skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The private market for VC backed companies is illiquid -- there's no real market.

If you are talking about a secondary retail market - which is what the NYSE and NASDAQ are - then that is true, but misses the point.

There is an actual market and it's within private finance both primary and secondary. Angels, VC's, LP's and other companies are the regulation sanctioned participants in this market. Just because it's a smaller market doesn't mean it isn't a market.

>The private valuations are mostly sales fluff and politicking about dilution.

Not true. Those valuations are the basis for real cash based investments or mergers/acquisitions.
>There also seems to be an economic drive to commoditize humans. If learning can be completely systematized, then science can be rendered into an assembly line process that can be run by bureaucracies, scaled as needed, and in which individual workers can be treated as a 'human resource' commodity. Bureaucracies cannot deal with multi-modality, unpredictable and eccentric 'genius,' etc., so to admit that these things are required for the progress of science is to admit that bureaucracies are inherently limited.

I think the drive to commoditize everything is probably the bigger issue than a "scientific fundamentalism". There are plenty of crank scientists, and always have been! If it were just a matter of generating sufficiently many sufficiently non-mainstream theories to achieve a paradigm leap in a whole field, you would expect that sufficient production of cranks would produce geniuses by chance.
- DigitalOcean - Good, popular, easy to use, pretty stable, $10 for 1GB of RAM

- Vultr - (Much) faster CPUs than DigitalOcean, less popular, a little less nice UI, more OS options, roughly the same price as DigitalOcean

Oh and if you're a student, you can get $100 credit at DigitalOcean for free: https://education.github.com/pack
To each his own. I prefer working a little each day and not stress myself too much.

I think what needs to happen is an increased in flexibility. To me it seems that society has done a piss poor job in figuring out how to accommodate to women and new types of knowledge work - which requires a lot of flexibility.
This is a classic example of why it's unwise to have SEO as your prime growth strategy.
SYNful Knock Scanner
... Which is exactly what the parent said. I'm saying that even if they DID distribute, it still wouldn't matter, as most likely, Google's main-value stuff isn't a modification to GPL software...
> Why block them?

Because as I am already using an AdBlocker that blocks the tracking cookies, this message is irrelevant.
Odd that for a story that tells you to get data about sales people is ... surprisingly free of any detail on past experience on if it worked.
Maybe the author just wants us to take it on faith?

Also I chuckled at "two people connecting and talking about working together, being part of something larger than just themselves" which then turns into a "SHOW ME YOUR W2!!!" Honestly I thought the article was satire.
As someone who works in the Australian office of a US company with offices in SA, Europe and Asia Pacific, I am always amazed when US-based colleagues reply to emails or Skype chat after midnight.

This just does not happen in any other of our regional offices.
I worked for big pharma and medium (sized) pharma, i discovered several new chemotypes to treat pathologies, all eventually patented. i never got a dime, because that was the terms of my employment. i watched the market price rise on many of the pharmaceuticals i had worked on each time they were sold, placed under new contracts, and re-sold. Our salaries didn't rise as a result, our equipment wasn't modernized. Where did that extra profit go? "It's all fungible", one suit told me at a company meeting; but you're correct, our normally fixed salaries did filter down through the growing salaries of "profiteering assholes".
You could just use a list comprehension, e.g. `[ x for x in arrayveiw1 ]` or perhaps a copy function will be added to Base.
Google changes its search algorithms periodically in an attempt to thwart the SEO spammers, which sounds like a good thing until you notice a lot of sites which had good in-depth information - but wasn't really SEO'd much if at all - are unfortunately also disappearing from the results along with the spam. It could just be my nostalgia, but the Web felt like a much... richer place 10 years ago. Sure there was more spam (and it was relatively easy to ignore), but among that were sites which had lots of interesting info, in very simple and readable styling, and almost no ads. These days it seems Google second-guesses queries far too much, and all you get are bland-looking, very similar sites with very meagre portions of irrelevant or superficial information along with large amounts of (I block them, but some still slip through) ads, social media widgets, and other distracting cruft.
Step 3 is 'Select the Microcontroller'. I don't understand how they plan for this to be a pure profit driving activity.
This is totally ridiculous. All it does is remove the useful data from the dataset and makes it's predictions worse.

Imagine are using an algorithm to predict how likely someone is to pay back a loan, or make an insurance claim, or perform as an employee, etc. Things like their grades or education would correlate with that. but it might also correlate with race or gender, so the algorithm would be labelled "racist" and "sexist".

Even though it has nothing to do with racism whatsoever. A white person and a black person with the same education would get exactly the same result. The algorithm is totally fair and meritorious.

The true solution would be to condition on the race or sex. So the algorithm predicts the probability they will be paid back given that they are male or female. Then in production you average the results of each possible sex and race together.

So if women were really better drivers than men, they would still pay the same rate. The algorithm would know that they are better drivers, but it would treat everyone gender neutral. But it would still take into account education or other variables.

Although it's not clear to me why you would want to do this. If men really are more risky drivers than women, they should pay more. And they do. If they really are less likely to pay back a loan, then they should have a higher interest rate.

In any case, humans make decisions about stuff like this all the time and they are way, way, worse and more biased. In most cases very simple statistics vastly outperform the best humans: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gv/statistical_prediction_rules_out...
The whole idea of a standard work time is ridiculous. We only have it because for many jobs it is hard to measure actual productivity. This also leads to the destructive phenomenon of secrecy in compensation where some are heavily over compensated and many under compensated.
Agreed. Wouldn't having some people on five-day workweeks of 5x6, and others four-day workweeks of 4x10, and still others doing whatever lead to companies having to hire more people to fill in the blanks? Wouldn't that help lower unemployment?
I think you are just having path issues. Also, you are using a gsp example to test gisp. There are a few shorthands that gsp supports that gisp does not - such as imports starting with /. Gisp will not resolve these.

If you continue to have issues and want to get it working correctly, feel free to email me.
While you're being downvoted (probably due to HN aversion to "downer debbies" for tech stuff), the question is legitimate. Why just train stations (the 400 part is just a beginning I assume). I was thinking along the same lines. One plausible answer seems to be pragmatism. There's a govt. agency running fiber along train tracks all over India (http://railwire.co.in/who-we-are.html) and this allows Google to light up the fiber using their ISP expertise and have 400 test nodes to begin with. Think of it as potentially 400 new cities where Google (or some partner) could then start a googe fiber type ISP (but perhaps use wireless local loop for quicker results).
Definitely. Just make property taxes proportional to self-reported value of the property.

(With the catch that you have to sell to any would-be buyer who offers to pay the reported value. Just to keep people honest.)
Constructivists don't accept that you've named an integer. They would say: an integer is any member of the smallest constructive set that contains 0 and one more than any member of that set. Since the set is a constructive set, if you have anything you claim to be an integer, you must be able to either prove that it is 0 or one more than an integer. The number you named isn't zero, so presumably it must be more than some integer ("one less than the number you named"). But if I then ask you whether that number is one more than an integer, and then the same about that one, and so on, at some point you will be unable to answer me. Since you can't provide the evidence that qualifies something as an integer, there's no reason for me to think it is an integer.
> I really don't think you have any conception of how destructive opiate addictions are over the medium to long term.

The destruction is a direct result of prohibition, it is not inherent in the drug. People can and do take opiates long-term with little harm.

> But in Australia we have jacked up the price of cigarettes to act as a disincentive as well.

Yes, but not to the level that people have to prostitute themselves or rob others to get their fix. I didn't say it had to be dirt cheap, just cheap enough to sustain an addiction without turning to crime or selling one's house.

> An opiate is a drug of abuse and a restricted drug for a reason, and that reason should never be the recreational consumption.

I also didn't say it should be sold like candy to anybody at the corner store. But cutting somebody off who is already addicted like they do in the US is what ruins lives, not the pills.
A sales force amplifies what you are already doing. If a research company can hire a salesman that brings in $1M in additional sales, it makes sense to pay that salesman $900k in salary and benefits, because that's an additional $100k the company can put towards it's research. If you agree with the research, you should be happy they hired that salesman. Saying you agree with the mission of a company as long as it pays it's salesman less than $x doesn't make any sense, unless you somehow know that the salesman is bringing in less than $x.
CoffeeScript+Operators+and+Aliases+-+Dreaming+Innovation
VP9 encoding/decoding performance vs. HEVC/H.264
If you really "grow all your medicine out of the ground" it's more than likely if you ever get truly ill or injured you yourself will be in the place you grow your medicine out of. Accept science. It works.
Reminds me of something I built:
http://garyroumanis.com/2015/03/15/TVRemote-app/
NASA to share 'major' Mars science discovery
A number of years ago I made a project that let me do this for ESPN using IR (Ken Sherrifs awesome library) and x10 units. Rather than a physical button I just had a shortcut on my phones home screen.

https://github.com/dandroid88/webmote
tons of drug research is abolutely publicly funded, then often sold off to private companies for pennies...
This story was more revealing to me on another aspect. Why don't working class kids grow quickly in a fast growing company than a elite class kid? even though the working class kid probably knows more from a depth perspective.
This all sounds great -- until, for example, you are trying to eat a snack while also watching TV. Or one of a dozen other things where the automation gets in the way. Or, equally worse -- it's not perfect. Sometimes the lights don't change, sometimes there is a delay (so user presses the button multiple times) and suddenly everything catches up and curtains are closing and opening and closing and opening..

Any of these cause WAF to go to zero, at which point, you rip it all out.

So many times when it comes to home automation, otherwise rational software developers forget what people actually want to do, and skip to what the technology makes possible but doesn't actually make anything easier.
SpaCy is a really nice library to work with. Earlier textblob hit the front page, but I much prefer this one. Nice for all of us that it is now even more free, but I don't get the new revenue model.
Arabic is not one language, but a family of languages, with "Standard Arabic" serving as an almost artificial lingua-franca, that no one actually can speak natively.

I say almost artificial because it has never been any body's native language at any point in time.

Now, Classical Arabic, theoretically was the native language of certain tribes in the Hijaz region (of modern day Saudi Arabia) some 1400 years ago. Standard Arabic is a modernized version of Classical Arabic. Some vocabulary have almost completely different meanings, and a large number of modern collocations would probably make no sense to the native speakers of Classical Arabic if they were alive today.
Can only be called a Chill Switch.
Even funnier: they forgot to mention all that sweet sweet EU and Austrian R&D funding money they received over the last couple of years for 'research projects' that don't deserve that title at all.
Lebanese Startup Scene
It's ok to mention Popper, but the book was more of an argument with Imre Lakatos, as I remember it.
Bake in Security and Privacy
If it stays here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulaymaniyah_Museum) it is probably safer from IS than basically anywhere else in the region.

Baghdad is still relatively safe, but could be better. I could see them loaning it to the National Museum at some point, but only temporarily, and not for many years.
This picture got painted by a computer – Open Source #1
Yolk.js: JavaScript library for asynchronous user interfaces. Built on RxJS
epsilons are fun, epsilons like to play and run
RAD CRUD development
Well, I can't speak for other frameworks, but C++/Qt is very much likely to be worth your time at some point.

In general, it's well written and well-documented. Many things you expect that will be hard to do in C++ are suddenly made easy. Just go through some of their small examples to get a gist of signals/slots, QObjects and QWidgets. If you're struggling with CMake I would recommend to stick with .pro files ("qmake") as the syntax is much, much less of a headache.
If our models are of ever-increasing sophistication and empirical success, why don't they count as truly grasping the world?
Sales reps make so much because they bring in so much more than they cost. It makes perfect sense for the business to keep retaining them. This is the same in every sector and industry.
Apple has trouble in Russia now for homosexual promotion
MS made their search engine in 1999, only two years after Google.
The history of concurrency in ruby explained
I guess that could be Google over-filtering, but I think the more likely explanation is that 10 years ago that there wasn't as much much SEO effort, so it was easier for Google to pick the good pages out. So if Google weren't aggressively trying to correct for SEO spam, you'd see even more bad sites with meager information and lots of social media widgets.
It's a ridiculous to call the metric measured by this study "Traffic". All it's counting is "unique user's as counted" on all the websites.

So while I'm scrolling through twitter app on my phone, I might click on about 20-30 random links (most of which open in the browser), take a quick look and swipe away the tab. According to this study, I just presented myself as "Unique User" on 20-30 sites. All the while, I'm simply browsing twitter.

So according the methodology of this study, I just generated 30x the "web traffic" as compared to my app traffic. It's a patently ridiculous way of measuring mobile usage.
3 Important Aspects to Fitness Motivation for Women
Getting Early Adopters
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Can confirm the statement of reactivity in router being a bad thing. Route reloads because of new data can be surprisingly expensive especially when you have a large data set being shown in one place (eg: task list). Unless you are really being careful and watching out for how you put elements into your router (when using iron router) you can suddenly have an edit on one item causing a full reload of the entire view which in turn ends up reloading all the items. It's avoidable for sure, but we all know that it's better to have the default behaviour be the more rational one.
I'm still not convinced that Brave New World was actually a dystopia, relative to either our modern world or the one that Huxley was writing from. It had some stuff that was pretty fucked up, but was it more fucked up than e.g. the way we treat the poor and homeless? BNW at least dramatically reduced the total volume of human misery in the world.
My father relayed a story to me about a factory in Toronto that he used to buy supplies from for over 40 years.

It was a small, tightly knit workforce of about 50 people. Mostly immigrants with woodworking skills. When hard times hit North America in the early 1970s, the owner lowered everybody's hours to equate to 6 hours of work per day instead of laying anybody off.

The owner wasn't being altruistic. He was worried that if he laid off anybody that they would go to his competitors when the economy turned around. Taking with them valuable skills and insider knowledge of how his factory operated.

The workers were happy to be getting 75% of their pay instead of 0%, and the company lasted another 30 years after that with much of the same workforce.
The Case for Reparations (2014)
Why should the employment question for salesmen be, "How generous can we afford to be?", when for everyone else it's "How stingy can we afford to be?"? The whole reason a company hires any employee, at all, is because it's profitable. The question is why employees who don't contribute to the core mission of the firm should receive 90% of the revenue they generate, while those who do receive a fixed salary irrespective of revenue (and also have to work long hours and take few vacations).
Genome-editing find may improve system’s precision
> The opinion piece (that's what it is) starts with an assertion that types make it easier to find bugs. I think the reality is more nuanced.

It is, and the article ends with the recommendation that specifications (or any code that requires verification of interesting properties) should be only optionally typed, with various pluggable type systems, because every specific type system would make an interesting class of problems harder to specify than untyped code.
Same here. Fantastic book though - made up for the disappointment of never working it out (hey, I was 11.. ;) )
I'd like to add a note about my experience with doing this; I ended up forking Distributions.jl and added a fitting function for the Weibull distribution. Still need to clean it up and do a pull request,.

The amazing thing about Julia I've come to enjoy is how clean the source code, how easy it is to find functionality, and it's all written IN Julia. That means I can modify libraries that are normally C or C++ for perf reasons. It's changed the prospect of needing to add functionality from one of hesitation to feeling that it's actually enjoyable.
Genome Editing Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Morgan just gave a fantastic talk at Strange Loop: https://youtu.be/k4ypqzOShZs
And must all conversation have a point that is deliberated at the origin? A lot of the most useful and salient conversations I've had with friends, colleagues, and mentors in my life have been ideation, thinking out loud, stepping through an experience or an impression... there wasn't a clear point, until two hours later, when there suddenly was. Or, there was a point, one thought, and it changed course during the conversation.

I don't know where I'd be without those conversations.
can you tell me whats wrong in it? just want to understand
Interesting - thanks for the correction. I have been learning Mandarin for a few years now, and made the assumption that since the accepted writing system was standard nationally (and practiced by all literate Chinese speakers, regardless of regional dialect) that the spoken languages were all underpinned grammatically by the same writing system. As you pointed out, this is not the case.

Adding to what you said (and correct me if I'm wrong here, this is based on some quick research [1]), while written Mandarin is by far the most common - and official - writing system, most dialects have completely different sets (i.e. non-1-to-1 mappings) of words than Mandarin, and many have supplemental character sets that wouldn't make any sense to someone reading Mandarin. The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set, for instance, is a set of characters that are specific to the Cantonese dialect, and don't have close/exact relatives in standard written Mandarin [2]. Additionally, while the grammar of the different dialects seem rather close (similar to the relationships between Romance languages), the number of syllables used to represent vocabulary varies from dialect to dialect, which suggests vastly different etymology between the dialects. What I find particularly interesting is that given these substantial differences in vocabulary, one's native spoken language and one's native written language can be at odds with one another. Perhaps this is mitigated by the fact that spoken Mandarin is so widespread, but I wonder how this affects written communication for those who don't speak Mandarin natively.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Linguistically-speaking-how-similar-ar...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
It took a while to find out that "mind mapping" is just a tool for drawing charts with circles and arrows.

(Whatever happened to UML? Anyone remember UML?)
The short answer is that language is far, far more complex than any simple attempt at classification can admit. To start with, the basic dictum of mutual intelligibility falters on the (potentially) surprising fact that mutual intelligibility is not bidirectional: Portuguese speakers, for example, can often understand Spanish, but Spanish speakers generally cannot understand Portuguese.

It's worth noting that Chinese itself uses a different terminology to distinguish between different Chinese languages versus non-Chinese languages (and the same term for what modern linguists would call distinct dialects versus distinct languages)--this is often translated as "dialect," although "variety" is probably a better translation today.

In practice, most Chinese speak Mandarin (Wikipedia lists ~70% of native-language, and I think I recall seeing 90% if second language is included), and the Chinese government itself actively discourages schools (both inside and outside the country) from trying to teach non-Mandarin variants. For all intents and purposes, "Chinese language" and "Mandarin" can be used interchangeably (with the former being preferred to the lay person). It's a bit like calling Prussia of the 1700s and 1800s Germany: it's not quite correct, but the difference is small enough that it's usually not worth arguing over.
Wouldn't surprise me to learn there's an app for that, too, though it might be an unofficial .apk.
"For and Against Method" which outlines the discourse between Feyerabend and Lakatos is an excellent book that collects their debates and private correspondence in a well editorialized way.
Highly recommended for anyone with the slightest glimmer of interest in science theory. It remains one of my favorite random pickups. It's a very interesting friendship between academics with rather different views.

On a related note, Lakatos is fairly underrated. Everyone knows Popper but Lakatos extended his ideas beautifully.
The performance penalties seem pretty significant at least as of a few months ago. Has that changed?