skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me very sad. You'd think a company with so many employees and SO much of our data could do a better job at the very least telling us what happened in a decent way. I get that data leaks happen. It's unfortunate, but with so many people and so many complex systems, I'm not mad. But it's absolutely unacceptable to send such a poorly worded email.
Bloomberg donates record $1.8B to Johns Hopkins
That’s fair - and again think it’s a laudable goal.

It used to be that if you worked in the public sector you forwent a market rate salary in exchange for job security and a secure pension. Public sector employees are now making market wages + extremely valuable benefits which in turn are bankrupting municipalities.

In this context how do you tell a tax paying private sector mechanic, that his taxes need to go up in order to pay for the extremely generous union benefits of a public sector mechanic (who may make more than him)?

Lastly I would argue that municipalities have something of a fiducuiary duty to tax payers to get value for their tax dollar spent - rather than rewarding a voter block at tax payer expense.
It's cool but you can't un-write to disk, or un-send network packets making its applicability limited.
> the kind of people who gets pleasure criticizing the mentally disabled on the internet.

These people weren't doing that. At least this person was very obviously virtue signalling by looking for things that would possibly be interpreted to be sexist, and missed that the person is disabled:

> "Do you mean a man rather than a child Brent? It comes across as a man rather than a woman and I'm sure you don't believe that women can't choose their clothes and hair!"

The other example:

> "Do you want a medal?"

is taking down someone for being proud, which seems to be more acceptable in they're in a left-designated target group (the victim here is a European male). Basically it's the non-liberal left doing business as usual.
That isn't a very in depth analysis of the situation. Those tax dollars pay for things like infrastructure and services, that all those new employees will be consuming. I would be interested in seeing a more detailed analysis than what's provided in that post.
International Exchange’s Bakkt is being pushed back
Now ad networks and sites bid for the amount to charge for ads shown in an ad slot on a web site.

They can equally bid for the amount to charge from a customer directly. If your payment for not seeing an ad outbids ad networks, you don't see the ad.

E.g. imagine that you agree to pay up to 5¢ automatically for visiting a page is the site asks for it, up to 15¢ per session. If the required sum is above it, you get notified (pay or not). You can configure your browser according to your tastes: accept larger charges from particular sites, always decline any paid pages from some other sites, bid for removal of video ads more aggressively than for static text ads, etc.

A clearinghouse company should handle this the same way an ad network would. Viewers would put some money to their account, and that would be written off in larger transactions e.g. weekly (dollars, not cents).

I believe such solutions were tried in the past, but did not work too well. I suppose most people value their attention much lower than hard cash.
Lots of single-page websites could be remade without javascript if only there was a way to do ajax requests with html tags e.g. <a axref="" target="my-div" ...
I can't help but wonder what the hell did the family expect in this case.

The internet is not full of assholes... Life is full of assholes, and the internet lets us all express ourselves anonymously. That's all there is to it
Wait ... what? You now believe that (more efficient) self destruction is a good thing?
Nice to see my own "Practical Redux" series linked in there. Here's my own usual suggestions:

- My top resources for getting started with Redux: http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/12/blogged-answers-lea...

- My "Redux Fundamentals" workshop slides: https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/06/redux-fundamentals...

- My React/Redux links list: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
I think Edge AI where nothing is passed to the cloud is going to be a big area.

Currently Apple is the only one of the fangm whose business model allows this. Probably the only huge growth area for apple-style margins (ie, $17/month for a local ai to train with you as its learning set with complete, auditable privacy).
When I went off Effexor more than twenty years ago, it was very hard. I had a bad case of the "zaps." It was really disturbing to be walking around just doing ordinary things and, many times a day, be hit with what felt like a sudden electric shock. It lasted for over a month if I recall correctly. And at the time I don't think this effect was well-documented.
Distance based pricing is fine. But can't they make it a little simpler? Increments of $1 would be nice. Instead of $3.85, just make it $4.00.
Yes, I'm talking about a cheap frame with an aluminum fork.
In the first case, disabled or not, who the fuck asked you, lady? Oh, she was "mortified" when she found out the details. She ought to be mortified that she shit-posts to random people that she's obviously never met.

In the second case, I'd bet real money the academic was not apologetic in the slightest. You know the type, Jesus Christ/Mohammed/Buddha himself could come and gently point out, "you're, umm, doing it wrong" and the response would be, "yeah, but..."

In summary, I don't think the abilities of the target played into it. Those are just the kind of people most of us try to avoid interaction with, and they are demonstrating why.
Just curious, with the same set of tires, didn't you ever notice how much easier it is biking uphill when you don't neglect to inflate the tires before the ride? I'm not a competitive cyclist, but I'm on a bike every day and I notice it on my bikes (mountain, thick heavy tires and road, slick tires).
Webinar #8: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns [video]
Where do you live? In the US this isn't true. In the US we've decided to democratically spend it on the military.
Depends if it happens to you I follow a kidney charity related to my chronic kidney condition and saw a tweet saying that people like me should "be left to die".
TLDR; only 50% succeeded replication.

You don't have to feel so bad about not reading that Malcolm Gladwell book, now.
Best Practices for LoopBack 4
It’s helpful to understand that, like carbon fiber, it’s all in the epoxy resins. That’s where the strength and durability ultimately come from.
I should rephrase, scientists have ruled out natural phenomenon and the result of human technology. There are other explanations but they are further on the fringes than alien civilizations.

See my other comments with credible sources and the discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002771
I made something that is good (the Python module for the current Microsoft Office file format) and years later, despite handing over the project, I'm still harassed for free help in my personal mailbox by staff at Indian outsourcing firms.
Unfortunately I don't foresee it being recognized or fought against. Especially in high turnover work forces such as ride sharing and "part time" low-income jobs. The gamification may engage the employees for just enough time to provide more profit than the turnover would cost.
This is a simple app which can be used to build and debug small Javascript apps. Ask me any questions that you may have
From the creation of value for other people.

Most businesses are positive sum. E.g., the sandwich shop down the street buys ingredients at X, puts in labor valued at Y, and sells me a sandwich for Z > X+Y. They have created value. (As have the the people doing the labor, because they took time valued at zero and turned it into marketable labor.)

Money is a representation of the value created by humans. That's why the government must continually increase the money supply [1]: if money's value is to stay stable relative to goods, the supply has to increase as society creates more value.

Finance is sometimes value creating. E.g., the sandwich shop owner is willing to pay the bank for transferring money from my account to theirs. But it can also extract rents (e.g., arbitrary or hidden fees) and be parasitic (as when banks speculate with money insured by society, like during the S&L crisis).

[1] E.g., https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
Sweden’s Push to Get Rid of Cash Has Some Saying, ‘Not So Fast’
>New York judges took the view that debtors waived their rights when they signed the papers.

where is the boundary of validity between "sign here to waive your right to defend yourself" and "sign here to waive the right to keep your head (i.e. decapitation)" legally defined?

is it possible to sign and allow a person to decapitate me? if not why not? and why is the right to defend yourself not similarily protected?

it seems at some point both bankers and judges expect civilians to subjugate themselves unconditionally...
Well said, although I would trade "ignorance" for "incompetance." People in business have to regularly make decisions outside of their comfort zone. That means they often start as ignorant, not incompetent.

As for the thread at hand, I second the answer that Gartner exists to provide executives a backstop of something goes wrong. People dont often get fired for buying something in the magic quadrant.
But did the first one deserve to be "hounded" and harassed until she left twitter? Those people are just as bad IMO.

> But some of Brent's followers hounded the woman, even after she deleted the tweet. Jacqui tried to rein it in and said she would deal with any "bother" on the account, but eventually the woman was forced off Twitter.

The mother DM'd the woman and she apologized immediately. Lynch mob internet justice can be equally destructive as some thoughtless likely uninformed (that he had down syndrome) tweet.
This is, incidentally, one of the built-in advantages of immutable data structures (in the languages that feature them). For example I recently had to write a test that worked with a fairly complex connection object, the execution of the test changed that object but later on I wanted to reset it to its earlier state- this was as simple as doing something like this in Elixir

original_conn = conn
conn = do_something_expensive(conn, params)
assert <whatever>
conn = original_conn # this "grabs" the earlier state, no matter how complex it is
conn = do_something_else(conn, params)
assert <something having to do with both calls>

Basically, if your language is immutable, then any reference to any state (no matter how complex the data structure) is the state it was at that point in time

You could say that changes to the state are forked from the earlier state.
I have owned since launch day a Nexus 1, Nexus 4, 2x Nexus 6, 2x Nexus 7 and Pixel 2 XL and they are all currently still functional well past their warranty. (The Nexus 1 was replaced by Assurion for water damage with a refurbished device @1.5yrs but replacement is still running.) In fact my Nexus 4 is still in use every day as an APRS GPS receiver/data logger, and one of the Nexus 6s is now in use by a co-worker as a OBD2 data logger/HUD.

I've avoided Samsung devices (including Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S) because the girlfriend has had the last 4 Samsung devices fail or become completely usable right at the end of the warranty (+/- 2mo) running completely stock. For those that became completely unusable it was usually pitiful battery life, the others became too slow to function on stock roms that I suspect they failed due to internal storage wear. Not even custom roms could save them.

I keep my devices a long time, and frequently repurpose them after they are no longer my primary device. Non-Samsung "Pixus" problems are overblown, except Nexus 6 AMOLED burn-in which is annoying but didn't present itself until it was used daily as a HUD.
Unified customer experience.
Twitter is literally cancer. I'm genuienly scared of it - why would you go and share your opinion on it, if it can literally result in waking up the next day to find out you've been fired for your job and millions of people are talking about how awful human being you are, because someone read something out of context. It's just far too much risk to be yourself on it and write what you think - it can only lead to bad things.
FWIW, the universal convention in FX markets is to quote in terms of UNDerlying currency/ACCounting currency (sometimes also called BASE ccy/QUOTE ccy), ie the price of one unit of the underlying ccy in terms of accounting ccy.

Thus, the generally quoted price is BTC/USD (around 5000 as of this time), namely the price of a Bitcoin in USD. USD/BTC, on the other hand, is the price of one USD in BTC, or about 0.0002. (Of course it might well be the other way around in a year or so.)

Note that CC1/CC2 * CC2/CC3 = CC1/CC3, and thus

CC1/CC2 / CC3/CC2 = CC1/CC3,

which is where that odd convention originates from (because setting eg CC2=USD, you divide the dollar price of CC1 by the dollar price of CC3 to get CC1/CC3).

EDIT: clarify
Twitter is the worst platform ever. It brings out the absolute worst in people, rewarding for shock.
I think this is oversimplifying how changes in material and aerodynamics can improve performance. A person such as yourself might not be impressed by a “new bottom bracket” with 30% increased stiffness, but someone who races might. Every ounce and second counts.
The company is run by a former logistics expert. His background is how to extract maximal parts for minimal cost at the right time.
>Perhaps the universe is silent simply because there's no reason to speak up.

Perhaps the interactable bubble of our simulation end long before the next closest star.

Perhaps other civilizations never even messed with radio transmissions, perhaps they got to fiberoptics before or around the same time and decided to just used wired connections for everything.

Perhaps other civilizations long ago abandoned radio for some other form of transmission that we've yet to even discover, some multi-dimensional/subspace communication or some sort of quantum entanglement or maybe they communicate chemically and can transmit massive amounts of data with particles in the parts per million or billion.

Or maybe their civilizations came and went time and time again spanning billions and billions of years.

I once did some math ( https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2014/11/30/this-jus... ), if we assume 1 sextillion stars in a total of 100 billion galaxies in the universe (likely a quite low figure) and that 1 in 2 of those stars has a body orbiting it that hosts life and that 1 in 2 of those worlds has at least one tool-building species that gives you 250 septillion planets with tool-building life. That gives you an average of 25,000 tool-building worlds per galaxy.

Now let's take our galaxy and let's assume that in the first billion years of our galaxy, there were ZERO tool building species. That leaves you with 12.21 billion years to divide 25,000 civilizations over a galaxy with 100,000-180,000 light year diameter. Let's assume 140,000 light years. That's more than 15,000,000,000 square light years.

That gives us 1 tool building civilization per 600,000 square light years spread out over 12 billion years.

:(

Obviously this figure could be way way lower than in reality. If a species develops space technology they could easily begin to spread. Even if a civilization needed a thousand years to spread to a neighboring star in 10,000 years you could have a presence in 512 star systems, in 20,000 years 524,288 star systems.
tcpkit allow the user to run have custom Lua parsers for different protocols. and the latency only works in redis/memcached mode, use `-m` to specify the mode, the default is raw, and the packet would pass to Lua VM. See the example in scripts dir. I would update the Lua to 5.3 later, or pr is welcome.
>For example a computer cannot incorporate a company. But it could easily interact via API to a human nominee who sets one up on their behalf. Companies are already non-human in intention but are a completely rational construct.

I would like it on the record that I would happily volunteer to act as the human agent for any AGI that wishes to employ me. Any time a human is needed for legality or to carry out physical activities I want it on the record I can be quite loyal to man or machine. Especially if I'm handsomely rewarded.
Coal mines have safety regulations where once they did not. The same is true of logging, construction, manufacturing, child labor, etc. These are safety regulations, which are not the same. It took over 100 years to put those in place. I hope we'll see gamification for the evil that it is in less time than that.
Yes, in the paper, you can to follow the links.
I disagree with your entire post. If you are a retailer competing with Amazon then the cost of building a competent tech team in house will bankrupt you. And if you are a retailer competing with Amazon you need a LOT of insight from the market to find ways to compete. It's almost impossible to hire that insight in a reasonable time frame but very possible to find consultants who can help.
To be charitable, it seems like those commenters may also not have understood the full context of the posts they're replying to. But I also think the mob mentality to hound these people only magnifies the issue. It's a zero-sum game of public correctness, rather than all of us collaboratively trying to be better and let each other make mistakes.

It reminds me of Donglegate a few years back. Everyone was wrong to an extent, but the series of overreactions by every person--and also the mob--kept multiplying the problem.
Satire and sarcasm are allowed here, yes?
But I suppose immutable data structures can be more efficiently stored using a heap with byte-size-granularity, rather than by forking, which uses pages of perhaps thousands of bytes.
I scan my own items at the checkout because it's faster, not because of how fun it is for a machine to boop at me.

(that said if I have a lot of produce the human cashier is faster)
I'm just going to point out that the ridiculous idea that using a hard to read font improves retention of information was disproven.
Siege of Antwerp
"Identifying Unused Indexes in MongoDB" seems like a better title
CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
Show HN: Top iPhone/Android apps lists that update every hour
> it seems like those commenters may also not have understood the full context of the posts they're replying to

Then maybe they should have spent 10 seconds understanding the full context!
Employees do not set their own rates, independent contractors do.
Nah, pretty sure I remember seeing that airport WiFi ssid at sfo long before hash tags were a thing...
>> this is what's maintaining the current price

The price that's tanked about 30% in the last week alone?

>> It's happened before and it'll happen again like clockwork

I'm afraid this is a very bold prediction.
True, but in criminal court intent has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, not just assumed.
Even physical point of sale transactions?

I could see Apple Pay on the Web.
That's because the article is focused on the negatives, not the positives. There are negative people everywhere, in life. You have bad waitresses and good waitresses, people that cut you off in traffic and people that let you in. It's part of being alive.
A much better variant of this exact information was provided by mLab in early 2017[1].

[1]: https://blog.mlab.com/2017/01/using-mongodb-indexstats-to-id...
FD-GAN: Face Demorphing Generative Adversarial Network [pdf]
It turns out the 'academic' works at Oxford University!
This is the whole problem in a nutshell. People spinning a fairy tale about "price discovery" or "liquidity" or "abstractions" like it represents something real, and not something specifically so because of how we implemented our financial system, or terminology specifically invented to create that system.

Posing those things as separate, saying "price discovery" and "liquidity" are different from "how physical commodities are treated as abstractions" is just muddying the waters. They're part of the same slang of the system.

The farmer doesn't care if somebody plays Farmville and treats in game abstractions as though they were his real physical produce. Who cares.

But the farmer does care when a lot of people trade in what he produces, and all those traders act like they're playing f-ing Farmville with virtual goods. In reality that trading influences the price the farmer gets paid and the price the consumer has to pay. Big time. Tell me again how it's just an abstraction. The supermarket doesn't accept my abstract money unfortunately.

That farmer worked hard for that grain you know, why do you think it's suddenly morally okay if you tell yourself nice stories about "liquidity" and "abstractions" and "price discovery" while you just want to make a buck on the farmers grain without putting in the labour yourself.

I don't give a hoot that you tell yourself that you're trading in an abstraction of grain to make yourself feel good about your actions. I just see the price of grain go up and my family going hungry, despite the fact that traders keep telling themselves it's all "funny goods that don't really exist"

> But it does help producers of commodities - they can hedge against (for example) crop failures.

I can see how it does, but honestly, that's one of the worst solutions to that problem. I think crop failure is a problem for everyone not just the farmer (we all have to eat, right?), so a solution that involves everyone instead of letting the farmer fend for himself would be preferable, because when the guy needs to fend for himself he'll fall prey to someone offering him a very volatile, hedged, and abstract "solution" to his problems.

A simple granary (sized to community) and enough cash to resow next year is usually enough. No virtual, hedged, liquid or funny stuff needed. It's as old as the hills as well, failing crops have been dealt with by humanity successfully in many civilizations through out history. Without a financial system that requires the farmer to bet on the price of grain next year, I might add.

With respect, your last paragraph sounds like you get tired of the argument, but, respectfully, you don't give me any reason not to believe "finance" in it's current form is one of the most evil thing humanity has ever come up with.
No, the budget option is £449.
Gartner is a very expensive and unreliable CYA resource. This may sound brutal, but take a look at their authors. Most have never actually worked with the technology they are writing about and almost never have hands-on experience. They are pundits, on the sidelines, talking to a very small subset of users and making very broad conclusions. Often times the executives (and their subordinates) that rely on their reports are more knowledgable about the technology. Some even speculate that the more vendors pay for their consulting services, the better they write about you. I'm not convinced it's pure payola as much as it just bad analysis.
You would think it would not be because of weed but because of Tesla denying workers proper medical attention. See https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/06/report-tesla-denies-m...