skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agree with you on poker. Mild agreement on blackjack.

Complete disagreement on craps. Could you describe the "skill-based winning strategy" for craps? (Other than "don't play")
Interesting, I just tested this. It doesn't work as an image or an iframe on Chrome.

iFrame wont work on modern browsers: Refused to display 'my linkedin url' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'sameorigin'.

Image also probably did not work, though Linkedin might delay reporting profile visits, any ideas?
Are you using 'immigrant' to describe privileged tech workers who move to the city? This seems a strange misappropriation of the word.
I was replying to the hypothetical question of how to socially correct a consumption (mainly) based tax model.
Why don't we just move everyone out of SF and close it. If you're going to fight over it, we'll just take it away.
On a side note: Last year John Chambers the then CEO of Cisco made a prediction about IT consolidation in the future, wonder if this might be first pieces of that puzzle:
http://www.businessinsider.com/cisco-ceo-brutal-times-for-it...
FPTP is unequivocally broken.

Voting for "who you want to win, period" doesn't help in FPTP. Then you just get vote splitting - the majority of the population would prefer either of parties A and B to party C, but they have different favourites, so A and B each get 30% of the vote, while C gets 40%. So the party most of the population hates wins.

Tactical voting is IMO preferable to this outcome.
Plexi joins Marvel
Grid stability is obviously the big concern, but I'm intrigued by the prospects of a hydrogen powered airport.

Blue Planet Research in Hawaii has been demonstrating the ability to use solar energy to split water intro hydrogen, using the hydrogen as an energy storage device.
The airport could use the hydrogen to power all the airport vehicles (baggage trollies, safety trucks, etc etc) saving money on fuel; that'd be a nice entry point.

Later other airport equipment/generators could be transitioned to hydrogen powered and more panels added.
On mobile this redirects me to a bunch of spam somehow... Careful if you click through.
Those share based payments certainly get taxed when the employees exercise them, so the Exchequer sees a tasty tax base from that at least.
To be fair, the buses actually make the problem worse. Without them, I think a lot of Google employees would think twice about living in SF and commuting to Mountain View.
I dont see why people would lie on twitter, instead of simply not tweeting...
Yeah, sorry. Poor choice of words.
They removed part of the ripple effect in Android Marshmallow
This is interesting; I was wondering though are you really using the Chrome Scraper extension to get this data? Is there some way to run that on a schedule, or are you manually scraping periodically?
I was hoping for an informative well-written article. Alas, I was to be disappointed. Ignoring the juvenile profanity and the condescending rhetoric, the author completely misdiagnoses the technology shift that will be the real game changer ... namely, the advances in memory architecture. Whether it's memristors or Xpoint 3D or some other architecture, data storage will be completely turned on its head over the next 10 years. The lumbering giants (who bring in 4 times more in net profit in a single quarter than Pure Storage garnered in its IPO) will have to be nimble in the future, but I wouldn't call them the 'walking dead' just yet.
> Right now, it's mainly enthusiasts who use it. Industry still uses Python 2 [...]

You make it sound like you can't be an enthusiast while working in the industry. That's not true at all, but I don't want to argue about that.

But anyway, this project - ohmu - looks very much like something made by an enthusiast. So the question remains: why would people use Python 2 in their hobby side-projects?

Personally, I only switched very recently, with Python 3.5. I read release notes for each previous version and the improvements didn't convince me it's worth the effort to re-learn the language. The individual improvements and additions to the language didn't feel very important, but they do add up and with 3.5 the aggregate of all the new features finally made me switch.

Python 3 is a better language than Python 2, it just wasn't as much better as I wanted it to be. I suspect other programmers who still use (or used until not long ago) Python 2 think along the same lines. It's just that everyone has different view on how much Python 3 needs to improve on Python 2 to justify the switch.
We need open and vendor-neutral metadata services
So can some tax attorney (we used to have a few on here) or CPA/CA break down how exactly this happened and how other people with corporations can do similar things? If Apple isn't going to be paying their "fair share" (yeah, that's a contentious term I'm throwing around) might as well benefit from the money they spent on lobbying and do the same thing they're doing. I'm in that limbo region where Julius Baer won't approach me as a 25MM+ net-worth individual but I'd still like to minimize what I pay.
That picture is great: by basically eliminating the geography it makes the math clear. If someone understands this picture, it will be easy to get a good idea about the more complicated real-world cases.
Egypt’s Startup Scene: A Different Kind of Revolution
US brought down a Presidential Plane in Search of Snowden. Any sort of bag/crate big enough to fit a person would be opened immediately.
Regionally? Not really. The only thing coming is electrification of Caltrain, which has been under design for close to 20 years at this point and all they have to show for it is an environmental impact report. They haven't even put out the project for bidding yet.

Even with electric Caltrain getting from San Francisco to places like Facebook, Apple, and Google will be a pain. Their major campuses are not well-sited for transit service. It's 3.5 miles from Palo Alto Caltrain to Facebook, and not a very nice walk at all.
Show HN: Twerkify.js
They can be pretty crazy to figure out how to navigate on larger intersections (which have the double diamond plus other intersections in the same area). I can't tell you how many times I've missed my turn and had to take a long way around trying to get through this intersection in Austin: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/30.23595/-97.82471

Edit: On second thought I'm not entirely sure that is a double-diamond, although I've heard people refer to it as one. It doesn't seem to match up with the wikipedia article, however.
Chrome also has multiple profile feature.
this is true in scenario where these massive corporations are just passive bystanders, obediently following all new tax laws that come up daily. the reality is, through networks of lobbyists, they put forth laws with loopholes that allow these practices.

i am not accusing facebook specifically, any and all multinationals are guilty in a similar way, be it banks, procter&gamble or newest computer fad beyond-startup company.

and of course there is the moral aspect - everybody can see from raw numbers how utterly immoral behavior this is. in a world where financial crisis didn't end as much as it became new norm.
You didn't even read the article, did you?
The fact that the author believes it is against LinkedIn's terms of service, terms of service to which he has explicitly, voluntarily agreed makes it unethical on its face. (Even if the terms of service don't prohibit this behavior, the fact that he believes they probably do is important.)

It's certainly not a grave matter in and of itself, but he doubles down by publishing a post to encourage people to join him in making a promise in bad faith.
Chinese hackers arrested after US request
I always disliked those comments. That's just cowardice.
Xerox Sues Apple Computer Over Macintosh Copyright (1989)
Yes. What does internet traffic have to do with it?

There are millions of SMBs and tens of thousands of large corporations around the world that own server hardware. A tiny percent of that is the major internet companies.

The designs for hardware are changing but the providers are still going to be the usual companies that are good at this and have all the manufacturing in place. For example a lot of banks have started to switch to Open-Compute designs [1] but they will still buy these from Dell or HP.

Software is a different story.

1. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/03/11/open-...
Would you mind sharing a few links? I've been interested in the prediction engines for NBA games for a few years now.
Yes, it is a great read.

I heard about the "Memory Palace" on BBC's Sherlock. Holmes says that you can theoretically remember everything (I think this was in the episode The Hounds of Baskerville). I then happened upon this book via gatesnotes[0], and picked it up.

The author is quite successful in learning and putting this technique to use. He reaches the finals of the USA Memory Championship. However, he says this at the end - "For all the memory stunts I could now perform, I was still stuck with the same old shoddy memory that misplaced car keys and cars. Even while I had greatly expanded my powers of recall for the kinds of structured information that could be crammed into a memory palace, most of the things I wanted to remember in my everyday life were not facts or figures or poems or playing cards or binary digits."

It seems this method can help in memorizing things you consciously put effort to remember. This becomes easier as you practice. But if you were thinking of using this to remember every point of your life, as in where you placed your car keys this morning, or where you left your phone, things get murky - like what the Author mentioned. Although I do wonder how many people would try doing that.

0: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Moonwalking-with-Einstein
We had a egg toss challenge. And were handily beaten by the group that duct-taped their egg inside a Nerf™ football and thrown by their team's quarterback. It was the uniform support of the shell by the Nerf material that did it.
So whats the limit on how much society should spend to seek justice if someone raped you?
How 150 Data Scientists Gathered to Hack for Social Good
I'm not going to disagree, but...we are chemically-driven machines. Gambling triggers addictive releases of pleasure/pain that aren't equivalent to most other forms of entertainment. Most forms of gambling are successful because they are excellent at delivering random reinforcement to players, which is key to many addictive behaviors. But the games themselves are not intrinsically interesting to most people.

DFS takes applies the same principles of gambling and couples it with the most popular sport in the country.
This joint fund is called reinsurance- essentially insurance for insurance companies.
Singular 'they' is just as legitimate an English construction as singular 'you'.
> Simple 1% revenue tax on companies with revenue of more than $15 million would fix the issue.

What country can levy this tax? Large companies like Apple have operations in lots of countries. Do they have to pay each one 1% of their raw revenue?
Yes, but let's not forget the 263rd Rule of Acquisition: Never allow doubt to tarnish your lust for data.
We should just adopt the Japanese zoning system and tell NIMBYs to pound sand. Housing is a matter of regional and national impact and we shouldn't allow small, well-organized groups to freeze housing in our most productive regions.
I helped homeless in SF to get free food using referral codes on Munchery etc.
Yeah, this seemed kind of "unfortunate" when I started this project, but it still turned out to be an interesting/fun toy.

The issue is that when you compute where f(z) sends each point in the complex plane to, you would need to color in the pixel corresponding to that transformed point. f() is user-defined, so it could be a very weird function that could cover some portions of the image we're trying to draw but not others, etc. Moreover, even if I had some kind of procedure for determining which x's to sample so f(x) lay inside the image we're trying to draw, it's not amenable to GLSL. This is typically referred to scatter vs. gather-type operations.
Nothing about the term "immigrant" reserves it to the poor. In what way are people who move into San Francisco from elsewhere in the world not immigrants?

I've long wanted to do a quiz on identifying whether phrases are from San Francisco liberals or Donald Trump.
Struct Iteration Through Abuse of the C Preprocessor
So, in your system, how would a corporations profits be taxed? You have shown nothing like that, really.

And a direct property tax is also not a good idea, as then you tax people for having property, not for using their property.
google chrome has a multiple user option with quick switching, i have multiple profiles with different settings / extensions suited to mode.

saves the time to login to accounts [unless thats the whole point for you].
We legislate morality all the time.

Would you at least agree with the statement that "Not all legal actions are moral and not all moral actions are legal"?
There's always lots of talk from the politicians about plans to improve it, but so far few concrete results. Within the city, the only thing that's actually under construction is a very expensive new subway to ferry tourists from the city center to Chinatown and back. There is also a segment of a high speed train intended to run from San Francisco through Silicon Valley and to Los Angeles, but much of that has been tied up in court by the many Silicon Valley municipal governments, who imagine that it will ruin the (non-existent for 60 years) quaint small town semi-rural character of the area.
There's a lot of stupidity here (or perhaps one might charitably call it excessive glee, or even plain old clickbait), but it's been a long time since 95% of computers ran Windows, if that was ever true in the first place.

You'd have to start by defining "computer". If we use a technically reasonable but broad in journalism's terms definition of "device containing a CPU with integrated MMU", then we're including every mainframe, server, desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet, industrial control system, laser printer or multi-function document management system, router, network or storage switch, storage system controller, sound mixer, and countless other devices. A very small and diminishing fraction of those machines run Windows.

Even if you limited the definition to include only things we traditionally think of as computers, namely mainframes, servers, desktops, and laptops, Microsoft's market share is something like 30%, though it's very difficult to measure and once again subject to definition; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste.... And again, that's been declining for a long time. Even the most generous interpretations that include only desktops and laptops don't get you to 95%; you can narrow-definition your way up to about 90%, and that assumes "market share" includes copies that were made in violation of license and/or law (and thus for which Microsoft received no money).

The reality is that Microsoft is a niche player, not because they lost a market they were previously winning but because that market itself became a small part of something much bigger, in which Microsoft was never especially competitive. As noted by the author, they've been investing heavily in changing that, but the early returns aren't much to talk about. Windows Mobile/Phone is a complete dud, Surface is a weak seller despite recent improvements, and Azure is at best a very distant second in IAAS (see http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/05/28/gartn...). What's remarkable is not that Microsoft is doing so poorly but that they're the only enterprise computing company that even appears to be trying. I think that's what the author was expressing. The characterization as "fucked" comes from Ashlee Vance and should be given the credibility one would assume considering the source. There's little question that most of these companies' positions of relative importance are in decline and have been for a long time. But some, especially Microsoft, still have enormous sums of cash and businesses that are continuing to generate more of it. However irrelevant such a company is, it's still a long way from going out of business. Conversely, no amount of cash is a substitute for organic sales growth.
What? Immigrants are not poor. We need to be careful because a lot of people are strongly against asylum seekers and other migrants saying things like "They've got smart phones, they're not poor". That ignores the fact that asylum seekers are not fleeing poverty but violence and oppression.
Integrating Metrics into Your Software Delivery Process
Many, if not most of them, are indeed immigrants.
Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’
It's at least as ethical as what Google does, the same thing only more effort on their part.
I'd be happy to pretend that. Most of Facebook UK staff are actually employed here as high value employees (engineers, sales). I'd be very surprised if there were many contractors here in the UK.
Love this, and this is similar to how I surf,

Chrome + umatrix = Legit news and Google sites
Opera = Facebook, Instagram
Firefox + FoxyProxy + Ghostery + noscript = Shady places
In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water per hour
I'm really curious about building a virtual memory palace for VR. Seems there would be many possibilities to make memorizing more effective.

Some common techniques like following a predetermined path through a palace and imagining diffrent unique objects and scenes at fixed locations along that path could be really nicely visualized.

I would think you could benefit a lot from actually beeing able to explore and fully take in a memory palace while feeling like you're actually present with VR.
Doesn't have to be either or. Currently Hollywood appears to be terrified of having a female character who screws a lot or has petty motivations.
Allegedly. Who knows if it's true or not?
You're right. It could be that women are in fact far more effective programmers than men, and we're missing out on 70% of the brain power.

hard to say.
On Wednesday, he posted his story on Reddit.com. Twenty minutes later, the DraftKings co-founder Matt Kalish called him. On Friday, Robins, Kalish and Liberman — the founders — sent an email intended to mollify their customers, many of whom are concerned.

Can anyone find this Reddit discussion? I'd like to see what the public thinks of all this.
Fair enough. I think that we need both. Just that I believe that we benefit more from the IA than the AI. The AI is the tool that gets us there. We need AI, but it's not enough.
> free from quizzes, midterms and your final can be 100% of your grade

sounds nearly mathematically utopian

i once was failed in an intro to logic course at an undergraduate university

i spent the class time working on my own projects, and sitting under trees

when the final came it was maybe the third time i attended the class

i got an A on the final, but when i received my final grade i found that attendance was monitored by daily quizzes that accounted for 40% of my grade

was the class intended to evaluate my understanding of truth tables or to determine how i spent an hour of my day three days a week?

because i thought the final more than confirmed the former
Let me offer up another version of Dr. Coward's story: An employee is hired and does his job brilliantly in some aspects and along some metrics, but his employer has complaints in other areas, which are hard to read since we haven't heard their side. These issues are brought up with the employee in writing multiple times over the course of a year: September 2013, April 2014, and November 2014. Apparently, the employee does not address the issues and instead insists that he's doing a brilliant job and that the employer's criticism is really about him being too awesome. Employer decides that they don't want a rogue employee and fires him in October 2014, effective June 2016. Why such almost 2 years of lead time? Maybe it's contractual, but I'm sure that if they really wanted to, they could fire him at the end of the academic year. I read this as the employer trying to get the employee to take them seriously and still giving him another chance to change. Now, in 2015, the employee obviously still doesn't care what the department thinks.

Not everyone who claims to be a misunderstood and persecuted genius actually is one. There are people who are brilliant in some areas, but unwilling to accommodate being part of a larger group and difficult to work with. In programming terms, imagine an extraordinary programmer who's unwilling to use the organization's standard programming language or version control. I'm not sure that the Berkeley math department is really any different in preferring a pretty good in all areas to someone brilliant in some, but flawed in others, and, most importantly, unwilling to change.

At first, I wondered why he was blowing up the whole issue and whether it would actually help. If part of the issue is in the level of preparation for science classes, then the administration is going to be just as unfavorable as the department. Then I noticed that he's started some kind of teaching-related company. So, the department told him to change or be fired and he decided he'd rather do the latter, but as long as he's going out, he might as well try to get some publicity for his company.
Proxies like college professors? Students gain points by telling professors what the professors want to hear and if the students thoughts manifest in submitted papers are dissimilar from the professors they are penalized. So, while writing and thinking more important the thinking students are trying to figure out what the professors want to hear.

Of course, this doesn't apply to any discipline that is a system like math, STEM, physics, ect.. But in humanities, what students are learning is to think like their teachers.
From the point-of-view of the Metropolitan Police, he's wanted for two things: extradition for a criminal prosecution under a EAW (to Sweden), and for arrest under Section 7 of the Bail Act (for failing to surrender himself to the police as required by the conditions of bail).
Musk isn't worryabout being fired and making his mortgage payments (eve though he once came perilously close to being broke on his liquid investments). Most people charged with making IT decisions are worried about this.
Url changed from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-12/dell-said-..., now that the deal is confirmed.

We've also rolled back the time decay on this post as a way not to fragment the threads, since submissions about this are coming in by the dozen.
Who do you think the primary beneficiary of rating systems are, students or teachers?

Any benefit the teachers see from knowing their ratings is purely so that they can improve the experience for their students. If a professor can't speak english well or have social deficiencies preventing from communicating clearly, they aren't excellent teachers.
The shame of finding your younger self online
How much other science isn't funded because we spend far too much money on other stuff? I'm sick of seeing engineers and sciences fight over a penny and demeaning the importance of each other's projects while we spend trillions on wars and other nonsense.

If you want more funding for other science projects fight to increase science budgets overall by taking money from stuff we don't need like yet another aircraft carrier. How many science projects weren't under because of just one of those?

Due to the long term nature of science benefits it's impossible to know the real importance of any one project anyway.
Julian Assange 24hr guard leaves London police with £10m bill
I would love to see how closely/consistently the output from "contact size" increases with "force"
What's the Fuss with Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)?