skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacked together a few web scraping scripts + an open access audiobooks database
This looks like a bunch of "Sales-Foo". What is the underlying algorithm, and how does it work to help business solve specific business problems? Machine learning techniques are rarely revolutionary, so what is this based off of, and what are the pros/cons of that approach?

I don't know, but this "coming soon" code base always makes me think it's vaporware.
All the atoms in the universe!
Product people, regardless of primary background, have to be competent in a variety of skills and experts at one or two to be extremely effective. The job simply requires it. It is possible to be an expert in engineering and be competent in business, design, etc. The blog post is simply describing an engineer who probably could be a product manager/owner if they had the desire.
My understanding is that the ketamine dosages used for treating depression are much, much lower than the dosages used recreationally. (I could be remembering wrong.)

Otherwise, the big advantage of getting a nurse to do it is that they are in a position to treat you if one of the rare but potentially fatal side effects pops up.
Only if you take very large doses. Maintenance doses for medical use are tiny; barely enough to feel any effect at all.
So after all of the discussion here on HN with people chiming in and supporting music, movie, and software piracy.

I'm supposed to give two shits about artists getting ripped off for the same thing? Please. What ever happened to information wants to be free?
He may have had three hours to provide it from when the judge denied his motion, but people who know what they're doing plan on what they'll do if they lose a motion ahead of time.

He states that only lawyers are allowed to bring encrypted devices into federal courthouses. This is false. Likely he refers to the fact that you have to check electronic devices like cellphones at the security desk.

Here's what the appeals court had to say about his production of the keys:

> Despite the unequivocal language of the August 1 Order, Lavabit dallied and did not comply. Just before the 5:00 pm August 2 deadline, for instance, Levison provided the FBI with an 11-page printout containing largely illegible characters in 4-point type, which he represented to be Lavabit’s encryption keys. The Government instructed Lavabit to provide the keys in an industry-standard electronic format by the morning of August 5. Lavabit did not respond.

> The Government sought penalties of $5,000 a day until Lavabit provided the encryption keys to the Government. The district court granted the motion for sanctions that day. Two days later, Levison provided the keys to the Government. By that time, six weeks of data regarding the target had been lost.

http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/134625.P.pdf

If you know you might be forced to provide something, and you make it really hard for yourself to get that information in response, judges in the US legal system may well lack sympathy for you.

I'm not seeking to make a value judgement about right and wrong here, I'm trying to argue that Levison's issues stemmed from deliberately choosing to do legally dumb things.
> which speakers of non-tonal languages generally have a really hard time with.

Is this actually true? I only did some basic Mandarin, but its tonal system is so simple (and plainly transliterated) that it seemed like a non-issue to me. Done & dusted in a couple of hours or so, compared to the hundreds of hours needed for vocabulary, idioms etc. Not to mention the terrifying writing system. And I have no natural advantages, carrying a common disability (native monolingual English), and having only learned German previously.
well it is correct: "But the injectable polio vaccine (IPV) is a better way to inoculate children against the disease: it is safer because it does not carry the live virus. Unhappily, it is also more expensive."
https://www.economist.com/feast-and-famine/2013/07/19/inject...

Still, now that price has dropped to less than $1 per dose, I am sure rich governments or simple rich people can foot the bill.
You don't need to - just license it out to a third-party systems integrator.
as bad as Russia has been (bots on internet), it pales in comparison with US/UK interference in other countries. In fact it pales in comparison with US meddling in Russian affairs - http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html
eg. "AMD shipped Ryzen 3000 with a serious microcode bug in its random number generator." "Windows users couldn't successfully launch Destiny 2, and Linux users in many cases couldn't even get their system to boot." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd...
I find this is quite difficult to do in practice.
Did you notice any changes in your fitness? I want to do el-camino, but am not sure how 4 weeks’ break from running will affect me.
You can add

(4) took credit for all the inventions his employees invented

vs say Westinghouse who let his employees put their names on the patents for their inventions.

In other words, he wasn't as prolific an inventor as claimed since he took credit for others work.
> In other cultures, it just means having friends/relationships and not being stressed all the time.

Could you share examples of such cultures that still exist?
>minimum lovable product

If I ever hear anyone say that in real life, I will die on the spot.
Tech's liability shield becomes trade-deal flashpoint
Deadlines Are Ruining Our Creativity
Utilities are natural monopolies. It's not feasible for every company in the marketplace to build their own water, gas, or electricity distribution network.
I thought the John Deere thing was only to the extent that they locked-down their users from tweaking their firmware - not that their firmware actively tries to frustrate use-cases like attaching a plow or disabling the tractor after 3 years?
I’m normally automatically skeptical of anything passed by our legislature here (which passes laws to ban plastic straws and water in restaurants but couldn’t care less about feces and mental illness all over the streets).

For this, I’m totally 100% behind the decision. A jury of our peers is as good as it gets, folks. Even with the drawbacks it will never get better. We need to protect it and honor it, and that includes letting those who have felt the strong arm of the law decide whether the law itself is applied fairly to other people.
Thank you. I didn't read the article, I made unwarranted assumptions from the previous postings on this subject and then made a mis-informed HN comment having not read the article. Mea culpa.
Take them up on it!

Small claim court usually has minor fees to file a case. Most examples I’ve heard had the company settling before it even went to trial.
I usually go with nmtui. You can also connect using it.
The university you go to is a factor in your entreprenurial journey. Stanford is likely the best outcome in the school factor you want to be a startup founder. But there are many other factors to optimize for beyond college.

The ultimate thing to optimize for is to build something people want.

The college you go to is just one factor feeding into that.

Don't let a poor outcome in one factor cause you to lose focus on the ultimate goal.

And here's a tip: go to another school in the Bay Area, find the hottest startup, and offer value to them until they let you intern there. 4 years of that (or even at a few startups) is worth more than anything you would have gotten from any school. And don't forget to read all the startup books.

Edit: I realized I didn't really answer your question so here goes: yes luck plays a huge factor, especially as you move from predicatable businesses such as commerical real estate to hypergrowth moonshots like Google and Facebook. But all startup founders face setbacks, and you've just witenssed your first highly visible setback. Don't let it rock your ship; instead use it to fuel your fire.
Why wouldn’t they tow? Most places I’ve lived are happy to tow if you can prove it’s your property and the vehicle is trespassing.
>So, in other words, "because Trump thinks it's ok, it's ok." You could have saved a lot of typing.

Yes, for these sorts of positions, "because [president] thinks it's OK, it's OK" is the criteria Trump and all of his predecessors have used. If you don't believe me, feel free to try to find a formal, defined qualification for "informal presidential envoy to hopefully get some/any progress done in an area no progress has occurred in four decades", or "host of some meetings at the UN for women's rights and other such causes". I'll wait. The only difference is that in these cases the envoy happens to be related to the president as opposed to say, an old college roommate (Example: Kenneth O'Donnell, whom Kevin Costner portrayed in Thirteen Days), or law school buddy (twenty for Obama early in his administration [1]).

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2008/12/school-buds-20-harvar...

It's quite different from ...

>Everything you said is utterly preposterous. Physycists have failed to come up with a GUT for quite some time now. Should Jared be in charge of that as well?

Something like this, for which there is, in fact, a formal, defined criteria. The fact that you made such a ridiculous and obviously inapt comparison shows how desperate you are.
A substantial portion of retiree houses will come onto the market as elderly move into care homes, sometimes several years before they pass away. The price houses sell for depends on who will be buying _ either other retirees or local employed people, who may enjoy opportunities to upgrade. As usual housing prices depend on either local incomes or outside cash.
Apple says its ultra wideband technology is why newer iPhones check location
Chomsky's talk titled "Corporate Attack on Education" held at St. Philip's Church, Harlem on March 16, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMP-cy1INA

> I think the university should tolerate a large diversity of opinion, which it does not. I think there is a severe failure - the failure is one of honesty, in my opinion. That is, I don't believe that scholarship within the university attempts to come to grips with the real structure of the society. I think it is under such narrow ideological controls that it avoids any concern or investigation of central issues in our society.

-- Noam Chomsky, interview in Business Today (May, 1973) https://chomsky.info/197305__/
An attack doesn’t mean death or severe injury. There have been plenty of attacks but they pretty much all have resulted in no injuries.
Interesting.

If message accumulation on sending side waits till EOL is pressed - or some other indication of end of message is entered - then network wouldn't actually see "lo" - they wouldn't be sent before the crash.

If input would be sent character-by-character, then first "l" would be sent, then "o", then system would crash. In this case the first message would be "l".

This wouldn't be TCP connection - that would require some handshakes beforehand, so more messages back and forth even before "l" is sent.

There were protocols before TCP; simplest way is to assume it's direct IP. So, first point-to-point, routed internetworked message - first IP packed reached destination across networks - seemed to contain payload "l".

What's wrong here?
I've been using Vultr for almost 3 years now. They had some problems with 1-3 server reboots a year, and I once had some trouble with IPv6 setup. The support was quite helpful, but they ended up moving my instance to a different host node.

They take Bitcoin (verification needed) too.

I received a good amount of credits for finding a security vuln in their CP (not severer), and prices are quite good to begin with. If anyone plans to use them, I recommend the High Freq line. Snapshots are currently free. Additional IPv4 and /64 IPv6 cost $3/mo. Network-level firewall and fast DNS (although NS in same /30, anycasted) is for free.

Block storage is reasonable and is on par with Digital Ocean, and is fast. I have 50GB $0/mo instance as an early customer.
I just added two lines to the starting brute-force code:

if v, _ := validateCode(passcode); v == 1 {
return []string{passcode}
}
Mesh Spreadsheet: JavaScript code editor that feels like a spreadsheet
Now the question is, when you kill your children or family because you're doing medical experiments to try to cure them, who's at fault?

Because there are people and groups drinking bleach and treating it as a cure-all for diseases. I don't think going back to the old American Wild West of snake oil selling for diseases is a good idea.
Audel/Hawkins has some written some very interesting books, many of which you can find at archive.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah_Hawkins

Regarding Edison, I assume you're referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1917_Hawkins_Electrical_G...

I think "Edison-worship" was pretty common at the time, since I have some other electrical books by other authors which prominently have a picture of Edison inside the front.
"As if these skills are special and inherently more difficult to pick up by developers without them"

It's because they are.
Look up moclobemide if you are open to trying MAOIs instead of heavy SSRI/SNRI cocktails. IMHO reversible MAOIs are severely underrated.
In praise of magic functions (2015)
Best Clipboard History Extensions for Chrome
Yep, sorry, didn't mean to say this directly applied, just a neat concept that's somewhat related.
Police warn of new “line trapping” scam
> that is, if there isn’t a remnant population of megalodon hidden somewhere in the deep

I hate this kind of statement so much. Megalodon would be hunting in warm shallow water areas close to the coast. And they are defiantly not 'hidden somewhere in the deep'.

If Megalodon existed, whales could not have grown as large as they did.
Maybe you are the exact user story of their business model : at the end of the Duolingo experience, the website would become the Uber of language teachers.

Online realtime, or face-to-face course in your town with a selection of human teachers. A Platform to match teachers and students.

The platform could simply list professionals (with a fee), or take a fee per minute of course video, or a fee per booking, etc
I think this is more about signalling to people who served their time in prison that we want to re-integrate them into society than it is about changing how court cases will be decided. And, even if that wasn't the case, everyone has a constitutional right to a jury of their peers - not a jury of everyone @Bostonion thinks is a good person.

In our existing system, both sides get to rule out a set number of jurors for whatever reason they want (unless can be shown that the lawyers intended to discriminate on a few set characteristics), and then an unlimited amount of jurors if they can show the jurors might have any kind of bias, through a process called jury selection or voir dire. This is a giant industry, encompassing everything from body language experts to data analysis. For example, here's what TransUnion had to say about their new big data product:

> With little time to research potential jurors using manual methods, attorneys and consultants traditionally pick juries based on what they can observe — age, gender, answers to background questions during voir dire and body language — leading to jury pools selected at least partially based on stereotypes and hunches.

> Cutting-edge research tools like TLOxp® by TransUnion make it easy and affordable to quickly find more accurate, actionable information on potential jurors. TLOxp uses proprietary linking algorithms to scour 125 billion records on an estimated 95% of the U.S. population within seconds, uncovering insightful information and establishing patterns and relationships.

https://www.tlo.com/blog/smarter-data-is-a-game-changer-for-...

In other words, you aren't the first person to consider that people on juries might be biased, and in fact in my opinion we go far too far in the other direction.

Furthermore, juries don't (generally) just get to decide whatever they want, they are instructed in what factors they are allowed to evaluate, and what tests they must use, by the judge. An appeal can (generally) only challenge the process, not the decision by the jurors.

Here's what the article had to say about this:

> The new law won’t interfere with this process. The attorneys or judge retain authority to dismiss a potential juror with a felony conviction from a particular case, for cause — but a felony conviction does not, in and of itself, constitute cause.

In other words, either side could come up with a vague reason they didn't like a former felon and get them off the jury even if they had already used up their free strikes.
How Face Recognition Tech Is Driving the Short Video Trend
Yep. Based on the hint for that question, I expect this is the "normal" solution.
With the number of ads I see, I doubt they don't make money
My dentist’s firm is still running XP in the clinical rooms. Dunno about the scheduling side.

Hopefully it’s all isolated from the internet. Might be.
I'd like the freedom to buy drugs my life depends on and measure my body fluids to insure they are correctly balanced.

This community argues weed should be legal. Advocates Microdosing lsd. But not insulin. Nope. Gotta get a prescription for that.
The architecture and design of PS1/2/3 were driven from Tokyo, where as PS4/5/+ are driven from the US. It happened because the internal corporate structure changed significantly, leading the design to be heavily influenced by game dev community vs hardware engineers.

As such... its sad as we will never see any new crazy ass hardware architectures going forward.
Isn't this just a reflection of women' higher participation rate? For every several women who join the workforce, there is one man who stays home as stay-at-home pop. And yes especially the poorer educated ones, because they make less than their wives, so what's the problem about it.

At least that explains the chart before mid-1990s. By that point, women participation rate plateaued, but also a generation X entered workforce massively, and they are less career-focused and care more about work-life balance, because they never seen poverty and not anxious about it - being amply provided in their childhoods in 1970s and 1980s by their parents.

Which by the way, also explains why incomes stagnate to a great degree. People simply don't want to work nearly as hard as their parents did and want to enjoy their lives properly instead. Hardly a bad thing.
An ideal free market is one is which no coercion occurs, including state coercion like regulations and taxes, and private coercion like theft and fraud.

Colloquially, a free market refers to one in which a minimal amount of government intervention occurs. The less state intervention, the more free the market.
Wonder what happened to the regex101 demo link [1], it just redirects to home page

[1] https://regex101.com/r/8e2iU1/2

---

Edit: Found a newer article [2] which does point a working regex101 link [3]

[2] http://www.drregex.com/2018/11/how-to-match-b-c-where-abc-be...

[3] https://regex101.com/r/QsFZ5M/2
Being eaten alive, genital first is literally my worst nightmare. The only thing worse would be living it on repeat or being left alive severely mutilated. Nature is scary.
We actually have some recent footage of the giant squid and new ideas for deep sea exploration

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/19biolum/logs/ju...
Citizens are not assets.
> You don’t need to understand the subject matter to make rudimentary assessments of validity.

Possibly for really rudimentary assessments, but do you have any evidence for this? The book source in my original comment is package with peer-reviewed research on this. One study in the book is about college-educated participants that aren't baseball fans scoring worse on a reading comprehension test than non-college educated labourers who were baseball fans when the subject matter is baseball.

Really, each of the questions you list all require knowledge to answer. The latter you could say just requires literacy but that is knowledge it's not some skill you can divorce from domain-specific concepts.

> Are some obvious questions not being raised by the text?

How could doing this be some generalisable ability divorced from knowledge about the content of the text and the domain(s) of concern in the text? Without even looking at the scientific research it seems pretty implausible that you could train a human being to pick out "obvious questions" of import to some text about the 2nd World War if you ensured to keep them ignorant of knowledge about France, Nazi Germany, Nationalism, War, etc. etc.
High initial investment costs (for laying fiber etc) won't stop someone like Google. What stopped Google fiber was regulatory barriers set up by municipalities to help their local ISP cronies.

> Sorry, but equating regulatory capture with "government regulations" kind of triggers me.

Regulatory capture is composed of government regulations.

> fixing your gov might be the more important issue

Exactly
You're allowed by law to deny them medicines that they need to live but not buy them medicines they need to live? How does that make sense?
"Privatizing" state utilities is not equivalent to bringing in the market. Usually privatization just means converting the government-managed monopoly to a heavily regulated, privately managed, government-sanctioned monopoly. There's no market there.
This is such a common trope nowadays. If the question “what is the evidence to support that conclusion” is even asked, the answer is almost surely a casually observed correlation and little more.
I did, and that's exactly why I felt the need to ask, since there doesn't seem to be a proper definition.

It also depends on the context, as is explained in the example given for the usage of few.
There is no evidence of natural monopolies ever actually arising naturally as you're describing. In every instance, government either acted pre-emptively and established a monopoly itself or the monopoly was a result of other government regulations and policies (for instance, patents and copyright).
This is the new company by Joel Spolsky, the founder of Stack Overflow (and notorious blogger), which is why it's relevant to HN.
Yes, it’s true that OPV is cheaper, but it will continue to be used because it is more effective at preventing the transmission of wild polio virus.

http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the...
Turning Off Syntax Highlighting
Show HN: Unofficial .NET SDK for the Anki Vector Robot
Raglan Sleeves
Some information about the flaws with that data:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259207757_Comment_o...
No it is not. Regulatory capture is created with the influence of market actors, but cannot exist without state (non-market) policies and enforcement.
"Isn't the conventional wisdom that when money leaves the system at such a quick and disorderly pace that the Fed needs to step in, that the money is being taken out to fund black ops, pay for protests, buy political/military leaders and overthrow or put pressure on regimes."

no, you're just a moron that can't think critically and rely on other morons on the internet to fill your head with shit.
I fought off the urge to endlessly debate my product managers by encourage them to A/B test their "bad" ideas.

The results were humbling for all everyone. Sometimes I was right but I often implemented features that I was sure would fail but turned out to be big successes.

Although my ego was initially bruised, the tactic was a big win for the business as now the product is more data driven.
No, it won't. If they just mean the state judiciary will summon felons to spend a day at the courthouse, sure. But prosecutors will surely be using their vetoes on such jurors due to their experience with the system, as they do with anyone that speaks a hint about jury nullification or otherwise seems hard to lead.