skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For physics? Probably not. But physics grads don't make up a particularly big part of the economy; it's actually not an especially great degree to get if your primary concern is a STEM-y career.

For HR directors, purchasing managers, corporate controllers, practice managers, financial advisors, and jobs like that? Yes, I think you can devise filters for anything colleges filter for that would be both more effective and far cheaper than college.
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A naval yard is not paying small-lot retail prices for their materials.
Not without throwing cert errors on every site I visit.

The only way they can MITM me is if they compromise my PC as well and install their root CA.
This exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Ex...

It gets some pushback from notable security experts (e.g. tptacek here) because the DNS system (notably the root) is largely state-owned, while registrars are largely privatized.
As I said above: Sure, this isn't super-secure for first time visitors to their banking website. But it's fine for the common case where someone tries to MITM you when you move from your home to a coffee shop or vice versa and you're just browsing sites that would otherwise be using http.
Very true, I always have a hard time getting out the door, but even when I come back panting, light-headed, and sweating like a mad man, I am always happy I did it and it really does make you energized(at least after the half hour or so it takes your body to get your energy level back up)
Defining "productive" and "unproductive" activities is difficult.

Sitting around playing video games is a classic example, but it's a way to become a better video game developer or a world-class player, both of which are fulfilling and well-paying endeavors. Even sitting and doing nothing (i.e. meditating) can be one of the most productive things an individual can do. [0]

What constitutes a "productive activity" is quite subjective. And even seemingly unproductive things can be productive: if they help de-stress and refocus, they're still contributing to productivity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186082
Strange that the article made no mention of Finland. Probably because it's playing to a domestic audience.
Ctrl-Mousewheel also works for zooming, and is usually more convenient than going into the menu; your friend might want to know.
That last sentence is almost assuredly a massive hyperbole. The US is not that bad...
It seems to be a very American thing to not have banking as a basic right (or at least assumed right).

Here in New Zealand, there's pretty much no restriction on getting bank accounts. It's almost unheard of to not have a bank account.

Transaction fees aren't really a thing either. Most people only have to pay to withdraw money from other banks ATMs. There's no fees for bank transfers (regardless of whether it's to the same bank or a different one). Bank transfers are within the hour in the same bank, and either within the day or overnight for between different banks.

One thing that definitely has helped in this situation (somewhat counter intuitively) is that we have an oligopoly of banks, so standardisation and cooperation is simple. That's why we have chip and pin cards as standard here (and contactless cards). It's also meant that almost everywhere accepts EFTPOS.

Hell, I had to cash my first check ever today. I don't even carry cash, unless I have a specific reason to need to carry it.
Sure, I take it that they don't need it. But they do not know if you, or me, or anyone else needs it, and whether the effort is worth it for others, and really shouldn't pretend that they do.
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Robert Gordon, Econ at Northwestern, has a book out saying national productivity and growth rates will be very low for the foreseeable future. If you believe that, then you can only increase prosperity by redistributing current wealth.
Making a sub bigger increases drag, particularly if you are making the frontal profile bigger.
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This is not a serious competiton. For serious stuff, see for example:

1)http://tcec.chessdom.com/

2)http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

There is a lot of politics in chess programming but the bottom line is that Komodo is currently the strongest program followed by Stockfish (which is distributed under GPL).
Don't try this with any kind of infected bite (human or animal). You will lose limbs or die.
It's not that simple. I think a combination of remote work and face-to-face is best, actually. But technology alone is not a solution.
Good go players have a lot of explicit knowledge, and give names to the concepts they have. See http://senseis.xmp.net/?ReferenceSection

When playing, they have a strategy, which they could explain to other go players. They don't just recognize patterns or do brute-force look-ahead. The same is true for good chess players.
I'm jealous that you get to work for the New Yorker website. Any openings?
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It's absolutely still a blocker. Remote employment is not the same as meeting face to face with someone. Trust is easier to build in person.
> the idea funding equates to success

This never made sense to me. I've always viewed funding as a last resort.
What board is right for me? The Maker’s Guide to Boards
Perhaps postrationalizaton is still useful? Could empathy and mirror neurons help transfer some of that deep learning? Two weeks later the student faces a similar situation, and they get the same gut feeling their teacher did, and that helps them play better than if their teacher didn't postrationalize?
I mostly eat professionally prepared food for breakfast and dinner but make my own lunch. I've seen plenty of claims that it saves money to cook, but as a single person every time I actually go to make something it ends up costing a bunch. Maybe if I perfectly planned meals so that every ingredients was used in many dishes across a week, or if I were willing to eat the same thing reheated 3 or 4 days in a row, but otherwise I don't see it. Taste-wise the professionals beat me hands down. The only area where homemade wins is health-wise.

The math may well work out differently for a family of four.
@mietek I have no problem if they pay for everything. Tax payers are paying 100%.
If you want to see basic income in action, look no further than the various Native American tribes who operate casinos throughout the country. The results are not pretty [1].

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21639547-how-cas...
> we just think this is important and interesting.

Not trying to kiss ass here but it's this type of thinking that sets YC well above the rest, IMO.
Well, if you want to get abstract, the money itself is "free," printed by the Fed almost arbitrarily. By any number of mechanisms that money ends up primarily concentrated in one group of very wealthy people.

You can divert that "free" money and have "free" things for the middle class. That the wealthy would then be "paying" for it is a philosophical perspective that presupposes the status quo for wealth distribution is somehow "correct"
Was it this one? http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/01/...
The 29 Emotions of Failure: My F*cked Up Entrepreneurial Journey
How do I know the 29 emotions of failure?

Because each one is etched indelibly on my psyche.

I know because I wrote each and every one in my short life.

I wrote them when I was growing up in Atlanta and lost my scholarship opportunity.

I wrote them when I packed my bags and flew overseas, leaving the red clay of Georgia never to return again.

I wrote them when I started my first business and lost thousands of dollars.

https://medium.com/@daniel_ndukwu/the-29-emotions-of-failure-my-f-cked-up-entrepreneurial-journey-88084eaf7ad9#.mz8c24ap5
There are lots and lots of people that have 2 concurrent part time jobs, right now. Not trying to be coy, just trying to understand why we need a new classification.
People have investigated antioxidants pretty thoroughly and supplemental antioxidants really aren't needed in healthy cells. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life goes into some details on the biochemistry behind that but you can look at the Antioxidant Wikipedia page for all the research showing no positive effect.

If I were to speculate it might be that while normal cells can make enough for themselves cancerous cells benefit from external antioxidants. The damage done by free radicals is mostly concentrated in the mitochondrial genome, which is why evolution has brought as many genes as possible out of the mitochondria into the nucleus. By contrast the mutations that causes cancer are, IIRC, mostly inside the nucleus.
VMware definitely mentally categorizes Horizon and such to be EUC, but Workstation and Fusion were as much EUC as anything else. It started as the division to own both View and Workstation/Fusion.
And why is this bad? At least they get the fair chance to make something of themselves, regardless of their social / economic backgrounds. Too many don't get that chance.
No. His argument is that the actual total costs paid by all actors to provide the service has not changed, the share of the pie paid by students has changed. Which would look exactly like the cost rising in that table.
>I'm uncomfortable with the idea that a university degree is entirely about workforce skills.

But, It's a rational view. The soaring cost of college is what makes it largely an economic proposition for many these days.
I think a critical piece of Basic Income being successful is being able to count on it UNTIL DEATH. Unless folks can trust 100% that when they grow old (and unable to be as productive) they can still live "without the fear of not being able to eat", they're not going to buy into the system in the way that everyone hopes they will.
Computers have calculated faster than humans since forever and that doesn't seem to bother the human psyche. If you read the paper you will find very specialized and custom-tuned algorithms carefully devised by humans that take advantage of computers' calculation speed, so it's really the achievement of a different group of human (computer specialists instead of go players), why should that bother people?

Go/weiqi is actually a computation heavy game even for human players. Top players routinely evaluate many moves and count positions. This can be stressful and error prone during time control periods when they have very little time to make moves. Top players routinely lose games that they are leading under time pressure. This is to the advantage of computers as they are reliable and actually need to search less during endgames. Unlike chess go accumulates pieces on the board as game goes on. It would be more interesting to have humans play computers with more generous time rules.
That's per IP, you're also limited to 5 requests per domain name per week. In my case, I have a bunch of subdomains for various stuff that all counts against the limit for the main website. I suppose I ought to combine the CSRs, but implementing that makes it a bit more complex than just automatically requesting a certificate per nginx vhost.
>Without going into the question of how many bits of entropy that actually has when used with human beings in real settings, and just assume it's a perfect check; my question stands: how many people can you find who use this?

Probably not very many, but it's really only useful for people that ignore basic security features anyway. (Key auth)

>When they do: how many of your hosts do you know the image of?

None, I use key auth like any reasonable person would.
I thought about that, but there's so many DNS caches out there with potential bugs to make them insecure and poisonable.

But a set of public keys from the registrar is "content". It's small, so they could just have a server or two to handle it. (But if load/latency was an issue, well everyone's pretty good at content-distribution networks these days...)
sama asked:

> Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

good financial services for very poor people in developed countries.

the basic financial services that middle class and wealthy people have access to such as checking accounts, savings accounts, retail brokerages for purchasing investing vehicles (stocks, bonds, etfs, etc.), access to consumer credit that does not have usurious rates and predatory practices, tax filing assistance, direct deposit of paychecks, automated scheduled bill payments, access to in-network or no-fee ATMs, ability to build up good credit history and have a high FICA score, etc.

all of these things that the middle and upper classes totally take for grant as basic infrastructure necessary for modern life are things that very poor people are almost completely shut out of. this is a HUGE driver of persistent poverty in already poor communities. this is one of the things that makes climbing up out of poverty almost impossible for so many people.

a startup attempting to solve these problems would have to be willing to experiment with totally new business models that do not directly rely on exploitation of the customers to generate profits. it might be a lower margin business than, for example, commercial banking. it would be a great social good though, and it might even be possible to make a profitable business out of it too.

edit: expanding on my point

an important component of sama's query is "increase prosperity for everyone". how does providing financial services for the very poor help everyone? simple: it increases demand at the base of the economy. very poor people have almost no discretionary spending money and often end up as net drains on local economies, taking in money from government assistance programs while not contributing back to the economic growth of their communities.

if the poorest people become less poor they begin to buy things with their newly available discretionary spending money.
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Seriously this. I don't see why encryption and website verification have been wrapped up in the same thing (SSL certs). They're two different things. Encryption should be free, automatic and default.
If he posted it in a Facebook note, I would completely understand him. But posting this as a status is awful readability-wise.
Potentially responsible for making good after the fact though?
It's happening all over. I do a good bit of real estate investing and research on the side and foreign institutional investors have been buying up every property they can come across for years.
It is worse for the non-software startups like biotech. With a software startup it normally does not take long for the investors to get an idea if the tech is real or not, but with biotech this can take many years.

Biotech investment is based on trust that the scientists are telling the truth. A bad actor in this area can really poison the environment for all other biotech startups - if you can’t trust the scientists then you have nothing.
ELF, libelf, compressed sections and elfutils
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Quite likely. In later rounds, founders are often strongly encouraged to take money off the table by selling equity.

This isn't shady, it's so the founding team stops worrying about money and focuses full-time on the company. Ramen-profitable is good in the short term, but time becomes increasingly valuable as a company grows.
I saw your post on the front page the other day but didn't have time to read it. I'll check it out. I'm a fan of your other posts. Keep up the solid writing!
>Don't think many have said it here, so just fyi, to me this does not seem like a big 'breakthrough' in AI so much as a good demonstration of smartly combining existing current ideas.

Well yes. But good engineering is still impressive.
I really truly hate typing on an iPad...the typing errors are a PITA.
looks like the article comes from a non bias source...
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Thanks for the feedback! It is great to hear that you've been finding that companies using Lever tend to be high quality and are interested in a way to get to them more directly.

Thus far we haven't focused on this, as there are quite a number of job boards from the super general to specialized niches. Actually, most companies have been finding that they are bringing more and more recruiting in house. Agencies and sites like traditional job boards aren't working very well for them. This is a very recent and rapidly moving trend. According to Bersin, an analyst division of Deloitte, in 2011, company websites were the 4th ranked source of hires (just 13%) after Job Boards and Aggregators (19%), Internal Candidates (19%), and Employee Referrals (16%). Three years later in 2014, Company Websites became the #1 source of hires, now 19% with Job Boards, Internal Candidates, and Referrals falling to 16%, 14%, and 12% respectively. Companies are paying attention to what works, and they now realize that making their own website high quality is now more effective than posting on job boards. Of course as someone applying to jobs, that means you are better off going to the company's job site directly and applying there than going through a job board.

I know with our own hiring, we find that the candidates that have invested a bit in getting to know us, reading our blog posts about our internal company culture at https://www.lever.co/inside, or have checked out our open source projects such as DerbyJS (http://derbyjs.com/) do tend to have better motivation alignment. At least at Lever, we take this as seriously as technical or skills fit; we even call our first interview step "Motivations Screen".
For people interested in the use of neural nets to evaluate board position, it might be worthwhile reading up on TD-gammon which this work builds Off of
But the worst case scenario with SSH MitM isn't someone being able to eavesdrop on your connection. But someone pretending to be the server, which is hardly as serious. (Unless you're using password auth, in which case you deserve to get owned)
I'm a remote worker, but I rent a desk just around the corner from my house (5 minutes by bicycle).

I get the best of both worlds. I still get the important social effects of working in an office space, but I do it on my terms and without the long commute.

For the usual day in day out coding, I think that this should be the future of workplaces. People who work together have little need to be in the same physical location these days.
It has nothing to do with being sensitive. It is extremely suspect. They're not exactly a family photoshoot.
Where did you see that?
Vietnam was a proxy war and neither the US or Russia wanted it to escalate into World War III. US policy was to stringently avoid anything that might lead to escalation.
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... or rather get an intermediate certificate from one of the umpteen root CAs your operating system embeds by default.

Is VeriSign going to refuse a certificate to AT&T?
I'd assume that at this point she sold off at least a few million dollars in shares.
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"When applied to physical torts, an employer-employee relationship must be established (meaning that no vicarious liability is established for work performed as an independent contractor) and the act must be committed within the scope of employment (i.e., substantially within time and geographical limits, job description and at least with partial intent to further employer's business)."

Don't think that it really falls under this legal doctrine.
I'm pretty sure he'll feel responsible non the less but doesn't it mean he's liable and it sure doesn't mean that it needs to be overblown in this manner.
Cargo ships do much more damage to the environment on a daily basis.
That said he most definitely owns the Yacht he owns several his biggest Yacht is often loaned to researchers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)

The cause for the incident is probably more interesting as if the damage was done while mooring it begs a question why is there a mooring spot so close to a coral reserve in the first place.
Yes, we have.
The problem is there are inducible antioxidant systems inside our cells. If you increase the levels of exogenous antioxidants then your cells respond and down regulate the inducible systems and you end up where you started (homeostasis is a bitch).
As Unimpressive pointed out, that's the cost of tuition. The total cost (tuition + state expenditures + fees + endowments) per student has roughly paced with inflation over the same time frame -- and in some cases, dramatically decreased. You have to dig a little deeper to see those numbers, but several states have done their own analysis. Here's one for California:

http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12...

Seemingly nobody understands, or wants to understand this point.. College used to be an investment made by the working class in the youth paid for via taxes (state expenditures >> tuition), it's now flipped to an investment made by 18-year olds in their own careers (tuition >> state expenditures) -- Both approaches have their own merits, but focusing on cutting the cost of education misses the forest for the trees when those costs haven't increased over time.
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they will pivot. If i remember correctly from the magazine articles her original idea 10+ years ago was cell-phone attached to some diagnostic gadget. May be time to revisit, now with all the money and manpower.
I don't suppose it's guaranteed that the overall incomes of the lowest earners would actualy increase though. Maybe they would, but it's possible wages will fall and rents will rise to cancel that out.

You may well be right about employers. Basic income isn't going to wish away all the problems of the poor. The main benefits are likely to be a simpler, fairer and more efficient benefits system and more opportunities for employment.
*Anyone with access to capital a financial cushion to land on when their business fails, I.e, is paid more than subsistence wage, and can play the social game with investors, and can actually get a meeting with investors.
Do you remember when the WSJ first started really dismantling the Theranos house of cards last fall, how a bunch of prominent VCs and publications like TechCrunch, with a lot to lose if the startup bubble pops, immediately circled the wagons? There was a lot of "this is a media hit piece", "we need time to evaluate the technology", "Liz Holmes is a visionary", etc. I wonder if we'll be getting retractions and apologies from those people.
I'm curious what peoples reaction would be to a framework/library that borrowed from Smalltalk's principles.

With the current lineup of frameworks, there's a lot of effort made to remove state from the system in order to make it understandable and performant (which is reminiscent of how people talked about Haskel a few years ago).

Yet with Smalltalk the entire language and tool base embraced the existence of state and gave you a lot of tooling to help make it manageable.

To me, the main problem with frameworks such as Backbone/Angular 1 is that state was bidirectional and that anyone could attach event listeners on anything so your webpage was a network of state flow with none of that being transactional, nor guaranteeing that the system would come into a consistent/valid state.

React is great with their unidirectional approach for rendering, but when a deeply embedded component makes a state change for itself it may logically have to effect the entire system. The current practice is to have top-down handling with Dispatchers/Stores (Flux), or pure reducers (Redux).

Another approach would be to compartmentalize each component so actions can automatically bubble upwards where they are handled by whomever in the VirtualDOM tree can take up the task. This would do away with global dispatch, and make it easier to mix and match components. I think this approach has merit.