skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, I think you're expecting way too much rigor from non-scientific, colloquial use of words. You already know what people mean when they talk about things in the general sense.

In any case, its not for me to define. If someone tells me they dropped acid and it helped them in solving a problem, or opened their eyes to new ways of solving them, I'd take them at their word. In the context of altered mental states being beneficial, its not completely absurd to suggest so. This is justified in a day-to-day practical sense, much like if someone told me a restaurant was good, I would not conduct a scientific inquiry around the topic.
While I'm not a lawyer, it doesn't really work this way, at least in the US. The law defines "ownership" pretty clearly based on who has real control over an asset. You can't really pretend someone else is the owner if you have the real control over the disposition of an asset.
Maciej Cegłowski recently addressed this decision in his "Website Obesity" talk:

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

The whole talk is worth a read, but here's the key part about servers:

>But where the projects differ radically is cost. ACME hosts their service on AWS, and at one point they were paying $23,000 (!!) in monthly fees. Through titanic effort, they have been able to reduce that to $9,000 a month.

> I pay just over a thousand dollars a month for hosting, using my own equipment. That figure includes the amortized cost of my hardware, and sodas from the vending machine at the colo.

> So while I consider bookmarking a profitable business, to them it's a $4,000/month money pit. I'm living large off the same income stream that is driving them to sell their user data to marketers and get the hell out of the game.
World's Largest Meatpacking Firm Wants to Test Out Robot Butchers
I think that sentence was somewhat hyperbolic. It doesn't mean that there is literally no information about how Facebook works, just that it's a bit secretive.

The rest of the article does go into many details about the behind the scenes of Facebook's algorithm. And shares a number of interesting details about how it works, and how decisions about it are made. So I would say the title isn't that bad.
Who is Bret Victor?
And after reading that book, you will be able to use it to fertilize your crops!
Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage
Here's the Fastest Way to Defrost Your Car Windshield According to Science
Hi,
Unfortunately no I have not been able to contact Native colleges directly. It is a big job that I might have help with in the future.
Thanks for your question.
GoCryptFS: encrypting FUSE filesystem in Go
Gwern's done extensive research into this, and his meta-analysis has shown there's "a net gain (medium-sized) on the post-training IQ tests"[0, 1].

0: http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis

1: http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
> I want to know all main character names in all books

Off the top of my head, without testing it:

[
character['name']
for characters in [
book['mainCharacters']
for book in library
]
for character in characters
]
Meh, Rimac has been doing 1088hp electric cars since 2013.
Most devs can't switch what they're working on: They're on a sprint plan that's estimated to 1/2 day (at least) precision, and checked-on every day at scrum.

Not saying your general point is wrong, but it's not what being an engineer is like for most people today. (BTW, fixing the way work is managed would probably do a lot for both people and firms.)
Toast raises $30M to challenge Square
Microsoft Word used to have a summarization engine. You could specify a maximum length, and it would remove sentences, in a surprisingly intelligent way, to get to that length. Twitter readers now need such a feature. Just because someone sends huge tweets doesn't mean they have to be displayed.
> Other commenters seem to be missing a critical point here: tweets continue to have a 140 character display with some sort of "read more" that you click to see the rest.

So Twitter wants to be RSS with better discovery. If there were discovery and UX for blogs like there is for podcasts (Pocketcasts, Overcast, etc.), then Twitter wouldn't even have a leg up on RSS at all.

I've often dreamed of a decentralized "Twitter" that allows you to subscribe to any Twitter, Facebook, or blogging feed and makes them all equal, first-class citizens (including the ability to reply/retweet/etc.)
To clarify, we did not leave the users enabled in the Linode Manager. When you delete a Linode user, Linode shadow deletes them in the DB by setting an inactive date on the row.

The honeypot user would not have been able to access the account had the credentials been valid, but based on the information given by Linode we did see someone attempt to log in as that user only once around the time of the compromise.
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For 1, I read that as thinking you could get a second paper out of running the same code on another dataset, and not wanting to be scooped on the second paper.
Any article that talks about automating what are currently manual tasks I find interesting, but this article had a quote that stuck out to me.

"Workers are really cheaper than machines," Stull says. "Machines have to be maintained. They have to be taken good care of. And that's not really true of workers."

I wonder how much longer workers will be cheaper than machines, I'm also struck by the bluntness of the attitude towards being good to workers.
Like many others, I have applied to Google using Google careers many times with no response received. I mailed you my resume and would be glad if you can inform me in case of rejection as well. My email is vijayqwert at gmail.
Hi,

Maps are a great idea! I'll think about it.
Thanks
So a single intern single handedly caused billions of dollars in lost productivity :-)
The thought of debugging other people's Javascript frightens me.
> With this addition they will have officially become a user-focused Reddit.

I totally disagree. I still find it impossible to follow threads of conversation on Twitter. I'm a software developer and don't consider myself to be an idiot, either.

(Unrelated: I accidentally downvoted you when I was trying to copy-and-paste, and I'm terribly sorry!)
I've been saying t forever. Thanks for putting it so succinctly. LessWrong is a cult of people who want to be smart and they've essentially found a community in which certain assumptions and hypothetical scenarios combined with mathematical concepts make them think they've found the answer to everything in the Universe.

They're no better than any other cult in my book. The problem is that it's only going to get worse with the advances in AI that are going on. Yudkowski has managed to convince some wealthy people to fund his so called research and we have OpenAI operating in the same waters which somehow gives LW people more legitimacy.
In ObjectStudio Smalltalk, there was a "top level exception handler." So long as you weren't doing something involving call-outs to C or custom primitives, you could just set the top level exception handler to an empty block. (Empty lambda)

Tada! No exceptions! (Of course, this is the worst possible thing to do.)

It's kind of cheating because Smalltalk exceptions were mostly just ordinary Smalltalk execution. You could start writing your own debugger and be browsing stack traces in a matter of minutes.
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12 Things to Do Everyday to Improve Your Life
My old colleage Mike Rowe wisely said "Always leave it compiling". That way you could go home thinking, that was probably the right fix. Then the next day you could go in and see that it wasn't, and pick up where you left off.
Thinkpad 750 ('95), dell something(until 2000) and then thinkpad x24, x31, t42, x200 tablet, x230 (not good), x220

Basically with various forms of linux - Mandrake, Redhat and then Ubuntu for the past decade. Rule of thumb is to pick thinkpads (or business class laptops) and pick Intel hardware where possible.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
automating people out of work is definitely 'a' solution.
Rights are bundled, not a la carte
However, the ML in OCaml stands for "Machine Language." OCaml stands for "Objective Caml." Caml, while in the ML lineage, stands for "Categorical Abstract Machine Language."
As you do have a reputation for getting quite a lot done, it would be cool if you'd share a little bit more on how you make long hours productive and manage to maintain focus (or maybe you've written about it elsewhere?).
I don't want this to get too meta, but I like the style of your post. If you're bored, could you tell me what you think about this article?

http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
Hi,

Other than maps (someone already suggested this) What additions would you add?
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Someone should pen an essay explaining why Resource Inequality is actually a good thing in Academia.
How a Non-Technical Founder Grew and Sold His Startup for Millions
Is it just me or has the recent feed recently started showing things from friends of friends that my friends like and comment when it didn't before? Or is my memory faulty?
You seem to be listed on the people page: http://www.compucell3d.org/People
Paging tptacek to quarrel with the account of RNG entropy presented here (?)
> This only works if the input password has low entropy.

If you're generating every single possible password up to e.g. 8 characters the password's quality doesn't matter, only the length does.
It doesn't really work that way, at least in the US. While there are different ways to use trusts to minimize estate taxes, it's not like you can put all your assets in a trust, maintain control, and then when you die someone else is named the trustee and they get off tax-free.
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Thanks for the clarification. Makes more sense now.
I ordered something that came in a large box. I was expecting the sack like I've received in the past. Instead the box was partially gift wrapped with both ends exposed so you could see what was in it.
Timeless way of building is right there where I thought it would be.
HERE IN MY GARAGE.

Books on a shelf aren't impressive.
I run Ubuntu on my 'not doing much other than youtube and paying my bills' computer. (I also choose to reinstall the whole OS every major release (+ 1 month for those 'day 0' issues to be fixed)).

I have debian on my NAS and 'stable' backup box. I keep this thing rock solid.

If I actually want to do anything crazy, I'll either whip up a VM or I have a clunker of a laptop I keep around for experimenting and other things (along with other single board computers).

My two cents in keeping something stable is don't do anything to it. Keep it as vanilla as possible unless you are 100% sure what you are doing.
> We would've appealed but there was no point as the sentence was essentially nothing.

But you do end up with a record, which is not 'essentially nothing'.
Why is this downvoted? I was under the impression that Gwern did solid resarch and was well respected in the HN community.
> The community would be forced to develop tools and documentation to judge new papers based on actual content and aggregated opinions

Firing people to either develop tools or have a terrible situation on their hands doesn't necessarily mean they would develop those tools.

If you push someone into water, it forces them to either swim or drown, but it doesn't necessarily imply that they swim.
I'd guess they pay substantial piles of money to the universities in exchange for those favored book-gouging positions.
So, I think you don't realize something very important about how people use twitter. Consider, what the typical number of blogs is that people around you might actually follow - (via RSS or some other means) in the sense that they're subscribed to it, new content appears from time to time, and when an entry appears they see it somewhere at the top of some feed? A feed they have to read through.

I would guess the very high end of what might be considered typical would be 50-70 or something. That is a lot of blogs.

Now let's compare with twitter.

Three years ago, the average twitter user followed 100 accounts.[1]

Here is an example of an article giving 55 "must-follow" twitter accounts [2] - a simple article, saying, hey, subscribe to these 55 sources. Can you imagine someone giving you a list of 55 blogs that you simply have to subscribe to, regardless of who you are or what your interests are - for everyone? That to be in touch with the world, you must follow at least these 55 blogs?

I can certainly imagine it for tech! But, for everyone?

The percentage of world leaders who use twitter is: 80%[3] - outside of the highly reduced format, do you think people care about politics that much? Obama has 68M followers. How many do you think would stick around after even a couple of extended posts? How interesting do you think every last politician is? Because that 68M compares to the total monthly reach of New York Times and all its web presence of on the order of 50 million people. Are people really that interested in not just one, but every last politician's every last statement, than in this highly distilled and reduced form?

Twitter works because of the character limit. That's what allows the average user to follow well over a hundred accounts.

It's that simple.

-

[1] this figure was really hard to find, don't know why. http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-statistics-by-the-numbers-1531...

[2] http://greatist.com/happiness/must-follow-twitter-accounts

[3] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/march-2013-by-the-num...
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
That works.

In a lot of the US not only is it not illegal to fire people for incompetence, but you don't even need a reason to fire them. But stupid people when offended sometimes launch silly lawsuits alleging all kinds of crap, and those lawsuits can be expensive to defend. A lot of what HR does is stuff to reduce the frequency of such lawsuits, and to make the ones that still happen go away more cheaply.
The Surprising Neuroscience of Gender Inequality [vid]
Thanks for this! Exactly what I was looking for...
One of the biggest things that personally has affected me is that the section 179 deduction is applied after the 15.2% self employment tax hits. Does this change that at all?
Instagram has no links...
Can you unpack that strange analogy a little, please?
And one would have to assume that a company operating in this gray area would have some inclination that they would eventually be fined/sued and set up a fund of some sort to cover it.

It would be like making $100k as a developer, but using some shady quasi-legal loopholes on your taxes to save a bunch of money. Presumably you would set some aside in case it ever turned out that what you were doing was not considered proper by the IRS. My point is that the eventuality of this couldn't have come as a surprise to the company.
So it definitely transfers 'near'. You'll get better at the dual-n-back test. And possibly other visio-spatial working memory tests. But the question of far transfer- will it make you smarter- is probably not. Here is a link to a 2015 meta-analysis that looks at the question of working memory training (including dual-n-backs) transferring to other working memory tasks:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/084fvteji1tyz8t/2015-schwaighofer....

Melby-Lervag & Hulme, 2013, is also pretty damning.
Well you can also program in C++ and compile to Windows, iOS, Android and the Web.
I have a semi-serious business idea for Twitter. They should charge verified/celebrity users a huge amount to be able to fill in whatever number they want in the followers box. If you're advertising on twitter, you will know the actual number so you're not paying extra. It\ would reduce or eliminate the services that "help" with inflating your follower count, and vain people who care about this stuff get to see a large number next to their name.
How the patent system and the FDA discourage study of cancer prevention
I agree ethanbond with your 3rd para. It will muddle the product definition even further. It's rather telling to me that Twitter is willing to AB this without concern for its image or userbase - one that is mostly providing negative sentiment.

UX is something many businesses seem to really struggle with. If unnecessary friction is added, it really should cause stakeholders and designers to pause. The "read more" CTA will lead to more truncated tweets within the first 140 chars, something that is visually unappealing and breaks the reading experience by forcing a manual action. The workarounds you describe are not used by everyone and I'd wager that most users simply keep their posts within the 140 char limit rather than pict-tweet or storm a longer convo. Yes it forces brevity, but that is the Twitter identity which supports the product's skimmability usefulness. Give users a read more option, and many will post a few extra chars just because they don't have to put much thought into their wording now. Short term: usage goes up. Long term: quality decreases as Twitter becomes just another Facebook or Medium. It will be worse than Medium though because the audience Twitter is going after is more generic.

I've always argued that Twitter's userbase is more influential and valuable because of its forced brevity and fact that it was unique.

I already avoid truncated tweets and want to read long-form content elsewhere. So, I won't be using Twitter more. Maybe others will, but again, I'd wager that Twitter is simply sliding down a path that will be ultimately more harmful for its long term sustainability.
You can express complex thought in short equations (and in fact it is often preferable), so why would it be the case that it couldn't be expressed in just 140 characters? It doesn't make sense.
You have to turn off retweets manually for every single account you follow, unfortunately.
I need a very light OS to run my CAE program and Lubuntu is the best.
Are any of the CDG kids sharing the computer-that-fits-in-a-room dealie they have in this library?
Jesus I really wish they had a few lowercase characters on their site. I feel verbally assaulted.
nice, so it literally means its opposite as well.
Jaycar stepped nicely into that gap and filled it for them as well.
I have less faith in public radio because my local station is always playing Lumosity adverts. I'm old enough to remember when the whole "sponsored by" thing being extended to full ads was a controversial development on US public radio. Now they're shilling outright scams and doing so with specific promises that are completely specious.
I don't mean to endorse the content of the article, but what you wrote is true for every country. And we know that every country isn't the same, so I question the relevance of pointing out that most Japanese people are normal and live mostly normal lives.
Makes a lot more sense to just "fix" what they've already got -- stop counting @ mentions, hashtags, and URLs as characters. If URLs didn't count, that'd mean the death of URL shorteners, which would mean no more link rot.
I would also suggest to add some validation to your file upload. Currently you are allowing arbitrary files to be uploaded. Even though it is password protected, it is still trivial to brute force even with your sleep(3). The danger with allowing arbitrary file upload is someone can upload a script (PHP file for example) and run it basically allowing arbitrary code execution. This can lead to a whole slew of other issues.

To get started, I would suggest:

1. Generating your own file names w/extension instead of relying on $_FILES['filetoupload']['name']

2. After move_uploaded_file(), change file permissions to 644 to help mitigate possibility of file execution

3. Use getimagesize() to determine if file is indeed an image. It is still possible to embed code into a validate image to bypass getimagesize(), but #1 will help prevent Apache/etc from interpreting the file as PHP.

4. Ideally you would also strip metadata from the image file and only keep resized images and delete the originals.

Also would suggest that you do not use the same password on your demo site as you have posted on Github.
Sprite and 7-Up have been around longer than that.
Ow, if that's true then we're all doomed. ;-)
Businesses struggle to manage social media accounts
Wait, what? Sprite had been around long before Tab Clear came and went.
Then you should take the Bayesian side, because Bayesians look at the data first, and they take their data as given rather than taking a null hypothesis as given. They don't just blindly go off and run a test (which assumes a particular prior implicitly that may be wildly inappropriate) and see what it says about the likelihood of their already observed data being generated by the test's assumed data generator.
I keep joking to people that I want to start rotatedfloralheartbullet.com (.com), a social network where you're only allowed one character, but you have the whole unicode space to choose from.
This is more lightweight: http://www.google.com/custom
31-year-old trans MTF here... uploaded my most recent picture, and it said I was 20, female, and ice cold "Hmm...".

Uploaded a picture from about a month ago... same, except it said I was 19.

Well, I'm flattered it thinks I can't drink, and I'm glad I pass. Too bad it doesn't think I'm hot, but I've always preferred to go for cute over hot anyway.

I'm gonna dig through my photos and see how consistent this is... (edit: a couple more, 21-22, female, and still ice cold)
I read SZ (sz.de), which has separate articles about major issues and the occasional summary of minor things, e.g. when parliament is dissolved. "Other topics this year included: ..." Those other topics, the ones that don't merit separate articles, are the ones I have in mind.
Rate, Rate, Rate, Radian, and Ratio?
Two in a minute or one in hour averages out to 10; the difficulty adjusts itself to do so.

However, I said "less than" 5 because difficulty has been increasing and more blocks are less than 10 minutes than not.
because of "gobs" of saliva on the p_n_s?
I'd write an error handler which may issue retries, or roll back transactions, and then log that it did timeout (instead of letting it bubble up to the top.)
I worked for a product strategy consultant and one of his tools was a detailed chart of the price elasticity of many everyday common objects with very high market penetration.

Pens, for example, are available at basically every price point, and everyone uses them. With a lot homework he was able to define the price elasticity curve for pens. Same with TVs, refrigerators, pads of paper, cars, computers, washing machines, watches, etc.

The key was to treat these curves as the likely outside edges of the envelope for new, similar products.

For example, comparing a prospective pen-based computing system to the elasticity curves for pens, pads of paper, and computers would give us a hint as to the best possible likely unit sales of a pen computing system, based on the predicted price.

He also built a combined curve of all products, which defined the outside edge of price elasticity for the U.S. market in general. We all know that a car costing $100,000 is not going to sell 50 million units a year in the U.S. But what is the maximum volume that any product costing $100,000 can expect to sell? There is an answer! Or at least there was. Sadly, I don't have those documents handy right now.

Then we could plot individual products into that general elasticity envelope. Products closer to the edge were incredibly successful; products deeper in the envelope were not as successful and might be more ripe for competition.
thanks - what you call yaw I called roll, by analogy with the shape of a pencil versus airplane.