skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who owns the same tools should be able to replicate the results of the paper without rewriting its code. Whether these tools (e.g. Matlab or your software) come at a cost is a secondary concern as long as it is not prohibitively high.

What I dislike the most are computational articles that give no indication whatsoever about the employed tools and programming languages.
Take into account OP's former jobs. I imagine if anyone would run into such a limit, it would be Reddit or Netflix.
> Vegetables were simply cheaper and more widely available than meat.

Right... and therefore, people might have developed a cultural and perhaps even physiological preference for those foods composed of and derived from animal products. Hence, meat and fried foods.
I stopped buying printed books a few years ago, with a couple of exceptions which I kinda regret because they take up space. I love my collection, but it's now split between <20 books at home, and several boxes in storage. Yay, cramped California living!

That said, the bulk of my book collection is now digital, with thousands of PDFs and DJVUs on my laptop, ipad, and network storage. It doesn't have the cachet of a physical bookshelf, though. Maybe I'll print out "ls -R" and tape that to an empty wall?
A bay area resident who has several thoughtful writings and talks about human computer interaction and more recently a piece on global climate change. AFAIK he is unemployed so he has lots of free time to work on personal projects which may be inspired by the readings on his bookshelf.
https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/19/an-old-system-and-a-swat-...

They try to downplay it pretty hard.
From a meta-analysis:

" The 20 studies included here were all completed between 2008 and 2013....Sample sizes of treatment groups varied between 7 and 36 participants, and control
groups between 8 and 43"

"net effect of n-back training on Gf
outcome measures, about the equivalent
of 3–4 points on a standardized IQ test"

ie: very small groups, tiny effect. Sounds dubious to me, like much research in the social "sciences"

Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory:a meta-analysis http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/au-e...
Hi Rasmus, you described your paper on age estimation on the site. Do you also have something written on the hotness scale? :-)

Edit: Sorry, missed it! http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf
How to live.

A central place with 10-sentence (or less) summaries from the most important books. So I could read everything from this one place in 1 month and bootstrap myself as a human.

e.g. like Derek Sivers's book notes from https://sivers.org/book but shorter and denser.
> What stops these guys from selling to all the major health insurers.

Is this a response to my comment? I would guess that the answer is "nothing but the temporary protection of the law", but, assuming that protection is eventually revoked, it makes it all the more worrisome for me to have a random stranger's data taken as my own.
I think the author's location skews their perspective. Kyoto is quite different culturally to the big cities, and you'll find the same kind of "individualism" that you find in Western cities in Tokyo etc. By "individualism" I mean the poisoned kind where you're defined by the articles-of-self you've purchased, whether it's a Gucci bag on your shoulder, a collection of charms dangling from your wrist, where you go to eat and what phone you have as opposed to the form of individualism which is to define yourself by what you do and how you conduct yourself.
> As Warren Buffet said (paraphrased), an entrepreneur isn't going to stop trying to get rich because of a 10 or 20% hike in marginal or capital gains taxes.

I think that quote is here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-taxes-2011-8?o...
The UK does something like this, they call it "means adjusted" fines.

Usually it's done if you challenge a ticket and they still find you guilty. Then they may adjust the fine relative to your financial condition. (I'm not sure how they find that out, eg if they talk to HMRC or other).
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I think Ive sent an update every few months (so you know we arent giving up).

Thanks for signing up!
with kernel tuning, S3 performance improves (and will probably improve on GC/Azure as well). Also, author uses Ubuntu 14.4 (see https://twitter.com/Zbjorn/status/684492084422688768), which doesn't use AWS "Enhanced networking" by default. Would be interesting to see results for tuned systems.
Companies? Most of work in distributed and e-commerce schemes was academia with them publishing it from journals to stories on tech and financial news. Some companies published work and design descriptioms too. I've been collecting and reading such stuff since the 90's.

The only thing new IIRC was making old things use proof-of-work and (global?) broadcast. Which also caused its problems. So, no, the stuff wasn't obscure, locked away... anything. Just ignored outside of transaction, database, security, and accounting subfields. The few doing it made slow but steady gains on technologies.

And thanks to Bitcoin, they might get some mainstream attention and more R&D.
Tony Padilla sure can sell that sleight of hand :-)
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He's one of the PI-like people at the CDG.

(http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046437/5-steps-to-recreate-xero...)
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Are you buying your own hardware and colocating, or leasing hardware? If the latter, which provider(s) are you using?
Jack Dorsey addresses Twitter's character limit
Much of this discussion revolves around the perfectly legal tax avoidance mechanism utilized by Greene. Missing, though, is what exactly that revelation means. Are we advocating the removal of such mechanisms? Calling for an addition tax? Is there a bill I can advocate my senator to vote for? I do find such schemes interesting in their own right, but I can't quite shake the tone of indignation present in the discussion -- indignation that seems to lead nowhere.
I stand corrected, sorry.
Lots of food for thought. I scanned the rotated version by jarmitage, increasingly worried Byrne's version of Euclid's elements wasn't tere. Wrong, it was further away :)
Thanks! I may reach out in the future, we could always use feedback :)
You could also sell leads to suppliers or you can sell the parts themselves.

The key is to understand what your users want and what other parties who are willing to shell out money want and strike a balance.
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There's not much difference. In fact, you cannot expect translators to know how the underlying object is handled or write data extractor out of the file object.

If translators are cooperating with you, it's very easy to provide the needed elements directly in the format's dictionary (that is: you extract the translatable pieces for them). It also means you don't have to worry that they're going to fiddle with mutable state.

I generally write everything in english, and do back-translation to my own locale (I also cooperate for translating external projects into my locale), so I eat my own dogfood here.

I know I do not want to deal with extra lower-level subtleties here. Translation is hard already by itself. It's impressive how a good translation of a simple UI can take so much time. If I had to inspect the object to know what I can get out of it I would get crazy.

I'd take a pre-baked dictionary any time.

I've also already used the string-catalog approach in the past (heh, XUL), and I'd personally take gettext any day.
Fair enough. It's also worth pointing out that Alfred Binet, generally considered to be one of the fathers (if not THE father) of intelligence testing, felt that the idea of quantitative intelligence testing was severely flawed (and had fairly harsh words for people who believed that there was largely a single measure of intelligence).
All the benchmarks were from a single instance.

(Note that I have done some testing from AWS Lambda, where we had 1k lambda jobs all pulling down files from S3 at once. That's a bit harder to benchmark...)
They are exactly like that, in that almost all purported benefits of eye training and brain training alike are not supported by scientific evidence and only very narrow effects exists: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15825744
Do you have direct experience with it? Any improvements in the tracking quality of slow lines?
P(popular | appeared on BBT) < 1
Jack Dorsey just posted a longtweet-as-image which implies that the story is true: https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248

His comments about searching/highlighting imply that this feature might be like Medium.
It's interesting to think about how much more "gone" ancient Egypt is than ancient Rome. Sure, much of ancient Egypt was really ancient, but the present culture of Egypt owes very little even to the Ptolemies.
No.

Peer review can apply the scientific method to the paper well enough. This may take time. That is just fine.

People having their names on papers helps with motivation to publish in most cases, and it's good to understand who contributed what when trying to understand how an idea has formed and who might be with collaborating or talking to.

Some topics may be difficult politically. Those are special cases that can and should warrant doing whatever it takes to insure publication and the safety of the scientist.

There are also ethics. Anon publishing may well increase questionable research. This should fall into the special case bucket too, as it overlaps with politics.
Computer-related accidental death: an empirical exploration [pdf]
While the difficulty is scaling it comes out to about seven and a half minutes per block, not five or below five.

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?show_he...
Adolescent sleep and fluid intelligence performance [pdf]
The Endogeneity Problem in Developmental Studies: Correlation=causation [pdf]
How do they know you built anything?

Why should they expect that your experience will count for anything if you aren't willing learn a bit about data structures to pass that portion of your interview?
If we presume the attackers had access to the system handling authorization, then the attackers introducing code to ship passwords offsite as users log in isn't really a stretch of the imagination.
Looks like an SEO hack. Just from the title.
This is not the case with Google Cloud Storage. I cannot speak to the other providers.

Google Cloud Storage does not limit read or write throughput with the exception of our "Nearline" product (and even Nearline's limiting can be suspended for additional cost, a feature called "On-Demand I/O").
Oh, most definitely. If you're bandwidth intensive, might as well head straight for colo and your own gear: cloud providers rake you over the coals for moving bits in and out of their networks.
Okay, fair enough. However, I'd like to point out that there is no objective metric for intelligence. Do you consider musical ability as intelligence? Several musicians have claimed to become 'more intelligent' with drugs.

Also, my use of the word rigor was about the discussion, not the consumption of LSD. I don't want to comment one way or the other on whether one should consume drugs.
Do note though that Valve/Steam isn't a publisher, it's just the distributor even if a major one. Quite many games still have separate developer and publisher, neither of which is Valve.
"It's like someone sold carrots claiming they improve vision"

I assume that you know that there is no evidence for carrots improving vision.
FTC puts proceeds of settlement into a "consumer restitution" or "consumer redress" fund. Consumers who were affected by the bad actors, can claim their money back via a separate company which administers that fund. After a period of time, once all affected customers have had time to claim their restitution (usually 12-24 months), then any remaining money left in the "redress" or "restitution" fund goes into the FTCs coffers. I can't quickly find stats on what percentage is usually claimed by consumers. But last time I researched this, it was pretty low with something like <10% of affected consumers actually claiming their restitution and 90% going back into FTC budget.
I've been on the list to get into their preview program for a while so I can benchmark it, actually! Part 3 of the blog post is going to include some NFS stuff either way.
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> Collaborative Text Editor

http://bash.org/?85514

<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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Magic+
So GSK knowingly did business with the Sicilian Mafia? Fascinating.
https://this.cm/ allows only 1 post a day (FB style social network).
Did the host get in trouble for this?
Those companies probably are low-value for the amount of cash they have, and quite likely should be loading up on debt and finding ways to return cash to their shareholders. Many of then are doing that.
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> Kyoto is quite different culturally to the big cities

Having lived in and around Kyoto I would disagree. There are some minor differences, but it doesn't add up to a major difference.
As much as I like this I'm sad to say that we also have numerous violations of the law with respect to privacy by many branches of the Dutch government. Journalists have had their phones tapped, the schools and health care providers are asking for ever more absolutely private information about parents from both the parents and their children (this is of course 'for the children' so never mind the violations), finger prints of non-felons are still collected with impunity, dragnet style information collection is on the order of the day, there are no means of transport that are not under continuous surveillance outside of going on foot and by bicycle (and even there the little snitch in your pocket will tell big daddy where you are) and so on.

It's sad that we seem to be able to make the right decisions from time to time but at the same time we are actually making the wrong decisions most of the time. Here's to hoping things will eventually get better, I shudder to think of the kind of catastrophe that would swing the pendulum back the other way and turn the tide.
Now it is obvious that you are a lawyer ;-)
Honestly, as someone who doesn't like or use twitter very much, I find it really hard to follow a thread sometimes because of all the weird things people do to write more than the current limit
Hmm, interesting. Annoying that it is manual, but if it can be automated, Twitter might actually be interesting to me.
The regular environment for Android is free. As is the regular environment for Windows Phone.
I would strongly recommend "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." It will help you balance out Silicon Valley's ideal that everything should be large, efficient, and centrally controlled.
While this is a good goal, and I don't think it's not a sensible goal, the amount of developer bandwidth required to take the approach given in the article is enormous.

Fixing exceptions as they come in is great if you've got someone on deck specifically for fixing them, but what happens if everyone is already working on something else? Especially if that exception is something that is relatively unimportant? The idea of setting aside time for working on it is much better. I like to do a refactor Friday and work specifically on this type of goal.
If you're suggesting that the tax gains offset the costs, you're welcome to demonstrate that.
I think it is a wholly sensible goal for a web app. If a network connection goes down, it is helpful to the user to inform them of what is going on rather than 500ing; or, if it's an async job, retries are appropriate. An exception is the end of a flow and is generally unhelpful for customer-facing tools. An exception should mean 'hey, a user did some edge case that illuminated an issue we should fix'.
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Efficient, perhaps; Centrally controlled, I'm not so sure it is a Silicon Valley ideal (i.e. one likes it when they own it, but it's not generally an ideal preached by the SV community.)
So less "dysfunctional company" and more "I'm not good at it so you suck!"
The relevance would be there are a lot of people out there who don't actually realize it's true. News from Japan generally comes in two flavors: "Look how weird these people are." and "Japanese people aren't having kids, so Japan is doomed. DOOMED, I tell ya."
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I uploaded a photo of my (male) personal trainer. It got it exactly right. Age 26 and "stunning."
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
My thinking is to move off the time and expense of testing candidates from the interview stage to as late in the process as possible. A really though test of a candidate is time consuming and to do it at the interview stage is not fair on the candidates and the company. You can provide any candidate with the full list of what they will be tested on in their first x days so they can decide if the job is for them or not (i.e. everyone is upfront with what is expected).

The only problem I see with this approach is Dunning-Kruger effects. My experience in hiring is it is pretty easy to pick candidates suffering from DK by comparing what they say with what they can demonstrated via their work history. It is the more marginal candidates where they seem non-delusional, but where they don’t have a perfect CV. These people are often overlooked by other companies, but they often turn out to be fantastic employees. Taking a chance on them can be a great.
> It's important to call out bad practices where they exist

I suppose. But second guessing the development of GNU Emacs in 1984 (let's be clear: a program on the short list of the most successful bits of software ever written in the history of computing) might be a bad place to start if you're trying to avoid embarassing yourself.

RMS was writing this, alone, on a VAX most likely, or maybe a Sun 2 if he was really lucky. What hardware do you expect he would have dedicated to that putative "test suite" even if he had time to write it?

Kids today.
Might be interesting if they 'gamified' this character limit.

Your limit increases the more engagement you have.

Or maybe everyone starts off with 10k but the limit decreases based on engagement. Might be a way to reward people who create interesting content.

Although I'm sure someone at fiverr would be offering a service to counteract that idea via bots seconds afterwards.
That's true and great point. Let's play devil. You can't really be sure if Google engineer is sloppy and logging username and password on entry and then the SRE reading the log sees everything. I am not sure if their build system has plugin to detect such big red flag. Stacktrace is another place with potential leak of credentials. All of these are reasons when someone claims software is open source and auditable but they run the service themselves, it's really important to note you can't audit the actual server. They can log your username and password behind the scene while the client side appears to be 100% the same as the one on the server side.

What you describe is not rare, can be done with cross-site scripting. How it happens depends on the injection method (perhaps SQL injection).
One thing about NPR: they definitely know their market.
I don't think it will be a big improvement - I think it will become Medium Nano. Which is bad, because Medium and Wordpress (etc) already own that space, and a nano version adds nothing useful.

140c is great for one-liners and linkbait, which is - apparently - the main reason people read Twitter.

If it turns into a micro-blogging stream of extended self-expression, I think a lot of people won't have time for that.
That's good to know, and definitely adds credence to my opinion that networking is the area where Google is definitely winning the Cloud Wars(tm)
You don't get to fake anything, they look it up in a "book". States that tax you on plates/tabs based on the car's value do exactly that. State says a 2013 Audi is worth $20K, then that's what you're getting taxed on whether you think the car is worth that much or not, and mileage is not taken into account. Annoying, too, when NC said the motorcycle I was riding at the time was worth $3K. Umm, yeah, not with 120K miles on the clock, it's not. The state did not take me up on the offer to sell it to them for $3K, which is the way I think it ought to work. Kind of like the style of car racing where you can only modify it within limits, and anyone can offer to buy the car after the race for $XXXX.
When his people approach my people about it I'll make sure you get your share of the proceeds. I couldn't take full credit for it in good conscience.
Short equations don't express complex thoughts. They express the short result of complex proofs, which are themselves essentially definitions. Math is a process of describing reality using definitions built on definitions. The analogy to communicating social, political, or creative thoughts is ridiculous.

If you want to prove me wrong, show me a complex thought expressed in 140 characters. Again, I agree that complex thought can result in a very interesting tweet, but the tweet will not be able to convey all the thought behind it.
RPS to S3 is limited, but not throughput to S3, except by bucket. Higher throughput can be achieved by sharding your data across multiple buckets. Also, its important to properly namespace your keys within buckets to ensure its efficiently distributed across underlying data partitions.
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So does paypal. I was comparing decentralized currencies.
I think the main issue here is the problem of bias in the scientific community. Anonymity is just one proposed solution. There could be others.

We should remember that there are three major forms of incentive in the scientific community :

1. Prestige (requires name)
2. Salary and grants (requires credentials, and hence names)
3. The joy of analysis and discovery (doesn't require names)

(I might have missed some forms of incentives, but these seem to be the major ones to me.)

Anonymity will take the top two incentives away. The second one is a very practical one. There's an existing competition for salary and grants, a pretty brutal one in some areas where money is scarce. We need to solve this problem first before the concept of anonymity can be realistically entertained.

I have heard other proposals for reducing bias that seem more tangible. One of them is democratization (partially or fully) of peer review in a centralized publication system (like arxiv).
This is a work in progress :-)

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