skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it strange that the author would not publish the paper on his website but would submit it to random people that ask for it on email.

I don't know whether he will submit it to random people who ask for it. But he will probably be able to answer whether a non-abstract version exists. :-)
But with 30 tanks vs 1, you need to have a good access to a lot of fuel, which Germany didn't, whereas the allies didn't had this issue, so having less tanks, but more higher-quality, could have been a sound decision (maybe the same with manpower?). On the other hand, fuel used for tanks might make up only a small part of the overall fuel used.
I am an Australian living in the US and one nice thing about being here is having a cat. Although many people have cats in Australia they are terror on wildlife, most of which nests on the ground.
Hockey is the national sport of Canada. But so is lacrosse.
Mint was a copy of Yodlee. This stuff is old.
I have visited every country in the EU, a lot of which by train, it has been a thing my friends and I have done over the last 10 years, going to a few countries each year, trying to use public transport where it is reasonable. Along the way, I have been on a number of overnight trains and a number of overnight ferries and I personally highly rate the experience. There is something almost romantic about falling asleep one place and waking up somewhere else. But also the social aspect, head down to the bar cart on the train, have a beer, chat to other people, most people are a lot more open to chating than normal and you find out about their life, their reason for travel and sometimes even end up seeing them once you arrive at your destination. On top of that, planes are typically really noisy (from the engine), cramped, and just difficult (okay, business class is a fair bit better and I can only assume 1st class even more so) where as the train is quiet and just a nice way to relax either on the way back from somewhere on to build the excitement when heading somewhere!

Then again, I have also travelled the length of the Trans-Mongolian railway (St Petersburg to Beijing) and across the States (California to New York) by sleeper train!
On a somewhat related note, I recently added an external bank account to my E-trade account. They gave me two options for verifying it. The first was to make a small deposit into the external account (which they said would take several days to complete). The second option was to provide my bank account's credentials and they could verify it immediately. I chose the first option.
There are places beyond the English-speaking world. As far as I know, there's no equivalent to "wink, wink" in my native language.
What to create for a novice back end programmer?
Perhaps the question is not the topic of what to create for a novice backend programmer?
What would you take to work and pump skills?
And the ability to take a one-click action on all of them in the bundle.

There were so many times that I'd snooze an entire bundle of emails about a trip until the monday before the trip, or snooze the 20 emails sent out from a work monitoring system that I need to look into later in the day, or archive an entire bundle of promo emails after glancing in them at the subject lines.

In gmail I hate the tabs because once I look at them they stop being shown as a count in that tab, and I need to select them all and archive them in multiple steps. And if you don't like the tabs, the only other way to organize is by foregoing grouping all together and throwing everything into one messy list.
Isn't the motive to get the user's contact lists?

If there's an error isn't there a chance that the password leaks out into an error log somewhere?
You're absolutely correct. However,in the event that directives are not transposed (or not transposed correctly) courts can find that the directive is (vertically) directly effective.
This was my initial reaction - it feels a little bit like the option to send short voice messages via iMessage on iPhone, rather than typing. I've never used that feature because it doesn't seem to offer the same convenience factors that text messages offer - especially the ability to compose and consume them in any environment, irrespective of noise (or quiet), companions, and location. Kind of one step forwards, two steps back.

None of this is insurmountable, but I wonder if it will cause inertia in experimentation and uptake?

Good luck, either way - love the initiative the founder has shown. :)
Wow. Thanks for putting great energy for this answer. Great perspective.

Again, if you don't mind sharing, what would be a dream solution for you, something that could solve most of the problems you mentioned?

I understand that some of them are cultural problems (like people no talking to each other), but maybe somehow a technology could solve this?

If you could think of a new approach, what would that be?
The reason seems to be self-perpetuation really - it isn't that work in itself is some great virtue (we should strive to maximize output not input) but because continuous gains and losses add up over time.
On old British rail trains, commuter trains had many doors, I think on each side there was a door for each pair of row of seats?

There was also no door lock, so people could start leaving the train before it fully stopped.

The lack of a door lock is also why they're not used anymore.
> I wish they'd produce a systemd-less version like Devuan.

I've been hearing similar often. What's the beef with Systemd anyway? I've haven't heard much and Googling will surely just turn up a bunch of theoretical, philosophical, or hate posts. Why is Systemd bad from the perspective of a regular user.
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> Rivals of Costco are angry with them for paying their employees more to get better motivated ones and less shrinkage - when if they think it is a waste of money be happy about it

Do you have a citation for this claim?
Mercedes got 500 folks employed just to make the F1 engine[1], I'm sure they can afford to hire someone to get a couple of websites made.
That it's not better is probably because, does it need to be?

[1]: https://www.mercedes-amg-hpp.com/about-us/
This doc is eye-opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MqJPHxy6g (although it's over 2 hours and I fell asleep the first time I watched it).

but TL;DW: People are always looking for status, because status means others acknowledge and praise them. And today's celebrity culture means being famous is seemingly a quick way to gain status.

With a better community you'd have friends who like you and acknowledge you because they got to know you and your character.
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Fair enough, but that's only a reason to think out those text messages, not to avoid the medium. I occasionally keep drafts on my messaging apps for days, as I mull them over.
They shouldn't need to log in to the user's password account at all through OAuth or any other way!

A side problem with this is that if it's truly easier for the user than clicking on an emailed link, then users are going to expect that from all of us. So you have to do the sleazy shit or from the users' point of view you are "behind" and less good.

I wish there was some good way to educate the user to privacy dangers. I mean, we could make an online workshop but would have to support it by advertising because we would have to reach the people who don't realize there even could be a problem. And the people willing to drop $5 on it are the ones who don't need to (classic problem in education).
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Seriously they destroy Iran nuclear enrichment with stuxnet by leaving usb flash drive around. The worker took it, kept it as there own and use it at the nuclear enrichment site.
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Think of something you do lately. Think of a problem you have with it and about how you can fix it. Then create something to fix it.

Example: Situation: You are playing every week some sport with your friends. Problem: No one can easily agree on a date/time. Solution: Create a little web app where you friends can vote on times.
Dear Gentlepeople, can I point out the Elephant in the room, or better the one leaving it. The most interesting part (especially for HN) is not where A16Z is going, but what it is leaving behind: VC. Setting aside the shift in social tide for a moment, why does A16Z think there will be no more profit in VC? Any thoughts?
So there is the tip: if you ever do any kind analytics project, make sure the reports are send to a different hostname than your marketing/landing page is. Because the analytics host is bound to become blocked by all adblockers and privacy plugins sooner or later.
Ok. What new does it bring over LISP implemented in 1960?
Companies are not democracies. Is it a contradiction that we both praise democracy and spend our working time in dictatorships? Probably but we usually don't even notice it.
Not enough to be the _main_ mode of communication, but definitely an important part of my team’s remote communications. I run www.gradientmetrics.com, and we’re a (very small) distributed team. We often do screencasts with voiceovers to show how we’re thinking of implementing something, what we think the outline of the deliverable should be, etc., etc. This can be _a lot_ easier to do with a video screencast than it is to type out. We typically do this either with a QuickTime screencast or with the person recording a solo Zoom conference with screen share, and uploading to Vimeo. If there was something that cut that workflow down and had some other features, we’d consider it.
I remember a while ago reading about how bus arrival times in some South American country were studied and showed to follow psuedorandom distributions.

I don't remember the source, but the key differentiator [in that country] is that there is a person at the bus stop that tells the bus driver the time that the previous bus was there. This will cause said driver to increase/decrease speed in effect to counter bunching with the next bus.

Unfortunately, I also don't remember how rigorous the study was.
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EVERYBODY suffered terrible casualties during the war. Statistically speaking, tank crews had one of the lowest mortality rates of anything else in the war that also was in battle.

Also, all tank crews were not happy to see any other tank. Germans hated seeing Allied tanks just as must as we hated seeing Axis tanks. 70% of ALL engagements were won solely on who got the first shot off.

The Germans had Tiger I and Tiger II tanks, but the reality is that they didn't make very many of them. The vast majority of the tanks the USA went up against were Panzer III's and Stugs...of which any variant of the M4 was more than a match for.

The so called poor performance of the Allied tanks was a complete myth. The M4 was a giant success and more than filled its mission.

Further, the M4 was so good that it remained in production for more than 40 years after WWII and was used very effectively by Israel during the 6-day war which occurred 22 years after WWII.
People willingly sign up for Plaid. Banks have vendor lockin and special legal rights others don't have
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It's weird how the meaning of an emoji can change so dramatically depending on which font you're using. The biggest example is the moon face emoji. On Twitter or Android, it's just a cute little moon. On Apple, it suddenly becomes molester moon.

https://emojipedia.org/new-moon-with-face/
I think you're replying to a joke.
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> Isn't the motive to get the user's contact lists?

Probably, yeah.

> If there's an error isn't there a chance that the password leaks out into an error log somewhere?

Sure; there are ways of avoiding that, but who knows what they did.
i'm (happily!) using acme on macos. works great, the option and cmd buttons act as modifiers for middle and left button (execute and search).
HM interesting. I mainly created applications such as 24memes.com or todolist)
Yeah, I'm so glad it has support on gitlab and github. It's a far superior format compared to markdown and does most of what RST can do as well. I would prefer it to markdown even if I didn't use emacs.
Are there grounds to sue someone like Netflix under the ADA if their content is not accessible in a standards-compliant browser that happens not to be allowed to access closed-source DRM?
How does my secret key get from my phone to my tablet?
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I do the same, I would never trust a company's IT department to have any access or administrative power over my personal phone - same goes for laptop.
React and other JS projects gave them a largely positive reputation as tech employer in that field.
That actually raised more questions than it answers.

Did the pilots fail to notice the MCAS problem before it put the plane too far out of trim?

Could they have saved the plane if they stuck to the procedure and kept adjusting the trim by hand?

Why does MCAS override even direct pilot trim up commands?

Is the runway trim procedure even viable on older 737s once the trim goes past a certain point? Or are we just lucky that it never happens?
With next-gen speech-to-text (voicea), it is modestly possible. Am sure that could get better by time!
Given Australia's indigenous wildlife, I'm actually surprised it's not the other way around.
I've tried the impossible burger on a friend's recommendation (fat burger).

He overblown it.

It's good. But it doesn't taste like meat and the texture isn't close, only the seared like texture works the inner is different. The flavor is off. I want to say the fat of meat gives it that good taste which impossible burger does not have.
tl;dr

The Australian government's open data portal has a surprisingly large amount of data on dogs and cats.

Nearly all of it comes from local councils with open data policies, since it's local government in Australia that registers domestic animals, regulates animal numbers on non-farm properties and answers the call when someone complains about a wandering dog.

Pretty cool data... thank you for sharing. I hope this summarize helps.
I think you're being rather generous here. By all accounts, Stalin did not wake up to the seriousness of the German threat and the unpreparedness of the Soviet Army until the Winter War against Finland in late 1939, and even this didn't stop him from purging the Red Army to the tune of executing 30,000 officers until the Germans finally invaded.

The one foresighted move that really saved their bacon was moving most military production including tanks deep into the Russian heartland, safe from the German advance.
$ signifies a global variable, so changes are $it would break some existing codebase somewhere.
Russ Hanneman is a pretty accurate portrayal of a combination of of any average real estate / non domain investor / rich person + the worst parts of someone like Jason Calacanis. Jason has a lot of upside (i used to work with him), but he brings a lot of "swag" which I think Russ Hanneman is based on. The non domain investor is the part where they tell you to work on ridiculous shit but have lots of money so they expect you to listen even though it's a horrible idea.
Working on a problem that you have yourself will give more motivation and it will be more clear what the requirements are. You can follow some generic example or the classic todo list but their scope are limited and wont expose you to "real world" problems as much.
That's great to hear. Keep up the good work!
Mints privacy policy includes this language "we may prepare and share information about our customers with third parties, such as advertisers or partners, for research, academic, marketing and/or promotional purposes." - where any usage of "may" can be substituted with "will".

They say they will anonymize data, but advertisers have no interest in data if they can't action on it -- i.e. use the data they buy for targeted advertising.
That's one part of it, I'm sure. Another part is that if you pipe up, you risk getting shunned: loss of income, loss of status, loss of being "part of the cool kids". Sure, you can get another job (that pays less) but you'll probably not work at the same cutting edge technology, and when you tell relatives or friends who you work for, their eyes don't light up.

If somebody offered me five to eight times as much as I make today with a huge boost in status and other positive side effects, and all they ask is to quiet down those silly principles, I'm not so sure I'd say no. "You can still do good in 5 years when you've made enough money to be set for life", I'd probably tell myself.
I know people doing many different categories. One guy doing a million a month gross just in clothing. One guy doing used DVDs and making over 1k/day profit. Many people doing wholesale in electronics, toys, grocery, health and beauty, pets, and others.

I'm doing electronics and toys and have done as much as 500k gross in 30 days at peak.
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They probably didn't, and I know I come from position of legal awareness, bordering on paranoia, but I would never communicate with a potential landlord over anything but phone and email.

And I suspect the Israeli couple didn't think texts were serious, like an email would be. But the court decided otherwise.
Instance variables can not start with a digit, so this works fine from that perspective.
Well, actually, there is in the steam settings.

And to be fair, not every game on Steam comes with DRM attached to it. I have many games I can play without launching Steam itself.
Once the option is there, it's hard to ignore it.
Agreed about "main mode of communication", but training and onboarding come to mind as strong use cases. (shrug)
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The original paper on acme is here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/

Acme was different to the 'sam' editor and most other Plan 9 programs up to that point (aside from its predecessor, "help", a similar system that was replaced by acme).
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Yeah, the start of the war was totally botched but all the management types knew what the plan was. This stuff was basically settled in the 1930s. The problem was that half the people who knew how to actually execute on it were in the gulag and the other half were dead. Once they got over that problem and actually followed the plan that they had laid out for themselves they steamrolled the Germans.
There was an idea to create a platform where people could write about solving global problems. People would offer solutions to problems or discuss contemporary problems in the world.
Never try to travel with a train in Romania. The infrastructure is totally wrecked. Trains are always late, even when weather is perfect, but if you're coming during summer you'll be late because "the rails are too hot" and in winter you're late because of the cold. It's a shame - we've reached the level where the average speed for trains is around 30km/h, lower than 50 years ago. Also, the trains are dirty and people inconsiderate of anyone else but their companions.

At the same time, I was delighted to travel with trains in Czech Republic when I lived there for one year. Not sure about other Eastern European countries.
So I did get a little carried away, but the point is that once you've decided the it is OK for the government to regulate at this level, there is no room for complaining when government wants to intervene in anything else. We are in the realm of "trust the government, it knows what is best for us".

If it is rational for the government to have the power to set a minimum wage then wouldn't it also be reasonable for the government to decide that all software developers need to be licensed?

What is the limiting principle?

You accuse me of "whataboutism" as if I am ignoring some limiting principle that is obvious but I don't see any limiting principle being followed at all and I find that alarming.
You can and I have done so, it's just quite difficult when you don't have backups so we usually try not to do this.
emojis are not something strictly defined. They vary across messaging platforms and clients, or versions of clients. Sometimes it means that the person sending them sees a different image then the recepient, which also can lead do different interpretation
But there are other datasets that would do the same thing with medians.
And if you think them out, then that's fine. But a lot of people think texts are hyper-casual and don't give them appropriate consideration.
https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

Sounds to good to be true. Also reads like that. :) A gem from this paper:

But maybe a better question is: “What are we going todo with these detectors now that we have them?” A lot ofthe people doing this research are at Google and Facebook.I guess at least we know the technology is in good handsand definitely won’t be used to harvest your personal infor-mation and sell it to.... wait, you’re saying that’s exactlywhat it will be used for?? Oh.Well the other people heavily funding vision research arethe military and they’ve never done anything horrible likekilling lots of people with new technology oh wait..... 1

1 The author is funded by the Office of Naval Research and Google.
The German tanks were put together by highly skilled craftsmen. Often, the parts were hand machined or finished for each tank. This meant that the tanks did not have interchangeable parts, and were difficult/impossible to fix in the field. Being unable to fix equipment in the field was a general problem for the German army, as a very large proportion of their trucks and other equipment was captured from other countries, and they had no spares.

Once the Soviets moved their factories beyond the Ural mountains, the Germans, who lacked heavy bombers, had no way to knock out the factories. They stood no chance against the Soviet T34s and tank destroyers at that point.

If you're interested in digging deeper into this kind of history, take a look at "The Second World Wars" by Victor Davis Hanson.
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I would love to take a peak into the meeting where they formulated this idea.

With all the shit being fired at Facebook from all directions these days, I just want to see the faces and reactions of those who thought "Yep, that's a good idea!" when this concept was originally brought up. It's really stretching my curiosity and imagination to the point where I start wondering what type of people they are hiring at Facebook these days.

Is there a name for this phenomenal in psychology where one would insist on doing the exact same things other people are criticizing them, but with an increasingly higher intensity the more they get criticized for it? This is exactly what it is.
Arguably, giving up your email login is worse than giving up your banking login, since attackers could use your email to reset the password on other accounts, possibly including bank accounts.

For banking, a better system would allow you to generate some kind of token in your banking site which would allow the kinds of permissions you want to grant to a third party, and which you could unilaterally revoke at any time.