jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Re 1. Periodicity:
The quantum Fourier transform is an operation that reflects information about a quantum state into the the phases of the amplitudes. Quantum phase information is exactly where quantum computing differs from classical probabilistic computing, so it makes sense that this technique might show up in places where quantum computing beats classical. For example: Shor's factorization of integers makes direct use of the quantum Fourier transform. I mention periodicity only as an example of a sort of problem where the Fourier transform might be useful. This is as an alternative intuition to what quantum computers are "good at" to combat the notion that "quantum computing is good for parallel problems."

Re 2. "covering all paths":
I don't have a problem interpreting quantum superposition as inhabiting all possible states. However, classical probabilistic computing also can be interpreted this way: an un-flipped coin is both heads and tails until the flipping happens. But probabilistic computing doesn't give us faster-than-classical speedup, therefore it's not just the "existing in all states at once" that buys us the speedup: it's the unique kind of math we can do on these states because our amplitudes are unitary-complex, not positive-real.

You understand this distinction, so I perhaps shouldn't have adopted the tone I did (sorry!). The leap between "superposition involves a complex-valued combination of several states" and "tries all answers at once so is very fast" is a very common leap made in popular science articles and is the kind of misconceptions that I think the "quantum computers are good at parallel" intuition encourages. Just because a quantum state is a superposition doesn't mean we get to, for free, observe and evaluate all those states and pick out the one we like. We can sometimes arrange things in such a way that the quantum phases interact non-classically to leverage the structure of some problems to reveal information that isn't available to classical algorithms.

Periodicity information, via the quantum Fourier transform, is an example of one way to arrange things to extract information that would be more expensive to calculate classically.
This is one of the best instruments for monopoly I have ever seen.
I haven't gotten an email yet, and I'm in Delaware, US. So I think they haven't sent them out yet (or at least haven't finished)
An asterisk followed by whitespace doesn't begin italics, so you get * word * rather than word.
Excellent news, thanks!

Any ETA on international pre-orders (I'm UK based), notice I haven't received an email asking me to pay yet.
WakeMate uses a science called actigraphy to monitor your sleep patterns by measuring the movement of your body (via your wrist). Actigraphy has been used in sleep labs for decades and is a widely standardized metric of sleep in humans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actigraphy). The Sleep Cycle app, because it is not attached to your body, does not use actigraphy, and therefore cannot provide the same granular level of data measurement as a device using actigraphy, such as the WakeMate. Furthermore, Sleep Cycle is susceptible to false data collection since it can be easily influenced by the presence of others in the bed, such as a partner or pet.
Quotes from your post...

"After that I calculated I'll need a 200k/year job in the south east (think that makes 400k/year in the west)."

"If coding can't get me that, what type of consulting can I do which gets paid that much."

So, which is it that you are looking for? A job? Or consulting / contracting? The two are very different. Because you mentioned Python and Javascript together, I'm assuming you are looking to be a web developer. You would be unlikely to find a job paying 200K in web development. You will need to look into something that has demand but scarcity as well.

You can hit those rates as a contract web developer, but translating that gig into a 200K year depends on your management / marketing abilities. Personally, I wouldn't even want to attempt it if my lifestyle requirements were 200K per year. You will need to time to build up a client base and you may not be able to charge $100 / hour right away. More likely you would have to start somewhere around $50 - $80 / hour and work your way up from there.
Where did the money come from though? I suppose I wouldn't care much if it happened to me, but I can't imagine the bank ate it. That get-rich-quick group must've been sitting on some cash.
WakeMate's website look very good. Elegent with only the information needed and good copywriting.
Do you mean mx:Binding? I dislike mx:Binding as it has been buggy for us (property value updated but UI does not update). I've resorted to avoiding it and using EventDispatcher to notify views to update themselves.

In general, I think it is way too difficult to fetch data async from a server and update the Flex UI. LiveCycle Data Services is more about push than real-life async use cases.
This is all driven by globalisation, and don't get me wrong I'm a globalist, but this is just a fact. First manual labour in manufacturing was outsourced abroad, then higher tier tech jobs in software and product engineering. Now big firms from former third world countries are muscling in on markets at every level of the economy, creating competition at every level of business.

You can't add hundreds of millions of Chinese people to the global work force, now at every level of the global economy, without affecting the market for that labour.

I said I'm a globalist, yes I am. My wife is Chinese, I've been going there regularly since 2001. When I first went private car ownership was near unheard of. It's a different country now, near-empty streets with a few donkey drawn carts are now choked with commuter traffic.

The result has been a pause in income growth in the western world. We've benefited from cheap imported goods, but lost out in domestic growth. The upside is that hundreds of millions of people, not just in China but in plenty of other places too, have been elevated out of poverty. I've seen that for myself and it's done an incalculable amount of good, it's just that all the benefits haven't been evenly distributed.

Could we in the west have benefited more if we'd had less globalisation? I really don't know. We have benefited I think, and we've had opportunities to invest and sell into those markets we wouldn't have otherwise had. I don't know, it's hard to evaluate what could have been as it's such a radically different shape for the world economy. Maybe we'd have ended up even worse off, who knows? But we might have been better off, I can't deny it.

For the future, we can already see incomes in China have shot up. Low level manufacturing jobs are moving out of China, because Chinese labourers have more skills now and can command high enough wages in more upmarket jobs that they don't need the low end work any more. I suspect that's why the employment rate in the US and elsewhere, at the bottom end of the economy, is picking up. I hope that continues, and in future growth will be more balanced across the economic and wage spectrum.
Since this is now somewhat famous, LPL will get a lot of views for opening this. As long as he can make a video about it, he should be able to do it free and turn a tidy profit.
How exactly does money "passively" deployed into pre-existing securities become "extractive"?

If I invest some money in a passive index fund, what does that have to do with market cornering / scarcity generation / etc?

What are "non-extractive" ways of investing money, aside from starting new companies?
I hope in a few years to see similar articles reminiscing the also-lost "Only _(broad demographic)_ will remember this" and "Top _(number)_ _(memes or things)_ from _(pop culture topic)_" headlines.
/like but usethesource.com needs bookmarklet feature.

/yes, i could roll my own if the desire burned enough

/em just sayin'
How do you "steal" an idea, especially from a free software project?
According to the documents, the EU trademark (#3852779) amended its class after opposition based on likelihood of confusion from the Spanish version of the (American) Automobile Association, RACE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RACE_%28automobile_association%...

They were then required to make the USA trademark have the same class.
Interesting: The original application for "FACE" was filed in 2005, for a UK social network called FaceParty. Doc: http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenS...

If you look at the documents, it seems as if Facebook scooped the mark up around 2008: http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isS...

Can anyone more versed in trademark law parse out what exactly happened?
Didn't some people do this with VNC a few months back? Either way, this is damn cool.
Haskell is a good start. But it's type system can't even express sets.
I can't say anything about Perl 6, I never really used it yet.

I can say about Perl 5 - check out Catalyst framework. I am pretty sure (if you throw away all prejudices) you will like it. Especially, check their chained actions.

This is web side. Can't say anything about server side, since I am using perl for web projects.
Do you feel that "We actually have a one-page waiver that says, you know, if you're going to connect your personal phone to the corporate e-mail system, that we do have the capabilities if the phone is lost to remote wipe it — and we will — and then have the employee agree [to] and sign that form," Davis says. is a flashing neon sign?

What I find odd is that a company allows people to keep confidential company information on a personal device at all.

There are many reasons to require this, including insider information, or other legally-required barriers, as well as company-protected information.
I would try to get the company to answer these questions:

- Which is the most likely exit?: 10 MM, 100MM, 1B, 10B?

- Which best approximates my ownership?: .0001%, .001%, .01%, .1%?

If you can get answers to these, it's probably enough of an anchor to make an assessment. There so much variance in the outcome that additional accuracy won't add very much to the analysis.

EDIT: I should rephrase the first question as:

Which of these is the lowest number that would be considered a good exit?

If asked this way, it should account for the liquidation prefs, since those are normally irrelevant during "good" exits. It should also account for some level of risk, since the lowest good exit may be significantly lower than the actual exit (i.e. 100M would be good, but 1B is possible).
This article is really hard to read. It basically boils down to:

"He developed some ideas on how to beat stealth, based on the fact that the technology didn't make the F-117 invisible to radar, just very to get, and keep, a good idea of exactly where the aircraft was. Zoltan figured out how to tweak his radars to get a better lock on stealth type targets. This has not been discussed open"

I wish they went into more detail as to how they did that.
Good... the word "social" was always a bit strange as it has nothing to do with the colloquial usage of the word "social".
That's for fuel efficiency and acceleration. You wouldn't want to constantly redline your engine.
You've probably seen this lecture but I'll pass it along anyway as I found it to be very insightful on the topic of teaching math and physics by using computation.

As someone with a mechanical engineering degree with minors in math and physics I would have loved to have been exposed to this while I was learning the stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk76BurH384
We have a term for this:

"Cuz 'Merica"

Yep, Americans love to overcompensate. It is in our DNA.
That made me chuckle, but apparently it’s a bit more nuanced. According to Wikipedia:

> It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the 10-month calendar.

This stuff is fascinating. Reminds me of how the Romance language weekdays are named after the Roman pantheon and the Germanic (including English) weekdays are named after the approximate germanic counterparts for those same Roman gods.
yea, i believe it was for real too. they guy throwing the ball did so with much, much less force the second time.
That's a couple of Iraq wars. Which sounds .. about right for the total mobilization of half a million troops for a decade or two plus several times that number of support and manufacture personnel at home?

Imagine mobilizing that level of support against climate change.
>If I remove them, comments are kind of only useful for things like initial config files or what have you.*

True, but that's a pretty big use case to dismiss with "only". I don't think people want their json api responses to be able to include comments, but it's definitely convenient to be able to comment out parts of a config file. How/if to expose that through the deserializer is an interesting question, it would be fine with me if it dropped them.
>Getting rightly accused of possession of light drugs and ending up in prison is a much worse outcome, and it happens to many, many times more people.

Can we just agree that both are a perversion of our justice system?

Blackstone's formula, "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" was very influential do the people who designed our initial legal system. The reason it is important is that if innocent people believe they will be prosecuted unjustly, they have no incentive to stay innocent. This of course will turn us into a lawless society.

https://twistingtruth.wordpress.com/better-10-guilty-men-go-...
Canada uses the same numbers as France. Only Belgium and Switzerland use other words for 70 and 90, and just a few parts of French-speaking Switzerland use huitante for 80, but most say quatre-vingt like in France.
Indeed. You want to find the "middle path", however. If you overplay your attempts at high status, you have the opposite effect: people see you as having "a problem with authority" or a proletarian "chip" on your shoulder.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/yes-rich-kids...

Using the cards metaphor, you never want to be one point away from the other person. Step 1: figure out where the other person sees himself. Step 2: figure out what he wants-- a protege (1-2 points lower), a friend and equal (same status), or a mentor (1-2 points higher). Almost no one wants a supplicant (3+ lower) or arrogant boss (3+ higher). And more importantly, almost no one wants to be a supplicant or an arrogant boss.
If you guys are really interested, the profile you linked has a list of projects. Glancing at the "vogar" project which it says is owned by e...@google.com (first I happened to pick), you can see links to the blog of Elliott Hughes. His site indicates he's a Google employee. So, not exactly proven, but seems to fit the bill.
That story absolutely rattled the entire UVa community (I'm an alum). There were bricks thrown into the alleged fraternity forcing the members to move out. President Sullivan also shutdown all fraternity activities pending an internal investigation.
> I agree with regards to activity levels and caloric intake—but I'm saying it is worth investigating further.

Absolutely. Science is worthy for its own sake, it doesn't need an extrinsic policy motivation.

As for falling crime, my understanding is that the criminologists are still arguing about that one. Especially since it seems to be a global phenomenon.
Yup. They did the same thing with Chrome a couple of years back - just had a bot go through and close everything older than some threshold en masse. As you might expect, I don't bother reporting Chrome bugs any more.
While all are worthwhile ventures they are all too late to the market to make a difference. We are now in the middle years of the smartphone market. The time for new entrants ended in 2010. It's iOS and Android locked in a struggle that neither can completely win from here on out.
There have only been two apple charging interfaces for iPods, iPhones and iPads (excluding the shuffle), and the new one was necessary (if I understood correctly) to take advantage of faster USB3 data transfer rates.
But if tou have one engine going downhill and another engine going uphill they are going to be burning different amounts of energy.

We know that some gut flora encourages obesity; we know other flora encourage thinness; so having a method to make sure obese people don't have the fat-encoiraging flora and do have the thin-encouraging flora at least gives people a fighting chance.
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We are looking for senior engineers to help us a SaaS platform to create financial indices. We leverage latest developments in data ingestion/processing/storage to after a large market of creating/calculating custom indices. Most of our backend is in Python though prior experience is not necessary.

MerQube is an innovative index provider offering design and calculation solutions for the financial and insurance industries. Launched in 2019 in New York and San Francisco by a team composed of index industry veterans and technology experts, MerQube was created as a technology-driven alternative to existing providers. MerQube designs and calculates a wide variety of indices, ranging from thematic to ESG, factor and retirement, while covering multi-asset, equities, futures as well as options. Leveraging cloud-based architecture and today's most advanced index-tracking technology, MerQube's platform enables its clients to bring ideas to market quickly and efficiently. We offer 401k match, generous equity, etc.

PS: We have been very luck with AskHN Who is Hiring/Who is looking. We have hired two engineers in the last year through here.
Great for you. The company that I currently work hired a new manager, he is amazing on how he shows that we are a team and a "person" mistake, is actually, the process which need better thinking/layout.
>>> I definitely think that not participating in "non-mandatory" stuff in my company makes me no favour.

At equal aptitude, employees with a higher engagement with the company are more valuable.

They have finite resources, and obviously those resources will be allocated in a way that benefits the company the most.

So yeah, you should expect your coworkers to get a bigger raise, and you should be fine with it. They won't love you all equally, it's a company.
If people pay attention they can see that snapchat is running even without any filter.

I noticed that it highlights the white in your eyes and there is a small, bright line where your mouth is! Try to spot it next time :)
It should at least be heat pumps...
I understand that. But isn’t it useful to know about other avenues, in case SciHub is unavailable to you, or you just don’t want to use it?
If you want cost efficient high performance Clickhouse is hard to beat
i was in a similar situation last year where my manager kinda pressured me to get in the rotation (paid of course) and nothing would convince me to wake up 3AM in the morning or have it in the back of my head while being out and about.
I simply said I value my work/life balance and I'm not willing to take it. It didn't affect my promotion that came few months after.
>Do you feel the same way about not being able to play Nintendo games on a Playstation or an Xbox?

Yeah, because me trying to text an Apple phone from a non-apple phone is the same thing as trying to play a nintendo game on an xbox. Fuck off dude.
Since iOS 12 or so, iPhone has a built in files app. Every app can integrate with that. So when I create a file (let’s say chat backup) in app A, I can put it in the files app. Then in app B (or app A on a new phone) I can easily open that file from the same files app.
In my experience, those applauding twitter for banning Trump are a different demographic than those who are criticizing the ban on Scihub.

I find both to be an abuse of power by Twitter. Sec. 230 protects Twitter from being accountable for content produced by its users. At the same time, it wants to engage in political activism at an organizational level.

Twitter wants to be the all-powerful Editor-in-chief with power to censor the world's headlines. But, they also want to be unaccountable for the content produced by its platform. That is blatantly hypocritical.

A corporate entity with pure profit motives and without the people's mandate, should not have the power to control speech without accountability.
Exactly. We're not owners of that data, they are. Should be an extension of the regulations IMHO.
I'm not an attorney or don't know much about patents but if you prove your idea/product existed before the patent was filed doesn't it protect you?
It's probably best to love the mediocre and stupid children as well.
It's a simple reality: if you are collecting money by doing something, from a tax point of view it is almost certainly a business; even if you casually think of it as not-a-business.

But this person, if they put the brakes on the conjecture and so on, and instead go talk to an accountant, can probably get it all taken care. It will take work; it will probably be necessary to refile the last N years of taxes with the appropriate form on which to list both the business revenues, and business expenses (of which it sounds like there were plenty). He may even get some money back.

Of course, doing that work is much less fun than venting.
Gotta start disincentivizing this at the public university level.
I'd pay to have the option of giving consent! Sure would be great. Or I'd just use Linux, where I'm not treated like a third class citizen on my own computer.
Web-based B2B SaaS? Not everything is app-based.
Crack open the set and ground the antenna? Idk, I’m tempted to find a nice model and figure out an adapter to go from eDP to the panel’s actual interface.
what's means?
Why is this getting voted down, are there that many cynical people out there?
There are a bunch of van-office layouts on YouTube, Pinterest, etc. See those for inspiration. My view is that you'd likely need to design the interior around the office setup if this is a primary goal. Vans / trailers are often used as mobile offices (construction, oil/gas, video production), for more ideas, though generally these exclude or minimise living/food-prep space.

Basically, there's where you, your butt, monitor, keyboard, mouse, peripherals (printer/scanner, camera/audio gear), power, net, hardware, and any materials (books, suplies, etc.) go. Thermal management. Security.

Laptop or desktop system?

A swivel front seat (driver, passenger, or both), may be the best chair option. It's already there, adjusts to height/tilt, and is comfortable for long periods. Alternately a fold-down / jump seat.

Alternative bed / garage configurations may free up interior space, at a convenience cost. A Murphy, folding, or convertible bed especially.

Fold-out work-surface / stowable monitor next. Support for keyboard, mouse, tablet. A swing-arm monitor doubling as a video display, cabinet or roof mounted.

Easy access to anynecessary materials. Ability to get in or out.

Other seating or lounge space (bench, bed, stool, outside chairs) can be used with laptop, tablet, or possibly a wireless keyboard & mouse with monitor swung out, as an alternate workspace for variety.

CPU, storage, and networking kit can be built-in or mounted to cabinet or rack space, but will likely require airflow / cooling. Utilising or protecting from outdoor ambient conditions may assist.

Then there's sorting out where other amenities / services / systems / storage go (food prep, cooking, cleaning, bathing, toilet, sleeping, cloths, gear, electric, fuel, fresh & waste water, etc.)
How does couchbase compare to localStorage?
Suvashis.Bhattacharya@leclairryan.com

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I'm actually surprised... I thought the number would be far larger than 7%