skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t figure out what I’m supposed to be looking for in that image.
It's not really "term" - at least, it can't handle multiple words.

"foo bar" is actually treated like "foo" "bar", which is far less useful than it once was.
same. i find a debugger useful for tracking down segfaults, but for debugging logic it's printf all the way.
Compare your equity package to FANG's
Thanks for the clarification.
I noticed that the Swedish navy still seems to use it ?

https://www-thelocal-se.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1000/s/www.th...
Qualcomm Wins Import Ban on iPhone 6s Through iPhone X in China
When I wrote "PHP is obsolete" I emphasized that it was my favorite language back in 2000. It was a decent answer to the problems of the 1990s, but it has no place in modern life. The response on Hacker News was split:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9598309
Oh yeah, I can see how this one could be doable. Has practical application too, if it can be made accurate enough.
There are a number of services that offer user management:

https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/
https://auth0.com/

You just need to provide a hook on the app/website to authenticate.

Not sure if you can completely get away from doing any kind of database. I bet you'll need to store some kind of user state. Again, try amazon dynamodb, or their Postgresql alternative, all cloud hosted with backups.

Now some comments:

- Founders demanding "unhackable" implementation. Be clear, explain you'll do your best to ensure that is the case, but even large companies with 1,000s of developers and security professionals are still getting hacked. Explain there is no way you can provide a guarantee (so that later it does not become reason for dismissal or something like that). And whoever will guarantee unhackable solution is simply lying.

- If I understand correctly, there are 2 founders (idea people), and you are the first programmer. If that is the case, you are the sole person responsible for implementation, design, support, hardware, deployment, networking.. and other stuff. And you got 6% of equity... I would question that.

Good luck
Can you build a successful startup in 40 hours per week?
A good way of doing without a precise scale is to do what cocaine users do: push the substance so that it's arranged in a regular linear shape, and then you can measure lengths instead of weights. Makes it easy to fraction tiny amounts of powdery substances.
Some rulings against Citizens United would have been tyrannical, it was and is a very complicated question where assets of a campaign like their access to media and a copy shop offering to print bulletins for free can become really sticky questions.

The US needs to heavily reform how election funding, free speech and volunteered labour all relate and it is a complicated question. But Citizens United did take us a big step in the wrong direction by lowering the impact of individuals' expression of free speech in relation to financial endorsement.
> I now use a dumbphone because I dislike smartphones for other reasons. There are many, many successful people who can function perfectly well without the latest iPhone.

I'm curious - how do you handle navigation (both in car and on foot) with a smartphone?
What does it matter whether the newspaper is paid cash, or the PR firm writes the article for them? In both cases, they're getting something of value in return for favorable coverage.
Prions are like gamma-induced bit flips, Viroids are like small code patches, and Viruses are self-deploying code patches.
Discusses the creation of a kinder, gentler graphics app of some kind but does not describe how it was better. Peters out with common funding issues. Cameo by Peter Gabriel added little.
Have you ever used the grouped rooms feature mentioned in that reddit comment? Seems pretty cool.
Have you ever to talked a therapist? Change is extremely hard, but always possible.
Janitors were providing value whether or not Bear's long exposure to MBSs were too large.

The same applies to traders, etc.

My dentist fixing my toothache still provided value to me even if I die of a massive heart attack in two months.
From the blog post:

> We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.

Yeah, imagine how that can go at other "trustworhy" companies holding your personal and credit card data :(
> Tableau is the best at getting non-technical users to be instantly productive

I keep hearing that this is Tableau's big selling point. And yet, as exactly the kind of "non-technical" user coming from the world of Excel, it has been astounding to me just how user-unfriendly Tableau is.

Want to create a line chart? No clear way of doing it other than messing around with Tableau's implementation of pivot tables, randomly dropping metrics and dimensions into boxes until it resembles a chart.

Want to not guess blindly and follow Tableau's tutorials? Prepare to sign in on every single video tutorial page. Opened multiple tabs? You'll have to sign in on each one. Refreshing the page won't do anything.

I have no idea how they compete with something like PowerBI.
> Can you imagine debugging your C/C++/Rust/Go/... programs by adding printf everywhere and re-run the whole thing ?

I'd say 90%-95% of the time that's entirely sufficient.

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." - Brian Wilson Kernighan
> we have no evidence

I know you can't say "no one did", but I wish announcements like this gave some level of confidence. "All API calls are logged and no 3rd party made calls that exploited this vulnerability" is very different from "We have no idea if anyone used this, but there's no proof that they did".

I mean, one has to assume your data was exposed anyway, but still, it'd be nice to know.
Those credentials are just a textbox. You can say you're an expert in anything.
There must be someone in your company doing some form of business analysis? Probably in spreadsheets. Talk to them, especially about aspects of their work that involve probability. Don't expect to find a problem that looks exactly like one in the Tensorflow tutorial; you may have to get creative and you may have to do some maths with a more old-school flavour.
Sorry, not on-topic but how were you able to navigate the archive? I can't get to old episodes easily.
There exists no integer whose representation is an infinite sequence of digits. In other words, "1..." is not an integer, neither is "...1". Even though there is an infinite number of integers, every integer has a finite representation. On the other hand, the set of infinite bitstrings has a trivial bijection to the real numbers in the interval [0, 1) and thus to the real numbers as a whole. This is a key point in Cantor's diagonal argument.
Pick a report with lots of numerical columns that your company is currently having accounting or the CFO "interpret" into a go-no go decision. Implement logistic regression.

There may be a way you can do some computer vision tasks for quality control in some parts of your business -- most businesses that deal in physical goods have quality control by visual inspection and in most of those you can end up with a CNN that provides a quick enough, good enough solution. However, sometimes for regulatory reasons it's not practical, or it's something that is not a critical part of the chain, and so on. But you could ask operations staff about whether they sometimes do that kind of task, and whether it takes up a lot of their day. It's not like you have to find the good idea alone.
I thought the title expressed what the article was about very clearly, and I expect most people will feel the same.
What else has been done since 1994? Don't really follow C++.
GoPro does develop its mobile apps, camera software and hardware, and cloud offerings. You can get a flavor for what the company is working on here: https://gopro.com/careers/jobs
i do so very much miss fuckedcompany.com

RIP pud
1) You could use ML to assess the on-time reliability of each of your delivery agents (contractors or individuals). Providing more accurate estimates of delivery time to customers (maybe via text message) might be very desirable. Or you could notify only when expected delivery time has changed (arriving earlier or later). For Just In Time-based shops, this could be a big win.

2) You could assess different delivery routes/ regions to determine if they are more/less on-time than other routes/ regions. Are the number of delivery vehicles adequate? When should you adjust the number of vehicles or change the routes themselves (like moving some peripheral regions to another route, or adjusting the cost charged when delivery is delayed).

3) When do external factors (like weather, esp rain or snow) introduce delays? Can you predict these delays, and ideally, compensate by changing routes or adding more delivery vehicles?

4) Should you more dynamically adjust your shipping fees to reflect faster/slower delivery time targets? This way you can tune your routes and manpower to save money for those who aren't as time sensitive, and improve the response time for those who are.

A lot of this is basic operations research. But you can call it AI, or use AI techniques just as well as traditional OR methods. Nobody will care what math/methods you use if you can add value.
Agreed.

(Although it's (2^m) sequences, where m is the largest index of the n.)
Day 10 – jmp starting your work flow
STK Token – Women in Fintech Series: Looking Back and Moving Forward
> Bill Paxton: (colleague at the Augmentation Research Center, who participated in the demo) Remember—put yourself back. This was a group, an entire group, sharing a computer that is roughly as powerful . . . If you measure computing power in iPhones, it was a milli-iPhone. It was one one-thousandth of an iPhone that this group was using for 10 people. It was nuts! These guys did absolute miracles.
Cats hunting is a problem regardless of whether or not there are fed. It has zero to do with their 'morality'.

The problem is any cats that wander around killing multiple birds. So many people have cats that even a small percentage of them doing this is super destructive to the local birds.
Because mathematics is more about the abstract patterns and structures, rather than the meaning of individual variables (as it is for programming).

More bluntly, it doesn’t matter what a and b are here, only the overall meaning of demorgans laws. Arguably, giving them names that are any more than minimal signifiers actually detracts from what’s important I.e. the relationship of the law is important, not the variables Bob and Sally. Personally, having the variables called bob and sally actually makes it harder, because the whole expression immediately becomes far more verbose.
I'm currently helping a large company with their transition from Tableau/SAP/Excel to Power BI.

The adoption has been extremely painless and business users are very comfortable creating reports and discovering new ways to represent their data.

In response to your points above...
1) A consultant is not required to set up visualisations. With minimal training (a few hours) most users understand the fundamentals and are ready to go.

2) We use AWS Redshift. You have the option to import data into Power BI or do a direct query from the cloud platform to Redshift with odbc.

3) what are you trying to do with the API?
To automate reports you normally set up a gateway connection to your data source and schedule the refresh in powerbi cloud. No API required normally.

It also can use office 365 or Azure AD for single sign on, making sys admin activities a breeze.

Send me a message if you want to discuss anything specific and I'd be happy to help you out.
Places like Forbes, Inc and Huffpost appear to exist solely for content writers to use their logo on their portfolio websites under the heading "Published In: ".
Can we have Google Reader back now?
New Experimental Console Features
Why don’t you do it?
>i don't see cats as any more problematic than other wildlife

The massive numbers of them are the problem. The only other pet as common is a dog and they don't hunt birds just for the sake of hunting like many cats do.
Equifax Breach “Entirely Preventable” says House Oversight Committee
Perhaps I'm not average, but I certainly liked the ideas of separating my posts to family, close-friends, friendly-friends, and work-friends! Not because of secrecy, but just to be relevant/inoffensive. Not to mention people who DO have parts of their life they want to have, but also have separate. If a student wants to come out of the closet among close friends and discuss things openly without having that in their parents/grandparents/that one uncle's face, that seems like a pretty solid idea.

The only reason I didn't use it on G+ is that no one outside of my RPG circles was on it in the first place.
PowerBI is very well known.
For those cases the only thing you need to stash is money- maybe some gold if you think money might become worthless. Because just leaving the place for somewhere else is a vastly better option than any survivalist fantasy.
I just made a video summarising last week's HN post on Lyft's filing, check it out: https://youtu.be/Wa9uzVYA4K8
New Kerberos backend for Python Social Auth
The day grammar was invented.
Across all species, the brain has universally been sandboxed from the rest of the body for millions of years. It has had plenty of time to evolve traits that are only beneficial in an all-neuron environment, with minimal regard for how those traits would damage other types of cells. Maybe prion behavior that seems destructive outside of the brain is actually a normal part of the long term memory formation process.
The Centuriate assembly was only used to elect three offices: consuls, praetors, and censors.

The plebian assembly, where all votes are equal and senators and equites aren't allowed, elected Tribunes who had an absolute veto over all government activity, including the senate and the consuls, and controlled the treasury.

This is like saying that US senators are with equal state representation, some senators representing hundreds of thousands and others representing tens of millions, therefore the US is an oligarchy. You can't just ignore the rest of the government and its other electoral mechanisms.
It's strange to see them in "main stream" locations though
To make it clearer:

Maps - Acquired 14 years ago

Android - Acquired 13 years ago

Docs - Acquired 12 years ago

YouTube - Acquired 12 years ago

Are we assuming Google didn't change or innovate with those at all in last 10 years?
I still think public transport is a net positive. But completely understand the allure of my own car. Or an Uber managed self driver where each rider rates the past.
Pivotal’s serverless platform is out
Data really has become radioactive.
Victim here. Note that Picard's efforts only help direct investors, or investors in feeder funds that reached an agreemnt with him.

The DoJ separate fund help infirect investors, but after the first refund of 25% of the principal invested, they decided to do not refund customers of feeder funds (or at least of some feeder funds) arguing that we may recover something through Picard.

Some of you commented on the follyness of investing in something that sounds too good to be true. At the time, I had diversified my portfolio in 8 funds. Kingate (the Madoff's feeder fund were I invested) had the lowest average return of all the funds. I ran a correlation test of these funds, and they all had an R of 0.7 - 0.95, except for Kingate, it had a correlation of ~0 with all the other funds across the years. I also compared with the major stock indexes, and it was completely uncorrelated. Its volatility was also super low. I plotted the average returns over a 3 month period for as many years as I had data, and it was a straight line at 9.8% annual return.

It was my first investment and I thought it was fantastic: uncorrelated, stable, a bit low on the returns side compared to the other funds.

Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. I had null previous experience and I just didn't knew how ridiculous these results were, and that this fund had SCAM sprayed all over it.

I was advised by "professionals", which turned out to be nothing more than sellers in fancy suits.
Ok but how do you compete against football? In competing against another tool maker, analyse what people like about their tools that your tools do not have, improve your tools is pretty easy. also variations of this strategy. But you cannot analyse what your tool does not have that football has and replicate it because essentially your woodworking tool has nothing that football has and football has nothing your woodworking tool has.
Thank you! I'm going to take another look and try to get this set up. Looks like udev and device paths will do it:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43361613/how-can-i-ident...
"it would seem right to remove a major burden to rapid development (the old extension format, XPI) in favor of open standards (web workers)."

Perhaps. But it sure would have been better if the new extension system were as capable as the old before axing the extensions. The loss in functionality, for me, is unacceptable. At the heart of it, this is what made me give up entirely on post-57 Firefox.
Simplicity and Collaboration (2015)
Aesthetics in C++ is like /* WRITEME: joke * /.

Actually, the fact that C++ has both more and less aesthetically pleasing subsets is a big problem. It means that different people prefer different ways of doing things for purely visual reasons rather than reasons of overall simplicity and maintainability, and that creates needless conflict and churn.

In contrast, Python has very little variation in aesthetic pleasingness. It's all the same Dutch Utilitarian Modernist, perfectly OK if unexciting to look at (@ metaprogramming is an exception.)

And a contrast in the other direction: nobody ever spent a lot of time tweaking their FORTRAN deck for aesthetics.

Just to pick something on my screen at the moment, consider this C++ from mc-stan:

namespace stan {
namespace math {

namespace {
class cos_vari : public op_v_vari {
public:
explicit cos_vari(vari* avi) : op_v_vari(std::cos(avi->val_), avi) {}
void chain() { avi_->adj_ -= adj_ * std::sin(avi_->val_); }
};
} // namespace

there's like 5 things that irritate me about it. So many underscores!

But the big problem is that aesthetic choices interact in complicated ways with architectural decisions. For example, using operator << as syntactic sugar over .add() is motivated by aesthetics, but it affects how you do encapsulation.

A good language lets you choose your architecture, and then write an aesthetically pleasing program to match.
Are you seriously implying that concept of groups of people is too complicated for most human beings? O.o
That's probably good advice that you could extend to other services too. Oh wait, Yahoo...
How to Dockerize a Node.js application
"I don’t recommend writing a press release at the start of your project, especially one like that."

So even though Doom was wildly successful and (according to Romero) was the most ambitious game development effort before or since, he doesn't advocate that others follow that path?

It's likely that the team worked so hard and achieved such success at least in part to the fact that they had a very clear goal for what they wanted to achieve and that they had publicly announced this goal.

Interestingly, writing a Press Release is the very first step of the "Working Backwards" product development process at Amazon and it is mandatory part of introducing any new product.
> Chromecast and it's probably one of the best things Google has built in recent years.

Yes, I love mine … and yet, why doesn't it have a remote. No, my phone is not a suitable remote: it's locked, so I must unlock it before I can do TV stuff with it. Also, for some reason Chromecast & my phone tend to desync a fair amount of time.

I've never been happy with the Apple TVs I've used, either (the UI is pretty painful), but at least they have remotes.
Apparently state level actors can defeat the watermarking...

> “There’s nothing else like it in the world,” Esteban Israel, beIN’s executive director of technology, said of beoutQ’s level of sophistication. “We work with all the top technology vendors, technology developers. We have our experts, we deploy state of the art technologies and we have not seen this anywhere else.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/sports/bein-sports-qatar-...
We reviewed the Brava oven, which cooks with light
>but if just assumed that from the start I definitely wouldn't have gone out canvassing and trying to convince other people that their votes matter.

Why not? If you can sway the decisions of large numbers of people, that sounds like something that could have an impact on the outcome of the election. Would you feel badly that you were lying to them by telling them their vote mattered?

>If other people like me made similar decisions and didn't vote and didn't try to mobilize

Unless you make the decision to canvas/vote or not canvas/vote collectively, your own thought processes don't determine what those other people do, and wondering about what would happen if they did seems to me like some weird form of solipsism.
I think I see where you're coming from. Humans aren't always rational.

I have a different view. I think the quality of a subset of comments here are appreciably better in some respects than many of the sites you listed. Of course there are contrarian, misinformed pseudointellects, but at the same time, one also gets to hear the unvarnished thoughts of lead developers of specific products (e.g. Timescale, Azure services, D programming language, etc.). I know of no other forum where this is true.

Maybe my mind is used to filtering out stuff I don't care about, so most of the cruft and negativity doesn't really bother me. I also come from an academic tradition where debate and disagreement (high quality or not) is just part of life. To me, it's just a reflection of the world out there -- all forums have their brand of stupidity. HN's just a different kind of stupid from Reddit, and I'm ok with all kinds of stupid as long as there are still good bits that edify me, which is why I keep coming back.

Site(s) like StackOverflow and certain StackExchanges have higher quality exchanges on particular topics, but they aren't designed for discussion. They are heavily constrained Q&A sites. The bar of acceptability is much higher (questions get closed all the time), but the topics also more or less have verifiable answers, which makes it easy to achieve "quality"; this is not true of a general purpose discussion forum. Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow's founder) was interviewed on the MIT AI podcast recently about this, and his answers on how to arrive at high quality online communities were insightful.

Finally, and this is my opinion, the way to counter incorrect and unhelpful discussions isn't to withdraw but to redirect the discussion in more helpful directions by providing correct information and a counterargument. HN is just the aggregate of people who visit it -- the same people have to self-govern it to some extent.
Probably shouldn't have enjoyed an article on concrete this much
The World's Population in 3D
Just a note: any book about Minecraft won't apply to the Pi Edition, which is a specially-made edition based on a _very_ old version of Minecraft.
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