skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a psychologist I get what the article is aiming at. But psychology is a science and clinical psychology has made remarkable progress in the way we treat mental health problems.

In the last 50 years clinical psychologists have figured out effective psychological treatments for almost all mental health problems and manualized them so a professional can know or easily look up the best way to treat a disorder.

It took us forever to get here was because psychologists keeps insisting that every single person is so special that we could never compare them to anyone else.

Which simply isn't true.

Most of my depressed patients share similar background and stress in their life. The same is true for patients suffering from social anxiety.

The biggest problem in therapy today is the lack of practitioners, not that we don't know how to treat disorders. We figured that out using empirical psychological research.
I dropped Dropbox and you should too
I'd say try and finish before making further improvements.
It also says "Since its plain text" when it should say "Since it's plain text".
The important thing for localization is to allow the strings to be swapped at runtime by loading them from some kind of database in a way where the arguments are at least numbered, if not named, so as to let them appear in different orders for different languages. The interpolation syntax does not seem, to me, allow for this: it is an "implicit" syntax offered during parsing to take a constant string and immediately build it out of parts, as opposed to the "explicit" % operator or .format methods: it is extremely clear with these two models how one would load a template that has the strings in a different order, or which used a different subset of the strings.

>>> '%(one)s %(two)s'%{"one":"hello", "two":"world"}
'hello world'
>>> '{one} {two}'.format(one="hello", two="world")
'hello world'

The PEP that is looking at this problem has been deferred: at the end of the document they kind of indicate that they didn't really think about the i18n problem correctly and so don't actually have a good solution to present, and are going back to think about it more.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0501/.
Those emojis, including the taco, will be there for generation after generation of people to ponder and behold. The taco seems like a pretty transient thing to put into something as important as unicode.
Wasn't that in the CIA operations manual that surfaced some time ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363
Post-quantum key agreement
I'm curious how a case can be ruled moot just because a policy has been changed. It would seem to me that the lawsuits are seeking damages for privacy violations that have already occured.
> Like all similar "laws" (e.g., Murphy's Law), Betteridge's law of headlines is not always true.[3][4]

From the article.
Thank you for articulating this. It's an interesting perspective I hadn't seen before and will have to ponder over the degree to which it manifests itself..
I guess I should be grateful that our profession gets to live in the same time as the masters. RIP
twitter and 15-second soundbites don't offer space for nuance but medium, in longform, would
Twitter is a product that magnifies and spreads outrage better than any other platform, so it's not surprising that the most effective politicians use it to do just that.

If Medium can become effective for spreading more nuanced or positive content, that would be a great win.
The article sets up a straw man and nicely destroys it:

Not only did competition not end discrimination, there was enough discrimination that the act of not discriminating provided a significant competitive advantage for Townsend-Greenspan...But even that wasn’t enough to equalize wages between men and women...

The absence of discrimination does not imply wages will be equal. It implies female wages will be equal to female marginal products. If female marginal product < male marginal product, then wages will be lower.

Further, the existence of discrimination does suggest Greenspan-Townsend like firms arbing this irrationality will exist. Can anyone find such firms in the US? I can certainly find firms arbitraging other non-productivity based pay gaps, e.g. US vs Indian engineers.
Well the use of scientific and even graphical calculators didn't help for sure. No one memorized cosin tables anymore and it's not like it was hard.
Sure it allows you to give out problems to students with wierd angles but working at 15 deg incriments and giving harder problems like they did in the past is far better in my mind.
I did some tutoring for high school and college students like 10 years ago, even grade a students that picked the hardest math difficulty (you can choose 3 difficulties the hardest is pretty much a requirement for math oriented degrees later in uni) didn't knew what a logarithm was beyond a key on their calculator, same goes for other basic functions like factorials.
They were petty much parroting and operating a calculator rather than doing math.
Extracts from the Lucid Energy FAQ [0] ....

How does the system work?

The LucidPipe™ Power System uses the flow of water inside
the PWB pipeline to spin four 42” turbines that produce electricity for PGE [Portland General Electric]. PGE purchases
the electricity from Conduit 3 as part of their strong commitment to both renewables and
local sources of energy.

How much energy will the project generate?

This is a 200 kW nameplate capacity project. The system is expected to generate an average of 1,100 megawatt hours of energy per year, enough electricity to power up to 150 homes.

...

DOE Grant – The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Lucid Energy a phase 1 SBIR grant
to field test the LucidPipe technology.

Investors – Lucid Energy has secured private funding from a very active syndicate of
investors including Northwest Pipe Company, the Israeli hybrid venture
capital/crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd, Star Energy and the Harbourton Fund as well as
more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The funding is being used to
accelerate commercialization of the LucidPipe Power System worldwide

-----

Notably absent is what percentage of the power revenue Portland gets from the energy generated.

[0] http://www.lucidenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Lucid-...
I think of Pinterest as replacing magazines à la 'Better Homes', and magazines didn't seem to suffer the novelty problem.
Didn't know (Colwell) got hired. That's cool.

Colwell went to Multiflow first, and then went to Intel after Multiflow fell apart. He played a very key role at Intel, as the architect of many x86 chips:

He was the chief IA-32 architect on the
Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
and Pentium 4 microprocessors.[1]

One of the talks that Colwell gave had to do with the P4, and how the marketing people forced the engineers to prioritize clock rate above all else, during the Megahertz Wars. Needless to say, that did not turn out well.

Colwell wrote a book, The Pentium Chronicles, but I can't recommend it because I haven't read it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colwell
Edging in: the biggest science news of 2015
>Not everyone who gets rich now does it by creating wealth, certainly. But a significant number do, and the Baumol Effect means all their peers get dragged along too. [23] And as long as it's possible to get rich by creating wealth, the default tendency will be for economic inequality to increase

My question is: significantly more wealth seems to be generated by big corporations by means of financial 'instruments' rather than by value creation; is that correct?

Also this lecture [1] says that scientific and technological breatkhroughs are much harder to achieve these days - because all the shallow fruit is already taken and it costs more to digg deep. Now doesn't that make value creation harder for the coming decades? (for example the PC revolution was based on breakthroughs in physics/semiconductors/electronics - these will be harder and harder to achieve)

So it is hard to tell which one will dominate for the near future: value extraction by means of financial trickery (my guess is that this makes society more hierarchical, and the top of the hierarchy will try to enforce equal standing for the lower ranks) or the possibility of real value creation (this one would create a chance for a wider audience) ?

[1] Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0R09YzyuCI
I know you are a smart guy yummyfaijitas so I think I don’t need to point out the fallacy in this argument.

The ultra rich live a life that is very different to the rest of us. This is an interesting article on their views [1].

1. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/22/opinion/la-oe-page-w...
There are idiograms used by only a few hundred people, and some that are no longer used except in academic circles included in Unicode. Why would you not include idiograms that are currently in use by millions if not billions of people?
Salary negotiation: how much should I ask for?
I have an interview next morning. So far I've done research on Glassdoor but it's hard for me to get a good idea of what I'm worth. What is the current market rate for new grads? I've linked my resume below - would you suggest an estimate?
http://postimg.org/image/kw4ozymup[1]
Thanks.
This is why, if you can, the best thing you can do is have a Tor computer. Have it run a live CD of some sort with Tor built-in, and only use it for Tor.

Of course, this is not perfect, and still allows for breaking some of the recommendations in the article, but it's a good start. Not to mention it's easy to switch compartments: restart the computer (still not perfect, but there's really no such thing as perfection here).
The biggest canyon of the solar system is on Mars
Given all the flap about HP & Oracle over the Itanium servers and Mark Hurd, I'm not sure HP is on Oracle's Xmas card list.
Here's one they missed: do not resize your window! If you do, your browser instance has a potential to have a unique viewport size and hence, there's a probability you can be tracked. Whatever size window Tor opens, do not re-size it.

I do not use Tor myself but few years ago I've analyzed an anonymized data site and was amazed how easy it was, with a high degree of probability, to track someone just based on screen resolution + viewport size (i.e. size of your browser window). Almost every viewport size was unique (when correlated with screen resolution).
I picked that up a few months ago but haven't had the time (management skills) to start it yet.
Obligatory link to Paul Graham's article on the same issue:

http://paulgraham.com/stuff.html

Quote: "I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting."

You need to de-clutter to think better. It is certainly true for me.
It is possible to hate the game even as you become a very successful player.
You can also buy support directly from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/standard-edition/...

From the above site:

* Direct access to secure versions of older releases of Java SE via My Oracle Support

* Rigorous and on-going regression testing and fixes for EOL’d versions of Java SE
Its interesting that you say this. I made a similar point some time ago on another forum but I was ignored and even down voted there(no prize for guessing which forum that was)

My idea was that you could gauge how far along a field has come by whether the pioneers were still alive/how far removed you were from them. CS despite huge advances is still in its toddler years.

So, yes. More work to do and exciting days ahead.
So your thesis is that AIs will never reach human intelligence, which can indeed figure out goals of video games on its own?
Compare "Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
A scriptable text-based web service? This seems like it could evolve into an online competitor for Emacs, something I could certainly find use for.
The difference is that cable companies want it both ways. They charge you a minimum for a set amount of serivce AND they charge you if you use more than that AND you don't always get what you pay for (since it's "up to" xx mb/s)

With water if I don't use it I pay zero. If I use xxxx gallons I pay for xxxx gallons and if I turn the tap and water doesn't come out I get a bill credit at the very least.

With the internet I pay $50/ month whether I use it or not, if I pay for 100gb and I use 105gb then I pay $20 for the overage and if I have DOCSIS and everyone in my neighbourhood is using their internet then too bad for me that it doesn't work.
One response to this piece (not by me, to be clear): http://marketurbanism.com/2015/12/26/a-response-to-interflui...
Not exactly a product, but I worked on building a programming community in Berkeley and helped it grow to 1,200 members. We meet twice per week. Our 100th meeting was yesterday. If you like programming, feel free to stop by.

http://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/

http://codeselfstudy.com/edu
See "Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
We've had a Haskell-clone baked into Spreadsheets at Standard Chartered Bank for a while.
People should take a look at vixra.org for distributing PDFs if they don't want to go through the filters at arxiv.org and similar places. At vixra.org, the person downloading the paper does not need to give any auth permissions and log in.
It's not a threshold of the amount of wealth a person has before he or she makes bad decisions. Have you read James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds?[1]"Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future." If that is true, no matter how smart or stupid individual people are, a group of 100 people each worth $10,000,000 using their money as a 'vote' will be better at investing than a single billionaire. The Koch brothers have $100 billion between them. They will spend one billion this year on political influence. They control the conservative conversation which has lead to people who follow them controlling a majority of state legislatures, a majority of state governors, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Those two are not stupid. However, any single person or small group of people with that much power is dangerous no matter how smart they might be. The point isn't to take money from rich people to finally pay for the Iraq war. The point is to take money from the most wealthy to prevent any one person or small group of people from having that much influence. Even the president steps down from power after two terms because our form of democracy doesn't work when someone passes a threshold of power from consolidation. The threshold is an amount of power that is consolidated where a person or small group of people are not longer competitive because they can eliminate all competition. Don't allow the consolidation of wealth into a few too big to fail banks. Break up the banks. Tax inheritance above $10,000,000 90%. Their children can innovate and invest to make money like the rest of us. I don't feel bad for them at all. Have a progressive tax structure using income, capital gains, and corporate taxes to prevent people from acquiring more than $250,000,000. Don't threaten me saying they are going to leave the United States. Please, please, please make them leave. They leave behind Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Cal, Stanford, and every other research school and university which will probably do better without their influence on the faculty. They will leave behind the abundant natural resources and infrastructure which sadly lately under their influence has been neglected. They will leave behind the most productive work force in the world. Americans specialize in management and upper management will see an increase in income without them taking a bulk of it. Please, make them go away.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/...
Counter subversion concerns of various black boxes for SaaS operations.

Have customizable cores to add HW accelerators to like Cavium's Octeon III's do.

Things might get cheaper over time as big vendors buy in volume and that money goes back into enhancements.
I've been dying for a modern pentathlon emoji. My life is complete.
A coworker of mine ordered a can of Barbasol shaving cream from one of these ecommerce startups and they shipped it to him via FedEx overnight, free shipping. His wife said "isn't that mean?" And he said "maybe but they'll be out of business in a year."

Just chiming in with an example of the ridiculousness of ecommerce plays in 1999.
Exhibition at MoMA takes down irrational exuberance about tech w sardonic verve
Thanks for the shoutout! Glad you enjoyed it.
Streaming music services are never likely to make money:

1. Cost of goods is not controllable

2. Competition is arguably my-playlist-algorithm is better than yours.

3. Google, Amazon, and Apple run their service at break even to a loss and make up the difference with ancillary revenue.

I'm surprised FourSquare wasn't listed. They're going for another $40mm round at half of their prior valuation.
surprisingly nifty!
> My bet is that 2/3 of the unicorns are acquihired for terrible terms, dead or on life-support by the end of 2016. If only I could short them, I would, but since I'm living in the Valley, I'm probably going to be negatively affected by this unfortunately.

I make this same prediction, and the consequences will affect me as well.
"tremendous fortunes are made and lost on the basis of slight modifications of existing technologies for gaming, music and video streaming and other sorts of entertainment."
Yes, this is actively being worked on, see the mailing list archives.
Hiking a mountain with Ian Murdock
I believe BETA is also a programming language born in Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BETA_%28programming_language%2...
The goal is essentially for all Medium articles to look completely homogeneous.

With some personal experience developing a platform with users creating customised content, I really wish I had that luxury. My life would be much easier if the customisation was as limited.

But I agree, they have cut the options perhaps too much.
I'd add to that that there are already more implementations than I can count. Rocket isn't the only ASIC game in town, and there are countless soft-cores (FPGA implementations).
Ask the employer what the salary range is for the position (they should already have a number budgeted). Add $10-$15K to the higher number in the range they give you to get an idea of what you can push for if you are able to convince them that you will be a really remarkable hire. If you have a hard time figuring out how to do that, then you are probably not at that point in your career yet (which you shouldn't feel bad about if you're just starting out).
That's a good point. I suppose I assumed that the 50-70% figure referred to front-side securities, futures, or commodity transactions (the equivalent of an end-customer buying a finished product in a retail transaction), rather than amongst various intermediate levels in a complex supply chain.
What's the strawman, exactly?

You say,

> Further, the existence of discrimination does suggest Greenspan-Townsend like firms arbing this irrationality will exist.

The article counters statements like,

> Marc Andreesen’s point is that the market is too competitive for discrimination to exist.

With,

> In the long run, that can put pressure on firms that discriminate, but as we’ve seen, that timescale can easily be longer than half a century. As the saying goes, in the long run, we are all dead.

It seems like he's taking on a widely held position, even by yourself. Far from "a strawman".
Here's a .txt version[1] which is mobile-friendly, unlike that website.

[1]: http://pastebin.com/raw/WwXKAGnW
I don't have android or ios, so can't try the app. The confusing bit for me was what it actually does.

It wasn't until I just went to the apple store and saw

"With Paralign you’re never alone. Journal your thoughts and feelings and Paralign will anonymously find thoughts that are similar to yours. Anonymously message anyone whose thought you resonate with and measure and group your thoughts over time with our timeline view."

A simple description of how it works, but that wasn't on your website anywhere.

I think you're site is really nicely designed, but I don't know that the taglines and quotes make it clear as to why I would use it. Just my 2cents. I didn't get it.

The quotes to me felt quite clinical, like maybe it was an app for people with mental health issues.

This quote doesn't even make sense "It feels like I was always relieved because I can post that bothers on my mind. Aside from that, Paralign enables me to be connected with like-minded people.", until the last sentence, which is all you need.

This one sounds specifically for people who are suffering in some way "I was helped by someone here in Paralign. Now, I am giving it back to others who might be struggling on the same problem that I had. I am giving this app, a “Life Inspiration” Badge!"

I guess I'm still not sure, I don't think you're targeting the mental health market, but for some reason it feels a bit like that.

The image of the app says "I just don't know what do, I have no one to talk with", not the most uplifting message to show people how you will connect with other people using your app.

Hope this feedback helps. I don't mean it to be negative, just trying to get the message across as to why I didn't get it.
I'm curious the real value of supporting dead languages. The number of texts in said languages are presumably no longer growing.

There's no harm in it, particularly in further out plains, just my knee jerk reaction is "why?".
Fair point, I suppose.

However, I have trouble engaging with the arguments when I can't even read far enough to figure out what they are. The article starts out by calling PG names and then throwing up straw men. It almost seems designed to piss me off enough to stop reading . . . and that was my point.
Humans are just too "clever" on destroying ourselves!
Why can't we build something for improving our world?
uh yeah, sorry that was dumb of me :-) Night time brain. Thanks for the correction.
You can have the best of every world with Python on PyPy. Most people agree PyPy's performance levels reach the point of "good enough", while allowing you to write pure Python.

Personally, I prefer to write Python over Go or C. No reason to not have your cake and eat it too.
I've been in SF for 6 years now and before that NYC for 5. things might have changed since then but here's the biggest difference I noticed

NYC a lot of the startups were founded by finance or business people. They saw tech as a some a dozen and not really valued.

In SF on the other hand most startups seem to be founded by tech side and they value tech a more. There is more care for work life balance here then in NYC.