skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR - it's an ad for the OP's platform: essensia[1]

I've been interested in this sort of thing for a while, but I really don't know that much about these services. For example:

- how do I pay? just crypto? If so, I can't see how prices can stabilize enough to compete against existing services
- what happens if I don't pay?
- how do I get my data out of the platform?
- can I delete my data?
- what happens if the crypto is broken? Is all of my data compromised, or just some of it?

I wish the author mentioned alternative approaches with similar goals, such as Solid[2], which is especially notable as Tim Berners-Lee is associated with the project. Because of that, I see this as mostly an ad for the OP's company.

- [1] https://essentia.one/
- [2] https://solid.inrupt.com/
I didn't say "maximally healthy". It is, however, rather obvious that we were healthy and able to last this long and THUS the foods we had to consume gave us what we needed without having to take supplements.
Again, not the case in this particular instance. And further, the cup was very hot, and the lid secure. Those straw men are irrelevant - it wasn't by touching the cup that the litigant was injured. It was willfully removing the top.
It's the cost. Tertiary education in America is unrealistically expensive, so you're locked into higher payments for longer (typically life). Even if a lower paying job is enough to pay up, your entire life purpose becomes paying off a student loan. Without the college and loan you would have had a shitty job but $300 more, nothing else would be different.

In South Africa the banks finance students, so the government doesnt hand out loans there either. You can pay off a typical degree in less than a decade. That system is completely unlike what Americans experience.
Exactly.

Most people cannot even tell you how to measure a programmer's performance. But we're comfortable with firing the "lowest performing" developers? Lowest performing by what metric?

Honestly these "get rid of poor performance" policies are just abused to remove people who others have a personal dislike for, or similarly those who don't make enough friends to game the system.

Plus whose to say that even if we could measure performance, that it wouldn't be down to externalities outside of the individual's control (e.g. poor manager, poor team culture, bad project requirements, poorly written/documented legacy system they need to integrate with, etc).
Hockey is not a good measure of kids activities. Not really common outside of the north, and wayyyy more expensive than most other sports.

Kids basketball consists of 1) kid. 2) shoes. 3) ball. And you only need 1 ball per group of kids. Ditto for soccer (futbol) A jersey is optional.

Hockey requires a bunch of pads which will be changed out every year or two as the kid gets bigger. Hopefully they have a sibling that can make use of them otherwise it's a sunk cost. Then there are broken sticks, broken teeth, hockey bags, ice time -- non-trvial -- and it adds up.

Hell, the cost of replacement skate blades -- not including the yearly sharpening -- is more than the cost of a basketball and a cheapo pair of wal-mart athletic shoes: https://www.bladzskateshop.com/product/bauer-lightspeed-repl...
In one sentence: Let users vote on outrageousness separately from quality, and give the option to hide articles with a too-high outrageousness voting.
It sounds like she took the loan because the government promised a particular repayment scheme. I don't get how you can be mad at the individual in this case, when the government is the one that renneged on its promise.
There are no RSUs at Netflix, just for everyone 5% each year of annual salary in free stock options at 40% of current value, vesting every month. You can also use up to 100% of your salary for buying stock options at 40% of current value. The policy made rich many people who invested heavily in the stock options program years back.

The severance package is 4 months of salary.

I doubt you got an offer from there, because it is all very clear, or you did not pay any attention.
it's interesting to put this into the larger context of "the US needs more programmers and STEM grads." if that is true, how does Netflix find additional people to hire? how does it survive in a competitive labor market when it treats employees in this way?
In most European countries EULAs are only valid if you are given the opportunity to read it before buying the product.

It is not legally binding to sign for something after having paid for it.

Now if the box states somewhere a kind of EULA introduction, with indication where to read the full version, then it is another matter.
It is very common at Netflix.
Speaking of homemade RFID tags, a couple impressive hacks.

1. Micah Elizabeth Scott built a working RFID tag using just two parts: an ATTiny85 micro controller and a small inductor. The two leads of the inductor are soldered directly to two I/O pins of the processor.

That is the only connection to the processor. The power and ground pins are not connected. The processor gets power via leakage current from the I/O pins. It gets clocked from one of those I/O pins, too.

https://scanlime.org/2008/09/using-an-avr-as-an-rfid-tag/

2. Here's another one of hers, this time with a coil made from magnet wire, and with fancier mounting. The coil, processor, and this time a couple of tuning capacitors, is squished onto duct tape and sealed with clear packing tape.

https://scanlime.org/2011/05/duct-tape-rfid-tag-1/

3. Trammell Hudson made use of her antenna and processor only design for a project of his, which has a pretty good write up.

https://trmm.net/AVR_RFID
These people have blackers and all the rest. That's not the issue. The issue is that Trump doesn't want a security hardened phone. He's being petulant.
Similarly, Tic Tacs are listed as containing 0 grams of sugar, despite being made of 94.5% sugar.
Should cash-strapped Snapchat sell out? To Netflix?
> I don’t understand why the extremes some families have had to implement to curb poor behavior is now some kind of “consensus”. The hell there is consensus.

It's clickbait. The author wants to jam some facts into a narrative. Consensuses are always "growing". Evidence is always "mounting".
I would rather them do nothing or work on throw away code. I spend way too much of my time fixing other people’s bugs :(
I agree this is a problem. Market pressure forces companies whose primary goal is growth to cater to the widest audience possible, which closes the door to more sophisticated messaging and UX, I think. This is one reason I prefer community-built software.
Wow. You expressed everything I thought of in a very minimal words. It would have taken taken atleast 3x times to express the same idea. What was your thought process when you wrote the above post. Did you thought in a single pass or did you revise it multiple times. Do you have any techniques to express so concisely. Are you a native English speaker. I don't think that might matter much because even in native language I cannot express conscisely and clearly the same time. I am asking this because I have observed though I am technically (coding) well above average I have found when I want to express an idea I keep rewording(correcting) to express the idea. This increases the cognitive load of the listener and makes both of us uncomfortable. While writing i can do multiple pass to correct and that helps. Any suggestions would help. Thanks
There are a couple more things you need for this to make electricity:

•Wire. Whatever goop makes up this membrane is not going to be able to send all that energy back to the desired destination. I'd expect you to have to come with some kind of metallization and tabbing not unlike what you find on solar cells.

•Electrical insulation. At least with solar cells the plus and minus sides are pretty well insulated from each other. Wet goop on the other hand, not so much, and with water occasionally flowing around the edges to shunt the power produced.

•MPPT. I'd imagine this produces a highly variable low DC voltage, which is guaranteed to not be even close to the highly stable high AC voltage you want to provide, so you need these boppers. Luckily, PV has made them cheap. Unluckily, they're not waterproof.

•Lots of pressurized freshwater, and lots of pressurized saline water. Eventually, it'll all be saline, unless you have streams or rivers or other naturally charged sources. When it's all saline, power output goes to zero. When it's the dry season and the river dries up, power output goes to zero. When sea levels go up a foot, well, you know.

In the end, the amount of available surface area, if we spent trillions on R&D to make the perfect design of these, and resigned ourselves to killing all the species at this halocline and making river mouths nonnavigable, would probably be rated less than a couple conventional hydro plants. Efficiency is a red herring, and many devices (thermoelectric generators in particular) become more useful the less efficient they get.
Counterpoint: I don't mind it.
They’ve been pushing the same product since inception

I don't see how that's true at all. They were originally an American DVD mail order service that rented other people's movies.

They're now a global streaming service with a strong content production division.

They've change both the product, the business model, the customer base and the tech.
That’s more than double average salary. Seems like worth going for it, even knowing that they will fire you eventually. Hold on for 6 months, make a yearly salary, take 6 months off :)
It is wrong and it is very unlikely that you read it in an article, since it is not a secret. There are no stocks, it is all cash for everybody, at least below the C-suite. You can use up to 100% of your salary to buy stock options at 40% of current value. The options are delivered each month and vest immediately.

There is a huge difference between shares and stock options.
> Why is this immoral in the least?

I'm personally financially benefiting from other's misfortune.

> In fact, by doing what you did, you helped support the pound (i.e. selling dollars to buy pounds).

Good point, I hadn't considered.
I haven't eaten at the original location but that's apparently that's what Rao's is more or less like.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/10/raos-new-york-exc...
Just as a reminder
https://panicz.github.io/pamphlet/
about how R is not such an innovative solution for statistic...
“If someone could point to any example ever of any significant person stating that the climate is not changing whatsoever, or that humans cannot possibly affect climate in the slightest, ”

This is Marco Rubio, US senator, who claims global warming is not caused by humans.

““I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate,” Rubio said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s This Week. “Our climate is always changing.”” - http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/marco-rubio-global-warming

Roger Wicker, US senator voted No on an amendment to confirm Climate Change is real. http://time.com/3677496/climate-change-wicker-inhofe/

There’s a list of senators who voted against that climate change is caused by humans:
https://www.aip.org/fyi/2015/record-key-senate-vote-climate-...

The POTUS has stated multiple times that climate change is a hoax, and has only recently amended that he believes its naturally occurring (not human influenced) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-global-warmin...

Even with the demand for proof of someone that absolutely denies climate change, you leave in two difficult phrases here: “significant” and “in the slightest”. Both of these give you a rhetorical out on technical merits- anyone who denies climate change will do so using FUD techniques, not outright stating their denial, therefore it’s easy to say no one uses obvious language. The effect however is still the same- politicians and significant figures are spreading FUD about climate change, which is causing climate change and human caused climate change to be called into public question and it prevents legislation being passed to regulate emissions.
I agree with the most of the above. Although the city is beautiful and has many green areas, renting in these areas is out of reach without heavy research and one is more likely to end up in the sad and gray districts. Attractive areas are basically inhabited by tourists and rich kids from Scandinavia and Anglophone countries, having some fun, trying to find a partner (and end up dissappointed - stop watching so much porn, kids!), then moving back after a year or two.

The nature of the outsourcing/nearshoring industry sets the top limit for the salaries at ~90k CZK annually and imply problems with finding senior professionals.
Or a Stoic?
Really awesome article. Felt real and touching.
Okay, so that's the outward intent. The practice is a little different. If they get hacked or an employee does misuse data, the public will probably not find out. Most of the company probably doesn't even know.

Eg last week: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/google-reportedly-exposed-pr...
Nobody’s phone is really that secure... but an iPhone vulnerability costs more than an average Bay Area house, while an Android vulnerability is more like the cost of cleaning that house once.

Edit: turns out the figure for an Android vulnerability is off by several orders of magnitude. What a garbage article!
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science Operations
Ask HN: How to categorize block of text
Hello HN,

First some background: I have working knowledge of CS and programming, but I don't know anything about machine learning, neural networks, natural language processings and related topics.

Now to my issue: I have a list of categories, every category specified by some characteristic keywords. I need to make a program, which will take ~1 page of text, analyze it and returns the category to which it fits the best. I'll be implementing it in Python3 and I already got some hints, like to use word2vec etc., but I need some more specific strategy. I'm kind of under time pressure here, so even though I find it interesting, I don't have time to study complex documentations or dig into ML/NLP theory.

If anyone here could point me to some code/tutorial already doing what I need (or something close to it) and easy to grasp without much theoretical knowledge, I'd be very grateful. Thank You!
FB has been accused of poor ethics since the start. They were barely three years old when they launched Beacon[1], to much criticism and even lawsuits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon
ClojureScript for JavaScript developers
three years of frequent updates is pretty much the best support you're going to get with any android phone. i personally love my pixel 2, but they sold about half as many pixels in 2017 as samsung sold phones in a week. [0][1] samsung does give monthly security updates to its flagship products, but it won't support anything for more than two years. i think it's clear that consumers don't actually give a shit about updates when they choose their next phone, so i find it hard to fault google for having the best update policy on a series of phones that they struggle to break even on.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17007104/google-pixel-tot...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299144/samsung-smartphon...
Crassus would also negotiate deals with neighboring houses that were in danger if the fire spread. In densely-packed Rome a fire two or three houses down could suddenly make continuing to own your little piece of property a risky venture.
I wonder about facebook also, in terms of access/audit trails.
Stoic maybe if the same rules applied to him, but it is not the case, they apply to everyone except himself. Maybe it is just me, but I don't like when people apply harsh rules for everyone except themselves. Cult or dictatorship come to mind.
I agree about the excellent-ness of Pythonista for writing Python on the iPad. Raskell is also excellent for writing short Haskell programs on an iPad. Hacking bits of Haskell on my iPad is a favorite activity when I am flying and don’t have an internet connection.

What I really hope for is a version of Pharo Smalltalk that was beautifully integrated and sandboxed on the iPad. I would pay a lot of money for it!!
>Are they firing "free-loaders" or people who are just worse at playing politics/self-promoting?

Yes.
VW has enough problems with the quality of their ICE vehicles. They don't need to brag about quality of the relatively new electric vehicles.

If VWs electric vehicles really are as good as Tesla's by 2020, it will be more a condemnation of Tesla than praise for VW.
http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/
Actually... I like this stuff. Moreover, why does it bother people? It's just some cute drawings. If you don't like it that's reasonable but to actually get upset over it is just weird to me.

This has got to be some weird cultural thing. I've never been myself, but from what I've heard, Japan doesn't seem to mind cutesy drawings everywhere.

If they just mean the flat design itself, I understand even less what the problem is.
The quiet people like that are the best people in my book and definitely not who I am referring to.
We know from the Snowden leaks that there were direct data links between Google and the NSA. Despite their vehement denials and public outrage, I still find it hard to believe that it was possible for the NSA to install such massive surveillance without some complicity from Google.

Technically this might have been possible without any Google involvement, I agree with that, but given past involvement of other companies like e.g. AT&T with the NSA, this seems kind of unlikely to me. It just seems more credible to assume that some people in the higher ranks of Google willfully complied, and I wouldn't be surprised if something similar still occurred.
Most of the time they do not hire average people – in the sense that they are not considered average, then some of them are actually pretty bad, but it is part of the business of false positives.
Sounds a bit like Amazon's work environment?
I'm extremely quiet at work and don't really have any work friends at least in my department (helps stifle drama), yet am consistent with my productivity, have clear ticket queues every day or they're in a status where I'm waiting for a response from another engineer. I've had my manager tell me in 1:1's that people report me for doing nothing all day except listening to music. I've been here 3 years.

I'm content with just sitting here and doing this job for now and get paid enough to live at my means, so I make no attempts to get a promotion where I'll have much more work and stress, and make little attempts to go above and beyond. I just stay consistent and I'm seen as a free loader by some. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm an ex-Netflix engineer (voluntarily left in March to work on my own company, worked there just under 3 years).

I don't know what it's like from the executive or middle management side of things, but from the engineering side of things, I liked the fact that people were transparent about their mistakes and there were always detailed write-ups about any technical incidents.

Incident post-mortems were always incredibly good for that reason, and I never felt like my job was on the line if I admitted to messing up somewhere.

I liked it a lot there, good work/life balance and never really felt stressed. If anything, I didn't think there was enough interesting work to go around as the company was growing a lot bigger.

But as an engineer, I wouldn't mind going back.
Because some leftover keys broke software installs maybe ?
Happened to me countless times.
> three years of frequent updates is pretty much the best support you're going to get with any android phone

That’s one of the reasons why I finally switched to an iPhone Xs Max.

Before that, I had a Nexus 5x. My last iPhone was the 3GS.
Mellanox is exploring a sale
If North American culture could learn to build new small cities that didn’t need cars - as the old cities were built - and successfully market and sell them to today’s suburban crowd, we’d have a much better chance at stopping this.

It kills me, though, just how impossible that would be.
I am an nba crazy person and vividly remember those guys and that era. It was a thing. That team with those two and Odem showed glimpses of being the future of basketball. It was easy to cheer for them because they seemed like good dudes just having fun. Great article.
You worked on D-machines at Parc? Awesome! For years I had an ‘in love’ relationship with my 1108 Dandeline Lisp Machine. Makes me a little sad to now work in the environment of Databricks and Jupiter notebooks using Python, compared to the 1108 in the 1980s. Oh well!

EDIT: I wonder if we ever met? I used to demo my OPS5 port to the 1108 at conferences in Xerox’s booth.
Isn't Williams red hot respin free plays?
>I always feel that freeloaders are not hurting me personally, so why harm them?

In my experience, over time, freeloaders tend to become vocal and lobby for policy changes (within the team, not corporatewise) that helps keep them there. I've seen them oppose technically sound decisions because they're not sure they can handle the complexity, or (and more commonly) because it involves skills they don't want to learn. Skills well within their reach if they just tried - some of them had those skills in school and they merely need to get a book and review what they once knew.

Generally, if you're a motivated person, but in a team with a significant number of "freeloaders", your ability to raise the bar of the team will be limited. I left my last team because of it.
This stuff only occasionally jumps out at me as being "too much" although overall I dislike the CalArts style.

I remember installing Docker.app on my Mac and the installer said they're "whale-y" happy to meet me (along with a cute whale drawing), which caused a reflexive eye roll from me.

I just wanted to get Docker on my machine.
This approach increases the attack surface because it is included in the most popular distros by default.
How would she be at fault if there is no indication that willfully removing the top would expose liquids so hot that it would melt her skin? There is no reasonable expectation to be served coffee that will melt your skin when exposed to it.
Playfully I disagree. Jalen was an amazing player and his junior year at Michigan is perhaps my favorite college season of any player. He had a coast to coast dunk in the great 8 (game they lost) that was...perfect.
> I would personally be embarrassed

The rest of the comment is good, it adds to the argument, and I even agree with it, but there is no reason for this to be here. It doesn't add anything; it's just like calling names. From the HN guidelines:

> Don't be snarky.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

EDIT: To be downvoted like so for reminding people of the guidelines, HN sure is changing. I guess no good thing lasts forever.
It sure does change everything, including the locks to the courthouse doors.
>It kills me, though, just how impossible that would be.

Is it though? It seems completely like a matter of will. I've thought about this exact idea before. How much VC would it take to build a small town? A couple billion? People are throwing gobs of money ten times that at absolute nonsense right now. Why couldn't we use it for meaningful progress instead?
On virtually all modern computers chars are 8-bit and casting the address to uint8_t* is perfectly fine (due to specific provisions in the standards that I am too lazy to find). And you need unsigned so that expressions like x + (y << 16) do the right thing. With that in mind, I use uint8_t as opposed to unsigned char to emphasize that it is 8-bit and also for less typing :)
That's amazing actually. Cool stuff! Looking forward to the data that comes from this