This gets us to actually solving the carbon problem, not just blunt-object punishment.
The US Military, in my experience, has never actually applied the Hague convention to hollow points. There may be plenty of legal articles, but practice has been different. I know for a fact socom has been using them since the 80s and maybe before.

Here's an actual legal analysis that explains the ridiculous footing the Hague convention "dumdum bullet" ban (because that's what it was) has: http://www.prep-blog.com/PDF/Hague-Hollow-Points-Berry.pdf
Unless this has changed in the last two years and I've missed the news, Vermont, Virginia, California and Washington State allow anyone holding a BA to study under a licensed attorney for a specified period of time and sit for their respective state Bar exams following that period.
This is wrong. Your email provider is already a SPOF for your security, since anyone who owns your email de facto owns all your accounts. All you're doing is removing another link from the security chain, i.e. the service authentication method.

Essentially, you're replacing two (or a thousand) things someone can break into with one thing someone can break into. That's much easier to secure.
They're based on fundraising or acquisition valuations, not 409A valuations. You're right that some of the companies have not raised money in a while, which in many cases means that their valuation would be higher if they were re-valued today.
Rockstar to push an update and make this cheat irrelevant?
>>To me it looks like trading drives markets to respond

Respond to what? The markets are about events that have not happened. The payout is directly proportional to the predictive power of the market purchase.

>>Finally if people are good at prediction, using algorithms for example, then those algorithms provide the required prediction and we should use those to target resources and retain wealth in the market rather than giving out 40% of the wealth (UK)

How do we incentivize people to generate these predictive methods, let alone release them for public use, without a compensatory scheme like a prediction market?
I gave you a couple examples, though.

And here is another one, upvar in Tcl.
But did you ever find it interesting/fun or was it always just a job? I suspect that the OP is trying to find a way to convey the fun they experienced getting into tech as a kid... either that or they're sadistic ;-)
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Not to get into too much detail, I worked for a place that did collections for for-profit colleges. It was depressing to hear some of the stories the students had.

But the overall theme was exactly what you said:

1. Kid has no guidance / reference point / doesn't realize it's a scam.

2. Promised amazing education and career.

3. Takes on 50-100k of debt in 2 years.

4. Get "placed" in $12/hr job with random hours and the college marks their placement rate as 99%.
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"Implement a method that shuffles a list"
vs.
"Shuffle a list"

I would want the candidate to ask me whether they can use their language's standard library. I would say no/yes depending on how the question is framed.

The absolute worst is when question is framed like 1) - the candidate just makes an unwanted assumption, and then acts outraged or smug when I tell them I expect them to demonstrate that they aren't oblivious to the underlying implementation.

Then we venture off whether they can make improvements/trade-offs if the list becomes 10K, 1MM, 1B, etc. records of N bytes etc.
Bill's putting his money where his mouth is with investments in Beyond Meat and Memphis Meats (meat alternative startups).
Most background checks verify graduation dates with the institutions you have degrees from, so this would almost certainly come up.
> "Wir sind zur Zeit darauf fokussiert, den bestmöglichen Service für dich zu entwickeln - komplett kostenlos." (Translates to: Right now free of charge, as we develop the best possible service for you)

I wonder what kind of monitarization is planned, connecting people to companies? To paid experts? Showing ads or selling data?

Does anybody know something about that?
As a videogame cheat developer myself, whoa.

There's a thin line between the development of gameplay-enhancing mods, and advantageous cheats.

Is there someone who can explain how this kind of thing falls under 'copyright infringement'?
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