skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this suggests that cash can be considered part of the "almost everything" that is overvalued. Yet since value is always relative, the concept is probably just not an accurate reflection of reality, i.e. economics is bullshit.
There are YouTube songs that have no backing from the big labels and make it big without promotion. YouTube has geeat potential if they cater to indie musicians without alienating fans (extra ads would be painful), which was one appeal for me to use MySpace, I held out on Facebook till it became clear MySpace was the odd elephant in the room.
I'm under impression that parent expressed frustration with having to work in environment with so little respect for human intelligence that this kind of bureaucratic CYA is needed to stay employed there.

Now, there is the question whether one should want to stay in such a place, but it seems to be a common folk wisdom that many places are like that and there is no escape.
A Thesis on Leaking Paper Cups
It's not wealth. It's just money. Trickling it down would just cause inflation. Just take a look what money trickling down through IT companies did to SF housing market.
I'm working on Retrace, "Graph-oriented communication" for sharing the ups and downs of experiences via a waveform interface. Reach out if you'd like to chat!
Freedom is to be under no restraint apart from standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society.

Anarchy is the lack of laws, to be under no other restraint but the law of nature.

Freedom need laws, because the alternative is the law of nature.
They could invest in higher salary :)
Already, it's not nearly as hard as this demo makes it look. There's one recent advance in particular that isn't in this demo, and that is Batch Normalization.

If you've played around with it a bit, I'm sure you have seen that deeper layers are hard to train... You see the dashed lines representing signal in the network become weaker and weaker as the network gets deeper. BatchNorm works wonders with this. It takes statistics from the minibatch of training examples, and tries to normalize it so that the next layer gets input more similar to what it expects, even if the previous layer has changed. In practice you get a much better signal, so the network can learn a lot more efficiently.

Without BatchNorm, more than two hidden layers is tedious and error-prone to train. With it, you can train 10-12 layers easily. (With another recent advance, residual nets, you can train hundreds!)

Such advances pushes the limit for what you can train easily, and what still requires GSD ("graduate student descent", figuring out just the right parameters to get something to work through intuition, trial and error). You still have to watch out for overfitting, but the nice thing about that is that more training data helps.
Either everybody except him overvalues assets or Peter overvalues cash.

Since he's a smart guy and can't possibly believe that he's right and everybody's wrong he spends his apparently overvalued cash despite of what he feels.
SpaceX shares photos so we can relive the glory of landing a rocket on a boat
Klondike has had a closer look as to why the genetic algo could work at all: https://klondike.es/klog/2016/04/12/cryptanalyzing-petya/#mo...
SciHub link to research paper: http://sci-hub.io/http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncu...
Yep, that was pretty much Parts II & III of "Accelerando": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
People hold cash in periods of deflation and negative interest rates. Just what we have in Europe now.
Finally a darcula theme to JSONView chrome plugin
A really hope Karma / Murphy deals this guy what he deserves for the crimes that his company has done. Private militarizes armies should NEVER be allowed to exist. These people should never have the right to fight for governments, and should all be put in jail, especially Erik Prince. Also, the government officials that gave them the contracts should also be jailed as traitors to their countries. They are handing over military power to non-government actors to commit crimes without punishment. This needs to be stopped, right now.
You should install QoS on all your servers
> Responsible disclosure is a courtesy. Exploits are valuable. Information asymmetry is the name of the game. Apple is not entitled to free labor. If they don't like it they should hire researchers, as the FBI has.

This seems a lot like saying, if someone pays you to do a structural analysis of a parking garage because they want to know if they can profit by shorting the company that owns it, and you discover that the garage is likely to collapse, you don't have any obligation to disclose the vulnerability.
Yes i would. Today degrees are overrated in our field. Is a young web engineer without experience more interesting than a developer without degree but 5 years experience ? In fact the more valuable is your personal knowledge and personal projects. And I don't speak about school knowledge/projects, but those you developed by yourself.
Obviously your millage will vary but I've also found something that augments the above approach is to separate reads from writes in your app. Read from views instead of directly from the tables. You may also choose to write using sprocs, and, or explicit 'writer' types/functions in your app code.

This can help in the migration process because you can version the views and sprocs whilst running more than one version at a time. Essentially you're creating a versioned API for you db.

Of course you now have more db objects to manage (boo, hiss, more moving parts) but it also encourages you down a saner path of versioning your db objects and rationalising your persistence somewhat (Do we really need 3NF? If I update this table in isolation..I jeopardise consistency of this entity etc.)

None of this _solves_ anything but I've found it mitigates a hard problem.
Inalienable doesn't mean what you seem to think it does.
Huh. To me, "go out and get the latest release automatically" is terrifying; you should be testing new releases before you deploy them.

It would be simple enough to extract the AMI numbers from FreeBSD release announcements though; the main reason I encourage people to use the Marketplace AMIs is that the AWS Marketplace provides useful statistics about how many instances are running.
Using OCaml to prove fairness and safety of trading algorithms [pdf]
What is wrong with the topmost bike?
Still having the same problem today...
I was looking on my phone and didn't actually see the one by the doctor. Was it there?
I'm not saying that I have a case showing that "what you do on your own time is yours". That won't be the case, especially if you've signed an agreement to the contrary as a salaried employee.

I am simply pointing out that Cubic v Marty does not in any way disprove that idea that "what you do on your own time is you own" either, because that's not what happened in that case. Instead, the employee had an idea directly relevant to their employer's business, showed it to them, got a raise, pursued it as an actual work project, and then after all that went off to patent it privately. That is not really a situation that has to do with someone inventing something on their own in their private time having nothing to do with work, where the question is whether the employer should own it.

The decision in Cubic v Marty should not be surprising or remarkable from what I have read. As an employee, you obviously cannot take home technology ideas that you were pursuing at work, as an official work project, and expect to patent them and get away with it. If you think there is something specifically interesting and relevant about it, then please point that out since I'm not sure what I'm missing. I am not saying that I have a more relevant case, just that I don't follow the relevance of that one.

If you are a salaried employee, and you use company resources on the project, or review it with other employees, or the project is in your employer's field of business, or if you pursue the project as an official work project, and it's in the line of work you do for your employer, and if you have signed an agreement agreeing to do so, and these are all signs that the employer owns the result. The case where none of those things are true is the case that I think will be interesting.
Tough, but honest answer. The point that this person is trying to make that a lot of users will probably say something along the lines of "Yes I will if your side projects are good enough." But for every HN user there are 10 interviewers that look at all the resumes and just throws those out that do not come from a top tier CS school. I wish OP the best of luck.
And it wasn't 'the sky'?
Hey, we're from Britain too, Newcastle originally!

To clear that up, when we talk about 'posting' we mean creating a Facebook post in a Fb Group.

The only time something would be sent in the mail is the same as conventional selling, when something has been purchased.
It does if you're the FBI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
No frame between rear wheel and front chainring. No strength.
> "I don't see it as the opposite of nihilism, it's two sides of the same coin."

Two sides of the same coin is the opposite! Using rough definitions, nihilism is that nothing matters, the opposite (which I don't have a name for) is that everything matters. Taken further, this interconnectedness means that we are all the universe, we are all God. I'd recommend checking out more Alan Watts videos to have this explained better, he looks at it in various ways. Here are a couple of short ones, though I'd recommend his longer talks (I think the music often found on the shorter ones can detract from the clarity of the message sometimes):

http://youtu.be/ssf7P-Sgcrk

http://youtu.be/mMRrCYPxD0I
hashbackup + backblaze. you're welcome.
How stable is FreeBSD on AWS?

The releases are completely stable. I'd go so far as to say that FreeBSD/EC2 is probably more stable than FreeBSD on native hardware, simply because you're less likely to run into weird driver issues with obscure hardware.

Would you recommend it for production use?

Absolutely. I've been using it for Tarsnap for years.

Is there a suite of compatibility/performance tests that is run on AWS for each release?

Not that I know of.
In some eastern religions

The universe is seen as a dream of 'God'. Which means start of a dream is like Big Bang and waking from dream is like extinction of Universe.
Yeah, well, "always" is an overstatement. Of course there are ups and downs. But it's a matter of proportions - this profession still has it easy. I can't recall a headline informing about massive layoffs of software devs :)
/dev/urandom isn't reliable; it fails in a chroot, if file handles are exhausted, etc.
it's missing the rods connecting the rear axle with the pedal's axle..
As soon as EC2 had Unix HVM instances. So every new instance type launched from 2011 onwards.
oh yes, toxic waste production and safe storage facility. Those are definitely the main point of contend against civil nuclear. Not even France with its 75% energy generation hasn't found a way to recycle nuclear waste or at the very least reduce their lifespan significantly.
Those covenants, by Google, Apple, Intel, Cisco, and others, were manifestly illegal. The settlement terms were rejected by the court, as I understand.

I also must credit Facebook for breaking the deal -- one of the few times I can support the company's stance.
The frame is missing the tube between the rear wheel hub and where the pedals connect - it would presumably splay out if you sat on it.
Yes, almost the reverse of current retailers. Instead of multiple buyers trying to purchase from one seller, we're looking at one buyer having multiple product options from other users.

This would help with product discoverability since other users can suggest products the buyer had not originally thought of as well as helping the buyer to get the exact product they want.

Cheers
I hire experienced people, which means that I don't care about your degree. I care about your professional career: have you been successful at other companies? What are your key accomplishments?

I can't wave your CS degree in front of my customers to get them to pay me more, so who cares about it? I prefer someone that can show me how his work will make my product or company better.
The U.S government is his biggest customer since the Iraq war in 2003.
To be fair, the tree plotting libraries are getting way better.
no it's fine the armchair expert hand waving is fine, really.
Agreed, some huge companies are working on this issue. But to also point out, these huge companies have been working on since 2010. In addition, those companies are spending majority of their revenue on data storage and data security instead of better healthcare for patients or better facilities for physicians to operate in. What I can tell you is these companies won't play fair with each other since they all feel the need to protect their software platform on obtaining a patient's data. What makes our company different than those health record companies is the fact that we realize the end product will always be the same no matter what platform the doctor uses.

Our goal is to be like VISA credit card. Any type of bank or credit card company can use the VISA credit card and apply their own benefits on it; but we are third neutral party in charge of the data.

Countries like Canada, Germany, etc. with universal healthcare still have the same problem regarding data storage, data security, and data accessibility. If a patient from Canada ends up traveling to another country, he or she still have to face the same problem where their medical record won't be on them while traveling. Vise versa, if a patient enters Canada, he or she will also see the same problem. We want to link everything together. Sure it will take time because of politics issue, but we do believe that we are all one race. Bacteria and viruses do not care where you are or who you are, so why should we create boundaries and walls for our health data if it can help our life and save others' lives.

Hopefully I have addressed your issue. If not, please continue.
Ask HN: You are seeing this message because you are using ad blocking software
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I report here what I got from www.flightradar24.com:

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The problem with this is not the ads but the way they track you.

So my question is: why do most of the website think you don't want to see ad?
I would add namespaces to your list. They're extremely useful to organize entities of a program. No more prefixes to functions and types names.

Also enum classes are pretty useful. Unlike old enums, the labels do not pollute an outer scope.
You can believe that you're right, everybody is wrong but will eventually find out, and therefore you should place a risk-weighted bet on that.

It would be like most hedge funds: "I believe assets are overpriced, so I've shorted them".

He's doing the opposite: "I believe assets are overvalued, so I'm buying them".

This isn't even bullshitting, is blatantly lying.
I did a gig whereby the databases were HUGE changing the schema was aways avoided unless it was deemed it would pay for itself. i.e. the accompanying feature warranted a change and to what degree. To reduce entropy a full time DBA would tweak indexes and work with each component team to release db refactoring with the teams.

I don't think this is an approach I would recommend but if your gig is a giant enterprisey shop that manages risk far to conservatively it's a reasonable half-measure.

CD is an aspiration for a lot of shops and getting there is a cautious tale of lots of small victories and earning the trust of the decision makers. Sometimes that means:

> designing around it
How Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet
> likely from their acquisition of Tandem.

Yep. Those were originally Itanium-only, so their success was somewhat… limited, compared to IBM's "we're backwards compatible to punch cards" mainframes.

Only recently did Intel start to port over the mission critical features like CPU hotswap to Xeons, so they can finally let the Itanic die, so we're hopefully going to see more x86 devices with mainframe-like capabilities.
Interesting idea but what about the privacy of the information? I wouldn't want my life to be in the hands of anyone else, all in one place, due to the risks involved.
No, an employee might be very skilled but is difficult to work with. Imagine someone who has a habit of threatening coworkers, stalking an ex, bringing weapons to work, etc. That's not something that comes out in an interview. If the person is fired there is the expectation that these kind of behavior problems would have been found out and fixed in four years of college. It's the same with skills. Someone should have found out in four years.
Using DNS to Debug Downtime
Newton’s 3 Laws of Software Craftsmanship
I wish they'd just fix search.

I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched.

I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a time based database of my life... a diary.

I've automated my diary taking into Google Calendar. The what, where and when of everything ends up in one of 12 calendars (each calendar is effectively a label to categorise a whole group of events that have occurred).

And it's brilliant.

Except for the search.

It's really difficult to get the information back out. If I search for something I know that has happened, or has happened frequently, Google will delightfully tell me that I have matched 200 results, and then show me a list of 9 or 10 of them, with no way to paginate the remainder or search the old ones (it only finds upcoming, not past).

Search is broken on Google Calendar, to the point of being almost totally useless.

Far better to rely on time as a search dimension and jump around dates until one manually finds whatever you were looking for. It's that broken.

Compare to search on a product that has some love: Google Photos. Where now the miraculous occurs, I can search things like "Felicity skiing" and what will return are photos of my wife skiing, and an option to look at all other photos on those days. A simple search and all the results you want, and a single click to expand to view it in the wider context that makes sense.

Google Calendar really needs a decent search. It feels far too much like writing to /dev/null at the moment. Your information went in there, but the chances of you finding it when you wish to reference it are pretty non-existent.
It used to be $50, but now he's somewhat famous, so I guess if people still pay it...
It's weird as well as in the early years of HN there were frequent questions about non-competes in contracts in ask HN (they might still, ask HN is less prominent now).

It just shows how much it affects our thinking both as entrepreneurs and employees.
It takes a lot more than that to get const correctness right. Consider the strstr function. The constness of the result really ought to match the constness of the first argument.

It can get much worse. Consider a function that takes two strings as arguments, then returns the longer one. Constness of the result ideally depends on the input. At the very least, when both inputs have the same constness you'd expect the result to also have that constness.
Also see a the discussion on HN:
Why Shitty Products Survive (and Thrive!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994721
I can not believe that he thinks software's biggest problem is that most of it is free. His description of users as "bait" whose habits will be tracked (which seldom occurs with free software, I can only think of fewer examples than the number of fingers on my one hand) seems to exclude the fact that paid software (hello! Windows 10?!) can do the same thing.

Anyone against free and/or open-source is an obvious shill or just plain greedy.
Independence of the Axiom of Choice (for programmers)
While interesting the 13 people could have a mosaicism or a mistake could have been made. There is no way to tell as the study was anonymised. So until another study is done which offers traceability back to the 'mutants' we'll never know if there is anything useful here or not.
And those are just the secret lives someone would attach their name to: http://abdlstoryforum.info/forums/index.php/topic,6486.msg63... .
Perhaps we forgot. Eliza bot written in PROLOG by Joseph Weizenbaum circa 1964 at MIT was quite up for the task. I am sure it is still about 90% more conversational than 80% of the current online English-speaking audience.
Market timing is very rarely a winning strategy. If you are investing for the long term, don't worry about market fluctuations (remember that many stocks and funds will still pay you a dividend!) . If you don't like seeing a big dip in your net worth, spread your buying out over many months to dollar-cost-average it.
Irrespective of language / platform does anyone ever write 'down' migrations? Do you ever use them?

I've always found they don't pay for themselves in terms of testing and likelihood of being required.

Alternatives are snapshots (depending on if you can afford downtime) and simply writing recovery scripts that aren't tied to individual migrations but rather a deployment. i.e. run script before running any migrations and if it goes wrong run contra script to backout as opposed to cleanup script.
TRAC (YC W16) Is Hiring a Non-Hacker Biz Dev Hustler in Chicago
TRAC (YC W16) is building an end-to-end timing solution for any scale athletic event.

OPPORTUNITY:
We are looking for a non-hacker business development hustler with experience making deals. We are looking for someone with sales experience, not afraid to make cold calls, but able to learn the engineering behind our technology. You should have an appreciation for running as well as endurance sport. The job will involve light travel, meeting with clients, cold calls, customer service, as well as other general start-up loose ends. Most importantly, you should expect to work hard, accept rejection, and have fun with a great team of folks passionate about running.

If you’re questioning if you’re a good fit, please read: http://www.forbes.com/sites/christophersteiner/2012/04/24/bi...

Chicago preferred, but remote is ok.
Recent grads ok.

COMPENSATION:
Competitive salary and equity packages (as an early hire, we will compensate accordingly)
Participate in races using our platform for free

TEAM:
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APPLY:
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Any thoughts on why genetic programming is not 'in fashion'? Does it have anything to do with complexity of the calculations?

I can imagine that the advanced models use many, many machines and only deliver results after a large training time. Genetic programming is not feasible then, if you cannot get a quick grasp of the potential results of a model.
If everything is overvalued, nothing really is. To me, it is not a bubble but inflation.
Facebook, Google and Amazon to be forced to open up tax books by EU
For this simple example just choosing the largest possible fully-connected network with ReLU and L2 regularization to prevent overfit quickly converges to a nice spiral (test loss of 0.001 for me):

http://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=relu&regulariza...
One of the most difficult parts is both the desire (and possibly need) to gather more DNA from a pool as large as possible, with the option for re-contact for further investigation while also keeping that data safe and anonymous to prevent this being an incredible valuable target for both governments and corporations.