skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They probably are strongly motivated by spending quite a bit of their time on innovation

I would rephrase it as spending time on research. Which might or might not be innovative.

I know for a fact that there is a plethora of applied ML papers where people simply toy around with the sample set and publish their results. There is nothing innovative about it. Although it requires some knowledge in feature analysis and some other in related algorithms and in basic statistics but that's nothing that cannot be picked up by taking a few months of courses in applied machine learning.

So really, in fact the only case where that extra knowledge is justified is your case #1. And even then I am not convinced that these PhDs actually have ever done anything innovative. There is just too much of a chance that they simply iterated on existing research ideas in their field and they can only continue to do so. Which is again not very innovative I think.
The US government forces companies to spend money on many things they don’t want to do. Regulatory authority is extremely broad.
These are perfect. I especially like the cost center question. It is always a red flag if the CEO doesn't have a handle on where the costs are!
We use Goodly at HireArt. There is no tax benefit - you are right that it has the same net effect as adding to the employee's salary for them to use to pay off their loan directly.

We see it as a nice way to encourage good financial behavior (not unlike how many companies have default retirement contributions). And the fees are small enough to not make a big difference.

I think we'd also be interested in a program that took the money out of people's paychecks for repayment - especially if the issuers would give the employees a discount in exchange for getting a reliable paycheck-backed repayment.
I think it's the other way around, given the age of the ad. The old man looks like he was the inspiration for that character.
Nobody's stopping these "large numbers of people" from swapping URLs.

They may get stopped from having their message show up in the "recommended videos" column on YouTube, and that's fine. Nobody has a right to be in that column.

(When the man said "The revolution will not be televised?" This is what he was talking about. ;) )
> Do you have a source for this claim?

It's my own opinion.

> It seems to me that in every case where "ideology" plays a large role in people doing horrible things to each other, one of the common threads is propaganda (often built around de-humanizing the opposing side). Post-WWII Europe might be the best example of what a society with "censored" or regulated propaganda looks like.

My argument is that you cannot trust anyone to apply a fair standard for which propaganda could lead to people doing horrible things to each other and which propaganda could not. The far greater risk is for such a mechanism to be hijacked by the very demagogues it is intended to disarm.

It's easy. First, you pick out the most extreme and unpalatable examples of your opposition. Then you scapegoat them as a public menace worthy of censorship. Then you exploit the powers of censorship you've received and apply them more broadly. The rise of Hitler[1], for example, followed this literal pattern--he convinced the people that the Communist Party was enough of a public threat that they should be banned, received the executive powers necessary to do so, and then banned the Social Democrats too, for good measure.

It's understandable that post-WWII Europe has the particular set of scar tissue necessary to prevent the rise of another Hitler. The only problem is that Hitler himself rose to power on the back of the scar tissue that post-WWI Europe developed to prevent the rise of another Lenin.
> I acknowledge that it's age discrimination to offer this benefit (in isolation) for now, but as time goes on that will no longer be the case.

Well, yeah, once the current student lending system collapses or is abolished in the next decade or so, the age dynamics will probably reverse temporarily if a general forgiveness isn't part of the resolution.

But then, offering the benefit won't be as attractive.
So what are you advocating? That we force private entities to publish speech, and allow no recourse to enforce social norms through private action, only through government? That seems far more dystopian than the past that you are speaking out against so strongly.
Oops yes, sorry typo there. 3333.
to buy yourself an expensive underpowered new macbook with a slightly less bad keyboard.
> I'm sure there are some sort of rules on mixed consists of freight and passenger

It could work if you are willing to travel slowly. Freight trains don't travel very fast (25/mpg ish), while Amtrak tries to go in 50/mph ish range.

This causes them a lot of scheduling trouble.

But if you are willing to travel at the same speed as freight it would be a lot easier to accommodate.
Whataboutism is unbecoming and facebook is taking actions against ISIS and related accounts.

Weak meme, 2/10.
there is absolutely no technical problem doing it on unmounted filesystem but it just imposes certain restrictions that I dont think are worth their cost

considering in many cases you want to copy live files, you have to copy them to place you can unmount, so now you have 2 problems

if you dont gzip the dd you risk pure cosmic microwave background bitflips and no checksums, and they can corrupt superblocks and etc

if you gzip it (to have crc sums) you cant restore partial files from it so easily unless you use squashfs and significantly complicate the process

so tar and gzip is more robust (compared to the dd) just because of the crc (of gzip not of tar), size and portability
Many Apple engineers aren't particularly happy with the current hardware choices. The teams in charge of hardware don't really care what the software people want.
If you want to remember your dreams you can train yourself to do so. Keep a journal on your nightstand. The moment you wake up, write down all the details you can remember. After doing this for a while, you will remember more and more and the memories won't fade so easily.

You can also cheat a bit in my experience by waking up maybe 45-90 mins before you normally would, then going back to sleep. The dreams you have in this period should be more vivid and easier to remember.
or for the less optimistic:

Have you have missed talking to a real humam being face to face, you will.

Have you have missed going outside without a radiation suit, you will.
>who clearly isn't skilled but wins anyway, poker fans really don't want to face the reality that the game is mostly luck.

A game of poker is not one hand of poker. It is typical in poker games to be all in and have a 70% chance of winning. If you are playing a bad player and you go all in 5 times against this person with a 70% chance of winning is there any luck involved? To me it looks more like printing money.

>Another issue with poker - at least Texas Hold'em - is that the best strategy is folding 90% of the time, which is just boring.

You should not be folding 90% of the time.
There's nothing 'speculative and messy' about the harm Nazis did and do.

We went to war over it.
Perhaps my issue is that my VPN is hosted in a common place like DigitalOcean. Maybe a lesser known host is the trick?
One Usenet signature[0] that I saw during the mid-1990s was "Have you ever taken credit for something that hasn't even been invented yet? You will."

[0] Yes, I'm dating myself.
Show HN: Send Receipts to Customers with API
"Have you ever watched a twenty-six year old commercial on your phone? You will."
There are also Muslim groups who say as much. "We will just out breed them" is a common tactic used to great effect in Kosovo and Western Macedonia by Albanians.

The shooting in Christchurch referenced a video from the Mosque in question that spelled the same thing out. Unfortunately I can't share the video due to laws which would put me in jail. [0]

Is your objection to them saying it out loud, or saying it in English?

[0] Isn't censorship grand? Now instead of seeing the video yourself you have to trust someone else to tell you what's in it.
I looked into this a few years ago and found that it would cost about $350k to get started. It did look promising, and I read through all of the regulations and inspection certifications required, the requirements from Amtrak, and decided I just couldn't do it. It was a fun fantasy for a few months though.

Autonomous luxury RVs will fill a bit of this niche, and at a much lower cost.
Game Mechanics (Definition and Examples)
"Trains not boats" - my new startup mantra
Ask HN: How do you deal with sales tax?
Sales tax is complex as there are different rules for different states and countries. How do you deal with sales tax? Payment processor? Separate service? In-house solution?
This reminds me of a story about the philosopher Wittgenstein missing the train and deciding to buy a train for himself instead.

Googling the story does not turn up many results. Does anyone know if this is in fact true?
I have a degree in Applied Physics. Have been doing machine learning for a while now. Currently working with a group that tries to decipher SETI data using AI in order to popularize space related research.

You can look at the results here:
https://intelactica.com
Why don’t you learn some functional languages? Scala, Haskell, or OCaml. Or learning lisps is always interesting: Racket, Common Lisp, Clojure.

Personally, Scala is my favorite language.
ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch
Boeing has launched fixes for its 737 Max plane
Everyone here is marveling at the thought that Spotify could launch someone's career. But there is already a service that does this consistently and it's called SoundCloud.
I’m somewhat in the same position as OP, except that I know I want to explore FP. I’ve more or less settled on Ocaml, although I might be sqwyed by F#’s integration with the .net ecosystem (will have to look at some F# code to see if it makes me want to dive in as much as Ocaml)
> I wonder who Rabiza was; none of the many fan sites for Soviet books say that.

I've found a short postmortem from 2002 in a magazine "Science and Life"[1]. Seems he was engineer, painter and popular science writer/journalist.

[1] https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/4982/
But it's painful to your users, and will lock out a subset of them (although a small minority, so you might not care).
> to promote their agenda
> ...
> they will prevail in some manner.

As it takes two to tango, so does it take two sides to promote something: one that is doing the promotion and the other that is following the promoter. If the argument is that people are so fickle they will eat up whatever is being directed at them, join the ranks of the promoters, who will thus prevail, then woe upon us. I prefer to think of ourselves as somewhat more capable of resisting insane and malicious messages.
Matrix's new key verification UX is incredibly intuitive. You press a button to verify the keys and then you out-of-band check that you're both looking at the same set of 7 emoji. This mutually-verifies both devices. I don't think it's possible for it to get any simpler.

With cross-signing, this will get even easier because cross-signed devices will be automatically trusted.
Words have meaning, and people know what those meanings are. "White nationalist" does not mean "white people who like their country" and it's disingenuous to pretend it does.
> I think we'd also be interested in a program that took the money out of people's paychecks for repayment - especially if the issuers would give the employees a discount in exchange for getting a reliable paycheck-backed repayment.

Servicers already offer autopay with a slight (0.25%) discount direct to borrowers; not sure they have a.lot of reason to go to payroll deduction over “pull it out of your bank account”.
There is no slippery slope argument when you're talking about literal Nazis.

We went to war on the subject.
A resource for those trying to install nightly on OSX is the page tracking component status for nightly builds: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup-components-history/x86_64... (the page also contains links to the status of components for all other platforms)

Unfortunately both Clippy and RLS have failed to build since 3/24 but 2019-03-23 should work.

rustup install nightly-2019-03-23
So what exactly is left-right in your mind? It's looking like you don't think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are on the left, and you don't think Rand Paul and Clarence Thomas are on the right.

Perhaps you are calibrated to a non-US definition. If so, you should qualify it as something like "UK right" or "UK left" or whatever.
I record in my home and Stephen Kerr (https://www.sjkaudio.com/) produces my music. Having a producer like him is hugely helpful to the sound— he brings so much clarity and polish ...
If I may take a stab at it... I think it might have something to do with the disparate scales of thought vs emotion compared to what humans have evolved to deal with.

Today, when you're tasked with creating something new, and your identity is invested in such a mission, it's a much more gargantuan task than being indispensable to your local tribe. Competing at a global level is just not something we're generally wired to do. I would be curious if world-class athletes, movie stars, business executives, politicians, etc. also have similar emotional problems.

But our emotions do not work on such a scale. They're meant to deal with the anxieties of what a few hundred people in your community think and how to secure your next meal.

In creative lines of work (however one chooses to define it), one is trying to be the superlative best or first to achieve something valuable on the scale of billions of people. And you probably hope that such a creation outlives you. We have not been designed for such tasks at an emotional level.
"Imagine if there were only three newspapers in the entire country, soon the world, controlled by a small group of people who wish to use their publishing for their own agendas."

Come over to Australia, that is what our traditional media has been like for years!
As a shameless plug, there are a lot of interesting perks for a generalist to using Elixir.

- Declarative + functional programming
- Highly productive (great frameworks for embedded + web, developer ergonomics, etc)
- Great exposure to Actor Model concurrency
- Great generic performance (no stop the world gc, strong multicore use via Erlang scheduler + processes, and lots of optimizations based on vm immutability)
- Lots and lots of exposure to systems stuff + strong devops tools (built for distribution*, Erlang runtime tools, observer, great logging and telemetry libraries, etc)
- Lots of built in services/tools (can use ETS instead of redis for things like auth-checking throughput)
SSH is even worse in many corporate environments, because you also have to cross an SSH gateway to transit into from the corp fabric into the prod fabric.

At AWS this meant we had to hop to a different gateway for each region, and then onto the (stateless) production host which was recreated from scratch on every deployment... There's no way a human was going to keep all those keys straight, and everyone just disabled SSH host verification.
There is a certain honesty in being openly racist. I kind of appreciate that because I can walk away.

I can walk away!! That is an enormous relief and I am in control. I got a cue..information and I am free to act upon it.

If I don’t have cues, I will walk INTO unknown circumstances and be clueless with those who don’t want me in their midst.

True story: the most vicious racism I have experienced is the covert passive aggressive kind in the heart of liberal Berkeley. And I have lived in the south. Yes. The South. Some were absolutely lovely and others..they don’t want you eating corn and grits with them at their Waffle House. And that’s fine. Because I knew to stay out of certain waffle houses.

But Berkeley tho’...I needed therapy. It was serious mindfuck.
When I say that we should send every non Indian person back to where they came from and create an all Indian North America I'm also being civil and nonviolent. Yet I don't see facebook banning that type of speech.
This time, things will be different!

I mean, maybe they really will be, but history suggests otherwise.
Article 13 is going to change this...
> So... I mean... did you read the article?

I did. The snide comment is unnecessary.

That's the question I'm asking: if we accept that these beliefs are on a spectrum and that white separatism (or more generally pro-white politics) slide inevitably into violent white nationalism, who's to say the same doesn't apply to orthodox Islam? Specifically the above poster referenced Christchurch as an example outcome of the former, I argue you can't do so without considering the many examples of the latter.
This article isn't very good. Half of it is about 51% attacks, which is the one attack blockchains were always transparent about, and the other half talks about how some smart contracts are buggy. Cool.
Migrating a Blog to Hugo and Netlify
This subthread started as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503270.
It sounds feminine to me. I predict that the truth is in the ears of the beholder, and subconscious bias will cause people to sense a more masculine or feminine voice.
I see. I will include that disclaimer in all threads I comment on about Signal in the future. Thanks for explaining this to me.

I've been a fan of Signal since it was RedPhone and TextSecure and my professional relationship with Moxie is quite recent in the scheme of watching the rise of his projects. I apologize if my lack of awareness was offensive, it was unintended.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don't think you need to have the server open-sourced to trust the end to end encryption of the messages, but that's just one part of the overall trust model.
From the feeling the 2018/3rd gen butterfly keyboard is much better. The feedback while typing is much better but if I wouldn't make some of my money with iOS development I wouldn't had bought a MacBook (Air in my case).

For my main work where I get a company device I now ordered a non Apple device which is also repairable after the warranty runs out. I fear to become victim of the flexgate where it seems opening and closing your MacBook makes the display cable break...

Edit: they also improved the usb-c ports. They have a clip-feeling now while my 2017 MBP sometimes doesn't charge because the ports are already wonky. such a bad hardware
The tablet that they show sending a fax from the beach is essentially a smartphone. The thing is that smartphones weren't popular until Apple even though they had existed.

Palm, Nokia/Symbian, Danger, and Microsoft had been pushing smartphones before the iPhone came out. BlackBerry was pushing non-touch smartphones as well. The issue is that none of them really had a compelling user experience before Apple came along. You can say that the iPhone was obvious, but no one else saw to use capacitive touchscreens at the time. Even after the iPhone came out, everyone thought that the lack of a physical keyboard was Apple's hubris and would be their downfall. Windows Mobile, Symbian, and PalmOS didn't integrate a first-class web browsing experience. Heck, I remember Windows Mobile emphasizing scroll bars rather than the natural movement that Apple introduced with the iPhone, never mind pinch to zoom.

Apple came along and showed everyone what the point of having a smartphone in your pocket was. You'd have the best music experience. You'd have the full internet for any question you'd ever have. You'd have maps. You'd have a great photos experience. Part of that is that they recognized that the capacitive technology they'd been using in iPods and trackpads for years could be used as part of a fuller operating system. Part of it is that they really spent a lot of time figuring out how people could use a touchscreen well. Others had just tried to take desktop UI concepts and put them on a touch device.

AT&T saw the emergence of the smartphone. Heck, Microsoft, Palm, Nokia/Symbian, BlackBerry, Danger, and even Google tried to build it before Apple (Google was targeting Symbian and had to "go back to the drawing board" when the iPhone was introduced). They all missed the key affordances that would drive consumer adoption. Google's pre-iPhone prototypes were basically BlackBerry/Symbian competitors. Microsoft wanted scroll bars, a start menu, and windows. Even after the iPhone, many tried pushing devices with keyboards: Moto Droid, HTC's first Android device, the Palm Pre, etc. It's not about saying "we'll have X in the future!" People saw smartphones/tablets. Heck, Star Trek had tablets in late 80s, but they didn't need them to be usable, just props. People just never figured out how to make them compelling for users before Apple did.
> Google has earned our trust with every new product they develop.

This made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
My point is that since its impractical for most people to use bitcoin without a bank or credit card it's not really a viable alternative since the system it is attempting to subvert is still necessary. If you're an enemy of the state and need to move your money covertly, bitcoin offers some limited utility, but for the vast majority of people it is a waste of time.
And yet Jews have only been murdered in countries that did not have freedom of speech.

Words are an antidote to sticks and stones which stop people from breaking others bones.
Being the author of one of those super early articles (< 2012) really must sting, even if all your points were technically accurate and even if Bitcoin does completely fail one day.
Forget about believing in Google, try at least for consistency within a single paragraph, as in:
> They do not realise that they are make •a platform•, not a product
and then:
> OS is to launch apps

And I still can't stop laughing after reading:
> Somehow every other platform is fine

To paraphrase JWZ's CADT article linked below "writing thoughtful critique" is not fun, "making useful suggestions to improve something" is not fun but "writing a snarky, resentful rant on HN" is fun.

ps. most developers on Android are not game developers, maybe time to think about seeing the world from other peoples point of view?
I like this question, but I find it hard to answer for myself, because I’ve read an awful lot of fluff nonfiction from the business section and still can’t think of any that actually tell you how to manage. Mostly just anecdotes. Which books would you suggest for learning known best management processes?
Because Facebook can misapply its policies does not mean it should have no policies, it merely means it should implement them better.

Obviously there are other kinds of content that Facebook could ban, but merely because those things exist doesn't mean this shouldn't also be banned.
That is what cross-signing will accomplish, but the benefit of having per-device granularity is that users can actually tell if a new (potentially-malicious) device has been added to a conversation and be blacklisted.
It looks like they still need you to go online to check your subscription status every 30 days, but the 10,000 songs looks like it's per device (up to 5)
https://support.spotify.com/is/using_spotify/the_basics/list...
> this problem with PGP

Isn't keybase just doing something similar to subkeys for devices?

Keep the master safe, if you need to revoke a subkey, no big deal.
AT&T by that time was a completely different company. Southwestern Bell is now who owns the trademark and name AT&T. The AT&T company that made this commercial was largely irrelevant by 2005.