skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because RHEL6 and a-hole sysadmins who are too lazy to install SCL are all too common.
Is there an open source version of a course app?
A Robotics Law Expert on Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Mika Model”
> It was explicit and repeated requests to vote specifically for him

Where, exactly? His Twitter feed contains a single link to each of his original Apply HN and the later poll (plus one link-less joke about the poll). I mean, yes, he has a big following, and yes, he promoted his application (which everyone involved admits he would not have done if he had thought it was against the rules). But "explicit and repeated" makes it sound like a lot more than one (humorous) tweet per poll.

And it's not like he used a personal account, either. That one doesn't mention it at all. It's just @Pinboard - and frankly, it would be weird if you didn't think current customers would want to support you in growing your business.
Human brain is vulnerable to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
This is the correct answer, it was blatantly obvious he was being ignored by the media until he became too big to ignore. I haven't read any mathematical theory on how costly this was to his campaign, if anyone knows of one please link it.
It's awfully easy to make technically-true but misrepresentative statements about this stuff, though.

For example, someone might argue that actively seeking out recent graduates of coding bootcamps when hiring for junior positions will help find a more diverse set of candidates. And there's truth here: bootcamps tend to have better gender and somewhat-better racial balance than university CS departments or existing tech shops, and bootcamp graduates on average seem to be pretty good (there are selection and maturity and self-motivation effects there which raise quality compared to the typical randomly-chosen bunch os CVs).

But it's technically correct, so long as you don't mind completely misleading connotations, to describe that approach as "to eliminate racism and sexism, hire people who don't have CS degrees and don't have industry experience" and imply it's "lowering the bar".

And anecdotally, when people make claims like the ones in the OP article, my experience is that it's almost always the case that someone is carefully choosing how they describe things in order to be technically truthful while maliciously misrepresenting the situation in a way that suits their personal axe-grinding.
It's odd to criticize me for gaming the system given the name of this website.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
How did YC not see this Pinboard thing coming?

Obviously when you put something valuable up to an internet vote someone, somewhere is going to manipulate the results in some sort of fashion. Did anyone honestly think the opposite was going to happen? Did people honestly think the internet was going to play fair for the first time in history? That an online vote was going to be taken seriously?

And how do you respond like this after Maciej explicitly said it was a protest vote? How could you not see this turning Maciej/Pinboard into a martyr? You're only adding fuel to the fire and proving everything he says about Silicon Valley right.

This whole thing was played so obviously wrong from the beginning it feels like a publicity stunt. How can people who practically control this industry understand the internet so poorly? I'm honestly at a loss for words.
>The substances -- dysprosium, terbium, europium, neodymium and yttrium -- face potential shortages until 2015, according to the report, which reiterates concerns identified a year ago.

So, it's past 2015, apparently these shortages didn't materialize.
The 'ol Bay area bait-n-switch. Honor isn't something you 'prototype and revise'.
More because people thought it would be funny than because they thought it was a fit for the program. Many knew, and 'idlewords acknowledged several times, that it wasn't.

The original announcement said:

At the end of the month, we'll rank the startups and YC will fund two. The ranking will depend both on upvotes and on the quality of discussion, similar to how the ranking of stories works. We can talk about this in the comments, but to answer one question I know will come up: Upvotes are an important factor but they're too brittle to rely on exclusively; doing so would encourage the wrong kind of trying to game the system. So we're going to gauge community interest both by upvotes and comments, and in case of doubt I'll make the final call—or better, figure out a way to put the final call to the community.

All this says is that (a) upvotes and comments will be used to rank the startups, and that (b) YC will then fund two. It doesn't say they'll use the ranking as the sole criteria. It seems obvious that an organization giving away bags of $20k will exercise some kind of discretion beforehand.
The Arithmetic of Active
What's the other bookmarking service?
But....he also doesn't mind if nuclear weapons proliferate.........and he wants to ban Muslims (1/5th the world population) from entering the country.
tptacek's comment said a lot more than "he had more votes." Matter of fact, it didn't mention that directly at all. One would have to read his other comments to get context. That's what context I had in mind when trying to interpret your comment.

Now, if this is your whole argument, then I don't disagree with it. Yet, tptacek's reply to you is still true based on what's in the comment you replied to and the others. Your counter doesn't apply to what he wrote.
I appreciate your desire to assume stupidity before malice but I've come to see the continuation of oppressive systems as intentional :( People profit off of them and so I'm forced to conclude that they're purpetrated intentionally. I'm not trying to say that there's some movie-like evil villain out there cackling to himself but rather that there are many people making money as a direct or related result of the systemic suffering of others and that they turn a blind eye to the sometimes painfully obvious effects of their actions.
But the whole purpose of anyone using tweetdeck would be lists. I mean I use it for lists.

But then again, Twitter shut down the desktop Tweetdeck version. I hope you are wrong and twitter gives lists more attention.
>The author is implying the act was hampered by not having the budget to do the work (apparently $60 million a year according the article)

There's always someone desperately trying to get The Powers That Be to notice.
Amen.

How could they ever understand "simple and easy"? Their concept of simple is not based in reality.

There seems to be this idea (I wish it had a name) that one can just apply a new abstraction layer and the lower layers magically disappear or are rendered insignifcant.

And of course producing 100's or 1000's of pages of "documentation". This is disrespectful toward the reader's time. The best documentation is and will always be the source code. If I cannot read that, then for my purposes there is no documentation.

This is not to say some of these old new thing higher-level of abstraction solutions do not work well or are not easy to use or do not look great. Many people love them, I'm sure. But until I see more common sense being applied it is just not worth my time to learn. I would rather focus on more basic skills that I know will always be useful.
Is Nike+ app a viable solution to growing wearables market
No, that part's fine. But you're protesting that an organization you've more or less openly criticized won't let you game them.
>Because this is a civilized justice system reacting to people whose only crime is to be residing in a place or working without proper authorization https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AW395_Arzimm_G...

Are you arguing that it's morally wrong to deport people who are in a country illegally? How else do you enforce the law? Should I just be able to waltz into any country and have the right to stay forever? And of course deporting someone requires temporary detention.

Obama has deported over a million people during his presidency. Where's the indignation for that?

>Don't get me wrong, I know we are not at the 'trains full people taken to be burned at the ovens' stage. But you know what Trump calls the picture above? He calls it being too soft on immigration...

Now you're just making this stuff up.
Most people I've met find Trump repulsive, not charming. Interesting, yes. As a political entity.

I mean, people tend to like the smell of their own flatulence too, but that doesn't mean they're going to wear it as perfume.
Gold gave better returns in last 10 years http://www.nsegold.com/why-invest-in-gold.php
I'd assume that is priced per CPU core (never seen anything priced per GPU core).

From memory the $0.04/hour is the base price for EC2 GPU spot instances.
I more or less agree with your characterization of the members of the media.

But when I listen to Trump being interviewed, he reminds me of a stereotypical New York organized crime figure talking to a police detective, or, even worse, the lawyer representing such a crime figure.

Trump tries to say things which are technically true but uninformative and non-committal, things which are mere expressions of opinion instead of fact, things which are just his best recollection or his "impressions" of people and situations. He seems evasive so often.

And, of course, he's so willing to offend and treat his perceived enemies rudely and ferociously that even a lot of Republicans dislike him.

How would this guy possibly collaborate and build a coalition to get anything done? How would he ever win his fellow Republicans, much less Democrats (who are all convinced he's a vile racist/sexist asshole they cannot touch with a ten-foot pole) over to his side on anything?

I guess the answer is charisma?
> Also Adams fails to acknowledge that Trump overtly appeals to misogyny, racism, and xenophobia.

He alludes to it somewhat, in that any perception of actual -ism is in the critics mind, which for the most part is correct, but you are also correct in that Trump is successfully appealing to these base instincts in people.

> On a personal level, I feel depressed that a candidate will get more votes, not fewer, after making blatantly sexist comments.

This refers to Trump I assume, which comments would that be?

edit: fixed italics
If he reiterated that jokey response in his "good-faith conversation" with kevin, then kevin made the right call. I'll agree with tptacek though that they should've just said that, instead of talking about voting rings.
> But if one takes more faith than the other, which do you choose?

I don't believe things based on faith, I believe things based on evidence. If there isn't evidence, I admit I don't know. Faith does not enter the equation.

> If God created the universe, then he exists outside of it. So the "rules that apply to everything else" probably do not apply to God.

And if god didn't create the universe then the rules of logic still apply to god. You've not proven that god created the universe, so you can't base arguments off that.
Errr, it's tracing every function. That is equivalent to tracing every probe point. It is definitely less overhead than something that has to actually figure out what it is doing and care in some special way.

x-ray doesn't even make any attempt to optimize things well. If it did, it would be even lower overhead.

I'm honestly a bit stymied. I'm not sure why anyone would think a dynamic probing infrastructure that has to keep track of millions or billions of probes would ever go faster than something that has constant time and storage space by knowing what it is tracing and that it is tracing ahead of time.

The tradeoff is pretty simple. If you know what you want to probe ahead of time, and what the probes do, which is the case with x-ray, you can do it in fixed time and storage cost. You can never add or remove probes. Nothing has to worry about what probes exist.

If you want to be able to add or remove probes at any time, you now have a cost of having to keep track of all the probes that exist and possibly doing something different with them at different times and ...
Yes yes.

Old school, understanding based, composable via interfaces components gave us things like R4RS, Plan9, git, LuaJIT, nginx, Erlang, you name it.

That packing or poking crappy mindset produced so called eneterprise software with all its ole, jdbc, javaee, corba, NodeJS, and all the other meaningless bloatware.

BTW, this a human-universal law. Lack of understanding of grounded in reality fundamental principles will enivetably produce piles of abstract nonsense, be it philosophy (of Hegel), [Java] programming, theoretical physics or even math (500 pages Coq "proofs" of abstract nonsense).

There is the law of cancer (in terms of 4chan) - any branch of human endeavor will be ruined with enough of cosplaying idiots.

BTW2: teaching of principles is too difficult, because, like a good philosophy, which is a study of principles, it requires extraordinary trained and lucid mind habitually trying to separate underlying principles from human-made "higher" or "pure" nonsense.

This habitual mental hygiene, which guards the principles from contamination by popular memes and waves of mass hysteria is very rare trait, impossible to sell or monetize. To teach it requires a similar mindset in students. Packers would be unable to grasp what is it I am talking about.

The Motorcycle Maintenance book, and that part of Atlas about modern philosophers will be a much better illustration.
Congratulations to everyone who made the final 20 and especially to the three winners. It was a really interesting, if some what flawed, experiment. Being able to get access to the raw pitch data is really invaluable.
Yeah I don't get the hype too. I used it once or twice. Then I was like "how is this revolutionary?". A new password per team. Nop bop pop.
Evernote's new CEO on the company's critics: 'I love to be underestimated'
Yes because scalpers buy as many tickets at one time as they can, lowering your chances of getting tickets even if you are up at 5am trying to buy them. “Brokers snatch up at least 50%, if not more, of these tickets,” says Josh Baron from: https://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/6-reasons-why-its-so-hard-...
If you want to say "this would be a very good thing for US manufacturing employees", then yes, that would be true.

And frankly, his arguments are true to some extent. We all know this : outlawing Chinese steel imports would make a lot of buildings and bridges and even cars in the US safer. And somewhat more expensive.

By contrast, not doing this essentially dooms a few million relatively unskilled and highly paid Americans to unemployment, at least in the short term.

Caveat: highly paid is compared to the average, not what an SV'er would consider highly paid.
Show HN: Sqlitebiter – tool to convert CSV/JSON/Excel/Google-Sheets to SQLite
Ask HN: Math from square one, after ~11 years of programming
Hi HN,
no throwaway account - embarrassing or not, I’ll ask for your advice on the matter.

27 years old, ~11 years professional programming and design experience, no formal education, poking w/ systems since my parents brought me my first computer at age of 9 - a soviet clone of the Apple II.

I’ve recently came to the realisation that when you remove the noise, there’s room for the signal; increasing the throughput via negativa.

Probably, somewhere in the past have I’ve internalised the assumption that math is “dry”, or that I don’t have “natural aptitude” towards it and all of the common cliches regarding the subject. I can trace it back to specific time, place and persons, but this is not relevant.

The thing is that I’ve always have been drawn to specific disciplines and generally abstract concepts, seeking the intersections between programming, design, philosophy, economy, all disciplines forming cognitive science and etc.

Now I have this strong craving, a irresistible urge like a compulsion, to learn math vigorously from the ground up, because I feel it’ll help me read formally the commonalities between these distinct on first sight systems.

Does someone relate to this? Have you been through something similar? Either way, what advice would you give? Does it sound naive and am I late? What blind spots I might have regarding this?

The resources in terms of finances are not an issue, i.e. everything I’ve learned up to this moment was via deliberate practice and internal self-drive, but I’m open for any suggestions regarding the possible learning processes.

Thanks for taking time reading this.

Happy hacking,

V.
The question was flawed by itself. Most people rightly expect never to buy an autonomous car. They will just call up a car when they need to go somewhere that is appropriately configured for each trip and leave the problems of maintenance, fueling, parking, and financing to somebody else.
Any user-agent that mentions a recent Chrome and Android build should shows the new mobile.

I test one that has Chrome 43 and Android 5.0.2

Still, the no-image-load grind my gears, so I switched to desktop.
I just don't think he'll win.

So, as for charisma winning presidential elections, could it be that Trump is the exception that proves the rule?

I mean, when did Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama or even Dubya overtly and explicitly offend large fractions of the electorate with a seemingly unending barrage of careless and rude statements?

Trump may have charisma, but it's coupled with an extreme talent for pissing people off.
Different people. Dan runs HN, and I'm sure he thinks about voting rings all day long. Kevin is from YC, and thinks about founders and fitting into the YC community. I think it's safe to say that they both had very good, but entirely independent, reasons for not wanting to fund pinboard.
The GPU chip is Nvidia's GK104, which was released in 2012. Amazon's GPUs are similarly old. You'll train models twice as fast with a Titan X installed in your local machine, without having to deal with distributing the training.

When will we see the first cloud machine learning provider with up-to-date GPUs?
Except that's not what was advertised. In fact, the announcement said explicitly that they weren't going to fund companies purely based on voting.
Keep at it. Your idea is crazy in the best possible way and I truly hope it works out. I voted for you.
But Facebook can't have it both ways. They can't pay almost no tax and then call themselves defenders of democracy.
What is "Methode"? Google is no help.
Why Zuck is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education
Debug Issues Faster with Breadcrumbs
Tesla hits the accelerator, aims to build 500,000 cars a year by 2018
It wasn't a tweak or a nudge, it entirely invalidated the stated intention of the experiment, and completely disenfranchised the HN community.

But that's not the worst, dumbest thing about this. The dumbest thing is that YC would have gotten the most benefit out of giving Maciej the money, and they let their fear and discomfort keep them from doing that.
OTR plugin[1] has been around for years. I have used it on top of icq, aim, skype and jabber. Also there are few clients for android that support jabber & otr.

[1] https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
Have you not got more than $20,000 out of all the publicity? It is not better for you to have been “kicked out” than actually selected?
Thanks so much! I didn't realize how beneficial it would be to me personally until I started doing it everyday. I'm happy others are finding it useful as well!
Why don't people understand, you don't get rich without risking capital.

Yes, your time is capital. But not when you've already traded it for salary.

Brokers risk their time to try to sell speculative deals. This is why they make a chunk of the deal. No guarantee.

Lawyers get paid by the hour for their time. This is why they can earn a nice living but won't get wildly rich unless they take speculative cases on contingency.
I slightly disagree with how you think you have written. The problem is that HN and YC are highly technical. Most of us already know that web based CAD/numerical analysis is invaluable... What everyone is trying to figure out is YOUR approach. And there was not enough detail in it. You are constantly focusing on the bigger picture - which everybody has already granted.

You're in what I like to call "the nuclear fusion problem" - how the hell do you think you can pull it off ?

If I were you, I would talk about the innovation in the JS based symbolic solver (and that's pretty much what I would focus on from an implementation POV) and how you will use THAT to disrupt several industries.
First the Trump quote.

“The only thing she's got is the woman's card. If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she would get 5 percent of the vote,” Mr. Trump said.

Adams is a genius and a weasel. He literally wrote the book on weasels. He knows exactly what he is doing. In fact, he has written about how to push agendas indirectly. You can recognize the described techniques in his writing. Promoting Trump benefits Adams directly. But Trump has gotten to the point where denying his dogwhistling is impossible, so Adams describes it in a non threatening manner.
Google denies email injection flaw can bypass filters and pwn users
How are those counterpoints? None of the effects mentioned are rational statistically speaking. If anything they reinforce the example, because they show that some likely thought processes that would support belief in rainmaking are inherently anti-statistical.
If you think HVDC is expensive, I'm not sure why you think HTSC's would be better.
See Amir Najam's Social Network Info at Intelius
> did people complain that they weren't able to fly the plane

...no. Turboprop and commercial jet aircraft complemented general aviation, they didn't supplant it.

It's part of why I find the autonomous car argument so absurd. People are investing billions upon billions of dollars to create a more convenient and energy-efficient transportation infrastructure using cars... the LEAST efficient method to do so, and the most expensive to implement.

It's for this reason why I think truly autonomous vehicles are much further away than people think, and when they DO arrive I'd predict that the vast majority of them will be 10-12 passenger on-demand autonomous vans that optimize per-person efficiency and reduce traffic.
Except not to the artist, the only one actually creating that value.
if there isn't already a word/term for this, perhaps there should be soon enough. (not an OED word, but a developer-lexicon term like "heisen bug", "smug report", "hinden bug" Like "hey i googled this problem and got auto-stacked"
Turbine – Business Value Delivery
> You can't take any single act, where something goes wrong, and conclude that they obviously made the irrational choice.

Sure you can. If you flip a coin 1M times and it always comes up heads or tails, and then you bet $100 that the next flip will come up daisies, you can conclude that I obviously made the irrational choice. Because there is no evidence to support the idea that this will happen.

Also, in your own example, we can say that it's irrational not to take the bet (if you can afford to lose the money), because statistically your expected value is strongly positive for taking the bet.