skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They actually typically report horsepower and torque measurements for cars at the engine and not at the wheels. There's an additional efficiency loss in the drive train not accounted for in marketing numbers.
> "The beauty of the market is that we allow people to be Bayesian"

Yes, this is the critical piece. The results of the Reproducibility Project were not remotely a surprise to Bayesian observers. People like Gelman have been pointing out for ages (and I mean back to the 1960s) that the prior probabilities in these fields is low and necessarily a lot of the results were false positives. With the rise of meta-analyses, it is possible to have informative priors for particular fields of psychology or for psychology as a whole, which would let you make much better predictions about whether a result was real. But you can't use these in papers - authors are heavily biased towards using procedures or flat priors which are uninterpretable or grossly overestimate the evidence, and if you try to use any of the informative priors or more advanced models, they'll nag you to death with a thousand objections and complain about double standards and subjectivity and how this time is different and (ironically) bias. So for the most part, there's not much to gain in academic research.

But in a prediction market, you don't have to listen to the self-serving excuses or explain your reasoning, and there's something to make it worth your while.
Why are student-union officials censoring criticism of Islamic State?
Does anyone mention that these companies usually file multiple H-1B for the same person? That one of the major reason how Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) like companies get so much visas, and which is unfair to others.
*as far as we know, from what little research we have done, even though every time we go down there we discover something new.
Yep. Not at $60K per annum. That's why I talked about how big the opportunity overall was (what % of the market did they capture in those 2 months?) Maybe being just on Stripe it's too small vs supporting other subscription offerings.
my problem is slightly different. I would like to connect with potential users of my food site. I constantly have people following me, but when I try to private message them, they never respond. It makes me think they are bots of some sort.
My theory why this is not happening is the US at-will employment laws. Opening offices in foreign countries has a few downsides. In addition to the extra recurring costs to rent a building, most (if not all) first and second world countries in the do not allow employment-at-will. Instead they require extensive documentation when someone is fired, and are subject to the wrath of employment tribunals.

US companies want to eat their cake and have it too. By importing H-1B workers, they can fire them for any reason whatsoever. So it is more a question of low cost labor, and the flexibility to fire for any reason which is driving H-1B demand.
That would be incredibly unfair for companies in less profitable markets. H1-B is about being able to bring in individual with skills that you have a hard time finding in the US, not necessarily about finding "incredibly profitable software engineers that we can afford to pay $150k".

Let's say an university want to bring in a Vietnamese teacher to teach about South-East Asian's studies. The university simply could not find someone with that kind of knowledge in the US, hence they want to bring in someone from a foreign country to take the role, and that person is very qualified for that role. Should their application just be dismissed because they can't offer wages that compete with big tech companies offering $200k salaries to foreign engineers?

When comparing h1-b applications to fulfill jobs that are of similar position in similar markets, then comparing salaries make sense, but it doesn't make sense to compare wages across different markets and positions, as it gives a HUGE advantage to profession in more profitable markets like big tech/big pharma.
Maybe his definition of an order of magnitude is different than anyone elses? I'd like to hear how many drives and what size he's talking about
Oh and they don't support CentOS 6 at all. That always annoyed me, its totally legit platform and much more useful for engineers than Windows XP is.
Huh. Masturbating monkeys.

Well, I guess he had that one coming, then. Forget everything I said :)
Wow, all the components are crazy overpriced. You can get the same system built for probably 1/3 the price with the same level of quality.

Example is the motherboard for $500+, the fans for $20 each, on off switch for $25, 8gb of DDR3 ram for $90???? etc.

The saving grace is the hard drives that are decently priced and make up the bulk of the cost.
Why bother fixing the software stack for accounts that aren't going to pay for it? Also, remember that Baremetrics imports your entire Stripe account. Every single event, from day one, so it can analyze and chart them. For any decently sized business this is a ton of data, let alone 1000 of them.
I can't comment on how it works for companies as a whole, but it has been shown that individuals are more strongly motivated by the desire to avoid a loss than the desire to gain something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
I have one of the original (SSD even!) Macbook Airs from early 2008 that isn't supported past 10.7.

I know it's a notoriously underpowered machine, but it still would have been nice to get more than 4.5 years of supported OS updates. Still perfectly functional as a portable secondary machine for mail, notes, terminal and light Chrome browsing.

Apparently they didn't want to continue to support 32-bit EFI.
Well the main reason is not so much for me (I prefer all lowercase too), but rather other people linking the sites. A 404 resulting from something as simple as the wrong case is costly. Users don't try to fix the URL, they just leave!

Also, regarding the UIImageColors, if I'm making a library for a language that follows CamelCase, then it's only appropriate I follow that standard.
More so than childish. The behavior of those students sounds sociopathic. They are essentially bullying the photographer, but calling the photographer the aggressor. This is unreal.
It really makes me wonder how often have these attacks been used?
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Would you care to share some code example?
Gist of article:

I made it, therefore listen to me.

I came up with this idea that you should continue maintaining a side project once someone paid you for the benefit of using it.

Remember, I made it in life, and therefore my idea is right.
Very good point, I think it's very telling that they seem to have minimal appreciation for those fields. These techies hate the Wall Street types but are quickly becoming them, like the nerds who became jocks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization

A pure market based approach to immigration will create an overly financialised economy. Who can afford to participate in visa auctions? Financial companies!

If tech companies can afford to participate right now, it's only because they are funded by financial companies. Half of tech companies aren't even profitable...

You definitely want more Mongolian restaurants, not just tech startups dependent on cheap money. Because when the money stops, only one of those will still be in business.
I wish there was a good way to make it clear to the troops that even though you don't support their mission you still support them. Often cancelling a useless mission is the best way to support them.

The "Support the troops" movement is a perfect way for politicians to hide behind the troops to suppress any criticism.
It seems like the lottery should be weighted in favor of more companies getting the visas instead of being totally random, although I suppose that system is also not immune to gaming.
"The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted...Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech."
-- Carl Van Doren (maybe)
Google's robot effort is scattered. They have two good humanoid projects, Schaft, which is a spinoff of Tokyo University, and Boston Dynamics, which is a spinoff of MIT. They're still located near Tokyo and Boston; they haven't been brought together. BD probably has better control and Schaft has better actuators for human-sized robots, and I'd expected a new machine with the best of the two technologies by now. Not happening.

If they try to move those groups to Mountain View, they'll probably lose most of the people, especially on the BD side, where the team is older. Raibert, the Boston Dynamics CEO, is at retirement age. Boston Dynamics will need new leadership soon.

Google could put Anthony Levandowski in charge. He's been with the Google self-driving car effort, and he's an original thinker. He's the one who built a self-driving motorcycle in 2003.

They need an intermediate goal, a minimum viable product, if you will. Outside of industrial robots and vacuum cleaners, no autonomous robotic product makes money. Except for self-driving cars, none look likely to do so in the near future. The most promising near term applications are military, and Google doesn't want to do those.
Url changed from http://www.successfulmeetings.com/News/Hotel-Updates/Hyatt-M..., which just copies this press release.

Submitters: please remember that HN asks for original sources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I deleted my post 'cause I think at this point you don't seem to get what I meant originally.
Frankly, considering all the theoretical advantages to a prediction market in terms of encouraging people to influence the outcome in proportion to their confidence in the result, the fact that they were wrong 29% of the time, only 13% less than a simple blind binary survey of a pool of psychologists, isn't hugely impressive[1]. Scientists' goal, after all is to reach some generally accepted view of why a result turned out a particular way and in what circumstances a different result might be yielded, which is more nuanced information than can be conveyed by a simple market price. Asking a pool of scientists how confident they are about a particular survey's replicability and why - which is what the hypotheses are fundamentally all about - conveys more information than the prediction market. It's more useful to know that experts' doubts over replicability are linked to a specific survey design feature than it is to know the market's prediction of the probability of replicating it is 67.2%
And financialisation of results might be actively unhelpful when it comes to debates over methodogical shortcomings of replication attempts and the pertinence of factors that were different between the studies. That's especially the case for a discipline like psychology where setting up absolutely identical conditions for a retest is a practical impossibility.

[1]and of course it hasn't been reproduced yet ;-)
There is a fundamental fallacy here, that is all too common. You think that busting your butt is something that you only do during your education. It is not. "started from the bottom now we're here" is as common a credo on the corporate ladder as it is in the education system. There are numerous CEOs and founders who were academic duds who slogged hard and used guile and intelligence to get to the top. I am not saying you won't be that way at work, but just at a certain stage we all hold the belief that education is the only indicator of success and hard work.
Not at all.

Supply of developers that both meet the high bar and are willing to accept poorer economic futures (see eg housing costs that have doubled in the last 5 years, expensive childcare, etc) is low. My experienced mid-career engineering peers keep moving to Austin, Seattle, and various cities in the midwest because being able to get a house for $300k, $500k, or $250k, respectively, massively changes their financial outcomes.
I want to know what the advantage, if any, is of using a Quark over say a PIC32 or an Arm?
I think Business Insider misses the point. There will be many robots on the market in the coming times. Diversifying your portfolio does make sense. Also, Google does have focus in the sense that they make consumer products.

If I would work there, I'd create several robots for consumers:

* robots that can carry stuff, and yes, that means also staircases (one of my interns is doing that right now)

* robots that can clean floors properly, vacuuming, scrubbing, but also cleaning themselves! (we're doing this professionally)

* robots that can clean windows, might be quadcopters (we're not that far, we're just spraying paint for now)

Regretfully, robots are difficult to sell, so that's why I'm currently creating a revenue stream around indoor localization (which is what we solve all the time for autonomous robots). However, as Google they have plenty of time (5 years) and resources, so they can built awesome stuff.

Business Insider is just impatient.
Discourse allows for dissemination of ideas. It's not important to change the other person's opinion, but it's good to argue ideas.

Comments sections aren't solely for the benefit of the two people hashing out their views, but also for all those reading them.
very cool, what is your criteria for the photo? I am working on a food site that covers a slightly different domain. I am working on a new look that uses pictures as many of my users asked for it.
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All of TLS is already to some extent trust-on-first-use because of SSL-stripping.

But apart from the difficulty NSA will have actually isolating your first use to intercept it, the point of HPKP is that they have to get everyone's first use, because when a browser sees a broken pin, it doesn't just go "oh, whatever, pop up an error and move on"; it also gets to freak out and report the broken pin.

With widely deployed HPKP, every hit to a site being MITM'd by someone with a compromised CA is an opportunity for that CA to be forever burned, simply because someone who already had the right cert pinned will trigger an alert.
if Native Americans are only now begining to complain about their rights being taken away, because a law was passed stripping the rights of their settler/conquerors, they're probably a few hundred years too late, and badly misdirected.

A more apt comparison would be the natives taking the Great Treaty of 1722 (or its violations) to be the reason why the United States is illegitimate as a country. That might actually be an interesting argument.
Just want to add, that Wikipedia article uses statcounter as the source. If you look at statcounter China is throwing off the data, it is running XP at 30%(!) Vs. USA @ 4.3%, UK @ 3.18%, France @ 4.8%, Australia+NZ @ 2.67-2.85%, Japan @ 3%, et al.

My point is, that 10% figure is misleading. China is higher, everyone else is lower.
This. I find all over the place that the LaTeX-heavy fields assume everyone uses it for everything. This is definitely not the case - if I had to guess, a minority of papers overall are written in LaTeX.

And while easier to automate, I'll take a manuscript laid out by a professional any day of the week.
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After a day of writing Go, I certainly gravitate towards martini and gin!
When I see stuff like this, I can't help but wonder if this is the result of some in-fighting sabotage to delay policy change in much the same way stuxnet slowed Iran's nuclear program. I don't know how else to explain such colossal incompetence.
I don't find it surprising at all that the Economist would advocate a policy that would drive down wages. Why would that be surprising?
I am a stickler for "maximizing utility", to a fault: https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/623869810598768640 Given my position there is little else I can currently do that will have the same impact in absolute terms.

So burnout or not - executing this fundraiser as a last-ditch option is kinda... obligatory.
Which part was too technical?
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What about a new medical study that hasn't had time to gather citations? What is its "quality index"?
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Any system that can be gamed, will be gamed once demand is more than supply.

Maybe 10 years ago, the best and the brightest of Indians/Chinese, who studied at the top US schools would have got their H1B in this 20K advanced-degree quota. Not true today.

Though the average Indian/Chinese is poor, there are tens of millions of parents in India/China today who can afford the $50K "investment" for their non-so-bright child. I see this among my affluent relatives and friends in India.

There is an easy way to check this: plotting the applicants of this 20K advanced-degree quota against the US News/other university rankings of their university.

An easy but not perfect way to fix this would be to give the 20K slots to the applicants from the highest ranking universities.
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Because the cap is a response to the US desire to not allow in an unlimited number of foreigners.
Excellent analysis. There are some other costs involved (bandwidth, switches/cabinets, non-pod servers, etc.), but pods & drives dominate the costs, so your math is good.

You're also right that 1 TB is the approximate breakeven between Backblaze per-GB cloud storage & unlimited online backup by cost and most people are below that. However, the main reason for people to use the backup service is that we take care of all the backup functions (encryption, dedup, compression, restores, etc.)

> Please excuse me while I buy stock in Amazon/Box/Dropbox/Backblaze/etc....

Alas, Backblaze stock isn't yet available for sale ;-)

BTW, thanks for being a customer!

Gleb
I really don't understand the "rich people" sentiment at all. You've already mentioned guitars, but it's true for pretty much any traditional instrument – don't even get me started on the money string players are willing to spend on just their bows alone. That doesn't mean violinists are all independently wealthy, they just have different priorities. If anything, hardware synths are much cheaper now in real dollars than they were during their vintage heyday. For instance, the 1973 Moog catalog lists their VCO module at $320. In today's terms that's nearly $1800 for one lousy oscillator!

Personally I use both hardware and software, and appreciate the strengths of both. It's nice that modern computers let you do so much so cheaply, but I don't want to use SuperCollider or PD to emulate an analog synth any more than I want to replace my upright piano with a digital keyboard.
It certainly is possible, but there's more to making the operation of a synth "tactile" than adding knobs and sliders. If you're changing the parameters of something making a sound using a DSP, it is _REALLY_ hard to get instantaneous response and no digital artifacts in the sound. People who deign to make digital synths that truly act like modulars have a lot of DSP homework to do to get it right.
You can mitigate risk aversion with a starting in a niche market with a lot of money and demand or in a healthy market of seed capital and incubators.

Even in that context the threat of poverty still hangs as you're functioning with finite resources which are self-propagating.

It's usually a positive thing if the team can finance their own early growth - with a) a product that generates revenue or b) enough growth to appease investors without cannibalizing the teams creative freedom. Something which provides a runway and capacity to reinvest in a larger bolder vision which might take 2-4yrs.

The ROI of being self-sustainable is the founders can keep the team small, independent, and driven by their larger vision while still keeping them grounded in reality.

Early stage acquisitions have a similar downside as starting within Google, as they have to pursue their larger vision after the massive distraction of being acquired and integrated into a larger firm, which equally kills the necessary culture as pure poverty would.

Same with VC, purely gambling investors money on a long term vision usually leads to an early acquisition or late-game hail-mary focus on revenue - but unlike a small startup they will have much higher revenue requirements, which sideline any big visions
It is funny they were worried about whether they just got lucky with their result, then did the prediction market thing, and then didn't worry whether they just got lucky with that result! (At least the article didn't, perhaps the researchers did.) So here are some amateur stats, please check my work.

This article says that the prediction market correctly predicted 71% of the replication results of 44 studies, or 31 correct.

Assume the studies have a 50% chance of being replicable. Then a random coin would predict a mean of 22 correct with a std dev of sqrt(0.5 * 0.5 * 44) = 3.3. This sample has a z score of 2.72, which means there's a probability of 0.003264 (0.3%) of the random chance approach being correct 71% or better. So the result seems pretty significant. (Changing the assumed 50% to other values makes the probability even more extreme.)
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Any one hire has less impact at a company employing thousands or tens of thousands of people than at a company whose employees number in the single or double digits.
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If the h1b program were closed, I think companies would miraculously discover how to (1) pay more (moving to sfbay is a ludicrously bad economic decision for most families), (2) train employees, and (3) stop leaking women, minorities, and parents out of their companies. In other words, they'll figure it out just fine if forced to do so.
Great advice even for native speakers!
FUD.

- Do all opensource projects require corporate sponsorship to be viable?

- Do Python, Ruby, even Rust have corporate backers that cannot widthdraw support?

- Does Java, being under the control of Oracle, present a better option?

- Many business are using VB, C# and F#, which Microsoft owns. F# especially could be abandoned, but it continues to find new use.

The Go code I write and compile today will continue to work for a significant period of time. If Google stopped paying the committers, this would not change - the language may not evolve, but this is a minor concern on a project of Go's popularity.

Some businesses still rely on COBOL and Fortran, but those are not exactly evolving either.
The 60 HDDs aren't single points of failure. {Edit: I mean for the server, not for the whole system.}

And a raid1 pair of HDDs for the system disk is more expensive than a small SSD, more fussy, and the SSD is still less likely to totally fail.
The difference between strongly typed and duck typed is not exactly equivalent to the difference between categorical and continuous variables, but it's close enough for now.
Links? We love getting feedback, especially if we're overpaying for a particular component?

Gleb
True, maybe I'm just being too harsh. Thanks a lot man, that's sound advice!
Trump is the only candidate who wants to make it fair for H1Bs and Americans.

Let's make America great again, for all people!
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It's not really necessary to segment by sector; you can simply have one pool of visas. The efficiency implications actually work better that way - a "shortage" of workers in a non-productive economic sector isn't really a shortage.

If you think an industry has non-economic benefits or positive externalities the correct response is to help them capture that directly, not futz with the labor market to give them an implicit subsidy.