skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i simply posit that there exists a severity of depression at which waking up, getting dressed, and getting in the shower are out of question. do you disagree?

Yes, I disagree that you only posited a severe case of depression. "especially considering a classic symptom of depression is the inability to accomplish these tasks" appears to be to be a very clear assertion that the author didn't have depression because they were capable of functioning at all.

If that isn't what you meant, then you left much to be desired in your writing.
Black-Scholes heavily influenced their model. Read the book. Talk with people who were involved. You'll see how firmly they believed in their incorrect formulas and algorithms. Even up to the morning that they were insolvent, they were trying to raise money and double down on their bets. They absolutely failed at running a business. They had a bad idea and let it run wild rather than calling it quits early on. You can blame it on the Russian or Asian debt crises all you want, but they were going to get hit hard sooner or later. When the fecal matter hits the fan, the correlation of everything goes to 1. If you can't grasp that, you haven't learned the LTCM lesson and no equation or formula will save you.

That said, this post is about people in the Valley making big bets. Not finance people thinking that they can build a better mouse trap for 12 basis points.
We also pronounce tune as "choon", which results in a lot of weird looks if you're an Australian in the US.
Great, now if you go to a Tier 3 city in China will that work also? Has your SMS cab service built a worldwide network with deep liquidity? Does your cab service account for supply and demand in realtime? Does you cab service experiment in other forms of logistics from helicopters, food delivery, bike couriers? Does that service employ the entire former Carnegie Mellon Robotics department for R&D into self driving cars? If you said yes to all of these, please let me know, I would love to invest!
Telling people how to break the law is not illegal.

Deal.
Unlike in USA, Capex and Opex is low in China;
Chinese woman, 24, returns home after living in internet cafes for a decade
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Agreed. IMHO, the author was hand wavy and unconvincing.
He could just as well maintain a diet of various herbal roots. Worse, the idea derives from his flaw of procrastinating while doing nothing to solve it.
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On his point of DNA not having enough information:

> But recent research in neurobiology suggests that human DNA just doesn’t have anything like the coding power needed to do this

How could the author arrive at this conclusion without knowing what the universal grammar which needs encoding is? And beyond that, what if such a universal grammar is simply an artifact of existing structures accounted for in DNA?
Why is it so important to refresh and what does it really do and its important functions?
I think bug disclosure should be based on how dangerous it is, not how fast/slow the company is in fixing it. The attackers won't work on the company's own schedule after all.
I have no problem with lawns that are used, but what percentage of front lawns do you think get any use? I'm full in support of rear lawns or front lawns that are used, but as a status symbol I think they are wasteful of land, resources and time. Parks are an excellent place for a grass, and I'm not complaining about those either.
My favorites are the ones who simply copy/paste their assignment text. Are these people really so clueless?

When it's obvious that someone is fishing for homework help, I'll try to post a hint as a comment rather than handing out an answer on a silver platter. The goal is to provide a path to understanding. Unfortunately there is always someone as clueless as the OP who will provide said silver platter.

As much as I've been helped by StackOverflow, I hope I never have to work with one of those frauds who grew up asking instead of thinking.
See also:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?3958-Scriptin...
> This seems like the premise behind AirBnB, Uber, Square, and every other unicorn.

If you can't see the value created by each of these companies, I kinda have to wonder how much you ever get out of your house. Even just the amount of consumer surplus generated by Uber -- not driving home drunk, and not having to wait for a completely unreliable cab company -- is massive. Classifying what they're doing as nickels and bulldozers is so short-sighted it's a little hard to understand as anything other than simple sour grapes.
yeah, it doesn't sound like much of an "anti-mba story", more like a "pro-mba story". facetime with the prof and the nerds did all the work without complaining!
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Right. After all, even some people in North Korea can avoid some censorship by getting shipped USB drives with movies and whatnot. But you can't say that North Korea is censorship-free. If the government can keep 95% in the dark and easily brainwashed, that's good enough for it.
Bold of you to say that, given that memories like this are not unusual. Children are much better at recalling early childhood memories than will be when older: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/04/08/29918944...

Memory is also reinforced by recollection and rehearsal. Since this was a pivotal thing in both his and his mom's life, it presumably has been talked about more than just this once.
By "it created" you mean it's a first globally recognizable brand (part of the recognition obviously comes from their blatant violation of local laws). We had lots of similar companies in Europe; as far as I can tell, they even had apps first. They just weren't sexy.

I'm not trying to diminish the effect (for better or worse) Uber is having on transportation market. It's big and it's because of them. But it's not because they were innovative in some way.
Marc Andreessen: “A very large number of people came out of investment banking, came to Silicon Valley in 1999, cause they thought they were gonna make a lot of money, and in 2001 they all turned around went back to New York and created the credit crisis.” http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2373
A decent future for humanity is not compatible with a profit-driven world. The solution is to end the profit driven world in a way that will lead to a better future, because like it or not, the profit driven world IS ending.
question: what do we do about this? Is this just how it's going to be? I wonder how much total programmer time was wasted re-learning how to do the same thing in a slightly differently flavored framework / language / pattern. Supposed we would have ended up with more overall productivity and stability in software had it not been for the endless iteration on the same old stuff.
The Naval Academy absolutely does train thousands of naval officers in this kind of math and programming. For the most part, they will apply those skills to more difficult problems, but if those tables had to be recreated, you would have no difficulty finding an Academy officer who could do it.

The Academy doesn't train the "sailors", though, just an elite corps of officers, and you don't need to have everyone on board making his own book, just have a few specially trained people (on land, presumably) who could if they needed to. They Academy makes sure many such people exist.
> Because I'm a stubborn ass who'd rather suffer a freeloader than hand in an incomplete assignment.

And sadly, off the backs of those like you MBAs flourish.
Two of sentences you wrote deal with investment to the future that is not yet implemented - so they cannot change "fundamentally how we view transportation" yet.

Supply and demand in realtime is not an issue, since my town is oversupplied on cabs so a crunch rarely arises. The worldwide network with deep liquidity is useless when we are talking about local service. Those third tier city china drivers will have hard time giving a hand in London if a crunch arises.

Uber is just a gypsy cab with a polished app. Everything else is just in the works.
Was LTCM really an example of "great idea, poorly run"? I don't think you can point to any particular management problem, but the core idea. The failure was basically:

"Hey, US government bonds have this bizarre, persistent price premium over equally reliable governments. So we can short the former to buy the latter."

... and then it turned out there was a very good reason for that premium: when people panic, they'll buy up US bonds, not Italian ones, which will destroy any short position, and be catastrophic if overleveraged.

I'm not sure what better management could have done about that, besides, "hey, don't bet the house on this".
Uber is making a massive long-term bet: driverless cars.

Hydrogen fuel cells, if practical, would be worth massive investment, but folks who would use them seem to have decided that lithium ion batteries would make more sense and are making a $5 billion investment in that.

There are a lot more smaller companies pursuing small ambitions, but that makes sense: a small company doesn't have the resources to tackle a capital-intensive problem without first demonstrating that it is a somewhat-reasonable bet.
I don't think I mentioned anything about the legality of what he's done.

I guess I was struck by how he's trying to appear to be a good guy by supposedly honey potting the script kiddies and what not. But to me his reasoning falls pretty short because of the damage potentially done to innocent bystanders.

Deal.
This is interesting. Given the drastic and irreversible nature of surgical gender reassignment, if gender identity is not fixed then we need to be aware of this. Does anyone have any idea what proportion of people who feel they are the wrong gender change their mind over time?
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What's the difference between a self-driving car and an Uber driver who picks you up on her way to work?

Self-driving cars are just the icing on the cake. Matching travel intent to rides is most of the value, especially when you combine multiple riders into the same vehicle.
The first time I saw this was in the movie Revenge of the Nerds. There's a dinner scene where everyone has one hand full, so they snap instead of clap. This is probably not "prior art" per se, since the snap was due to necessity, not some cool new concept.
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>Now, that said, kids should be free to wear whatever the hell they want

I am none too keen seeing young girls wearing heavy make up. Children should be able to be children and not little adults.
"bad" is just a metaphor in this context
This is what I meant. I eat vegetables but I'm hardly convinced that I'd find and enjoy adequate nutrition if I cut out meat.
Uber is generating consumer surplus by working illegally and disrupting the social trust that is the fabric of society. But whatever. I don't know much about Square, from what I've seem they do seem to be making big improvements in the space. But Uber doesn't do anything new - it's hardly even an iteration. They're just sexy, and created a worldwide brand. In Europe we had tons of local Ubers for years, and even dedicated services for markets like "not driving home drunk" popping up around periods when a lot of people drink (think Ne Year's Eve). The biggest value Uber is bringing is being centralized. A single brand. That has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with business side.
You can always build up your portfolio. It seems like it's his first time doing MVP's.

He may only have one employer before, and it could have ended not so well.

OP: Clarify your situation for us.
I can't find the reference, but I recall there being a similar phenomenon with real estate agents. During booms a ton of people flock into the field, increasing the problem and hastening the crash.
I saw these guys perform at the TNooz Hackathon on November 14th, 2015. This is an impressive hack. However, it is not true that they "tied for first at the TNooz Hackathon". My team won for teams whose size was over 2 people, and someone else won for teams whose size was of 2 people or less. But there was also the audience vote, and it is true that the audience vote was a split vote between hackahotel.com and us.
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You know, one way out of building an internet none of us actually wants just because the people with the money tell us to is to organize as a union.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of leverage software engineers already have, as evidenced by the wages and benefits that are standard in this industry, that we nevertheless refuse to use to try to exert some control over what we are building.
EverythingMe was a great product. Having been a long time Android user and a AOSP developer, the platform holds a tremendous promise, in my eyes.

EverythingMe tried solving the right problem. Launcher has so much potential to be smarter, yet it wasn't (then). Also, the amount of data one can get hands on must be monteziable somehow...think how valuable it is to be at the homepage of a browser... A launcher is similar, only that it absolutely dwarfs browser hompages in usage time.

I'm sure EverythingMe tried everything, but like Aviator (acquired by Yahoo!), they found out that there's no competing with Google products.

If Google has a competing app on Android, what choices have you got of beating them? They control all the keys parts on the platform (rightly or wrongly), they rule the web, they have got endless source of resources... It's a tough world out there being an Android developer. Even Facebook, with all its might, couldn't make much of its Launcher, 'Home.'

Google Now is great and all. And with custom APIs for contextual cards, in-app searching and so on, Google is making it more difficult for the competition. It's web-search type dominance all over again, but on a much much bigger scale.
Here's a useful list of the bigger journals and their stance on pre-publications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by_p...
If you want an A+ career in technology, move to the Bay Area
That doesn't seem to take advantage of modern IT like Uber does:

1) Keeping a record of driver and passenger ratings (disincentivizing bad behavior on both sides)

2) Streamlined complaint resolution process

3) Remote monitoring of the ride to see if they took an unnecessarily long route

4) Payment being handled behind the scenes so you can just get in and out without stopping to pay (plus not having to do the tipping dance for Americans)

5) Getting updates as the car gets closer

6) (once at scale) Pairing people together on similar journeys to save money (UberPool/Lyft lines).

7) (not sure if the system you refer to had this) The destination already being loaded on the nav when you step in.

8) Edit: plus, apparently they collect a ton of data about rides to estimate where requests are most likely to be and encourage drivers to be there
Not waiting, the hallmark of unicorns for an impatient user base. Uber saved your life because otherwise you would have grown impatient, driven drunk, and killed a bunch of people? That's one hell of a pitch slide.
How does IPFS deal with censorship/takedowns, if every piece of content has a unique ID? Physically distributed systems can choose (or be induced) to implement central policy.
> you need to solve yourself, emerge victorious over
> your inner demon

I can't begin to describe how offensively stupid this idea is. To get over the dark days, you need to fix the chemical imbalance in your head. The solution is not "to solve yourself". The solution is to take appropriate medication.

Or, ya know, your mileage may vary.
Painfully hard for me, I end up mapping the whole things to have a full view of it. Maybe with time efficiency comes.
Can you please provide source for what you say pg said?
> It's big and it's because of them. But it's not because they were innovative in some way.

I think these sentences directly contradict one another. The reason probably has to do with the idea of what it means to be innovative. There is more to innovation than technology. Marketing can be innovative, and so can fine art, political campaigns, movie stuntwork, and business methods.
A friend of mine, a solid mechanical engineer, ended up going back for an MBA. He said that in 2 years, he learned exactly one surprising thing, one idea that he couldn't have guessed after a little thought. [1] He said that the valuable part was the relationships built up with other people who, over the course of his career, would be placed in a variety of high-flying companies.

It was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
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Seems a pretty straightforward way to organize things, but can we please stop with the unreadable hipster designs. White text on a light green/blue background is almost impossible for my 40 year old eyes to read. Good design is about helping your users achieve their goals with the least friction possible.
I was actually referring to hydrogen power on a neighborhood scale, not car. These were just abstract examples, but I guess the HN crowd sometimes gets caught up in the details. It's a byproduct of a flawed communication mechanism.
Great question! I should've clarified, I've been working for startups here in San Francisco since college. Now I'm switching to building web apps for clients, so I need to build up a portfolio of my own projects.
I find it interesting that the author never even mentions people that torrent movies.

He complains that Netflix and Hulu don't have such a large collection as some video stores, especially rare movies. But I have never not been able to find a very rare movie via a torrent.

And it is rather unusual that this large contributing factor to the downfall of his industry is never mentioned.
We'll have this implemented in spaCy before too long. It's actually super easy to do --- all you need is to merge the part of speech tags or entity labels onto the tokens before feeding the text to Gensim or another word2vec implementation.

I've wanted to do this for a while, so it's nice to see that it works well.
There's a glaring error, which makes me doubt the credibility of the rest of the article. Mary Meeker joined KPCB as a partner, not an analyst (huge difference). And this was 5 years ago, so it's old news.
been looking. It is in a video, so it has been difficult all searches of Harvard MBA study pull up Michael O'Church rants. Will update when found.
I think the key thing is to identify the "freeloaders" early.

I was once in a group for a university project when we had to implement this piece of software for a real world client. There was software that needed to be built, and documentation that needed to be written, as well as content that needed to be provided, e.g. weekly meeting diaries one is required to do in such university projects. Everyone else in the group had difficulty writing working, useful code, and progress was slow, even when I thought it was an easy project. A few days before the first milestone deadline, I sat down and finished the thing in an afternoon. And so, for the rest of the semester in that class all we had to do was the paperwork, and naturally that wasn't my job because I saved everyone so much time.

Sometimes BS needs to be written...that's when it's useful to have people who's best to do that kind of thing in your group.
First off, this was really interesting and fun to play with. What's the tech setup for this? What are you running the model in on the backend?

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Just a note on the site, if you block analytics the whole page fails to load, not sure if that's intentional or not.

dist/angulartics-google-analytics.min.js

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http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js

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In your paper, you have a graph which relies on colour to tell the difference between the lines, here's what it looks like to someone with protanopia: http://i.imgur.com/HclRJYN.png

In general, it's worth trying to make your paper understandable if it's in black and white. That doesn't mean you can't use colour to help, but relying on colour means you're excluding quite a large group of people (~5% of men) from understanding your work.
Good article. However I don't understand why so many smart people fear decision-making machines. In my experience the decision makers in bureaucracies, government and private alike, never ever show the "humanity" ascribed to them in arguments about this issue. Instead they follow their instruction (which is actually a program written in human language) to the letter and are usually so obtuse and unempathetic it seems even the present day primitive AI would be much smarter and more flexible. The reason of course is not that people are dumb or mean, but that they are driven by incentives and incentives in these positions are never right. Machines on the other hand are not afraid to lose their job and are (potentially) capable of much deeper and broader analysis of any situation than humans while simultaneously being less prone to error.
I think BitTorrent was only using Flash because it offered portability across browsers and OSes. I wouldn't be too surprised to see them switch to using html5 instead.
Agreed. Despite the debacle with the paid skyrim mods (which I still think would be a good thing...), Bethesda definitely understands how important the modding community are to their games.
Just found that rant too!

I remember him saying Business Schools are good at making MBAs that help you run a business well. They should do that and leave cultivating entrepreneurship to folks like YC. But I see that argument in line with this article's data. These MBAs are trained to get things like M&A right, so getting them onboard might be the right thing to do and does not necessarily indicate another crash.
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There is an excellent book about "the Longitude problem" that details John Harrison and the invention of high precision chronometers: http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-P... Great short book for any engineer.
A single 1g almond takes 1.1 gallons of water to produce. That 1kg packet of almonds is going to go up in price by $1.
At least these are neural networks that we can hold accountable for their actions. Networks that exist in a single physical space easily detained when need be.

Not to mention that they can usually explain their reasoning and behind a decision.

Machine learning algorithms can't do that.
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> The reason probably has to do with the idea of what it means to be innovative.

It could be.

Innovative is supposed to mean "featuring new methods/ideas, original". My comment about Uber uses that understanding. But the term has been completely devaluated by marketing now. Seeing what kind of projects get grants under EU's Innovative Economy Programme, "innovation" now means simply doing stuff with the Internet or mobile phones, since they're ~20 years old. You want to build an app? That's innovative. You want to build a website? That's innovative. It doesn't matter that your product is just a clone and does things the same way everyone else have been doing for the past 20 years. It's on-line, therefore innovative.
To combine your points, the view that circumcision "does no harm" could be viewed as a widespread mental modification that helps perpetuate the physical one. Moreover, having the physical modification yourself, or having had it done to a dependent child, naturally predisposes to help in spreading the mental modification.
"stability, peace, and prosperity"

Exactly (the English translations of) the words the Chinese government uses to describe their own goals.