skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This path will always exist due to confirmation bias resulting from rational decision making. Someone grows up wealthy, gets opportunities to go to a prestigious university, and accepts it. Should they have said no to the university? Of course not... so their rational decision making advances them one step further on the self-perpetuating path. Next, they're at university and they meet some people who introduce them to venture capitalists. Should they refuse the introduction, since not everyone gets to talk to venture capitalists? Of course not... so they make a rational decision and take the venture capital.

I agree with your sentiment that this is a common trope. I'm merely suggesting that it is inevitable and self-perpetuating. As long as people make rational decisions to accept the best opportunities offered to them, they will funnel themselves into the "path of privilege," maybe without even realizing it.

Of course, it's questionable whether the best opportunities are the ones that only come to you because of your status.... usually that means there is excess supply of those opportunities and you are on the verge of entering a culling machine. (See: recent increase in CS majors)
ryan-c beat me to it. Trusted time-stamping is probably better given there's reputable businesses that have existed for a long time and probably court precedents for their models. Their model is also way more efficient than Bitcoin as alternatives often are. Link here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

Here's a few companies specializing in it with various tradeoffs:

http://www.surety.com/digital-copyright-protection/prove-own...

http://www.proofspace.com/timestamping/

https://www.digistamp.com/

Here's a paper on fast, decentralized security via witnesses that has timestamping at 120,000 requests a second with 4,000 witnesses:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.08768.pdf
I've had access to this kind of service in the past and even then often I prefer to do it online myself, especially if I'm paying for the tickets.
isn't that some kind of porno thing
> half will by definition do "above average", and the other will do "below average"

Is this really true? I think it's only true if you replace average with median (e.g. in [1,2,3,10] only 10 is above the average).
How long until they block it? har har
"Kuro5hin, Slashdot and many others have come and gone but MeFi keeps on going."

Although I no longer use it, it does appear that slashdot is alive and well ...
A tale of two formats: Converting JSON to CSV
Of whom? The lawyer? It couldn't possibly be of the woman because they had yet to make contact with her.
You are missing the forest by looking at the trees. You need a foolproof way to determine 2 tests:

1. Is the contents of the bottle what I think (or the label says, or the nurse told me) it is?

2. Is the verified contest of the bottle what we previously agreed this patient needs?
Because driving takes me 15 minutes and public transit takes an hour.
> They attempt to give greater meaning to something than the direct observations support.

Why is this anti-statistical? Nobody said the statistical input had to be empirical.
pretty sweet! will check it out!
"Average" can refer to the median, or any of the various means. Its often informally used to mean the arithmetic mean (but also often the median), but it doesn't explicitly mean either of those.
Nashorn on the JVM supports threads. So the problem is definitely not a JS issue but a JS engine issue. NodeJS is single threaded because NodeJS V8 is. There was a talk about implementing workers that communicate view text messages though, I don't know the state of workers in NodeJS .
Google Now ;-)
I thought that was very interesting myself but I thought this was also.

"For Lazar, a plea agreement where he cooperates in exchange for a reduced sentence would be advantageous. He told Fox News he has nothing to hide and wants to cooperate with the U.S. government, adding that he has hidden two gigabytes of data that is “too hot” and “it is a matter of national security.”
Ask HN: Where should Silicon Valley coordinate a move to if Trump is elected?
Why do people believe VR has any potential? Aren't its design flaws obvious?

Nobody would actually want to use it.
> Like you, I imagine there are a number of legacy systems in the brain that coordinate in interesting ad-hoc ways.

I'm sorry if I have missed something obvious, but where does haberman claim such a belief? As far as I can see they are just questioning the application of the scientific method and the strength of conclusions that can be drawn from the results.
So, here's some things.

1) The FBI are monumentally stupid. In a technical sense, and in a practice-of-law-enforcement sense. They're beat cops without the experience and too much power over red tape. Generally expect them to treat you like a rookie detective who read a manual about tricks to coerce consent from perps.

2) Neither warrant canaries, nor giving the FBI information on how to track your work, is not going to help you. They don't care if you do cooperate, they only care if you give them something.

3) If they really wanted to abuse you and your family, they would just do it. There is no point in thinking up these scenarios and putting yourself through hell. You have to move on with your life. If you think the gov't might be interested in you, sure be prepared, but unless you're going to spend your time working connections and getting government influence to have leverage in a future confrontation: let it go.
They can't. For them it's just a normal browser.
I was never addressing a post you made. We're not having the same conversation.
Oh yes it is. A planet of bad writing and wish-fulfillment misogyny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor

TESTING FRAMEWORK OF GOR!
Dropping the subject isn't always the best idea. It's only a good idea if they're unreasonable individuals. You can often have very interesting conversations with well-reasoned but poorly-informed people.
People are even doing hardware design in the browser now. That may or may not directly involve JavaScript on HW part as I don't know how much those apps rely on servers. It's conceivable a basic, EDA tool could be built with Javascript, though.
Are you sure about that? I mean, have you actually verified that with any particular fund family? I did, for the Vanguard family.

Vanguard S&P 500 index fund has $227.5B net assets (across all share classes)[1]. Vanguard Extended Market Index fund (which is the set difference of Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and the S&P 500 fund) has $42.8B net assets (across all share classes)[2].

That is 18.8% of funds in Extended Market. The true ratio is 19% of funds in Extended Market[3]. Not so different.

Now you can argue that funds like the SPYder are the ones which receive a disproportionate share of attention. I would counter that (1) SPY is a smaller fund than Vanguard's (2) How much of that is investors vs. traders who use it for the liquidity.

In conclusion, I'm unconvinced that S&P500 index funds receive a disproportionate share of attention in investment, apart from investment professionals discussions. Even Buffet doesn't appear to care, and may simply use the S&P 500 because it is more well-known:

> Okay, so gold is not a screaming buy to Buffett. What should a typical upper-middle-class person in the U.S. buy to prepare for retirement?

> "Equities," Buffett answers without a moment's hesitation.

> "The VTI?" I ask.

> "That's good enough. Maybe a selection of high-dividend-paying stocks that are likely to raise their dividends. Maybe the top 100 dividend payers of the S&P 500."

>Then, after a second's thought, he adds, "Well, maybe not that, but equities."[4]

[1]: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0040&...

[2]: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0098&...

[3]: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Approximating_total_stock_ma...

[4]: http://archive.fortune.com/2010/10/18/pf/investing/buffett_b...
Most startups don't even pay enough to rent a 2br apt. Must the end goal be to be single and family-less forever? ;)
The analysis is limited to statements of what was observed in YC applications, not what is happening in the larger marketplace. This is exactly what you get when you look into a crystal ball: a warped view of your local environment.
> Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. Isn't that more or less what human brains do?

I think you have expanded the meaning of statistics beyond what is understood in the article. The originally understood meaning is "numerically/theoretically justifiable inferences given a set of input data." Now you're taking it to mean "any data-processing pipeline."

By this large and more abstract definition, here are some more things that are based on statistics:

- tabloid newspapers
- religious sermons
- sundials
- televisions
I think it originally just meant "deep neural nets" ie. neural nets with more than one hidden layer. Now it's code for "I'm making magic AI, please fund me".
I have a two-finger salute I typically give to cooperative multitasking especially thanks to the Windows 3.1 era. ;) I still investigate it with better type systems, languages, hardware monitors, whatever. I just think "NOOOOO!!!" is a good default when I see it.
In the Demographics and Socioeconomics section, I see 1% of respondents speak Chinese, and no data shown for China in country of citizenship. Also it says 8% have served in the military and a picture showing what I presume are soldiers in the Chinese military (I could be wrong).

Is it that there are few survey respondents from China? Is the survey accessible from China or blocked by the great firewall?

Just curious since the numbers seem very low and I presume there should be a far greater percentage of Chinese respondents purely by population demographics.
How is this different to Twisted?
> This is exactly what you get when you look into a crystal ball: a warped view of your local environment.

I love it. I'm stealing this. :)
Hacker Guccifer Claims He Broke into Hillary Clinton's Email Server
Next step is to just frontally assault anything Google does which isn't core to Google. (as in, don't go after Search or Ads, but I think anything else is fair game)
I remember SGI adding code to Linux to to make it work on their NUMA machines with 256 sockets and 2,000-4,000 cores with single system image. They were my favorite but not only one. I'm sure some distro out there can handle 50 by now. :)
I knew you can change the source (it accepts egd after all), but didn't know they actually prevent you from choosing urandom. This is sad :(
I know the founders, cool site and they are iterating quickly.

I have a few lists with them that I share on social media once in a while.
You can't take any single act, where something goes wrong, and conclude that they obviously made the irrational choice.

Sometimes, you can make the correct decision and still have a bad outcome.

If someone offers you even money that they can roll double sixes on a pair of dice, the rational and logical decision is to take the bet. The rationality of the decision doesn't change if they happen to roll double sixes, it just means you got unlucky.
Would you recommend it for people thinking about institutional culture/school design?
Stop slicing PSDs and start writing code.

Coding shit from PSDs is like making a car from a drawing a 3 year old made. It's so fucking stupid that only a 3 year old wouldn't realize it's probably the most retarded way to design an app.

If your designer knew how to design apps they wouldn't be making PSDs, just like no car designer would substitute photoshop for clay. The only thing Photoshop is appropriate for designing is static images / webpages.
I'd be interested to see whether there's any link between how an application is written (stylistically) and whether or not they get into YC. The writing itself plays quite a big part in many other "similar" processes, like applying for scholarships or research grants, to which there definitely is an "art", so I'd be curious to see whether this is the case in applying for YC as well.

Could uncover some non-obvious bad patterns that future applicants could be warned against using when applying, and some non-obvious good patterns that can help people write better applications, but it might also uncover a subconscious bias within YC towards certain patterns/styles of writing that YC might want to try to remove.

Would definitely be harder to do than this keyword analysis that Priceonomics did, but I'm pretty sure lots of people have worked on analysing styles of writing etc. over the years so it's definitely doable.
I learned almost everything from chapter 1-9 including Fourier analysis at school. don't really know anything about chapter 10 (quantum mechanics). I work for amazon now so that the other buzzword cloud is taken care of.. Damn I was I chapter away from becoming a quantum cloud engineer.
30 years ago most cars in the Netherlands had shift gearing. Automatic was more expensive and considered not cool, 'not for real driving'.
Nowadays everybody prefers automatic shifting...
Good federal defense attorneys will tell you NEVER to talk to the government. EVER. Once you talk to them you're open to a wide litany of charges that they basically can make up if they don't like your answers (e.g., lying to a federal agent, conspiracy, etc.) Here's just one of many articles about it: http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/protip-never-willingly-tal... (BTW: I do think she is being a bit paranoid, but I don't think she should talk to them -- it only invites problems.)
> 58% have earned at least a 4-year college degree.

In the UK (possibly other countries), you can get a Bachelor's degree in 3 years.
TL;DR: By providing temporary shelters the problem of homelessness is less visible and therefore less long term solutions are sought.

This is one of the most perverted line of arguments I can think of, it leaves those in need completely out of the equation (except for "keep them on the street so they are visible").
My answer actually didn't mention anything about watching over you to ensure that you don't inject lethal poison. I was talking about why I personally would not kill myself or ask anyone else to.

But yes, if I think it's wrong to intentionally kill a human, it follows that I neither want my government supporting it, nor for others to mistakenly think it's fine. Morality isn't something to "keep to yourself".

Presumably you think it's fine to intentionally kill, in certain special cases? Could you do the opposite of keeping your morality to yourself, and tell me what your exceptions are? (I'm wondering, for example, if it is just consent? If so, can someone buy that consent?)
Don't anthropomorphize drivet-less cars, they hate it when you do that.
I find it sad that before I added </sarcasm> people thought I was being serious and downvoted me. Once I added </sarcasm> I got upvoted.
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You are going to have to explain why you think Silicon Valley needs to move anywhere if Trump is elected. Certainly I am not going anywhere.
I understand why many people are skeptical, but you guys are doing something new in a space that has long been ignored. Keep up the good work!
So if I call your partner and tell them that I'm going to find you and beat you up, I'm not harassing you, because I haven't contacted you specifically?
Technical explanation of the MySpace Worm
"The Soup Nazi", for example,
USPS package tracking has been down for three months for many users
Google patent would let the company inject a computerized lens in your eyeball
I agree. Having a vehicle that requires me to take over in an emergency defeats the whole point of a driverless vehicle. I'd just rater drive myself then as I prefer to be a driver and not a passenger.

Basically there should be two modes. Full auto when I'm too tired to drive (or sleeping) and semi auto where it takes over in an emergency. And a third mode of full manual for off roading.
Not to forget your bootloader. grub.js
do you differentiate between the meme maker's web page which brings in revenue via ads and Netflix?
It's the same in India. Most Bachelor's degree are 3 years, but a degree in Engineering, which is also a Bachelor's (BS/BTech) is roughly 4 Years (8 Semesters) long.
These political arguments never seem to go well, but anyways...

I'd love to see a source/quote on that. From the news that I saw (actually digging into the details), Trump said something like "Until we have the proper means to screen Muslims for security risk, I propose we put a (temporary) halt to letting them immigrate." This was in direct response to the attacks in France.

Now, for a lot of people, that's still an offensive proposal, but it's not the same as "lets ban all Muslims (forever)".

What I think is interesting about Trump's appeal is that he doesn't filter what he says. A seasoned politician would say "I'm committed to securing this country against terrorist threats", then they put a ton of Muslims on no-fly lists and you kind of get the same thing. But it doesn't look as bad.

I get the sense a lot of people, when they listen to Trump, think "At least he doesn't offer watered down drivel like most politicians".
Saying that "statistics is the ultimate language of the brain" doesn't imply that the brain always performs statistical calculations correctly. In fact finding the true correct Bayesian answer is probably computationally infeasible for all but the simplest problems.

We already have this problem with artificial neural networks, which are still much simpler than the networks in the brain. ANN's have recently achieved significant successes and approach or exceed human performance on some tasks. They still however make mistakes and no one is claiming that they represent the optimal Bayesian solution, they are just the best solutions that we have so far been able to find.

I think the same thing happens in the human brain but can lead to behavior that is much more extremely erroneous due to the greater complexity of the brain as well as that of the domains to which it finds itself applied.

But that doesn't mean that the brain isn't based on statistical models anymore than the fact that ANN's aren't perfect means that they are not statistical models. They are statistical models but they are heuristic models, not perfect models.
Now you can left-pad your entire environment instead of just your production build!

Wow!
People were excited about JSON because there was a desperate need for a data format that wasn't overly complex and/or unsafe to parse.

S-expressions just weren't up to snuff because there's no standard way to do key-value mapping.
> If a checklist introduces speed penalty it will be rather burdensome for the facility (and patients too)

Dying is rather burdensome for the patient. I'll accept the speed penalty.
I'd reckon it probably did not peak globally. You can't ignore the effects of globalization when making such an argument.
The trick is to apply this cost only in places where preventing mistakes that are far more expensive. ;)
We saw the potential when Oculus Rift DK1 shipped and the improvements made in such a short span betweek DK2 and the consumer version. You don't have to be very creative to extrapolate that forward. Form factor shrinks, resolution increases, VR and AR merge.

Seems pretty obvious to many of us that it has huge potential. Why do you think it does not?
A CEO does not get hundreds of millions unless they have a large chunk of the company. So either a founder or given lots of shares so they are like a founder.
For the Android app development we do for clients, I have a $10 trac phone I got from Walmart.com. That was the phone price without subsidy or any extra cost.

Android can be a bunch of hurdles, but we use same mentality as this for our app designs.

I hear a lot of people in tech idolizing "good design". But is a design really good if it doesn't work everywhere?

Performance should be a key factor of judging any design. Both heuristic user performance and actual measurable software speed.
> The doctors? You'll drive out those on the margins of "doctor or other career".

Would that really happen? I know in Australia doctors pay for their own indemnification cover. (http://www.doctorconnect.gov.au/internet/otd/publishing.nsf/...)
Mapping and Open Data for Road Safety
That seems.... unlikely. I'm sure the saving of forms filled out when patients die and malpractice trials results in a fairly large benefit in efficiency. Just pick the highly useful situations first, and don't do the stupid ones.
I remember the long fight against tuition fees in my country and how we argued that tuitions wouldn't improve anything except leaving students with a lot of debt and problems. It would disadvantage so called "orchid subjects" and other subjects which didn't promise a great career. Utilisation of education would become more important than education. Even the switch to the Bachelor/Master system was/is seen as part of this development. Especially since it lead to a much more school like university. Which is the opposite of Humboldt's idea of research and studies being one.
Also with a really large number of solar plants, maybe the earth would cool slightly?
I have used Gor lots of times before and when I got into Go it was one of the first source codes I looked at.

I love seeing open source projects developing a "Pro" version. I've been using Sidekiq Pro for a long time now and I know for sure it won't be as heavily maintained as it is without the Pro option.

As far as Gor goes, when you develop a new feature, it's a really powerful tool to pass some of the production traffic to staging to see how the new feature reacts with real world traffic. It's a sure way to find bugs you usually miss with testing.
Because 'free' is not a binary state in the real world. It's a multipolar concept with a great variety of greys in it.
Siri's creators say they've made something better
Cratejoy (YC S13) Is Hiring for Sales in Austin, TX
Modus Create | Remote

I'm looking for an engineer who is comfortable with React Native and who can apply iOS Audio / Core Audio. This is a short term, full time contract. Interested? Email me: kristen at moduscreate dot com. Have an awesome day!!
In medicine, one big thing is people working long hours, exhausted. My understanding is that airline personnel have strict rules about this. I have long thought medicine should seriously tighten up on making sure medical personnel are adequately well rested instead of insisting that residents work 36 hours straight and things like that.
What about the firmware?
I know a few women who did their own projects while raising kids. Often some web stuff about children/family, hehe. But it helped them to keep up to date and get back into the job with ease.

Also some of them made those projects to their main job, so they now work from home and have more time for their children :)
That's interesting, as I feel the opposite. I am a front end dev for a large eComm company, but do a lot of back end programming and scripting in my free time. The reason I love programming is problem solving. I have the most fun doing coding challenges, and get the most immediate sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when I write an algorithm that solves a test case. Although my day job is primarily "application level" JS, I am least happy when I have to do the visual things, like adding new templates with HTML/CSS. To me, design tends to be too subjective (if I'm going to do it, I'd much rather have someone provide me with a design PSD), and it tends to feel monotonous/tedious. I guess that's why I'm considering moving more into back-end development.
The recent OS X update (major revision, in December or so?) was an app that Twitter contracted out to a third party.

That should show about how much they care about clients outside of Twitter.com.