skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discrete Optimization https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization -- I really enjoyed this challenging class with a very dynamic teacher, and organized around a set of tough problems that you can tackle using a choice of optimization paradigms (e.g. you can decide to "specialize" in "local search" if you want, and try to solve eveything with it).
> Tax should be paid in the jurisdiction the profit is earned.

> Why should it be that way?

Because the entity earning profit (person or corporation) used resources to their advantage that were paid for by the taxes in that jurisdiction.

i.e. Facebook employees drive to work on public roads, use public police, firemen and military to keep them safe, attended public elementary schools, eat food approved by the public FDA, enjoy breathable air and drinkable water governed by the public EPA, etc. etc. The list is endless.

So they're getting benefit from all those things funded by public taxes, therefore they should contribute to those taxes. If they're not paying taxes, they shouldn't be allowed to benefit from all those things.
It is not the root cause. Money would mean nothing if the idiots sitting on the other end of the ad the money paid for bothered to form their own opinion or research something. Politicians need money because ads cost money. They run vapid attack ads, because vapid attack ads work. Vapid attack ads work, because we are stupid and lazy.

Worked in politics for many years: trust me. Money is not the root cause. We are.
Based on what another commented has said it seems Intel bought the ARM license from DEC, and given that they sold off only the consumer ARM chips - keeping the task specific ones - it makes sense in a way. It was so they wouldn't have any internal competition or divided focus away from their low power x86 chips - the Atom's.
Airbnb was founded by RISD grads.
I see a lot of tech related courses in this discussion; here is something off the wall if you are into "Coffee making"
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/culinary/From-Plant-to-Cu...

Made by the guys from The Blue Bottle, splendid tutorial!
I'm not an accountant so I don't know the details but, for the record, the vast majority of countries in the world only tax corporate income earned within their borders. The US is a rare exception to this standard.
I admit my workplaces as an engineer haven't been very diverse.

Over the years I would say:

White 97%
Black 1%
Hispanic 1%
Asian 1%

Male 97%
Female 3%

University was great because there was a huge mix of people from all over the world. I generally don't think about someone's ethnic background though.

I think everyone should be hired based on their ability and being a good fit for the position. I don't think hiring a person because they are or are not a demographic is necessary.

Perhaps aligning percentages with the population sounds like a good idea but hiring the wrong person for a position just for the sake of meeting a quota is a bad idea. I expect some demographics are probably less likely to be in engineering just because of their school systems or engineering is just not something they are pushed to get in to as they come up through Jr. and High School.

So I think diversity is great, but I don't think it should be something that drives your hiring practices where you're following a quota/percentages.

Just be fair and hire the best person that fits the position regardless of their demographic.
> So why the quad i7, 32GB RAM, and 480GB SSD?

"So… for what I need, a quad-core box with 32GB RAM is pretty ridiculous. But I’m hoping I can not do this again for quite for a years, so."
It's really hard to read 'manier' without thinking 'more manly'.
I am not talking about specializing I am talking about mastering. Thats a very different thing.

You can specialize in playing a sweeping technique on your guitar that does not make you a good musician.

And again. No I simply don't believe you gain breadth by being exposed to many different things. It's the other way around. Learning a lot of different things superficially is not going to teach you the real lessons.

It's not about acquiring a specific set of skills it's about acquiring an ability to learn how to learn.
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Nope, wonder how much it would cost to get it implemented?
This guide has the Reprap "Prusa Steel" printer listed, and says it is $500, with a 9.1 rating. However, I strongly recommend the acrylic version made by many Chinese electronics companies which sell for $220 for the same print quality.

I have been using one of those for the last few weeks and I couldn't be happier with it. It all works much better than I expected for the price, and has been suitable for printing various home items and custom robotics parts.

You can find them on AliExpress (the consumer-oriented version of Alibaba): http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB...

If you want to get into 3d printing but don't want to drop $1k+ on a printer, try one of these.
Per my understanding, it doesn't take the weirdness involved in the reals... there's not even a uniform distribution over the integers.
To add to list of real resource shortages: Convenient access to fresh water, sustainable energy.
> Q: So why didn't it succeed?

> A: Because the Challenger blew up in 1986.

Holy Hell, this is the most interesting bit of the whole article. To think that a company like FedEx in its young prime could have an endeavour* like that completely disrupted by such a _force majeure_... great tidbit in what is otherwise a bit of a stale article.

*Shuttle humor
> if I hand $1 to my brother, and he hands it back to me right away, and we do this 100000 trillion times on a digital money system we designed

Incredibly facetious. Blatantly false.
"National Coffee Association" ftfy
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This is actually a pointless distinction to make, as evidenced by the fact that (1) nobody is actually confused by one's meaning if they use 'less' where they were supposed to use 'fewer', and (2) there is no equivalent for 'more'.

Probably one of the best examples of a rule that should be dropped from the English language, imo.
Time travel: An isochronic map of travel times from London circa 1914
I haven't taken many online courses, but here are my favorites (notice a trend):

Andrew Ng's ML Class - This makes the list because it is incredibly useful. I didn't have much background in the field and this class is a practical survey of ideas. Not a ton of depth, but exposes you to a lot of information gently.

Daphne Koller's PGM Class - This was the most rewarding. I banged my head on a lot of this material, but it was an incredible feeling when things started to click. That I was able to complete this class is a testament to Dr. Koller's excellence as an educator.

Dan Jurafsky's and Christopher Manning's NLP Class - This class was the most fun. I thought the exercises were incredibly well designed. Unlike the first two courses, the exercises were a lot more interesting. For ML and PGM, you mostly know when you have the answer and you are rewarded with 100%. NLP assignments are based on how well your system generalizes, which made me try harder to improve my systems, and helped me enjoy the course.
The founders of Intel went to prestigious graduate schools. Gordon Moore went to Berkeley for undergrad and Caltech for his PhD. Robert Noyce got his PhD from MIT. Andy Grove got his PhD from Berkeley.
Great soundtrack!
Can anyone recommend a bioinformatics course (esp. an intro level one)?
Both trying to charge more than typical employee salary as a solo consultant and scaling a consultancy business have their own difficulties.

Personally I’d find it more difficult to try to scale up my consultancy business rather than just convince the client that I provide results that are worth more than what they’d normally pay their own people to try to provide.
No, it is not a hostile simplification. Unfortunately, I believe I captured it pretty well. Unless you'd like to argue that he's playing a character when he writes as Mencius Moldbug.

Apparently unlike you (and who can blame you?), I took some time to work through the writing.
Ask HN: I want to make an email based machine learning tool for high value items
things like jobs, leads, clients, dates, etc etc.

What should I do? (Yes I know this is ridiculously general. I don't want to limit scope of responses)
(disclaimer: I'm a 23 yr old IT dude) See it's interesting, I would rather use the old UI over what you show here, it could be I'm not really seeing everything, but it looks like all you did was update the graphics and add more white space without adding any real UX improvements, I shudder thinking about trying to explain this "improvement" to whichever dept (finance? marketing? analytics?) this software is meant for. The one thing all my colleagues hate is not being able to see all the data (well really, not being able to see as much data as possible) give 'em cramped boxes over huge whitewashed screens any day of the week.
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It is so infuriating to read articles on this topic over and over again, year after year.
Couldn't agree more. It's the same for business / marketing / sales folks too.

This incentivizes people to be founders, because first employees get a terrible deal (comparatively).

It's odd that we reward people that "simply started the company" to such a great extent. Especially since "starting a company" is not the difficult part.
True. If somebody asks you to choose a random number, you have to ask: From what distribution?
> These guys are buying to move in and settle down.

Hard to say. If it's anything like Vancouver (mentioned once IIRC in the article), many purchases happen for two reasons. First, to get money out of China, and second, to provide a place for Chinese kids to get a "better" education.

According to a study done by a recent Vancouver urban planner, a major chunk of new home purchases by ostensibly Chinese buyers were to students or homemakers (see slides 18-23):

http://www.slideshare.net/ayan604/ownership-patterns-of-sing...

This was for homes with a median value of 1.3M and avg value of 2.3M.

"Parachute kids" like the above buyers are super common in Vancouver. I would assume, though, that if their intention was to stay, the entire family would move.
I drink probably a full pot of coffee or more a day during the workweek. I pretty much have a cup on my desk all day, and refill it when it's empty (every 30 min or so -- also works as an ersatz pomodoro timer).
NLP has been on my watchlist for a semester now. No word on when future sessions will happen. I'm about to give up on that and just watch the old videos. Too bad I won't get the assignments :/
"You don't like the loopholes? Close them."

The problem is the loopholes extend way beyond the tax code into the election system, specifically campaign finance and things like the Citizen's United ruling and into things like the weakening of the media ownership rules which bring us a level deeper into the morass with a largely uninformed (and often just plain scared) electorate. Thus we have mostly shitty bought-off politicians (on both sides) representing "us", but mostly really representing their donors who are big business.

The current system is unfair by design, as much as big corporations complain about it these issues (like taxes too high, but with plenty of loop-holes) serve as a giant moat for them to avoid the establishment of any serious competition because you have to hit a certain scale before you start to worry about things like how to hide tens of billions of dollars offshore.

We are honestly probably way beyond really fixing this stuff at this point, no matter how easy it is to say "Well just fix it" or "just close the loopholes".

America's entire large-corporation/government system needs something like a defrag and full reinstall, but there's basically no way to do that while keeping things running.
I unlist my contact details, and only people who can do a WHOIS contact me. Then I talk to those like a regular person. If the system is designed optimally, it should be inherently supportive and most people won't need help. But it totally depends on your specific business and goals, which you didn't explain.
Monument Valley was a phenomenal game for me. I'm just really sad that with the iOS age some really great games are easily rendered inaccessible by succeeding iOS updates, iDevice obsolescence, or developer account shutdowns. In sharp contrast to traditional gaming, I can easily delve through my stack for particlar cartridges, GameCube disc or comb through eBay for a particular PlayStation One disc. The great old days of 'Published Once. Play Plenty'.
>If you're reading this and this word "privilege" doesn't make sense in context, it's time to do some homework.

I think 99% of people on HN understand exactly what you mean by privilege here, even if they don't agree with its implications. But I would ask you to consider that telling people to "do some homework" reflects a certain privilege that liberals have in certain circles. In particular, the privilege that goes with not having one's views challenged (again, in certain circles), and therefore assuming that it is your job to educate everyone else. I certainly don't go around telling people to "do some homework" if they haven't heard of the welfare theorems of economics, even if it would be very useful for them to know it.
Not technology related but I personally like Aswath Damodaran's valuation courses http://www.graduatetutor.com/corporate-finance-tutoring/aswa...
That inverted Linux hover icon looks terrible.
Abstract Algebra by Benedict Gross from the Harvard Extension School.
I think you are saying the same thing. The commenter to whom you are responding didn't say that money is the root cause, but that the amount of money required to win is the root cause.

And the reason that it costs this amount of money, as you point out, is that attack ads (inter alia) are often successful.
This seems like nonsense. Here is one reason why: let's examine this:

> Before you see A, choose a random number R

This is underspecified. Pick a random number in what range?

Suppose we programming in a language which has arbitrary precision integers and floats, and we are given a requirement, "write a function which chooses a random number". What the heck do we implement?

I think this relies on having the same random number generation method as the adversary who prepares the envelope. But if that's the case, we can just reason about that directly.

If we know that the opponent is, say, using a function that generates a random IEEE 64 bit double, then by looking at the A value, we know the odds that this method will produce a higher or lower value.
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It's a grammatical rule in the same bucket as "i before e except after c" and "possessive apostrophes on words ending with s don't get another s"

"i before e" apparently has more words that violate the rule than follow it, and the possessive apostrophe rule runs opposite to spoken English: "This is James's book". The fewer/less thing is a general rule, not an ironclad one - there's plenty of examples where it sounds natural to use either.

I'd also argue that with a demographic the size of Australia (~22M), the number of children in it are not feasibly countable (like grains of sand), and as such, 'less' is fine. :)
MIT's 8.05x, Mastering Quantum Mechanics (https://www.edx.org/course/mastering-quantum-mechanics-mitx-...)

It's the only MOOC I've taken that was anywhere close to the kind of experience I had as an actual undergraduate at MIT. Outstanding lectures with accompanying lecture notes, challenging but rewarding problem sets, lots of interaction by the professor and other staff in the forums.

It's not a course in the sense of having problem sets and grades, but V. Balakrishnan's lecture series on classical physics (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E4E56893588CBA8) is amazing, just incredibly dense with insight.
Github as a federated database engine. That's super clever.
You mean IRLS or SGD or something like that?
I haven't taken many online courses but my wife & I just took the course "Learning How to Learn" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn) together and I wish this was available before I went to university. They do a great job of presenting the content and provide a lot of references for additional reading for those that have a deeper interest. It should probably be considered the pre-requisite to all other online courses!
We are not gods. What makes you think we can solve all the problems every time? I think we are still in ok territory, for now, and we are overconfident. If one thing goes seriously out of whack, and then another and another we might not be able to reverse it. But with our capitalism and resource use, how are we going to stop the freight train? Only one way ... if more people start using contraception. But many religions say you shouldn't.
Why do politicians need to buy ads? If the districts were small enough that you could get elected without massive advertising then you would remove the need for money to buy ads. Large districts mean advertising is they only way you can make contact with the voters.

The need for money is the root cause.
There are only 8 levels or did they add more?

Checking I see they list 10 levels but the first 2 are really short
I though Jenny Bryan's R class had more modern take on R that was significantly easier to follow. https://stat545-ubc.github.io/

Even with some R experience I didn't feel like I got enough information from the R Prog lectures to complete the assignments.
Marvin Minsky, Society of Mind Class Lecture Playlist on Youtube - https://youtu.be/-pb3z2w9gDg?list=PLqw2b1BiJEx8Ii2RJBk9C0iC3...
There is nothing that I've read that describes what you said.

That said, I have multiple photostreams with almost 1000 photos/videos per photostream, and none have been deleted. So I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, if it is just a sync mechanism. As well, I do know that without an internet connection, the videos don't work, so I'm not sure what "sync" even means in this context.
"having separate devices for separate activities" This is the answer. My tablet has successfully replaced my PC when it comes to reading twitter feeds, techcrunch and other IT related content. On top of that, i find myself using it only in bed, for 30-50 minutes, right before i put myself to sleep. I am now planning on buying another PC just for work, place it in another room and get rid of the distractions for at least 8 hours per day. In the past i was using Dexpot for managing multiple desktops, but i found out that the temptation of switching and browsing through garbage content was still pretty high.(not just web content, but my own content as well) I'm working on it...
I did that and it was super fun
Yup. Last time I checked, the only real, important issue with rare-earth metals was that some of the common methods of extracting them are ecologically devastating.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was income tax. It disincentives productive endeavor. 0% corporate and income taxes would usher in a huge productive renaissance. In the US, It could be entirely funded with a 2% wealth tax on the top 2% (personal wealth above ~$10 million). All those IRS workers would be freed up to engage in productive activity too.
I don't think it's as simple as you thought. Or at least, the problem you identified is not a problem. The actual problem is still pretty simple.

[for those dropping into this thread without having followed the link, we seem to have restricted our discussion to the (x, 2x) problem, which is mentioned in the plover.com article but is not where it starts]

Probability is a means of dealing with uncertainty. When you open the envelope you were handed and see $10, what you've learned is that the other envelope contains either $5 or $20. This is not postulating existence of both of those envelopes - this is your uncertainty about which world you inhabit, one with two envelopes ($5, $10) or one with two envelopes ($10, $20). It's true that you only inhabit one of those worlds, but you don't know which and probability is how you get a handle on your lack of knowledge.

As I understand it, the problem is that a natural - but errant! - next step is to say, "I don't know how likely it is that the envelopes were stuffed with $5 and $10 vs $10 and $20, so I'm going to assume both are equally likely." Around $10, this is probably a good approximation. But if you're saying this before looking at the envelopes, then it amounts to saying "the probabilities are equal for any choice of value" (for all x, P(x)=P(2x)). I'm actually not sure what distribution should be chosen to reflect zero knowledge of a rational number, but it should be a distribution - the likelihood of all possible outcomes should sum to certainty (1). That is incompatible with "for all x, P(x)=P(2x)".
As a medical student, I though the Coursera course on Clinical Problem Solving was quite good: https://www.coursera.org/course/clinprobsolv
sicp is the best programming course hands down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLB63C06FAF...
Paid, but I got a lot of this course for learning Ruby/Rails https://www.gotealeaf.com/
"This is my bet: the age of dynamic languages is over. There will be no new successful ones."

I wonder what Shira counts as "successful"? Popular?

Sigh.
I like the fact that the header says "due to copyright issues"
but they include China in their list.

Which I'd suggest is not banning it on the basis of "copyright issues"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_T...
Thanks for the reply. Glad to see some guys from Appodeal on HN.

But I still don't understand it. (Maybe it's because I am not familiar with RTB.) Is there any SDK for RTB which differs from the SDKs of traditional ad networks?

To integrate SDKs of traditional ad networks, each app needs a unique ad unit ID. If Appodeal uses the same ad uint ID for all apps, maybe the apps will be banned by the ad networks.
> you're asking IE6 to be something that it was impossible to be

I'm not the one claiming Safari is "the new IE 6". The person I replied to (and many others) make that comparison, I'm just re-focussing the argument.

> "Browsing on mobile devices" didn't functionally exist when IE6 was released (2001).

For the masses? No. For corporate types? Maybe you should look into Windows CE and Pocket Internet Explorer.

The argument that Safari is "the new IE6" is because Apple focus on user-facing features as a priority over developer focused features. They prioritise energy efficiency (and thus battery life) over absolute raw performance.

Microsoft never had that approach with IE6 - the issue with IE6 wasn't that the focus of development was in the "wrong" place by developer opinions, it's that there was no development focus - it stagnated and received no updates.
There are huge problems with that idea. California represents 10% of the population. Good luck convincing the other 49 states to give up that much power.

Another huge problem with that idea is that congress is not held accountable for their decisions by the public. In my opinion, this is because they are able to split the blame 100 different ways in the senate and 435 different ways in the house, making no one responsible for any given decision. Your suggestion makes this problem much, much worse and guarantees more bureaucracy.
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