skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh. My. God. You're right! Social media is our version of the Two Minutes Hate. I've been complaining about this for years! Can't believe I never made that connection.
We have no way to independently verify the authenticity of the leaks, the key "evidence" is a dead-end, so are the edits to the posts, as the authors admit in the Wired article.
Poor people have trouble paying lawyers. Involuntarily homeless people tend to have more pressing issues than starting an extended legal action. Suing the state over a matter of principal is de facto if not de jure often amounts to little more than a luxury.
All we ever wanted was a Pokemon (like the gameboy games) but in 3D and for a home console.

We hoped they'd do it for the Nintendo 64 (Pokemon Snap was FANTASTIC, Pokemon Stadium fun, but no full-fledged Pokemon adventure game).

Then we hoped they'd do it for the Gamecube.

Then we hoped they'd do it for the Wii.

Then I crawled under a rock and stopped caring about video games.

Also, since about halfway through the lifecycle of the Wii I really wished Nintendo would start being a software-only company and move away from hardware so they could focus on amazing content. I'm still rooting for them even though I don't keep up to date with what's current in gaming.
Imagine going on a date and after the fourth time being like "I still don't know if I like you, need more tests". I tend to get impatient with companies who ask for yet another round of interviews because I think either they like me or they don't.

Maybe the issue is too risky to employ somebody? In my country a lot of laws protect employees, so it might be difficult to get rid of bad hires (although in the first 6 months I think it is easy, as they count as probation period).
Let's say that you are very good at basketball, enough so that you can almost always make a shot from anywhere on the court. Your mind is computing, based off of visual feedback, how to fire your muscles in such a way so that the basketball makes a near-perfect parabola and makes it into the net.

Does your brain "know" the formulas that describe projectile motion? Is it running a physics model in your brain?
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So companies want people that can build and ship products, and hire for them based on their ability to solve tricky CS problems on a whiteboard?

Something seems amiss here.
Hey, you haven't tried to discredit gwern on Twitter yet! Maybe you should get on that?
I don't know what kind of broken you are reffering to, but it's painful to see what "they" (the idr wg) are doing with BGP. Most RFC contain something like:
"since BGP is such a widely used and stable protocol, let's add more stuff to it!"
And the go on changing semantic of existing encodings in a way that forces unimaginably hairy hack unto any reasonable existing implementation (see flowspec, see multiprotocol, see add-path, ...)

I'd rather have tens of tiny protocols running on network, that one such BGP bug-carrier.
How in the world did you arrive at that conclusion!?
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I suspect we have a "grammar" which is based on massively parallel pattern matching over a sequence of symbols of bounded length. (I.e. why we deal with ambiguities well, but not long sentences.)
> Their results showed that the subjects’ brains distinctly tracked three components of the phrases they heard, reflecting a hierarchy in our neural processing of linguistic structures: words, phrases, and then sentences—at the same time.

How are they distinguishing between grammar that's encoded in the brain due to "nature" vs grammar that's encoded in the brain via "nurture"? I think we all knew that the brain has some mechanism to detect grammar.
The questioner cannot use E-Prime because he doesn't know what E-Prime is. And before being interested in its description, he'll probably want to know what it is (is it a law? is it a game? is it a style guide? a brain training exercise? is it a dog?).

See, "E-Prime" is a proper noun, and proper nouns don't have a meaning; they instead refer to specific things (giving them an identity). The same way Spain is a country, E-Prime is "a variant of English."
Deletion. Modification of pastes and maintaining the same id (URL).

Though, these can be solved with tokens per post, it's tough to remember/maintain multiple tokens, doesn't work out in practice.
Is that a bad thing? I mean, I could probably BS something, but this strikes me as the kind of question that only an HR person would ask.

And yes, I'm already in the exact scenario you say I shouldn't be able to handle.
what are the government's "own interests"? why do you think they are currently okay with me going to a grocery store and buying some chips with 200% of my recommended sodium intake, but not some chips with a warning that it might contain arsenic and not to eat it under any circumstances, then I eat it and then I die? do you seriously think the latter would be OK if, say, it makes the company more than it loses in sales? that the free market will just 'sort it out'? and if you think that, then why wouldn't you think it would magically solve the labelling problem? (no labelling required, since consumers would just boycott companies that aren't in the habit of properly labeling its lead-, mercury- and arsenic-laced potato chips)...

I'm not asking tricky questions here, your position is like saying the Earth is flat. I mean, due to the example we're using, apple with arsenic in them but labelled with this information, it's like a very extreme position. Normally it would be a straw man - nobody would seriously suggest that this is okay.
I wasn't aware that Facebook offered dial up service.
Exactly the same situation here; been in the defense space for a while and while it's easy to get another defense job as you already have a clearance (so you're a much safer bet) venturing out into the commercial world can be daunting.

I once interviewed with Amazon and after flying out and doing the interview I'm told that they liked me but I wasn't a fit for the team and could interview with another team without a delay and they'd even help me figure out the team to interview with. But why would I waste my time again taking days off to fly out and either not pass the interview or interview with the "wrong team" again?

When I interviewed at Microsoft it was a pretty positive experience aside from one person and while I certainly wasn't upset about not getting the position I was told they had 100 people interviewing in person for a single position (supposedly almost 1,000 applications). Great odds for Microsoft but for me taking 3 days off work to do it? Great experience but I'm not sure I'd do it again so easily.
According to one of his comments, all the lawyers wanted upfront money to sue the city.
I'm not sure how this is better than say a makefile, which will only rebuild the file when needed?
Seriously? no sense of humor...
Going to the length of making up a language, as that guy suggests?
Is it a wrapped emulator?
Is there anything we can do for him? I mean this is just nuts.
Can they really make up for the lower margins from publishing on a 3rd party platform through higher volume?
I mean, "Why Percentile Calculations Don't Work the Way you Think" is better, but I don't think the current one is "utterly false".
Stop giving them ideas!! ;)
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I think what he wanted to say was "the only reason for eating meat _nowadays_ is taste." Evolution doesn't affect that.
Yeah, good points. Thanks for your patience, and sorry that my replies were blunt. It's late, but there's really no excuse. Have a good evening.
That used to be called Condo Internet and that is in very select buildings. Even out in Redmond, minutes away from MSFT campus, once can only get either Comcast or crappy 3mbit DSL from Frontier.
Where did you get that number from?
Their fundamental motto is "Don't make the mother an enemy". They are unlikely to pursue a play to win model even today.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20121009/244635/...
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I am not aware of Chomsky ever making the argument that language has a specific physical location with the brain, or that it is the achievement of a single organ which evolved for exactly this purpose. You may be confusing Chomsky with Jerry Fodor, whose "Modularity of Mind" was inspired by Chomsky's ideas (which it helped popularize).
Because Google has almost completely stopped pushing things to AOSP and instead keeps all the goodies locked under their proprietary apps. There is no AOSP for their "Okay, Google" stuff for instance. Most Google AOSP functionality is stuck in Android 2.x days.
I think the lesson is, don't just blindly calculate some numbers / metrics, have a look at your data (visually!) and see if it makes sense (for instance do you use the 99th / 95th / 90th percentile).
They tried a 3D Pokemon in the Gamecube era (Coliseum/XD).

The new games on the 3D5 are very light on the "3D" too.
HN discussion from 6 months ago upon the 50th anniversary of the theory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9762001
Basically every piece of evidence that can falsified in this case is falsified. The PGP key used to sign the emails: Backdated with almost complete certainty. The blog posts? edited in 2013 to include the 'bitcoin hints'.

What is more likely: Someone who is Bitcoin's creator in hiding, went and created a pile of provably falsified information that they were Bitcoin's creator, plus left some circumstantial evidence that can't be decided .... Or someone who _wasn't_ Bitcoin's creator, went and created false evidence and had some circumstantial evidence by chance (or falsified too but not proven yet)?

In any case the complaint isn't even so much about this particular drama-fest, it's about the repeated behavior. This time it looks like it may have precipitated a raid on someones house (otherwise the timing is more coincidental than most of this evidence), had it been in some places in the US perhaps the victim (or at least their dog) wouldn't even be alive now.
Gwern is talking a bit about it over on /r/bitcoin.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3vzgnd/bitcoins_cr...
Sounds like something most companies won't touch with a nine foot pole.
Working at a company in the US as a Canadian without a degree is possible. I moved from Ontario to SV before I had completed my degree.

I was able to obtain TN status under the "Scientific Technician/Technologist" category. It's not as straightforward as usual, but it's definitely possible.

Now that I have completed my degree I use the usual "Computer Systems Analyst" category.
I think that's a very good analogy, and no, I wouldn't say my brain would "know" Newton's formulas. However, I will still say my brain "knows" grammar. The difference is complexity.

Even if you consider spins, throwing a ball is only about 9 degrees of freedom. It is too small to make good prediction on how the brain works, so Occam's razor dictates that it probably doesn't solve a differential equation. (Also I could try throwing a baseball, and I'll find that I have to re-learn everything, so it's reasonable to assume that my brain was "optimized" to just throw one particular kind of balls to a particular height.)

Human language is so mind-bogglingly complex that even if you just restrict yourself to a dozen words you can easily utter sentences that were never spoken in entire history of English. Yet my brain has no problem dealing with that.

Sure, we could say that it's all statistical relation, but those relations have to stack (almost) recursively and connect phrases that are a dozen words apart. At what point do we stop calling them a heap of relations and instead call it what it is, i.e., grammar?
>good software engineering practices

Definitely aware of several hot startups that don't seem to value this at all. Well it's a tradeoff that they are hopefully consciously making.
Hugely disappointing. Actually love my Open C once I upgraded it to FxOS 2.2

Dear Mozilla,
I hate IoT devices. I don't want them. They are security exploits incarnate. At least a phone is useful, why the hell do I really need a microwave with an IP address? I don't.
That suggests Mozilla is least influenced by the ad serving networks. I like that.
On the topic of LEGO instructions, LEGO released a surprisingly sophisticated CAD tool called LEGO Digital Designer[1] way back in 2004. It contains 3D models of basically all LEGO pieces and modeling tools for creating arbitrary assemblies out of them. Users can snap pieces together, specify joints, and pose various parts. The software can also generate assembly instructions on-the-fly for any given design.

LEGO also runs a website where designs can be shared, for instance "Computer Problems"[2].

Here are some screen shots of the software in action[3] and the source of the design file[4] - ".lxf" files are just zip archives containing a preview png image and an xml file specifying the LEGO parts and their location in the assembly.

It would be interesting to know how this assembly planner was implemented: how does the 'compiler' decide on the order of operations? It seems to have heuristics for breaking the design into a series discrete of submodules that can be assembled independently, then combined at the end, as opposed to a simple linear strategy. Presumably the shape of the assembly tree is optimized for human "execution" - not too broad, nor too deep.

In particular, I wonder what kind of human the instructions are optimized for, if at all: children, or adults? In other words, are there some assembly strategies that adults prefer (more complex subassemblies for instance) that children are less successful at following?

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Digital_Designer

[2]: http://ldd.us.lego.com/en-us/gallery/51887f3e-1474-4411-9dcb...

[3]: http://imgur.com/a/hgeb7

[4]: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1b333df3b864c48bfa48
This reminds me of something that’s always struck me as odd about large-scale physics simulations: using invariant spacial coordinates when doing a gravitational simulation is totally absurd. Wouldn’t precision problems be much less of an issue if you distorted space according to gravitational influence, as happens in real life?
I love this site. My parents saved all my early '90s pirate sets, but they eventually got pretty beat in cardboard boxes. Now, my kids get to enjoy the Black Seas Barracuda too.
Ok this is a silly "uncool dad" question but my gaming chops stopped with Gauntlet.

Should my pokemon obsessed six year old receive a Nintendo 3Ds for Xmas, or an iPad mini with Pokemon Go on it ?

My intuition is to go for the iPad as a more general platform and more understandable - but the main use case here is Pokemon

So, embarrassing question but don't want Santa to make the wrong delivery
The technical solution is to identify them and sue them on technical grounds.
They're primarily for content ownership management.

I'd prefer not to have accounts, and Ghostbin tries to avoid keeping identifiable information around, but they do come in fairly handy for maintaining control of the things you've pasted and the right to revoke them.

Session cookies aren't quite up to the task, since they can't stick around forever and are difficult to bring with you between workspaces.

(edit to elaborate on "avoid keeping identifiable information": account names are hashed, the account never stores user identification, and a paste doesn't track which account created it. For most intents and many purposes, the creator of a paste is anonymous. We could get into drawing correlations between all the pastes owned by an account, but I'm not particularly interested in sitting around and doing that.)
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This data needs to be related to the size and stage of the company. That YCombinator companies want UI people with application development experience reflects the YCombinator startup approach - it's all about the cool demo.

The requirements may be different in the later-stage companies. But most of the startups never get there. So looking at recruiting goals on a per-company basis from a VC pool will generate a bias towards the skills needed for the cool demo. What Lugg needs are people such as the article suggests. What Uber needs at its current scale is quite different. Uber will hire far more people than Lugg, but it's weighted the same in this model.
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I finally got around to getting an account for Product Hunt and tried launching it! I'm not getting much of a reaction though, is this how it is usually?
Anyways, thought I would introduce my app here at the same time :)
Have a nice day!
if it's so massively parallel, why do I read your comment left to right one word at a time? why garden path sentences that mislead us as we build up an erroneous parse? sure there's some fuzzy pattern matching, but lexical parsing doesn't seem so massively parallel to me - more like a huge lookup table of fuzzy matches (including whole phrases, I don't have to say much about how I'm never gonna give you up, before that clicks for you), while we're also be parsing lexically with quite a formal grammar.

I put a grammar error into the last part of the last sentence purposefully, after I wrote it so you can read it and notice the error explicitly. (Whereas I would expect you to still figure out what I meant.) If it were just pattern matching that grammatical error wouldn't bother you at all even if you notice it, you would just go with the most likely fuzzy interpretation.
As others have pointed out - it's arguable that publishing any claim about the identity of SN - puts the target in considerable, potential danger.

Now I can understand that there is a public interest component in knowing SN's identity. And I'd even be willing to accept (but really only for sake of argument) that this public interest overrides SN's own right to privacy and safety.

But to make these accusations when you yourself admit - as the article does - that there is a substantial degree of doubt, is to put at risk the safety and privacy of a person who doesn't deserve it in the least.

This is an absolutely appalling thing to do to anyone. And it should be prima-facie obvious to you as to why.

While I don't condone bullying of any sort - it really is the least of what these authors deserve. I personally don't feel Kanzure is bullying - merely pointing out how appalling this behaviour is, and this absolutely needs to be pointed out.
I indeed enjoyed the story. If this was on quora, you would be famous by now. While these kind of scenarios happen in a rare case, I'm wondering why companies still stick to old-fashioned hiring process?

May be we all can put our thoughts on this problem and come up with some innovative solution that can change it. Thanks for sharing your story.
Oh, my bad then.
Not a neuroscientist, but I do do NLP, and I only lightly skimmed the paper.

This doesn't really speak to UG.

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.

Second, they looked at two languages with sentences of up to ~7 syllables each with at most two constituents (Noun Phrase Verb Phrase). You can't show any evidence for any hierarchy of interest in 7 syllables. They demonstrated that phrases exist and phrase boundaries exist, but it's entirely possible to have "flat' grammars without interesting hierarchy, especially in simple sentences. If they want to show interesting hierarchy, they should conduct experiments with more interesting structure (say, some internal PPs and some limited center embedding) and show something that correlates with multiple levels of the "stack" getting popped, or something.

It's still interesting work, but as usual oversold by the university press office.
A very important difference: someone who is good at throwing a basketball (or any sport, really) will "switch off" their brain while doing so. There's various words for this, e.g. "being in the zone". Ask the person to think about something while throwing, and they'll likely miss. It takes years of training to teach the brain to do the correct motions while " switched off".

Using language, on the other hand, requires us to really think.
"recklessly calling in raids"

There is no evidence Gwern "called in" a raid. The Australian Federal Police deny that the raid had any connection to recent media reports, and say the timing was a coincidence: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/bitcoin-mystery-home-o...
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You know what I've always found really useful? Entire distributions. Forget means, medians, percentiles, etc. — give me the complete distribution (along with sample size) so I can understand all of the nuances of the data.

(Better yet, just give me the raw data so I can analyze it myself. I find it hard to blindly trust someone else's conclusions considering all of the p-hacking going on nowadays.)
You don't trust them. The result of this endeavor is not a trustworthy compiler, the result is a procedure to generate one. Every step in the procedure can and should be verified independently. What this buys you is a procedure that produces a trustworthy compiler given your initial environment is trustworthy. The latter still being an issue of course.
You're think of earned income.

Income is anything that...well...comes in.
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Do more planets, gas and stars mean less dark matter?
It comes from this lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dLJ1FxGuo&list=PLRKa53-za1..., around 10 minute mark.
To me, it is the cost that matters. Most other Analytics cost $30 - $50 / 1 Million Pageview / Datapoint. To me this expensive. Even when you scale to 100M it will still cost ~$20/Million.

Piwik doesn't scale. At least it doesn't scale unless you spend lots of resources to tinker with it. Its Cloud Edition is even more expensive then GoSquared which i consider to be a much better product.

What we basically need is a simple, effective, and cheap enough alternative to GA. And so far there are simply none.
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Yes, (most) linguists seem to be unique in treating this as dogma. It's not the only possible explanation consistent with current evidence.

Edit: by "innate", people mean that it's something you're born with, rather than learned through experience.
That's unduly harsh. His kayak went over in high winds, according to the article; he wasn't planning an extended swim.

Given that he died six hours after reaching the hospital, I wonder if their expertise with modern hypothermia treatment was adequate.
It's obvious: you sell them the tools that enhance their privacy with solid reviews and advertisements in right places. If people don't buy, they either didn't care enough about privacy or were poor.

I think this differs highly per region. In some European countries, people are very privacy-aware. I know quite a number of people who refuse to use Google's services or Dropbox, because of privacy reasons.

As for security companies selling hardened phones, etc. They are typically very expensive and/or inconvenient.
In my opinion the skin is the most subtle variation of skins around. It's almost stock. It looks professional and nice in the same way it did when stock android didn't used to.
I may have misunderstood the ethos of your original comment. Physical docking is likely transient. My comments are directed more towards 2019 and "universal" applications. I took docking to mean: The single action process by which you connect a complete set peripherals to your phone/tablet.
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Well, given that one of the primary sources in the article was a set of quotes from the ATO investigation itself...