skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it makes it a little easier to script forging an HTTPS cert. People here think that is easy, but it isn't. It involves real humans and real bullshit interfaces. If you get nailed with using a fake credit card its easy for any government to figure out that you also pwnd a website, but people here think in all-or-nothing terms for almost everything.

I've worked on multiple projects with credit card fraud. I've helped the Canadian government with both cybercrime and machine learning. When I say 98% of criminals are dumb, I really fucking mean it. Not everyone is USG. Most governments are worse-resourced than your run-of-the-mill startup. But people don't want to hear that scriptable HTTPS has downsides and people that are in positions that come with social cache rarely listen. They end up becoming the next generation of people with blinders on. I helped with projects that threw over a dozen people in jail. We got them on two things: IP addresses and financial transactions. Let's Encrypt takes away one possible way we could have gotten them. But people on HN are so deluded about what actual crime looks like.

You know how the vast majority of programmers are these dumb PHP coders that cobble together a Wordpress site? Crime is the same thing only worse. They have no fucking clue what they're doing. They bruteforce passwords and use exploits that target long-out-of-day vulns.
> Chris Dixon is saying that the people most likely to know the “a secret” about a business opportunity are people who have deep domain expertise

Which unicorns were started by people with deep domain knowledge? Struggling to think of any, but that may be a lack of imagination.
> I've found the McD's self-order UX pretty good. What's bad about it (as someone that hasn't used any other restaurant's self-order).

My annoyances are particularly as compared to Japanese-style ordering machines, which in my experience are simple, reliable, fast, and easy to use. My complaints, off the top of my head:

* Responsiveness to touch feels about a decade behind consumer capacitive touch displays.

* Gratuitous animations are slow.

* For a simple order where you know exactly what you want, there are far too many steps. (IIRC, for a black coffee, the button tapping flow goes something like this: English -> Hot Beverages -> Coffee -> Small -> Add to Cart -> Checkout -> Paying with card -> Paying with Bank card.) And you have to deal with the slow/bad touch response and animations for every one of these screens.

* There's no way to avoid the machine spitting out a BPA-covered thermal paper receipt. (Other than the receipt dispensation being out of order, which happens pretty frequently.)

> It's the supermarket self-checkout UX horrible

Oh, we have our own egregious example of that up in Canada, where the largest grocery chain in the country got rid of most of the text on self-checkouts in favour of just icons: https://www.blogto.com/tech/2018/05/loblaws-self-checkout-sy...
I am also a fan of Da Liu. I think that Da Liu’s novel sci-fi color is only a part of it. It brings us more of his thoughts on human nature in a close-up environment. It is worth pondering.
Bring Your Own Team Update: BYOT Is Being Sunset (2017)
Exactly, they are quite often a back end system for many major companies.

For simply that reason, they work and rarely have any issues. The problem is that those with the expertise to manage them and fix them in the event that things do go wrong are diminishing. And that's a big risk for businesses.
Ask HN: What books should we get non-technical product managers to read
I should add that the product manager in question is quite interested in book suggestions -- we're not foisting this on him.
SICP Goodness – Functional V.s. Object Oriented Programming?
I was blown away by the beginning of that book. Was not expecting something coming out of contemporary China to be so pointedly, brutally critical of the revolution.
What version are you on? Aside from existing “pod” structure, the newer module unification feature follows a structure more in line with what you describe.

Which addons are problematic? I don’t doubt they exist but seems like any large/complex framework will suffer that problem. EmberData is a separate project from emberjs core.

How does vue+vuex+vue router or equiv react setup avoid same issues?
I don't mean to come off as unnecesarily dismissive of the author, but I have serious doubts about the quality of their MBA education after I read this sentence: "The situation in this industry has created a mercenary frenzy where everyone is running around trying to maximize what they’re able to make per hour." That describes the general trend in human behavior worldwide for the past six thousand or so years. This seems like such a foundational truth that I question if the author is writing it in good faith.

The author seems to have the numbers straight in terms of personnel costs required to run a sustainable business, but what's confusing to me is that this analysis was not run before they decided to start this business. It seems like the numbers were hopelessly unfavorable pretty much any way you cut them. To me, that says that there simply wasn't a business worth creating.

I acknowledge that the problems outlined in this piece are real. The commentary about the SF healthcare plan only being available within the city limits when many of its beneficiaries live far away calls attention to how badly dysfunctional our healthcare system is. Nevertheless, I keep coming back to the conclusion that most of the hardship (on behalf of the author) here was self inflicted. Running a restaurant is generally a very poor means of making a living as the author repeatedly points out. It's great that this person was following their passion, but doing so is usually expensive.

As a mental exercise to the outraged reader of this article, try substituting the word restaurant with the word yacht and all the positions with various nautical ones. I think you'll find yourself a lot less sympathetic. I'd argue that they're semantically identical in this case.
If the system becomes that large and profitable, those surveillance drones are going to end up mounted on plaques like big game trophies.
> But if you're trying to show that the editors are making biased decisions because of preconceived notions, submitting data that supports their notions is not evidence of them making biased decisions.

I think you've missed the point of this.

> Edit: For the record, I do think academia, especially in some areas of humanities, is very biased but this study is just not well done imo.

How? These papers are basically nonsense, but were accepted because they draw conclusions that are vaguely in line with the political whims of the journals, that's the whole point.

One simple question it answers is: would journals publish Mein Kampf if men were "the Jews"? It is a qualitative question, not a quantitative one, so it is sufficient to demonstrate that one such paper is published.
And Alinea sells tickets like a ballgame. When you are at that level you can do whatever you want, but most restaurateurs don't have that flexibility.
Another of his books Snow Crash, which is kind of precursor to Diamond Age had some pretty interesting predictions.

I read somewhere stuff like Second Life, Google Earth etc were directly inspired by Snow Crash.

There's some other themes in Snow Crash we are just starting to see as well:

-Government difficulties with taxation of digital goods and currency

-Companies competing to attract drivers/messengers etc (basically the uber/gig ecconomy)

-For profit surveillance and commercialization of intelligence data
I don’t know. Maybe we should create different categories of work. You are right about technical training.

While people like him ought to be responsible wrt procreation and family planning...surely there has to be something from this side of job market too?

Maybe restaurants WILL disappear. Like movie theatres and book stores and retail eventually will..in that case, cooking is a skill. Perhaps there has to be a program where they can cook for students or in offices with ten clients. Regulations has to be relaxed. CA food laws and business licenses are too stringent and difficult to navigate.

I also want to say that in CA..being reliant on undocumented laborers in the restaurant industry has created an artificial pricing. Food is cheap but rent is high. Labour has become the unmanageable variable while in fact, food was cheap because the savings from hiring cheap labour was passed on to the customer.

Or maybe the solution is going to be universal health care and universal basic income. That might be another possibility but whats happening right now isn’t sustainable.
I had the same experience with the first book, and never proceeded further. I kinda wonder if it's a translation/cultural issue - the characters' decision making processes and the ways things were described felt very foreign to me.
Can you think of a Western science fiction novel that portrays eugenics in a positive light?

Sterling’s Shapers come to mind, but it’s not common.
"Parallel Construction" ... yep, sad times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
I've been using Javascript more than anything for the past 3-4 years. Still using Perl on the server side.

Aside from those I use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap and jQuery on the front end.
But if customers pay in peanuts and you have to offer staff cashew or macadamias to attract enough skilled employees, you might find you have a non-viable business.
Using a terminal on Linux is common. Using X11 on macOS is not.
That detail was rather jarring to me.
Incredibly good reasons for extensive review of human research can be found here, for the skeptical or curious: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/timel...

Another more recent one: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/Story?id=4741269&pag...

More examples aren't hard to find at all, including the case last year of the gene-edited girls: https://gizmodo.com/chinese-scientist-who-created-crispr-bab...

When you've got a burning question in mind and visions of tremendous benefits for all humanity (or saving some academic fields from themselves) it seems like a good idea to get your ideas reviewed.
> Why 8s though? That’s well into “give up on loading this page, close the tab and try somewhere else” territory.

That 8s timeout is for loading the AMP JS from the CDN. You want a time limit that separates "you're on a slow connection, keep waiting" and "just give up, it's not worth it". I suspect it was set by looking at network graphs, but I don't know.

What the OP is doing, blocking JS and also ignoring <noscript>, is bizarre, and something you should expect to break sites.

> Perhaps a better option is finding ways to prevent content jumping around so much while assets are loading.

AMP does that very well, but only by taking control of the process of rendering, which requires JS.

(Disclosure: I work on making ads be AMP.)
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That's fair.

Both sides usually blame each other. During the Obama administration, there was a government shutdown as well. Democrats blamed the Republican congress, Republicans blamed Obama and the Democrats.

It really does (or should) take cooperation when things are as evenly distributed as they are. I only wish there were incentives for the politicians to work faster.
I'd also be very curious to know more about this.
So basically there's a "bootloader" which can be used to upload new "ROMs" into the payload? Sounds like a sensible way to do it.
The update is at the bottom:

> Update: After spending about a year on the BYOT experiment, we’ve decided to sunset it. In short, it didn’t work; we didn’t hire any teams as a result.

> There were a few reasons for this, which we learned along the way. First, coordinating multiple career moves at once is even more logistically tricky than we realized. Many candidates who considered BYOT ended up applying as individuals. Second, much of the interest in BYOT came from talented teams in countries where Stripe isn’t yet ready or able to hire full-time employees. We’re excited to be in touch with some of these teams again when we expand to their home countries.

> We’ll be taking much of what we learned through this experiment and applying it to our standard hiring process. For example, many candidates appreciated the explicit guidance for what to expect when interviewing, and the timeline on which to expect it. We’re also still open to allowing multiple candidates who know each other to apply at the same time, without the BYOT structure; if you’re interested, come talk to us. While we’re sorry this experiment didn’t work out, we’re never done tweaking and improving our hiring process. If you’ve got suggestions, let us know!
As far as I can tell the hoax did fail. As I recall from the authors' writeup, the initial round of hoax papers they sent out all got rejected. By any reasonable standard they could/should have stopped right there and published a paper called "social science journals aren't as gullible as we thought".

Instead they iterated on the papers, and kept iterating until they got something published. What's bizarre is that the authors don't seem to realize that this changed the whole nature of their study, and they were now testing a completely different thesis than the one they set out to test.
Well, thanks for letting this discussion through so we can decide for ourselves.
For what it's worth to you, I still remember the first time I watched Windows detect that a folder was full of MP3s and enumerate artist/album data alongside the other typical file attributes, and feeling that it showed a big step in its development. It felt like something close to magic for Explorer to be able to do that.
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The tldr from my reading is that Pearl thinks you can't ascend the "ladder of causality" with pure DL -- i.e. while you can make associations to answer simple probabilistic questions, you can't create a system that can answer questions like "if this intervention is made at t0, what is the likely outcome at t1?" or consider counterfactuals like "would my mother have lived longer if she didn't drink?"

You'd probably be best served by reading Pearl himself, his recent Book of Why is good, this much earlier paper[0] kind of lays out a few things too as for his reasoning that causal inference needs different tools. There's also some stuff in the blogosphere about an earlier dispute you might find fun, i.e. the methods of using causal inference tools. Example[1].

[0] https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r284-reprint.pdf

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/07/05/disputes_a...
If black-tea had a good connection at a time when the rest of us were on dial-up, and all the sites were coded expecting dial-up, they may well have seen excellent load times!

(But yeah, I remember the internet being super slow. JPEGs coming down scanline-by-scanline.)
A Small Margin of Error
A thumbs up for the elegant interface.
Didn't Amazon recently patent something of the sort?
The most important code I ever wrote was as a phd student. No one uses that code, but they use the concepts behind it every single day.

The Q was how does one manage large numbers of heterogeneous containers (VM sprawl was already considered a problem, but we said if containers took over the sprawl would be worse). At the time the primary container mechanism was Solaris Zones and people uses ZFS clone functionality to create per zone container file systems. However, this only really helps if your containers are homogeneous. I built a system that created container file systems out of composable layers. One would define template file systems as a collection of layers that are stored in local and remote layer repositories and these layers would be instantly unioned together on demand when one provisioned new containers. We also demonstrated that since heterogeneous containers are now easy to manage, we can not just use containers as lower overhead but similarly long lived VM replacements, but also enable them to be used ephemerally, opening up many new use cases.

You probably know of this by a different name today.
Only if you want to market it as 'AI'.
The upper middle class in SF isn't a bunch of asshole NIMBYs who tip badly any more than the lower class is just a bunch of low-life drug dealers. It's a baseless stereotype on both ends. And possibly the most vociferous group blocking housing, Calle 24, is predominately lower class. So I'm not sure it's helpful to paint people with that brush.

Incidentally, I think the young new-money transplants that the author trashes in her article are likely to be more sympathetic on this issue than SF native homeowners.
You might want to redefine "freedom" for yourself. I personally struggle with this too, but I find it useful to remember; I can still go down the street, buy something to eat, then go to town and see all that's around.
How would a restaurant be in any way analogous to a yacht? I own a boat, it is not a place of public accommodation. The neighborhood is not better off because I have a place to hang out with my family and friends. The point being, this article is not one person complaining that they can't "follow their passion". It's someone pointing out that the economics make running a restaurant untenable in SF. Restaurants have always been run on razor thin margins, but the piece makes a compelling case that it's tipped beyond that.
Your comments here amount to bitter insulting stereotypes, without any support by evidence or analysis, or any real engagement with the people you disagree with. To an outside bystander with no stake in whatever game you are playing, this kind of uglyness largely discredits whatever point you were trying to make.

I would recommend keeping such rhetoric off of this forum. It doesn’t lead in a direction of productive conversation, and it feeds negative stereotypes about scientists/techies. There are many better venues for venting.
Okay, I guess not. It wouldn't be right to deny someone a position based on that feature unless there were a way to link it to being abusive or something. When I said I agree with your sentiment I was just trying to avoid pissing OP off rather than connecting on something I thought all the way through. So what I'm really trying to say is I'm a liar.
Have you tried to do this? At any substantial volume? If you serve ads completely statically you're going to have massive fraud issues. Distinguishing real views or clicks from fake ones is an arms race, and it's one you have no hope of winning without JS.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, but I don't know much about how our spam detection works and I couldn't talk about it if I did.)
>> It's not like his complaints aren't being addressed in the field, they are just not easy problems (transfer learning, world models)

Machine learning is rapidly losing its ability to innovate as a field and the reason is the extreme focus on deep learning for classification- and secondarily the fact that the billions of corporate funding now attract researchers from the sciences who have no background in computer science or AI and haven't got a clue what the fuss is about that people like Perl are making.

Here it is from Hinton himself:

One big challenge the community faces is that if you want to get a paper published in machine learning now it's got to have a table in it, with all these different data sets across the top, and all these different methods along the side, and your method has to look like the best one. If it doesn’t look like that, it’s hard to get published. I don't think that's encouraging people to think about radically new ideas.

Now if you send in a paper that has a radically new idea, there's no chance in hell it will get accepted, because it's going to get some junior reviewer who doesn't understand it. Or it’s going to get a senior reviewer who's trying to review too many papers and doesn't understand it first time round and assumes it must be nonsense. Anything that makes the brain hurt is not going to get accepted. And I think that's really bad.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-...
> An iOS app can't extract my contacts unless I grant permission, yet an application installed on Ubuntu via `apt` can casually start rummaging around my home directory which I won't know about unless I spend considerable time on mandatory access control profiles, isolation through containerisation or virtualisation, or something equally esoteric for the average user.

Fwiw, this is becoming increasingly less true on macOS. And the newer Macs also have secure enclaves.

I'm generally not a fan of the trend, as it means more hoops for me to jump through, and I'm not convinced I benefit from this level of security. But, it is much closer to iOS.
I was taught in school that average can refer to mean, median or mode (is that common everywhere?). Mean seems to be the default when not specified but journalists really should be specific (also as you point out, median is more often than not the best/least misleading one to use).

Edit: wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average) seems to suggest that they can all be considered "averages".
This builds & deploys your site on a public custom domain name in '3s'.
It's absolutely impossible to find a "small" phone -- ~4" screen -- with a high-quality camera. (I say "small" because even these phones still dwarf the easy-to-hold, easy-to-carry dumb phones.)

Plus, any phone that size would have a good shot at improving battery life without being too bulky. I'd love for someone to take my money another good 4" phone, but there's no options regardless of budget.

That goes for either Android or iOS.
You're basically talking about fast food places though not "restaurants". Yes, Ramen is considered fast food in Japan even if some of it is amazing. Also curry rice and most other things that are served in places that use those machines.

Sure, a few places that have those machines have tables but it's still a different vibe from a restaurant.

The bigger issue with those particular machines is they aren't compatible with western or in particular USA culture. Japanese generally don't ask for exceptions. Westerners often ask for tons of exceptions and substitutions either for medical reasons, religion reasons, personal convictions, or preference.
Criminal networks do benefit from a bread-and-butter businesses like drug distribution. These innovations likely wouldn't be taking place at all if altering one's own consciousness with substances hadn't been criminalized - when the law is made to be at odds with society, society adapts to being at odds with the law.

But unlike say murder, "identity theft" isn't some serious crime - it's in the same basket as "war on drugs" in that they both attempt to fortify a nonsensical top-down design at odds with the underlying reality. It's arbitrage against a broken authorization paradigm, and will continue as long as banks (et al) choose to just bear the cost rather than actually fix their systems.
Right, which is exactly why I said "an equivalent set of React libraries" as opposed to just React.
Hey @phendrenad2 thanks for detailed feedback.
Yeah, we have to work on the colour scheme and UX in general.
all your points are extremely useful.

Regarding the cost of running and the plan. It's a good problem to have. We have some other projects so we will keep this running from the revenue we already have. In future we would have to experiment and see what works best.

I don't like ads but if its not intrusive it might be option. Or affiliations with companies like Amazon could be an option. As long as the revenue model resonates with the soul of the product (Thats quality, focus and privacy) we will try out.

Thanks again.