skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with percentiles is that you are discarding data points. e.g. Measuring the 98th percentile involves discarding the top 2% of data.

The problem with that is, sometimes the top 2% you are discarding might correlate to your top 2% of customers...and you are literally throwing their data away by using percentiles. Not good.

My recommendation is to pick two aggregation types. Maybe Percentile and Maximum, or Maximum and Mean, or Percentile and Mean. You can't really go wrong with that approach.
If you're honest, it's a great source of money. Our company was doing actual research to the tune of $50M spent in Australia (which was all VC money) so we got back something like $20M in non-dilutive additional financing. That $20M was "free" to us (but we lost out on the ability to write off $50M of losses against our future profits). It encouraged us to spend much more on research which mostly came in the form of salaries for Austrian employees. As long as you're not in the habit of lying to tax authorities, I don't know why every startup wouldn't take advantage.
I think this is the most likely case.
I certainly wouldn't mind if it was called Tailor instead... :)
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Pokemon Go won't be out for Christmas 2015. The release date just seems to be "2016" at this point.
Got any examples of the weirdness in the original code?
I would go with the iPad mini too! Hopefully the Pokemon Go will come soon, meanwhile the Pokemon shuffle will last him/her for awhile!
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Definitely a 3DS, Go might just be another terrible cash grab pay-to-win game. It might also be amazing, but the 3DS is the safer choice.
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Tell you what. I'm prepared to believe that the person who I was reading (not me) was referring in a confused way to Gresham's Law, if you can point me to someone describing it as a "theorem" rather than as "Gresham's Law".
They really gotta start staggering these updates. I don't know anybody who fancies spending half their day getting everything in order.
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Pattern detection. Pattern happens to be grammar.
To me it seems that leaks are partially caused by the tax investigation, not the other way around.
I am desperately awaiting someone to make Pokemon Snap 2 in a way that is compatible with an Oculus Rift or other VR headset.

I would pay an absolutely unreasonable amount of money for that game and I'm not a massive Pokemon fan. Red was good, Snap was great. Let me take a virtual tour through Pokemon land now, please.
This seems like it would make Xperia phones a potentionally great platform for prototyping of IoT devices that would benefit from a cellular radio. The UART port would be used to connect to a microcontroller which would use protocols such as I2C, SPI, and SDIO to connect to peripherals.
If they care so much about the horses, why isn't he banning police horses too?
It comes with a lot of the same problems as getting hired by a company as an employee. Meeting with clients when you can't travel easily is a challenge. Living in a homeless shelter puts you on the schedule of the shelter (there are in and out times that are strictly enforced at most of them, if you aren't in by the curfew, you don't sleep in a bed that night), which conflicts with the erratic schedule of an IT contractor. You need a phone that is reliable, and the ability to take calls and emails at any time, which being homeless does not really allow; my friends who are homeless often live by day in coffee shops and libraries and by night in shelters if they're lucky enough to get a bed.

Also, though I don't like it, the reality is that black folks in IT are also facing subtle discrimination on a daily basis. Getting hired as a contractor often has none of the same protections that large companies have in place for people of color being hired as employees (government contractors are an exception in that the government has guidelines in place to help insure minorities are well-represented, but selling to the government is a whole other set of skills that he may not have, and may not be able to obtain given his circumstances). Among people of color (and women) that I've discussed it with, they tend to prefer applying for jobs and working jobs in major companies because the HR processes are designed to be less discriminatory. Small firms, even when they intend to not discriminate often make "culture fit" decisions that exclude women and minorities. He's also older. Smaller IT firms are infamous for hiring young and overlooking older candidates.

I live in an RV (I did it for four years, traveling full-time, and now I'm back to it after a couple years of stability), and I'm being reminded of all of the ways it makes a "normal life" difficult. And, I'm not dealing with the kind of stuff he is: I have a vehicle and money to travel, I have a phone and reliable Internet, I have a private home where I can have phone/skype conversations with co-workers, etc.

Getting out of homelessness is really tough, is what I'm trying to say, and being homeless makes a lot of things that are obvious solutions to problems for you and I much tougher when you don't have the stability and savings and such to fall back on that you or I have.
I'm a consultant in the R&D Tax space. The press release relates to an advanced finding, which is an advanced approval of R&D activities. It does not however guarantee approval for the amount of expenditure they would be claiming. A tax refund of that size would naturally attract the attention of the Australian Tax Office(ATO). The press release is also dated before they could submit their tax return to obtain a 14/15 refund. A key problem with the press release is that there is now a $100million cap on how much expenditure they can claim in a financial year, so theoretically their maximum benefit would be $45million.

$120million in software R&D is a very large spend in Australia for one year, Google Australia for example claims about $40-$50million in R&D spend each year. Atlassian and some of the larger banks would claim a similar amount. I have not heard much about DeMorgan before, however if it all checks out they would be one of the most significant powers in the Australian tech space.
Likely the department of corrections number somehow coming up so it shows that he spent time in prison. Even if it shows he was exonerated, many people will sadly lose interest right then because they get a vibe the applicant is 'in with the wrong people'. The US is terribly cruel to people that have done prison time, regardless of whether or not they were supposed to be there.
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Bitcoin is still volatile.

Typically tax on volatile income is paid when you "cash out" to a more stable currency.
I am more interested in those Ships, how large are they? Are they standardized? How do they compare to something like largest Aircraft Carriers?
The Verge has a pretty nice write up about how they might've been designing around Mophie's patents. They make a good point, but still doesn't make the design any better.
The speeds on your equipment are probably due to a poor router. I had no issues maxing out 100mbit over wifi on my Mac and iPhone (then I moved...)
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> why do I read your comment left to right one word at a time?

Because in English word order is important (in fact, in most languages)

It would be fun to learn a completely independent word order language (I suspect Latin is like that) but I suspect this is one of the reasons this aspect died in romance languages, it's harder to understand and relying on word order makes it easier
I don't think an iPad will be able to compare as a Pokémon delivery device to a 3DS. It looks like this game is still a ways off, and may only function using smartphone (not tablet) functionality like data connection in our life places and GPS. However a 3DS can play probably a dozen different Pokémon titles and doesn't rely on any data connection when out and about. Since you say that Pokémon is the main use case, seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Yeah, because virtual currency can't possibly have anything to do with tax evasion.
Bill Gates lives in a custom built house filled with sensors and has security staff. Satoshi may well live a relatively normal life.
This really does sound awesome, I think I've played nearly every Pokemon title released for the gameboy, gbc, gba and nds. (after that I grew up a bit).

And I always missed a pokemon like title on my Android phone, if this game is the least bit like pokemon red it really could be awesome. I don't know if I'll be driving around town with the Pokemon Go Plus but I'm certain I'll find myself checking my phone more often while walking around and nearly having my pokemon on the desired level..
However, patterns are language dependent. They don't mention what happened when an English only speaker heard a Chinese phrase.
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You can also just subscribe to commits via RSS.
There are two kinds of background checks. The official kind done by a dedicated team with access and knowledge to retrieve city, state and federal data. And the HR kind, where someone without an investigative background and education spends ten minutes doing web searches and online "stalking" to see if the candidate has any untoward elements in their past.

The first kind costs hundreds dollars per candidate. The second can be done for about twenty bucks worth of time. You can guess which approach most companies use.

It's easier on most candidates, too, because a real background check requires them to fill out paperwork. An ad hoc one they may never know about...unless they fail.
The Elliot 405 also didn't come with a keyboard. There was a panel of switches available for the original model...

I'm sure you could get some sort of keyboard as an accessory for later models, but it certainly didn't come included.
Yeah. We're starting to contemplate a new monitoring/performance/etc. system, and I'm thinking I don't want to do any of the long-term storage aggregration like in rrd. We'll store the full data for each item forever. Not sure if we can afford the storage, but I want to try for a while and see if it works.
Sure they might be not be preferred, but we can totally create an environment in which we have non-intrusive, non-privacy invading advertisements, it's just a matter of figuring it out.

The ad industry had enough time to figure this out and went from bad to terrible - from popups to distribution of trojans (due to a lack of quality control). It's not surprising that people are fed up with advertisements. Any loss of income is the publisher's own fault, because they allowed ads to get completely out of hand.

Bills gotta be paid, but when push comes to shove, users don't pay the bills for a lot of this type of content, so ad's are the only option left.
There is no middle ground.

I am surprised by the lack of imagination on a news site for startups ;). There are all kinds of possibilities that haven't really been explored. Music was considered to be a lost cause 5 or 10 years ago when CD had collapsed and everyone and their dog was using Bittorrent or other peer to peer networks. Now there is a quickly growing ecosystem of streaming music services.
On mobile can't edit: data connection in outside and public places
Android seems to be getting better with each new release from a security & privacy perspective, but still has a long ways to go. As a long time rose-tinted-glasses-wearing FOSS fan and android user, i have to say that iOS is still far ahead of Android in terms of security and privacy. Furthermore Apple seems to keep innovating in that regard.

You could go with custom launcher/mod/rom/ route but that brings its own possible set of problems - performance, battery life, broken functionality (some banking apps wont run on rooted phones), more spyware(from launchers), etc. It is not an acceptable solution for the masses.

Amazon - well they are just another company trying to ransom/loot you. Cyanogen mod is promising if they can overcome challenges (how many apps work without google play services?).

Furthermore Google play services is deeply embedded into android, whose key purpose is to ransom you to the highest bidder. Android is fundamentally compromised by the conflicting business interests of its primary developer (Google).

edit: I wouldn't say that Ubuntu was doomed from the start, but they certainly missed the boat.
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Capitalism is not a binary state. Chinese capitalism is not American capitalism is not Western European capitalism.

Herein is one of the huge problems of libertarianism - there's no space for shades of gray. Everything is an absolute, a binary; either something is or something isn't, but the real world doesn't work that way. Some capitalism is good. Unfettered capitalism is not - the libertarian cry of "well if someone wrongs you, then sue them for damages in court" is all but useless. You may not even know which chemical company was poisoning the air you have been breathing for 10 years that caused your illness, but libertarians wouldn't restrict the company's actions ahead of time; apparently a monetary settlement (that of course an individual will be able to force a large company into settling in courts...) is always an appropriate solution.

Hell, one libertarian I was talking to was suggesting privatising courts, and saying that the courts would be paid on performance. Somehow he thought that would mean the courts would be fair, rather than heavily biased to the private entity providing the paycheck.

So, we'd end up with a system where the only restriction on capitalism would be actions performed well after the fact. We've seen what happens when profit motives are unfettered, and it's not pretty.
Can you share where you see that Gwern is the source?
I agree that much of their content has a "new-agey" feel, but that's not sufficient to discredit the particulars of the claims they are making about dolphin communication. It's conceivable their new-agey motivations for the work could nonetheless have led to a legitimate discovery, even if it is shrouded in quacky words like "cymatics".
You might have noticed a few triblebyte blog posts on the front page lately. They don't do resumes. (Of course, you have to be ok with YC companies, or else they're not much use to you.)
In his case, it sounds like the problem isn't homelessness itself, but:

1. A crappy background check system that reports him as an ex-con/drug dealer when he's been exonerated.

2. Companies using those systems and judging him without giving him a chance to speak up.
First, you can believe in the structures they purport to show without accepting the existence of UG, by appealing to the existence of general mechanisms in the brain for assembling hierarchical structures, which is equally validated by this experiment.

That was kinda my impression as well, but I don't want to say much more as I'm so far from an expert on this and I'll probably just make an idiot out of myself. Still, as you say, it is interesting work in its own right.
I agree with you, but as you mention, it's not building the community.

It's always worth noting that you don't have to be libertarian to believe in strengthening civil liberties. Libertarianism is but one flavour of that section of the political pie.
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I've used trello for mobile dev; trello in general is cool for some things, but I don't think mobile dev is it. JIRA (and to a lesser degree the stock issue tracker in BitBucket) is much superior for this purpose (imho)
Ever since they split from Ericsson they've been hewing a progressively better and better path. They have had a supported unlock mechanism for the bootloader for several years, they've been dropping bits of their drive trees into repos, and for the Z-series phones they're supporting upgrades for a decent-by-the-shitty-standards-of-Android length of time.
They'd order the product and send it back.
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Where does it said there are pretty??
We know there are enough oil or petrol that could last 100s to 1000s of years. And there are known Lithium reserve that could last us 100s years even if we keep the current pace of development.

The problem with both is extraction cost. How can we effectively extract it that provide a profits at this current price. It wasn't until recently US mastered the technique of flasking oil we have more then what we need.
wait, i think that's a good comment. what if that "invisible grammar" they said was the result of the statistical process ? which means that it already emerges in childhood?
> it's not ideal.)

I'd bet good money that at least some of it is patent crapulence and the like.
Now that he's in the NYT he will probably be OK. The question is what to do about other people in similar situations.

I once received an application from someone quite famous. But he was famous because of a criminal case against him which was ongoing. We let this scare us off, because as a small company we didn't want the exposure if we did hire him. I'm not sure it was a very moral decision, but does your startup have time to deal with that?
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Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for quite a while now, but without any success.
3D as in Pokemon X & Y?
Most people would not see any net increase in taxes, but the wealthy would certainly see a massive rise - hence why I suggested it is impossible politically.
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On GH itself or via OP link?
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I think you misunderstood me. I didn't say the bus thing was Google's fault. I just said the city doesn't like them because of it.
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UHK is a great keyboard because of "never leave home row" conception. And I can create a ton of application-specific layouts and take them just with keyboard - so natural!
so I speak such a language, but I still don't read it in parallel. also this parallel pattern-matching idea doesn't explain sentences that when parsed carefully are clearly ungrammatical: I had inserted an error at the end of my first paragraph of the previous comment to illustrate this.
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The article states that he's gotten job offers before that were he couldn't accept, presumably because he failed the second kind of background check. Would the employers generally tell someone the reason for rescinding an offer?
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Using "github" in your domain name limits you to github (many other repository services exist) and makes you a potential target for trademark claims.

Also, I think you are onto something. Git remotes are mostly passive, where you have to pull to see whether there are any updates. There is no subscription model to get notified of changes. You have to actively pull to find out what is new.

You should try to make this as a standalone service, which works with Git remotes, not just a Git hosting party. Then locally, you can pull the repo/commits and check what has updated (diff) and inform subscribers accordingly.
I believe the only clear way for him is to leave the US and land some international job at some place good as Australia or Sing. Yes, the US will loose a good cyber cop. But as you can see here, this is entirely the US systematic problem. Simmons does not deserve to serve lifetime living in the US, struggling for foodstamps.
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Interesting! Congrats and good luck!
Yes, you can. But that's not as granular as watching for changes on one or more specific files. The atom feed provided by GitHub provides the commit message, author, thumbnail, and date only.
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That last part is a book or course Inwould buy
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Much of that article didn't make sense, but there was a nugget of truth in there. Cable is losing subscribers, but that isn't a unique problem to ESPN.

I don't think the sportstainment industry will see a bursting of the bubble, so to speak. I do think instead, people who consume sports and sportstainment will simply pay more to make up for the suckers that were pitching in without ever realizing it.

There are sports fans out there that are cable-cutters, but not as many as you would think. Sooner or later, sooner if they have any sense, ESPN will move to the HBO Now type of model. That will bring many of them back.
This page describes the methodology in a bit more detail: http://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/oceanography.html

According to that page, here is what they claim to have done: they placed an object (flower pot, plus-symbol, human body, etc) in front of a dolphin and recorded the echolocation sounds that reflected back from the object in the water as it was scanned by the dolphin.

Then they reproduced the recording of the reflected echolocation pulse and focused it onto a small dish of water such that a two-dimensional surface wave was generated on its surface, which was then imaged (how fast? how many times? not clear) using the "cymascope". These images were then further "computer enhanced". Disturbingly, each of these images revealed the face of Richard David James[1].

The rationale behind this methodology is that it approximates (according to them; I have no idea if this is true) the way echolocation pulses are received by the dolphin's cochlea. They claim that the incoming sound pulses are translated into surface acoustic waves that propagate across the basilar and tectorial membranes in the dolphins cochlea. (see this image: http://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/images/Dolphin-sees-w...) This is the surface wave pattern they attempted to reproduce on the surface of the water in their "cymascope."

Gonna go see if I can find any peer reviewed articles on this stuff.

[1]: lol no jk
Trump talks sense. He's only saying what's in about 50% of Americans' minds. He has the guts to say it.

A death cult is masquerading as a religion so that it can get all the constitutional benefits accorded to religions. It's time to put an end to this nonsense.
I saw trucks working on all the poles up and down my street. Sure enough, a month or so later their site showed my address eligible for gigabit. Goodbye Comcast!
thank you so much for this.
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Proof for these ludicrous statements please.