skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this is just a pretext for negotiating an unionization deal. Because short-term $ extraction by ambulance-chasing lawyers might provide a little relief for the past, but it can't quickly solve other sorts of working condition grievances in the future.

PS: Does anyone have an update on VICE's two reporters arrested on trumped-up charges of "aiding terrorists" in Turkey? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vice-news-jou...
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I have made two Foundations.

The other one is at the other side of the world...

(assuming civilization is not destroyed at once but in slow phases)
We've actually had pretty good responses. You can always say N/A.
> If the null-hypothesis is true, every observation made should be consistent with it. This will result in P(X|H) trending to 1

Every observation being consistent with H doesn't mean that for each event X that occurs, the conditional probability of X given H will be, or "trend toward", 1. Assuming a perfectly deterministic universe, the P(X|everything else that is true) will be 1 for every X that occurs, but that doesn't mean P(X|H) for any particular true proposition H will be anything like that.
Really? So why did Steve Jobs pay so much attention to the unboxing experience.

And only uneducated people fall in love?
This company needs to seriously get out of the SF Bobble. Guess what, a lot of people in US, and throughout the rest of the world, are on limited, slow, and expensive internet connections. For instance, here in the Palm Springs area many people are lucky to get 5Mbit connections. My connection is 15 Mbit, but capped at 15gb/month. LTE is ubiquitous here, but slow as hell. What's the point of fast LTE connection from your cell to the tower, if the tower is connected to the rest of the net with 40Mbit fiber line.

On the other hand, FLASH storage is dirt cheep now! You can get a 128GB SD card for $60 from Amazon. Make a phone with 3 SD Card slots, install 3 cards, run them in RAID 5 if you are paranoid, and you can have 256 (in RAID) to 384 GB on your phone. Setup your phone to auto backup at night to a NAS (this could also be a USP for a phone) and you are done.

I am sorry, but cloud is not the answer for everything.
That's a shame. Imagine what you could have accomplished with even better genes.
more like imgur bans slack
For years, I've done the following on every yelp search: filter -> sort by -> rating.

I would probably jailbreak my phone just to be able to lock that preference in. Of course, there's a lot of money in that search option being default set to 'best' or 'recommended' or whatever it is they call it.

And, it's of course awesomely useful, and I use it constantly. But I never don't sort, that's a testament to how useful the database they've built is. It's worth like triple the effort of another search method to get the data.
There were stats Ph.Ds on the team that were certainly familiar with it, and I knew at least one former Amazonian manager that held that we were too afraid of having multiple experiments running at once and too afraid of confounding factors. (Amazon's A/B testing is much more traditional split-testing, where they show one variant to half the population and one to another half and then pick the best one.)

The biggest problem is that many of the folks involved had encountered very surprising and counter-intuitive interactions between features, and because of that, they didn't trust the textbook models. For example, at one point we had a very convenient embedded-Python experimentation framework that let us rapidly try things out. Our main data-scientist on the project decreed that we were not to use it, because a number of the externalities that framework introduced - higher latency, and potential error conditions - could confound the metrics in ways that were not well-understood at the time. Data is useless unless you can trust that it actually represents reality.

Stats textbooks all make certain assumptions about reality when they present the models, and if reality doesn't conform to the assumptions, the models won't conform to reality. Certain factors were well-studied enough that we could build useful models from them - that was the point of all the experimentation around color, after all. (I wonder if those conclusions still hold, anyway: data has an expiration date, and I recall personally running an experiment that directly contradicted an experiment Marissa Mayer had run 6-8 years previously.) But that requires a lot of hypothesis testing and verification: it's never a matter of "well, the model says so, therefore it must be", but rather "well, the model says so, let's run an experiment to see if the model's predictions line up with reality, and if they do, we have a pretty strong - but not ironclad - indication that we can use it for future calculations."

tl;dr: Largest and best-funded social science program I've ever seen.
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Peru does have public education too so I don't think that's the issue. It's just that people are less educated in general so schools are not that good. South Korea has half of its schools private and they're doing great so I don't think you even need public schooling to be doing great as a country.
Biological pest control is not a silver bullet. We have a history littered with biological pest control disasters. These studies need to take into account effect on native biodiversity. For example Hawaii introduce mongoose to control rats as it turn out they will kill native birds more than the rats.
Yes really, logically what does the unboxing have to do with the use or value of the object, its not a coincidence Apple fanboys are often referred to as iSheep, Jobs knew that better than anyone....

Statistically the more intelligent and educated a person is the less time they are to devote towards Love.
Applesoft BASIC (for the Apple ][e) was like this too.
Absolutely. Business is an interesting field because you derive a fairly large advantage from being correct about reality, but that advantage counts for nothing if you're so slow that somebody else changes the reality while you're figuring it out.
I agree with you, but most software engineers seem hell-bent on ignoring the discipline that every other kind of engineer is required to learn in order to exercise their craft. I don't mean to say that software engineers are not engineers, but I do think we should put more emphasis on shipping correct programs rather than merely functional ones.
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It shouldn't be a problem. In science, everything must be tested and proved if you want to know the truth or the effectiveness of an theory. Design is a science, so it can be measured and developed by tests of all kinds, even emotionals.
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>Please use Google Chrome:)

No, because I don't normally use that browser. So, I guess the user doesn't get to know why, will just ignore the site and move on to something else.

I do actually know, but I'm pointing out the major problem from the user's perspective. If a everyday non-technical person visits, they're just going to assume the page is broken. You usually only get one (very short) attempt at getting the user interested enough to interact with your site.

They should be displaying the simple explanation why their site won't work on Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, etc.
Same thing for Google Calendar. You'll have to hunt for the tiny 'I'm one of those people that is perfectly happy with the website, please skip this crap' link somewhere in a tiny font in a hidden corner of the interstitial.
I saved this article for later.
I'd like the same thing for homes. I'd happily buy a bag of sugar occasionally to be guaranteed to never have termites.
I write and work on several different C-based and C++-based projects. For the last 2 projects I decided to use scons. I find scons much easier to work with than other build tools that I've used. Our projects aren't huge (30k - 50k LOC), so perhaps we just haven't reached some threshold at which scons gets bogged down. I'm curious about the bugs you encountered in scons. It's been very stable and hassle-free for us.
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If my current job were as a taxi driver and my choices were retain my current job or become a contractor at Uber, I would switch to Uber.

Uber would not have been able to succeed early on if it didn't classify its drivers as contractors. The drivers are better off for it. That doesn't mean the drivers shouldn't sue Uber to be employees now that Uber is successful. It's in their self-interest to do so. However, everybody including current Uber drivers would likely be better off long term if they could not sue.
Uber's entire business is based around about exploiting a contract labor force with no collective bargaining rights. They should be forced to stop externalizing their operating costs onto their workers, especially in light of how tightly they control the pay.
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And bumblebees
Sneaky adware caught accessing users' Mac Keychain without permission
I wonder if Keybase could start to provide apis/web packages for something like this.
Uber now faces class action lawsuit in California over expenses, tips
Many carriers already MITM port 80/tcp (blindly sending SYN ACKs). Symptom: try connecting to a random domain without a webserver (like http://cse.ucdavis.edu/ ) and it will seem to have a website but just hang.
I am a remote worker and suffer from chronic procrastination. "Understanding emotions" is an oversimplified solution because many are addicted to procrastination. It's like asking an alcoholic to understand the emotions of why he drinks. I have procrastinated as a student and my entire career and have always gotten away with it. I've been rewarded with praise of my great work, higher paying positions, and bonuses. I find myself enjoying waiting until the last minute and then using stress to help me succeed. It is a vicious cycle. I want to stop procrastinating but at the same time I like doing it.
Howdy! Boy, HN is terrible at recovering old accounts, so I made this new one.

I just posted an update to the predictions post, with my own scores. Take a look!

As far as blogging goes, I've been on a bit of a hiatus. There's been a lot to learn. The tech world is moving so fast! I've been in Google Cloud Platform for the past 3 years, and next year I hope to start blogging about the experience, and about the technology in general.

For now, though, I'm busy both with my day job at Google and with various personal projects, so there's not much to report just yet. I promise I'll be back someday. :)
idk why people are instinctively downvoting. If Uber drivers are really classified as employees, and the NLRB decides that whatever category this is has a right to force collective bargaining, they could very easily prevent self-driving cars from being rolled out by Uber.

Many unions, famously automotive ones at GM, have blocked the closures of plants which were running at 10% capacity.
Exactly.

GPUs were designed to run thousands of threads, CPUs to run only a few of them.
CPU cores do branch predictions and instructions reordering to save latency. GPU cores do not. When they need to wait, they instead pause the thread and resume some other thread on the same core.

GPUs were designed to execute the same code on many threads, CPUs to ran arbitrary code on each thread.
Each CPU core has instruction fetch, instruction decode, and branching modules. For GPU cores, there’s only one fetch/decode/branch modules per many cores (32 on nVidia).

This 2 factors are among the reasons why we have 4 cores in $200 mid-range desktop CPUs, and 1024 cores in $200 mid-range desktop GPU.
Their push to install the app is horrendous. It just keeps getting worse too!
In the traditional world, there is a specific minority you can't piss off. But with Ripples, you can't piss of any sufficiently large minority. This is a big difference.
You can read the context earlier in the very same video cited above:
https://youtu.be/jh8supIUj6c?t=4m5s
I'm confused. Don't Uber drivers decide to work for Uber voluntarily? Does Uber have a monopsony in California? How are the drivers being exploited when they choose to leave their current employment to work at Uber?

I would be willing to entertain your premise if Uber had put Taxi companies out of business before drivers had left Taxis to work at Uber in droves, but that's not what happened.
DRM is dying.

CSS, AACS and HDCP are all broken, Flash is on its last legs and music downloads have largely abandoned it to positive consequences. Streams seem to be the last bastion, but that doesn't even make sense -- the reason people subscribe to Netflix is to watch new content every month, not to watch the same content over and over. If they wanted to do that they would just buy the Blu-ray (or, if so inclined, pirate it once). And pirates have no reason to rip a 6Mbps stream when they can rip a 40Mbps Blu-ray.

DRM is a box you have to check when a suit was bamboozled by a DRM snake oil salesman into putting it in a contract. How the DRM works is irrelevant because it won't actually work anyway. A fig leaf doesn't need codec support.

That's what EME is about, and that's why you hear the free software people griping about it but not the actual pirates. EME makes piracy easier. It separates the DRM into its own little box which makes it easier to circumvent. Which is what the pirates will do because they don't care about breaking the law, but which law-abiding free software people are proscribed from doing by DMCA 1201.

But the most fundamental flaw in your argument is that you misunderstand who decides what DRM gets used. DRM is not content. What gets supported is ultimately decided by the platform companies. When Apple says there will be no DRM on iTunes, there will be no DRM on iTunes. The only thing Disney or Universal can do about it is withhold their content, but that costs them more than it costs Apple or Google. Which means it isn't something they can credibly threaten unless the dispute is of a make or break significance, and the particulars of DRM implementation are not on that level.
This could have turned out so differently if it were forced into mandatory arbitration.
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Ok, here's an idea for a procrastination preventer. It's like the ones you've seen already, which you add to your browser, and then they kick you off reddit after 15 minutes or whatever, or blog problem domains entirely.

Instead of that, a popup that asks "what are you supposed to be working on right now?" with a short text input. You type an answer, and carry on procrastinating. Then after 15 minutes, it pops up again and says "Remember, you were working on this: ... Is there a URL where you can find information to help you with it?" Then an input field for a URL where you can put your project domain, or the wikipedia article you need, whatever. After another 15 minutes, "Hey, it's time to start working on x. Go here to get started."

Thoughts?
The claim was, "Using a different font [on your favicon than the one you use in your wordmark] would make absolutely no sense."

I believe I have successfully refuted that claim.
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1. What would Uber's valuation be if all drivers are classified as employees?
2. What is Dropbox's value in relation to Box?
3. AirBnB also has public competitors, how does it compare?

In these cases are the public valuations low in comparison, e.g. is there still upside growth.
"If my current job were as a taxi driver and my choices were retain my current job or become a contractor at Uber, I would switch to Uber."

Why? I don't think it is very clear that being a Uber driver is better than a taxi driver.
Though I think very highly of both Bernie Sanders and Steve Wozniak, the
HN site guidelines say that stories about politics are off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>But claiming someone has privilege isn't a value judgement on the person, or a sin...Saying someone has privilege is just pointing out the state of the world, it isn't a judgment.

That is exactly the same argument that bigots use when they talk about {minorities, poor people, immigrants, LGBT people}. "That person fits into category X, and everyone in category X shares some characteristic Y because they're in that category. I'm just saying that because it's true!" It doesn't matter who that generalization is made about, whether they're the dominant group in society or not. It's still a terrible generalization and an intellectually lazy argument and in and of itself carries a judgement. If you grant that something like "white privilege" or "male privilege" exists (and most people that buy into the concept do) then by that logic a homeless, illiterate white man has more privilege than a black woman millionaire CEO.

>People without food allergies have privilege in that they don't have to constantly worry whether what they eat will kill them.

That's absolute nonsense as well. There exist people without food allergies that have other conditions where they constantly have to worry about what they eat, diabetes being an example. So check your cis-gylcemic privilege you fascist!/s Do you see how ridiculous and divisive that sounds?
Yeah I remember occasions when PHP x.y.z patch releases would break existing code.

Sure it can be possible to run PHP4 code on PHP5, but only AFTER you have tested and debugged it on the newer PHP version.
If mcdonalds or walmart started paying below minimum wage would that be exploitative?
> On topic it's hilarious that he/she's complaining about downvotes for airing opinions against the hivemind then gets downvoted for that opinion.

Not really.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, it used to be referred to as the "Next Generation OpenGL Initiative", but yes, its not technically the old OpenGL API any more.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156130
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They're still required to respond; it's just not possible to reach them in the first place. Which also means that there cannot possibly be any meaningful security improvement to be had by not responding. Which is to say, turning this off is even more pointless than it would be otherwise.
I think the bare minimum would be to put them all in one directory and use robots.txt to hide them from Google.

Sure, it's weak, but at least it won't be accessible through Google.
Good to see you're good Steve. You're welcome here anytime.
Walmart has a labor monopsony in much of the rural United States. It would be exploitative for them to pay below a reasonable wage because their employees have no other options for employment.

That is not the case for Uber in California and will likely not be the case in the future. Uber mainly operates in heavily populated areas where alternative employment is available. Additionally, Uber drivers are not geographically restricted in their employment by the nature of the job. They have a car and drive all over town for Uber, so they would be able to find a job "driving distance" away from where they live.
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Yep. That's been my experience with procrastination too. I didn't get any headway with it until I started addressing the underlying emotions. It could be anything: anger, fear, shame, guilt, and at the bottom of it is existential anxiety.