skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt meat will be off the table. If anything I expect it to be there so long as there's an economical meats to produce it. Global warming may end it's consumption among the middle class, but I bet there will be restaurants in the future that boost of serving burgers as it is was gourmet. Hah, that would be a trip.
Actually it's remarkably similar. Sales has a pipeline of deals, and someone has an estimate of how much will be booked over the next quarter. This estimate is a key part of managing the sales team and is directly tied to their compensation.

Can you imagine if developers explicitly had a code quota to work to? We usually don't, for very good reasons, but salespeople certainly are held to delivery standards on work that isn't fully predictable, so you can kinda see how they might expect the same from software teams.

And the analogy continues to work. There is a pipeline of feature requests, some at the vague-idea stage and some nearly shipped. You can provide more accurate ship-date estimates for the nearly shipped ones. And a person with good judgment who knows the stakeholders can provide a better estimate than someone uninformed or unthoughtful whether we're talking about sales or software builds.

Further: sales has a bookings target, but also has the freedom to meet that target with various deals. Similarly, product teams will have launch targets, but need some freedom on what exact features are included because per-feature costs aren't predictable.
That's an article about federation, but is that the Twitter employee who had internally pushed for them to become federated during their early days? I don't see any info about that in that post.
If the top 1% has (for example) 90% of the income, then only paying 50% of the tax might be considered unfair.

The only number I could find is that the top 1% earns 22% of all AGI (adjusted gross income). This is income after all deductions, etc; the amount of income the tax rate is applied to.[1]

I'd be interested to see how much of all income is earned by the top 1%.

[1]http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-inco...
This isn't even taxation of non-market services, this is just taxation of in-kind benefits. In much the same way, if YHOO were to give BABA shares to it's shareholders (non-market goods?), that would be subject to taxation.
That's because it is. Most people grow out of this sort of thing, eventually.
What does it take to get into a gifted class in the US? Where I grew up, anyone can apply for these schools (not everyone gets in of course).
Even if your lease allowed you to sublet, the short term whole apartment rentals when the owner is not present that Airbnb does are illegal in NY anyway. The only way to do that legally is to have a bed and breakfast license from the state. Next time you look for an Airbnb in NYC, see if that's mentioned in the listing.
Have you seen dotc [0]?

[0] https://github.com/substack/dotc
Programming Concepts: Type Introspection and Reflection
You actually are dismissing the article itself, and the experiences of all the HNers that have experienced what it talks about firsthand.

Your phrase "self-proclaimed gifted" is outright dismissive.

This is a natural human reaction. The reminder of the existence of people smarter than ourselves often results in narcissistic injury, it feels bad, it can hurt.

It's the reason gifted education is such a low and unpopular funding priority.

But all that does is make society poorer.

Humanity's gifted population is one of it's great resources, and we squander it. We don't protect it, and we don't value it, and we don't foster it.

The article talks about twice exceptional kids, these are kids who are gifted but often have a discrepancy or a weakness, a learning disability.

Because they are highly verbal and intelligent, they can use that to cover for their weaknesses, but they do not do well in a school setting at all.

They withdraw or they become the class clown to entertain themselves.

This often compounds over the years, like untreated ADD, and turns into depression, anxiety, substance abuse and so on.

And it's a tragedy because they have so much to offer, but we fail them, and we lose a lot of them.
Most of Netflix's bandwidth goes through their Open Connect CDN, which isn't hosted on Amazon's infrastructure but is rather a traditional setup of colocated servers in strategically positioned data centers.

Previous to this arrangement Netflix used 3rd party CDNs like Akamai which again did not sit on Amazon's infrastructure.

That said I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with any assessment of how much Amazon costs are.
Rebound: Practical application of eventual consistency for integration processes
I think that's a bit silly and not really relevant.
Lisp user here.

This reminded me of https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502 where the opcodes are defined using a defasm macro https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502/blob/master/src/cpu.lisp... and implemented here https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502/blob/master/src/opcodes....

Are Lisp macros pretty much on par with Rust macros?
A nitpick - you have to undergo training to drive a car, and yes, you have to read a lot of legalese (though most drivers probably didn't, as evidenced by how they drive). And yes, you have to learn to wash clothes, though you probably don't remember if your parents taught you this as a child. I do remember, because I haven't been taught it.
Yes, you're left high-and-dry if your counterparty goes bust, and since this would be such a cataclysmic event in the case of Deutsche Bank, the authorities would be forced to step in (at ginormous cost) to prevent it.

It's worth noting that on derivatives, your loss if your counterparty goes bust is not the notional. It's a fraction of the notional. But even a small fraction of 65 trillion is a very, very large number.

In fact the number in DBK's case is so large that it might endanger the credibility of the authorities themselves.
I wonder if this would had an effect on conversions. Are people more likely to buy a product if the salesperson they're talking to is an attractive woman (or attractive man if the buyer is female)
And I presume you know these 'gifted HNers' well enough to know they are self-proclaimed?

Trust me, having an IQ 50% higher than the average of the rest of the population isn't fun. And though IQ is generally all that is needed to be considered 'gifted,'it isn't everything. There have been many studies on this.

I am not self proclaimed, I have the tests to prove it and I get sick of people telling me how smart I am and how they wish they could be like me. I've gotten that line from surgeons and psychologists, people who's job I couldn't do even if I tried. I try to frame it in their mindset to show them that they can do it too. I truly think if they would get out of that mindset, they could be much 'smarter' also. Biology plays a role but it's not everything.

I don't identify with the people in the article. I wasn't particularly weird, eccentric, bullied, or any of the typical things that you hear about. I had friends, girlfriends, etc... About the only typical nerd thing was I was usually the teacher's pet. But I think that's just because I was always wanting to help.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 14, refused to take the medications and have been dealing with it ever since. Tags, sock seams, etc... didn't bother me. I had the typical ADHD symptoms, but that's about it.
This strikes home, though I'm pretty much "only" upper normal (110-120 - several results in that range; never tested as a kid), but I had this fantasy from like 2nd grade until 5th or 6th grade. I probably annoyed my parents to no end.
I think this approach would reduce one's probability of a successful outcome. It may actually be preferable that the call be somewhat unexpected, because receiving a call, particularly at this point in history, is a bit disarming.
GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
Fact is, it hasn't happened in Germany so far, even in the big financial crisis 2008, all the banks could easily be bailed out by Germany's own public funds. In addition, Deutsche Bank hasn't failed yet, so save your gloating until something actually happeny...
No answer means yes.
> These are the skills that elevate someone from a good programmer to a great software engineer

I stopped reading at engineer
The big problem isn't that journals don't want to "waste" space publishing reproduced results, but that scientists don't want to "waste" their time reproducing other peoples results. Unless the result is a once a decade game changing result for your field, there is no incentives in reproduction. You cannot change peoples behaviour without changing the underlying incentive structure. Do that and everything else will trivially fall into place.
I wonder how this relates to freebie papers like the Metro?
You really want Google to be the custodian of all things bad?

Besides, does Download.com, the site, actually give you malware? No. So why do you think Google should blacklist it?
One of the key concerns with income taxes is minimizing economic distortion. That happens when you tax some activities more than others. If you get rid of imputed rent taxes, you have to raise taxes on everyone else to make the same revenue. If you do that, are you artificially subsidizing home ownership and causing more than the economically efficient balance between owning and renting?
Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
Individuals go to prison for hacking, especially if it's anything to do with copyright. Businesses definitely are given the benefit of the doubt.

The public lack a well-funded consumer advocacy organisation that can bribe, cajole or threaten police into investigating this kind of crime.
I have ING DiBa and it is the cheapest account ever here in Germany — they even give you a free VISA card, and free withdrawals in Germany and rest of the world. The only difference is that there's no physical office, so you have to use their website, which is good, and never had problems with it.
Please note, that the only ones that have a circulation of near or above one million are the tabloids. So (for now) tabloids can still make money from sale and from advertisement. At the same time, they are cheaper to produce than serious media (buy some photos of celebrities, write catchy headlines). They are also cheaper to distribute (sell through kiosks and supermarkets).

If you ever considered running a serious print media, take a look at the numbers. If Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent or The Times can't do it in the English language, in a country with a population of 64 million, then it must be really hard. Try that in any smaller language or country. As an industry, print media is dead.
I stopped caring at no garbage collection.
I can tell you they will have a difficult time, at least initially, with Amazon's seller policies.

The idea of mandated timelines for shipping, returns/refunds on a customer whim, timely communication with buyers, accurate product pictures + descriptions, accurate inventory levels, etc, will be a shock. I predict lots of interesting new posts in the Amazon seller's forum.
I'm from Calgary, and I went through the GATE program covered in this article.

While some of my classmates were certainly a bit ...eccentric... the vast majority were wonderful, completely normal people and many of them went on to do incredible things.

I've since moved to San Francisco, and I've gotta say, SF and the GATE program seem to have a lot in common: both fill me with the feeling that anything is possible; coupled with the nagging suspicion that everyone else is smarter, harder working, and more successful ... :)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-...

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tlenter iOS App hit your Apple store
You can now dowload Tlenter as an IOS App, Android App, or on www.tlenter.com
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> Abstractions like RAII, constructors and destructors, polymorphism, and exceptions were invented with the intention of solving problems that game programmers don’t have

This is the only part of the Jai philosophy I struggle to understand. How is an explicit delete keyword better than deterministic destruction? From my perspective, the former method reintroduces the problem the latter method solves.

Also, polymorphism is bad for games now? I absolutely cringe when I see abstract base classes, virtual functions and classical inheritance, outside of a generic interface in 2016. However, games might be the one case I would strongly consider using those features as part of my design. For example, a Final Fantasy-style job system seems to elegantly lend itself to the "Intro to OOP with C++98" style of runtime polymorphism*

As for exceptions, well I think the reputation of exceptions is one of the great tragedies of C++. Rust, Go, and other new languages seem to have decided that regressing to pervasive error checking boilerplate is more elegant than to have exception handlers.

I think Swift got it right with scoped exceptions and a defer statement - although, they selectively use "error handling" as double speak to avoid saying the e-word.

*Although, I personally think interface/protocol based solutions have proven to be the cleanest way to tackle polymorphism -- this is possibly true even in the case of an rpg with class inherentence as a game mechanic.
The witch inquiry was an amazing example of how cause & effect changed over time.

"Did you not have angry words with him, and his cow later became ill?"
"I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me.
I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life."

- Nikola Tesla
...my strategy on the other hand, is to drag one conversation over days/weeks, with several hours/days of (not intentional) gaps in between, and act as if it's a single ongoing unbroken conversation.

Not the optimal strategy, but I'm amazed that a ball of grains, dairy and fruits managed to get that for anyway, so everything is a win.
I look at all these new languages with horrificly complicated syntax and wish for s-expressions. Lisp is perfectly well suited for game development, too, and not just for scripting. There are many implementations around with fast optimizing compilers, JIT compilers, and other modern features that make things run fast. When I see languages like what Jonathan Blow made, I think that most of the features can be implemented as extensions to your Lisp of choice.
Consider Chromebooks - one can unlock ChromeOS or replace it with Linux, but Google made it rather scary-sounding process for an average user, so malware site has very little chances to convenience the user to do it.
I'm not sure how you can compare 23andMe to Theranos. The former was never intended to be for testing and diagnostics. It's more a case of the FDA being worried that people will misunderstand it as such.
Prohibition is a good analogy. Brewing, vinting, and distilling in commercial quality requires capital equipment and a continuing source of supplies. A lot of money changes hands in the real world to make that happen. And yet, Prohibition enforcement failed.

A strong encryption ban would make math into contraband. That's going to be a lot harder to stop at the borders than a rum runner's boat. But, then again, the government could be looking for an opprtunity to wage an unending war against a phantom. There's a lot of money to be made from that, starting with a thick slice of that $19 billion for computer "security." The "security" business has always been good at selling purported protection out one door and surveillance out the other.
Because Download.com doesn't actually give the user malware so Google Legal sees it differently than you.

Also, why do you want Google deciding who is blacklisted?
It's super risky. Amazon could decide to slow things down for Netflix, or introduce some infrastructure issues that they can't track down.
Maybe amazon should be broken up. Break out their online video offerings into a separate company. This would prevent any conflict of interest or blackmail
HN responses are predictable on many verticals. Upvoting happens for:

1. YC unicorns.

2. Obscure programming language news.

3. Medium/Natilius posts on self-improvement.

4. NYTimes/WSJ/WashPost articles on obvious trends in business or STEM.

5. SV "celebrity" projects.
The key to musical improv (as opposed to experimental improv, which has its place) is meaning to play what you play, and you can only truly be free to do that when you know what the notes sound like before you play them.

For example, let's say you were learning guitar, a good exercise would be to look at a random note on the fretboard (for example, the 10th fret on the G string in standard tuning) and sing the note, then play the note and see how close you were. When you can do that reliably, that's a big step forward towards mastery IMO.

However, I would recommend starting with ear training for relative pitch rather than absolute pitch (which is what the exercise above is for). For that, you play a note, then sing a note a certain interval away from it (e.g. a minor third) then play the note which is a minor third away from the first note. I believe this is a great exercise to start with.
Customers don't need to know the cost, they need to know the price. The most important factor in determining that should be the value of the software to the customer, not the time it will take to produce it.
There's a number of forces aligned here against ubiquitous encryption. Private comms are just the subset, but they have to be considered together.

- content holders want to make sure you're paying for every byte you consume [1]

- marketing intel and ad networks always need more about you by any means [2]

- contractors want to sell their data vacuums [3]

- law enforcement wants a precrime db even if it's illegal [stingray]

- government control of populace, yadda yadda [4]

- because encryption kills children [5], I'm not making this up

- congress critters need to appear to be doing _something_ about $threat even if they know it will be shot down later in judicial challenge

And arrayed against all that is one little tattered document from a bunch of idealists that only the People seem to read.

1. http://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-vpn-access-lock-down-overse...!

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085650

3. http://maplight.org/content/73373

4. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/12/the-militar...

5. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/encryption-kill-children
Bayesian technique says that "probability" is a way of representing our collective knowledge and opinions about some matter. To say that there's a 1/2 chance of heads is to say that to the best of our knowledge and understanding we have no way to expect one outcome over the other. It lives in the present.

Frequentist technique says that "probability" is a way of describing repetition in experimentation. To say there's a 1/2 chance of heads is to say that should we flip it 100 times the best guess as to the number of heads we might obtain is (1/2)(100). It lives in a counterfactual future.

This is a foundation of the debate. The two schools are actually trying to accomplish different things. It turns out that much of the time these two endeavors land on identical solutions. It also turns out that in human experience we often flip between the two intentions without notice.

It's not possible to say one is better than the other unless you pick one semantics or the other to argue from (after which, obviously the other is poor). Instead, it's viable to look at what you're really trying to accomplish—often a task where errors and computation have expense and a tradeoff exists between accuracy, speed, information use, communicability, etc etc—and understand how each approach helps or harms your end.

Good statisticians, usually no matter how much they punch for one side or the other, will make these tradeoffs and use the technology which achieves the best end.

But we're all also at least a little bit philosophers and epistemologists so it's impossible to not want to take a few swings for one side or the other. Especially with historical figures like Jaynes leading the way.
The third problem is that we let them.

To drive a car, people have to learn a shit ton of things, not just about the law, but about the machine itself. And they do, because they have no other choice - and so for most it doesn't even register things could be different.

Look at professional software like Photoshop or AutoCAD - again, everyone knows it's "complicated", and so people either sign up for training courses, or sit down and learn it themselves. Somehow, the software tool being complex isn't a problem. But for most software, we've created an expectation that people should be able to use it from the get-go. I submit that this is wrong. People should be expected to read the manual, like in the old days, and the software should politely force them to.
On a related note I recently had some lab work done and was dumbfounded when the nurse looking after me told me I could now sign up on their website[1] and access my results as soon as the tests were finished being analyzed. Sure enough, less than 24 hours later I was able to log in and see the results of all my tests (or download a pdf) and whether they were in the normal range or not. The site even has trending built in so you can plot results over time for repeated tests.

Being able to print out your results and take them with you to the doctors so you both are on a level footing with respect to your health information is very empowering.

If you're a Canadian in Ontario or B.C. I heartily recommend using their labs[2].

[1] http://www.lifelabs.com/

[2] not affiliated, just a happy "customer".
I wonder how broad the term 'model' is in this case.
Why is the argument ridiculous?
...is wrong about as often as it is right.

I've been tempted to propose a law to the effect that people who cite Betteridge's law almost never actually check first to see if the article they are responding to is actually one of the cases where it is right.

That appears to be the case here, since the article concludes that there is, and they state this in the first paragraph.
There are two reasons for this.

1) Programming attract this sort of people in first place, where you see programmers, you will see lots of people like the ones described in the article.

2) It is very problematic, unfixed, and people need help.

At least I do... but at the same time I refrain from asking for help, because usually the result is negative. "Oh, here we go again with the super intelligent guy complaining about how intelligent he is."

Not only for "gifted", but many mental issues are looked down, and are not considered by society a disease like a physical one, a person that is sneezing everywhere, get people to pity that person and help, but a person that is unable to work in society even with heavy meds, need to "grow and mature".
Are there any more popular twitter-like alternatives? I'm aware of Ello, but from what I'm told, too much of the uhh 'artistic community' for me to truly enjoy (my artist friends have unsuccessfully tried persuading me to join).