skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really reasonable to take as a strong prior (or null hypothesis if you are that sort) that two distributions are equal. Why would they be?

Further, lets think of all the distributions where we can easily measure - upper body strength and height are two examples. The male/female distributions are, in fact, not equal. Same for the distributions of mathematical ability.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5888/494.summary https://www.jstor.org/stable/2889145?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038941 http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf

It seems like you want to simply assume your pet hypothesis to be true - with no real evidence for it - while demanding a high level of rigor from those you disagree with.

See Scott Alexander's excellent takedown of this fallacious rhetorical strategy here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands...
Well, good luck with it. Don't get me wrong, I'd love 1.5x redundancy overhead instead of 3x. But even if you have to downgrade to offering either replication or XOR, it's still a huge missing piece of the typical container deployment, so good luck.
> The solutions offered by the medical profession are far from the best solutions we have...

I'm all ears: Tell me about it because I know someone who really did try without and would be happy if there was a better way.
pretty cool for an app engine app. I wonder how big their ops team is.
Hiring iOS interns?
I would love this only for the react stuff. More useful defaults, less opinions. For example: please let me chose my own CSS workflow and please don't force me to write javascript without semicolons like an animal :P.

Update: I just realised that you can bypass the linter and the postcss. I am sorry OP, looks like I'm a lazy jackass.
Being off-topic isn't necessarily cause for downvotes, and correcting English usage is often welcomed by people with a different native language.

Saying you're going to be downvoted for something on the other hand, is more likely to get people to downvote you.

In fact, some people will always downvote posts that have words to that effect.
> Some paradigms exemplified by the special languages are arguably unrealized or aspirational. [...] Haskell's pattern matching and monads end up being used mostly as a vehicle to embed imperative programs.

Pattern matching has nothing to do with imperative programs and Haskell is not original for having it; it's been around since the 70s in ML. I would also argue that pattern matching has been realized in many popular languages (Scala, Swift, Ocaml, Rust ...)
It represents a real failure of leadership on the part of the President if parts of the executive are ignoring OLC opinions.
The VC model isn't the only game in town. If the revenue was predictable and stable, you could just as easily obtain a line of credit (debt financing) without giving up any equity a la VCs.
A pair of conjoined twins can read each other's thoughts and see through each other's eyes. Are they two people, or one?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331769/Doctors-stun...

A person has left and right hemispheres in their brain. Under some circumstances, losing one of these hemispheres will result in an almost normal functional human being. Imagine, with advances in biology and medicine, one day we can separate one person's brain, and place one half in one body, and the other half in another (artificial body or one whose original owner became brain dead), and both functioning as people. Are they two people, or one?

I think it depends on the observer. Some people would choose to see (one or both cases) as two people, and some would choose to see them as one.

But let us go back into history. The universe started from the big bang, as a big expanding cloud of hot gases. It was one point, and then it became one cloud. Billions of years and lots of things happening later, bits of that cloud grew eyes, legs and started to think for themselves. Are those individual bits of the universe, many individuals, or one universe?

I think, both. It's like asking a network of neurons, are you one, or many?

The universe is a conscious system. It can see itself through many eyes. It sees different parts of itself. It is having many thoughts.

I, a shard of the universe, have replied to you, another shard of the universe, by typing this on yet another shard of the same universe, at the same time as my own neurons are communicating to each other.
> we presume that observations are not caused by biological differences without concrete evidence of those differences. The corollary to that is that disparities in outcome are prima facie evidence of disparities in opportunity.

Wouldn't it be better to cite studies comparing women who do and do not care for children as proof that there is some other cause, instead of asking everyone to accept that assumption?
A billionaire has regrets regarding money!
Having lived in Japan for quite some time, it is sort of amazing how often companies come here and blow not insignificant amounts of time and money simply because they assumed their business model could cross the border without being detained and thoroughly questioned.

For example, a personal-transportation company pitched up in Japan offering better alternative to the traditional taxi, because they are "safe", "clean", and "convenient".

While this offering makes complete sense in most of the US -- where very different adjectives would be required to describe the average taxi experience -- it doesn't really fly in Tokyo.

Taxi drivers in Japan wear white gloves, which should give some idea just how clean the taxis are. The doors open automatically so that you don't have to touch the door handles. The same goes for safety and convenience, but more importantly, the taxi companies here do a solid job of serving the local population.

There is no adversarial relationship to exploit, and a slightly better app experience isn't going to turn the market on its head.

It honestly doesn't take much to be successful in Japan -- Fastly looks to be a great example of Doing It Right -- but you do need to start with the idea that it's a foreign market, and that the business model is going to be different than Back Home.
I don't know of any papers, but for verified certificates from Coursera, you validate your identity via a webcam selfie and typing their one sentence honor code into an input field.
Sometimes you just want to share a photo from your daily routine with your family to just let them know you are ok. So not so trivial. In this context why should I have to think about how relevant this stuff is hanging around 5 years from now.
Compare `Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO"'

http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...
That's another thing I don't understand--how is "automatically deleting" a feature? Why would I care if the recipient eventually deletes something I send them? I've literally never given any thought to what people do with E-mails I sent them, since it doesn't affect me at all. They can print it and hang it on their wall or take a screenshot of it and use it as their desktop background for all I care.
It surely didn't start in the last decade, and it won't stop this decade, either.

Just look at COINTELPRO in the 1960s:

COINTELPRO (a portmanteau derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations.
RMS on the Ogg Vorbis license (2001)
Venture Capital is needed to establish a ponzi-scheme like escalation in value. Multiple parties agree over a period of time that the company has increased in value, the most recent party making it true by handing over some money at the largest valuation.

No less than Steve Blank puts forth this idea:
http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/steve-blank-tech-bubble-burst-p...
Believe it or not, the reason for decline is Google and Facebook. It's called Ads.
Can someone tell me how do I get out of stories in Snapchat?
Unfortunately fighting discrimination purely by working to eliminate instances of it and revert to a gender-neutral (or race-neutral, or sexual orientation-neutral, etc) method of operation does not work. You must counter discrimination by elevating the oppressed group i.e. giving them privileges the already-privileged group does not possess. This is the basis of affirmative action, for example. It works because we care first and foremost about the net privilege one group possesses over the other, not that they have one particular privilege that another group does not (though obviously the long-term goal is to eliminate that as well). And, in case you were not aware, there remains a significant "privilege gap" between the genders and it is in favor of men. Once that gap no longer exists, we can talk about rolling back these programs.
Hey Zassmin, congratulations and your organization sounds awesome! Would this help a woman with an h1b visa and a masters in cs get hired as a software engineer? If so, what's involved to make that happen? Thank you!
It doesn't help that Twitter is unbelievably slow, and loaded with on-demand loading and other nonsense that would be much faster (and possibly lighter) if they just loaded replies with expandos.

And then I'm following a conversation in a shitty popup above my feed, click "view more replies" and suddenly I'm on someone else's twitter profile and not my news feed? And I press "back" and I have to scroll back to where I was in my feed?

Twitter's UX is horrendous.
> No, stockfish uses minimax with pruning... Minimax actually needs to look at all possible branches all the way down.

No, I assure you that stockfish definitely does not look "all the way down (ie to states where the game is over)" in most positions, even with pruning - that would take too long. It uses a static evaluation function to evaluate positions without searching down the tree further.

> MCTS simulates games randomly and creates a distribution of expected value for each one based on some cool math.

You described the "Monte Carlo" part of MCTS but not the "Tree Search" part. It's right in the name! See for example the first paragraph on page 20 of https://gogameguru.com/i/2016/03/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf, which clearly describes AG constructing a search tree.

Minimax obviously will produce perfect play in both chess and Go, but we can't use it because it takes too long. Hence we prune and truncate the search tree. When we truncate it we use an approximation of the value of the node (the static evaluation function); when we prune we sometimes use the static evaluation function as well. This is true in both MCTS and in Stockfish.
The FBI is really long past its prime and needs to be done away with.
But there is someone listening on snapchat - the person on the other side still sees and hears it.

The conversation analogy that xux made seems perfectly reasonable to me in that regard. However, it is (depending on the user, I suppose) not super "real-time" the way conversations are.
If you wanted to get feedback on an idea, who would you ask for feedback?
Personal Opinion: Use pocket. Saving and finding links are very easy with pocket app. Its available as an extension on all browsers. It also has a mobile app. To save, you just right click and select save to pocket. You can even tag your saved links. Give it a try, you might like it.
> The pay is way better (like three times more here in Toronto) than anything web or app related
Web developer with 5+ years experience can expect 75K+ in Toronto (according glassdoor / reddit / google search). And both python jobs and such salaries are available. I doubt C++ developer can make 225K in Toronto. Even if some one does like you, it's an exception.
At least the e-mail software I know has very different UX:

* it is terrible with comfortably looking at a stream of images,

* for one-to-many you have to keep mailing lists around,

* filtering such streams out (to separate notifications) needs to be set up,

* ...

You could do all that with e-mail, and some people probably are more comfortable with using e-mail for such purposes, but you don't get the same streamlined UX with e-mail. Somebody could write an app that offered most of it, but sadly nobody has as far as I know.
> [...] took $350,000 of his own money to write a business plan.

That is by far more money than I've seen in my entire life. Of course you don't need money for your startup if you're already rich.
I mean, they outline them in their fineprint. Amazon doesn't consider the unavailability of 1 EC2 availability zone an outage because their position is that you should be architecting around that. 2 or more AZ outages in the same region and it'll show up on their status page IIRC.
I find it a bit odd that the source of the site is written in m4. What an odd choice of language.
In case you ever wondered where the codename "Longhorn" came from, Windows XP was codenamed Whistler, and the follow-up version was codenamed Blackcomb, after the Whistler and Blackcomb mountains at the popular, eponymous Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia a few hours away from Seattle.

The Blackcomb release of Windows started slipping, so an interim release was planned. It was codenamed Longhorn, after the Longhorn Saloon and Grill at Whistler Blackcomb: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g154948-d70639...
>lenovo T460p

That model comes with Ubuntu pre-installed and it does run flawlessly. I've seen people run ubuntu on it my self. So perhaps there was some other problems.

I can't find a single bad review except yours.
i'm surprised chobani is not listed here as it's one of the most successful story of entrepreneurship with personal funding (+ small business loan) lately.
Our network monitoring software has a dashboard we use internally. Our external monitor was a Google Apps project that was manually updated. Never got far enough into it to automate it, yet.
Even if they had that goal, there are other ways to do it.

When OS X came along, it shipped with an entire virtual machine for its previous OS. And while some low-level things didn’t work there, a surprising number of things did work. It gave people a path forward without requiring instant-OSX-ification of things.
There's an interesting case to be made that we should look at when the rich countries used to be as poor as the developing world is today for inspiration of what can work.

Obviously, that's harder to apply to modern technology; but perhaps useful for governance issues.
> it's the same way we used 'contractors' in Iraq

That's my favourite spin doctoring of the 21st C: the renaming of "mercenaries" to "contractors".
It brings a little value, in the form of a single data point. Not "none" otherwise no one could talk about their experiences ever, without being accused of wasting everyone's time.

Also, there need not be more than 50% of schools enforcing this policy, for it to discourage men from entering the profession. Even 10% would be a lot.
I have to disagree.

What makes Snapchat popular is their use of pictures. Turning the thesis of your point into a totally public, 160 character or less, textual format is effort. A lot of effort.

Pictures are what they are. They're also extremely difficult to parse (no practical reason to retain your message, deletion is a cost effective decision), and they're the easiest thing in the world to make. Who wants to carefully word your tweets when your camera will do?
An inferior version of that is to trade the codes that come on the prepaid scratch cards before they are turned into `minutes'.

Though, the only benefit they have compared to cash is that you can transmit the numbers over the phone.
Ask HN: Transcription software that actually works?
After 30 minutes of training Nuance Dragon Professional on a great mic, it's still rubbish :(
Twitter was amazing useful after the big earthquake/nuclear issues in 2011 (I live in Japan).
We're all p-zombies. When we get poked with toothpicks we will scream in agony, the thought of being poked with toothpicks will appear internally, and we will in turn react to that thought, the reaction based on our upbringing. We have our outer senses, sight, touch, and then our inner senses, that can sense the 'thoughts' that were triggered by outer sense stimulation. The thought is just another form of sensory stimulation, but it is internally generated, indirectly based on an external source. Our reaction to those thoughts depends on how we've seen other people react to similar situations, that have generated those thoughts in us.
Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?
Debugging teams: Creating relationships to get things done
Also on us-west and not having any issues. And we've sent a decent number of emails today for a newsletter platform, https://volleyy.com
I couldnt justify view much battery that thing ate to keep our on my phone.
2 minutes of snapchat = 3% battery life on Android (Nexus 5) - I like the app and the idea but it kills my poor baby!
Also note that the situation doesn't seem like it can really be framed in terms of the usual: "an observer is investigating something which is distinct from herself." In this situation there is not a hard distinction between what we are and what we are trying to describe.

Consciousness appears (intuitively, on the surface) to be the thing which creates the possibility of describing consciousness. A description of consciousness must account for itself. A theory of consciousness must be written such that it writes itself.
There has been a technique (the 'unity build') that approximates a poor-man's LTO for a long time. Basically you #include all your cpp files in to a giant translation unit and then compile it :)
+1

You could argue that "Monads end up being used mostly as a vehicle to embed imperative programs", but pattern matching is a different beast. It's a joyful way to program, even for an imperative hacker like me.
Good memories. I remember leeching longhorn builds from some guy on an irc channel on efnet through xdcc transfers. Every two-three weeks there was a new longhorn build that I would burn on a cd and use to format the family pc. I would've been a great beta tester!
Show HN: TensorFlow on FreeBSD
It isn't the same popup, because Microsoft has continually changed it over the past year. They have done everything they can to ignore and circumvent user preferences during this whole process.

It started with OK and cancel, then changed to Upgrade Now and Upgrade Later, with the close button being the only way to decline. Now it is being pushed as an automatic upgrade with a deliberately small and unobtrusive cancel link instead of a prominent button. Also, if you are away from your PC, it will happen automatically.

Look at their own UI guidelines: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn7...

Dialog boxes always have a Close button.

Don't disable the Close button. Having a Close button helps users stay in control by allowing them to close windows they don't want.

The Close button on the title bar should have the same effect as the Cancel or Close button within the dialog box. Never give it the same effect as OK.

Also, read this: http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/11/the-gwx-control-pan...

It does seem that, on more than a few occasions, Microsoft has gone out of its way to bypass workarounds people have found that disable the GWX app, from resetting registry settings to re-releasing KBs that were explicitly declined and hidden by users.
But your friends still see your snaps and remember them. The database just forgets them very easily.
"Rich" is relative to ones own cost of living. Where do you live, approximately?
Nice work, seems to be lots of good info from what I can see and judge.
No need to make them pay or support it with ads. Keep offering it to them for free and make a killing front-running them on commodities trades. Or just trade regular stocks since the whole market seems to move based on the crude prices. Either way, it should be pretty easy for a hedge fund to make way more money from eavesdropping than it costs to run the service.

It would be a good way to teach an industry with plenty of money the virtue of paying for mission-critical services. Given that the industry runs on a service like Yahoo's, it's a pretty good bet that you could slip an innocuous looking change to the privacy policy past them.
Great article. One recent example I liked: the latest Mission Impossible had displays in fabrics, which I thought was a good alternative to smartwatches https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYKRTPmUAAAh7bz.png:large
New Ethereum Dev Tools for the Community
Ask HN: How much equity in early stage startup for a developer?
How much equity can I get from a startup of about 10 people including the founders? Let's say I'd be developer #4 or #5. Other people aren't developers and they already raised a few millions in seed founding.
or Redgum's I was only 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
and cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns82tHhJOr0
Thanks for the correction.

Truthfully I would not consider TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, or Mumble as a superior solution. The benefit of Skype has always been that it dod not require joining more than one server. In the article example, consider the line about individuals having their Yahoo username on their badge.
Social media networks are like night clubs.

Myspace was edgy and underground, then it got invaded by the masses and it was no longer trendy, so everyone went to Facebook.

Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do?

Twitter is more like a massive dance hall filled with people shouting at each other. If you stand close to your selected friends it can be fun, and if you get access to the mic on the main stage it can be awesome, but the usual experience is that it's filled with randos.

Snapchat is like.. I don't know. I lost interest in nightclubs before I could get into Snapchat.
If only they wouldn't be such *sses about Windows Phone maybe I would be able to keep up with my friends this way ...
> I know it's boring and very, very hard work

So you're now agreeing with 'unfulfilling manual labor'?
Since you're referred to in that article as a "security engineer", I'll ask the following:

I know nothing of PHP other than its reputation. But apparently ownCloud is written in PHP and JavaScript. And PHP has its own "Security" section in its Wikipedia entry. And it has a reputation for security problems.

So, how "secure" (whatever that means) is ownCloud / Nextcloud? Has security been a problem for this software in real life?
(repeating comment from last repost) This paper, accepted to the top economics journal "Journal of Political Economy", demonstrates how the pay gap in lawyers is due to differences in performance, and that "the differential impact across genders in the presence of young children and differences in aspirations to become a law firm partner account for a large share of the difference in performance."
I hope this scientific study will help inform the debate on the gender pay gap, and in particular will show that the view that the gender pay gap is due in part to different aspirations is based in scientific evidence, not prejudice.