skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to turn U2F support on with a hidden config at the moment if you want to use it in Firefox: https://www.yubico.com/2017/11/how-to-navigate-fido-u2f-in-f...
How are they making these categories of workers?

> Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Occupational Managers category (a sub-group of the Management major group)

> Agricultural Workers category (a sub-group of the Farming, Fishing, and Forestry major group)

Farmers aren't in the Farming major group? I'd like to see a little more detail here
I just read this interesting (and frankly, absurd) article about the creative "concessions" offered by various cities. Unfortunately this seems to go well beyond tax breaks. Though the tax breaks are pretty ridiculous it's just the tip of the iceberg. I would guess most taxpayers would oppose spending precious funds on: free zoo tickets, a private Amazon airport lounge, and free pet microchipping for new employees, among other ridiculous perks.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/14/amazon-ne...
Does it bother you at all while sleeping?
Hmm, that might make sense on a server, but this is talking about a GUI client. Also, Python has trouble with CPU-bound threads but not those IO-bound.
Immortal Zugzwang Game
Well dang. That's a really good point. I remember early cell phones that would drop signal when running between towers.

The hard part here is that you have to target the beam at the satellite. It's not a wide angle beam that's used it's a focused beam. (This might not be true based on what they implement)

But for Geo it's a targeted beam. So this isn't a perfect corollary, and my example was pretty bad lol.
I suspect that Windows and macOS support going to be a big impediment to adoption of RH's container tools. Fedora has become a really good OS and Silverblue is going to be another level of awesome on top, but I don't see huge numbers of developers switching.
Not to mention a struck satellite (probably) no longer has the capability to deorbit, at least not in a controlled manner.
Both Itanium and Mill support load speculation, which introduces Spectre-like vulnerabilities depending on how it is used. Someone on the Mill team said they had to make a compiler change for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125519
They had a piece on NPR a week or two ago where a vegetable farmer said he'd love to hire locals instead of migrants because you have to pay to house the migrants, which actually makes them more expensive. But none of the locals want to do the work.
There is definitely a market for this. Orbcomm already does this for a lot of machine to machine communication. However, their data rates are quite slow on the order of kbps.
Well not to worry. There are plenty of Americans that openly advocate to make offensive speech illegal. THEN it will be time to live in fear of the state because a cartoon could have resulted in some prison time.
I disagree. The companies in my network (anecdotal evidence) are full with international people. In our office we have nationals from 13 countries. This is the most diverse environment that I have ever seen (including San Francisco). There are some companies however who are hiring strictly Germans, just like with anything else the market will correct these mistakes. This is not the norm but the exception though. I am not sure what you are talking about when saying it is not as open. Renting an apartment is the most difficult part of moving to Munich. It is really bad. There are scammers, people do not want to deal with you if you don't speak German, etc, but this the downside. Getting registered, sorting out bank accounts, internet, mobile phone, socialising and any other aspect of being an ex-pat in Munich is average. The housing situation is the the result of supply and demand imbalance. I have had similar experience in San Francisco when people do not even reply to my email when I was using my Central European name but they were more than happy to reply to Steve. There are several options to mitigate that, you can just move to a smaller town around Munich the train connection is pretty good. Were you referring to the housing situation?
UK and Germany are also the countries with highest salaries if you don't count Scandinavia. Try to go to Poland or Czechia thats german border countries where the salaries are even much lower.

Then again salaries in europe just work in very different way.
> I don’t see why FB just didn’t try and own this. They had a lot of goodwill, even as the platform changed over the years. Why didn’t they just come clean: we have a serious issue, and we’re going to close down aspects of the platform until we can deal with it.

Probably because, at their core, they're a shady company. The idea of being upfront, honest, and embracing shot term pain to benefit others is alien to their DNA.

Facebook's entire business model involves tracking people and tricking them to reveal more about themselves than they realize, then they use that data in ways they're not entirely honest about. Those practices build institutional habits of mind that are hard to break.
Yes - it is because of labour laws.
The headline is actually So Say Some Computer Science Students, which I think is a non-trivial difference.
> While it is absolutely essential that the person managing the domain area needs to be capable of understanding the technical details surrounding it

Having been a developer who worked his way into management. I cannot see how a manager has time to get to understand the technical details. Between meetings, HR duties and one on ones there isn't much time to get to the technical detail. You need loads of uninterrupted time to get to grips with technical details. As a manager, you don't have that time.
The phrase that comes to mind is: A students become professors, B Students become executives at large corporations. It is the C students who--perhaps lacking the traits to succeed in the previous two pursuits have no choice but to endure the risk/hardship of entrepreneurship--endow professorships and name buildings.

Examples of this:

1. Founder of Kinkos (failed in school and had to repeat two grades)

2. Billionaire Flavio Briatore

3. Almost Billionaire founder of Jimmy John's subs

Another phenomenon I see often is what I'd call "The Video Professor". The founder of that company reaped a massive fortune teaching "dunderheads" how to use computers and operate simple programs like Word and Excel. Many of my techie friends would sneer and dismiss it as being "too easy" and fail to recognize the business opportunity therein or other many similar opportunities.
I’m not very good at maths, so I didn’t understand the whole post. However, does the size of the whole population affect the “3/n” thing? For example, if I’ve read 200 pages of a 201 page book and not discovered a typo the chances are 3/200 if I’ve understand the post correctly. If the book has 20000 pages, is the probability still 3/200?
Having worked as a programmer for 6 years in an EU country, the salaries are pretty reasonable, in the top tier of office workers, below exec level.

Maybe it's the US programmers, particularly the ones in Sillicon Valley that are being over - paid? The way I understand it, you can only expect six-figure salaries for working in one of the top companies in SV, and that only if you have graduated from one of the top universities in the area.

Also, there are six-figure salaries in the EU for programmers. You just have to know a bit of COBOL and not be afraid of biig scaary mainframes :0
I really don't care to do that, no. I'm not looking to convince anyone of anything, just stating facts. The level of access to decision makers in many industry-specific private FB groups is incredibly valuable. I closed several 6-digit multi year deals just because I was at the right private group at the right time. To dismiss FB as a useless tool and delete a profile is short sighted. As a business you owe it to your employees and customers to be where business is conducted. A big part of it is now transacted inside FB's walled garden. Deal with it.
After Susan Fowler wrote her exposè on Uber's culture a couple years ago, many commented saying that they would have trouble attracting talent given their tarnished reputation. Did that ever happen in practice?
Heh? You can absolutely decide how your house is going to be built and/or refuse to live in a house not built to your standards. Moreover, they certainly have the power to live elsewhere.
let me rephrase the question:

do you prefer orange or green?
Sure, but this assumes nothing ever collides with one and causes debris to be introduced to the web. The web itself will clearly be ok as long as it remains intact, but if something does cause one of these to RUD catastrophically, we now have debris following a similar, but just different enough orbit to be dangerous.
N is the sample size that you’ve sampled already in your observation.

If you’ve sampled all the pages, then we are talking about certainty which this wouldn’t apply.
Under the GDPR, isn't this data owned by the patient?
I get the impression that you are asking that not because you don't know the answer, but because this is a politically motivated topic for you and you don't like the implication.
I read about the same research in an article in Discover Magazine: http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/evolvingaconscio1453
Perfect is the enemy of good.

So I guess know when it is important to perfect, but allow yourself to be mediocre when it doesn't matter...So I guess I work on determining whether the thing I am working on really needs perfection or not.

Note: I am a researcher.
There's a trivial corollary, which I remember from my first physics class. Never base anything on less than three measurements. Or maybe it wasn't even physics, but rather carpentry. The old "Measure twice, cut once." rule is iffy.
I've found that probably over 50% of my work as a developer in bank was about dealing with security:

- Getting credentials to some external system with which we need to integrate

- Learning how their authentication scheme (Kerberos etc.) works

- Finding workarounds to not having admin rights on my laptop

- Finding workarounds to bank's firewall (a lot of package repos were blacklisted)

- (the biggest one) Having to deploy the app into dozens of separate unix accounts, because, according to security "no one account should have access to all this data"
As someone who fell in love with Sway a month ago, this is the best opportunity for me to support the work you've been doing. Thanks Drew!
Coda is another one to keep an eye on https://coda.io/welcome
Seems like a toxic work place.
Blame HN's 80 character limit on titles.
You still need to pay the slaves in the sense that since you own them, you are responsible for their upkeep, which takes resources.
Peter Farrell (ResMed founder) has an oft-repeated quote to the effect of “The only way a CPAP machine can harm you is if someone hits you over the head with it.”
Majority Judgement is severely flawed compared to Score Voting and Approval Voting.

http://scorevoting.net/MedianVrange
I wonder if you could do that with your phone via bluetooth? I mean most people have bluetooth capable phones on them and I can already connect to mine by clicking an icon on the computer.
Sure, salaries in Berlin are smaller then in the Scandinavian capitals but let's talk about the cost of living. Isn't beer like 8 euros in CPH vs 2-4 in BER? I'm not even going to open the real estate can of worms.
In my example, there’s either 1 page or 19800 pages left. But the post suggests the probability of a typo is the same in both cases.
Nope. Montroll is preferred to both rivals by a huge majority.

http://scorevoting.net/Burlington.html#UngerApp
You don't need to do a full sleep study. Standard procedure these days is to prescribe an at-home sleep apnea test. A sleep health company will send you a little monitoring device by mail. You wear it while sleeping during the night. It measures your pulse, blood oxygen levels, breathing patterns, etc, and transmits your data back to the medical provider. After about a week, they send you and your doctor the results.

Then your doctor will prescribe auto-cpap therapy. Hopefully health insurance defers some of the cost, but in any case it shouldn't be ruinous for someone with an HSA. You can get a Phillips Dreamstation off Amazon for $620.

Please go get tested.
When I was there android use was encouraged because there are a lot more android users in the world so for dogfooding it makes sense.

90% of the company used iPhones anyway.
MS Access, online?!
Interesting: the frequentist derivation is using the logarithm, while the Bayesian one, the exponent.
I believe that Nvidia Denver, an in order VLIW design is vulnerable. In the case of Denver the speculation is mostly done in the firmware JIT frontend, but I wouldn't be surprised that the aggressive optimizations done by compilers to make VLIW and in order CPUs are similarly exploitable.
It's not that they can execute a computation faster in the traditional sense. It is that you can exploit the quantum behaviour in some types of computation (e.g. factoring primes) to make the answer more probable, and thus more likely to be "observed", when you read the state of the quantum computer and thus make it easy to locate the correct answer compared to traditional algorithms.

PBS Infinite Series has several videos on quantum computing and Shor's algorithm:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbJYsep45E "The Mathematics of Quantum Computers"
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Q3Mrh03Gk "How to Break Cryptography"
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwZZaI5u0c "Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorthm"
Who do the members of the Venezuelan army pledge their loyalty to: an individual (such as Maduro) or a set of laws and established regulations (such as their Constitution)?

And if the latter, does that Constitution or do those regulations outline and reinforce the importance of individual rights, or simply the importance of compliance to the State?

Do members of the Venezuelan army receive extensive and annual training/re-training regarding the laws of land warfare, treatment of captives, and expected conduct under the Geneva Convention and any other applicable rules of engagement?

Are members of the Venezuelan army professional soldiers or conscripts?

Are units of the Venezuelan army composed of individuals from the same geographical area, and stationed in a different geographical area?

Answers to these questions should give one insight as to the difference between any Third World army (Venezuelan or otherwise) and those of the United States military.
Connected Wristwatch Allows Hackers to Stalk, Spy on Children
CPAP user here. It's a matter of adjusting to the treatment and setting up the gear correctly. Both can take time. It's worth it.
Dropping "so" instead of "some" keeps the intent of the headline and still manages to stay under 80 characters.
On this topic: could someone tell me whatever happened since the "security incident" that they were "very sorry" for? Did they commit to making even a single tangible change to their coding practices to prevent millions of people's accounts from being hacked again? Or is it business, condolences, and hoping-the-wind-blows-past-quietly as usual?
Thanks for your kind words :) I'm glad you're enjoying sway!
I read that as there is a lot of money that wants to piggyback on the success of SpaceX instead of fundamentally developing anything via their own investments.
Raspberry Pies
Having worked on quantum computing in some of the leading labs for nearly a decade I do share some of the author's pessimism. My feeling is that theory once again is way ahead of experiment here. Also many theoretician who work in the field of quantum information are all too happily ignoring all the details that actually make it so darn hard to maintain quantum coherence and scale. Having said that I still think/hope that some day we will manage to harness nature at the level of individual quanta with the level of precision required to perform some non-trivial quantum computation. We're not there yet and I think some major technological breakthroughs need to happen before that. I am afraid there's too much hype around QC and when it fades it will bring down the field with it.
It's the probability of finding a typo on a page, not the remainder of the book.
> It says that if you’ve tested N cases and haven’t found what you’re looking for, a reasonable estimate is that the probability is less than 3/N.

So in your example, according to the rule, the probability of errors is less than 3/200. Which it is, either 0/201 or 1/201.
That doesn't make sense. Your ballot can NEVER express your actual preferences except in a statistical sense—we can have some probability distribution for the actual preferences that created that Approval ballot.

Thus using the standard strategy I mentioned is the most accurate way to convey your preferences. If you want them to appear as honest as possible, you just treat all candidates as equally likely to win, such that the formula simplifies down to your approval threshold being "average utility of all candidates".
And you think that we can only fit <10k objects in an area larger than the surface of the earth?
After 200 pages you could estimate the probability that the next PAGE has a typo. You could use the number of pages left in the book to estimate how many pages may have typos.
"personal reality building" is the greatest quote in this whole thread, it's perfect. Will be using.
Three data points is not the same thing as three measurements of the same object.
What about it terms of performance given this limited speculation?
Sulfa. White swans do come along, they're just incredibly rare.
There is another constellation system (I forget the name) and they're going to have a partnership with GEO to beam signals for customers as the satellites pass over the equator.
It sounds ripe for accidentally replacing one lost word with a completely different word that could also make sense in context.

For awhile, it seemed like the autocorrection in iOS was deliberately trying to break up me and my then-girlfriend. It even seemed to have a penchant for doing an unfortunate autocorrect just a sliver of a second before my finger hit send on a txt. I finally turned the feature off.
With all due respect, you have absolutely no reason to speak to anyone like this. Phrases like "bs virtue signalling" are not only rude, but they make it extremely hard to engage with you. Part of engaging in dialogue is accepting that people are free to believe whatever they want.
> he hates Facebook

> he's in their offices every week telling them how to attack Zuckerburg

> you should ignore criticism of Facebook because it's just George Soros pulling the strings

I didn't say any of these things, nor does this Guardian article quote Facebook or their PR company as having ever, at any point in history, said anything that even implies a single one of these positions. Either you have some other source, in which case I invite you to share it, or you are criticizing a perspective entirely of your own invention.

> advocates for minority rights

> social media turns people's lives into a product to be sold on the open market

None of this has anything to do with my comment.
Oh, you were supposed to have forgotten about that by now.
Facebook and the Fires
Total information throughput is about three major factors:

- Ballot expressiveness

- Strategic voting (which distorts sincere information)

- Tabulation efficiency (e.g. IRV has more data on the ballot, but destroys a lot of it due to inefficient tabulation)

You are making a common fallacy outlined here.
https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/expressiveness

When you look at total combined information throughput, Approval Voting does exceptionally well.
http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
The assertion was that the probability is less than 3/N.
> Ms. Brown said a lot of students criticize Facebook and talk about how they would not work there, but ultimately join. “Everyone cares about ethics in tech before they get a contract,” she said.

This describes my what I've observed perfectly. There are very few companies that make new grad offers comparable to Facebook's, and career advancement opportunities and working conditions at Facebook tend to be better than the other 'Big-n companies'. So it's hard for a new grad to say no to a Facebook offer, even if they're morally opposed to its products.
I believe you're thinking about their initial application. They've updated it [0] to an altitude of 550km, so atmospheric drag should still de-orbit broken satellites fairly promptly.

[0] - <https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-MOD-20181108-00083>
I'm hopeful that the insanity of running untrusted code in the same network, machine or even process will be over.
Augur was one of the first ICOs. They promised a decentralized oracle and prediction market protocol (with dispute resolution) and that's what they delivered.

Their REP token sale was in 2015, they spent a few years developing their smart contracts while providing weekly updates and contributing a lot back to the Ethereum community, and finally launched in July 2018.

https://www.augur.net/

https://augur.stackexchange.com/

To see the prediction markets without setting up the Augur client, you can use the following site:

https://predictions.global/
Ah now I see the difference, thank you.
If you are specifically interested in building up the mathematical intuition, check out "Quantum Computing since Democritus" by Aaronson - it excels at presenting the intuition. For less comp-sci and more physics look at the standard references: Nielsen and Chuang's book and Preskill's lecture notes.
I mean we already have quantum computers too. https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/experience The trouble here is also scaling, but in the upward direction.
Yeah that's what I suspect too, but I most definitely have not...
> The contract says you're not entitled to compensation for overtime. As far as the law is concerned, I see no problem here whatsoever.

You don't. The Bundesarbeitsgericht (the highest court for labor disputes) does: https://juris.bundesarbeitsgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung...

You can include clauses that allow limited unpaid overtime, for example "36 hours per week and up to 16 hours of unpaid overtime per month", but then, as an employee, you should treat that as a 40 hours contract. Unpaid overtime cannot be agreed upon retroactively, it must be in the initial contract. Unlimited overtime is not permissible except for people in certain positions (Managing Directors or other people with full control over their time are generally exempt from that, people with sufficiently high compensation might be [the usual threshold is the Beitragsbemessungsgrenze der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung which increases yearly and is currently at about 80k EUR/year])

However, the legal situation differs from the situation on the ground. Companies still offer contracts with invalid and unenforceable rules and employees are still afraid to sue, even though you can sue for unpaid overtime after you leave.
Something I'd like to see if a voice recorder that only records my own voice. It would be even better if other voices were obliterated and filled over with something like the "voice" noise from Katamari Damacy.
> If trees are removed on a hillside, then potential erosion is part of what is considered, monitored and controlled. There are many factors, and they all need to be taken into consideration.”

> Sorry, but Cal-Fire should be concerned about preventing fires first.

I'm sorry, but soil erosion is not some boogieman invented by pot-smoking hippies who live in a commune. It's a real and serious problem, and leads to landslides, wash-outs, loss of topsoil, loss of other trees (Which often act as windbreaks).