skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, comparing the outcome of the poorest class in India, specifically the high unlikelihood of their chances for moving up not to mention getting to America, to the outcome of the poorest class in the US is a more fair comparison.

So it's more fair to compare poor Americans to poor Indians who poop in the field, have no power, get water from a communal well, and may well be living under naxalite (communist) oppression?

Actually, I suspect that latter group may also do pretty well if allowed to enter the US. Poor Vietnamese fleeing Communism didn't do too badly, nor did the poor illiterate Chinese who came here to work on the railroads.

EDIT: the closest thing I can think of is the oppression and discrimination against Jewish people in society prior to the Nazis and its role in driving social outcomes for the Jewish people.

I was deliberately hinting at this. Yet somehow American Jews have excellent outcomes, far better than non-Jewish whites, nearly as good as Asians. It's weird how their circumstances didn't hinder them.

Of course, it's not so weird if you observe that American Jews share certain behaviors with other high income Americans, with Gujuratis, and with Chinese. But they don't tend to share these behaviors with either low income whites or blacks. It's almost as if behavior is far more important than circumstances.

My emotional reaction came about because it was extremely strange for me to see someone blithely compare such blatantly obvious apples and oranges to make a point. I can't understand why that makes sense to you and I still don't.

Why is it apples and oranges?

I'm also curious why you seem to want to make my statistically typical American black. Virtually none of the things you bring up happened to white Americans, yet the Gujurati (or Tamil if you prefer) will probably have better outcomes than the typical poor white American also.
Feedback request on quick poll app (iOS)
We fire a conversion event back to them when someone becomes a client.
At least some of the rating is to do with the facilities so they are making sure that the building and equipment are up to spec.
Not to be too harsh, but if all you did was ensemble several different embeddings using methods that were mostly from other papers, it would be pretty obvious you'd get state of the art performance. But that is not very interesting from a novel theoretical, scientific, or even engineering perspective. It is certainly useful to the community, just not academic. Most people would consider it obvious. I could achieve state of the art performance on ImageNet if I created a larger ensemble of Inception v3 networks than the ensemble the paper used and fiddled around with different data augmentation tricks they were too lazy to use, but that's not very interesting.
This is not a new one, but dives into a world most aren't familiar with, that of the independent cartoonist. This particular interview is with the creator of Ren and Stimpy, and his antagonist, the voice of Stimpy, who had a major falling out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PheypE68BKc
> I would expect trump to knock off "morning in america" [1] for his positive ads. (if he winds up having positive ads).

I agree with the rest of your post, but the feel of "Morning in America" doesn't jibe with Trump's "Make America Great Again" spiel. "Morning in America" was Reagan's re-election campaign ad. It was saying "see what Reagan did for America in his first term; let's vote for four more years of it!". In other words, it's a form of "America is Already Great, Let's Keep It That Way".
As someone who knows very little about subject, initially it appeared to me as if they were going to present some method to authenticate users without any shared knowledge, which seemed pretty close to magic to me! In fact the tl;dr is that two parties have a shared secret, but effectively they transmit proofs of possession that, statistically, achieve a high probability of being the same secret without needing to transmit it.

Calling this "zero knowledge" is sort of confusing from that perspective, but makes sense once you know what they're solving for.
To be fair, OpenStack doesn't exactly have a reputation of "just working". It's really more a framework for building infrastructure. That's why there are entire consultancies and OS distributions to help people successfully deploy OpenStack.
From the article: "The most lucrative ads are app-install ads and news feed ads shown in Facebook’s mobile app."

Interesting. Neither of those is "social".
I'm not condoning what Xiaomi does, but he absolutely should question whether he's spending his time in a way that is ultimately satisfying. Maybe his regret indicates that he should have prioritized his family higher.
Why not spend a few minutes goggling [sic]?

Because the issues at hand are complex and multifaceted -- and in general, one won't find meaningful insight into them by digging for stats to cherry pick for the sake of propping up one's point of view.
"demonstrably not true"

Where are the software projects that are built using functional languages?

I'll call out XMonad. What can you come up with? Obscure companies doing obscure things, or else people using Common Lisp in a nonfunctional way.

What major project or product is built using Haskel or Ocaml? There aren't any! The only thing I have ever used that were written in those languages are XMonad and csvtool respectively.
It will still find problems like incorrect food storage temperatures and cross contamination. These are probably more dangerous than general dirtiness, so it might be a good tradeoff to catch these early at the cost of missing lesser problems.
I don't know how many make it to the top 10e6, but parked domains are mostly Windows.
> And you're incept.

I am?
The edge is almost never the choice of model architecture. It's very common knowledge now that deep neural networks and gradient boosted machines are incredibly effective at different problem classes, and that ensembling almost always marginally boosts performance.

The edge winning teams have varies from competition to competition. It includes

- robust cross-validation strategies
- robust feature selection strategies
- creative feature engineering
- finding uniquely valuable external datasets that improve performance
- robustly controlling for distributional differences between train and test sets
- (and unfortunately on occasion) information leakage
Yeah, firefighting is a more visible show of "value" to those not directly involved than reliability is, because nobody at too many places likes to ask why we're always fighting fires in the first place.
Scotland use a Pass/Fail rating, which doesn't suit his algorithms.
Please let me disagree. It is a beautiful book, but really boring and repetitive. Never finished it. I'll resume it for you all: "Buildings change over time to adapt for their owners livestyle."

The really good part is the author bashing renowned architects that build prize winning buildings that leak.
Unit Testing for Data Science
Via nation state opt-ins we have larger groups of people like the United Nations, Commonwealth (2.2B), OECD, NATO, etc.

On an personal opt-in basis, the Catholic Church has 1.27B now, so Facebook is beating that. So yes, maybe Facebook has now become the largest single-org individual opt-in in history. Anyone know of a competitor?
Pretty sure reading recommendations pre-date Bill Gates...
Do you have to work in the SF or other expensive area, or can you be totally remote like Stack Overflow?

I'd be really interested to hear your examples of companies that pay significantly more and allow you live in a low cost/high quality city.
I'd love to see this analysis linked to (say) Yelp reviews complaining about food-poisoning (ala https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/0...). That would make it easier to spot when the health agency ratings don't match actual consumer health experience.
1 billion unit of a device like the iPhone. Let it set in just a second.
I really hope people do not misunderstand this article.

Until I reminded myself to assume good faith about the author (which is usually worth it with this author), I felt myself assuming he was disparaging all things new as being shiny and therefore unprofessional.

I don't believe that is the point of this article, and I worry the caricature is a little so over the top that people will interpret it as such a little too easily.

I think the point is this: don't confuse movement with progress. New is not necessarily better. The world of software tools is like any other marketplace of ideas: you will have a curve of early adopters onto the stragglers. It is not worth assuming that a tool is worth upending the world over just because the early adopters are jumping up and down about how it will. Most things won't. But some things will.

The point isn't novelty. It is value. Novelty has value, particularly social and sentimental value, but often it is fleeting. Other forms of value aren't. It is worth considering the new thing in all perspectives of value.
Thank You! :)
How many of these are in landfills?
Could you explain how wavelet decompositions/transforms could be used to learn a predictive model? In other words: given a labeled dataset D = {x_i, y_i}, a function F(x) = y, where x is input data (pixels, credit scores, etc), and y are target labels (object labels, investment risk, etc.).

I'm not very well-versed with wavelet methods. But in computer vision and image processing, I've seen people apply wavelet transforms to images, extract the wavelet coefficients, and use the coefficients as the image feature representation. Then, these coefficients would typically be fed to a traditional machine learning classifier, ie nearest neighbor, SVM, etc.

In other words, I've seen wavelet transforms used as feature extractors. I haven't seen wavelet transforms used to actually learn the predictive model F(x).

Gradient boosting, on the other hand, is learning the predictive model F(x).

Said in another way: gradient boosting is learning F(x) = y.

Wavelet transforms learn g(x) = x^{hat}, such that F(g(x)) = y is "easier" to learn.

I hope I'm explaining things clearly - sorry in advance if I made any mistakes, particularly in my understanding of wavelet transforms/decompositions.
Did you compare performance to SHA512? Despite being a theoretically more secure/"harder" algorithm, on 64 bit platforms it can sometimes be faster than SHA256. If you don't want to use 512 bits, using 256 bits of the output of SHA512 is standardized as SHA512/256 and is considered valid/secure.

(I'm unclear if this performance oddity remains true with the crypto hardware extensions being used here.)
Not sure how this has raised $77M considering it isn't anything really new. I'm also having a hard time understanding why it is better than using a personal cloud/media server app like Tonido (http://www.tonido.com/), younity (https://getyounity.com/), or even Plex (plex.tv) that offer remote access of your locally stored files for free.
Wow, I'm surprised it took them this long.
I graduated 1999 and made $38k; Now make $190k (and I'm definitely not a top 1% candidate).

Based on your assessment, I should expect to make a lot less in the future. But, yet people are contacting me weekly saying they can't fill positions at my salary level.

It seems like you're doing something wrong.
It's kind of sad that even in an article about zero-knowledge proofs doesn't understand the difference between a zero-knowledge proof, and a proof of knowledge (without the zero-knowledge part). The ladder are usually much simpler than the former, and typically the zero-knowledge part is not necessary.
Are they trying to claim that it's better than dropbox for viewing your content. Like just a better UI or what?
Good description of the intuition behind zero knowledge proofs is the following: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf
"Counter-intuitively, a state is required to maintain individual liberty, I think."

Why is this counterintuitive to so many people? This was one of the prime reasonings by almost all Enlightenment-era thinkers for the reason for a government, including it being beautifully laid out in the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The key line is "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men".
Yep, that's what pretty much all genomic discoveries are these days. Since the Human Genome Project [1], which set out to map all genes in the human genome, was considered complete in 2003, most studies these days seek to find the correlations between genetic mutations and diseases.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project
I think you may have the Scotch-Irish, at least the ones living around Scotland and Ireland wrong. They have never been particularly fascist and I have not noticed them being unusually xenophobic. In the recent Brexit vote it was the English who voted out, not the Scots or Irish.
Also considering that the manufacturing of these cells is a highly complex and closely guarded proprietary process, which Tesla knows next to nothing about, it's highly unlikely Tesla will ever be making cells.

Think of laptops: Tesla is like Lenovo; they buy CPUs from Intel, RAM from Corsair, SSDs from Samsung etc. Then they put all the parts in a box. Sure, it's a complex and nice looking box made from aluminium or carbon fiber, with quite a bit of custom electronics in it, but it's still a box. Nobody in their right mind thinks Lenovo is going to start manufacturing CPUs any time soon (or ever).
Interview with Rand Fishkin about Startups, Moz and SEO
Way to expensive for that graphics card. Would expect better prices from Xiaomi
Well the obvious example is conflict of interest cases.

Take the hypothetical situation where someone writes a negative exposé on Facebook privacy policies and then plugs a competitor. Suppose in this contrived example that Facebook systematically removes all related content to this exposé and bans the creator.

On one hand Facebook is a private company. On the other they are built around a communication platform and communication is a constitutionally protect right in America. Moreover, this type of practice could be considered anti-competitive and subject to anti-trust regulation (a bit unusual, but there is precedent).

I am not trying to advocate one or another view on this issue...more of trying to frame what I think is an interesting question: Where is the line where private rights give way to public rights...if at all?
The original one, that I'm aware, was VIA's C3 and such processors with Padlock Encryption. Came in the little Artigo computers I used in designs that gave me, for $300, a 1GHz processor at 25W, hypervisor support, crypto acceleration (incl RSA), and a TRNG. Bad little systems years ago when I was into them.
As Mark Twain said "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

This battle has JUST begun.

Vive barely won first round because of the controllers.

But the battle will be on again when the controllers come out for the Rift. Oculus has deep pockets which are not to be underestimated in this business.
Undocumented immigrants cannot vote.
Thanks for sharing. I just watched the first couple of episodes and they were pretty great. Reminds me a lot of "Design of everyday things" meets buildings.

And of course the mental transfer to software is fairly obvious (think user centered design, make sure software is adaptable etc.)
Its heart breaking to see these missions come to an end though they are all planned only for a few weeks in the first place. I m really glad that Philae came along this far , this was a really really complicated mission - Right from soft landing on the comet nucleus( remember the previous attempts in getting to a comet were impact probes) , loosing that one thruster prior to detaching from Rosetta , having troubles with primary & second batteries , going into safe mode , hibernating and re-awaking again , constant absence of sunlight to recharge batteries and all the delay in receiving signals back from Rosetta - This must have been one heck of an emotional ride for all the involved engineers and scientists. Mad Respect !

I m not sure if Philae conducted all the originally planned experiments or not , Would love for someone to comment on that.

And I love what message they had in the final video update, - now that they shut down the communication module of Rosetta that would talk to Philae - all those power would be used to conduct other experiments ! They managed to throw in some positivity there.
I appreciate the honest response. I couldn't find an easy link on mobile to explain what those Pro features were and it sounds like I don't need them after all. I just need to be able to share a database of passwords between my few devices for personal use.

Purchasing 1Password for 65$ gets the current major release with no updates?

Subscribing to 1Password Families for 5$/month:
Lets me sync passwords between all of my desktops and phones?
Can I sync an encrypted password database or is this done as a hosted cloud solution by 1Password?
I was just at Bitsummit a couple of weeks ago and there were just as many Rifts as Vives by all developers. They all had the finger pads and so played basically the same except everyone said things looked better in the Rift.

The only minus was that two Rifts near each other end up interfering with each other where as two Vives don't which is a problem at trade shows.
Even if it is cyclical that doesn't matter. What matters is if the change is good for humanity. If it is, let the change happen. If it's not (evidence overwhelmingly points this way) then we should be trying to stop the change, even if it's natural.
> the difference being that in Russia Lenin was pushing for dictatorship of the working class

Lenin was pushing for a dictatorship of the Bolshevik vanguard, notionally on behalf of the working class -- Leninist vanguardism features what might more accurately be called a dictatorship for the proletariat as opposed to the earlier Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat.
Does anyone have a feel for what the performance overhead of zkp authentication would be? Presumably the main cost is having to do lots of round trips?
Lol. American média companies are being hired to troll Putin.
One of the worst decisions Taylor could've made, IMO.
That's the definition of cutting in line.
AUDUSD Rejects Higher Prices, Vulnerable
Ask HN: Raise vs. Acquire multiple rule of thumb?
Is there a rule of thumb for how much a company is sold for by using the amount they've raised as a proxy? Example: company A raised 15M in a few rounds of funding, company Z buys company A for (some_multiple)*15M.

Is that multiple usually 2x, 3x, 10x?
There is a long distance between the research ALS foundations pay for and a drug.
They are undergraduates at the EECS department.
Should I be taking this article seriously?
Same, do this and get professional podiatry nail clippers (they look like wire cutters and the actual brands they use in practices cost ~$50-a few hundred, look on Amazon and eBay). They're super sharp and can cut straight or curved, and can get under the nail without hurting much.

The doctor killed part of my nail bed which prevented really bed recurrence, and with some maintenance, careful filing of the under-side and edge of the nail (with a very thin special podiatry file), it doesn't come back.

Pronation issues also exacerbate ingrown nails by placing too much pressure on one side of a toe, especially prevalent in the biggest toe. For that, go to a running store and talk to them about insoles. For me, the SuperFeet insoles in Brooks Ghost running shoes make my feet, back, knees, hips, ankles, and metatarsals feel vey noticeably better.
Don't people find it very demotivating to look at their work and go "yeah, I think I did pretty good" then look at some scale and go "huh. 0-1 across the board."
I'm horrorized. I had to trash a perfectly fine and working iPhone 4 because I was left with no security updates.

No chance I'm contributing to this forced and wasteful cycle anymore.
>"This is why many neo-fascists and alt-righters pay lip-service to libertarian (or classically liberal) ideals"

In my experience, they don't. They viciously mock libertarians as pathetic effeminate cucks who insincerely argue for classic liberal values because they lack the spine to stand up for what they truly believe in.

I think this is mostly projection, because they are mostly former libertarians.
Think differently? Woo! I'm one in a billion!
Best of luck. BTW in your situation (and in fact I was in something pretty close to it, during good stretches of my 20s) I would definitely keep my focus on getting any kind of a job (bike messenger, driver, delivery, whatever), and of course a cheap place to stay, well before winter sets in. Rather than on your ideal job and all that fancy ML stuff.

You'll have plenty of time to think about long-term skill growth and how to best invest in it, how to get around the lack of a tech degree (or perhaps whether it's worth going to school again, after all) once you've got a place to stay and a regular paycheck.
Interns at Facebook make about $100k, and they get free luxury housing. I know people at Google at Facebook. New grads make about 170k per year (total compensation), next level is about 220k, and the next (which is Senior) about 300k. One level above that (ie Staff Engineer) gets into the 400-500k range. $200k is definitely about average pay for Google engineers (maybe $150k is more accurate for offices outside MTV/NY/SEA).
Octavia E. Butler was an amazing author, and it never failed for her books to be way-out-there. Sometimes creepily so:

https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Xenogenesis-Trilogy-Book-1-ebook...
Huh you seem right. Only the multi-socket Haswell seems to have them (E7-xxxxv3 and E5-26xxv3).

And now Intel re-introduce the SHA instructions in some low-power low-end CPUs, but not for any desktop or single-socket server CPU? What a bizarre case of feature fragmentation. Typical Intel.
Why did you trash it rather than recycle it?
Awesome! Will be watching https://github.com/antoineMoPa for the appearance of your poc =) Will contribute to it too.
I'm guessing: Direct Response (Marketing)[0]

[0] http://successwise.com/what-is-direct-response-marketing
I grew up in Ohio, lived in both Georgia and North Carolina for decent periods of time, and now live in Florida. I've owned a cruiser in 3 of the 4 states, and would never feel comfortable in between lanes, or driving a car with a motorcycle in between lanes.

I get that this is standard all over the world; I'm just presenting examples of why some drivers, like me, find this to be a curious practice.

You'll never convince me that sport bikes aren't the devil though. Some ride responsibly, but most don't.
Wow, that monospace is so difficult to read.