jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was referring less to overall acquisitions than companies/startups acquired as a part of a "portfolio" or to compete with another goliath company.

For example, Yahoo or Microsoft's attempt to acquire Facebook to get into "social". Can you imagine what Facebook would be like today if that had happened?
No, the essence of my point is that the number of sigmas is meaningless when you have a systematic error — in either the experiment or the theoretical estimate — all that the sigmas tell you is that the two are mismatched. If a mistake could happen once, a similar mistake could easily happen again, so we need to be extremely wary of taking the sigmas at face value. (Eg: the DAMA experiment reports dark matter detections with over 40sigma significance, but the community doesn’t take their validity too seriously)

Any change in the theoretical estimates could in principle drastically change the number of sigmas mismatch with experiment in either direction (but as the scientific endeavor is human after all, typically each helps debug the other and the two converge over time).
LCNeuro and MIT Julia Lab currently have a commitment from Silicon Valley philanthropists to support the development of a software platform for creating, simulating, and validating models of brain circuit dysregulation for psychiatric disorders (i.e., “computational psychiatry”). To produce a proof of concept of this platform in one year, we’ll be hiring 2-3 postdocs with deep expertise in one or more of the following areas:

- computational neuroscience
- control circuits/system identification
- dynamical systems
- scientific machine learning

Must be highly creative, analytical, and driven, with strong quantitative and (Julia) programming skills, and with a desire and ability to think across fields. Remote work acceptable for July 1 start date. To apply, please send cv and contact information for three references. For more information, see https://discourse.julialang.org/t/computational-psychiatry-p...
What financial interest does Moxie have in MobileCoin Inc, MobileCoin TS Ltd or any connected business? Does he stand to gain from the success of MobileCoin?

You could have avoided most of the criticisms if you had a clear explanation of why you pre-mined. Saying that you intend to sell it is not as reassuring as you seem to think it is.
I think these objects are maybe true but not relevant.

The leading example of the article was about Zooom videos, not single frames, and in a school setting you presumably know what culture the students are from, so I don't think you need it to work cross-culturally. And I don't doubt that people can deliberately hide their emotions, but many settings are not adversarial, so there would be no reason to do so. E.g., if you imagine that a teacher is teaching a lecture to a large audience over zoom and is using a "puzzlement meter" to see if they seem to be getting it, then any audience member who does feel puzzled will only gain from frowning and making the lecturer slow down.

In general, I think from my experience talking to people over video chat, some emotional information does get communicated over the video, so in principle computer programs should be able to pick up on it too.
Considering how common bike theft is, I'm not sure I'd consider a bicycle that's half the price of a used car to be a great deal. I like ebikes and bicycles in general, but they're expensive for what you get. Perhaps if cheaper bikes appeared while still being decent then people might consider them more often?
Thanks for clarifying. That's good.

Btw, your link didn't work for me, but I was able to find the page here: https://mfi.apple.com/en/faqs.html
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/1113/6613068a.html?sh=28e...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2584471/q-a--mcnealy-d...

http://www.cedix.de/VorlesMirror/Band1/UnsafeAtAnySpeed.pdf
The cycling paths should have the same priority as roads for cars. So if the weather is that bad you are not driving to work using your car or taking a bus either.
Jack of all trades, mater of none, better than a master of one.
Euthanasia is a distinctly separate topic to suicide (in my mind), but since you brought it up, here is a magnificent oration by Andrew Denton on the topic:

https://youtu.be/FMP8eDEik14

It's 50 minutes, and I haven't seen all of it, but it's sad and moving and somehow perfectly combines humanity and logic.

(Edited to specify my own bias)
You may want to develop deep subject matter expertise!

As you become an expert on radio telescope arrays or the sport of curling you'll see the problems that are outside the scope of a spreadsheet. Meanwhile be part of the community surrounding it so they trust you and your understanding.

Otherwise you need a pathbreaking stroke of genius, a mountain of cash to burn, or the willpower and charm to get the world to choose your product app over the other 50 products that are very similar.
The site would make a stronger case if it just kept its stronger points and dropped the ones that are weak. Some weak ones:

This would make a better case if it dropped the ones that are kind of weak.

> Because Facebook was covertly paying teens 13 years old and older to spy on them.

Didn't this involve people who explicitly download and app that told you it was going to gather this data for research in exchange for payment? I'm having a bit of a problem seeing what was covert about it.

> Because Facebook gave exclusive access to your private messages and friends to large tech companies, device vendors, retailers, entertainment sites, automakers and media organizations.

And with this one I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what "exclusive access" means here. It sounds like it was pretty much the opposite of exclusive. I'm not saying giving you data out non-exclusively is better than giving it out exclusively--just that this "exclusive access" claim makes little sense.

> Because Facebook facilitated Brexit by spreading misinformation, made a fortune and tried to sue to prevent people from finding out.

The essences of this seems to be that people pushing "leave" bought ads on Facebook, and that some of the people who bought the ads may have been shady.

> Because Facebook employees say “F*ck ethics, money is everything”.

One engineer said that on Blind. I'm pretty sure you can find one employee with that attitude at pretty much any employer that pays well and has over 100 employees.
I think encryption and DRM are complex. For some odd reason, Doctorow hates DRM even though it essentially empowers artists to control people who want to steal from them. He seems to hate the idea that artists may want to sell their art directly and only embraces ideas where artists do things like sell tickets to concerts.

My feeling is that DRM is just encryption for artists. If you think that encryption and privacy are good things that empower people, I don't know why you would want to disempower artists.

But he thinks differently.
Everyone is replaceable. Feeling valued is a separate cultural issue, but no company should have a major dependence on a single individual for survival.

Mitigating risk and ensuring continuity is a core tenant of good business.
That, of course, has nothing to do with Blockstream.
Are you passionate in the same way the commenter's friend meant, though? Passion means different things to different people, and maybe his friend was expressing his desire to be more passionate, which actually sounds like a trait you share with him, considering you're not more passionate about any one particular thing over other things.
Now THAT’s gold. Thanks for this nice explanation.
This is a medium sized EU city, not SV. There are no tech meetups here. Those may be a thing in big metro areas.
Except when it is:

Medicare spokesman Aaron Albright said outside vendors "are prohibited from using information from these tools on HealthCare.gov for their companies' purposes." The government uses them to measure the performance of HealthCare.gov so consumers get "a simpler, more streamlined and intuitive experience," he added.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150120/us--health_overhaul...
> Quite frankly I'm frightened to pass through UK ports now to visit family after reading about Schedule 7 powers.

I'm not going to worry about it too much, myself. The statute is quite clear that you can only be questioned to establish whether you appear to be a terrorist. The law has been broken in the case of David Miranda. I hope he will sue -- as he has threatened -- so that Special Branch know that they can't get away with breaking the law in this way.

Chapter and verse:

Schedule 7, 2 (1) An examining officer may question a person to whom this paragraph applies for the purpose of determining whether he appears to be a person falling within section 40(1)(b).

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/schedule/7

...

40 Terrorist: interpretation.

(1) In this Part “terrorist” means a person who—
(a) has committed an offence under any of sections 11, 12, 15 to 18, 54 and 56 to 63, or
(b) is or has been concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/40

If you're worried about this, perhaps you should also be worried about entering the US -- including in transit -- in case you are declared to be an unperson and sent to Gitmo with no trial or legal recourse. It's a bit worse than a maximum of nine hours of pointless tedium and handing over your Gmail/Facebook passwords which -- let's face it -- the spooks will have if they want them anyway.

As for Assange, if they get their hands on him, they will ship him to Sweden. He's spent the last year holed up in one room: I doubt another nine hours would bother him too much.
You can modify strings in place, but not their length, which makes what your talking about complex if you need to support utf8.

Here’s the str method: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html#method.as_b...

If you want an string that is mutable, can be extended, etc. You want to use String, and that has plenty of methods for mutation.

Remember, Rust strings are all utf8, and part of the safety contract is that they’re always valid.
Will I still be able to compile Emacs to use X and libXaw3D for the foreseeable future? Or is this some "modernization" effort to break what's old and works and force everybody onto GNOME's new hotness?
"Frequent updates" would still only be 1-2 releases by now for each app. The graph of updates stopping above overlays all the different apps which have offset releases
I'm not the most representative person for that... I can only suggest gvim ;)

Anyhow, just tried gedit and you can press "^S" to save the file and "^Q" to close the window, which is pretty much all that you need to start editing text files.
A much worse problem with this keyboard is that you almost cannot buy even regular MX-compatible keycaps for it, because the system76 people chose a really nonstandard physical layout. 1.5U Caps Lock, 1.5U Delete in the function key row, 1.5U Backspace in the number row, 1U backslash in the QWERTY row, 1.5U Enter in the ASDF row — these keycaps don't exist in most sets, except in some “40%” or ”ergo” addon kits (and even there you may not get the exact legend match for some of them, although for Caps Lock that may be a feature). 1.5U Shift is also really rare. So if you don't like the stock keycaps (which have the uniform XDA profile, and some people just don't like it), replacing them would be hard and/or expensive.
Probably have to leave the planet.

the solar system is pretty big. The galaxy is incredibly large, the universe...
since - adv. after some point in the past; at a subsequent time

In that sense if the word, the sentence:

"Trump's environmental regulatory bonfire is something Republican presidents have sought to do since Nixon"

would indicate Republican presidents in the time period subsequent to Nixon. Which I think makes sense, ymmv.
Not yet, gaze tracking HW was always beyond my economical reach in the past. But this project is super-interesting!
Thanks for point this out
>>> a := "wtf_walrus"
File "<stdin>", line 1
a := "wtf_walrus"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Why doesn't this work? Isn't the walrus operator effectively just an alternative to the assignment operator which also returns the assigned value? Why specifically make it fail in this situation?
I still use GCP, but I avoid locking myself into their proprietary infrastructure when I'm writing new stuff. I feel like Google is far too cavalier about deprecating services and forcing their customers to do migration work.

It is hard to replace GCP's managed datastores because I really don't want to maintain my own database server (even if it's a managed service that someone else upgrades for me). So I've stuck to Google Cloud Datastore / Firestore, but I've been experimenting a lot with Litestream[0], and I think that might be my go-to choice in the future instead of proprietary managed datastores.

Litestream continuously streams data from a SQLite database to an S3 backend. It means that you can design your app to use SQLite and then sync the database to any S3 provider. I designed a simple pastebin clone on top of Litestream, and I use it in production for my open source KVM over IP. It's worked great so far, though I'm admittedly putting a pretty gentle workload on it (a handful of requests per day).

[0] https://litestream.io/

[1] https://github.com/mtlynch/logpaste
Possible because they don't want USA/NSA to read their mail. And probably because they can't force Google to let them read "their" mail.
This is awesome.

Here's the biggest thing that seems off to me: these indexes need to be fully populated by the programmer, right? I saw a bunch of "You could search Twitter, think about the Sunlight foundation, here's some firehoses" but then this (and the rest of) the tutorials seem to be all about me feeding it data directly.

If I wanted to search the Twitter firehose, say, I'd have to do all of the scraping and insertion myself, right? I can't just hook it up and head off? That's what makes sense, but some of the marketing seemed to imply otherwise.
By that logic not every successful YC startup was accepted by YC, given the existence of teams that changed their product during their time at YC. Changing direction and refining the idea are a core part of doing a startup.
I'd like luxurious lifestyle (not showy, just high quality) and freedom, but I think they're mutually exclusive. I find it challenging to keep expensive lifestyle from chewing up too much money, which then limits my freedom.
A thing is limited in extent, it's finite, a single creation. I can talk about a book and I can discuss its content, nature, and quality, but I can't talk about books or literature in the same way. Literature is a medium, it's unclosed, and non-finite. It's greater in extent than a single human mind can fully comprehend. And it's continuously growing and changing in a way that a single book is not.

Far too many people still model the internet mentally as a "thing", and they tack on exceptions to the basic thing model, when they should be mentally transitioning completely to the medium model. Books, movies, television, music, painting, the internet.
I signed up twice and they sent me 2 - trust me it is worth is
I tried upgrading to the Chrome beta (which I have been meaning to do anyway) but there was no new tab to sign up for a notebook.

And I doubt the QR code page still works but might be worth the try.
Groupon refuses to inspire me. I am amazed at their growth, their adapting from ThePoint and their billion dollar valuations but I just don't see it as a viable business model Case in point, the two times I have bought such deals it was from Living Social even though I track Groupon every day.

So back to the original question, what inspires me is not one particular start up but all the open source contributions that are enabling these start ups including mine. It just wouldn't be possible for someone like me (full-time Windows dev) to bring my ideas to reality if not for the Ruby on Rails framework, jquery and the countless number of plugins.
The problem with social media isn't that it's a conduit for misinformation. It's that it's an unprecedented amplifier and megaphone for misinformation. I think the real fix, which would also make them much less profitable, is to radically reduce the virality of their platforms. Since they're not willing to give up the billions that spreading rabble rousing lies makes them they instead have to play censor and make everybody unhappy.
Hey! Made this as a throwaway. I’m an SDE 2 at Amazon. Currently looking for an opportunity to leave the corporate world and build something new. My skill set is AWS stack, big data, machine learning, some React. I’ve spent considerable time on large scale distributed systems/spark/ml research. I love to code, especially when not encumbered by enterprise systems. Previously I worked in investment research and had a minor machine learning startup exit. If anyone is interested in a technical cofounder I would be great! For reference, I have about 7 years experience.
Amazon doesn't operate the planes it leases (and now, owns), as noted by the first sentence of that accident report.
I know exactly what you mean. Like if you had to see it in real life you'd see something horrible just out of shot. For some reason that's amplified with the furniture.
Sounds interesting, can you expand more on what you're trying to do with it? Are you trying to connect patients with Registered Dietitians?
As a (junior) patent examiner, the weaknesses of text search were discussed in my training and have become very clear over time. Many people today think that text search is the "be-all and end-all" of search, but if one wants to be comprehensive, text search should only be one part of a search strategy. Other major components include citation search (forwards and backwards) and classification search.

Google can identify many synonyms today, but my experience has been Google frequently misses important synonyms. I've started compiling lists of synonyms and even partial search queries (medical searches call these "hedges") to use when searching. The problem of synonyms is one place where citation and classification search shine, as they are independent of the terminology used (and even language independent in the case of a classification like the IPC). There's no one "best" approach; each of these approaches complement each other. And you can do a "combination" search, e.g., of all the documents citing this document, return all that contain a keyword.

Unfortunately classification search has fallen out of favor among the general population, but I can see systems like the Dewey Decimal System being extremely useful when the terminology in a field varies appreciably. Classification search is extremely useful in my work.

When I have the time I'll take a close look at this article. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for the feedback. I hired a web designer to do it. I think the WOW factor is missing though
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What I don't understand is how exactly it is as you claim it is. My Reddits consist of programming, robotics, science, math, etc.t, and get nothing but positive, helpful feedback and meaningful discourse that DOESN'T (key word here) infuriate me. Not sure how it's a "circle jerk" at that point when I can ask questions and have them gasp answered in a timely manner.

Just because it has a "politics" Reddit doesn't mean the entire site sucks.

I come to HN for the simple reason that it's more about startups and programming than most anything else, and overall I am just as happy with its content. It's considerably more granular, and sometimes that's precisely what I want.

I read both sites and have for quite some time now (although mostly lurking). I get immensely good return on my time invested in both.
Meme overload is a significant problem on any large internet community that's web-centric in its outlook. From SA to 4chan to reddit, any community that thinks of itself as "the Internet" will employ memes as a means of self-confirmation.
I'm not sure what it says about me that I really enjoy reducing complex individuals and groups to AD&D archetypes.
And that would probably be outlawed, like "structuring" currency transactions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring#United_States
True, if someone were able to get your username and password for a site they may be able to figure out your hashing scheme. But what if someone compromises an entire database? They would use a bot to go out and see what they can access with the given usernames and passwords as is.

The suggested password strategy helps to protect against the later case.
Thanks. Lua is on "my list" actually, Fortunately I am only forced to work in C for one particular project (sorry if that sounds negative, C-heads, I'm just a messy enough person to require garbage collection to stop me from messing up too bad).
Making it easier to speculate should in theory decrease volatility and make market manipulation harder, since having more speculators should mean that the price is driven to its fair value more quickly.
Everyone is criticizing Google for ending many of their services lately. However, are we being biased? Considering a very high amount of various different services Google is offering (much more than any other typical company), it would make sense that their discontinuing rate would be higher than others as well. Someone should do a statistics check or comparison vs. other big companies for a more accurate assessment. The fact that Google gets reported on the news more often may make their service cancellation rate appear with a higher frequency as well.

It's fashionable to blame Google for most things these days, but in honesty, if Google were truly evil they could have done much worse things. Considering all the data and technologies they possess, Google has the power to destroy any companies or competitors if they really wanted to.

For example, throughout all these years I could never understand how Google allowed Yelp to become what they are today. Google own all the core technologies in that space: search, map, mobile OS. They literally have all the home fied advantages, yet Google decided to take a step back and allowed Yelp to take the lead. They could have easily destroyed Yelp anytime they wanted to but they never did that.

To me personally, Google is probably the most reasonable and undervalued company out there. With similar power in their hands, other companies would have just gone all out and probably be extremely evil for a crazy amount of profits in return, but for Google they have always refrained themselves from doing exactly that. Too bad most people just never considered this angle.
I just don't buy it. Are there any of your beliefs which you'd want to abandon just because someone got on TV and told you they're wrong?
Cohen is a great comedian, but I suspect he also has the skills of a con-artist, or a hypnotiser: he manages to get people to "sing along" with him well beyond what is normal and reasonable, and then ridicules them. It's funny, sometimes very interesting, sometimes leaves you a bit suspicious.
Propoganda? No. Outright ads on the final solution? Probably yes, but also bear in mind the Nazis weren't exactly broadcasting their plans to the outside world. (At least I don't think they were - am I wrong on this point?)
>The fundamental problem is that there's just way too much heterogeneity for senior leadership to possibly understand all the company's lines of business. Which means that it's impossible to make thoughtful, intentional decisions about all of it at the corporate level.

Enormous Japanese and Korean companies don't seem to have this trouble, and they're far more heterogeneous than any American company. Yamaha for instance makes boat engines and high-end pianos and audio electronics.