skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The port authority bus station renovation proposal had sticker price of $9 billion.

Compared that to $500 million Japan spent renovating their Tokyo Station a few years ago which involved:

- Adding 3rd floor level, raising roof.

- reconstructing intricate decorations and motifs before it was bombed in the war.

- station hotel renovation

- installation of earthquake proof underground seismic buffers and dampers. (hundreds of them)

- 5 year long

All that for $500 million. In the middle of Tokyo.

Construction cost in the U.S. is a complete joke.
Cruise Raises $12.5M for Self-Driving Cars, Poaches Tesla’s Lead on Autopilot
There are many examples of this and some even more direct: poor people have to deal with debt collectors more frequently out of necessity and as a result end up paying both their original debt+whatever the debt collectors tack on.

In many cases the added on part is larger than the original debt.

Then there's buying quality products that last longer by the wealthy and crappy products that need to be replaced (far) more frequently by the poor and many more examples like these.
We put it back as "fifty".

Btw here's a thread from when the article came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1002723. I found it by clicking 'past' to go to an HN search on the title and then modifying the search to "stupid grammar advice". Still easier, I think, than searching from scratch.
You can't really talk about 492 bytes versus 472 bytes or whatever unless you precisely define the platform the code runs on, and the features required. To my mind castling and enpassant should be required, they are a fundamental part of the game. Also underpromotion and stalemate (if they don't implement castling, I'm guessing they take some other shortcuts). On the other hand, alphanumeric labels for ranks and files just mess up the rudimentary text console display and should be omitted. I would require rejection of all illegal move attempts by the human opponent. But I wouldn't require implementing 3 fold repetition, insufficient material or 50 move draws.
I wonder if the internet has had a decrease in the power and occurrences of cults as a whole.

I know the FBI has task forces that focus entirely on monitoring cult behavior. Any published statistics? I imagine that they might be wary of branding any "niche religion" as a cult to avoid accusations of violations of religious freedoms.

Regardless, I wonder what the overall trend is now that information access and easy communications are so prevalent.

Hell, North Korea's government can be seen to be operating as a kind of cult and even they are having difficulties with information leaking into their ecosystem through smuggled cheap Chinese phones and contraband radios.
Markov chains do learn in the sense that they model distributions of strings, can be trained on observed strings and used to generate strings, assign probabilities to strings, classify strings, etc. They have well developed treatments in multiple frameworks of computational learning theory, including Gold learnability and PAC learnability.

Is "deep learning" more than statistics and randomization?
The "closure table" approach works best if you have frequent reads and writes, see e.g. https://coderwall.com/p/lixing/closure-tables-for-browsing-t...
I have no experience living in one, but my understanding is they can be hooked up to services if you desire. The reason they are on trailers is because the person who invented the first tiny house (now runs Tumbleweed Tiny House Company http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/) was looking for a way to get around zoning laws. These houses are so small they are not allowable under most zoning laws. But if you put them on wheels, they qualify as "trailer homes" and, voila!, now you are legal.

From what I gather, the fact that they are too small to be legal in most (urban/within city bounds) areas creates all kinds of challenges. I have long been interested in the subject, and I sometimes fantasize about living in a tiny house, but I have not yet in earnest tried to make it happen.
What works for me
In the example you link to, the example does not estimate the mean of a uniform distribution but rather its maximum – U(0, max). A maximum is like a quantile. One of the very few shortcomings of bootstrapping in realistic scenarios is that it does not always do well with generating confidence intervals around quantiles. And still scientists can go an entire lifetime without ever feeling the need to estimate the maximum of a uniform distribution. The only famous example of this distribution in the context of actual science is the German tank problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
I'll be purchasing this. I like how the other book looked and it sits proudly on my desk at my co-working spot.
> Does that mean that there is no deep learning here, only statistics and randomization?

Correct. It is a perfect simulation of HN.
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What I wrote was vague - I've since corrected it.

The way DR is scored by automatic tools will give a needle drop a higher DR than a CD version even if they have the same original master with the same DR.

I'm saying that just because an vinyl rip of the same song has a higher scored DR doesn't automatically mean it actually has a different master with more dynamic range.

Edit: Metal-Fi guys have a good article on it http://www.metal-fi.com/vinyl-doesnt-measure-up/
Pussy Riot members jailed for posting photos to raise your hourly freelance rate (arabcrunch.com)

Hahahaha!
> Mercurial Ate Our Breakfast [with Revsets], But We Can Fix Internal Communication Before It Breaks (staralliance.com)

> Ask HN: Optimal number of sets with high IQ users?

> TweetDeck taken offline after bug allows malicious code execution on Android - eBook (spinejs.com)

> Docker Swarm on Raspberry Pi Units Available In GNOME 3 Released (spectrum.ieee.org)
My favorite is

> Show HN: nnmm – A feed of your print or paper books

Isn't this just a pile of books?
Read the title and had a different SAT in mind before reading the article -- pretty funny.
Yes. People who try to get clever usually find that the courts don't have much patience for those games.
>Watching the Growth Is Harder Than It Sounds

>Small Utah ISP firm stands up to the Faces of Facebook popularity, I quit.

>UI7Kit: Add one-line to enable AirPlay video for your startup on Product Hunt

lol.
We got an email from someone asking why they were logged in as pg, so you've passed some sort of niche Turing test.
Yeah it is bullshit. They just had a failure so now they can claim, oh it is still 9 9s it is just that it is over 400 billion years averaged, not like you assumed, 10 billions. So legally still cool though...
the uk funding arrangement means that no one has to fully support themselves through university, so your point really doesn't apply here.
Amazon Has Too Many Dudes, Not Enough Toilets
As a person who recently had my house evicted from the land it was sitting on, I encourage you to read your local ordinances carefully, prepare for a legal fight, and don't talk to any curious reporters.
I'm not moralizing, parent was moralizing about poachers.

I couldn't care less about elephants or cattle. I just can't stand cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
I absent-mindedly opened this in a new tab along with a few other Hacker News stories. Was very confused for a few minutes. Good job!
NOT TRUE! Sometime's it's the opposite. My grandfather routinely denies spending money on himself (medical or otherwise) since he won't be around much longer. He would rather have the money stay for his kids. He feels this way even about procedures that would save his life.
Debt collectors are a result of using credit or spending being one's means. There are plenty of poor people that don't buy a 60 inch TV from Best Buy and then default on the payment. A huge portion of debt collectors are collecting on things like department and electronic store credit cards. The ability to manage money (even if you don't make much of it) is not unique to just the rich. There's a big difference between being poor and being irresponsible. Most debt collectors are the result of being irresponsible.
You can't blindly apply the bootstrap to any problem whatsoever. But you really, absolutely, unequivocally can blindly apply the bootstrap to generate a confidence interval around the mean of data generated from any distribution. You cannot easily get nonsensical results. In a few rare edge cases, you can get suboptimal results (e.g. 80% instead of 95% coverage, or 99% coverage instead of 95% coverage) but even these are not nonsensical. I really don't see why you want to be arguing over facts.
The E-meter is an interesting device because it "half works" -- it really does react to the physiological stress caused by emotional stress.

The auditor and preclear are taught that the "meter is always right", so if you are doing a 'Joburg security check and getting a question like

37. Have you ever done any illicit Diamond buying?

and you are tired, you've been doing this for three hours and you're annoyed by the whole thing and the meter twitches a bit, the auditor will push on you and now you are really annoyed and the meter gets really active, and the easy way out of it is to relax, space out a bit, let your imagination wander, and sure enough you stole some Diamond bricks on the way out from Aesychulus (just as Stephen Fishman pulled off the atmosphere so Ron could blow it up with a bomb) maybe 45 or 25 trillion years ago or was it 45*10^21 years? Ron admits it a little strange but the e-meter reacts to "years" so it obviously works.

If you proceed well you will write a success story that will be written down and used against you later if you sue to get your money back.

If the tech doesn't work, Ron says it is always the fault of the preclear who then will get abused and forced to abuse other people until he's earned his way back into the group. He'll resolve right there to be a good thetan and not get in trouble with ethics again, but he most certainly will.

Ron got his angel investment to start Scientology from Jack Parsons, a founder of JPL and a follower of Aleister Crowley. He stole Jack's girlfriend, stole Jack's money, and Jack got blown up in a mysterious explosion not long after.

Up to about 5 years after Dianetics, Ron perfected this process, first doing it personally on a retail basis (as described by Volney Mathison, patent holder on the E-meter) Around that point he had developed the technology to the point where he could francishe it and he spent the next 10 years making it really scalable and around the year 17 AD he decided to take a crack at taking over the world.

Note that the first exercise you get in the correspondence course from the Rosicrucians is to attempt to telepathically control a stranger; Scientologists follow the same procedure, but only after OT VIII.
Could you not produce viable samples by collecting multiple copies of the DNA and overlapping them, thus removing the errors that would likely happen at random locations?
And exactly how long it will take for the approximation to reach a certain level of accuracy can be ascertained by using the other technique mentioned in the slide deck: run a simulation. And so we have come full circle :-)
Nice. Was i the only one who took a minute to find the minute difference in the spelling of the hostname.
Show HN: A History of the Future in 100 Objects
http://www.ahistoryofthefuture.org

A History of the Future in 100 Objects book describes a hundred slices of the future of everything, spanning politics, technology, art, religion, and entertainment. Some of the objects are described by future historians; others through found materials, short stories, or dialogues.

Today, I’m making all 100 chapters available online, for free.

The book has sold a few thousand copies – reasonably well for a first author. More importantly, it was received well by the people whose opinions I value; I was invited to speak at the Long Now Foundation last summer by Stewart Brand, and it was praised by the BBC’s Stephanie Flanders and by Grantland’s Kevin Nguyen, who called it one of the ‘overlooked books of 2013‘. Next month, I’ll be speaking about the same ideas at the Serpentine Gallery’s Transformation Marathon.

So, at this point I’m much more interested in spreading the ideas far and wide.
A great technique I've used for many years to store hierarchical data is by using a Nested Set Model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model)

It works a treat as you can query the whole tree in one SQL statement but preserve the nesting for formatting.
One thing I noticed is that comment lengths are almost all the same - I think some randomisation would be good.
The proposed Hudson River tunnel has price tag of $20 billion.

The 30 mile+ Channel Tunnel cost less. Go figure.
> wouldn't it take you that long to switch providers anyway?

It might, or might not, depends how you built it.

> you have all-hands of one of the biggest tech companies in the world working to fix your infrastructure.

And it still was out for hours... You might see it as a great success, but you can also interpret it as "what good is it, even if with so many people behind the scenes they still failed for hours...".

The problem is that because that services ends up being embedded in so many services and products, half the internet ends being down. Even Amazon dogfoods their own stuff so services rely on each other. Dynamo is down, maybe SQS will be down or analytics as well.
Thanks again to dalke to the hopefully continuing critique. I'd love to hear your thoughts and concerns as well, dear reader.

That said, I'd like to take a moment to discuss my motivation behind developing this model. Beyond the ordinary entrepreneurial reasons of wanting to make a big splash and getting frustrated by an issue, I believe that the need of the consumer is changing and that the education industry's focus must change with it.

Up until approximately the Industrial Revolution, education was focused almost solely on vocation training or procedural mastery. Education not focused on vocational training was focused on providing "culture". Over time, abstract information grew and gained value in the eye of the general public as applications for it were found. Various societal factors required credible wielders of this abstract knowledge to also have "culture". As a result, the education industry created the monastery, the university, and the liberal arts college - all of which focused on conceptual mastery.

Conceptual mastery education did not and will never replace vocational mastery education. It simply provided another path to success for a select (but still growing) fraction of the population.

However, both conceptual and procedural mastery are becoming obsolete in the face of technological advances. There's no reason to memorize calculus formulas or accounting algorithms where they are already stored in code libraries distributed across the globe and available at the touch of a button. There's no reason to learn how to build air conditioning systems when a robot can do that faster, more efficiently, and more reliably. These days, we're even automating roles involving human interaction and medical diagnosis.

So what kind of occupational roles will last in a world where responsibilities of ever increasing complexity are being automated? What qualities will those roles require?

My answer is that the required qualities will be:

The detection of highly complex and possibly almost abstract problems (Predicting consumer intent, for example),

initiative & drive (Let's face it: dealing with complex issues is exhausting. That's why we create stereotypes & labels. That's why we give directions in landmarks or major roads. That's why America has a two party political system.),

and the ability to conceive of and create solutions, whether those solutions take the form of physical devices, abstract systems, or human organizations.

Just like educational institutions focused on conceptual mastery did not and will not completely replace institutions focused on procedural mastery, my institution will not completely replace current liberal arts colleges. I do think that I will take a significant (and ever growing) fraction of the education market, however.
Microsoft got in trouble for using a monopoly in a market (OS) to prop up a product in another market (Browsers), not just for having a monopoly.
>didn't Microsoft get in trouble for creating one?

Sort of. Their competitor-plaintiffs are no longer going concerns, and MS are still going relatively strong; so one might argue that the "trouble" was of little consequence. The length of time all of that took to wind its way through the courts means that patients will die waiting for the market/courts to sort itself out.
Like many ideas in the "War on Terror", this idea also reduces freedom, in this case by making it possible for the government to trace everyone's financial transactions. For example, you would no longer be able to buy drugs, like pot, that the government considers illegal without the police knowing about it. (Even in states that have legalized pot, it's still in violation of Federal law.)

As Snowden's leaks have revealed, our government isn't so trustworthy that we should be making it easier for it to amass ever more information about our personal lives. All of that warrantless NSA mass-surveillance was also purportedly done to "protect us from terrorism".

Also, unless you can convince all countries in the world to adopt this traceable currency system, terrorists will always be able to launder money by setting up legal-looking front operations (e.g., fake charities or businesses) in countries that have freer money systems. And since this system makes it harder for politicians to accept bribes, I'm guessing that it would have a hard time getting enacted in any country.
You can live for a loooooong time in a suburb for these costs.
> Better statistical techniques will push this bound

That's what he meant by statistical techniques, we don't currently read a full "stream" even with brand new DNA, we smash it to bits then read those and have the computers put them back together.

At a certain point though what's left is too garbled or in too small sequences so that there isn't enough overlap that you can't put humpty back together again :).
little bit of skeuomorphism would've helped ;-)
How Star Trek Explains the Decline of Liberalism
The only way to properly do this would then be to have the government become the only R&D and pharma company.

Doable. But I think you put too much faith in the government. The government is a natural monopoly itself. If they're doing a shitty job you don't get any other options.
Chinese cement prices: Indication of the real economy's health
Notably, this is what happens most of the time when something from /r/SubredditSimulator gets popular and becomes intermixed with normal submissions on a subscriber's front page and /r/all.

The way to beat a Turing Test is through hiding in plain sight.
Cool. Any link here?
And BTW, the Free Zone has an E-meter which works over the internet and they really do auditing over Skype.
Amongst other reasons, you only see someone's karma if you go specifically looking for it, and the old-style average score per post has been withdrawn anyway, so there's no way of knowing if someone's really good, or just hangs around all day every day saying things.

So unless it happens to be a commenter a reader has seen before and recalls the quality of their comments, a reader has no groupthink preconception about how valuable this line of text is. I suspect this significantly improves the odds of evaluating it on its own merits.

I'd like to see karma vanish entirely from everyone's view and be only a hellbanning/moderation assistant, but to be honest most of the benefit came with removing the average post score.
Imagine how it will feel at midnight after spending 15 min replying to ... whatever this is.

Hopefully you are real. :)
Richard Dawkins Absolutely Eviscerates the Texas Clock Kid on Twitter
Tor Socks Proxy and Privoxy Containers
The value of a human life to the individual who's life it belongs cannot be calculated in economic terms (at least for most people) because it is unbounded, i.e., there is not a price that most people will accept for their life.

Not really true, I'm afraid. People killing themselves (or allowing others to kill them) to ensure a payout to their families happens with some regularity.
It's not just having the right drug, it's having the right pharmacokinetics. You need original samples so you can see how the drug dissolves, enters the bloodstream and is metabolized.

The FDA has a requirement that generics are bioequivalent, not just the same drug.
I opened it in a background tab, lost track of it for a while, ended back there thinking it was the normal ycombinator and unwittingly spent a couple minutes thinking "wtf is up with HN today?"

Well played.

edit: lol, seems I'm not the only one.
Hmmm, toooo many options. How do I decide between them. Sort of a DB noob.
This is my new favourite!
> The lifetime earnings for a college degree holder[1] is probably a lot more than for those without a degree.

> Even a Thiel Fellow probably needs to be admitted to a very competitive school to drop out and get the Thiel Fellowship.

You pointed out the flaw in that sort of thinking yourself. Absolutely you should strive be the type of person who can get into and graduate from an elite school. The value of then actually doing it is what's suspect.

I don't think there have been any statistically significant studies done on such people (who were accepted to elite schools and declined to go in favor of starting a company), but I would love to read them if anyone has seen one.
The question is what kind of price discrimination is this? Do we attribute browsing/shopping on the phone to be being poor?
"One way scientists demonstrate bioequivalence is to measure the time it takes the generic drug to reach the bloodstream and its concentration in the bloodstream in 24 to 36 healthy, normal volunteers. This gives them the rate and extent of absorption-or bioavailability-of the generic drug, which they then compare to that of the pioneer drug. The generic version must deliver the same amount of active ingredients into a patient's bloodstream in the same amount of time as the pioneer drug."

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/EmergencyPreparedness/Bioterrorisma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella?
Markov chains are great fun

http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/

HP Lovecraft + Puppet Documentation
It's impressive seeing all the recent progress.

I went through Stanford in the 1980s, when the "expert systems" crowd had reached the "emperor has no clothes" state and the "AI winter" was starting. Three decades later, AI has become un-stuck, and there's real progress every year. The next decade is going to be interesting.

Fifty years out, the machines will be in charge, but I won't live that long.
The Fake Meat Revolution
I'm not saying I would try it in court; I'm simply saying the argument could be made that bitcoin is actually the first form of money that is pure speech. Thanks for indulging me though.
There may be a better system, but I haven't seen it.

Look at some of the new cancer companies (CAR-T technology). These companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars in Series A. Why? Because investors think they'll be a handsome return on the other end.
Conversely, many of the well rounded / think for yourself / independent people I met in university have no trouble getting generous scholarships.
We have that religion already, it's a branch of most every government in the world. Could you get a private version of this? Yes, it's called Microsoft and Google. Could you get something as aggressive as government spy agencies but in the private sector? No, because the government is the sovereign and would disallow that.