skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much actual evidence is there that this has anything to do with contraception? I'm getting old now, and from what I can tell contraception was just as available when I was a teen as it is now.
I think they would have to be at the edge of their galaxy for this effect to take place ..
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, seems like a honest question.
Michael Dell -- Who was a 12% shareholder in Dell, got together with outside investors to raise the rest of the money necessary to buy the rest of the shares on the open market to take the company private. This is very different than Dell the company taking itself private -- which cannot happen. A company cannot own itself.
I sometimes feel that Lord Vetinari (Patrician of Ankh Morpork, Discworld) got governance right, thought I often find myself yearning for "things to improve".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Vetinari#Vetinari.27s_gol...
What is pichai's claim to fame? It's very hard to figure out what exactly he has done to suddenly rise up to the top. Just a very likable person? I am yet to see anything visionary from him.
Rubber ducks still floating after 21 years
Well that's an interesting timing attack in the brows-- why does Facebook have a way to create posts that return 404 to specific demographics?
No. As you buy out existing stockholders, the value of the remaining shares increases. That's the entire point of a buyback.

By this logic you could just hold one share of Apple stock forever and end up the sole shareholder if they just keep doing their buyback. Except of course there are many other people who would refuse to sell. And when no one wants to sell, the buyback either fails or becomes a terrible investment.
I'm not parent but I wonder if it could be both? Though I think the former was the original intent but I hadn't thought about the latter.
Excel superuser here. There's a lot of excel users who aren't comfortable with SQL, but I think they're a dying breed. The SQL you need to know for about 99% of your workflow is something you can learn in a couple of weekends. Most of the younger people I know learn SQL basics in college (I'm talking about business people, not just engineers).

Spreadsheets are just really terrible at data manipulation. Good Excel analysts know this and understand why a query language is so useful.

Data usage is exploding and business users want to roll their own analyses and not wait around for an IT ticket to be filled. So having business users able to easily use SQL in Excel makes things a lot more efficient.

Using VLOOKUP functions and pivot tables is just not an elegant solution to a lot of data problems. A SQL script would be much more useful.
Obviously I have no evidence, but my suspicions are that its like the pac-man world, it just continuously loops on itself. Its just really big...
I've never seen an interview question that I couldn't Google an answer for, after the fact. That doesn't seem like a necessary criterion to decide if it's a valuable question or not. However, it's a problem if the question's so common that even unqualified candidates would be able to answer it.

We ask these questions for a few reasons. You hope that the candidate hasn't seen it before, because you want to see their problem-solving process. You also want to see which questions they ask, which assumptions they make, etc. How well do they explain their thought process? Do they understand the algorithm, or did they rote-learn it?

Will they need to jump through algorithmic hoops writing a CRUD app? Probably not...but they'll need to solve problems creatively. It might be better to walk through an actual investigation+bugfix in a piece of software, but that takes more time to do (interviewer+candidate) and more effort (interviewer) to set up, so it's not surprising that most interviewers would take the easier way out.
Google Sheets has a "query" function in which you can write out SQL-like scripts and I have found it to be tremendously useful. I've been disappointed that a similarly easy-to-use function doesn't exist in Excel. This is a solution to that problem.

At first I thought this might not be all that useful given Excel's Power Query functionality, but then I realized there are still a lot of use cases where this could come in handy.
Still wearing the same gray T-shirt.
O, I get it.

There is a basic contradiction in set theory. Called Russell's paradox, there are two ways around it. First is ignoring it, aka everything builds from it's self nothing can become recursive. Or Zer's something or other that basically removed membership and equality and hides in the corner crying.

As such infinity is generally assumed not to exit in R. And causes all this all infinite set's map able to each other are equivalent size crap. It's also why real mathematicians laugh at the set guys.

But, sorry the way R was initially defined it included infinity and you only get to put it into 1 place on your mapping. Or as a math professor said, what angle is the highest number in R mapping to.
> because so many of them

Is this based on your personal observation or are you referencing some known well established statistical fact.
No one is suggesting anything of the sort. An employer already does research into what generally is the normal pay and costs of living for their area. So generally speaking they know if the pay they are offering would put a zero asset person near the poverty line.
It's only $250 billion if Apple keeps it. Since much of it is held overseas, if they return it to investors, they have to pay taxes on it first. By sitting on it the whole if it figures into their market cap.
I think there is a lesson here about company/app development. Alien Blue did NOT look it does today when it first launched. That app was a few years of feedback and iteration. There is no way that Reddit could nail it on the first version. I'm not trying to give them a pass but I don't see a way for them to have succeed using the replacement strategy.
Argentina dodged that bullet. It was heading the same way.
So....block ad blockers and HN screams.

"I will pay for content", they say. "I just don't like your 25MB flash ads."

Link to crap, and HN screams.

"Is journalism dead? This stuff is just click bait. I appreciate good writing and quality content."

Put up a paywall and HN screams.

"Why u make me pay?!?!?!?"
My wild hypothesis is that teens may be more aware of the rising cost of parenthood and may rationally be avoiding the situation altogether.
Seriously? It would have such an absolutely negligible effect that the only thing more conclusive is your bias.

The article mentions that is is mostly believed to be a combination of investment in effective and health programs.
Disagree, I'd rather watch someone stream dating apps or snapchat than video games.
Education probably plays a good part in it. When I was growing up, and I'm only 30, we didn't get much sexual education in school, were taught to simply not have sex and many of my friends thought many untruths like pulling out is fine, douching is a form of contraception and even one unfortunate friend who thought ziplock bags were just as effective as condoms.
Head/tail Breaks
Just because somebody doesn't have a better idea doesn't mean your idea isn't terrible... maybe they're just honest. Seems like a great article to justify firing those who don't follow without question.
Sure. If Tim Cook and "some other people" could borrow 600 billion dollars, they could buy Apple. Turns out that it's really hard to get a loan for that amount though.

And regardless this has nothing to do with Apple running a stock buyback.
Funny how the anti Bitcoin crowd respond with baseless ad hominem attacks.

Bitcoin solved a problem, whether that problem needed solving or will be extremely fruitful is for the future to determine.

The fact that a 4+ billion dollar stateless currency exists is pretty amazing to me.

Personally I think the anti Bitcoin crowd is also the pro government crowd. You know, the people who support torture of innocents, assassinations, genocide, etc etc, but I'm sure I'm just some nut -- yeah I'm the nut, not the people who talk about laws And justice while shrugging off torure.

Amazingly gross display of hypocracy.
Streaming his apps and phone live
Norway fares better in large part because one Iraqi geologist managed to convince the nation to sock away its oil profits in a national trust instead of spending the money wantonly.

It’s a testament to the Norwegian political system that they ultimately listened to his message and followed his advice.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Farouk%20al%2DKa...
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I was just thinking in terms of attractiveness. Kids today have an unlimited supply of videos of beautiful people having sex. Not only are their expectations rising, but their choice of attractive mates is falling.
How can it be clean when opposition newspapers are censored and opposition politicians suffer from oppression? And nevermind nationalization of the media...
I could also pray to Zeus to grant me eternal life. It would be cheaper, and have exactly the same probability of success.
"But Sir, these are the correct stellar coordinates for the Zorgoph home world! They should be right here!"

"There's nothing here, Captain. Nothing at all. So you're saying that they moved an entire star system? In the last solar cycle?"

Good times, good times.
Post-C++ 11 code is so very different from pre-C++ 11. Things are so different that I cannot even understand many of the constructs anymore. I realize C++11 is 5 years old now but still. I fear the same thing might happen to javascript as well with the changes in es7. I don't think this is a good thing for languages to change so much that the style becomes very different. This is probably the reason why developers like Go. The language designers are reluctant to change it from the get go.
Surely it's not a secret obesity rates have been rising steadily over time?
Why? I doubt we'll have a shortage of lab animals in 20 years.
More recently, things have been less than free and fair.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/venezuela

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/venezuela
I have no idea why this got downvoted. This is literally what happened there.
How would converting all your money into magic beans help in that situation? How would you pay for your groceries in magic beans in that country?
> find some way to speed up the ledger processing

If you want a large, fast, distributed ledger, go ahead and make one. If you want to anchor it in Bitcoin, go ahead. Why would bitcoin itself change heavily just to suit your proposed need?

It's a misconception that bitcoin the software, or the community as developers, are incapable of switching to larger and faster blocks. The system is working well, as designed.

> the one true currency

The only one here saying that, is you. Bitcoin doesn't have to be the one, or all things to everyone.

> if they could get away form their anti-inflation fanaticism

That's like going to a foreign film society and complaining that they're fanatical about foreign films. It says so on the door and you aren't forced to stay. There are inflationary crypto-currencies...
You can see back as far as the Big Bang, approximately 14 billion years ago, so all matter in the visible Universe is within 14 billion light years of the Earth. However, the space the Universe occupies is only really finite if it's positively curved. If it's flat or negatively curved, the space it occupies is infinite, and if its density is constant, it must contain an infinite amount of matter even though we only see part of it. The Big Bang is a singularity - a point with infinite density. It's hard to get your head around intuitively, but it all makes sense mathematically. (The maths is pretty hard, and rarely covered at undergraduate level.)

The simplest model in rough agreement with observations is called the Einstein-de Sitter Model, and it's flat with a zero cosmological constant. See http://www.britannica.com/science/cosmology-astronomy/Relati...

More general models are covered here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%E2%80%93Lema%C3%AEtr...
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How can you say that with such certainty? People who feel fat don't want to have sex as often.

You don't think that's true?

Note: I said people who _feel_ fat, not people who _are_ fat.
Yes. "Hollywood Accounting" means cooking the books to make a success look like a failure when to comes to paying people (like the IRS) who get a percentage of the profit.
Private companies and venues can be centrally planned too.
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Stanford ranks No. 1 in state in crime per student, UC Berkeley No. 2
I am 35 and in the US we had very detailed sex ed including how to use a condom, how wide the contraceptive window was ect starting around 12ish. IMO, this is really more an issue with many local schools being horrible than anything else.
In the OP article Norvig suggests 10^172 possible games and games average 200 moves.

Walraet paper has 10^10^103, so 1000 googolplexes - this is very large.

Monte Carlo methods are specifically for guess-timating intractably big searches.

MCTS is close to the human heuristic for evaluating Go positions - counting who currently controls what, multiplied by the strength of each position (in Go 2 'eyes' make a block impervious to harm). Early on this is very subtle to discern - which makes Go a subtle art.

The human heuristic is complex, the MCTS random playout is overly simple but uses gigaflops of random sampling. MCTS was the basis of the best computer (the new innovation is the convnets that prunes the tree before MCTS).

The convnets are trained on a big database of expert games which is why I wonder if the MCTS is the differenting factor & Lee Sedol with an MCTS would beat the Convnet & MCTS.

This is important because: does AlphaGo plan ?

If not, the implication is planning is a poorer heuristic compared with whatever AlphaGo actually does.

The convnet provably doesn't plan, it estimates what a human expert would do and performs tne same whether playing game or just predicting next move from random configurations.

AI research has always held planning in high regard.
C'mon - when I was a teenager I would've had sex with the crack of dawn if I knew it was interested. I doubt anyone capable of getting pregnant is truly 'off the market' for every teenaged boy in their vicinity.

It's more likely that popular representations of teen pregnancy in the media gradually taught enough kids that having a baby in their teens will seriously screw up their life. You only need to see one episode of Teen Mom to know that's nowhere you want to be.
Is it a specific mailing list ? I didn't get anything.
Being wrong does not directly lead to being a "crank", whatever that means, and the poster did not demonstrate anything beyond that he thought the author was mistaken. Let's be honest - the poster called him a crank because the topic is one the the poster finds distasteful. There was no clear proof of him being a crank. Ironically, the poster is guilty of the same thing the author is being accused of, which is poor reasoning about a thesis.
If you are looking for full blown apps, there is cloudron.io. The app selection is a bit lacking (for example, no zulip).
As of this post, three of the 20 comments on this story conjecture that obesity plays some role, and a full half of the comments are on subthreads discussing this hypothesis.

Interesting because I've never heard this hypothesis before and other online discussion of this article does not mention obesity.
So what? They sat on an ejection seat for eight years and did nothing.
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In the next few years, chatbots are going to become more intelligent and more widely used. Ecommerce in particular will feel more like an "in-store interaction" through chatbots. We're starting with deals to help people find the product they're looking for and purchase with a single click (or setup an alert for future purchases).

We're a team of engineers in the Bay Area with experience building chatbot APIs and backend interactions for realtime chat applications.
e is irrational, e+ei can't be irrational because it isn't real (all irrationals are reals).
People vote for Communism, they get Communism. What's the problem here?
>Clojure-type dispatch can be easily implemented in CLOS

Can be implemented in CLOS or Common Lisp? Are you thinking of something using the metaobject protocol? Catnaroek's challenge is interesting, and would seem on the surface to not be possible with CLOS.
Births are what matter, as a pregnant teen can get an abortion, resulting in skewed statistics if you're trying to figure out how many teens are having babies, which (imo) is the thing society should actually care about, as unready parents tend to be a drain on collective/social resources.
> Carl Icahn and CNBC should already have been investigated for this open manipulation of the market.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you (or for that matter agreeing with you), but where would you draw the line of free speech?
Solution: don't do shitty things (e.g. block ad-blockers, write awful content, or use paywalls). Easy.
Hoarding has a price - the marginal utility of each remaining token of value increases, so it becomes much more expensive to hoard. Some amount always circulates.

Hoarding in a mattress represents a lost opportunity cost. Most hoarders put their money into something that yields interest, that gets it circulating, and it is in fact, how our entire banking system works.

Also, let's call hoarding something else, namely "saving". In a healthy economy, you need saving and spending. Saving is a way of deferring spending to the future. When lots of people save, it means it's a good time to borrow money because it's cheap due to the nature of the banking system and lending and because it means that people have money to spend on whatever you're producing with the credit. You really can't have spending without saving and vice versa, otherwise you risk some kind of credit crunch or collapse of the currency. (The USD is in a scary place, BTW).

If you're trying to argue against Bitcoin as a currency because it's used as a store of value, then you have to be against the USD or Euro too. The ratio of saving to spending is different among these, and in Bitcoin-land the ratio is particularly skewed to saving due to the early adopter advantage, but there's still a healthy amount of churn for a currency that's so young, despite profound technical encumberance to its usability.
Is it available outside the main english countries yet?
ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays
It stopped working for a while but the re-implemented it recently.
Actually, MCTS usually doesn't allow eye-filling. That's how it determines a game is over - all of the territory is "eyes". Otherwise, the playout would go on forever, or would stop at an arbitrary stopping point (board width * board length * 3 or something) which is not as accurate.
I think low birth rates are doing that and those started with widespread contraception, not the internet.
Teen pregnancy rates will be higher than teen birth rates in jurisdictions that are not hostile to abortion. But teen birth rate is probably a far easier statistic to gather.
actually the problem is sharing content that is behind a paywall. nothing against putting that behind a paywal and i definitly would subscribe wsj if i would like their stories / has interests in the content they are posting. (however I don't like such stuff) I've read some articles of wsj that where accessible through google (pretty controversial).
also mostly I watch hn and click on a link to read the comments first and then I know that I mostly could ignore certain links.
Yes, but virtually every published peer-reviewed study will have a large enough sample size and will have done the math to make sure that it is large enough.

If it's the first thing that comes to the mind of random HN commenters who haven't even read the actual article, it's probably also going to occur to the experts writing and reviewing the article.

Peer reviewed articles aren't perfect, but it's pretty arrogant to think that the authors and reviewers are so bad at research that you can find problems with them without even reading them.
So they'd rather just watch porn than lower their expectations and have some sort of sex?
Games can be many different things besides a time diversion. An important thing that games can be is an artistic or storytelling medium. Is a novel a "time diversion"? It probably depends on the work.

One of the benefits of games is that the subtitles of the interaction can also be part of the story. A touch screen, unfortunately, offers only a small set of possible interactions, and thus it has a limited toolset for telling interactive stories.

This is important, because we are just learning how to use interaction as a expressive tool. I highly recommend watching Innuendo Studios' "Story Beats"[1]. The first 3 clips are examples, and the last (4th) has the main essay. The thesis is that games offer the storyteller a different set of tools. Video (movies), for example, can generally only access your sympathetic emotions (you feel excited/sad/etc for the character), while interaction allows other emotions to be experience first-hand.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY4f8-eoY0mg...
Where exactly is it sitting? Most money which is "saved" finds way back into the economy via fractional reserve lending by banks where it is stored. It's very hard to just make money "sit" somewhere these days when financial institutions all compete to lend and invest money.

Seems like Apple's money is invested in a diverse portfolio of equity markets: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-30/presenting-worlds-b...
From speaking with internal Amazon employees, their total profit is negative because they invest more money into expansion than they are taking in. They make an incredible amount of money and likely would be turning a profit if not for the extensive investments. But as it stands, expenses (including expansion costs) outstrip revenue, thus profit is negative.
Delaying coitus long enough to consider the economic consequences of an unwanted pregnancy is some pretty hard-core adulting. If I remember anything about that age it was the manic ache to fuck. No, I'm pretty sure access to porn has something to do with it.

"widespread availability of broadband Internet"

LOL
Ok. All but one then.
>- Nearly all cars will be Uber, or something like it.

I'm not entirely convinced this will happen. Certainly owning a car will be a luxury, but it will be an affordable one (since we can clearly already afford it). I think there are enough advantages to car ownership, like instant availability, and personalised space, that mean many people will still choose to own a car instead of taking taxis.
I hate to break this to you, but obese people have sex too.
No, computation is a mathematical discipline; the lambda calculus is one way of thinking about computation (I won't say it's the best, but it's a way) which is part of that discipline; C simply … isn't.

Common Lisp, of course, is a hell of a lot more than just the lambda calculus, but it's also a hell of a lot better a language than is C.
Ok, but how is that clean? Or do you mean clean relative to authoritarianism with Marxist values?
How false is it criticize central bank policy?

They are dragging the world into another great depression, destroying the lives of billions along the way.

At some point it gets tiresome to speak with those who have no understanding of economics nor history.

Can you defend the last 8 years of Central Bank policy, are you even schooled in this area of study? Your criticisms are naïve.