skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI ethics must move beyond lists of 'principles': new report
Could start sending again if eventually undigged by another dust storm or was just crashed?
Kefir (made at home - not the store bought one). Worked wonders for me.
I thought the point of the library of molecules used was the supplier (Enamine) has a systematic method of synthesizing the molecules they've listed. It appears that, in practice, they can supply 90% of the molecules they offer, synthesized on demand:

> Of the 589 molecules selected, 549 (93%) were successfully synthesized (Supplementary Table 10 and Supplementary Data 11, 13)

I fully agree your main points.
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it's not even a statement of current computing capabilities if they used 1 CPU-day on 1,500 machines. That's a pittance.
Is there an open source alternative?
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DJI is updating its geofencing system across Europe after Gatwick drone debacle
There's a whole debate about the term being a hindrance more than anything. So called terrorists are just criminals elevated to a boogyman status. This layer of indirection obfuscates the problem, or at least so the argument goes.

It gives you an interesting perspective, because then the obvious question is why are those criminals elevated to that status. You get to everything from fearmongering and manipulation tactics, to our society's fragile sense of security.
HN User mc32 is being overly general in characterizing working class people. Lower working class people aren't out insulting each other and using expletives any more than "white collar" people. I live in both worlds, and that's just a stereotype with no basis in reality. In fact, I'd say that the average tech type speaks in a far more base fashion than most of the garbage men I know. (Certainly more base than any of the waitresses or cashiers I know.)

IRL, gobs of people are out insulting each other neither in the lower classes, nor in the upper classes. Yes, it happens MUCH more on a place like Twitter, but not at all IRL.
I think you have a very maligned view of what managers should be if you agree with the thought that people need to prove themselves to managers to be "fought for." Especially over a mistake that multiple layers of the organization didn't catch and weren't equipped to handle.

No I'm not kidding you. That view point seems either very naive or nonconstructive. And considering you had to resort to a disingenuous straw man in order to respond to something I didn't say or imply, I'd say the latter is more likely.
IBM needs mainframes collocated with cloud data centers if it wants to stay relevant. CA is legit in the CAP model, but you need sane latency to other systems.
related: Jessie Frazelle just published this https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/new-golden-age-of-building-wi...
Activision-Blizzard is a publicly-traded company. In such situations, the priority on "human" or emotional type issues comes second to the quarterly numbers, which investors look at. Is this good, bad? I don't know, but it's one of the perils of working for a publicly-traded company. Having worked in banking for years, a yearly layoff-and-hire cycle happened over and despite profits-reported. Investors care about future earnings more than they care about "community" and "communication," "best companies to work for" and some other words tossed around below. And I'm not saying this is a good thing, I'm only reporting what I observe as the explanation.
snitches end up in ditches
I think cryptocurrency-based microtransactions would be perfect for paying for online content. If browser-based wallets become a thing, making a $0.01 payment to read an article would be easy, painless and potentially sustain online media.
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> My guess: it's mostly driven by strategic objectives (i.e. downloads, revenues) and the Engineers may care, but that 'user experience' is not a primary concern.

Bingo. Everyone is focused on one part of that platform and nobody owns the experience as a whole. So the overall experience suffers.
Same experience here. dbt has been a pleasure to work with, and putting it on Redshift with Redshift Spectrum has proven a great pipeline for our startup.
"Microsoft's bias towards Windows?"

Microsoft was one of the first major developers for the Mac when it came out originally.

Microsoft is happy for you to run Linux in the Azure cloud. Microsoft added Linux emulation to Windows. Microsoft gave up on Windows Phone (if only because Verizon and AT&T refused to approve new Windows Phones on their networks.)
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I think the point of the parent comment is that we're discussing software engineers, who certainly have a different negotiating power than the (presumably nonengineering) contractors mentioned in the article.
Hint: disable JS when visiting theatlantic.com, the website becomes more usable then. (This applies to most other informative websites btw)
The scary thing about this is that all current HTTPS encrypted traffic is not quantum proof, meaning that if you put it into long-term storage, you'll be able to decrypt the contents at a later point in time, if quantum computers will get available. By then your contents might still be valuable or even have risen in worth.
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Have other retailers typically allowed you to sell items in their store and pay elsewhere?
I personally believe it's natural to know what these things are when you're browsing a site called "Hacker News".
I think that since this largely wasn't engineers laid off (according to the article), it probably won't have much effect.

Today's software engineers have been heavily influenced by libertarianism, and for some reason that includes the idea that collective bargaining is a freedom that we should not enjoy (somehow they belief is that corporations have a right to speak on behalf of people... but not employment unions). Additionally, unions are often villainized in media - and there are some unions with some horrid, strongarm tactics, but they are the exception, not the rule.
Cheers to the UK in recent weeks for helping the US not look as bad /s
I also have the chasing dreams when I'm feeling insecure, and when I'm feeling confident and satisfied with my life I can fly in all my dreams. It's a useful barometer for my general state of mind. :)
You bring up some good points, but I would be happy with having that info for people in my Contacts list. I would see it like this, each user has an id, and I would be able to tie that id to a name. And it would only be visible if they were in eye-sight.
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You may be interested in my project "Binate"; I have some incomplete notes at http://canonical.org/~kragen/binary-relations about it, exploring a possible design space in which we might find a more concise and compositional query language. Of course that's not in a host programming language; for that there do exist some things like SQLAlchemy and SQLObject which, as a bonus, can compile the resulting query to SQL. The most popular of these is Django's "ORM", which unfortunately is very limited.
He had to pay nearly £1000 out of pocket, had lost his job, and then had to fight his conviction for a year and a half in three different appeals. For a tweet immediately considered not credible as a threat by the people to whom it was directed, read a week after it was sent.

He wasn't just fined, this apparently caused him to not be able to receive work and gain a criminal record. Even the rest of the CPS didn't want to continue along with the case but the director of public prosecution pushed it (https://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jul/29/paul-chambers-tw...).

The courts didn't work it out, he did, after receiving an outpouring of support (social and monetary) from British comedians.

I don't understand your sentiment in the slightest.
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That's good to know. Thanks. Would be interesting to know the extent of the definitions here. If I am an academic in a non-related field, but am interested in the sociology of a terrorist group purely intellectually, I wonder if 3 b ii is extended to me in that situation.
Yeah, GPS alone is not enough.

This product uses an auxiliary GNSS antenna and software to provide centimeter level precision:
https://sitevision.trimble.com/
Yes, of course, because our brain capacities are infinite, as is our time :)

On top of that "hacker" doesn't come from the popular term, it comes from: http://catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html
The U.S. dollar was deflationary, excepting the 1812 and Civil Wars, from the 1780s through the 1890s.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QFYk6fgnd7c/UOr3hXo3LNI/AAAAAAAAkq...
I personally don't see this becoming a problem. At least the way I have imagined AR being.

The way I hope to see it is that all the different features are apps that you can either enable or disable and then the AR platform (e.g. the OS on your headset) just mixes them all together. So for example there could be an app for placing sculptures anywhere and it becomes a matter of that apps policy. If you don't like an app that lets you place sculptures anywhere just don't install it and use the one that ties in with property register. And so on.

This would also reduce the BK Ads in MCDs example to what we have today. It's not illegal to show BK Ads on peoples phones while they are in MCDs.
> I think a company would have to be pretty innovative to make linkedin worse.

You might want to sit down for this one.
This just came in yesterday.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/linkedin-debuts-linkedin-l...

> This week, the company is launching live video, giving people and organizations the ability to broadcast real-time video to select groups, or to the LinkedIn world at large.

> Launching in beta first in the U.S., LinkedIn Live (as the product is called) will be invite-only. In coming weeks, LinkedIn will also post a contact form for others who want to get in on the action. It’s not clear when and if LinkedIn will make it possible for everyone to create LinkedIn Live videos, but if you consider how it developed its publishing features for written work, that will come later, too.

> Initial live content that LinkedIn hopes to broadcast lines up with the kind of subject matter you might already see in LinkedIn’s news feed: the plan is to cover conferences, product announcements, Q&As and other events led by influencers and mentors, office hours from a big tech company, earnings calls, graduation and awards ceremonies and more.

> And to underscore how LinkedIn is keen to develop this — especially in its first phase — not as rough-and-ready user-generated content, but as streams of the kinds of videos that fit with its wider ethos, it has selected several third-party developers of live broadcasting streaming services that creators will work with to create and post more polished live video on LinkedIn.
My theory is that Jack is trying to expose the flaws of twitter to the rest of the company. A way of bludgeoning the stubborn in the company by a blitz of bad press
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Elevate Security announces $8M Series A to alter employee security behavior
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) recommended the filing in court of cyber libel charges against Ressa and former Rappler researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr over a story published in May 2012 – or 4 months before the law that they allegedly violated was enacted."

I didn't know ex-post facto laws and retroactive prosecutions were legal in the Philippines.
Ask HN: How to build a Reddit/Hackernews like website?
I am learning to code I wondered if there was a guide that I could learn and at the same time build a hackernews like website. I have seen some courses in Udemy, but I am not conivnced on the quality of the courses

Any help would be appreciated
Perhaps not a "smack" from the /target/ of your insult, depending on your local laws...

In the UK we have the wonderful mix of various repressive speech offence laws [0] and an underfunded police force that like to scan Twitter

[0] https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/human-rights/free-spee...
Actually Azure has a huge hook at the engineering level in that Visual Studio Enterprise subscriptions come with $150 a month in Azure credit. It's very hard to avoid using when you just need to slap a quick demo online and need a server or DB and your in-house IT is away, it's all right there in the IDE... and then you're in hook, line, and sinker. So while there are C-suite level mega-sales, Azure has plenty of grassroots appeal.
I've used tflint in a pipeline and it works well.
I'd add that one should also learn LL and (G(LA))LR grammars. Regex are handy for quick hacks, but anything non-regular becomes hacky and overcomplicated compared with a self-describing grammar. PCREs are over-engineered.

There seems to be an equivalent of the "NoSQL" crowd in parsing which appears to be "NoLALR". I can certainly see that other kinds of parsers have their use cases - but LL and LALR parsing have sound theory which is well understood, and they are certainly not obsolete.
Nice! Similar recommendation: William Stein's "Algebraic Number Theory, A Computational Approach" got me excited about studying math again. I would recommend it to anybody reading this thread.

https://github.com/williamstein/stein-ant
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My battery is low and it’s getting dark.

- Opportunity
Eventually I could feel my skills stagnating. Yes, I was able to do more impactful work, but keeping up with high-level industry tech changes became difficult as I was spending more time on a whiteboard than at a computer.
The same courts that put a man in prison for teaching a dog to do a Hitler salute?
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron on Its Public Cloud
Another issue might be that some of them don't have the alternate colours (at least on iOS) - none of the emoji faces do and neither does "shaking hands" inexplicably - people may try to set the colour on a face, it doesn't work, they assume it just doesn't work for any of them, etc.

Apparently these are the ones with alternates: https://emojipedia.org/emoji-modifier-fitzpatrick-type-1-2/
>Do you think the costs and complexity to develop a game this way are too high now?

There's two answers to this depending on what you mean by "develop a game".

1. This is the "let's make a game like X, but better" category. If you're talking about developing a game that companies like current day Blizzard do, then the answer is probably yes. These are games that aren't trying to do something new or necessarily even focus on the fun aspect. They are more about making a game of a specific type that has already existed before, but they're just trying to do it better. Usually they don't even try to do it better in terms of how fun it is, but rather how impressive and amazing it is to the player. This is where the push for graphics and all those things comes from. This can require a large amount of investment if you're trying to create a game in a popular genre. These are also the types of games that players usually dream up when they think about their "dream game" (a mash up of other types of games).

2. If you're talking about developing a game that is fun and new, that could seem like a new genre, then I think the answer is no, but with an asterisk. We don't understand game design well enough to be able to argue that something is or is not fun without trying and testing it. We can guess, but sometimes even rather boring activities become fun in a game if done well. We can reason about it after the fact, but we can't sit down with a blank piece of paper, come up with a game design and say "this is going to be fun!" without it falling into category #1. This means that there's plenty of room for people to explore, but it also means that we can't guarantee success. As a result this might require a lot of iteration.

>Has any game been developed via Kickstarter?

Yes. Pillars of Eternity, Pillars of Eternity II, FTL, Elite: Dangerous, Factorio, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Divinity: Original Sin, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and many more. Oh, and I guess there's also Star Citizen.
Exploration vs. Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning
Stick the --+ORDERED flag on a random select sometime and look at what happens to the estimated query cost to see how easy it would be to fuck this up if you had to make all the optimisation choices yourself.
"Section 127 [of the Communications Act 2003] has been used to prosecute a young man who tweeted his frustration about being unable to see his girlfriend due to airport closure. His tweets, which were made without intent to carry out their content or incite others to do so, resulted in his conviction for being a menace under the Act – thankfully that conviction has now been overturned;" https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/human-rights/free-spee...

"according to Miller on Wednesday this week, he found himself answering questions — for 34 minutes – from an officer from Humberside Police... On that account, Miller says things such as ‘trans women are not women’" https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/is-it-now-a-crime-to-l...

"In 2016, British police detained and questioned 3,300 people for making ‘offensive’ comments on social media " https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/will-making-jokes-abou...
Lufthansa Sues Passenger Who Missed His Flight – 'Hidden City' Trick
> My experience is that Google services are often an order of magnitude harder to use than competitors.

Huh, I think most people feel the exact opposite, especially with the comparison between AWS and GCP. GCP has lots of services that are really easy to get set up and running easily by a small Dev shop (Firebase is pretty fantastic in my opinion), while with AWS unless you have some DevOps/networking experts it's a lot harder to do things correctly and securely.

If anything, I think the biggest issue with GCP is they still don't have the "DNA" to do enterprise support at the level large companies expect, while AWS does.
At the 5 year mark, I started developing a sense of jealousy towards the new people: I am envious that they come in and are overwhelmed with all our technology stack and they spend months learning it, and you can see their knowledge of the system grows day by day, whereas for me it reached a plateau since I already know how all those systems work, for the most part.

I try to work on greenfield projects where I have to research a new topic from scratch, which sometimes is exciting, but in the end it’s not the same, so I’ll likely not wait until the 6 year mark and I’ll jump ship sometimes this year.
Ideally, yes...I don't want to be working full time in 10 years. A few more ~year long gigs, and I'll likely put myself out to the 1099 pasture.
That's still custom synthesis and not off-the-shelf compounds. No idea how expensive they are in this case.
React vs. Angular: how a library can compete with a framework
Skin tone emojis are double-edged sword. Not sure if it was a good idea!
Same thing is happening to gender now!
That might backfire. The section of the law someone else linked to seems to require that you knew or had reason to know that the material you accessed contained forbidden material.

Generally in rickrolling type pranks, it is the sender, and only the sender, who knows what is really contained in the linked site, and so it would be the prankster himself who would be at risk under this.
I hope this response is not too confusing, but for the moment let's remove behaviour and focus on the situation.

Some imagined situations create an urge to take avoidant action. For example, let's say you are in a queue of a rollercoaster, but you have a fear of them - you might imagine it getting stuck with you upside down, or you might imagine yourself falling out of the rollercoaster. These are bad futures, and they make you want to take behaviour to AVOID the rollercoaster (like don't get on it in the first place!). If you get out of the queue these scenarios will leave your mind.

In dreaming, the situations are ones where instead of making it obvious that you should avoid something, they make it obvious that you should confront something. Confront is a very delicate word to use, as obvious confrontation (e.g., arguing instead of being passive) is one form of it, but so is being boring if you fear that others will ignore you (by being boring you are confronting the fear that you will be ignored unless you perform).

For example, Curtly's dream from the paper:

> Curtly is in a shopping mall. A young child comes up to Curtly and demands his wallet and phone. Curtly does not want to hand over his possessions, but he does. The young child stands near Curtly with Curtly’s belongings in front of him (accessible to Curtly should he decide to try and take them back).

Having your possessions stolen warrants a confrontational response. This is especially so as the person doing the stealing is a child, as it will be safe to respond with confrontation (the child cannot beat you up!). You can see that, in the opposite way of anxious mind-wandering, this dream situation does not demand avoidant behaviour.

Does that make more sense?
Their channel is fantastic, it's like what the core of Top Gear used to be before it jumped the shark and turned into the circle-jerk that was the last season.

I've always hated large vehicles and trucks because they're so unwieldy. The Rivan however looks amazing. I can see myself buying one in a few years.
Porsche/Audi will need a small redesign after tearing apart a model 3.

https://electrek.co/2019/02/09/tesla-model-3-cost-surprise-p...
China is far more crazy. Google 're-education'.
It still applies to the gaming industry, but to your point, the bargaining power of high talent programmers is suppressed by eager programmers (not mutually exclusive groups).
I’ve seen higher incidence of insults at working class bus stops, bus lines and workplaces. Sometimes it’s vagrants, sometimes it’s just people about their business who get fed up with something. On Caltrain I see fewer incidents than on the VTA or MUNI. I’ve taken them all. I’ve worked in working class neighborhoods and worked with them too. They tease each other a lot, sometimes they go over the line and then some get worked up, etc. They might throw epithets as a means of retaliation against perceived slights (as minor as asking to get by (passage)).

Now, I do hear indirect insults in white collar circles where they insult other people not present (for example berating working classes for the choices in life they make) but we’re not talking about indirect insults. We’re talking the ones where there is the potential for direct retaliation.
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You can be sued for libel here in the US as well. When we say Freedom of Speech and expression etc, we kind of mean "within reason". We just think of a whole lot more things as being "within reason" than do people elsewhere.

But yeah, I think you'd be in for a rude awakening in the US if you made the mistake of going into court thinking that the judge is going to agree that libel is "within reason".
> it's clearly an internal document

> it's basically political flamebait

Why would the DNC produce a document that's flame bait? Or is discussing the contents of the document flame bait?
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To nitpick some more, I think the parent comment meant a bimodal distribution :)
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RedGate's SQL Change Automation (formerly ReadyRoll) is pretty slick. DbUp is a good, free alternative.

I second the rollback and repeatability bonus. Every script should leave the database in either the new state or the previous good state no matter how many times it's run.
Good idea but terrible URL. Web servers by default don’t server hidden folders. Why not just example.com/security.txt instead of example/.well-known/security.txt?