skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that they are overplayed for effect, but there is some math. I saw Kissinger explain it when asked about nukes killed the whole world ten times over.

The math started with WWII Germany. They kept reasonably reliable records of where and when people died during allied air raids. So someone drew up a formula linking the tonnage of bombs dropped with the number of dead on the ground. This was then extended to nukes and their power measured in thousands (kilo) and millions (mega) of tons of TNT. So bombs with explosive power greater than all of WWII (a common description) could "kill" as many people as an entire war. Kissinger was correct in saying that all the bombs in the world would not, could not, destroy everyone ten or twenty times over.

This false analogy was also part of debates during Vietnam. Many, on both sided of every argument, used the math to estimate the number killed by US bombing raids, ignoring the fact that German cities and Vietnam jungle are in no way analogous.
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Funny in image compositing software the iteration is abstracted away as time ticks over image sequences that update the input nodes thus pushing new outputs. It's there without being there explicitely.
Hmmm, I thought there might be more information on what programs are included. And was also expecting some sort of probably sad discussion on content ownership.

On a side note, the Internet Archive HQ building is pretty cool: https://www.google.com/maps/place/300+Funston+Ave,+San+Franc...
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Assuming you trust the package source already, I think the advantage lies more in not having the setup process accidentally erase your home directory for whatever reason.
I've been through just about every Plex client possible and in my experience the Roku offers the best combination of easy setup and reliable operation at a low price. It doesn't rock the flashiest interface, but it's the one I can run in my living room or park at my parent's place with zero further maintenance required.
Ruby does not (IMNHO) have a more pleasant packaging experience, no (although, the inverse may be true - I think writing a proper gem -- and listing/uploading it -- is probably easier than a proper python package, and pushing that to pypi).

Python's virtualenv is a lot more stable than the various hoops one goes through with eg rvm. On the other hand, if you needed/wanted to use more than python2.7/python3.4 -- it might be a bit harder to juggle many python versions than it is to juggle many ruby versions with rvm.
That doesn't seem to be disagreeing with any of the points listed. Is it just the word "ally" you don't like?

Treating people equally and civilly is a political decision. It's not happening in a lot of places, and if you really want to step in and change it, that's politics.
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Sure, that's a great example of classic Bond-villain-like appeal, but I still have to recognize the design team who pushed this work of an entirely different level of greatness through committee approval:

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Well, my understanding is that in California, at least, environmentalists have blocked the creation of aqueducts/lakes for the past few decades.
While well articulated, this post is bloated with alarming entitlement and a lot of misunderstandings. In short, he largely claims to know what's better for people than the market (i.e., themselves) while lamenting his loss of power and importance through moral rationalizations and judgment.

Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are vast improvements over a world where bloggers would seriously claim, "I could empower or embarrass anyone I wanted." Social media merely democratized and disseminated that power to the masses. No amount of rationalizations or FUD over a "television-internet" will reverse that positive trend. The elitist condescension that his links, comments or conversations are implicitly superior to the likes, shares or up-votes of the populace is more than a little sad, and I think he's missing the point; social media thrives because it gives people more of what they want, and who is anyone to decide that but themselves?

That said, he makes a good few points with invalid conclusions, mostly regarding centralization. The loss of ownership over our own content has severe implications for the internet, most specifically in our ability to control its dissemination and protect it from loss and privacy. Protection from loss is easy with the rise of web-exposed storage APIs like Dropbox, and eventually I think we'll see more and more cloud-storage-backed SaSS platforms, starting first in the enterprise and trickling down into the consumer market.

Regarding our ability to control our own data and the corresponding loss of privacy, it will take a lot longer, which is a real problem because the government treats the "privacy" of SaSS as a public square; You are entitled to none. We'll probably need a technological or cultural innovation here. Culturally, people would need to revert, which is unlikely. Technologically, something like a content-owner controlled database would need to be developed, and upon maturity, laws passed to require its use. Such a database would enable the revoking of permissions to cause all reference entries to be removed, and disallow the denormalization of any personal data. That seems unlikely to happen anytime soon, so we're consequently headed for some major cultural conflicts.

Lastly, the author scapegoats and disparages our focus on newness and popularity. First, humanity's focus on newly discovered information has existed for some time: gossip, newspapers, magazines, tv, movie theaters, et. al. Every edition has only ever contained the newest information or opinions along with the occasional reprint. Second, popularity is but one vector for relevance, as were hyperlinks. Yes, a poorly implemented Stream that interprets likes as votes creates a false-feedback-loop, but it's a widely known flaw, and exists primarily only in the nearly obsolete Facebook.

Once you clear away all the rationalizations he uses to justify why things were better when he was in power, you realize, it's mostly just whining intermixed with a decent social commentary on and summary of the evolution of internet media.
This is constant propagation, probably one of the smallest slivers of "automated reasoning" that could arguably still be called as such. Personally, I don't think it falls under that umbrella. Could this get a title change?
> If P is the set of all points on the circle, then the set of all cords is the set of all possibilities of (p1, p2), where p1 and p2 are in P.

So you are in favour of method 2.

But method 3 says: Take a random point inside the circle, and use this as a center point of the cord.

What do you find wrong with this method?
What happens to the concept of service? Public service is not meant to be completely and perfectly safe. Hell, life doesn't come with any guarantees.
How does being in a constant state of stress and fear about life help you in preserving your life?

You're telling me that it's ok for a police officer in civilian life in the U.S to pull out a gun and intimidate a person like this article's author who did foot patrols deep in enemy territory, patrolling those very people who would initially have gladly watched him being gorily dismembered by IEDs or worse.

The concept of service is what you're forgetting. There are some jobs, some careers which can never be adequately compensated for in material benefits or guarantees of life.

You do it because of the intangibles- your values, your society's welfare, you country's welfare.

And service never ever comes with a sense of entitlement on the part of the person serving. Entitlement to life even.
The only thing that matters is getting the job done right. If this is expected of your military, why shouldn't it be expected out of police officers or any other emergency worker or any other public servant?

It's the mark of a better society that realizes what public service means, values it, respects people who've served their society and still expects and holds up the highest standards of service from service members and not just the military.
I'm guessing there's a reason and possibly even a good one. Care to take a crack at it?
The South Tahoe method looks like a nice compromise between doing everything at the depot, on the one hand, and asking individuals to do everything, on the other. End users shouldn't be burdened with the (increasingly impossible) task of deciding whether a container is made of PS, LDPE, or whatever. All they need to know is that if something is "plasticky", it goes in the blue bag.

Money can also act as a nice incentive for people to pay attention. Here in Korea, regular garbage needs to be put in special bags that cost a fixed amount per volume. (Garbage collection services are subsidized with revenue from these bags.) So you can save a decent amount of money by putting bulky plastic bottles and empty cans in the recycle bin instead. This system also encourages people to compost as much as they can.
I think clojure/lein really shows off the power of Maven/Ivy for managing packages. But I'm not sure how well that works for c++/c-extensions?

Pip does a remarkable job of magically getting and compiling missing c/c++ libraries, and works great in tandem with virtualenv.
The Unix shell, one of the most successful user interfaces ever developed, doesn't support undo nor does it need to. It's successful because it doesn't presume to know better than the user.
My issue is that if you dug through all the claims you found the ones OP was talking about and thought "this isn't actually implausible" and if you go a step further and check some sources, it's not for certain but there's enough evidence to be compelling. Yet you would only hear about these things mixed in with the nutty ideas, I guess because it was disreputable to even talk about the government having certain kinds of secrets. Post-Snowden this attitude seems to have been reduced.
I generally feel a strong sense of resentment when a government entity legislates for "my own good" or for the "people's own good". Whether it's to outlaw drugs that I don't use or tell me what kind of car I have to buy I don't like this.

However I also most people act in their own self interest most of the time, and corporations are no different. I think things work best when there is a way to align both government and private entities. I think the way she goes about fuel economy standards is not that way. Politicians don't know the science behind electric cars or ICE cars so how can they be in a position to legislate their standards? What would CARB do if they legislated a major manufacturer to pull out of the California market? At some point that could be a viable option.
That's because you used "random endpoints" chord selection (which has the probability of 1/3). Now try it with the "random radius" and "random midpoint" methods described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probabilit...

It's probably not wise to assume that you just easily solved a 100+ year old unsolved mathematical problem.
I never knew that. I thought it was upcoming competition from Tesla and the "writing on the wall" so to speak... I didn't know that legislation was manipulating the product output mix of Big Auto...
On a related note, the source code for Python demonstrates a practical way to cache-optimize the heapify() operation for the garden-variety heap implementation of a priority queue:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/6fd69aeb8a3b/Modules/_hea...
If you know great scientists solving important problems, please encourage them to apply :)

That said, great research projects do not necessarily translate into great startups. People doing fundamental research with no clear path to market likely aren't a great fit for the program at this time.
Any word on the implications for the anonymity of Tor clients?
The old reality, with companies like Google, was that if you aren’t paying money, you aren’t the customer, you’re the product.

Then Kickstarter came along, and the premise was, “Gives us $X0,000 and we’ll do our best to give you product Y as a so-called-reward. But this is not a store.”

So now you’re giving them money, but you still aren’t a customer!

Because people are now using this as astro-turf marketing campaigns for products that are already funded by other investors, or as market research, or as a line item on their pitch deck to raise money from investors.

In this egregious case, the company seems to have had no intention of really entering into a “deal” with the backers of its kickstarter campaign, it was entering into a deal with its other investors, in accordance with a business plan its backers have never seen. Thus, they struggled to build DRM into the product, although DRM had nothing to do with the product they promised their backers, and everything to do with their other business dealings and plans. And now their backers are discarded like a one-night stand, but hey, here’s your own money back.

Frankly, this stinks.

If you go on Kickstarter and say you’re going to build product Y, that’s what you should do. If your business plan requires raising Kickstarter backing and then going after investors, you should say so up front and not pretend you are off to start work as soon as the project is funded.

And as for the investors, shame on you. If you invest in a company that has entered into an agreement with backers to build product Y, you should actually make them do that, or not invest in the first place.

Whatever pivot the go on to do, everyone has been forewarned that simply giving them money and receiving promises in return means very little to them, their attitude seems to be, “well, if we change our minds, we just give you your money back and do whatever we like.”

That is not a principled way to run a business. If they couldn’t build this thing with the funds raised on Kickstarter, then they shouldn’t have been on Kickstarter.
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> There is no single standard which works well for both of these groups.

Sure there is. A single exe that bootstraps python and leverage wheels to install what the scientific user needs.

In fact, with so many new tools comming to windows lately (as in the past decade) -- that exe could probably be a powershell-script. And an equivalent shell-script could probably do the same for more unix-y platforms.

Or one might make a script that builds an installer that bundles up things downloaded via the wheels framework.
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How quickly we forget. Long before that, back in the USENET days, it was a common joke to include a .sig line "for the ECHELON line reader" with a list of words that the presumed NSA computer would match against, like "KGB nuclear anthrax bioweapon" etc. The joke being that if everyone would include these, they would end up having to analyze the entire newsgroup feed.
Your problem is that great (life) scientists solving important problems have no interest in (or need for) YC. They'll just go to Noubar Afeyan, Bruce Booth, or Bob Nelsen.
For extra credit compute the probability under Jeffrey's prior.
You can make the centrals more efficient (to a point), but you are still burning hydrocarbons. And then you must apply the same electric efficiency as before. There are losses every time you convert the energy.

By the way, "a growing percentage of renewable over the past decade" is disingenuous. From ~9% renewable in 2002 to ~13% in 2013 is "a growing percentage", but not enough to make a difference in the discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United...

This is not green (electric) VS pollution (hydrocarbon). It's hydrocarbon -> electric -> car instead of hydrocarbon -> car. It's modifying a whole distribution network in the hope of achieving higher efficiency.
Can you expand on why what makes Conda better?
This list is missing my favorite pre-Pixar paper.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS284/PAPERS/CatmullClark...
Depends on your definition of meaningful but, I was thinking more along the lines of 10 million -> 200-300k, almost guaranteed.

Obviously if the starting capital is less, you could potentially notch up the risk of the investment etc, but that's a very meaningful profit for most companies I should think. At the least it's a very valuable individual's salary for a year.
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> Speaking German is helpful, but by no means required

/me clicks link

... I see ;)

(For the record, I'm not really searching work right now, I'm just looking around.)
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Until we gladly accept brute force algorithms as usable solutions, I don't think I can agree with the sentiment.

Almost nothing I want to do on computers runs fast enough for me, and I'm too stupid to invent good algorithms. But I haven't given up on solving hard problems, so naturally I will look around and see machines incapable of even getting started.
I'd ask him what his greatest problem that persists to this day is. The proverbial "pebble in his shoe", "thorn in his side", "splinter in his mind" -- the greatest engineering problem that he has -- that continues to persist to this day.

If he doesn't have one, then guess what? He's not all that senior because he's not looking for such problems -- he's not challenging himself, he's not looking for his next step in turning something previously thought impossible -- into something conceivably possible. (I wouldn't tell him that in the interview though, for obvious reasons).

You could ask what his greatest engineering challenge was historically, or what he thinks would be a really tough engineering problem to solve in the future, and go from there.

Either of those questions would be good avenues of inquiry and conversation...
I had that quote at the bottom of my resume for years as I've always thought it represented the sort of integrity and ethics I bring in my day to day dealings with tech and people.
Conda certainly sounds ambitious -- but I'm doubtful how useful it really is. As I see it, it mainly fills two needs: the lack of a package manager on OS X and the lack of a package manager on Windows.

Windows is getting a package manager now, and OS X arguably have the App Store.

Everywhere else (read: Linux/BSD) -- most of what's packaged by Conda, is already packaged by the vendor.

In short: I don't think it's the best way forward (but it may very well be the best way for many usecases/users right now and in the near future).
>A documentary that shows nude boobs can’t be uploaded by our state television to YouTube because Google forbids that.

So upload it somewhere else. Google is a private company and as such is perfectly within its rights to allow or not allow activity based on arbitrary rules.
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To me this seems like the realization that they completely underfunded the project - not that DRM is a road block.

If I was in their position I would consider releasing without DRM. Then after it ships and assuming people like it - if they want netflix support tell them to phone netflix everyday. I doubt netflix wants their support lines tied up.
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Same. I wasn't even sure if the web form submitted properly.
One could just as easily make an argument for a ratio of sqrt(3)/2. The chord is selected by randomly picking a length out of the range [0, 2], placing it arbitrarily on the circle, and then rotating it randomly between zero and one revolution[1].

Before we can select a random chord, we must first map the set of chords onto the set of real numbers (or, equivalently, tuples of real numbers). This is required in order to meaningfully apply a distribution to them. The problem is that there are multiple ways to do this. Which mapping we select has as much effect on the outcome as the probability distribution.

Likewise, if we want to "count" all random chords, we need to do the same thing (map them onto the set of real numbers). We will get different "counts" depending on which mapping we select.

[1]- Edit: This is not a very satisfying approach, but it does demonstrate the problem well. Being satisfying isn't a requirement for a mathematical construct.