skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That domain name brings back memories.
Registration dates back to 1989.
It's WR Stevens' website, isn't it?
Could someone give me a real example of somebody using mental models in a real world application? I just find the idea of learning and studying mental models to be distracting and confusing. Pardon my ignorance.
Not limited to equities, or to China. Regulators worldwide are weighing the systemic risks of now enforcing the transparency that should have always been present. Dodd-Frank is paying off now, finally as capital flees risk for the perceived, possibly very real safety of US markets.
On-going series on mental models at http://www.safalniveshak.com/category/mental-models/
Some commenters here are saying, "I already know this stuff." Indeed. I'd be curious if people could put out a list of "advanced" mental models. For example, Bayes' theorem is more advanced than Occam's razor.

What's clearly more advanced than Bayes' theorem, and as useful? ET Jaynes' flavor of probability theory? I'd posit the more advanced version of active listening as, "being able to perform a bunch of kinds of therapy--freudian, rogerian, family and systems etc." Of course I don't mean you go get a license for these things. I'm positing them as difficult, generally-applicable life skills. I'm not claiming these are good examples; I think HN can come up with better ones.
I'd say the archive.org version -- if he doesn't want HN pageviews, let's not give him any.
Ebook dev departments ought to have a checklist entitled "Critical Features List". For example, Windows 7 had a PDF reader that incredibly forgot to have a method to go to page N. Can you imagine furiously swiping the touchscreen trying to get to page 462 of a 700 page PDF? The next update, that was fixed :-)
I'll admit, I've been doing frontend for a while and I hadn't heard of the <wbr> element. Thanks for the pointer!
Absolutely! and it doesn't even have to be a major item either. I am friends of a friend who was selling Australian Noise sticks, and had huge volume on Amazon. Then they went and launched their own line and his volume went to nothing. From 4 employees packing orders to zero, just the one guy doing it all now.
Yup. There are loads of errors. They're also showing Telugu letters instead of Kannada and Urdu instead of Pashto.
Another error I noticed was that the letter (ழ்) in Tamil is shown as [ḻ] like"rag" -- I don't know what rag is doing here, ழ் is the retroflex approximant typically transliterated as zha.

I looked at the Kannada page in some more detail. Good news is that the phrases are in fact in Kannada (unlike the alphabet). But even here some of the translations are slightly off. The one for "he visits many countries" uses "urugalu" (places/towns) instead of "deshagalu" (countries).

I don't get the impression that this is a reliable site.
I just want to say thank you for a hugely informative, referenced, and brief comment.

You've pointed me at more information on a concept I'm familiar with (bacteriophages), and taught me two new terms -- defensins and antimicrobial peptides.

Clipped & saved.
> try and look at things that definitely do influence consciousness

Ambien.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-m...

People who "wake up" using it are, to the best of my understanding, not conscious. They are like reactive robots instead.

Even people not in a coma who have used it simply to sleep, occasionally experience this sort of half awake state.

So compare people awake via Ambien, to those who are actually conscious, and try to see what's different.

It would be especially interesting to try in animals - to see if they have less of a change compared to humans (under the assumption that animals are not conscious).
It looks like they have switched the Cantonese and Chinese content, the "Chinese" vocabulary is Cantonese written in Yale romanization (edited to add: I assume, being a non-speaker. On second look I'm not so sure of myself).

Since there is not a lot of learning material for it online, I find Cantonese to be a good 'BS-meter' for language websites (in that it's not too hard to see if they got the basics wrong or not).
Can some of the people who upvoted this explain why is this relevant?
yup.
the order of alphabet is very important for learning telugu (indian languages) and looks like they are sorted in some random order.
if you visit the adjective grammar rules and click pronunciation, it pronounces the next rule. that's a big bug especially for new language learners who might not have a clue.
Some US manufacturers are on Alibaba, and I am planning to list us also one day soon. Just select the countries you want, and they will filter the results for you.

If you know what kinds of stuff you want to make, look for someone who builds similar stuff and ask if they take outside work. Some will, some won't.

The manufacturing communities can be fairly well knit also, so if the first company you call can't help you, they might know someone who can.
Perhaps off-topic but there's one fun thing about "green" in traffic lights - in Japanese, "ao" is blue and green together, so most Japanese natives speaking English will shout "blue!" when the traffic light switches to "green".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color)
This. I love eReaders for novels and the like, but for the "Six reference books out on my desk" work, paper is still king for me.
Such as systemd? :-)
Upvote for hysteresis.
The more information your canary provides the more likely it is you'll get charged with breaching the NSL gag order. Current canaries don't bring down the ire of the various 3 letter agencies partially because they provide such tiny amount of information. Canaries down to the individual user would definitely be in violation of the gag order on an NSL and ever bring a lot of trouble if you did it for normal warrants!
Not when they pressure you to take an exit that lets them recoup costs and leaves you with nothing, and your employees with nothing.
I am thinking about the markets, not the business inside it.
How do i access this article? Can you please post a link to the pdf, if the publisher allows redistribution.

Thanks
I thought it was a tool for measuring large populations where the lean, well muscled outlier is heavily outnumbered/balanced out by their opposites. Either way though I agree that it's silly for individuals to try to apply it to themselves and then shit on the concept because it doesn't work like that.
Ask HN: Topics for a lunch and learn?
The dev team at the company I just joined is starting a weekly lunch and learn to share knowledge on some interesting and relevant topics in the development world. As someone who doesn't consider himself a domain expert on any particular topic, I'm a little nervous to participate, yet many people have spoken up with a wealth of topics (webpack/gulp, docker, angular) to talk about. I have interest in all kinds of tech but I've spent most of my career as a backend developer. What are some interesting, innovative topics I could read up on to give me some ideas for a lunch and learn of my own?
> [1] Support for the <wbr> tag was introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5, though removed again in version 7.

probably the biggest problem with it.
That is so true. You can see a lot of SV startups think if it works in the US, then it works in Asia. AirBnb is a great example something that does not work. When a 5 star hotel cost $50-70 only, people aren't going to pay the same price for someone else's home.
"make the difference" alone? Probably not.

Did I "positively influence the outcome" in the company I work for? Almost assuredly.

Of course, this is coming from a mind which does basically believe in a meritocracy, so...
The "individual measure" you're looking for is body fat percentage.

A vastly more accurate proxy is waist circumference.

BMI was developed largely because the proxy data (height and weight) are so readily available, especially in databases. Few doctors take waist measurements, and doing so is slightly more complicated.
Only on HN will you receive genuine advice to create a communication app specifically tailored for the censorship and surveillance purposes of an authoritarian government for profit.
Hahaha. Man! Read your stuff again, and read what I said. Try to find a way to conciliate both. It is impossible! You even put things that didn't show up there, here, like $4.50. Why you took it so personal? Stop writing all these nonsense posing as if you were writing anything useful. You just take everything and say: "isn't this that I'm asking". Guess what? Nobody cares for what you are asking. Actually, you can't even say it, I think. And I didn't say I wouldn't call you names, you're completely insane, retard, this discussion has no logic and I REALLY don't understand why you made it so deep and long, talking about so many different things like a retard in all of that. To point one of the most retard arguments: did the USD raise only to R$1.40?

Vou postar isso aqui em portugues, que te explica direitinho a crise do real e como ela é o oposto dessa porcaria que você tentou escrever em ingles: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desvaloriza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_re...

"Para manter este sistema funcionando por mais tempo foi necessário injetar algumas dezenas de bilhões de dólares na manutenção do câmbio semi-fixo e das altas taxas de juros. Parte destes recursos vieram do aumento da dívida externa, que no período 1994-2000 saltou de US$ 120 bilhões para US$ 250 bilhões [3] . Outra parte veio dos processos de privatização das empresas estatais, que resultou na desnacionalização de empresas e serviços. Muitos economistas criticavam a manutenção de um câmbio valorizado por tanto tempo, já que a estabilização da inflação havia sido alcançada já em 1995."

Eu já sei que você é um retardado, mas se você acha que se endividar, manter o dolar aritificialmente a 1 real (jogando o preço dos produtos estrangeiros lá embaixo, ou seja: subsdiando a importação) é austeridade, não há nada que ninguém possa dizer pra você, rs.
Even when you get lucky, sometimes nothing happens!

My friend had his product featured twice on the John Oliver show on HBO. Total sales from that? 1 item!

NSFW: http://www.flatearthtrading.com/one-meter-hand-carved-wood-p...

NSFW John Oliver clip https://youtu.be/Vwkqh3lCgvw?t=2m22s
Karl Popper or Carl Sagan? I actually don't know the latter's views very well, but I very much get the impression that he popularised a Popperian view of science in a way that Saganites simply can't get past.

A lot of people who think themself scientific and modern independent thinkers simply regurgitate what they learnt from scientific and modern independent thinkers.
> You might not have realized, but when you say that WeChat is better for China (because it creates jobs and whatnot), you are exactly claiming that protectionist policies are good for the country.

Of course is this I'm saying our freaking retard!!! Oh my god, in which world do you live? You really think that the only economic theory that exists is this stupid bullshit people call "liberalism"? Von mises? Oh, boy...
The Esperanto part seems pretty good. There is one section with consistent errors, "Mi vizitis francio" does need a -n ending (francion). And again, "and" is not a preposition. But that's all I noticed in a quick skim.
No company is going to do that. Doing that would get them in trouble with normal warrants much less NSLs.
Yeah but that's still considering the epiphenomenon hypothesis and not other possibilities. What if the only thing you can explain with the epiphenomenon idea is the Philosophical Zombie (mind) but you still didn't explained a bit about consciousness.

Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo
I'm not sure about expanding on Bayes' theorem, but some other notions from ML/stats that would be good to know are overfitting/the bias-variance tradeoff and base rates.

One instance where I've seen the former applied to society is the idea of research benchmarks getting stale from "overfitting". Even when researchers do cross-validation, we might still expect our exploration of the space of ML models to be skewed towards models that perform unusually well on well-known benchmarks. This was described in http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ with reference to ImageNet (of course).

As for the latter, pretty much every time I've seen a discussion of statistics on social or old media, 90% of the participants seem unaware that base rates matter.
As much as I look at your impressive past (assuming you are actually that Walter Bright), I gotta say, I don't think many here really care what your old fart opinions are.

Seriously, every post I see of yours, is the offended digital immigrant, get off my lawn, typical old person bashing technology and lamenting our return to goats and manual plows.

Thankfully in no time you'll be gone from this world, and progress can be made.
I think you might want to try more, bigger monitors.

I have a 15" MacBook, a 30" Asus and a 27" Dell. I often have multiple PDFs open along with an IDE and don't miss physical reference books anymore.
7 feet 6 inch tall kid basketball player
Fair enough then, less region restriction, since this thing only works in the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040933

"No person" is a rather extreme position.

Turns out some doctors are idiots, or frauds, or incompetent.

Turns out some just follow the protocol they're told to follow, even if they laugh at it (as in the link above, from this thread).
I am going to read that actually, thanks.

On the note of bots and your denouncement of the Turing Test as a metric, I do remember an article on here a couple of days ago hinting that one of the biggest frustrations of customer service calls is dealing with scripted responses, bots if you will, instead of real humans.

I do wonder whether alleviating this user frustration will amount to passing some "similar" but possibly weaker test.
I've been bit for talking about a company I've worked for in the past, simply because someone took my personal opinions as company dogma. That said, I still continue to do it. I feel it really adds value and a human element to a conversation. People all to often forget that a company is a collection of individuals. Getting insight from one of those individuals, especially one who isn't PR or management is really refreshing.

Yea, there's a chance it will backfire. But I think that if everyone speaks openly it's much better for the community. I think one of the things you're also overlooking is the teacher effect - talking about something and teaching it provides a better insight and understanding of it to yourself. I've had great insights into things I've been working on because I discussed things surrounding them on reddit or HN. Community feedback is always valuable.
The swolehate is real. https://swoleacceptance.reddit.com
I like the scenarios described in https://carcinisation.com/2015/07/23/defensive-epistemology/.

One of them is using the efficient market hypothesis (true enough for this application) to avoid being taken in by a real estate broker.
"Paying guarantees a 24h SLA to get a reply to a limit ticket. The free tiers might have to wait for a week (maybe more), being unable to work in the meantime. It is an absurd yet very real reason pushing for premium support."

Not my experience.
The mind is not Consciousness.

Mind is behavior. A Philosophical Zombie has behavior and a mind. An AI will have some sort of automata mind.

But that's not Qualia. Consciousness is necessarily something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo
Right, that's not politically motivated at all...Much like the Huffington post.

/sarcasm

exit 0
It's hard to get substantial sums of money from options and have it all be taxable only at LTCG rates. ISOs are limited to $100K/yr when first exercisable and doing an 83b election (assuming your plan permits it) on unvested shares is fairly risky, to put it mildly.

Yes, it's possible to get such tax rates, but generally only for amounts under $100K.
Lol $635k. Maybe including condos but definitely not SFHs
As somebody who is stuck with AWS for now, I wish you luck.

You would have real fun when one of your running instances shuts down on it's own (and possibly comes back after some time), and would be pointed to the AWS SLA upon asking them what had happened.

You would have more fun when rebooting an instance would take 2 hours to be told that there was some underlying issue with the hardware.

For samples of the responses that you get from AWS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822544
I've sold books (and regretted that), lost physical books, and have had them destroyed by water and mildew. The worst is dimly remembering you had a book, and searching every nook and box and cranny in the house for it, because you have several thousand books stuffed everywhere. Nothing is perfect.
A smart watch for notifications. Having voice reply is useful.
Oil change companies sell non-anonymized mileage data to insurance companies
Are you suggesting there's only a single pattern of kids and that all kids follow your experience? Because I can tell you, it's not the case.
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That's correct. On a population basis BMI is useful, on an individual basis there's too much variation for it to be useful as more then a very loose guideline.
I'm not sure it's so much Japan's impact as a colonial power than the general influence of confusianism.
While I don't know the specific causes. You might be interested to know that South Korea has a very strong history of preferring clones to the original software. Some of it is cultural and linguistic, but Korea also has a very protectivist market. The examples I can think of, Naver over Google, KakaoTalk over Whatsapp/Messaging, KakaoTaxi over Uber, 1km/Hello There over Tinder.

Edit: Actually, Kakao's (the company) business model is to take apps from the West and remake them for the Korean market.
(Talk - Messaging, Music - Music Streaming, Taxi - Taxi Hailing, Story - Facebook)
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Depending on which workstation I'm using, I've got anywhere from 6880x1440 to 7680x1440 worth of pixels in front of me.

Still prefer physical reference books.

Note that I'm not referring to API or library documentation; that's a different sort of thing.
Ask HN: How do you do code review for secrets?
We manage our deployments with tools reading encrypted files - secrets. The encrypted files themselves are checked into the source control and gets "deployed". The key problem is how do we do code reviews for these files?

We would like to avoid "attaching the plain text" to the review as well because that defeats the purpose.

So, I am wondering how do people generally do code reviews for secrets.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book Inside The Box, which presents four mental models for creative problem solving. The core idea that creating rules can help creativity is a pattern toward which I think most technical people (including myself) feel averse, but actually can be beneficial when studied with an open mind.
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Citation, please?

Most of the time, RSUs are taxable at the time of vesting, as most plans vest and release the shares simultaneously.
Looks very interesting, found a small teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_gdeS3d6F8
It's not just that. Asian markets have incredible amount of protectionism and self-promotion that it takes uncanny effort to penetrate as a North American company.
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I mention it in a separate comment, but the book Inside The Box is co-authored by a psychology professor and a business consultant, and the book features many case studies of their primary mental models in business.
I've started keeping such a list actually: [redacted]
Gives a new meaning to semver's term "breaking changes".
That's fantastic. What are your thoughts on it? Is there anything you didn't like?
Having known some weight lifters, they generally dislike BMI because they are typically considered 'obese' due to their unusually high weight in muscle, whether or not they are in good shape (typically they are).

Calipers are also $10 and measure body fat accurately enough for health purposes (body building may be an exception in this as well, but only in extreme cases).
>The first, basic, most core is collaboration.

Particularly ironic since the 2 authors previous book was "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards"... and Einstein managed to publish brownian motion, photo electric effect, and special relativity during his annus mirabilis in 1905, while working at the patent office... no collaboration involved just lots of deep thought.
Routine corporate actions will adjust the option count and strike price equitably. (A 2:1 split will typically double the number of option shares and halve the exercise price.)
Technically, it's a tag, not a pointer.
Implementing a basic Roulette Game in C++
I embrace frameworks. Short term learning pain, manyfold medium to long term gain.

It might be hard to learn to drive an 18 wheeler but better than building it yourself.
I have given some thought to space junk and how to go about cleaning it up. Would it be possible to attach small engines (ION engine, Rocket, etc) to an object/satellite that is not in use anymore and give it a nudge towards the Moon or Mars?

I would even suggest before the Space Station is abandoned, we should consider moving it to an orbit or even trying to gently put it down on the moon.

If anything we could begin to build a scrap yard of equipment that might become useful some day to the folks who colonize the Moon or Mars.
You'd very often see it on t2 instances. To make things worse, it isn't obvious that throttling is causing things not to work as expected.

Then you have noisy neighbors that affect you.
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Doesn't seem like a problem to me: http://caniuse.com/#search=wbr
So, Trump is not a great candidate for President. He's not even met the low bar of a bad candidate for President. That said...

...that said, it's not okay to feed this sort of witch hunt. From the article itself:

> Jane Doe has not granted any interviews, and we don’t know anything about her background, or Tiffany Doe’s, or the details of their stories.

So, pretty much "we don't know anything about this but are happy to report the terrible allegations". This is not how justice is served. Explicitly acknowledging and then dismissing the statute of limitations is not how justice is served. Further, bringing up old lawsuits that have been settled is not justice.

If the problem is that we feel that there are crimes on which there should be no statute of limitations, that's one thing. If the problem is that people are routinely silenced with non-disparagement clauses (and this happens in business as well as divorces), that's another.

But it's pretty damned dirty to suddenly clutch our pearls and only now care about them when it suits us to try and derail a Trump presidency.