skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple problems with these kinds of things, but two of the most serious -- perhaps fatal -- issues with this sort of methodology come when you start questioning the assumptions implicit in these algorithms:

One of the problems comes from the kind of virtual redlining you can get via closely correlated metrics that serve as a proxy for problematic criteria. For example, someone's preferences in music or entertainment or food purchasing could closely correlate to their ethnicity, which in turn could correlate to lowered access to capital due to historic racial discrimination. You may be telling yourself you're writing an impartial algorithm, but it's not impartial, it's just opaque. How do we know that the "prepaid cellular" metric isn't just a proxy for "black people" or "recent immigrants" for example?

Likewise, you have the other problem, which is trusting the data in the first place. We have some stringent laws in this country about the ability for a consumer to see and correct data that leads to negative lending decisions being made about them. Perhaps its interesting that "giving up a prepaid wireless number" is a really bad data point when deciding to lend me money. But what if I never actually had a prepaid phone at all, and some database somewhere that I can't see says that I did? That's not only a problem it's actually illegal.

The article makes a show of taking a critical eye towards this method of evaluating creditworthiness, but somehow doesn't raise two of the really serious Achilles heels that are baked into all such schemes and have been problematic for awhile.
Here's a helpful link
http://www.howtogeek.com/190217/10-alternative-pc-operating-...
New vulnerability can put Android phones into permanent vegetative state
No offence to the poster but stealing images from a Reddit mega thread, one of which is an outlier error and the other being 2 lines of text that wasn't changed in the "help" text, does not a terrible installer make. The same thread has hundreds if not thousands of posts indicating how easy the install was, only a few people are having issues which is to be expected on a product launch.

Also if you say, " I cant remember an instance in the last 10 years when it just failed on me randomly while updating Windows", I really can't take you seriously, especially with the qualifier: that Windows updater is a "rock solid" platform.
Are you going to make baseless accusations or are you going to cite an example we can debate?
The half-life of DNA is 521 years. So, even if these were the bones of Christ, there would still be plenty of DNA available for testing.
Google is deleting accounts with no warning. Back up your data now
How much more or less invasive is Microsoft than other companies for comparable services? Without a good way to assess this, you run the risk of moving to a worse service, by whatever definition you want to use for worse. The market is very inefficient due to lack of comparable information to do with privacy policies. You can read all the policies of the services you want to use, but keeping that straight and making a decision based on it is quite a large task.
>What is your exit strategy?

>Acquisition by Google.
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a few years ago i had to pare down my wardrobe for extended travel. sadly (at the time), my startup tees were the first to go. i replaced them with patagonia's silkweight tees (2/3 merino, 1/3 synthetic).

as a lazy hacker i won't go back to cotton. i can comfortably wear a 2/3 merino + 1/3 synthetic base layer in virtually any climate. unlike cotton or pure merino, my pits don't remain wet after sweating. and unlike 100% synthetic tees, i don't smell like a locker room by lunchtime. (lazy bonus: this means fewer washes in cooler weather.)

there are a couple of downsides though:

- they're more expensive (~$40 on sale)

- they're delicate (delicate wash, and tumble dry with no heat or lie flat to dry is recommended)

there may be other companies with similar-quality products, but i'm comfortable recommending patagonia based on my experience. with proper care their stuff should last a long time, but they have a great warranty just in case.

[edit: formatting]
It's had over a year to drift around from wherever the crash occurred.
How much of this is self-fulfilling? Ie companies with certain qualities do better because they get funded, and they get funded because VCs think those qualities matter.
The URL is very similar but notice how the subdomain differs. The outer Cloud9 runs on (ide.)cloud9-lennartcl.c9.io. It responds on that URL and on *.cloud9-lennartcl.c9.io. That's where the inner Cloud9 runs: (ide.)cloud9-lennartcl.cloud9-lennartcl.c9.io. Visit that URL and you actually go through 3 proxies: the production proxy of c9.io and those of two inner instances. And note that the user names look the same in this case in this case, but that's really just for symmetry; ide.cloud9-2-lennartcl-2.cloud9-lennartcl.c9.io would have looked too awkward :) Each instance can have its own database with user names and workspaces. And each workspace runs in its own container.
Even though he may be able to start working faster, there's no guarantee that the time-to-completion is faster. Also, in a calendar program it's going to be orders of magnitude faster to change stuff like the design in hindsight. And you're likely able to achieve designs that are physically impossible to do in Excel.
Massless particle discovery could radically accelerate electronics
A more in depth explanation found here:

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/t...
Wikipedia states that all the other 777 crashes have been on land.
All that confirmation bias in such a short comment.
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Wow, I'm hoping you misspoke here, but I'm a bit concerned by the way you confused people who are "mentally ill" with those who have intellectual disabilities.

Also, this line is dangerously incorrect:
"A message becomes offensive only when its sender said it with the intention to be offensive."

If you've ever taken respectful workplace training in the US, you've likely learned the difference between intent and impact. What matters, in the US at least, is the impact of the message, not the intent of the person speaking [1].

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=sexual+harrassment+law+inent...
Does anyone know how strawberries are harvested? I've been toying with the idea of a produce harvesting robotics startup. But I guess the first step is to talk to some farmers?
I only ever used Cloud9 to try to help a few friends get into programming (which worked wonders since we could all work on the same repos together [my way of teaching them git before any programming was stupid and got dangerously close to turning them off to programming] and I could correct them with commit messages as well as inline comments) and didn't know that you could actually get a preview after running your program[0]. I'm pretty sure this is going to be all I use for the next few weeks until classes start back up.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/vDvYAvo.png
Sounds right. They need permission to display your files back to you, or to others if you want them to.
That looks great. Are there enough problem seeds to help combat sharing of answers?

Now we just need you at non-YC startups, too.
You know how they say that the best defense is a good offense. Well, this is the same concept. Sure, you can join the defense fund at any time, but by joining early, and putting up a good fight, you are helping to make sure that you your self will never get served. By joining the fund you are also sending a message to the troll that you are willing to fight, which makes you a harder target.
No, but it demonstrates a neat way to use github. Next time someone asks me to annotate some code, rather than fighting with a word doc or throwing gazillions of comments inline, I'm going to try this out.
Seems good, I like the choice.

In discussions on this topic I see a lot of: "Programming on the spot is hard, let people program at home"! But then other people say "Why should I program for free at home, my resume clearly shows I am already a skilled programmer. All this will do is cater to young people without families, or those fresh out of school".

I am not looking to hire devs right now, but I am thinking about the same idea with a tiny tweak when we move to that stage. If the verbal interview goes well, offer 2 choices. Make it clear neither choice is seen as the better choice, and both will be judged equally.

* Sit on a computer with me for an hour, and show me how to code a fairly simple program.

or

* Get a small actual work assignment to take home and code. Would expect it to take maybe 5 hours to code. Offer $500 as a 1099 contractor to complete the assignment within the next 2 weeks or so.

This gives both groups a chance. The too busy to do a big programming assignments can code in front of me for an hour. I should be able to judge their chops pretty fast. For the people more nervous to code in front of me, they can get paid a nominal fee to code some small piece of code.

The only group I exclude is the group that doesn't feel the need to show code to land a job, but not too interested in that group. I have seen too many good talkers and bad coders to want to risk this group.
Nice post! It's cool to see someone I follow on Twitter actively writing blogs - and posting on HN. I've reached out to you in the past about CSS & vim before.
OpenContainers dev mailing list is public now
Can you still use quick launch toolbars in windows 10 ?

It's old school but I've always find it more efficient than pinned apps or using the start menu.

http://i.imgur.com/IKYeKP5.png
I do not know much about the ASF, could somebody share a little of who Nóirín was, what she did, etc?
Well, it's $150 a year, whereas improving personal finance skills is a lifetime investment. But most of the investment (or all, if you check out a book from the library) is in time, which, as another commenter pointed out, the target market for this may not have, and habit-forming, which is hard to do. So I'll definitely allow this is a "better" solution, in the sense that it may be more likely to succeed for for more people, but I still believe that for individuals who can, building the capability to do it without for-pay external support would be better.
All of the down voters are already subjects of genetic engineering projects. Two specimens were brought together. Their dna was shared and 23 chromosomes were combined from each of the specimens to create a new experimental offspring.

I imagine that many of the down voters also are creating future genetic engineering projects in much the same way. Attempting to, and occasionally succeeding in, combining their dna with another specimen to create offspring.

If only we had more natural human creation as opposed to this GMO human combination that seems to be popping up in the marketplace...
There are quite a few (i.e. Wealthsimple, Financeit) Is there anything particular you're looking for?
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Yup, I was going by the prevailing winds and current arrow on the linked image. But if you superimpose the actual Indian ocean currents (as linked to by goodcanadian)[0], it does make quite a bit of sense.

0. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Indian_O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network
Why Everyone Should Love Windows 10
The BA crash in London was also on dry land.
Git 2.5, including multiple worktrees and triangular workflows
What I've done/will do on the next project:

- Pre-release signup to be notified when it's available

- Product Hunt

- Create a "Show HN" post on Hacker News

- Reddit
It seems your dissertation paper is behind something password protected [1]. It would be nice to see that too.

Can't get [1]https://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/intranet/teaching/campus/projects...
> ...more broad and nuanced perspective on the value we provide ...

This sounds like "leveraging synergies". If it was possible to explain any tangible benefit to such an environment, the conversation would move forward. Really, with the Very Rare Case? Developers don't have enough work to do where they don't need to stop and talk every 10 minutes?
What Business Is Square In Exactly?
What is Good CSS?
I wasn't citing the comic, I said it was a summation.

The SCOTUS example points out that the people whose jobs are to interpret free speech say it is limited, and that claiming "free speech" a blank check to escape consequences is merely semantics to support a bias.
This is awesome!

Reminds me of a game that was featured recently on HN: HyperRogue[0]. It's a simple roguelike on a hyperbolic plane.

[0] - http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
Triplebyte founder here. I can't be entirely sure until we give this a try, but the hope is we'll be able to tell if the candidate wrote the code by talking to them for 45-minutes about what they've done.
I wonder how the radiation protection process works?
One thing about this I don't understand after reading (maybe I missed it) is this:

It sounds like all the state needs to do is put in place the ability to veto any decision of a licensing board. It doesn't actually need to veto anything. The ability for the state to veto alone ensures that the boards are protected from suits. So if a licensing board takes anti-competitive action but the state does not veto the action (despite having the mechanism to do so) what protects the free market in that case? The business would now have to sue the state, rather than the licensing board?
Uber Is Faking Us Out with “Ghost Cabs” on Its Passenger Map
Just interesting to see how an AMA and a simple suggestion goes a long way. :)
Sad news, RIP. Based on her community involvement it strikes me as almost appropriate for her name to be added to the X-Clacks-Overhead HTTP header [1]

[1] http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
This sounds like a great alternative and certainly would work well for me. What I'm afraid of though, is that I'd pass your interview and the aforementioned YCombinator companies would again want to put me through the on-site, high-pressure whiteboard technical interview.
No one has confirmed a match. The article doesn't even confirm it.
She looks pretty young in her social media photos. Please don't be yet another bright young techie suicide. We've had too many of those recently, and no one seems to understand why or how we can avoid them in the future.
What are the ethics of credit scores? Credit scores are a terrible way to judge whether someone is credit worthy. Maybe this is a little better?
The real reason why the Spotify model is broken
Jack Dorsey's blunt talk cost Twitter investors $5B
Not really, companies like Apple/Microsoft are sitting on so much cash they can literally piss away billions on R&D and it would never threaten their viability (how much did Microsoft just write off on failed Nokia deal ?) - but it seems that modern corporate doesn't see this as valuable approach - I can only speculate why.
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As many other parts of an interview, I've always found the blackboard coding session extremely strange. When was the last time you coded in TextEdit with no docs around, no time to think, standing up, and being watched over the shoulder?
A nice hack for someone who wants to use this tool (granted that it is free for non-corporate customers):

If you are a data-scientist and would like to extract public-data from 1 of the APIs they provide, you can use this tool, pull that data (take it in raw form) and then export as both a spreadsheet and as CSV.

You can then use the CSV with your data-analysis toolset (Python probably has support), and voila! You've saved yourself the headache of wrangling APIs.

Apart from that, I'm going to go with the opinion of the other comments made that you probably don't want to be putting your private Excel info on another acquisition-driven startup.
First, that wing section cannot possibly be from a King Air 200.

Second, the referenced King Air 200 is currently on the tarmac in Las Vegas: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N17VA

That number is a coincidence.
Please don't quote unless it's an actual quote.
It's not really that deep, imo: a typical deep net these days has O(10^8) parameters (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28232235/how-to-calculate...). You can store a hell of a lot of patterns in that many parameters, making them the best pattern matchers the world has ever seen. (Un)fortunately, pattern matching != intelligence. More interesting deep questions for which there is precious little theory revolve around the design of the networks themselves.
Your comment made me start reading about your company. Really cool stuff! Do you use drones or regular aircraft?
What do you use as a broker? We have seen these issues too and use Redis as the broker.
The Goodness of Parameter Object
Snapzu (reddit alternative) upgrades servers because of unexpected high traffic
I think that's a red herring. The code "BB-670" coincidentally matches the construction number of a particular Beechcraft airplane built in 1980, tail number N17VA. But the wreckage cannot be from that plane, because it's still intact, and was flying as recently as earlier today! https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N17VA
So they made PowerQuery that you have to pay for?
Likewise the downdraft of the heli would force down anything of that size in it's path.

Downdraft wouldn't help safety: presumably there are locations above the helicopter from which a drone would be pulled into the rotor.
Thanks -makes perfect sense. I didn't realise they were using an out-of-country cell network to initiate communication.
She was actively involved in documentation, communication, and conferences.
Idiot has been historically used to mean a mentally disabled person:

> idiot: MEDICINE (archaic): a mentally handicapped person.

Google "euphemism treadmill" for more info.
There's literally dozens of /r/ELI5 threads on this[1] that are useful:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/e...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/e...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp
Humans are currently too inexpensive to make a harvesting robot worth the cost (sadly enough).

Let's say you spend $10M on R&D (a very low number in my opinion), each robot costs $50k to build, and maintenance/repairs cost $5k/year. You decide to charge your first customer $100k because you have to cover some of your R&D, and you pass all the maintenance costs on to them.

For that $105k per year, a farmer could hire ~8 people for an entire year. But most growers only need labor for a few months at the most. So, assuming a crop that requires people for about 3 months, you're actually looking at 32 humans vs. a single robot.

If the economics made sense, people would use harvesting robots. But at this point, picking fruit is something humans are particularly good at and computers are particularly bad at, and humans are still very inexpensive.
That's definitely something we've started addressing as we optimize the process of matching programmers with the right startups. We're starting to gather data on how the YC companies run their hiring processes (seeing the degree of variance has been fascinating) and we can use that to avoid exactly this happening.
It only now occurs to me that somebody should have purchased thousands of rubber ducks[1], then traversed the 7th arc[2], tossing one* overboard every mile or so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_Malaysia_Airlines_...

* Appropriately labeled with GPS coordinates of release, of course.
I sincerely hope this isn't related to the recent legal stuff that was going on (http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/1vely89ia/oregon-district-c... etc). Going away due to natural causes is tragic enough.
I know this has been discussed before, but whoever is responsible for Bloomberg's new design deserves to die in fire.
There's a good chance they think it will make the world better. With that being the case, I'd argue people are more likely to circumvent debate and controversy if they think it will make the world better.

That's not the point. The point is omnibus tactics will always be used to circumvent debate and controversy. It may be for the better, but if it becomes the norm, there's a good chance it will typically be for the worse.
Wait you mean you buy things from people who aren't currently accepting A round investment?
How many cases do you know of that people were unable to advance the arts because of a patent?

For one concrete example, anyone who worked on data compression outside of purely academic areas has been harmed, and by extension their customers have been harmed, by early software patents in that area. The LZW patent (infamously associated with the .GIF file format) and IBM's patents on arithmetic coding both rendered entire fields of computer science radioactive for years.

It's perhaps even more enlightening to spend some thinking about what life would be like if everything that could be patented under the incredibly loose standards of the USPTO was patented. It's safe to say you wouldn't be able to afford the computer or tablet you're typing on, nor the Internet service necessary to convey your thoughts. But this argument is also moot because neither of those technologies would be available in their present form, at any price.

Your impression is likely based on what you hear in a) tech media, which is largely supported by ads and hence welcome rage-views, and b) tech forums like this where open source is the dominant religion.

My impression is based on decades of work in the industry.

I'll give you some numbers less than 1% of patents are ever asserted

How many land mines ever explode? Does that make land mines a good thing? Patents are intellectual land mines, nothing more, nothing less.
> Feminism, by its very name, is a sexist philosophy. And according to feminists, sexism (mainly patriarchy) is bad. Unless it's feminism.

That seems to imply that you don't think sexism is bad. Did you mean to imply that?

Feminism, is by definition, anti-sexist. There are sexists who claim to be feminists, but that doesn't change the meaning of the word.

While the term 'feminism' does come from the root 'feminine', it refers to an umbrella of ideologies that includes many advocates of equal rights for men as well as for women.

However, if you do believe in the value of sexism, I can definitely understand why you would dislike feminism.
I had Windows 8.1 (non-OEM version) installed. Yesterday I created Windows ISO from that link. When booting from this ISO (on USB stick) it allowed me to upgrade existing Win8.1 installation. After upgrade I did clean install using same ISO. During installation I skipped entering windows key. Then at first boot it activated Windows automatically.
I realize that planting isn't the same thing as harvesting, but I once had an acquaintance who was a salesperson for an Australian startup that made automated planting machines. Imagine a robot about the size of a small refrigerator that creeps along the field on bulldozer treads, digging holes and dispensing seeds as it goes.

To try and sell these things, my acquaintance would go out in the field and work alongside the farmers for weeks at a time to try and demonstrate the robot's value. Invariably something would break, and the engineers back at the main office would quickly turn around a design fix.

Although the farmers were usually patient and supportive, rarely did they end up buying. The company went out of business several years ago. I don't mention this anecdote to discourage you from your idea; just to suggest that the problem may end up being a lot more difficult than it may seem.