skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. Myers-Brigg's has done a great job of convincing corporate America that their test results mean something (and any personality test you may be given by your employer is probably Myers-Brigg's or some close facsimile thereof).

They are barely-better-than-horoscopes-junk-science... but people genuinely believe in the stuff.
> There is a significant difference between deterring personal crimes (e.g. robbery at gunpoint, carjacking, murder) and deterring 'economic crime'.

The relationship is the opposite of the one you're describing.

The problem with personal crimes is that everyone has a different utility function. If you could steal a million dollars at risk of a month in jail, many people would take the risk. Fewer at six months in jail. Fewer still at a year. Fewer still at five years. So you need as high a penalty as you can get without violating proportionality (or reaching the point of diminishing returns, once nearly everyone who can be is deterred).

There are some people who aren't even deterred by the death penalty, e.g. because they'd rather have the money needed to save their kid's life even if it costs them their own, but that's pretty rare. Most of the people who aren't deterred by even large penalties are simply the people who don't expect to be caught, or don't realize they were violating of the law to begin with.

By contrast, for economic crimes, nearly everyone's utility function is the same. If you can save $2000 by taking a 50% risk of having to pay the $2000 anyway plus a $1500 fine, it's profitable. If you can save $2000 by taking a 50% risk of paying the $2000 anyway plus a $2500 fine, it isn't. A $3000 fine provides no additional deterrence, and anything more is just a money grab. Even the $1500 fine may be higher than strictly necessary, because getting fined at all results in a PR hit that independently provides a non-zero deterrence value.

That isn't to say that a small fine won't leave a large number of violators, but they're no longer the people overtly doing the calculations. They're the people who assign negligible probability to getting caught, or who don't even realize they're violating the law. No amount of higher penalties will deter them, the only thing that works against that group is vigorous enforcement -- which works fine (better even) with modest penalties, because all you really need to do to get those groups into compliance is to tap them on the shoulder and explain how they're not.
Nebula Genomics https://nebula.org analyses your whole genome for $99 or free. They store your DNA in a blockchain and you can decide and track who you share your data with.
Doing a similar things using email tasks with followupthen.com.

I am just emailing me tasks one by one as they come, and I am receiving following up emails every morning until they are marked as completed. It's working well for me. It's an excellent service and it's free.
If I find myself doing something like that in Vue, I immediately make it a computed property. Granted, v-bind:id="something" is still markup that has little chance of being well understood by the IDE, but at least there isn't much to get wrong, and I don't have to remember if I need ', ", \', or \".
I have an early 2009 17" mac book pro - still the best one out there. Running great (now on an SSD), although stuck at El Capitan. On 2nd display and 3rd battery, but still humming along. Wish they'd bring back the 17", with tons of ports and no touch bar.
Or you’re getting an IP from somewhere associated with a different region. This happens all the time with my cell connection - it seems the company uses spare Verizon capacity, and when I (or someone else) looks up my 4G is, it’s all over the US with no connection to my actual location.
Same here. I also plan on getting Emacs to run on the iPad, which would make it a really nice coding setup for me.
Implicitly manufacturing American confidence in domestic brands with such headlines while economically harming China, this obviously doesn't need to have a shred of evidence to be worthwhile.

But don't forget all smartphones are pwned.
Ctrl-cmd-q locks out of the box, no customization needed.
As importantly, I think they were doing a good job before and have improved. Not every successful person makes that effort. Great work guys.
How a Chinese robotics company made Segway (almost) cool
Someone once told me that suicide is the most selfish act, as it pushes your suffering on others. Is it really more selfish to get a bigger room?
Netware
The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history
This... reads like propaganda to my (western) eyes.
Has anyone ever claimed it's none?

There's no simple answer to your question as it depends on many things - sequencing technology used, library prep and coverage to name a few.

Generally, it's not far from none when aligning short reads to a high-quality reference genome. Provided there's sufficient coverage and a majority of reads covering a particular nucleotide don't have a error at that position, than the correct answer will be given. Errors creep in due to things like systemic errors in library prep (such as a PCR error), and very low coverage over particular loci due to weird AT/GC content, meaning errors are harder to correct for. Repetitive regions can cause issues for short read alignment too, but coding regions generally aren't that repetitive.

$200 is very cheap for WGS - guessing it would be at the low end of the accuracy range, as they can't be sequencing to great depth (presumably).
Is this allowed under Google's privacy policy? How about the GDPR?

I mean, it's one thing to talk about what Google's technically capable of, and quite another for it to be legal.
I've never had an issue with going to Energy Saver and changing "Turn display off after" to Never.

Is the going to sleep truly random? Do you get the screen saver first? If you aren't seeing the screen saver, the sleeping may actually be an issue with the lid sensor - possibly due to a nearby magnet or some hardware issue.I had that in the past when I inadvertently set the MBP on top of an iPad (in case).
I recommend watching Frost/Nixon, or the contemporary interviews. Nixon was a human and not devil incarnate. Its important we understand that potential for Nixon's evils lies within all of us. In the grand scheme of tyrants he wasn't even that bad - barely deserving of the label.
Of course there is nuance, many times the Chinese government owns parts of these companies, they have zero choice. In the US corporations have much more power to resist the government. At the very least corporations can lobby Congress to get beneficial reform passed, in China it is all entirely opaque.
I wonder why sustainance engineering is so hard. We have managed to bring down devops almost exponentially in terms of headcount per server. We have also managed to bring down the cost of storage, hosting etc. The only thing I would have to worry about is patching code for constant stream of security vulnerabilities and upgrading to new framework/platforms after LTS expires. Is this the only driving factor for these shutdowns (generally speaking for all companies)? This could be a good business opportunity for a startup that comes around and can say “ok, we will take care of your app, keep upgrading and patching as needed for a small fee.”. More importantly we need better development methodology that has infinite sustainance as native as everything test cases.
And GCF
On buildings that compute. A proposal
They do actually ban users of iMessage on hackintoshes, according to a few forum users of tonymacx86
I wish this falsehood would die. Google isn't even #3 in cloud revenues, IBM is, Oracle is #4. Google is far, far, behind Azure and AWS. They have ~$1B/quarter in cloud revenues (that includes GSuite.) Even if you made the assumption that Office 365 made up 80% of Microsoft's quarterly cloud revenues it would still be bigger than Google's cloud (including GSuite.) This is based on their earnings fy 2018.

I don't get why people are in denial that Azure is doing well. If you want to know why Google isn't doing -great- in the cloud, it's because people are afraid they will kill the project. It's because they don't have a "hook" like AWS and Azure have. AWS has a massive user base already, good reason to adopt it. Azure hooks into so many other Microsoft services and developer tools, good reason to adopt it. GCS has...what? Sure, some cool things, but we're talking about compute, compute where where the money is. Even if you adopt GCS for some edge or AI projects, that's not a lot of spend.
As asey correctly points out, the link I posted talks about the Cloud SQL maintenance window, not about Compute Engine. That there is unavoidable downtime even with HA has been a problem known for seven months at this point. A Cloud SQL TL even sought feedback here with people telling that person this is a "dealbreaker" and another saying it doesn't even make sense to have built HA for a low probability event (zone outage) before dealing with this much higher probability event:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=flamingcow

This is pretty strong customer feedback. What happened with this feedback, anything? The bigger picture here about GCP, preceded by Google's long reputation, is that customer feedback means nothing. Googlers are probably still building what they feel like building, and that is why AWS continues to trot ahead despite being less polished. They ship things that work and they know what their customers want.
Thank you for bringing the Neumann's quote. At times I get so bogged down because of these complex mathematical notations. This was particularly frustrating as mathematics is an area where I shine. I started reading between the lines and rewriting those equations in a way I understand.
I'm glad to know that many people resonate with this and I'm not the only one that struggles. Thanks HN!
How good is the battery exactly? Can it last ~10 hours doing web development work?
We don't have a fair legal system, so I'd say that's a place where we could learn from them. Also, being connected to the land. Consent practices, as well. How to learn principles of life from observing nature.

Oh, and we totally have food scarcity, too.

There's stuff there to learn, if you're willing to accept the idea that perhaps your culture has room to grow.
Nebula only offers 1x coverage. As a comparison, most other companies (such as Veritas), offer 30x coverage. I do not know what that means practically, but if anyone has expertise, would love to hear if that matters.

The reason I don’t just assume 1x is much worse is George Church is involved in both Nebula and Veritas, and I get the sense he wouldn’t be involved in something if it was worthless.
You can get that kind of interface without a staging area. TortoiseHg would do it using Mercurial's shelving feature (similar to git stash) and IMO that was simpler to understand than staging. In particular, I liked that at all times there was a correspondence between the current working directory and what was being commited. It made it easier to run tests.
When your agile org doesn't have a clear “definition of done”
JDK maybe?
Has anyone seen a formal proof of different cardinals based on axiomatic set theory? The diagonal argument in particular is very weak imo.
I generally hate the messaging that suicide is a selfish act. The implication there is that you are obligated to suffer so others can be more comfortable. In many cases, people are suicidal in part because "Hell is other people."

Nonetheless, I stand by my above comment that I cannot fathom gratuitously pissing on random strangers in the process of saying "I've had enough and I'm out of here."
So it sounds like I can use this as mom-as-a-service, yes?
Using an XPS 13 myself. The touchpad is a nightmare but the 3200x1600 screen makes it totally worth it..
Check out ZeroMQ
Whee, a topic close to my heart!

https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy is a project of mine that started out as a simple rewriting proxy, but at this point is basically a self-contained archival system for entire websites, complete with preserved historical versions of scraped content. It has a distributed fetching frontend[1], uses chromium[2] to optionally deal with internet breaking bullshit (Helloooo cloudflare! Fuuuuucccckkkkk yyyyooouuuuuuu), supports multiple archival modes (raw, e.g. not rewritten and destyled, and a rewritten format which makes reading internet text content actually nice), and a bunch of other stuff. The links in fetched content are rewritten to point within the archiver, and if content is not already retreived, it's fetched on-the-fly as you browse.

It also has plugin-based content rewriting features, allowing the complete reformatting of content on-the-fly, and functions as a backend to a bunch of other projects (I run a translated light-novel/web-novel tracker site, and it also does the RSS parsing for that).

I've been occatonally meaning to add WARC forwarding to the frontend, and feed that into the internet archive, but the fetching frontend is old, creaky and brittle (it's some old code), and does a lot of esoteric stuff that would be hard to replicate.

[1]: https://github.com/fake-name/AutoTriever
[2]: https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController
0MQ
I've heard (and understand) that print a touchscreen in a Mac is never going to happen. iOS is their touch platform, and they have no interest in changing that.
Yes, I've lived in Paradise many years and was in town for the 2008 fire. I heard that since the 2008 fire the town debated making bigger roads but instead decided on breaking the town into zones and evacuating by zone. This fire was very unusual in that within a couple of hours it seemed to have spread to many location across town. At my location by 745am (the fire begin 10 miles from town at 630am) there were many bits of burnt bark and leaves raining down all around. Many of these were likely falling in different locations as embers. The town is in an area of frequent fires, it's not uncommon to have nearby fires, they generally move in the order of a day so a zoned evacuation in many normal cases could work. I've never seen a fire that moved this quickly.
Iran to Europe: You Can’t Swim Without Getting Wet
How dare they meddle in our election, said the country who has meddled in hundreds of elections and set up countless coups.
Git design is surprisingly clean and simple. The main issue of git is its CLI and commands naming. They are indeed unclear. But again, concept behind is absolutely amazing. You just need to understand that git repo is a series of snapshots and after that all other details become clear.
Except I live neara wildfire zone and there is a nearby college where their plan is to shelter in place, and this plan worked for a wildfire that burned down several buildings on the campus.

Though i was wrong about the no vegetation zone; it's 200 feet, not 20
> A senior marketer for a large American bank says Facebook has made mistakes on measuring engagement, reach, views and other data for no fewer than 43 products. All of the mistakes, he notes, worked in the social-networking giant’s favour. “If these were true errors, wouldn’t you expect at least half to benefit marketers?” he asks. He expects to reduce how much his firm spends on Facebook and predicts that other marketers will as well next year.

I chuckle at how repeatedly human nature leads to surprise when “our son of a bitch” [1] turns out to be its own son of a bitch.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa
Vanuatu may sue fossil fuel companies and other countries over climate change
Wondering why again SAP isn't even mentioned...
It's simple: no laptop compares to the mac. Believe me, I want to use a different laptop. There is nothing on the market with the build quality, touchpad, screen, and operating system.

The developer community for macs has completely dominated the market for so long that virtually everything I need is first-class supported.
Developer UX.
The problem with the daycare was that parents began seeing it as "I can leave my child later, it just costs more" and they were just paying an additional fee to keep their child longer at a service they were already paying for. The daycare ended up removing the fee and the late pick ups stayed.
Is your argument to use Huawei hardware here? Because if you are using Huawei you are guaranteed to be using an insecure device.
I think the inherent problem is that no site should be as big as Amazon is current. It just has insane mindshare. There is a shop 3 miles from the Buzzfeed offices that has one listed on their website for 37 cents more than Amazon charges, it seems absurd to me not to go to actual stores when buying in domains where the employees would have knowledge.
Two things are happening:
1.) There are probably millions of searches that don't work. These would work normally if you asked someone who worked at a brick and mortar store that had domain experience.
2.) Amazon has half of all online purchases but many of those are from customer loyalty that was earned in areas that do not constitute the absolute majority of purchases most people (at least on HN) make.

Also I went through two years of personal and business Amazon purchases and literally couldn't remember a time when I had an issue. Especially after the last HN discussion made about this I realized just how much I still buy in brick and mortar.
The privacy policy [0] suggests they're not selling personal information, and they make it easy for you to protect your information too. They do keep it for internal analyses and (maybe?) marketing purposes, but suggest that you can just ask them not to, and they won't.

> You may withdraw your consent to participate in Dante Labs Research at any time by contacting Dante Labs at the email address: contact@dantelabs.com. Dante Labs will not include your Genetic Information or Self-Reported Information in studies that start more than 30 days after you withdraw (it may take up to 30 days to withdraw your information after you withdraw your consent). Any research involving your data that has already been performed or published prior to your withdrawal from Dante Labs Research will not be reversed, undone, or withdrawn.

I'm not quite sure what to think.

[0] https://us.dantelabs.com/pages/privacy-policy
It matters a lot - any error in a read cannot be corrected for if it's the only read covering a loci. Coverage is also uneven; an average of 1x would mean a significant portion of the genome has no coverage. Even 30x would leave gaps (not sure how many as don't work with humans).
Your local reputation is relative, there’s maybe a different version of it for every pair of eyes that assess you

THE Chinese credit score is objective, there’s only one. It’s merely what the government thinks of you, with no room for disagreement, with the consequences of that assessment automatically enforced throughout all of China
The problem is that "wildfire proof" means "cleared and maintained land of sufficient area around your house."

That means sufficient land area per house and more than annual maintenance of that land. Both of these are expensive so people will not do them in California.
Pardon my ignorance here. Putting the US or other five eyes countries on the same plane as China is a false equivalency. People can at least take it to streets and demand facts, which is not possible when we are talking about China. Hypothetically, if Apple and Samsung made their phones in the US or other five eyes countries we can assume some level of oversight on their practices , which is not quite possible in China.
You're a wonderful person :-) As an international resident, trying to get a job there has proven quite difficult whereas here (Sydney) it is easy. Although I do completely understand why recruiters are hesitant to employ people that reside out of area.
Read the Beeminder blog if you want to understand why pay more for failure... let me find one[1][2] (link below)

You should want to avoid the payment! Is the short version. If you _only_ paid when you failed, you might go out of your way to not fail, if it meant you could avoid the payment.

Especially as a conditioned response -- eg. planning to fail sometimes. You won't mind losing $5 once in a while, if most of the time you aren't failing as a result. It's no fun if you're paying the $5 every time. But it's no fun if you're failing at your goals every time, either.

Failed once, failed twice, still paying $5? Why not up the commitment? How much will it take to get you to not fail next time, $20? $400? Or give up on that goal, once and for all. It's quite a weird system, but there is a lot of behavioral science behind it, and you will benefit by becoming better at predicting your capacity for important things, and planning. (Sure, you don't need Beeminder to do that, but it's a system for it...)

There are a lot of ideas around the psychology of getting things done from Beeminder and friends. Like the legend of Murder Gandhi, you have to read this one for yourself: https://blog.beeminder.com/schelling/

[1]: https://blog.beeminder.com/psych/
[2]: https://blog.beeminder.com/punishment/
Yeah - the article is not at all precise about the actual statistics and I can't find the actual study anywhere. It definitely doesn't match my own experience, even though that's anecdotal.
It's probably a combination of features, but the suspensions are different, and two wheelers lean when they turn, which should be easy to distinguish from the accelerometer and gyros.
I have an Idea. Maas (Mom as a service)
Americans need to take a break
> You don't leave the command line

An advantage of gitless on one side, a statement about how to live life on the other side.
Save $200. Keep your genome to yourself. You won't regret it.
Just a comment to ask general HN members, do you think the Snowden legacy has resulted in a more stressful world? As they say, ignorance is bliss, but Snowden's allegations have forced the public to realize the extent of the surveillance being conducted. Humans (and crows) become stressed when being observed by others, and this could mean citizens now have a higher stress rate. Could it be that Snowden's legacy has resulted in a decrease in net productivity from stressed Americans?
Nebula uses 30X coverage for the free-with-sharing service. However, the $99 sequencing is about 0.4X.
The Next Bill Gates or Albert Einstein in AI “Chris Clark” – Yourobot
> As to the US, no-one has ever died in traffic save for one single example I found in one canyon fire in California where a police cruiser assisting with evacuations crashed into a tree and blocked the road

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-23/news/mn-174_1_fire-vi...
I mod r/CrohnsDisease and try to make sure every text post gets at least one thoughtful reply. We’re here for anyone with IBD/Crohn’s/Colitis as well as friends & family of those who have it (since it can be just as difficult for them.)

https://reddit.com/r/CrohnsDisease
I find it interesting that nobody arguing in favor of Huawei attempts to dispute the fact that data transmitted over Huawei hardware is insecure.
During the "Black Saturday" bush fires in Victoria in 2009 they estimated the temperature of the fires to be around 1200 degrees celsius (2190 F). My father-in-law is a volunteer in the rural fire service in Australia. He says some fires he's fought have been so hot they hurt your face to look at them for more than a few seconds, even when they are hundreds of meters away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires
But still fingerprint login. It's so tedious using my older macbooks