skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well c'mon, have you really double checked? ;)

Lighting obviously plays an effect, but I was pretty surprised at how it got TFA's Han Solo down decently well. In the poster, he looks more in his 50s.

Lighting obviously plays a part. I wonder if race does as well? To use the common stereotype, does the algorithm make a guess if you're Asian, then guess downwards?
The actual story of the Sherman Act isn't empirically defensible - J.D. Rockefeller became much richer overnight mainly because of the splits and prices don't seem to have changed much.

But J.D. Rockefeller was rather single minded, set on reducing cost to the end consumer for Yankee cultural reasons.

Higher price may or may not be worse price. With airlines, you live with Robert Crandall's "no airline ever returned its cost in capital" so it's difficult to make any of that make sense :)

Many economists warn "never reason from a price change."
"But perhaps my concerns are overblown"

They're certainly not new or unaddressed. Or politically neutral within Bitcoin.
I wish it was for C# instead of C++. I'd like to tinker around with some phone apps, but Monos prices are too high.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10844306
In general, elimination of uncompetitive companies is one of the important tools that make the economy strong and prosperous.

If some system (company, branch, industry niche, product line - in different scales) in the economy is weak and inefficient, then simply allowing it to operate as-is will be a constant drain on the society, and artificially supporting/subsidizing it will hurt the people/companies who are either doing the same thing better, or doing some different, better thing.

On the other hand, ripping an inefficient company apart as the 'sharks' do - that is a way to reallocate all those resources (subsidiaries, employees, capital, buildings) to other places that will make a better use of them. The whole reason why large companies exist is because it's a way to get 2+2=5, so to speak. If some company achieves 2+2=3, then tearing it apart to get two 2's out of it is a valuable service for the financial ecosystem.

Lack of such 'sharks' increases short-term stability, but at the cost of having a lot of resources tied up in inefficient places; this is considered one of major factors why planned/command economies tend to fall behind to market economies - simply because they tend to leave uncompetitive businesses alone instead of agressively dismantling them.
> The preface to all further discussion: wealth is power, and nothing else.

Okay, you made a dogmatic statement. That proves nothing, except that you are capable of making dogmatic statements.

Wealth is the promise (perhaps false) of satisfaction, it is (perhaps false) identity, it is security, and it is the freedom not to have to work. I suppose you can say that all those are forms of power, but... If you define everything to be power, then yes, wealth is power, but that tells us nothing interesting except what your definition was.

> In our highly capitalist society, monetary wealth is perhaps the only useful form of power, from which all other power (violence, social influence) ultimately flows.

Democracy is another form of power. It is influenced by money, but not totally. That is, the little people can in fact vote against the money, and will do so if the money pushes too far. Campaign ads won't be enough if the little people get fed up enough.

Social influence largely flows from money, I'll give you that. Violence? Money gives you a greater ability to use violence and still escape the law, but you can't go very far no matter how much money you have.
I would applaud the author on trying to take a data-driven approach to discover the best hiring signals, but I must offer one major critique of the approach: These data are ultimately not too meaningful unless you correlate actual job performance with interview performance. By the author's own admission, interviews are often faulty. By correlating final-round interview performance with early-round interview performance, you are really only predicting how candidates will perform in the final-round interview, which is not necessarily a good predictor of long-term job performance.
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It's not quite that simple. The IRS didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

Yes, there's a large chance that if Mr. X sets up a DAF, you might see people with the last name X doing various work for the DAF etc. Same if Mr. X ran a for-profit business. But there are rules and regs and you can't just blatantly self-deal and loot your foundation; see https://www.irs.gov/irm/part7/irm_07-027-020.html

The truly naive shenanigans don't work and there actually is scrutiny of foundations. Plus, foundations have to distribute 5% of their assets annually, which has actually been sort of a problem lately with low fixed-income returns.

If you want to know the "scam," others above have described quite adequately the two main lines: the tax write-off and the ability to influence what charities benefit. The scam is not that you can set up a "Mr. X's landscaping and Champagne pouring foundation" to privatize all the benefits.

(I mention this not to chastise parent, but because left without any additional color, parent comment could make a reader not versed in how nonprofit stuff works overly cynical.)
If G+ serves as a valid alternative to Twitter for your needs then you were using Twitter differently than most. Twitter's value is in its network, not the ability to share longform content, and G+ can't touch Twitter as a social network.
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> If you get tested again, you can reduce your uncertainty

I've always been bothered by statements like this about medical tests. This assumes that false positives are statistically independent. But isn't it more likely in general that false positives would be highly correlated in individuals, test administrators, or labs? E.g. If the same person takes the same test from the same doctor and sends it to the same lab, it seems extremely unlikely that the results will be independent. And to me at least, it seems highly likely that a false positive will correlate with some aspect of the individual's biological (e.g. some similar substance in the blood to what's being tested), and as such even using a different doctor/lab would not be all that likely to ameliorate this issue.
I just love how some guy, who by his own admission read a little Wikipedia on the topic, is critiquing a statistical method.

It would make for a much stronger argument if he actually showed some numbers where people are getting the priors wrong. That is, how often people get the priors wrong and the probability of mistake if they used a different strategy more commonly used in the field.
> What problem are you trying solve?

I think this is ultimately a manifestation of "scientific deontology ethics", a fantasy that we should approach each paper with identical, non-prejudicial priors and evaluate it on its own merits. (It is the scientific analog to the reductio ad absurdum of maximum non-prejudice in human affairs, where one never considers any background about a person before dealing with them.) This position only seem tenable to those who haven't yet had to wade through the morass of terrible and misleading result in the literature.

In other words, this sort of idea is not a consequentialist attempt to solve a problem, it's a deotological attempt to stop unfairness.
3 hours of soft questions seems much more preferable to 3 hours of whiteboarding data structures. Hopefully your project wasn't a bunch of questions from an undergraduate data structures/algorithms class.
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Sadly, this is almost certainly illegal in the US due to the 4/5ths rule (http://adverseimpact.org/CalculatingAdverseImpact/Four-Fifth...).
> They might not want to go to Google. Doing this, an acquihire, they can at least get a couple years out of the team, holding the vesting of the shares over their heads, before the team breaks up.

That sounds terribly. You're hiring a team that wasn't able to deliver, for a ridiculous premium (essentially a ~$10m signup bonus per employee), knowing that long-term there's no structural future as they're leaving at the earliest opportunity, i.e. when you stop bribing them to stay on with a share incentive.

Perhaps they built some really promising IP that could work well with Google, in addition to an undoubtedly useful acqui-hire, that'd explain things. I don't think your reading is very plausible but who knows.
No prohibition certainly, but you would receive the same pay.

In the book the author supposed that this would lead more people to spend their time participating in artistic activities.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10844306
How's this different from https://github.com/Microsoft/MIEngine?
Isn't requiring driving itself a form of regressive tax? Forcing people to purchase and maintain expensive cars, pay for gas, pay for expensive downtown parking, etc?

"Here's this nice shiny new road, it's yours for free! All you have to do is pay $500/month in car expenses to use it. For Free!"

And improving one road requires further improvements to other roads as traffic increases due to induced demand. City streets (and parking) is extremely expensive to improve, so after you spend billions of dollars to feed cars into downtown more efficiently, how do you address downtown congestion and parking?
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Self driving cars take way more space than equivalent mass transit. Even assuming that self driving cars double road capacity, highways have much lower capacity than mass transit. There are advantages to self driving cars to be sure, and they will change the transportation game, but I predict they will not fundamentally alter the city vs. suburb equation.

For starters, it is highly unlikely the urban planning mistakes of the 60s where downtowns were flattened with freeways will be repeated. We're already seeing cities tear down or bury existing freeways to correct these mistakes. Cities from LA to Atlanta are investing in mass transit and are working on getting more walkable and dense.

I predict that self driving cars will actually be a big boon for cities themselves as it would now be easier for city dwellers to visit transit inaccessible destinations or shopping trips that require a car. Zipcar, Car2Go, Enterprise's car rental club and the like are already bridging the gap, but self driving cars would help those who can't drive such as children or the elderly or even those who never learned to drive.
Understanding what the disparate pieces are and even how they talk to each other will not tell you how it actually works, unless you understand how each individual component works.

And:

> The infrastructure and all of the components involved in generating and rendering newsfeed at this point (and for a while) have been far too large for any single person to understand.
Yes. Every country is in some way "social", but social market economies focus strongly on keeping a balance.

Especially in the US the balance has been skewed since forever towards capitalism.

Historically, Social Market Economies evolved in countries where the population was supportive of socialist and communist uprisings, but the ruling class tried to keep the economy, and implemented the same benefits as in a socialist system in the existing market economy (See Bismarck’s Social Welfare model in Germany and the history of Bismarck vs. the Social Democrats on this).
I completely agree.

I also would not consider an r-squared value of 0.47 indicative of strong correlation between two variables. I guess the point is that the composite quiz score is more correlated with performance than traditional methods, but I still get the impression that someone is overselling something.
the classic freecell game had the useful feature where you could play the entire game from the numpad, the new one sucks
shh...don't dismiss the narratives we believe and use to dismiss the narratives we don't like.
To the extent that the public is harmed in this way, for this harm all responsibility lies on the administrators of those pension and investment funds for making an unwise purchase.
Speaking as someone whose entire schooling was in the US -- there was no effort at any point to teach times tables past 10.
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You might have things backwards. Things like free parking are there to attract shoppers, including suburbanites. Don't look at us as invaders, we are supporters.

I agree though that parking downtown should be expensive (or at least reflect the actual cost of providing it). You have to be careful about unintended consequences though. I can imagine a future where parking is so expensive that shoppers just tell their car to circle the block while they shop.

FWIW, on a day-to-day basis, I don't travel all that far from my house. We picked our current neighborhood because of the public school system here and because it's where my office is (I ride my bike to work as often as possible).

After getting used to low-density living, I really don't think I could handle moving back to the city center again. If my office moved downtown, I would either work remotely or change jobs.
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Visualizing this dataset has been my end of year side project for a few years now.

The hardest part was matching hundreds of friend's various usernames across different services to the same person. It's a process that's difficult to automate, even with some helper scripts it took a couple days to manually curate the mapping.

The svgs for the grid are in pre-rendered static files made with node/jsdom, which was pretty fun to write.

Data sources:

Skype history file

Facebook data download

Google Voice and Google Hangouts data download

Email (for oldschool gchats)

iPhone backups, for SMS/iMessage

Slack API
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Not necessarily the same. I didn't call the Oberon System broken because it had a sane CPU, problem areas hidden behind good interfaces, whole system in safer language, and thorough documentation of every aspect. Whether I like it or not for my needs, I wouldn't call that a broken system in any way.

C is so poorly designed [1] that we're just now getting formal semantics, reliable analysis, and CPU's that handle it safely. UNIX ecosystem is similarly broken [2] [3]. Intel CPU's have all kinds of legacy holdovers, bugs, over-privileged components, and complexity in general. So, calling the current stacks broken by design makes sense without any implications for future stacks that might be better or worse.

Want to have one that's better? Just make a sensible design, document it well, aim for simplicity where possible, keep it efficient, ensure its safe in normal operation, and give it good interfaces for extension/maintenance. Those tend to lead to better designs or implementations. The crap we use today largely evolved due to social and market forces, not good technical reasons.

[1] http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG

[2] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

[3] http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.de...
The MI engine is Visual Studio 2015's debugger extension (it's probably going to be a lot better than my part-time effort). Android++ takes a different approach with building projects - using explicit MSBuild tasks rather than relying on ANT. Since 2015's Update 1 that's where most of the merit still remains.
They were tough, insightful soft questions. And I asked a lot of them too. Gave me a good feel for how they worked and what they valued (which is what I really want to know). The challenge was pretty tough but it wasn't just graded on performance. The team lead came in with feedback from each member which was really good. Stuff like "you could have done this with less objects" or questions for me to resolve for them. I've used the feedback to improve my code since.
I was also initially disappointed by this, though one thought did occur:

Maybe Faraday is smart enough to know that building a platform for multiple different electric vehicles is more important than a single car, but they think the average journalist/reader is unlikely to grasp that abstract concept, so went with a traditional high-end concept car so there was something cool to take photes/videos of?

Tesla seems to have made similar headway by focusing on 0-60 to shake the old assumptions about EVs.
How did people sleep in the Middle Ages?
the problem with PGs logic is that the serious argument is not about LEVEL of inequality being > 0, but rather that inequality has been INCREASING in the US. Ignoring this distinction is what makes PG's essay flawed.

Nobody is seriously and in good faith arguing that the right level of inequality == 0
Sounds like Apple is the cause here, since export restrictions don't apply to things that are never exported. If you aren't embedding the algorithm then your code is not exporting the algorithm.
But none of those legitimate ones try to connect to me (IT tech, TeamViewer should know), my brothers and in-laws across the country etc etc all in the same day.

Off the top of my head typical TeamViewer usage should be more like some new, some recurring I think.
Ok, but what's with the weird phrasing? This is the same set of facts as (1/2 = 0.50, 1/3 = 0.33, 1/4 = 0.25, 1/5 = 0.20, 1/6 = 0.17, 1/7 = 0.14 ...), but phrased to sound like something you'd have to put effort into.
After researching this a little bit and because we're almost entirely a Mac office, I'm going to evaluate OS X Server for it. It LOOKS like it will give us what I'm looking for.

With a $20 price tag, I'm going to give it a shot first before I go the Sharepoint / 365 route. That will be next on the list though.

We're currently using Rackspace hosted email ($2 / user) so the Rackspace Sharepoint might be a good fit for us.

Thanks for the info.
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Read up on the Centeal Freeway, Embarcadero Freeway, the Freeway Revolt, and the eventual demolition of those freeways.

What you describe was almost complete in SF in the 1960s and it was stopped by mass citizen opposition. It was a complete disaster for the city and quality of life.

Then in the 1990s the remaining stubs -- except 280 -- were mostly removed so it could never happen again. The city is more beautiful and live able now than it was in those dark freeway decades.

Underground construction would be just as bad in promoting traffic nightmares but less bad in destroying street life and at American construction prices would cost as much as half a dozen Mars missions for no traffic benefit. (Around US$200 MMM probably)

Yes, no traffic benefit. When we removed the half completed system, traffic actually improved. If you wonder why, look up Braess Paradox and induced demand.
Google searching reveals that while true there may be a lack of investment in startups in these areas from VC, there are still plenty of companies forming -- so there could be a few other variables at play then just "government regulation".

You keep touting the same rhetoric but i'm afraid you are unwilling to challenge your own ideas.

Like the idea of the wealth just leaving our country. Where are they going to go? China? Socialist european countries? The answer is NO WHERE. Unless they are wealthy enough to just decide to go retire in a cheaper country, the truth is that majority of business owners will find other efficiencies in their operations in order to retain access to things like their: non-immediate family, US workforce (cultural/communication barrier actually do become very important for many service oriented businesses), and the standard of living here. I find the conservative rhetoric that the rich will just "leave us" as absolutely insane. Even if they did leave in droves, good riddance -- short term losses followed my long term progress, are those really the type of American's we should be pandering too? The ones treating the country like an emotionally abused spouse that they will leave as soon as things don't go their way?
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I think this pen is a passive device, so I wouldn't call it RFID. It may be more reasonable to compare this to an anti-shoplifting tag.
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