skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I learned never quit drinking.

Before: 200lbs
After: 200lbs

Workouts per week before and after: 3-4

Drinks per week: at least one per day ;)

Challenges: Raising 1.5 children + single income

Avg hrs work per week: 40

Conclusion: balance, balance, balance.

For most people drastic change is impossible, impractical. For most people just steering straight trying to follow the road is enough.
I don't think they would want to bring down the price.

Right now Magic is targeting price insensitive users, which provides an ENORMOUS advantage because they can always pick the most expensive options when executing a request. They basically remove one of the variables regular people have to optimize for, and it makes it much easier to make users happy.

If they're dropping the price to where price-sensitive users get involved, they're going to have to make far more complicated decisions about what flowers at what price point make someone happy, or what seat on what airline makes sense.
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And I'm not going to point-by-point refute arguments that aren't particularly convincing, but here's some thoughts.

> Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility.

It's not just closely related, when considering income inequality the two converge. It's simple arithmetic really. When poverty wages are a lesser multiplier (i.e. income inequality were less) of wealth wages (let's say 2), then it's obvious how to lift oneself out of poverty, split a home with another person earning an income.

> you don't have to grow up rich or even upper middle class to get rich as a startup founder, but few successful founders grew up desperately poor

Sure, but a rich founder has a clear advantage, in the same way that a founder at Harvard has a clear advantage. It's a lot easier to ask a friend/colleague/parent for money than a stranger.

> For example, let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process.

Yes. The way we attack poverty is to spend money to improve schools, spend money to improve transit, spend money to provide food for low cost. Where does that money come from, taxes. If we just talk about fixing poverty, we run the risk of not actually spending money and fixing the problem. Ignoring the greater context of politics, and the almost 100% sign on of republicans to the Grover no new taxes pledge, in order to actually get a mandate to fix anything, the alternative has to be upfront and direct about taxes.

If you'd like me to address arguments directly feel free to respond with something less dickish than telling me to read an article that I've already read.
I've never used twitter and don't understand the appeal at all. How can anything worthwhile be said in 150 characters? Even this comment comes in at 171 characters, jesus.
Humans are inconsistent as well. We also use attributes beyond looks.

Anyone tried a picture with larged amounts of cash in the background?
Bird playing guitars installation by visual artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
It's moving. It sounds like the experiences many people have as they gain maturity, whether or not they used to drink a lot. I saw Amy Schumer talking about how getting drunk went from cool to socially unacceptable as she got a little older.
You're getting a fundamentally different quality of network from AWS or GCE than you get from Linode or similarly-sized dedicated provider. It's a good idea to question whether you need the network services of the large cloud providers, but it's not a very good idea to compare them as if they were apples and apples.
So did they meet Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and how did you arrange that?
> It also doesn't hurt that the Bayes theorem is at its heart a map-reduce problem.

??? I'm not following. You could say that (numerical) integration is a map-reduce problem but that's pretty trivial.
I don't know about Manta, but this is the entire point of HDFS. It easier to move code than data.
If they were using a regular phone number, they could achieve this by using the Messages app on iOS, and controlling it with AppleScript.
Ok, if you're using such a broad definition of "market", then I probably agree with most of what you just said.

It's not broad. It's that most people conflate various discrete ideas.

I personally believe a lot the current political situation was caused by a total lack of these endogenous corrective forces.

You're right, and my position is that much of this is because of exogenous interference. For example, people like to talk about the post-WWII "Golden Age of Capitalism" that involved Keynesian stimulus policies to one degree or another (though there were exceptions, like Eisenhower's response to the 1958 recession). What people often conveniently omit is that the Federal Register was only a seventh the size of what it is today: https://www.federalregister.gov/uploads/2015/05/Federal-Regi...

For this, I'm going with Mark Blyth's response to a similar statement about modern economic thought.

You seem to think I subscribe to rational expectations or something. No, it's a basic public choice and regime uncertainty point. If anything, Blyth's comment is overly myopic and his complete dismissal of "time inconsistencies" is unjustified. The Cantillon effects of monetary policy alone are well-acknowledged across the political spectrum, and that's a straightforward example of temporal disequilibrium.

EDIT: Another contradiction is the Greenspan put.
I don't think US shortcodes are reachable internationally.
Damn, you got me: I was cheating by using Azul's Zing on Vega 3 processors.

http://www.azulsystems.com/products/vega/processor

Well, would be if I was a Java salesman. ;)
Regular expressions strike me as a far more fundamental CS concept than Unicode.
Neat, did not know about that. Will add it to my follow-up benchmarks. Thanks for all the comments. :)
If frequentism is so terrible, why has the field of statistics had so much success over the last century or so.
How can you evaluate the strength of your data without using statistics? You've created a catch-22.

I'll speculate you have some sort of meta-heuristic and only apply this catch-22 under those circumstances? E.g. this catch-22 only applies to weird and socially disapproved topics?
Github was also targeted by China to try to get them to delete certain repos that were unfriendly to China. Some people also saw it as showing off their power.
As someone who has programmed in both, I don't agree. Ruby is a lot more fun than programming in shell. I would recommend learning shell programming as well though.
Saw your tweet (https://twitter.com/theckman/status/684484772316360705) that linked to this post. Did a quick search to get your technical background and your LinkedIn profile states you used to work for Linode? I think it's important to share that info when you're telling your side of the incident. Your past relationship, if you left on bad terms, could play a role in your motivation to post.
that isn't technology though, you just might use technology to keep track of it (wiki/whatever). Maybe that's what paul meant by "technology" but that isn't a Tesla play by any stretch of the imagination.
If people are not mature enough to understand that a machine learning algorithm cannot be racist, shouldn't you go educate them instead of telling people not to offend these idiots?

Secondly what makes you think that every race is equally attractive universally? Studies have people find people of their own race more attractive. If whites are more attractive (either by their training set or user base ratings) doesn't that merely reflect the composition of their user base?
The link points to the wrong Mashable story.
A Stone Carver’s Diary from the Spa City of Bath
I think most middle class people would think $300+ for a meal is wildly extravagant. And would think a $300 gift for "a friend" is on high end of gifts.
What If You Only Invested at Market Peaks?
I too thought it was satire. Two of their examples are "I need to buy $2500 worth of electronics tonight like it's nothing" and "get me a private helicopter tonight for $3500", all the while paying $100/hour for the privilege.

I understand some people spend money like that, but it seemed more likely that someone was making a joke about absurd wealth and the startup scene than a real business. If the Onion wrote an article about it, I wouldn't bat an eye.

Best of luck to the Magic+ team (honestly), but this product clearly isn't for people like me.
Looks like it doesn't do ballpoint, so it probably can't duplicate the varied indentations into the paper that a ballpoint pen will make. I've been checking mail from my Congresscritters to see which ones are using autopens [0] or similar technology, such as the link you provided. (NB the Wikipedia article for the autopen [0] mentions a model that functions on the x and y axes, but makes no mention of a z axis)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen
I'm glad you brought up the other side of things.

If you were an applicant of such impressive, world renowned stature the answer would be: yes, (sir), you still need to go through the regular hiring process.

It isn't an arbitrary request, like building a JavaScript calculator. The samples we ask that you complete closely resemble the type of work you'd do in the role.

When hiring engineers for example, we take a piece of our application, take a chunk out, then ask you to complete it.

If you're a major talent, it's maybe 2-3 hours of work.

If you were to circumvent this, or feel you "shouldn't have to do this", what message does that send to the rest of the team?

We're a remote, self-managing, and loosely structured group - would it be wise to suggest that you are to be treated differently than the rest of us?

It sends a poor message and reflects on the (entitled) attitude of the candidate.

Team work makes the dream work.
It likely stands for Customer Service Representative.
I wrote a competing implementation (I wasn't aware of gocryptfs before) at https://github.com/netheril96/securefs. Many points are similar: for example, a random file ID, 4KiB blocks encrypted with AES-GCM mixed with the ID and block number, sparse file support. The major difference is

* The directory structure. GoCryptFS goes the easy route of encrypting filenames, while mine has its own directory implementation independent of the underlying filesystem. Mine is theoretically safer as it never reuses the IV, but the safety margin is probably so slim that it doesn't matter in practice.

* In addition to authenticating each blocks individually, mine has a HMAC that authenticates the concatenation of all block level IVs and GHASHs. It prevents the attack where replacing a block with its past revision does not show up as invalid.
If you're saying that you make >$100/hour, then you are a long, long way from "most people."
BN hasn't invested in 3D printing. There is one model of cheap 3D printer sold in stores, which is of course not actually produced by BN. Next time you're in ask how many they're holding in inventory, and you'll find it's not many. NOOK is indeed a money pit, but the expense is rapidly decreasing, not increasing, a fact that can easily be checked as they talk about it every quarter.
How Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks
The image retains characteristics of film even though it goes through DI, even color quality. (Quality in the sense of 'different', not strictly 'better'.)

I think it's the principle of "you can't work with what's not there" - film (especially talking several years ago vs. today) will capture a different and usually wider dynamic range, and lend a different starting point that that might not be possible or easy to simulate.
It does support HMDs for browsers that have implemented the WebVR spec. That's Firefox Nightly and experimental Chrome builds so far. Without that it makes a best effort at WebVR emulation.

With a Cardboard viewer, A-Frame demos feel pretty consistent with native Cardboard demos to me (tried iOS + Android). But obviously I'd rather try this out with an HMD, and haven't been able to yet. Hoping to pre-order one tomorrow. :)
holy crap, thats a lot of code. is this guy just memcpy'ing data around though?
> Good luck even finding PC games in a box in a retail store...

Really? The most popular retail PC games are easy to find at a variety of stores in the south-eastern US. I've seen them at WalMart, GameStop, Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, and MicroCenter.
Aside from the fact that total egress for AWS is biggger and thus (slightly) more ddos resistant ... what exactly is the quality difference here ?

There's plenty of dedi providers that are big enough to prevent real outages though. And it doesn't protect you as a customer, it just protects you from other Amazon customers getting ddossed, but Amazon doesn't keep your website reachable if you're getting ddossed (no dedi providers do).
There are two reasons to look at the code. The first is to look for bugs. Obviously that is easier if you have the code. Testing is much easier than writing from scratch. The second is to see how robust the results are to changes in assumptions and other aspects of the methodology. When you are talking about a big computational problem, it is not realistic to expect others to do a full, independent replication. And if you can't reproduce the original results, you need access to the original code anyway, to find the source of the differences.
There was a lesswrong post on that back before they moved to lesswrong.com: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/share-likelihood-ratio...
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It seems like an interesting way to fiendishly separate foolish people from their money.
Wow, these guys are desperate for a pivot after getting torpedoed by Facebook M, huh?
> The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.

This is already what the bulk of tweets are today. What Twitter (and Facebook) want is for people to not have to leave to read external content.
Before HN
Keep in mind that if you're sufficiently large, you can negotiate better rates on dedi as well. Because of the massive competition in that market, you don't have to be that large to do it either.
> a 'greatest hits' compilation of the same things China detractors have been complaining about since 1995

That's what we would expect to see in a bubble, criticisms that aren't coming true until the day it pops. How do we distinguish this situation from a bubble?
Show HN: I asked Magic+ to build me a Magic+ clone (getyourmagic.io)

With their promise of "Anything you want. Seriously." how long before we see that? :)
Someone who values their time at $100/hour, working 40 hours/week, is making over $200,000 a year. I'm not sure if that technically qualifies as the 1%, but I think it's close enough to the GP's point.
So wait... did I miss the part about what happens if they fail to do what I ask? What happens then?

"Finish my dissertation. Thanks."
We are routinely pulling a dataset of hundreds of GBs to 100+ instances (1600+ cores) in parallel. We have never noticed throughput going down with the number of nodes. S3 delivers the maximum throughput of 2-4Gbps / instance very consistently.
Substitute “plausible” for “correct” if you want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Either way it all so speculative as to be basically pure fiction. It reads very similar to me to various “scientific” defenses of particular religious traditions.

Again, as I said, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with this. Little communities of people should do whatever harmless hobby is fun for them.

I just don’t find it very interesting or insightful.

If people want to spend time and attention and resources on existential risks, how about the ones which are clear and imminent, like wealth inequality, the retreat of world democracy and increasing power of entirely unaccountable and amoral multinational corporations, or global climate change, e.g. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sa...
What if you're better at making chairs, and I'm better at making shoes? As you say, partiality of resources, but how is that trade zero-sum? You benefit, I benefit. To be zero-sum, one of us would need to lose.
Since the HackRF is open source, there's a group that makes a lower-cost clone called the HackRF Blue: http://shop.hackrfblue.com/. Their model is $215, and they have some units that have some minor issues (can transmit jut fine) for $150.

I haven't used the HackRF Blue, so I can't compare it to the HackRF One. There are a few comparisons floating around the internet.
The Netflix Recommender System: Algorithms, Business Value, and Innovation [pdf]
What's the technology here that needs to mature? Honest question, but it seems like just a high-end personal assistant on-demand that uses text messages to communicate. It's not obvious to me what the tech is.
I think it makes sense that they only want people who are serious about it. If they didn't have a high up-front entry cost, they'd inevitably end up with lots of pranksters 'trying out' the service with ludicrous/dumb requests ("make my wife love me again"; "buy twenty pizzas, then hurl them into the ocean at this exact point") and bogging things down.
Is there an actual double-blind study that proves that digital still cannot beat analog in certain realms? Because I'm having a hard time believing that this "analogue renaissance" isn't just pure marketing hokum.
Seems interesting
I think you guys will do great for junior folks (where a resume with little experience would be a hinderance traditionally) or perhaps people who are willing to jump through hoops to work from home, but I don't see it catching on (unfortunately?).

> If you were to circumvent this, or feel you "shouldn't have to do this", what message does that send to the rest of the team?

Does everyone on your team get paid the same? If not, does that not send the same message? Is your HR process willing to let top talent go to a competitor who doesn't require such a test?
(All real questions, not rhetorical)
What about the fact that tons of people can afford super nice things today by the standards of even 20 years ago? Imagine going back in time 20 years and showing somebody the iphone 4. Or going back 100 years and showing them the beat up junkers people drive in India. Both of those would be miracles, and yet today are very affordable.
When you can't attack the argument, attack the man.
Amazon’s Email and Calendaring Service, Amazon WorkMail, Exits Preview
Pretty sure they're just photoshopped and they don't use iMessage in reality. The font/kerning/size/alignment looks off from here.
Perhaps I should have extended it a bit more--as someone else commented, they will likely drive the price point down as the tech improves and they're able to do things algorithmically which will reduce overhead. The Tesla strategy is probably a better fit here than Uber, though.
> Assuming you gather enough data, your posterior distribution will eventually approximate a delta function centered around that one true model. This is also what happens when you do BMA or gaussian mixtures.

What happens when your data is actually distributed according to a mixture of gaussians (c.f. Pearson's crabs).
If 140 characters was brilliant, than 10K characters is unbelievably brilliant.
The upgraded clock would be really nice; I have a standard RTL-SDR without that, and the clock can drift a lot with temperature: it'll start up a few dozen PPM off, and shift another few dozen when it warms up. Depending on frequency, that ends up being many kilohertz, which is really annoying if you're shifting/filtering/downsampling, as your target signal can drift outside of your filter window.

A constant ppm error is easy to compensate for; less so when it changes.
Except it's probably not some random guy, right? What if it was Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, or Christopher Nolan?
Sun, Oracle, Android, Google, Mozilla and JDK Copyleft FUD
What I would like to see is "What if Bob only invested after a big crash."
Maybe not. Maybe there is something else on the horizon.

I actually think frameworks are too monolithic, and we feel the pain of that, but no one has figured out how to do something more granular yet. To a large extent that's a community administration problem, not a technical one, which is why you don't see a lot of computer scientists trying to do it. Though it will require some technical chops too.

Node/NPM, and UNIX before it, are attempts in this direction. It's not really gelling yet though. The various component systems are trying, but inevitably fail because they are trapped in a single layer of the framework stack. I think we need a few more breakthroughs in social organizational strategies (things like Flickr, Uber, Bitcoin, etc) before it becomes obvious how to do it.
>I don't think it would be fair to malign philosophers because they come up with outlandish scary scenarios that scare people with OCD sometimes.

Actually, that sounds like a fine reason to malign philosophers. In order to consider "outlandish scary scenarios", you must first be quite sure that those scenarios are realistic. If they're not, then you're wasting everyone's time.

And yes, if your expected-utility expressions fail to converge because you believe in taking every Pascal's Wager/Mugging scenario into account, or because you don't believe in time, then you've attempted to take the limit of a nonconverging sequence and no amount of philosophizing will help.
Not if you have to buy a minimum of 10 hours AND with BillFixers, you're getting a DEFINITE savings of 100% of whatever you paid them.
> People nostalgic for the blurriness of old home movies? Do any of these actually exist?

Look at all the people buying vinyl records and ask yourself that again.
AWS has at least 23 points of presence and Google has at least 70.

I think you are seriously underestimating the size of Amazon's or Google's networks.
It's a never ending battle. They never go away completely.
In the metanalysis, Hedges' g is 0.24. Hedges' g is a less biased measure of Cohen's d, and Cohen d between 0.2 and 0.3 as a "small" effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size#.22Small.22.2C_.22...). Of course there are plenty of caveats to assigning importance to effects of different magnitudes without regard to what is being measured, but this isn't a very large effect.
Why didn't such bugs come to light when Comcast tested the device for potential security vulnerabilities. They did test that a radio controlled home security device was immune to conventional jamming?
Can I ask when you moved off of soft layer? I ask because my employer is considering them as an option and this isn't the first time I've heard softlayer horror stories.
Cool. Let's see some convictions for the leaders and middle managers, and reparations for the victims.

Oh wait, we won't, because it's America. Be glad that the toxic sludge didn't sicken you, citizen.
One irony here is that of the two gyms I belong to, the cheap one has longer hours on holidays and Fridays.

I originally added the cheap one because it's just 4 minutes from my house, ruining my ability to flake out on the basis that "I don't have time to do X before they close".
Can you give some specific examples of things that Magic+ does better than a local personal assistant, besides being available around the clock?
You can even send an API request ;-)