skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super interesting! Can you share the name of the consultant or advise or where to read a similar report? I'd love to create a similar graph.
That's what Wes wrote on Reddit: "A little clarification on Solitaire history. I wrote it for Windows 2.1 in my own time while an intern at Microsoft during the summer of 1988". It may have been a typo.

EDIT: re-reading I see that he later on says it was eventually bundled in 3.0. So he wrote it for 2.1 and it didn't get picked up until 3.0. In either case, source referencing 3.1 in a comment is clearly not the original intern-developed source from 1988, although it's likely pretty close.
Really, really freaky. Especially all the copy about how "you can trust us".
Given that

p(A and B) = p(B and A)
p(A and B ) = p(A) * p(B|A)

we have:

p(A) * p(B|A) = p(B) * p(A|B)
p(B|A) = p(B) * p(A|B) / p(A)
I think that data set is too small to constitute a good benchmark for the setup.
You're right. One's sanity being in question requires many more qualifications.
Primary investigator-like people.

Like, he hires researchers to work under him.
3 question survey: Let's find out how many legacy Windows systems are out there
You don't need to throw out a word just because it's become an autoantonym[1]; many words are. To cleave; to hew; to screen; etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
This reminds me of Intel where I worked for sometime :)
No. It's not even that similar. Zirtual is virtual/remote. Magic is physical/local.
I agree with your argument on a pigeonhole-principle level (if you only observe fewer than 128 bits of state and then shuffle cards in a deterministic way based on a summary of your observations, you can't get all possible shuffles out), and I think that's a nice observation. 52! is surprisingly huge, and determinism is deterministic. :-) The issue is just about what /dev/urandom and /dev/random do.
It should be noted that Magic was rumored to have raised $12M: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/sources-magic-is-raising-12...
Not everyone is fully utilised at work, nor does every job's output scale linearly with incremental effort. So while the above is true in some cases (particularly for 'assembly line' type jobs, including programming, where there is a constant supply of discrete and valuable tasks) it is also the case that many people are productive for far less than the full time they spend at work and that a shorter working week would result in significant & near immediate productivity increases in a good number of cases. Examples would be bureaucratic work, a lot of generic 'project' roles, and situations where procrastination is common.

Perhaps it's not that people are particularly much more productive over short hours as that presenteeism and the need to be seen to be working long hours masks the true amount of productive time and many people will do less than they could if they think they can get away with it (particularly if they work long hours at a job they dislike), nonetheless it would be better for unproductive time at work to be spent elsewhere and reducing the length of the work week could achieve this.
$100 an hour sounds expensive. $1/minute might be a better published price. And also suggest that it's priced in minute increments.
Personally, I love aspect ratios on Insta. It's a far better posting experience. As far as browsing, it's pretty much the same as before, I'd say. I haven't noticed anything, other than fewer awkwardly letterboxed images.
How Young Adults Spend Their Time: 2004 vs. 2014
Hackers cause power outage with malware in Ukraine
Obviously I do too. That was funny :).

I am not in the states and I can't get most of the services. I wish they would at least do regional podcasting advertising. A startup opportunity :)
> Our unique combination of humans and software

Oh god, I can't stop laughing.
I'm on it!

Although I SHUDDER to think of the combined hourly billing rate of everyone who's contributing here :)
> However, if you expect a rapid increase in the request rate for a bucket to more than 300 PUT/LIST/DELETE requests per second or more than 800 GET requests per second, we recommend that you open a support case to prepare for the workload and avoid any temporary limits on your request rate.

You have to know how to read their docs. :) This is basically code for, "there is a default limit here that you have to get raised if you want to go above it".
I disagree. But I guess we'll see. I think it will radically change the nature of Twitter. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't see anything wrong with tweet storms or text-in-images. And I think forcing people to be concise is terrific.

The key will be how much Twitter discourages going past 140 (or whatever the visible limit is).
> upset about the vast difference in quality of life between the rich and poor of humanity

Absolutely; I am, for one. But that's not inequality, it's extreme inequality. Which I agree is a bad thing. But if you believe inequality is bad, then it must follow that you believe only complete equality (in the economic sense) is good. Which is so unrealistic that we can almost say it's a logical fallacy.
It could render the summary live to the poster as they edit their post. Then, if you see a "bad" summary, you can go back to the drawing board.

Not as nice as being able to write the summary yourself, but certainly an interesting single-player game.
Have you try to slice the image into several dozens pieces?
Great advice, thanks for the feedback. I'll get on that tonight (right after the right-click bug that everyone hates).
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Probably refers to "PI", the 1998 movie written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. The main character was an eccentric mathematician who was obsessed with patterns in the decimal expansion of the transcendal number pi. If you have not seen the movie I would encourage you to look for it as my summary is not adequate.
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I'd like to add to this that I had a setup like this not long ago, and it was awful. I got stuck in a "cubicle" with low walls right next to a busy corridor, so I had to look at every single person who walked by me in the face (in one direction at least). It was extremely distracting and annoying.
If you are pulling large files from S3 we have found that they can be sped up by requesting multiple ranges simultaneously. It is easy to hit 5Gb/s or 10Gb/s on instances with the necessary bandwidth, accessing a single file, or multiple files. We have not encountered a limit on S3 itself. YMMV.
If going beyond the 140 visible limit (or however many it ends up being) is highly discouraged (by the rest of the content being highly unlikely to be seen), I could see this working OK without lessening the magic of Twitter too much.
Once every 2-3 weeks
Well "is able to e.g. cure cancer" is not actually very general. Which leads to the problem with 2) whats the economics behind creating a general intelligence when a specific intelligence will get you better results in a given industry. Even then specific intelligence is still going to be subject to the good-enough economic plateau that has killed so many future predictions.

Then the problems with 4 on up really concern the speed with which 4 can feasibly happen. The AI goes FOOM doomsaysers seem to think that we'll end up with an AI which is so horribly inefficient that/and it will be able to rewrite it self to be super duper intelligent without leaving its machine (and won't accidentally nerf itself in the attempt) and then that super duper intelligent computer will trick several industries into building an even more powerful body for itself etc... all of this happening before humans pull the plug. no step of which is has anything beyond speculation to support it.

In a general note the full employment theorems mean that even if general AI is economically incentivized there's still going to be dozens/hundred/thousands of different AIs carving out niches for themselves which, given that the earth/universe has limited resources, handily prevents the paper clip maximizer problem. While the future may not need humans it will still be a diverse future.
So it's really a zero exceptions, except for the ones you deliberately choose to ignore policy. But that's pretty much what we do now, except I'm not aware of a good method for muting certain exceptions. (There may be one! It just never occurred to me that we could mute certain exceptions.)

I think we could take it a step farther and say certain kinds of exception should never occur and should also never be ignored, like NoMethodError / nil pointer exceptions.
This, of course, comes from Heinlein's "We Also Walk Dogs". Does Magic+ have anyone as good as Grace Cormet?
How is this that different that Google Now? Except there are actually people (at least some of the time) at the other end, rather than massive amounts of logged data and code?
I agree with this, with all due respect to John. The part I like most about your post is where people can choose what to do with that extra time, which may include actually being able to enjoy their family, or doing what I am doing which is learning new skills in my free time, or hey (go crazy) and do both!

The fact is, most of the jobs people don't like doing are going to be automated in the not-so-distant future, which brings up the question of what we humans will be doing when there are less work hours needed to move our society forward. Many people who are working today will NOT be willing or able to train up to meet the higher skills needed for our new world. So what will they be doing as their jobs go away? Don't get me wrong, I do not believe in keeping old jobs around just to keep people employed, but I still don't see this question being answered. I have a lot of friends who are in their 30's and 40's who have 20-25 years of employment ahead of them, but probably cannot rely on their jobs existing that long.

Another question is why are we working so hard on technology to automate and make our lives easier if all we are going to do with that supposedly easier life is work as much or more? Or rather, how long will people have to work jobs they hate, just to keep from living in a box under a bridge?

I'm running my own IT consulting business, which pays the bills, and also frees up more time for me to tend to my son, and to work on learning new skills to break into VR development. I can work basically part time and charge a high enough hourly rate to afford this lifestyle, but I am the exception, not the rule. I actually feel sorry for my family and friends when I see how unhappy they are working 40+ hours, barely seeing their kids before bedtime all week long, and just not being able to chase something that will really make them happy. When will humanity start coming before corporate productivity?
I think the angle might also help. Your jawline is much less prominent in the second one, so that might be why it's "Stunning" rather than "Hmm...".

Here are the ones I used: http://imgur.com/a/yFwN4 -- the first one was taken today, the rest are all from the last couple of months.
Well, yes, closures can be implemented however you want, in a true lexical scoped language, every function is a closure, not just lambdas, only most don't really close over anything, and can be optimized away. The case of C is, again, instructive.

//foo.c
int global = 0;
int quuxify(){
return global++;
}

//bar.c
extern int quuxify();
printf("%d", quuxify());//prints "0"
printf("%d", quuxify());//prints "1"

even though quuxify() depends on global, which is out of scope in bar.c, the call still compiles. Why? because C is a lexically scoped language, and so variable references in functions refer to the scope the function was declared in, NOT the one it was called in.

And you thought C didn't have closures ;-D
Stock Ubuntu needs SR-IOV driver to get to the actual bandwidth limit on ec2, it makes a lot of difference. We routinely get to ~2 Gbps down from S3 with that setup (using largest instance types).

edit: Gbps not GBps
No hard numbers for you, but FWIW I ran tests about 4 months ago and the performance was /very/ low compared to what is achievable compared to S3 and even normal NAS.
This implies that the general public ever really cared about the fact that their messaging is secure.
How can you look even worse? That picture is terrible, a 1 or a 2 out of 10. Anyway here's a plan for you:

Plan A) if you have any amount of disposible income (more than $0):

- spend 15 minutes reading about beginning to lift weights if you've never lifted a weight in your life

- go to the gym once (ever) i.e. on a day pass.

This plan I've listed takes 90 minutes if you start right now - as in 90 minutes from now you can be back home - and is 97% of what it takes to spend 20 minutes in a gym once or twice per week. if you've found a gym in your area and have tried it out, you're 97% of the way there. For a man, it takes basically no time whatsoever to become fit, it's literally a matter of reading about it and going there, figuring out that gyms exist. In terms of time commitment it is basically zero - in fact, because you have more energy and get things done when you're back, it's negative time commitment. You have more time in your life if you go to the gym than if you don't. Try it out and then sign up if it works. you can be back home within two hours.

Plan B) since you mention not owning speakers and not owning a working webcam, perhaps you have $0 disposible income.

- In this case begin each day with a gradually increasing number of pushups, situps, and you can do these kind of dips - https://www.google.com/search?q=chair+dip (I've listed three exercises.)

Just make it part of your day. You won't become very buff, because all of the mentioned exercises have high mechanical advantage: the reason plan A mentions the gym is because you won't find heavy weights at home and shouldn't bother trying. Home exercises aren't great. they'll get you into basic form though.

Like plan A, plan B also takes negative time (you have more time in the day - because you'll be pumped and ready to get things done - than if you didn't do it), and in terms of wall time takes maybe 90 seconds. Do it right when you wake up.

Finally, if you ever have 4 weeks where you can look scruffy and homeless, as a project you can grow a beard (simply stop shaving, and see what happens after 4 weeks), and then go to a proper barber shop to have them trim and style it for you, tell them you're good with any style and have grown a beard for the first time ever, that they should pick one for you. This will add +3 points to your look (out of 10). Don't try to pick your own style, discuss it with the barber, and those four weeks are pretty brutal, you won't like it, but there's no way to know what if any kind of facial hair you can have. Not shaving every morning takes an additional -3 minutes of your life, and this time both in wall time and projects. Going to the barber takes 30 minutes, so the net time commitment is -3 minutes times 21 days = -63 minutes and 30 minutes to find and go to a barber for their styling shave. so this, too, takes a negative amount of time.

the only people who aren't able to accept negative time for free are those who have passed away and are no longer with us. live while you can.
> Q: What about the purchases that I make through Magic+?

> There is no markup on the purchases you make through Magic+. We find you the best deals that we can on every purchase, and we negotiate strongly with vendors. Often you will save more money using Magic+ than if you had done things yourself.

... I see a conflict of interest there.
The amount of data one has in S3 isn't really relevant to the discussion, only how quickly you're trying to pull it into your instances.
Based on their web design I doubt their ability to complete any simple task.
Interesting. Roughly 3,682,674 minutes have passed since its inception so expected blocks would be 368,267 whereas it is 391,933. Thus average should be less than 5. I guess due to low frequency of transactions the median is not the same as average.
Well, they're targeting people who want on demand helicopters. I feel like $100/hr makes sense given that context.
Downloaded the desktop and android client today after I got their e-mail. I've been looking for something to replace LastPass so I'm hoping this does the trick.
I'm a backer of the 140-char limit because I read Twitter but don't post on it. Concision is good for readers at the expense of posters.
A photo of Jesus! Is it a daguerreotype?
Debito Arudou is an angry knee-jerk reactionary, and anything he says should /definitely/ be taken with a grain of salt.
I'd love to learn how to control it, though.
That'd be super.

i'm going to interpret this as you asking for suggested techniques for controlling your sleep

i'm happy to offer some methods i use:

slow down, create a sleep space you can trust, breathe, visualise, learn

i'm writing up a fuller explanation that i will post as a reply to this comment either later today or maybe midday tomorrow

for you, or posterity
It is only now, after years of dealing with stuff that is not ASCII (I'm not american), that I realize the icons actually have the unicode codepoint in them. Thank you very much for making me see it.
This is so absolutely true. Your typical corporate office these days is full of wasted time and red tape that acts as a sponge for people's time left on this earth. Just the time a 30 minute commute takes away from one's day is a massive amount of time over one year. Hell if more people could work fewer hours from home, they would probably get the same or more work done and still have more time for themselves.
So this is what I don't understand about the American healthcare system.

When an ER doctor in America charges me $2,700 for giving my toddler a simple IV that takes less than 10 minutes overall (not counting the 3 hour wait at the ER lobby), someone must be systematically getting very rich very quickly. Who is it? The doctor? The hospital owner(s)? The company that produces the IV fluids?
Not if there are tools that abstract away all the difficulty. Type 10K chars into a box; hit post; magically the first 140 show up as a text and the rest as an image.
That would change the price of the hour. We can still say $1.66 per minute but less appealing than $1.
it would be nice if we had a place where we could discuss scientific papers anonymously

Have you looked at PubPeer? There have been some very interesting posts there.

https://pubpeer.com/
That's one of many data sets on the server, so unfortunately we can't keep them all in memory at once. :(
I feel like the whole thing is being oversold. They're making huge claims on this page and I have no idea whether or not they're true.

> Never says no

> Hits 100% of promises and expectations

I'm sure these are achievable...
A linguist once told me (angrily) that Japanese sentences do have subjects, they're just very easily implied from context.
PubPeer: The online journal club
and per part of a subsequent announcement from linode, "Multiple Federal law enforcement authorities are also investigating and have cases open" - http://status.linode.com/incidents/ghdlhfnfngnh
These are people who buy an iPad Pro in the checkout line on a whim.
If Paul could have gone as far being born impoverished in Somolia as he did being born affluent in America, then it's fair for him to keep everything. If he benefitted greatly from this society, and from luck, then he can pay a reasonable share of taxes.

It's pretty sad, tho, that one of the most privileged people on earth feels 'hunted'. That's a lot of rationalization for someone who feels like his position is just.
A single gas well leak is California's biggest contributor to climate change
I find this very interesting because I think it brings up a specific question. If this is actually from July, and they knew about it, why would Linode choose this specific time to announce the breach publicly? It seems very curious being that they are already getting punished from the DDoS attack and if they waited 6 months they could have waited until the dust settles a little bit.

Unless, of course, the group involved in the breach are also the ones unleashing the DDoS attacks. Which would also make me think there has been communication between the group and Linode, in contrary to what Linode stated.
I would think max wpm should go down as word-length increases, no?
it is pretty interesting...

I think there are many reasons but a large part is the religious aspect... pre approximately 500 AD Egyptian Culture was more or less wiped out during the spread of islam. I dont know how much pre common era egyptian culture was related to ancient egypt culture...

Meanwhile on the european side catholocisms spread only increased the influence of (certain parts of) roman culture. The renaissance which was significantly due to 'italian' culture further served to increase the influence of roman culture (especially in architecture and the arts)
the flag for "Adult Content" reminds me of anecdotes about mechanical turk workers standing in to keep uploads child friendly, now mixed with Age Identification this gets a new perspective. Is this in active use somewhere?
Thanks for the feedback. Magic has been in an interesting position as a startup ever since our website went viral in Feb. 2015. Starting then, we've had more demand than supply for our product every single day. That's why we never iterated our original landing page -- marketing was never our biggest problem, in fact it was our smallest. That said, I completely agree with you, that there would be much more powerful ways of communicating that you can trust us. Most of our signups come from word of mouth from real users at this point though, so it's not as much of an issue.

For our $100/hr Magic+ product, we display detailed reports daily to users that show exactly how time was used down to the second. I agree that communicating this correctly is key. If you're interested in trying it, I'd love to hear your feedback on how we display this information.
All I'm saying is that the tired "count the characters of the comment that says tweets are too short to contain a complex thought and point out that it fits within a tweet" method of argumentation doesn't prove anything except an ability to count.
We just to joke at NetApp that the Oil and Gas industry had the best compression algorithm, it could compress 100TB of seismic imaging data into a single bit {oil / no-oil } :-)

I created a theoretical compressor which I haven't yet been able to implement which uses the fact that every sequence of bits appears in pi somewhere, so my compressor would just return the digit offset and the length of data. I keep looking for a source for all the digits of pi though, have yet to find it.
No, I'm afraid not. He didn't seem incredibly eccentric to me, anyhow, just a ridiculously hard worker
You're not wrong, but apparently such a short burst is what they're actually doing in their application.
Google exists and has a reputation.
Good morning,
I read all your email while you slept. Your wife is very pretty. I wrote a message to your son telling him you loved him. He responded "you're not my real dad". I also hired that Visual Basic expert who emailed you yesterday. Don't worry, I already charged your AMEX $230 for the trouble.
Plot twist: kyle_u is really Wes Cherry!
The examples are puzzling to me. Take this one:
"I’m out of the office today. Check my email and let me know if there’s anything urgent."

Are they proposing we should be ok with giving them our credentials?
...because you are paying them? Quite a bit? If you are paying $100/hr for something, it is probably pretty important. I really don't see the comparison to Google Now at all.
We worked out a very good deal with CardConnect (ISO of First Data) after looking into becoming our own ISO.

Their docs aren't as good as Stripe, but there is greater functionality available. Overall, I'm satisfied.