skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This puzzles me. If we repealed the laws on littering, it would not be a bad thing to do?
It also coincides with the end of the Bretton Woods system, the last remnants of a gold standard in 1971. From there it was fiat currency, adoption of the U.S. dollar as reserve currency to the world, and rapid globalization.
It's all hearsay...but, an inlaw (wife's uncle) who passed recently had a lot to say about his native greece, the work ethic, and why he decided to stay in Germany (he and his wife did have a place in Greece).

Those stories over the years dovetailed almost word for word with former colleagues who actually moved to Milan and other places in Italy to work.

Personally, the US approach to work is kinda backward as are other areas, balance should be most important. But, the article and stories I've heard over the last 10 years just ring a bit. I know this is about banks, but the larger culture is at play -- just like in the US, Enron, Lehman, etc. were extremes of those values we espouse.
>"In addition to making frequent media and conference appearances, she hired Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris to film videos of herself and others for Theranos’s website."

I had to look this up:

https://www.theranos.com/news/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ZlOSdKjqY
That "free for any use" license is quite unpleasant. It's not really any different than the WTFPL. By not even including a mention of no warranty at all, you're opening yourself up to a wide variety of possible lawsuits due to "implied warranty".

The "license" doesn't even say if you can /modify/ the code. It just says you can /use/ it. You could get in some big trouble for modifying the code if the author decided to sue you over changing the code at all. In fact, it just says the software is free to use, not the code.

I might even go as far as saying that because just the software is free to use, it's no different than a proprietary program you can't modify at all, but you can see it's source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6047560
I believe Popper thought you might be able to find a metric to judge how close to a "truth" one theory might be compared to others.
My semi-annual plug for the parody television show I wrote about Theranos last year:

http://www.pricks.com
>We accept full responsibility for the issues at our laboratory in Newark, California, and have already worked to undertake comprehensive remedial actions,” including, it added, shutting down that lab, adding new medical experts and lab staff

I wonder what kind of medical expert would risk their reputation to go work for Theranos at this point? From where I sit there's no amount they could pay me that would be worth risking my professional reputation.
Which marketing channel worked the best for you ?

How can you create a 5 page, detailed report for just $65 ?

How are you different from a brick-mortar service with a website ?
I fear in a few decades we would buy a cheap robot and command it to scare the cats perpetually.
I hadn't realised there were so many institutions and so many breaches...
Have to kill and relaunch the app, and the app launches really slowly. it feels like the initial loading bar is also reliant of their servers, as I've had it take upwards of 30 seconds, or a few times even hang indefinitely.

Once you get in it'll still have to download locations of nearby pokestops and gyms, which is another chance to hang and require a relaunch. Network glitches are not handled gracefully.

On the hang while catching a Pokemon: my guess is it's trying to ask the server if the Pokemon breaks free of the ball. Sometimes when you exit and relaunch you'll have gotten the Pokemon, other times it's totally gone. When the game works properly you get to keep trying, but if it locked up on network issues and made you quit, you don't get the chance. People are understandably annoyed at server issues screwing them out of rare captures.
If you could go in and discredit various methods, it seems like you would garner a higher reputation?
Great found! +1

He made her eyes looks like a weirdo on cocaine and steroids.... surprisingly it brought memories of this dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m74KOFZYOWM
It's certainly a YMMV kind of thing.

> especially at off-peak times

Yeah, BART is a much more pleasant experience at off-peak times than anywhere near rush-hour. In my experience, I still find the NL line (at least) uncrowded enough to get a seat any time of day (unless there's significant BART trouble).
I think what you're describing is just fraud.

To take your fair coin example, publication bias is when the only studies that get published are the ones that show an unfairness in the coin – the rest of the studies that simply find 50% heads and 50% tails (aka a fair coin) don't get published because they're not interesting.
Off topic, but my biggest takeaway was that I could aspire to be someone who isn't a twenty something, with a family, with superb work life balance, not living in the valley, sitting in a garden without three 27 inch monitors, not using the latest programming language or fad and still writing beautiful code that a lot of the world runs on.
I'm referring to the open criminal investigations against Theranos: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/theranos-i...

Is this investor money being used to defend against a suit about defrauding investors?
Collaboration, compassion, generosity, impartiality, consorting, cooperation, objectiveness, equality, fraternity, sympathy, understanding, acceptance...

Boots stomping faces isn't the only thing there is.
Aside from what other people have pointed out about these being possible in safe Rust (just with a cost -- a cost you pay in the other languages anyway); this is not a useful yardstick for the amount of unsafe code you need to write.

These data structures are write once. You write them once, verify them, and use them as much as you want. The doubly linked list is in the stdlib. A tree without parent pointers is possible with zero cost in safe rust. A tree with parent pointers IIRC exists in a crate somewhere. So you will rarely be implementing these, just using these with safe code.

While we use datastructures to teach the "basics" of languages like C and C++, that doesn't mean that they are basic and any language where they are hard is crap. Rust makes them hard so that the rest of your code is easy to write. And since these are write-once, they have a minimal to zero impact on the amount of unsafe code in your codebase.
With all those new efficiencies found around automated trucks the volume of goods shipped will expand, requiring more people to load and unload it?
> Securing a PHP Application in 2016

STEP 1: Secure it by not using PHP in 2016
STEP 2: ???
STEP 3: PROFIT.
> Since he was a legend in the eco-movement, his current assessment is credible and authoritative.

Eeehh, no.

And the rest of his lecture is the same things debunked time ago
I live in States long enough to assume that when you put on the board team similar to the one Holmes did, all of sudden you are not investigated, RAIDed, thrown in jail without bond and found guilty for fraud and put behind bars for 25+ years. All of sudden, a House Committee of Commerce have the time and willingness to ask you politely a few questions...

Corrupted capitalism at its best!
Interesting, my wife and I have been asking ourselves these questions lately and we came to the conclusion that living in Portland (Oregon) is not worth the premium that it entails over living 30 minutes outside of Portland.

Yet, at the same time, I yearn to live inside the city.

I'm not fully thought out on this, but somehow I think it's ultimately a status thing. The cool people live in the city, so I want to live in the city.
Ego depletion is framed as an effect in a particular direction: applying self-control reduces self-control in the near future. So studies are called successful if they see that direction, otherwise unsuccessful.

But the other direction is a reasonable hypothesis too: applying self-control increases self-control because the brain regions are activated and ready, or something.

So you could frame the problem bidirectionally: applying self-control affects self-control ability according to some time-dependent formula with parameters that we'd like to estimate.

Framing the problem bidirectionally might reduce publication bias, since every estimate of the parameters would seem equally valuable.
Are we too afraid of radiation?
The tech wouldn't be the edge here.

Contacts with these high flyer publishers would make or break the business.
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Yes it's a very big problem. One of my favorite meta analysis tools is used to detect and correct for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_plot
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The one under my middle finger on my right hand.

I don't even have to think, it's automatic. Likewise with the other directions.
NSA labels Linux Journal readers and Tor and Tails users as extremists
My favorite anecdote from this excellent piece, where Ms. Holmes is supposed to be presenting a slide deck of clinical results proving the effectiveness of Theranos' technology to employees, is re: NASA.

> Ms. Holmes has told employees that she plans on rehearsing her AACC presentation with them several times before the conference. When asked by an employee if the June presentation was the first of these rehearsals, she said no.

> Since most of the data from the new studies wasn’t in yet, the preliminary slide deck she showed focused instead on a timeline of the company’s 13-year history, according to the attendee.

> As employees listened in silence, she showed slides about the several generations of blood-reading devices Theranos has developed and past partnerships it has had with pharmaceutical companies, the person said.

> One slide featured the NASA logo, which struck some employees as odd because no relationship they knew of had developed following a demonstration Theranos had made of its device to representatives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration several years ago. A spokesman for NASA said he didn’t know what relationship, if any, the agency has with Theranos.
I am all for a new deal set of programs. The roads are all falling apart from what I've seen. Plenty of infrastructure to be maintained. Space, sciences, etc would all be great. Or how about just employing people to cook healthy food for other people? As it is even restaurants have gone largely preprocessed in the search of disminished costs.
When I wrote "predict" there, I was referring to whether the predicted probabilities approach the true underlying probabilities, and Solomonoff induction can "predict" a true random number generator in that sense because its predicted probabilities will approach those of the random number generator. [1] However, if you tried to use it to predict a halting oracle, the halting oracle would be deterministic but Solomonoff induction would never be able to predict it with complete confidence, and this is what I was referring to in that paragraph.

But you're right that random numbers are inherently unpredictable; maybe I should add another footnote explaining what I meant there. (Edit: I added a clarification to the paragraph you quoted.)

[1] http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post5623_solomonoffs-mad-s... in the "Thinking with Programs: Random Data" section
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned anything about Niantic being an "independent" spinoff from Google/Alphabet.

Interesting to think about what personal information they're gaining from this, as well as mapping information.
I completely agree with this. The network issues, and the lack of tolerance for GPS issues would be frustrating but acceptable if they were handled properly. As it is they're absolutely infuriating when combined with the way the app just dies when it encounters them. It's incredible that an app that's been in beta for months still has 20 un-recoverable different freeze states that I've found in 72 hours. My girlfriend didn't even know how to kill an Android app before this app, now she can do it in seconds.

The real killer? I love the idea of this app. I'd probably end up spending a bunch of money on it if I kept it around for a couple months, because I don't have the time I need to play it the free way. It's fun (or it at least scratches that grindy type itch), and it's the only game I've ever been able to play with my partner. I'm on the verge of uninstalling right now though, because every time I get the chance to play, the app dies in my hands.
So do porn, gambling, and films like 'Transformers' that literally have no plot.
Good idea; bad execution.

It's an expensive to question to answer whether they are worth a second shot at this point.

My money is on no, the brand is tarnished, but some day the idea seems like it will resurface, and when it does whoever shows some more evidence of real technology will be quickly funded.
You sir are 100% correct. Glad you made this comment. It's all about the first impression.
The UNICEF report on the pilot UBI in India: http://unicef.in/Uploads/Publications/Resources/pub_doc83.pd...

Footage and notes from a conference talk discussing the aforementioned experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lanUMETOqWc
http://www.guystanding.com/files/documents/Basic_Income_Pilo...
China should also work towards UBI. Currently they are behind the US in GDP, but their growth rate is much higher so it's possible they'll be able to afford it first.
(Spoiler alert regarding the HBO documentary series 'The Jinx')

It's interesting that she contacted a producer of 'The Jinx', given that the series was ultimately a vehicle for Robert Durst, a wealthy individual long suspected of multiple murders, to publicly confess to his crimes. I wonder if she's perhaps planning a similar confessional documentary, in the hopes of salvaging some of her reputation.
Random split exchanges have been tried and are equally gamed. If your random split is based on order count companies stuff orders to gain an advantage. If it is based on qty its a pro rata market which are common.

Having windowed auctions is also common. They are still latency sensitive as the entry/exit information is still subject to races.

Budesh has a good paper outlining batch auctions and their advantages but it still doesn't account for the fact that cross exchange arb is still an issue.
I would concentrate on a specific niche, instead of a general AI ...
eg : Assistant for lawyers Answers questions like "When is the date for the next lawsuit ?"

The site design needs to be professional.
Thank you for clarifying. I thought for a second it could have been a grammatical nitpick but discounted that since this thread is re: an Antirez post. I personally would be very sad if his writing style became more forced and began to feel like excerpts from The Elements of Style.
I agree. I LOVE how his post weaves in his normal life, having time for doing things he actually loves outside of work, while still continuing to work on passion projects. It just goes to show you that you don't need to always buy into the cowboy coding hype that is often on display here.
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TLDR: "In a filing last night, Uber pushed back against the allegations of fraud, arguing its contract with Ergo had specified that the investigation be both lawful and professional, and neither Kalanick nor Uber had any idea an investigator might stray beyond that. "Uber took reasonable steps to ensure that Ergo complied with the law," the filing reads. "It is undisputed that Uber and Mr. Kalanick were unaware that Ergo would use misrepresentations during its investigation.""

According to the article, it's common to do due diligence on plaintiffs, especially when they do something weird like name the CEO personally in the lawsuit. But it's obvious the research firm Uber contracted did more than they asked.
Oh it's far worse than that. Iirc about a third of studies fail to replicate, and in psychology it might be higher. In fact we even have a control group for science. A fake field of research that spends it's time studying phenomena which can't possibly be real, the paranormal researchers. They produce tons of positive results anyway. See The Control Group is Out of Control: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
Seems like best-bang-for-the-buck type of investment for most people would be to lobby to increase the UBI amount and/or vote for politicians who promise to do so.

Early 90s immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union provide a window into social dynamics of multiple countries where the majority of population was largely employed by government, many in some meaningless occupations (the running joke was "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us"), others with lifetime pension guarantees - hyper-inflated currencies, general switch to barter for any meaningful financial transaction and endless parade of populist politicians promising to increase everybody's personal wealth by passing pension and government salary rate increases.
Stock traders can be a passionate bunch.

What would be interesting is to understand how many of them are active each week/day.

Installed it btw :)
Pokémon Go: armed robbers use game to lure players into trap
Um, I would fault you on both.

First, downtown Austin is now actually more expensive than downtown San Diego. When people say "Austin" and "cheap housing" they mean Round Rock, Pflugerville, San Marcos, etc. Many of those places are now an hour or more commute to downtown Austin in horrific traffic that now rivals Los Angeles. When people think "San Diego" they don't mean commuting from Ramona or Temecula (an equivalent hour of horrific commute).

Second, Austin has some culture, but has been working overtime to flush it down the drain. Stevie Ray Vaughn would be an unwelcome, dirty scumbag on the current 6th Street. Medium sized venues (300-1000 people) that launched major music careers are becoming very scarce (I blame smoking bans mostly). And most of the "cultural" catering is to overpaid DINKs (Dual Income--No Kids) who want desperately to be so cool yet complain about the noise from the very places that they moved in next to in order to be cool.
Nah, it's not worse: as nostrademons mentioned, you have your gateway server be a reverse proxy server, e.g. HAProxy, and then you can do whatever you want in there. Serve an application under /app/? No problem. Centrally log? Of course. Harder to implement? Not really, every major language has well-supported HTTP libs. And since you only need to know how HTTP works, rather than needing to understand HTTP and CGI, it's conceptually simpler too, assuming that you're running more than one backend server and thus needed a load balancer anyway.
Nintendo (along with Google and the Pokemon Company, which Nintendo also partially owns) invested $30 million into Niantic 9 months ago [1].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/nintendo-g...
Adding to this comment, that's exactly why your rates go up when you get in an accident. Your "trustworthiness" has gone down and the insurance company might have to spend more on you in the long run.
Do you have example services your businesses provided ?
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> My personal impression is that the rise of mental conditions is an increase in diagnosis, not occurrence

Do you have a source for this? It goes against much I've read myself recently—for instance, depression has strong links to inflammation—perhaps shitty diets and no exercise are catching up to people.
The Rice University area is WAY non-representative of Houston.

Saying that you live in Houston when you live near Rice is like saying that you live in Texas when you live in Austin.
Startups Try to Spread Outside of Silicon Valley
That's a good point, but it's probably the organic acids rather than the salt (which the media report you've linked to blames). Bacteria which produce lactic acid are primarily used for traditional fermentation, I think, whereas distilled vinegar is made from ethanol by bacteria that produce acetic acid...

Hmm:

"Compared to acetic acid, [lactic acid's] pKa is 1 unit less, meaning lactic acid deprotonates ten times more easily than acetic acid does. This higher acidity is the consequence of the intramolecular hydrogen bonding between the α-hydroxyl and the carboxylate group."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid (emphasis added)
That is quite similar to "wait until the surge is over".

Without surge pricing, the Uber/Lyft model doesn't really work. It's mainly needed to bring out enough drivers to drive all riders. Without it, people can easily have to wait hours, and the service becomes useless.

I agree that the customer experience feels arbitrary and predatory. In part because people don't have any intuitive sense for dynamic pricing. And in part because we don't trust Uber/Lyft.

If/when they figure out a way to communicate or implement this better could be a game changer.
It seems the only problem this will create is capital flight.

Since the Chinese typically use USD for payment (Euro also), this will only effect those who would convert USD to Yuan. It will also make foreign brands more expensive for the average Chinese.

Look to Real Estate getting more expensive in the US, Canada, Europe. It is a favorite for Chinese moving their wealth out of the country.
Red Hat and Canonical seem to be doing okay in the "selling free software" market.
> A "good school" is mainly school whose students come from successful families. You could raise your kids anywhere reasonably safe and they'd do just as well as at a "good school"

It may be (probably is) true that the main determinant of school "quality" is the socioeconomic status of the families of its students.

It doesn't follow that a single child from a successful family would do well in a failing school,
Mind-expanding drugs and doing things I like doing have removed the need for extrinsic motivation to produce. I've never been able to keep up a solid habit (except weight lifting, of which I enjoy the benefits).
The repercussions are pretty depressing for social sciences. Especially Psych, which relies on a lot of "30 undergraduates were recruited" to demonstrate effects. Particularly damaging is that this particular theory (thinking hard leads to drops in blood glucose levels) was widely promoted in the general public; I recall watching a TED talk about it, as well as a pop-sci book.

There was an econtalk episode late last year with Brian Nosek about the Reproducability Project (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/brian_nosek_on.html). They went the further step of analyzing the wider field to see how bad the biases are. Previous attempts to call out replication (priming theory) did not go well, leading to a lot of hostility. Nosek's process is a bit more friendly, by inviting the original authors's critique early, before data collection. I figure it's a bit harder to blast the auditors for considering a replication study without appearing as though you doubt the effect is real yourself. They still got a bit of pushback, but nowhere near as acrimonious.
I note that the areas that are marked "affordable" are some of the ones who had the worst housing crashes.

IIRC, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Raleigh all had housing markets that were hugely outpacing the local salaries until everything crashed.