skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll note that I'm not advocating for FOSS (and the licensing nightmares that can entail), just available source code for peer and community review.

Perhaps I'm being too loose in my terminology, but in this context I used "closed source" to mean "source code unavailable to the community." In my view the attached license(s) matter a lot less than making it so that the science can be reviewed, reproduced, and improved upon.

If the source code can be reviewed for free but not redistributed, reused or commercialized for free, then I don't see why that would hinder endeavors to review and reproduce the research. However having to go through byzantine and expensive processes to procure source code would be an impediment to those in academia who don't have funding to pay for licenses to source code just to review a paper, for example. Maybe I'm not reading closely enough, but that sounds a lot like what you're advocating in your original comment.
It's stuck in the reality you define - you can add the last hand, all cards seen so far, and the color of people's jackets to the model if you so please.
Can't have been what the painter was going for...
a little off topic but is it possible to truly randomize the 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 shuffle combinations?

edit: also, when i play solitaire via an ipad app there is always a 'top score' by someone for the hand i was dealt. i dont understand how this is probabilistically possible
Absolutely, we keep in touch with companies post hiring and are gathering that data too. It won't be meaningful for a while though, interview performance gives us a tangible starting point.
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Or hoverboard!
The "low cube" you describe, to me, doesn't even qualify as a "cubicle". That's an "open work area" as far as I'm concerned.
Civil suit? I'd make the case this was fraudulent behaviour and deserves criminal charges.

By way of analogy, if I sold you my car with an added turbo charger yielding a 20% mpg improvement, but had the side effect of causing the engine to seize after 10,000 miles, which I neglect to tell you, then that's fraud.

Similarly, if those inventory write offs and other machinations to inflate standard business metrics at the expense of derived metrics then cumulatively that is fraud. Standard business metrics are used for a reason and that understanding seems to have been exploited to hide the true status of the business.

As a society we need to start doing a better job of seeing white collar crime as activities like this.--Of course I'm making assumptions here, but I'd expect due diligence would have created a paper trail that could be followed to find evidence of statements like 'we streamlined operations that contributed to our surge in profitability' rather than 'we aggressively wrote-off assets and dumped inventory to show a short term surge in profits'.
My favorite pithy Steve Jobs quote, from when I was giving him a demo of pie menus on NeWS, is "That sucks! That sucks! That sucks! Oh, that's neat. That sucks!"
Depending on what you mean by "inequality" and "equality," loads of people. While I doubt you could find many people who want some artificial straw-man world where everyone is completely and totally equal in every way, you should have no trouble at all finding people upset about the vast difference in quality of life between the rich and poor of humanity.
Printer paper and tape would solve your problem quickly.
> What is wrong, Mr. Graham, with REDUCING income inequality by taxing EXCESS wealth, and spending it on public services to maintain or even (gasp) improve social mobility?

Not Mr. Graham, but it would be hard, probably impossible to find a definition of "EXCESS wealth" which could be considered as just. This is one of the cases where majority opinion doesn't work as everyone has a significant stake in the outcome (is biased in another words).

The way to solving issues surrounding economic inequality should be to planned with a goal of as meritocratic society as possible. The ideal is a state that everyone can say whatever they own and made has has been acquired justly, without society taking part of it away, often just because it was the first practical idea, on how to fight a disease, many of them could comprehend and campaign for.
It possibly associates the painting texture with poor skin health.
I've not seen numbers and I'm skeptical that it's growing, but the revenue can't be more than a rounding error on their books.

Lumping Apple with Google in terms of data gathering is misleading at best.
Rising Strong by Brene Brown

It teaches you how to get back up after failure, how to be in the arena, doing the work and not backing down when the critics tries to shame you.

Her research on shame in her earlier books and especially on the subject of "doing the best you can" in this book has helped me a lot.
I'm going to go out on what might be something of a limb and suggest that perhaps Twitter is not the place for meaningful discussions, or even, discussion in general.

Obviously there's no right or wrong way to use Twitter, but I generally don't follow people who do more than post inane status updates like "i love tacos lol" or links to mildly interesting news articles. For me at least, that's all I want Twitter to be, and it does that admirably. If I want discourse theres room for that pretty much anywhere else on the Internet.

I suspect the majority of the problems people have with Twitter stem from expecting it to be something that it just fundamentally isn't and can't be. If you use Twitter with a desire for serious engagement with others you're almost always going to be disappointed. If you treat it as a place to put silly 140 character messages out into the world whenever you feel like it then it's much more fun. And weirdly, much more useful.
The "we already tried that" argument throws all the non state-capitalist ideas down the toilet with Soviet central planning though (it does belong there, of course, but so does American capitalism).

There's a pretty wide range of ideas between anarchism and social-democratic capitalism that aren't included in the false binary of US/USSR models.
It's not as if this is just bad luck...
OP here, would love your thoughts!
I think that the crucial difference between twitter and facebook is not the length of the posts, but the fact that twitter is broadcast, or "publish-subscribe", while facebook is semi-private through reciprocal permission (by default).
No, its not. There is a "concept" behind them to justify it in a way that doesnt just spit out "hey, we dont really value you as an employee more than we value a thumbs up from our shareholders". Solitude is necessary for creativity, open floor plans are terrible for cross-collaboration because nobody can concentrate to begin with.
I stopped bothering clicking "not interested", it seems to have no influence on the games. All I want is the option to block some tags from showing up in my queue at all (action, fps, multiplayer, racing and anime).
In an earlier job, we moved from a cubicle office to an open office. The open office was supposedly there to facilitate group work. But we were soon told that since everyone could hear and see what we were doing, we were no longer supposed to meet and talk with colleagues at our desks as we had been doing (too distracting for others).
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Another doge is you deduct the full value of stock and avoid capital gains. So, you reduce your income more than your net income you would have gotten selling your stock.

AKA Let's say you get 75$ after state and federal capital gains on 100$ in stock ~(25% Tax). You deduct 100$ from your taxes not 75$ and you can deduct that 100$ from earned income which is taxed at ~40% federal + 13.3% state call it ~50$ in tax savings. Net result you donated 100$ to an organization of your choice at the cost to you of (75$-50$) ~= 25$. And don't forget you can call a lot of things charity's.

http://www.fidelitycharitable.org/giving-strategies/tax-esta...
Bayes in action: The author of this article had a set of prior beliefs about the Bayes's Theorem, which evolved after he reviewed more evidence.
Might be helpful to those interested in pursuing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence

TL;DR Live well below your means, save as much as you can.
Beware premature optimization.
Shuffling can be done in linear time, e.g. with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle so yes.
Ever since I moved to MN, I've been hearing anecdotes that it's because that the population tends to be very outdoorsy and gets more exercise than in other states. Don't know if it's true at all, but even in winter, I see an awful lot of people out fishing, hunting, etc.
"Literally" is not incorrect.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

"Literally" can mean "virtually," or "figuratively."
Just to follow up on your last point, I have found that folks are often happy to send code, but code written in research labs is generally horrendous. I don't think that the "publish or die" culture and a culture of releasing all relevant code is compatible. It takes time to refactor and produce clean code - time that can be spent chasing the next publication.
>Maybe it's time to ditch that coldfusion stack?

[Linode developer here]

Been working on (re)writing things in Python since I started. It takes a while, but I think everyone recognizes that the CF codebase is difficult to maintain. The good news is that significant progress is being made and we're still doing routine audits of the existing stuff.
This is actually further than I expected this to go. I'd figured companies would charge up to the penalty, not more than it, as charging more would drive customers away, and charging just a little less would net them the most money.
Every time I heard these ads I cringed. As a scientist (with plenty of experience in the neuroscience domain) I knew there was no way they could back up those claims reliably.

I definitely noticed when they toned down the claims, but even then I was surprised they were still going...

+1 FTC
I've worked in an environment almost exactly like that: a university library.

Now that you mention it, I got a lot of work done in that library...
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I was trying to tell you that there is a difference between what someone thinks about something's value and the actual value of that thing. It's called subjectivity and objectivity and I feel like your first comment in this thread sounds like you imply that there was no objectivity. The absolut is a special case of relativity: coffee is absolutely disgusting, even if it subjectively seems to taste relatively fine to some, they all agree that it was disgusting at first, hence it's called an aquired taste.
But it does require a bunch of smart apps that can speak the language for each device you toss on the network.
I feel like this could work out quite well, so long as they preserve the spirit of Twitter's original 140 char limit. That could be handled as simply as: The first 140 characters are shown (just like they are today), but there's a "see more" button/icon/etc. that expands the tweet to longer form.

That would seem to solve both issues -- short-and-sweet for those that want it, and longer as necessary.

(Note this idea has been baked for approximately 15 seconds, so I'm sure I'm missing quite a bit.)
This is huge for companies that do anything with their own hardware. $2M in capex per year a is pretty good sized company. That's a lot of servers or senors or computers.

This also probably mimics a start-up's actually valuation of their equipment. It costs money to buy, but after it goes in use, there's nothing that a banker can sell or mortgage against--not to say it isn't a economic asset, but when has tax accounting ever been about that?
I thought that you might be one of my college profs, but then realized that he would never apologize for a long post.
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Get rid of the headphones and try again
But, how could they really be? Wouldn't you always come up against the CAP theorem (treting delays like short partitions)?
Yes, I think that's likely. The titles I've contributed to or worked on generally don't have networking, threading, or muck about with the filesystem.

They usually are single-threaded, have a single file archive or open files from a single directory (without any searching or the like). Surprised you've run into IPC use at all really.

I have had to deal with the file case-sensitivity issue, but that's usually not the most difficult issue to resolve. SDL_physfs and SDL itself provides solutions for a lot of the usual hackery in dealing with file I/O though.

Never had to deal with Endian issues as I've only been involved with ports that ran on x86.

Still, I'd say that the parts that SDL provides abstractions for are the parts that I least want to deal with -- especially when it comes to input handling or dealing with screen resolution changes. Years of knowledge there.
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> I feel like this could work out quite well, so long as they preserve the spirit of Twitter's original 140 char limit. That could be handled as simply as: The first 140 characters are shown (just like they are today), but there's a "see more" button/icon/etc. that expands the tweet to longer form.

That would also provide a better first-party equivalent to services like TwitLonger, as well as the common practice of posting a snippet and a longer text-as-image.
I can only see this being beneficial to the platform and/or ecosystem if they restrict the default displayed size of tweets, requiring users to click-through to read more.
Well, if it makes you feel better, see what the algo thinks is hot…

https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/tI9QTAblYVanuA9

:-)
Well, the point of the law is to have all workers earning at least minimum wage, not necessarily above.
One of their recruiters reached out to me - in a former life I worked in a neuroscience lab researching neurogenesis to improve memory problems from a neurodegenerative disease (regular exercise can actually do wonders for that).

Would have been a really neat to revisit my academic passion, but as I started to read papers that had been published on their product, I wasn't convinced of its efficacy. That, and all of the studies used people with real problems, and they're marketing it to the general population as a way to "train" your brain, which feels wrong to me.
The racism and feminism points Bond makes sound to me like typical social justice warrior bullshit - no matter what you do, you're a misogynist racist. Disagreeing with the modern trend of mindless outrage paints you as an enemy. So does ignoring the topic. So let me skip it, because I do disagree with Bond very seriously about that part of the text, and I don't want to start another SJW subthread here.

> Nothing here seems to be a counter, you're just basically saying "it's politically incorrect so it's probably right".

No; I'm saying that just because he's politically incorrect, doesn't mean he's wrong. And it most definitely does not mean Bond gets to assume all the bad things he did about the author. Eliezer is just toying with an idea based on some observations. Personally, I find his idea intriguing and worth considering, given that time and again I've learned that when the general population seems to believe something counterintuitive and self-serving, like "those rich people are stupid and evil", they're usually wrong.

> The whole point is that these kind of people find these questions ("is rape really bad?") really intriguing rather than obvious.

I think we disagree on the interpretation. Many stories raise weird questions about morality; that's the reason we have literature. Please find me a place on LW where people, and Eliezer in particular, were seriously advocating for rape. Also it's worth noting that the rape angle was just a passing remark in the story, a way to shake the audience a little bit - and otherwise in no way relevant to the plot.

> I think you're too uncharitable to critical writers like Bond (it took me a while to acquire a taste for this vicious kind of writing), underestimating their and their audiences' understanding. As a result, you think this context adds way more than it does.

Maybe I am, but it's because I've been a member of groups that were on the receiving end of such writings, and spent a lot of time debunking them point-by-point to concerned friends and colleagues who stumbled upon them. It's painful, and you realize just how helpless you are against people who argue dishonestly.
(1) You publish the code at the time of publication of the paper, not before.
(2) This is a reason to publish the code, not a reason not to publish it.
(3) You don't necessarily have to make package it neatly like production software, but some effort is necessary.

We just wouldn't accept these kind of excuses for other descriptions of methodology, even though they might apply. There's no reason that code should be an exception.
One ex-colleague of mine wouldn't even indent her Perl code properly. I showed here there was even a button in eclipse to do it for her.

(Using eclipse seems problematic when there is a text editor that doesn't involve any cognitive overhead to many bioinformaticians. The step through debugger did seem to appeal to this one though).
Wow ... Great move on the part of the company. This is the way it is done. I'm looking at you Google.
More like, it is open source, but it's not free open source?
Marketplace has done an interesting investigation on those types of mind games. http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/episodes/2014-2015/brain-train...
IIRC Windows did a thing where they wanted all the software they shipped to be 64 bit. That's why some of the games like pinball were removed.
Pico Iyer the author should not be writing or submitting for the Huff Post. A person has to have standards.
> or some transactions could be moved to “sidechains” as proposed in systems like the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But the Lightning Network is useful only for a ledger that is denominated in Bitcoin, and we still have to deal with the “central” Bitcoin blockchain, whose size is likely to continue to increase despite the addition of various “sidechain” mechanisms.

This is incorrect for multiple reasons.

> "Takes over 10 minutes to “commit” a transaction"

Incorrect. Average wait time would be less than 5 minutes.

> "Turning your Bitcoins into cold hard cash denominated in the currency of your choice is perhaps the cryptocurrency’s biggest problem"

It is author's world view based on pre-bitcoin times that cold hard cash is better. It can be said that turning cash to bitcoins is fiat's biggest problem.

>"moving money between ledgers actually involves integrating with those ugly legacy systems"

Assets on different blockchains can be swapped using various methods and does not need third parties.

> "there are far more efficient distributed consensus algorithms than this which don’t involve a proof of work."

Author gives the example of Interledger and SCP. Without proof-of-work origin of money will always be controversial. Both Ripple and SCP create money out of thin air.

>a very cool feature I will acknowledge exists and give a quick hat tip to Ethereum

There is NOTHING that ethereum can do that you can't do with bitcoin.

> Bitcoin-NG (paper), a protocol that inverts the ordering of Bitcoin consensus: a miner is first elected leader by winning the proof-of-work “lottery” by mining a “key block”, and then once elected leader becomes a transaction broker who can mint “micro-blocks” via digital signature until the next leader is elected.

Many problems linked https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3or365/bitcoinng_p...

I did not read last 3 paras. The author is damn right that Blockchains are world's shittiest databases and should not be used so.

In my personal understanding of what blockchain is, the author didn't mention it as a DMMS(Dynamic membership multiparty signature). This has been explained in the sidechains whitepaper, which most people do not read due to another myth that the employees of a private company 'blockstream' are majority of Bitcoin Core devs. Anyone trying to understand the blockchain should read the introduction of that paper. https://www.blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
>The order also imposes a $50 million judgment against Lumos Labs, which will be suspended due to its financial condition after the company pays $2 million to the Commission.

So does that mean after paying this fine, Lumosity is in financial trouble?
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For many (all?) journals, you have sign a consent to publish form. As soon as you sign it, your anonymity is over.
Great article on this trend of investors/entrepreneurs with no scientific background thinking they can get into the space and "shake things up":

Silicon Valley is confusing pseudo-science with innovation[0]

> I don’t think all the VC firms that are moving into the space know what they’re doing — so I think you only need a couple of nasty failures to get them to pull back. Take Pathway Genomics, for instance, which was selling a test that was supposed to tell you if you had cancer. I say "supposed to" because it turns out no one — including Pathway Genomics itself — had done any research whatsoever to determine the test actually did what it said it did. The company sold the test directly to patients through a regulatory loophole, and after we wrote about it, the FDA got wind and told them to knock it off. But Pathway had investors: Edelson Technology Partners, Founders Fund, IBM Watson Group. You’ll notice these are not health care firms.

In the next couple of years, we're probably going to see companies like Nootrobox, Stemcentrx, and Theranos go belly up, after which SV investor interest in the healthcare industry will dry up, just as it did in the energy industry after the late 2000s.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/29/10642070/2015-theranos-ve...
Wow, right on the money with that speculation. Are you a medium?
2 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830925
Less hours at the same pay is more money per hour. But there is a subtle difference - cleaning toilets for 2 hours is much different mentally than cleaning toilets for 8 hours. And you can then go look after dogs at the shelter for 4 more hours and get two paychecks.
You said it (2), it must be true.
Did you get in at noon? Why would you work somewhere that requires those kinds of hours? With a 90 minute commute on top of that? Not trying to be condescending, it's just that those kinds of things would be a huge motivator for me to find another job.

I found a place 15 minutes from my house, and everyone in the office is gone by 5, sometimes earlier on Fridays. I hope you find a better job soon.
So, what happened during the AWS outage this past Fall? Or did you restructure to provide failover beyond just moving platforms?
Do you know how insurance works?
I think the idea is that, if you retake the test, your system will be in a different state (our organism's biochemistry fluctuates naturally). So if something in your system caused a false positive, there's a chance it won't be there when you retake the test and you will get a true negative.

Basically, you're thinking of your blood composition as stateless, when it may also be counted as an "external factor".
I'd like it if they added text attachments, like you can currently attach images or videos. This way the core tweet itself is still 140 characters. It'd be a nicer version of images full of text.