skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crazy thing about special relativity is that from the perspective of the observer in the car, they're sitting still and everyone else is moving. That means that the observer in the car will see the watches of people on the sidewalk ticking slowly, at the same time that the people on the sidewalk will see the car's clock ticking slowly.

Everyone sees everybody else's watch ticking slowly (unless they appear to be at rest). And yet it all hangs together in a beautifully consistent way. The catch is that moving observers don't just disagree on whose watch is running slow, they also tend to disagree on whether distant clocks are correctly synchronized or not. The disagreements about which clock is ticking too slow always perfectly balance out the disagreements about which clock chimed noon earlier.
The way you put it almost makes it sound not dysfunctional, i.e. high-quantity dross subsidizes higher-quality material.

It still seems like there's a need for a different funding model. But it's interesting that one still hasn't emerged, given that the erosion of the old one has gone as far as it has.
Visual Studio Code is a bad name.

- It draws comparisons to Visual Studio- even though Code isn't really an IDE (nor is it supposed to be)

- It's really bad for SEO, searching for "how to do X in Visual Studio Code" pulls hundreds of existing posts on how to do that thing in classic VS. That's going to disrupt developer experience for both VS and Code.

- It's confusing for developers wanting to download Code, or VS; too easy to mistake one for the other.

The SEO problem is a bad one, because it gets worse as each project gets older. I'd even be ok if it were MS Code or something, but VS Code is actually a bad name.
The default styles are lousy because there's no reasonable standard on how pristine HTML5 untouched by CSS should look. So browser developers make assumptions because they figure everybody will just use CSS anyway.

Fortunately, we have stuff like normalize.css (https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/) nowadays.
Related: Foundations of Data Science: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/nosolutions90413.pdf
One of my absolute favourite podcast/radio shows is "Under the Influence" on CBC Radio. Recently they aired a terrific episode on product packaging and discussed Coke's signature bottle and it's origin.

Interestingly, it came up in a conversation I had with my mother recently that one of the most distinct memories she has of growing up is going to the corner store and selecting a soda from the icebox. Each bottle had a unique shape and texture that uniquely distinguished it from all other brands just from touch alone. I really enjoyed hearing the tinges of happiness in my mothers words as she recalled a memory from so long ago.

These two experiences really shaped me. Before I thought marketing was glorified manipulation of buying habits. Now, I see it as shaping the experience of enjoying the product. It can be a very powerful thing, as my mother's recollection from over 60 years ago demonstrates.
Perhaps a severance package?
An announcement on intelligence
I will create a general intelligence using Java on a multicore machine.
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Not the OP, but stuff like this showed up all over the Intenet just after news of the Snowden leak (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-a...):

> The US National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been harvesting data such as audio, video, photographs, emails, and documents from the internal servers of nine major technology companies, according to a leaked 41-slide security presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian.

Google is in that list. Granted, this did not demonstrate full access to all of Google's internal communications, but the category of "audio, video, photographs, emails, and documents" is broad and damaging enough that it doesn't really matter if NSA had full access or not.

And yes, I know that Google and all the other major companies vigorously denied any back doors, but as people were saying at the time on this very forum they didn't have any other realistic or legal choices. The President of the United States himself was saying things like: "You can't have 100% security, and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience", which, if you were a smart enough CEO, was a very good hint about what to do and say in the heat of the moment.
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Question is: could they have fixed these problems without breaking everything else?
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Needing to get up early has nothing to do with being a night owl, most of us need to get up early regardless.
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I had a girlfriend who insisted that "two plus two equals four" was a better expression than "2+2=4", but then she also had trouble with any concepts past algebra (and most of algebra for that matter). The notation is efficient and precise. English, and most other languages, are not. We may be able to express the idea of relativity or Newtonian mechanics or anything else in words, but the base concepts end up requiring us to move into a more expressive and precise language when we want to understand and apply (which today is mathematics expressed with the notations of algebra, trigonometry and calculus).
My question for someone that has an intermediate level of skill in machine learning, what's the best way to dip your toes in? (Udacity, coursera, edx, PDFs, Talking Machines podcast, etc)
Instant purchase. Thank you very much!
Thanks for clarifying :)

p.s. If you are employed in Med Phys allow me to make a quick plug for my open source Med Phys QA database project: http://qatrackplus.com/
Careful about TN though. The T in TN is temporary, so it prevents you from applying for say a Greencard or an H1-B (which are attempts to be not temporary).

Disclaimer: IANAL but I recently looked into a lot of this.
EDIT: after seeing /u/mbrock's comment: fully agreed to that, he picked out very well what I couldn't put in words.

There certainly is a lot of chance with what gets picked up and what not -> often enough you see a link go nowhere, someone posts the same 2 hours later and it goes up the front page.

That said, I agree with /u/fundamental, and I guess many people don't even click on headlines like that, because the chance that there is something high-quality behind them is slim. Looking at the first page of your submission history, there are quite a few that follow this pattern. For others the title doesn't, but the content is similarly very shallow.

The few articles that seemed interesting to me:

"Privacy conscious Two-factor authentication": might get interesting discussion, maybe resubmit as a "Show HN:"

"Hack your way to presidency": headline doesn't really give context, not sure if relevant right now (it was 2014, what came out of it later? THAT might be an interesting analysis)

"When Engineering fails": Again, headline doesn't describe the content properly (and if people expected something else they IMHO are less likely to comment).

Look at the blog posts that get very high on HN and are not announcements of some product etc. and compare.
Look at the chart below. This should explain why H1B employees(Mostly Indians and Chinese) stick with their outsourcers. The legislation would help resolve the backlog.
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bull...
This is the salient point. What good is platform security when the platform is keylogging and shipping telemetry to a third party not in your control?
I read through the article and I wouldn't refer to their approach as 'gaming' the H-1B system. People who are on H1-B tend not to leave their companies for 2 main reasons

1) They've entered into some agreements where they agree to pay the company some big penalty if they leave. This is clearly illegal but still happens. So, the employee knows he/she can do a job transfer but the penalty holds them back. Some of them might be advised to seek a lawyer but they worry about the expense involved. Bottom line is they are scared to move because of this.

2) The person has started the Green Card Process and does not wish to 'go back to the end of the line' which happens if they switch jobs unless they have gotten to the final stage of the Green Card Process and have waited for 180 days with no decision taken on their application.
By improving the mobility of h1b holders and depleting the return on investment for the staffing agencies.
Its a myth that H1b visa employees are not paid in par with local employees and are hired solely to save/cut costs, you cannot make that allegation without data that shows the wage gap between H1 vs non H1 workers, keeping all other factors same. Yes some outsourcing companies do pay less, but that's not the industry norm, most companies that hire H1b visa holders as direct employees (as opposed to contracting them from outsourced firms) pay them on par with existing employees if not better.I am a H1b employee from past 7 years and I have always been paid the same as rest of the employees doing that kind of work and was hired for being best amongst those who interviewed for the position and not because I was any cheaper than the next guy who interviewed.
PS: edited to correct a typo.
An announcement regarding general intelligence
I will create general intelligence using Java and a multicore machine.
That is one similarity between Jews and Isis Muslims, they both claim a country based on their religious texts.

I don't know what you try to frame as 'Zionist terrorism'. I am not a fan of many Israeli actions, but as far as I know there were no structural attempts of structurally terrorizing and brutalizing Palastinians by Israel that are in any way similar to what we see Isis doing today.
Really interesting concept!
My observations are similar, the kids have to want to do the work and it's hard enough that parental support is essential. It's too hard otherwise. The University of Washington has a program that brings in 12ish early entrants each year. The program's process seems to be repeatable and although the staff have a strong liberal arts bent they produce students in all fields including at least two YC founders.
My wife and I just had a great laugh over this. The descriptions of night owls and early birds fit us perfectly. I gotta say that I love being a night owl :) And she loves being an early bird. But she's picked up some bad habits ;)
You should read all your company's Slack messages
I started early but was dual-enrolled during high school. It was kind of the best of both worlds and limited some of the trouble/boredom I had.

Anyway, supportive (or desperate) parents are a key aspect.
It also assume they won't terminate the H-1B when the employee is leaving.
For me, a lot of things simply make more sense. For example, in Sublime, the system configuration files can be modified, but you shouldn't do that. Instead, you have to write on your user settings. On VSCode, you can't modify the system files, and there is a handy reminder and shortcut at the top of the site that configuration files should go in the user settings.

Also, I like the way it handles open files (they are held on a workspace area where you can discard changes) and it also come with git integration.

You can rely on plug-ins to do this kind of work on sublime, but you have to put a lot more effort in configuring it, whereas VSCode comes with better packages right off the box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

I believe this was posted recently, or linked like I'm doing now in a comment. Scientists in the 1800s tried to explain that 10% with a hypothetical 10th planet within Mercury's orbit.
I tried to design a similar system that moved the yearly bonus for the first year into a non-contingent bonus at the 6 month period. So regardless of whether you left, we fired you, or you stayed, you got your bonus at the 6 month timeframe.

My employers at the time were not ok with that...
The problem is that machine learning is applied probability and statistics.

If you're interested, here's a gentle book that should give you enough background:

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Introduction-Probability-Statis...
Andrew Ng's Coursera ML course is supposed to be pretty accessible. I've also heard good things about Machine Learning for Hackers (http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Hackers-Drew-Conway/d...).

Ultimately, ML is a mathematical discipline. You can ask for a gentle approach that gets you to the foot of the mountain, but "if you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in." If you want to be more than an amateur, there's not much substitute for getting comfortable with math at the level of, say, Kevin Murphy's book.

The good news is that the required math is fairly elementary - calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics, all freshmen or maybe sophomore-level topics - so it shouldn't be beyond reach of a motivated developer able to set aside some time to learn. MOOCs and organizing study groups with friends/co-workers can help a lot here as well.
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To be fair, they coerce SQL to do things that other languages are better suited for (like doing graphics!). But yes, I know what you mean!
I transferred H1-B multiple times and here is my take on this:
This can solve some problems but not all. Some things to think about:

- For example, if you go work for outsourcing company that pays only when there is work to be done (this is illegal by the way) then as soon as you try to transfer visa, you will be kicked out of US and company will be in trouble. The reason for this is that when you transfer visa they require you to provide pay stubs for at least trailing 3 months. If these pay stubs don't add up to what you were suppose to get paid, you and the company will be in trouble.

- Early stage StartUps will generally pass costs and co-ordination of getting green card on you.

- More problems will come when you try to apply for green card. Transparency in salary is not something startups like so management will be reluctant to advertise your salary publicly which is mandatory during the process (postings around the office, outside the building, newspapers, company website, etc).
Python 2 is used internally at Google, and TensorFlow is, I believe, an open sourcing and nicer packaging of something that has already existed internally for awhile.
The conclusion is pretty bold:

"The ambition is for Eff [the extensible freer monad, the monad of extensible effects] to be the only monad in Haskell. Rather than defining new monads programmers will be defining new effects, that is, effect interpreters."
You should not throw number like this out there. It's misleading and It's not how it works :)
If your day ends in the middle of the night, and your job doesn't cater to that, you have insomnia for sociological rather than physiological reasons, but it is insomnia just the same.
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You should listen to the podcast for details but the gist of it is that "The Objective-C model of object-oriented programming is based on message passing to object instances. In Objective-C one does not call a method; one sends a message." So let's say you have an app that uses a runtime. The runtime in turn may use private/internal calls that your app is not supposed to use. Well there is no reliable way to prevent it because as long as you can construct a message and know the string/name of the target you can call it and there is no easy way for static analysis to detect such behavior.

Some apps were exploiting this to get a list of running apps and things like that.
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From your blog:

> I have received some criticism lately about the way I title my blog posts. And I got accused of clickbaiting the readers in order to get more views. But you have to understand now that with social media , writers have to get interested in a story in just 60 characters and a picture while you’re scrolling. In fact you have to get you interested enough to stop scrolling, click the link and read a portion of the content.

That stuff might work for BuzzFeed and ClickHole but HN is shock full of weary intelligent people who come to the site to get away from all that nonsense.

They probably feel condescended to by the type of headline and post created with the idea that "the quality of the post doesn’t really matter, what resides is the message of the title" and they will run at the faintest whiff of such a cynical approach.

> We were not all born as evil clickbaiters it is just that you readers won’t click on anything else, and if my articles stop getting hits (even though I don’t use any Ads network) I will stop writing for lack of interest.

HN people can tell. If you instead write about stuff you really care about, they will tell that you are genuinely trying to participate in the community, and then even if they don't think your stuff is most amazing stuff ever you will probably get more community response and comments.
I think all of these are really great, and really crafty. I went to use one of these one time and it was even harder to explain than Lorem Ipsum.

"That is not what I want my website to say"

"Why is my website in Latin"

"My website / app / program is not about movie quotes."

The closest one that I'd actually use is probably "corporate ipsum" or something like that.
Paying below-market salaries is illegal. The visa has a minimum wage that is defined by your position (developer, designer, etc.). Edit: Of course, one could argue that the wage tables used by the government aren't "market".
Great read indeed. Walking outside felt different today.
Show HN: Hoppy Tap – craft beer nanoservice in beta (BK area only)
Hi, we've built a text message based service that sends you a text with a recommendation for the freshest, tastiest beer in the city according to your likes. Oh did we mention it's prepaid, so all you do when you get to the bar is send us a text and we alert the server?! And since it's text, you can do it all through your siris and your smartwatches...

The site is hoppytap.co and if you're in Brooklyn , email beta@hoppytap.co and we'll send you the invite code for a free beer :]
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Ahhh back when the acronym WIMP used to mean something :)
Apple continued some of this UI tradition for quite a while, with Aqua and stuff like QuickTime Player, then their skeuomorphic phase on both iOS and OS X. And of course, using painstakingly rendered, depthful interface elements in general is part of the same spirit.

I will now list some Kai/MetaTools/MetaCreations products that were also awesome in part because of their crazy UIs.

Kai's Power Soap
Bryce
Poser
Carrara
Camino
It's about mapping inputs into a mental picture of what reality is. I am quite good at looking at various diagnostics and reporting available to me and figuring out what is going on. I can look at my New Relic server graphs over time, ps, df, du, free, and others to arrive at a conclusion for what is happening. Someone untrained would not come to the same conclusion as me.

Now, if my network were a castle and bad packets or DDoS attacks looked like Catapults and flaming arrows. It would be very obvious to someone viewing that scene that we are at war and possibly losing. If my walls were huge and the arrows few you would not worry. If my walls were low and small and the arrows many you would realize we are losing. This is an image that can be looked at and understood almost universally, without the need for years of training on what the debug logs in a firewall look like.
For reference, an open source library using a similar approach (crytpo + asm.js):
https://github.com/vibornoff/asmcrypto.js/

Looks like the asmcrypto's speed boosts are pretty high relative to SJCL and CryptoJS. Granted, this article's approach is transpiles C->JS, not sure what the implications are there in terms of performance.
Even to this day, when I'm standing over someone's shoulder "helping" them photoshop, I often say "use the Kai thingy" when I mean liquify.
Popular libraries aren't the problem. The big problem is unpopular and obscure libraries.
> Lebesgue’s 1901 paper that changed the integral . . . forever

I though that Lebesgue "just" proved that the method scientists had been using for a while already was mathematically sound? Has it really changed the calculus landscape?
Air Force creates 'light saber' to help breaching buildings
We do know what goes on in them. They are just trying (more-less, but it is only a matter of speed) random solutions till good enough, where the human operator decides what is "good". Which is fundamental, because when you have a function f you know nothing about, the _only_ thing you can do optimise it is to sample randomly, keep current best solution and hope it is good enough. Anything smarter would require some knowledge or assumptions, so is impossible to apply.

In the even more meta direction, the question is though whether human intelligence is some mystical emergent magic, or just try-till-good-enough massive optimisation of physiological needs plus some bonus for social behaviour sponsored by evolution plus some random noise, hidden behind a self-illusion of being a real thing, similar to consciousness. This idea is obviously somewhat disturbing; it shows that success is only a matter of luck, resourcefulness depends on environment, motives are never really noble, apes are only less successful than us because they can't (yet?) efficiently store and share information and art is a matter of an accidental conflux of random biases. On the other hand it suggests that singularity is nonsense, even more, that AGIs will become self-crippled with similar flaws that we observe within ourselves.
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Any link for additional reading on that fun fact?
And so it goes.

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DarkNetMarket. I apologize for the late reply. I read HN frequently, rarely log in, and have yet to figure out how I can tell if someone has sub-commented me.
I actually love that theory because it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. However, it is.... Highly hard to defend, to say the least.
Not sure if they are paying below market salaries. H-1B households are restricted to a single income. They could be paying below average market salaries, but 66k won't fly in the bay area. I haven't seen to many software engineers living under the bridges.

Disclaimer: the single income restriction is why I fought to get a L-1 visa instead.
That's great to hear, you'll be getting a few Canadian applications in the future.
> the "seventh day" part of "seventh day adventism" derives from a belief in Biblical inerrancy, specifically the literal truth of the story of Creation in Genesis 1

"literalism" and "inerrantism" are two different things (well, more than that, since there are two different doctrines called "inerrancy", one Protestant and one Catholic, and they have substantially different substance), and what you refer to here appears to be more "literalism" than "inerrancy", since "inerrancy" (in the Protestant form; the Catholic form addresses moral truths but not factual accuracy) only holds that what the Bible says is accurate when read properly, but is compatible with metaphorical readings, while literalism layers on the additional requirement that the truth is in a strictly literal reading.