skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
George was, but not everyone was. I had done very little PHP before Automattic, though I've certainly learned a lot of PHP since joining. We're also hiring for a lot of other development positions:

- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/javascript-engineer/

- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/code-wrangler/

- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/mobile-developer/

- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/data-wrangler/

Lotsa fun problems to solve and 25% of the Web runs WordPress. Big impact at a moderately sized company.
The article answers this: Sold his $47M stake in ATV to Sony for $90M + half of Sony+ATV. His part soon grew to be worth $1B.
LoRa mesh networking, not too many details but it appears to be possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdejQkTdC6o
Anecdata; I played comp TF2 for ~3 years a while back, won some negligable amounts in tournaments a few times.

Most of the people I played with were "Really Normal"(tm). While it certainly skewed aggressively the younger male demographic, most of the people were either students or typically blue collar, with a few programmers/other types of tech as you'd expect. I never noticed any sort of real similarity in the personalities of even the top players either; it seemed as much a "collection of normal gamers" as you could get from most other reasonably heterogeneous pc game strata.
Dated and irrelevant post though. On Medium you can link to your own site, your own social media, upload your logos, and link to your product pages.
Correct. If my car drives me to work, then drives other people around all day, it will rack up miles far faster than before. Now, instead of driving 12K mi per year, it can rack up 60K mi per year. I'll need a new car every 3 years.

Luckily, it can also schedule maintenance and drive itself to the dealer too.
Pfft, Adwords might be responsible the lion's share of Google's 522 billion dollar market valuation, but to call it "core"? That's a bit of a stretch.
The Breakthrough of the “See Through” Plant
I feel bad for people in other states, in Oregon it was been a pretty sweet deal for me.

I moved back to Oregon from California several years ago. I was astonished at how much more expensive insurance was in OR than in CA.

I've been told that Oregon has had a lot of protectionism for local health insurers, so they didn't have to compete much. So perhaps you're just seeing Oregon coming into line with other states...

(By the way, I had a pinched nerve in my neck when I moved. No insurer would take me, and one told me that they wouldn't insure me until nine years had passed without any symptoms)
Some employers (such as mine) offer only high deductible plans, but one of the options is for them to deposit an amount directly into your HSA. This has the benefit of returning purchasing power for most low costs to the competitive capitalist system while maintaining coverage for disasters.
How Stripe can win the payments war in Asia
Admittedly, I live in Puerto Rico and T-Mobile is one of the few providers that have solid 4g coverage on most of the island. BUT:

For $95 a month I get 14gb regular tethering, and these streaming services. Combined with the true unlimited 4g I get to my normal phone. My phone has HDMI-out, and I just connect it to my television. I've never once seen 480p video since this started using this strategy. I'm considering getting a cheap phone that has HDMI out and setting up a separate account to do this on and keep it at home all the time.

I'm pro net-neutrality, but living on an island with somewhat-atrocious internet has led me to consider this the best thing ever in my day-to-day life entertainment wise.
> if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR

Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. I'm reading my facebook feed, but now nobody else can see it, oh boy!

But see, I already don't care if people see. So that doesn't help me. Being immersed might actually hurt me though. Honestly, the idea of being on a train and having no idea what's going on around me is kind of terrifying.
Toxic to whom or to what? Chocolate is toxic to dogs - it doesn't mean that chocolate is dangerous in all circumstances.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831117
I think you are mistaken. Yes, a posterior is a probability distribution, which is exactly taking each possible outcome in accordance with its probability. I didn't say anything about collapsing the distribution down to a single point estimate like the posterior mean, or the MAP estimate, or any other single statistic. I am saying that I hold in my head a bunch of beliefs all at the same time (thus they are "blended" or "averaged" together), each in accordance with the amount of credibility it deserves. I think it's totally fine to speak about this as a type of uncollapsed "averaging" process, and indeed when you do something like hierarchical models where you supply a metaprior distinguishing between two alternative models, we widely talk about such things as model averaging even in the statistics literature. It seems like a rather misguided nitpick to me to insist that the English word "average" cannot be invoked unless it specifically coincides with the statistics word "mean".

Further, you're simply wrong about Bayesianism being about averages of utilities. The best account of Bayesian probability as a mapping of plausibilities to the unit interval is in Jaynes' The Logic of Science, but there is also a brief account of it in David Mumford's essay The Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity and e.g. in the introduction of Bayesian estimation supersedes the t-test by Kruschke [1] (where he explicitly describes it in terms of reallocation of credibility). Further, a la Jaynes, I think the right way to understand probability at all is in a mind-projection fallacy sense of the term: it describes your state of ignorance about the uncertain item.

It's not about utilities of actions -- utilities can be modeled with probabilities if the utility of certain actions is uncertain, but that is different than the base concept of probability being about which outcomes are more valued.

[1] http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/BEST/BEST.pdf
A few other comments were asking what Medium actually offers users, and I think you've nailed on the head: The potential for a massive audience if you really can write well, but maybe can't market well.
Sumatriptan isn't a cure-all for migraines. I suffer from near-constant migraine-like headaches (sometimes diagnosed as migraines, some not - depends on the consultant), and they are actually worsened by sumatripan.

Morphine seems a little strong, but having tried every offered non-opiate medication (amitriptalyne, sodium valproate, gabapentin, propranolol, topiramate etc.) and only had any success with opiates (tramadol and codeine), it doesn't seem that unlikely.
Hey Erik, I hear you! It is clear from your website what your incentives and message are, but it was lost in the title for this post.

I think you're making a lot of heavy-handed assertions:

> help close the unemployment gap

is extremely different goal from

> motivate hungry job seekers to not only learn professional skills that are in demand and address industry gaps, but actively search for quality job offers that relate to their passions and interests

Can I ask - have you ever been unemployed? As in, for more than a day? And against your will? If you have, than you can empathize with how utterly terrifying it is to be jobless - especially if you have a mortgage and kids to take care of. Which contradicts:

> A common problem nowadays (and something I've experienced in the past myself) is active procrastination. Where you keep learning and learning, but never getting your hands dirty and doing anything.

Who is actively procrastinating while recently unemployed or underemployed? I can't see that being a realistic scenario. Now throw them into a society which has completely uplifted an entire industry (industrial manufacturing) that they were trained for, and expect them to learn professional skills that are in demand. How do you expect a GE factory worker of 25 years to just magically gain the confidence to tackle machine learning?

Your endeavor is noble. Your incentives are flawed. People are indeed clamoring for jobs. People are further attracted to hot fields like tech for their lucrative salaries, and they are understaffed in places like the United States. But come on - if I spent $500 or even $5000 and got a job, I'm not only getting my $500/$5000 back, but I'm getting a $80k job too, while the failing factory worker throws down $500 and no job, is now purely $500 in the hole.

I just don't see that as an ethical incentive, and I would strongly consider talking to your customers to understand and empathize with the situations they are in and how they arrived where they were, and what they need to do to get to the next step, particularly if you believe your customers are those who are trying to get themselves out of unemployment.
> Well, I heard about it from T-Mobile directly

Was this email or text? I'm on T-Mobile, and this is the first I've heard of it. Just searched my email and there's no mention of "Binge On", and I'm not seeing anything in my texts from them.
What if I slow down midair, let the nose drop and then go full reverse? Like a helicopter. Sure, it will spin uncontrollably, but I would be hovering.
LoraWan is inherently monolithic. There is only supposed to be one LoraWan provider, who acts as the router, and passes traffic to receiver according to their address -- just like a cell tower. You don't have a hundred cell towers, you have 3.
Economic Inequality example. People in Harlem vs. People in Brooklyn.

Extreme Economic inequality example. People working in Walmart for less than a working living v.s. the Walmart family or the Koch family.
Andres Amador, the Earthscape Artist Truly Paint Beach with Broom – Infossible
Faraday reveals their electric car
I researched Scott & White, and it looked like you had to go to their doctors, which for me defeated the purpose of getting an PPO over an HMO (i.e., I can choose where I go, I don't need a primary care physician). Scott & White's offices weren't close to me, and their clinics got bad reviews.
I would like to find out more specific information. It seems like the section of the license below says that you can never make any patent claim against Facebook or you lose rights to use the software. Doesn't that mean that Google could never initiate patent claims against Facebook, while Facebook could still initiate patent claims against Google? It seems strange that Google (or Apple) would do that. I am not a lawyer though, and the PATENTS file may not mean that.

> The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate
directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent
Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate
affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or
in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of
its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating
to the Software.
Upvoted, I consider these valuable for somebody that's going to systematically learn synthesis but for someone just looking to make sense of oscillators/ROmplers/wavetables, filters, envelope and what not, i would just do tutorials on whatever you own: microbrute, bass station2, mopho, ES* models in Logic etc (also probably wounldn't spend much time on theory of Yamaha FM, Kawai additive, Casio phase distortion, which had more marketshare at the time of the SoS series)

Or read the books by Brian Shepherd (Refining Sound) or Rick Snoman (Dance music manual). For somebody serious, there's books by Miller Puckette and Charles Dodge
No, Apu's name is not "casual racism".

First of all, it's not casual. It's not an offhand, unintended remark that nonetheless reveals a hidden negative bias. Apu's name was very deliberately - the opposite of casually - chosen by the show creators.

Second of all, it's not racist. The name, by itself, imports nothing negative about Apu. It does not say Apu is inferior, nor does it show an intention of harm against Apu.

What does the name do? It shows an interesting human difference, that in some cultures, it is common to have much longer names than in others. The name points that out, and to most viewers that is amusing because they aren't used to such names. Their culture's average name length is far shorter.

But there is nothing positive nor negative about having a shorter or a longer name. Apu's name isn't making a negative statement about Apu - unless you have a bias against long names / south Asian names. If you do, then Apu is just directing your attention to your own bias.
> It's a consistent argument only if you believe that you'd be better off with single payer. Some people would be; I know I wouldn't be.

There is no need to believe or not believe. We are not talking about alternate realities, other modern, successful countries with better healthcare, longevity and quality of life have a single payer option.

> After that, let the market bring costs down by removing regulations.

Right. Point to any country where removing of regulations for healthcare has resulted in higher quality care.
I disagree completely.

Context matters - and this context, of technologists discussing the security posture of a web browser, is heavily dominated by your "white middle class American".

"Honest Steve" might well have racist overtones in a different context, one where Steve can be used as a shorthand for a stereotypical outsider. And "Honest Achmed" wouldn't on, say, the streets of Cairo.

I'm not shooting the messenger, because I'm not shooting anybody. Calling out casual racism as I see it should not be construed as a personal attack on the speaker, because it is both unintentional and so pervasive.

That's not the joke being racist - that's society being biased. When you call the joke racist, you're completely missing the point, and shooting the messenger.

So are Irish Jokes are just a clever way of pointing out ingrained societal racism, too? I don't think so.
Babypod: A whole universe of sounds for your baby
Yeah, I can't argue with the rest of the article, but that line sounded strange to me. I understand paying a premium price for a modern MBP (I paid a similar price for a Windows ultrabook that has lasted me a long time,) but $1400 for a laptop that even the author admits is mediocre is not "very inexpensive." It seems a lot like people who buy the 2012 MBP are doing it for brand recognition alone and they would be better off with some other laptop that has a DVD drive.
They don't make them anymore, but you can get them used and they're still great machines.
Go with Google Apps . . .
I don't blame the devs 30 years ago for being cautious but now emacs has survived 5(?) VCS migrations with all the data intact, the tools are more mature now and it shouldn't be a worry anymore.
Are there any drones that marry quadcopter with fixed wing so the drone can switch modes? i.e. fixed wing for distance and speed and switch to quadcopter mode for maneuverability and staying in a fixed location.
> Handlebars (Ember's templating engine)

Just a pedantic touchup, ember does not use Handlebars (it once, several years ago did) Now it uses something (Glimmer) which shares some syntactic similarities, but usage/implementation have diverged.
I abhor this practice, frankly. It doesn't take that much more work to type gettext("The translating string"), or even t("string"). The purpose of "blank variable" is better served by _ than translations are.

And gettext the tool can pull out the terms requiring translation using any identifier; you don't have to use "_", and I believe "gettext" is supported automatically. Also, depending on what you're doing, a simple function might not be enough; the _("foo") stuff was intended to simply use the locale of the local machine, which is almost certainly wrong in certain environments, such as server-side programming. (Where we need to bind in things like the user's preferences, or the Accept-Language header on the current request to the call to the translation function, so _("foo") is really something like _("foo", request), though with a bit of magic we can get back to a _("foo") syntax, though again, I prefer the explicitness of gettext("foo") or translate("foo").)
First, I did mention that when two things truly are mutually exclusive, it can be a reason for picking only one. Two designs that are entirely non-functional when combined could count as mutually exclusive. Even two designs that could be successful each on their own, but such that neither one could be created with 1/2 of the total budget, could be considered mutually exclusive.

I think you're pointing out a straw-man though. There are lots of cases where two ideas are not totally mutually exclusive, especially in design. And there are lots of times when the budget will allow you to explore building both designs in parallel and "investing in both" (thus diversifying your investment by not allocating the whole budget to only one project).

I agree when there is real mutual exclusivity you have to confidently choose one way to invest. I just think this is rarer than stated, and that lots of times you aren't actually forced to make that type of bifurcating decision, and so in general you should be eager to compromise more and more humble about not knowing which of the ideas will work, thus more willing to average over them, or divide up the budget and try multiple things.
The problem is that the USA is funding a disproportionate share of the medical advances. So while it may seem absurd that we spend double for worse outcomes, I'm not sure it's so simple.
This is a great idea; looks really practical and easy to extend. Is there a list of more plugins anywhere? There's only a few in the repo:
https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/tree/master/Plugins
I've personally done competitive gaming (in several FPS games I was on teams that were top-5 worldwide, although these were older games, before 'competitive gaming' was considered a 'real' thing), competitive chess, and played various sports competitively.

The one thing they all require: lots of practice. It's not enough to be a "good" chess player - you need to know the openings, know the responses, and you train repetitively for many scenarios. Simply analysing the possibilities and being smart isn't enough at higher levels, even if it's enough to blow away most good casual players...

Same goes for games - for FPS games you memorize maps, coordinate with your team-mates, and practice, practice, practice. For RTS games, it's much like chess - you practice openings, plan for various scenarios, memorize sequences of moves, and so on. If you're on a team, you can practice combining different strategies (often I'd play an early rush, while my team-mate would develop to a later-game state as quickly as possible). Winning tournaments is nothing like winning non-competitive games - it's more of a grind where every detail matters.

I'm sure it all requires a good amount of mental aptitude, however training is still key, and the amount of time spent practising somewhat precludes the possibility of being equally skilled in other tasks (while you can be above average in many things, good luck being at the 'top' of more than 1 of these activities).

Edit - I didn't really comment on the main article. Personally I don't think being good at a video game is in any way related to compulsive gaming. A similar comparison is between problem gamblers and professional poker players - they do the same activity, but their motivations are much different.
Don't edit your imagination
Zigbee is fairly awful. Most of that space wasn't designed for consumer products or multi vendor interoperability.

Being able to use the standard WiFi software & firmware stack but trading throughput for lower power and greater range has the potential to be a huge win. There are already many players who have WiFi silicon that it should be easy to adapt to this new protocol. Hopefully that will mean wide availability of solutions at competitive prices.
Dan Boneh's Crypto II Course Starts Jan. 11
My 'smart drugs' nightmare
Is there a sector of the community that is okay to ostracize with word choice?

I can't imagine why you would have written,

> Chocolate is toxic to dogs - it doesn't mean that chocolate is dangerous in all circumstances.

if you didn't think that.
How the PC Police Propelled Donald Trump
In clojure, you see something similar at the bottom of files:

(comment
(def some-state (create-state))
(some-fn [1 2 3])
(do-something some-state)
)

The compiler ignores the block, but in a REPL enabled editor, you can evaluate the forms to possibly view current state, or run functions that test behaviors or probe runtime state.
To clarify, yes. After 2020, the federal government continues to cover 90% of the cost (compared with 60% normally) of the expansion indefinitely. So, for a state government, it is likely the cheapest way to ensure a large number of low income people are insured.
I know there are quite a few readers of HN that have been waiting for Crypto II for a while, so consider this a public service announcement.
>"But economic inequality per se is not bad."

Nope, it's not bad until you need to buy something!

(BTW is this PG post not some strange form of denial?)

PG seems to forget about the infrastructure (bankers, financiers, venture capitalist firms, etc. - the entire financial industry) built around startups, as if the entrepreneur were a Jesus figure responsible for it all and who might somehow be crucified for it all. Psychologists call this a "grandiose delusion". Nonetheless it is glorious hogwash - an entrepreneur w/o the infrastructure is merely yet another nutball to be kicked off the front doorstep of venture capitalists. And as the dotcom boom and bust showed us, no entrepreneur is necessary at all - greed and a placard with a catchy ".com" on a door was often enough to make a fortune!

Good news: PG need not be concerned that he will be run to ground ("hunted", in his terms) before his bankers are; there are far more (and far wealthier) bankers, profiteers, and their employees than successful entrepreneurs, certainly enough to keep the masses busy for a decade should the French Revolution visit Silicon Valley!

>"The great concentrations of wealth I see around me in Silicon Valley don't seem to be destroying democracy."

They are: they work for the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, for hundreds of government agencies, for Google and Facebook. They have blindly destroyed privacy in both in our personal and social behavior. They want more. One need only open one's eyes.