skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why it’s important to create a movement around ‘Explainable AI’
Could you please link me the EDX course site? I am not able to find it. Coursera scrapped it's 2015 version
The people who are working on that are probably not the same ones who would deal with some unrelated issues on other products. It’s not like they decided to not improve the gmail UI because they were working on the ISS project.
No, transistor is like a single dendrite. It's more like logic blocks in fpga. But each real neuron is equivalent to several blocks.
I think you are over glorifying software dev. Most devs don't do google/MSFT/Netflix-style SE. Most do the same crap we do in grad school except they have 100% more meetings and progress reports to fill out.

When you say Bioinformatics, I assume your main skills are in Python? That is going to be a problem as a software dev unless you stick to data science/ML. Professional work requires expertise in Java (boring but necessary) and C++ (hard but efficient). Make sure you understand concurrency/parallelism/locking in your tools/languages.
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In a weird way, I hope this goes horribly wrong, and the super trees become an invasive species that results in an apocolypse of unstoppable forests that dominate the globe.
Immensely difficult. I wouldn’t recommend it. I personally witnessed extremely intelligent PhD students struggle to get any job beyond an adjunct position.

Source: BA in philosophy.
I was looking for something like this about a year ago. The use case was to survey folks in jail and prison, since you can't bring in tablets, etc. But the nonprofit doing them didn't do it on a regular basis, so a monthly fee would've be tough.
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One thing this article omits, and I believe cuts the heart of a larger issue, is that the UK doesn't have a property or land value tax. They have a council tax, which is applied to a household, but there is no tax on holding onto parcels of land indefinitely. As a result, there is no need to know who owns these lands.

The UK especially needs a land value tax as they have one of the highest population densities in europe.
I agree. I used to live in a shitty city, filled with pollution, rather expensive, bad roads, high crime rates, etc... For various reasons, the central government decided (that was like 15 years ago), to invest in another city that is 130km from the said city. It invested in infrastructure, schools, cleanliness and tourism. 15 years later, the clean city is practically a ghost town. The shitty city is shittier but it has gone through an economical and population boom.

Turns out, people from the shitty city were more successful on average; and they decided to stay where their families are. People from the nearby cities didn't decide to move to the shitty one but did so because that's where jobs are.

If there is anything that I learned by traveling cities:

1. Jobs matter. More than you think. They are what attract people to a city.

2. Family relations matter. More than you think. It seems it is what attract people back and make them invest their life savings in a house, small business, etc...
Ye, I think it's a real image. But can't say anything is based on a slider or pop-up camera setup
There are still people who are worshiping old "forgotten" faith; in some cases they're being used by political entities who are incorporating Slavic faith under Pan-Slavism ideology (the further on East in Europe, the more often that happens). In most of the cases the blending between Slavic and Christianity occurred and you can see that Dziady were evolved into All Souls' Day, or Noc Kupały - Kupala Night (Midsummer) turned into St. John's Day and so on.

But this is not exclusive to Slavic faith - absorption of cults happened in the history many times when those on a stronger position were conquering those who were weaker. Slavs had to abandon their faith in the face of growing Christianity and baptize, turn themselves into Christians in order to avoid being raided by neighbors and treated as infidels.
Ask HN: How do you simplify your research process?
I am conducting a research in ML/QC and was wondering what are the tools or automation tips/tricks you use to simplify your research process? For example, One of things I do is, I setup an alert on google alerts to stay updated on certain keywords which pop-ups on the internet. Also, if you could briefly share your research process for any given subject, would be great.
Do the thing that is most available to you first
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They can’t spend any money right now, it would have to be prepaid not just auto-renewed
I don’t see anything in that about cutting accrued benefits, which require bankruptcy to change, and would be huge news as it was for Detroit and Rhode Island. NJ has hundreds of billions in unfunded accrued benefits, I.e. debt.
Some of these pages are on he HSTS preload list. Browsers won’t let you manually click through to accept the expired cert. Those are effectively down for all intents and purposes.
You must be fun to work with. I’ve worked in 10 person companies, and it’s the sort of place where there’s nowhere to hide. By extension you generally won’t find slackers in a small company.
It could also be free and automated (let’s encrypt)
Nothing to do with SSL, but a fair amount of US government websites are hard down, on purpose, due to the funding dilemma.

Like: https://www.data.gov

"Due to a lapse in government funding all Data.gov websites will be unavailable until further notice."

Which is pretty odd, because putting up these blocker pages probably costs more than just letting the sites run unattended.
Strictly speaking, Capitalism says that the Capitalists get to choose which option they go with.

In a system with healthy incentives, we might expect Option 1 to be the sensible capitalist equilibrium, because capital needs to be maintained and the builders/maintainers become the same people.

Don't forget that, in theory, the workers can become capitalists themselves if they aren't getting a good share of the benefits. In my view usually when they don't it is because of government interference (eg, the pre-Uber situation in taxis, or how regulation tends to entrench existing players).
They would have to change the honeypots often.

Scammers are fully aware that banks will also use the data to find other stolen cards.

You get reports that 100 people what their details breached. You look though their transactions. The one thing they all used was momandpopsidebusiness.com for small transactions.

These were prob test transactions so now you start looking for other customers whose cards fall under the same pattern and let the other banks know of your findings.

So scammers will use many “test sites” so if one get found it doesn’t it doesn’t knock out their whole batch.

And word would also quickly spread that cctesterrorscammers.com is a honeypot used by the banks and card processors.

You could look at it like they don’t need the honeypots at all as they just need a few customers to report activity on their accounts and then they can start looking at the data they already have on file.
Well you have to be careful with the data.

Firstly, inflation stats don't track every price. In particular they don't track house prices (directly) or the prices of financial instruments like debt, stocks, etc. So money printing that pours into the stock market will cause a market bubble whilst inflation stats stay stubbornly low.

Secondly it's possible businesses have adapted to increased minimum wage laws by simply automating those jobs away. I see a lot of robotic airline checkin desks and McDonalds order takers these days.
I kind of figured, given the elegance and simplicity of the language we are talking about.

When you say "the Blue Book", do you mean Inside Smalltalk: Volume I?
Sounds like the backstory of a particular episode of the long forgotten show Space:1999 where the protagonists are put on trial by trees for murdering a flower. If you're a nostalgia buff you can watch it on youtube [0].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhp6ttslQJY
I have always found the use of Venn Diagrams for this purpose utterely confusing, and even wrong headed. Bravo.
Ahh, good catch, thanks.
It's not unsual to layoff 10% of your workforce in hardware companies but it is unusual for a "growing" company. To put in perspective Pratt and Whitney laid off about 10-15% a couple years ago when they were in between the phasing out of the old engine and ramping up the new engine. Sometimes companies are unlucky because there is a drought where the demand for the new stuff is lower than the demand of old stuff but you have to phase it out to maintain product lifecycles for sustainable growth.
But 2% annual growth is normal for developed economies. The USA with 4% under Trump is really kicking it and that looks unsustainable.

Also I thought economists believed 5% unemployment was something of a lower bound, that there's always a bit of natural unemployment as people move around between jobs - you can't actually ever hit zero.

So I'm not sure from these stats why South Korea thinks they have a growth or employment problem. It doesn't look like it. The primary driver of economic growth in advanced economies with stable populations is productivity increases and those come from technological advancement, which isn't going to be much affected by minimum wages.
I use index cards and pen/pencil. i keep them around me car/home etc and I write ideas, to do list, whatever on them and as I finish/archive what I wrote on the card I toss it away. Please note I am an old person
I don't think modern prefetch is linear/fifo.
Seemed like a good idea. It certainly helped me to get inti the topic.
I found it interesting they highlight the decentralized nature of email. And yet the decentralized design meant spam was basically unsolvable. It wasn’t until Gmail came along that they largely solved the spam problem.

There are so many abuse related issues on the web and I’ve seen no decentralized effort that works unfortunately. Cloudflare brought cost effective DDoS protection to the masses.
Not supporting SNI will get you a certificate error, but you’ll still be able to connect. What’s more likely is that old IE only supports SSLv3, which is disabled on most servers in light of POODLE.

https://disablessl3.com
An application with access to bits in your pod can always copy that data to its own storage right? e.g., a Facebook built on Solid can still grab all the data it needs (with the requisite perms) and store it away, build a profile per WebID, continue serving "cached" copies of changed content, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
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I, as the author, have changed the title here because for this audience I think this title is more expressive. For people who visit the blog directly the title there is appropriate, but I think this title is better here.
No, I mean "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation".

The Xerox PARC books about Smalltalk-80 are known by their cover colors, green, red and blue.
That he took a photo of a visible light laser and it wasn't the car's IR laser?

Or just that lasers in general are known to do this and the car's laser probably did it?
The first chapter of SICP is entirely relying on mathematical examples because data structures are not introduced before the second chapter. The book expect the reader to have a solid base in calculus.
on plus side, Google asked the cell companies not to cell Fi customers location data...
There are way too many stories like this around. Something goes wrong a scary amount of the time, and Google just have no useful process. It desperately needs a centralised "customer service" team who have the power to override literally anyone else in Google to sort this shit out.
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Really well done, but I agree with one of the comments in there: need to add patterns to the solid colors; it would differentiate for color blind folks and in general make the relationships easier to grasp.
I dog food the project management module of an app we built (it's a glorified list with time and completion tracking) - https://usebx.com/app
You're right but also wrong - people generalise about "the government" even though it's a large collection of entities because on average their performance is characterisable as worse than "the market" would be. Whilst you can have incredibly efficient and well run government departments, there's no particular incentive for people to run their departments well, doing so is difficult and so the noticeable trend is that they aren't.

The evidence that this stereotype is true is overwhelmingly strong, so, it's perfectly legitimate to set policy around it.
I think your argument missed the point that said assholes were behaving like that toward her and not the other male peers, over what seems to be a multi-year career.
Maybe. I know nothing about the offerings of these sites but they may be replacing interactive sites where you can access services with a static page.
Maybe the worry is letting them run unattended when no one is allowed to do maintenance/security work in the event of a problem?
Not really the same thing, SICP is about the practice of programming and the effects of abstraction. TAOCP is more like a recipe book of algorithms.
Also in the above thread, were a few government workers. One explained it was policy to powerdown all servers, except the one hosting that error page, though they weren't aware of the reason for such a policy.
The parking spaces for cars are specifically marked by the city.

Your sarcastic analogy would make sense if people just parked cars anywhere they wanted without repercussions.

I would have no problem if the city took away parking spots for cars and said park them there.

I wish I could give you more than 1 downvote.
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High performance buildings, both newbuild and retrofit. Another case where the problem is solved technically, but that's not the issue. The issues are organisational, political and other 'soft' reasons which make it more difficult than flicking a switch in a democracy.
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I have friends at Google that are L5. When my AdWords account was suspended (long story but if you Google AdWords banned my hackernoom article explains) one of them tried to file a ticket on my behalf. Went nowhere. As far as I can tell internal actions like that go the same route as tickets that I file as a normal person. So don't let having googler friends give you a false sense of security.
So? You sell your exploits to another dev at a fraction of the bounty, other devs so the same for you.
It’s not like that puts up any real obstacle.
I've come to terms with the fact that I'm never going to have enough time in life to do everything I want to do. And I'm okay with that—I always have something on the list that I feel is worth doing, so it's hard to lose a sense of purpose.

When I'm overwhelmed with must-dos (rather than just want-to-dos), I try to remind myself that I just need to be doing something. It might not be the perfectly optimal thing to be doing at that particular time (though often it is), but it is indisputably better than paralysis.
I had an epiphany of sorts about this when working on a freelance project with a client who was particularly organized. They had a kanban board split up into Inbox (ideas and incoming features and bugs), Backlog (accepted tasks), In Progress (doing right now), Review (for others to look at), and Complete columns.

At the beginning of a sprint, the project manager sat down for about 10 minutes and looked at all the cards in the inbox and decided if any should be moved to the backlog. He then rearranged the cards from most to least important.

This prevented the need to think at all when working on the project - I just took the top card from the backlog and put it into in progress until it was done.

I realized, why don't I do this for my own projects too? Since my own projects aren't paid, I for some reason think they should just be able to be done without organization. I've implemented this same system in Trello for arbitrary projects and it seems to work well when I use it. Also nice that it makes it easy to collaborate if relevant but that isn't required.

It's a hard problem though - figuring out how to "Just Get Things DoneTM" is a skill that requires trial and error to figure out what you'll actually stick to, but in some ways is the most important thing to figure out.

I also highly recommend the book The One Thing - my coach recommended it to me and though it started a little fluffy the second and third sections were solid. In short, doing less helps a lot.

The Twelve Week Year is another book with some good ideas - instead of planning long into the future, plan only on a quarterly basis, and have that quarter align with your grand vision for the future.

Happy to chat more about this, as it's a problem I've wrasseled with a lot too as a self-employed freelancer. My email's in my profile.
I'm using the Bullet Journal method
I guess, but it's likely the seldom used blocker page code has security and/or maintenance issues too.
Realize that this behavior is just fancy procrastination. I can collect recipes all day, but it won't make me a better cook.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing an influx of Nigerian scammers in Facebook groups?
I admin a niche FB group for golfers, more specifically for owners of a particular brand of launch monitor / golf sim software that runs around $3-5K to install in your home. A normal day usually sees around 25 legit requests to join the group.

Over the last 3-4 weeks, I’ve been getting around 100 requests/day to join from mostly Nigerian individuals who joined Facebook within the last couple of months. Most of them are members already of hundreds of unrelated groups and never answer my simple signup question, or do so in their own language.

Is everyone dealing with this, or is my group special? Do you think they’re bots?
*Embroidered.

And that is really interesting.
You’re right, that was an illogical argument. However, it’s important to recognise that the Land Registry as it exists isn’t just a public copy of the data (useful for research, public policy etc.) - it’s the single source of truth about land ownership. Once your land is registered, ownership disputes operate differently, whether you’re holding the deeds or not.

And I am not a lawyer btw so take all this with a pinch of salt :)
It is clickbaity. It is also wrong, indeed. But it's used here in the same way a person would say to a friend "You're insane!", when hearing of that person's unusual feat (like making 10000 wikipedia edits in the last month).
http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/MIT-SAT-scores-GPA

(First google result, I didn’t verify further)

It is admittedly only a proxy, but the entrance SAT math scores for MIT students are 770 for the 25th percentile and 800 at the 75th percentile.

Put another way: the test that is a helpful differentiator of intellectual ability of the general college population is not a good differentiator for the MIT population because a large proportion max out the scale.
I have a trello board with all personal ideas/projects. New idea? Write it down. Have some spare time? Do some work on one of the ideas/project. Trick is to optimize setup on anything you do in the way that it takes seconds to start working. For that you have to know an overview of what needs to be done and setup process should be as painless as possible.

Hardest for me in that regard are hardware projects. I don't really have any dedicated hardware workbench. So every time I have to get all my boxes out, all my equipment (soldering station, meeters, etc) and then pack it back. Which usually means I don't have enough time to do actual work.
I believe RADAR was a technology that was honed during the war that had a significant impact. They had experimental RADAR before Pearl Harbor but thought it was a glitch when they saw the Japanese approaching. I’m pretty sure later the newer more advanced sets had a significant impact on Uboat hunting.
I am afraid this is the beggining of the collapse of Us standard of living. Developer with 20 years of experience from greece and PhD. Working for goverment for 6 dollars per hour.
I'm trying Github projects this year. Maybe it helps.
Keep your eye on YC S18 company Curebase:

https://www.curebase.com

I believe they will be pretty well positioned to offer a service like this.

Disclosure: I start working there on Monday!
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Beam is incorporating a BBS system that presumably could be used for secure communications as well (ow how could it be secure for setting up a tx?).

Won't Grin have to do something similar that would support secure messaging in order for users to build txs in a secure and easy way?
I have a 24” x 18” whiteboard that has a Kanban layout on it. Smaller postit notes let me put a lot of things up and I follow the simple “Todo, In Progress, Done” column model. It’s on the wall at home where I have to look at it every day at least a few times.
I'm surprised that bearer shares have been banned around the world for quite a while now, yet land can be held anonymously without issues.
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It would drive her crazy - so much clutter, but she can't just open some door to throw it away
How would she know this? There's no way she can account for all the crap her peers (male or female) have put up with unless she's bugged meetings, wiretapped phones, hacked emails...

Very little corporate slimebaggery makes its way out into the open.

They weren't treating male co-workers that way to her knowledge.
It's the best book I've found for actually teaching people how to solve problems using programming, rather than just learning semantics.

I use it for continuing education at a company, the only complaint I've heard from people is that it's very deliberately paced.

I do wish there was an equivalent that used a statically typed language, because the actual approach is very fundamentally based on types. I've spoken with the authors about this, and the reasoning was twofold: 1. people are going to have to deal with unityped languages in industry; 2. existing error messages for static languages were bad. At this point, something like Elm might be a good fit, although you'd lose out on lispy things like quasiquote.
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The page seems to be coming from S3, I see "Server: AmazonS3" in the headers, and some other typical Amazon headers. Also has Google Analytics, which is interesting for a Government website.
Propaganda is Advertising in the erstwhile Eastern bloc and the Axis powers when thry existed. In other words our advertising is their propaganda.
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Another thought I once realized - I think early on in my career I heard about Agile and thought it meant "not planning at all". This seems to _not_ be true at all but I think it made me subtly opposed to planning. I now see that it is more about shorter iterations, and The Twelve Week Year talks a lot about effective "just in time" planning, on a day, week, and quarterly basis.
I think they just don’t care. If anything, if they exceed the capacity of a lot of machines the customers will have to buy new machines and new Windows licenses.