skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right way to do version numbers is that the client/caller says "I am complying with version N of the API spec", and the server/callee says "I understand spec versions X through Y at this endpoint". If N < X or N > Y, the transaction is rejected. This applies on a per-endpoint or even a per-function basis, not to the whole system.

If the server gets more functionality, Y can increase. Increasing X breaks some existing programs, but callers which still speak an old version can drop back to that.
I was kind of disgusted with these initial comments, did not expect it to be so supported in this community. If the company was OK with this, I'm glad they allowed an employee to be open, honest and personal about their comments regarding their employers in public.

Some wouldn't want you to talk to media at all. Silent Circle's employees have been very active on HN in the past regarding their work and their employer, I hope not to see similar responses to what I've seen in this thread earlier on in the future.

Sorry, slightly offtopic to the original thread.
In this precise case, it has much more to do with :
- It's been launched by Naver, a tech company with deep pockets, not a startup.
- It can access China.
OnePlus 3 leaks IMEI when polling for updates
I guarantee that someone somewhere has written an economic explanation of your fondness for PB&J. And someone else has used that to prove that you're a fascist.
This sounds spooky, but it sounds like more of what has been talked about for a long time; there is a huge element of fiction in the Chinese economy, and no one appears to be sure how much and where.
> It's pretty well established that they're legally allowed to prevent me from conveying a certain state -- ie, that I have received an NSL.

By compelling you to lie? When and where was that "pretty well established"?
I've rejected a lot of my parents' received dogma; but I think this is largely because my parents also taught me to think critically, by encouraging my curiosity in precisely the way described here: when your child's questions go deep, go with them. Help them see that the answers are available if they are careful and learn to look for them.
I've never found that argument convincing.

It seems to suppose that consciousness is an either/or phenomenon. Either you're conscious or you're not. But what if consciousness is more of a continuum and the intensity of your conscious experiences can increase or decrease. Further let's suppose that the source of consciousness is somehow distributed throughout the brain. When the first small set of circuits is replaced your conscious experiences became ever so slightly less intense, by such a small amount that you didn't even notice. This continues every time another small brain region is replaced until at the end you no longer have any conscious experiences at all.
Do we need to sleep at night?
I would say it is less than that.

Leaving aside heritability, the environment in which the child will grow up is more or less set in concrete by the time they are born. This includes the parents socio-economic level, but more importantly to that, their attitudes towards relationships, learning, critical thought, reading, victim vs control personality and plenty more. A house without books doesn't fill with books when the child arrives.

Pretty much by the time the first cry is made, a huge chunk of their future is already written. The margin is small, but, having said that, small changes at the margin can make a big difference in individuals.
I wonder what the psychology behind believing heart disease is preventable vs cancer being unpreventable.
Tesla's Next Six Months Are Critical
It's a Q&A article with the authors of the book. They seem well credentialed. I suggest you read the book (I haven't).
As a fellow Australian, you're misrepresenting the issue. Yes, there is currently a government program to try and reduce domestic violence against women. Yes, domestic violence happens in the other direction, and in gay couples as well, but the preponderance of the damage done is received by women. It's a social problem, and the government's job is to try to help social problems.

There's also social movements around violence against men. Have a look at Aussie Rules and how 'family-oriented' it has become. Long gone are the days where playing on through a bloody face was a mark of honour. The official football groups condemn violence left, right, and centre. It's absolute nonsense that it's only violence against women that's being condemned.

If you honestly think today's Australia is more sexist than we've ever seen, then you haven't had a look at how it was before. Women were legally paid 2/3rds as much as men - my mother was a teacher in the 70s and tells that story. Similarly, it was shameful to be seen as simply being pregnant in public, let alone breastfeeding, and there was no male analogue for that, no physical state men could be in where they had to hide from public view. There is plenty more, so I'd strongly encourage you to look at the rights that first-wave feminists were fighting for, if you think that it's more sexist now than ever before.
Alot of it is trying to make something work but not fully understanding how the framework I am programming works, and as my understanding grows of the framework I keep pulling apart and modifying my code.

Eventually I get the code to behave in a predictable manner and get my functionality implemented then I start removing all the dead ends and mistakes and misunderstandings.

Rinse and repeat several times until the code is as simple as I want it to be.
Don't be so data-obsessed; if "data" means you're trapped in the narrow paradigm of things quantifiable and parameterizable, you'll miss all manner of things that are irreducible to numbers.
That Wikipedia article is appallingly badly edited, and badly in need of an update. The updating has been made difficult by a concerted campaign by ideologues to keep that article full of dreck. (Basis of knowledge: I am a Wikipedian, and I am a researcher on that topic.)
>This is much on my mind because I'm helping to raise funds for one such project right now

After two paragraphs about how the only way to save yourself is to give generously? Ya don't say...
> What does non-physical existence even mean? This isn't an idle question

Much of modern life exists by convention only (by agreement among people) and has no physical existence. Bank balances, ownership of property, no-parking zones, national borders, having a college degree, the prestige level of a school, friendship, being a Seahawks fan, agreements, the law, political affiliation, religion, etc.
Line Corp. Has also developed a product call Egg, which has similar features without the social network. Perhaps in anticipation of regulatory changes.
> The first, basic, most core is collaboration.

I spent a huge amount of time as a kid reading and drawing and writing and just day-dreaming by myself. Probably not good training for the modern workplace with "open office" plans and whatnot, but it seemed pretty good at the time.
Non-brilliant people also have those flaws. It's called being human. Nevertheless, brilliant people can and do find success and happiness. This isn't a Homeric myth!
Probably because Snapchat is an American company and Snow is not.
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It's strange that they don't have issues with rain or moisture from clouds?
John McPhee's Pulitzer-winning _The Annals of the Former World_ is arguably 1000 (wonderful) pages made _possible_ by road cuts... something he gleefully expounds upon.

Geologists don't get budgets to do section hills to check out their innards.

Strangely, federal highway builders do... and do.

Presto! Tons of fresh data just waiting for you to pull over and check it out...
>where fair skin is aesthetically considered more beautiful

The first time I heard 一白遮三丑 was an eye-opening experience. I knew the stereotype but not how far it actually went.
New Horizons Receives Mission Extension to Kuiper Belt
Carr is certainly wrong. I do not skip, scan, or digress. I read. ALL OF IT.

I grew up with the internet, having been born just after the first Gulf War. I am about as old as the linux kernel.
Kahneman's book may have a lot of dubious science for specific points. However, you need to remember that he was attacking the Economic Man model that has been standard in economic science for over a century. This model holds our economic decisions are all rational, or at least if biased, the biases are random across different people and so cancel out. That means we should always trust the unregulated market to produce ideal results, and so the government should always stay out of it, as it could only make things worse.

Various economists such as Robert Schiller and his writings on "animal spirits" have argued that this is not at all the case. Kaheneman and the other behavioral economists have added a lot of empirical support, and, with some luck, economic science will shift to better fit reality.
>why do you agree that the conventional word "idea" can be used to signify both meanings, but then claim that the meaning is somehow very different.

Well I can only go by how the words are used. But when we're speaking rigorously, such ambiguities matter. The issue is that there are multiple ways these words are used. But when we try to use the casual meaning in more rigorous contexts, the discrepancies are important. When it comes to existence, people are purporting that there is an existence completely unlike physical existence, yet retains its centrality in our conception of the world and its constituents. I'm looking for clarity here. If we can't flesh out the nature of non-physical existence, we should refrain from using the term "exists" in those contexts.
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BMI is a surprisingly relevant metric for many things as it's a comparison between volume (weight) and surface area (height ^2). And yes, short people do have an inherent advantage there which for example possibly relates to how small dogs tend to live longer.
Nobody is missing those things, they are just not so actionable.
The most important thing, in my opinion, is peaceful parenting. That is, no hitting and no shouting - teach your kids to reason, even if they're being unreasonable.
I was very annoyed by GTK 3.20 wreaking havoc. Firefox scrollbars went missing, until fixed much later (in 48 beta)... I wish they'd just switch to Qt already.
I admit I don't really understand the timeline given on these pages. But I don't think I misunderstood "deported" and "banished". More detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith_in_Ki...
The first thing that comes to mind is if you have legal or business requirements to retain financial information, you may not be able to COMPLETELY remove all traces of a user.
One question I've always had is if psychology has some studies that seemingly always hold true when it comes to education. For example, collaboration might be a good thing now but is that universally true and we just realized this idea? Or, is collaboration only a good thing due to upbringing and society? Do those "C"'s apply to every culture or is it more of a Western ideal?
Easy to say...
This article, an interview with the two authors of a new book, is interesting. But a lot of us, besides being parents (as I am), are fully grown adults wondering how to develop our minds. An eminent researcher on human intelligence, James R. Flynn, wrote a book on that topic called How To Improve Your Mind: 20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World[1] that is well worth reading. Many people, whatever their level of IQ, can become better thinkers by developing better "mindware" (approaches to thinking about problems), as quite a few books about human intelligence by experienced researchers have noted.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Improve-Your-Mind-Unlock-ebook/dp...
What are the advantages of this over ⌘+?
My point was that if PGP was suitable for "usable" encryption (which is the whole point of this program), then you could use the same key distribution methods but use Axolotl.
I am curious what is the purpose of this withholding strategy then? I am not familiar with this. Doesn't sound great to me, at least with a quarterly vesting schedule you can generally go and sell them on the secondary market.
People who don't understand what 'racist' means. Which is a lot of people today.
> There are plenty of real, non-physical things. ... Think about, oh, say, a road. What's the difference between a road and a random patch of asphalt? ... There is the world of ideas. Things held in the mind, in the consciousness of people have real-world effects on the physical world around us. ...

Indeed, and Music may be the most prominent example of that!

It's basically a bunch of things inducing vibrations in a physical medium. To other beings that noise may very well be no more meaningful than static on our television screens, if they can even hear in those frequencies, let alone be able to pick out the different instruments used in a piece.

We have built an entire industry and a sub-universe of knowledge around it. Rules, notation, tools, a system of writing it down, and recording it and sharing it. People gain celebrity through it and are remembered for their achievements in it.

Music is one of the best example of things that exist only in our heads and still profoundly effect OUR world.

Now just imagine an alien species that, for example, can sense their planet's magnetic fields in the same detail that we sense sound waves. Imagine them making their "music" by manipulating those fields. They could have an entire culture and industry around it, a sub-universe that would be practically meaningless if not completely invisible to us.
Thanks for posting this. I asked the question when I was on my phone but it made more sense when I got back to my desk :) I wrongly assumed Textbelt was using a GSM modem to deliver messages as opposed to the email-SMS gateway approach.
before you downvote, try to remember who invaded Lybia, which opened major can of jihady worms. maybe you also remember Bengazi. then think which president started mess in Syria (second major source of jihadies and home to ISIS). Bush was a moron, but it doesn't mean we should blame him for everything.
What's wrong with BMI for something like this? It's such a simple measure and it seems to be useful for predicting health issues. From what I've read body fat percentage is what really matters, but accurately calculating that takes expensive equipment. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/summer-of-sci... seems to indicate that BMI does a pretty good job, although it may be too generous on the high end.
I once heard a theory that whiter skins were considered more aesthetically pleasing in old days (in East Asia), because at that time everybody worked at fields, so being pale meant that your family is so rich that you don't have to work. It was something that couldn't be attained by most people.

Fast forward to the industrial age: now poor women worked all day long in a factory, barely getting sunlight, while rich girls would visit beaches and sky resorts, tanning themselves. Suddenly, being slightly tanned is now considered "healthy" and, to some degree, "more beautiful".

That said, most people still seem to like relatively whiter skin, just not 0xffffff.
(I'm an early stage VC.)

I fully agree with this advice -- especially the part about weak warm intros being far inferior to good cold emails. I'd much rather see a good cold email than an intro through a mutual connection that barely knows me and the other party.

One additional piece of advice that I'd add: make your emails personalized. People would be surprised (or maybe not) at how many cold emails I get that start with sentences like "Dear Sir or Madam, let me tell you about my company [which is in a space that you haven't shown any interest in]..."

Adding in one or two sentences about why you emailed me specifically instead of the 500 other early-stage investors is very helpful. I'm not fishing for compliments, but instead some insight about whether I'm a good fit for some particular reason, or if you're just copy-and-pasting the same email template 500 times.
You might be interested to read about Urban Heat Islands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
But all those things have an "ontology" (mode of existence) owing to being constituted by or supervening on things we know to exist (carbon, hydrogen, electrons, etc). These things are abstractions, but ultimately are grounded in physical existence either by the instantiating substance or substances that operate on the abstraction (e.g. brains). But those who argue for non-physical existence of things such as numbers are going further than this by saying that these non-physical entities are independently members of the constitutive fabric of the universe. This seems entirely unsupported and unnecessary.
Are you joking? No. They don't take beaver pelts or glass beads either :)

Fair and equitable are not often words used to describe the US tax code.
Easy to do, if you're rational that is
>If you didn't lead investments and instead diversified substantially amongst late-stage companies, you could probably get sufficient overall exposure to the class so as to not be driven by the performance of individual companies.

Oh that was the missing link. I forgot that you can "not lead" a round, allowing you to avoid committing too much of the fund in a given company. Thanks for pointing this out.
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> I thought this would be a useful feature at one point

You used to be able to do this ages ago. Reordering was one of the features that "no one used" and didn't make the cut when they rewrote "Issues 2.0" five years ago:

https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation
I think it's a much simpler disease to understand.

Many forms of heart disease are easy to understand. My heart is blocked up with a fatty deposit because I ate too much junk food? Makes sense, I could stop doing that.

Some of my skin cells are dividing uncontrollably because I sat in the sun too long 20 years ago? And somehow it's spreading to totally unrelated organs? I don't get it.
>“With the rise of China and China’s infatuation with Korean culture, it’s breathed new life into Korean start-ups and founders, Mr. Chae said. “This is a market that happens to be a lot bigger than the U.S., that seems to be more welcoming for Korean technology and culture than the Western world ever was.”

This paragraph is telling much than the rest of the article. Working in Japan, I see a similar trend. Except for those already well implanted, companies are not interested in the western world anymore. Not only it's hard, but it's not growing as fast as Asia.

Hiring teams that can understand the target market and culture is also much simpler, and marketing channels are simpler to understand.
“Clean-energy” projects contaminating millions of gallons of valuable water
The incidents described at that new link are certainly regrettable, however the discussion above seemed to concern the actions of Christian missionaries in the nineteenth century, not random Catholic Kiribatis in the 1950s. It's not as though Bahá'í was a native religion of Kiribati.
Been very lucky to work with great teams on a bunch of stuff as dev and prod manager including:
- distributed simulation platforms
-3D/VR authoring tools used by likes of Boeing and Airbus(amongst others)
- Search engine for non-proprietary(ie generic) drugs used by intergovernmental, governmental, NGO and pharma companies
- 3D Minimal invasive surgical training platform (used to train 10,000+ surgeons todate)
- Road Traffic simulations
- Real time autonomous mobile robots
- VR data gloves and a variety of sensors for all sorts of things. A lot of fun stuff.
Love that electrical systems and internet connection are 2 of your top 3
Sure. Better ones than in the US, even. (Eg Finland perhaps?)
Much as I disliked the proposal in the original post (which was later clarified by the GTK+ developers), it is telling that the respondent did not bother to research the reasons behind GTK+'s two API/ABI breaks in its 18 year history.
BMI is a horrible metric because it doesn't take body composition into account. I can't believe I was once almost considered obese with a body fat of less than 5%. 5'10" at 200-210.
Cooking Issues has been my favorite podcast for several years. tptacek also enjoys it.

Kenji has a bunch of practical advice and he's a great writer (even though at times his own bias steps in prominently at time), but Dave Arnold is really a step above.
I think the issue some people have with the BLMM is that it focuses on one aspect of the violence: police vs black population, while not confronting other sources of violence from within the population. Now, me, I think they are both valid concerns. Violence from the police is a big issue (for black and for any population, but they suffer from it the most, proportionately speaking) and it's a complex issue. As recent studies have shown, depolicing/trepidation by police is likely a factor in the increase in violence in large metro areas studied. That said, while being poor is a factor in violence (we can go to Japan or China (more homogenous groups) and we see more violence among the poor or disenfranchised (Yakuza). But that does not absolve the populations from looking inwardly and addressing inter-group violence.

With regard to violence on women, as depicted here in the story, it's not from other women but by males and they also bear the brunt of the violence (2/3 of the cases). So I think it's fair to address this as a special case of violence needing added attention due to the disproportionality of where the violence comes from and who it impacts.
The link you provided indicates that BMI is incorrect (when compared to body fat %) roughly 1 in 5 times. That's pretty high, IMHO and that is why many people have a problem with it.
Be careful, there is no enough space in their office. It was the smallest square feet area per worker I ever seen. I wonder if they don't violate any related regulations.
> This is the same misconception I have been trying to dispel. The null hypothesis is not the inverse of that "layman's" statement, it is a specific set of predicted results calculated in a very specific way.

The entire point of this discussion is that the software is not calculating the null hypothesis that users expect. That the current model it does in fact calculate is internally-consistent is tautological and irrelevant (though actual bugs were found in at least one package).

As you yourself said: "I didn't read the code, or even the paper very closely." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037207) Perhaps you should do?
Basically, you give the counter party a transaction that they could write to the blockchain and trust that they won't because you're going to give them a better option shortly.

It's kind of like giving someone a signed check for $1 and telling them "I'll give you another check for $2 tomorrow if you don't actually cash that one." The party doesn't have to trust you for the $1 you've already given them.
Or Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey - this is a great book

https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-...
yep. that's why things used to work back then - because people actually were thinking about what they were doing.
Why would you want to maintain spatial dimensions? Padding here does not make any sense.
A lot of people would find that annoying:

- it forces them to stop what they're doing

- it puts them on the spot forcing some kind of response
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
Aria2 actually has a RPC interface which is pretty easy to work with (json or xml over http or web sockets).

https://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html#rpc-inter...
>We don't even log IPs or other personal information, so I'm not sure what usefulness an NSL would serve.

Perhaps you were just ordered to start... and plugging in that little black box from the G-Men somehow, umm, killed the canary process. Somehow.