skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to mention the number of people I've talked to that said "housing always goes up, it's a great investment!".

"One inflation-adjusted value index between 1928 and 2012 placed the annual rate of appreciation for real estate prices at just 0.2%." [1]

Overall, real estate has historically been a bad investment. That said, it does seem like there have been obvious indicators when an particular area is becoming a more desirable place to live, and when home prices are likely to go up significantly in the future. Although I imagine people have been hard at work modeling and forecasting this, and current prices will better reflect future appreciation (if this hasn't already happened).

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052015/which-has-per...
doesn't seem to surprising, high job demand, high salary = low risk to banks.
Cool stuff! It wasn't described in the paper (afaict), but did you have ConceptNet embeddings as well? I can certainly see a way of creating embeddings by using all the links as context. (e.g. http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/web/c/en/knowledge)

edit: actually looks like you "retrofit" existing word embeddings by re-weighing based on strengths of the links.
You make a salient point, but I'm not sure Silicon Valley is unique in this regard, nor do I think "technology" is uniformly bent on accelerating resource consumption.

If you narrow your criticism you might find some insight worth sharing.
Just never – ever – visit UAE again.
Little known fact:

Most top intelligence officials from Western countries retire to form "security analysis and consulting" firms.

Rudy Giuliani has such a firm. http://www.giulianisecurity.com/index.php/us/

His former Police Chief has one. http://www.thekerikgroup.com/

Most former U.S. Secretaries of Homeland Security have one (each). Look up https://chertoffgroup.com/team.php

Ever wondered what exactly they do? They help wealthy dictators and despots in other countries monitor their populations, and crush dissent.
where do you live and where do you work?
So, do you guys really think the Russians wrote all those emails that were released before the convention?
I take it you believe that socialism and communism are better than liberalism.
This can be a tricky proposition for small companies given the breadth of experience that is needed to adequately address this sort of scenario.

The practical solution for most is to outsource, but it can be challenging to find affordable and high-quality service at a reasonable price.

I'm getting ready to launch in this space. With few exceptions, the services I trust are focused on the glut of opportunities with deep pocketed clients. I can count on my fingers (and maybe toes) the number of colleagues and companies who are willing to pass that gold rush up to deal with the needs of the smaller clients in a meaningful way.
ahaha of course not! :D
Wonder what the typical daily mileage is on a local urban tractor/trailer? 120 miles doesn't seem to me like near enough. Maybe eventually charging stations will become commonplace at most freight terminals so trucks can charge as they are being unloaded (though the unload may only take a few minutes if it's just a pallet or two).
>Housing lenders haven't shown poor judgement in the past.

I'm going to assume that this is sarcasm. (If it's not sarcasm, keep in mind all the nonsensical loans that were being given out pre-2008.)
Not just Instagram, but Occulus Rift, and WhatsApp. They aren't afraid to spend for leaders in an area they aren't as strong in. They are a very exciting company that could see massive growth over the next 5 - 10 years as they become more than just the newsfeed people know them for.
Smug, condescending, and dismissive are recurring traits in politicians who eventually eat their words
I read tegmark' about a year ago. Very insightful for a cosmology noob like me (e.g. Lots of stuff on inflation theory, origin of Carbon (i didn't know),etc.). Clearly believes in the 'many worlds' hypothesis which may be hard to take, but is nonetheless an insightful view on how weird reality actually is from one of mit's great scientists.
I don't find the headline inflammatory, nor think the tech-workers are being entitled. I think this practice is a sign of how far the Bay Area housing market has blown up, and how close the Area is to a debt crisis when the unrealistic mortgages can't be paid.
> Every other attempt to dethrone has been too technical minded I think.

MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, LiveJournal, Tsu, Yahoo! 360, StudiVZ and Xanga weren't terribly technical, and yet still under-performed. For a while Facebook's success story was how highly technical and performance-oriented it was when compared with Twitter's fail whales and MySpace's enter-URL-and-go-get-some-lunch-while-it's-loading site speed.
Agreed. The old saying is "anything looks linear when plotted on a log-log graph."

However, the OP was giving a rough approximation in the first place, in saying that all natural distributions follow a Gaussian curve. But Gaussian curves go from -∞ to +∞. Many of the real-world distributions must only have positive values, like heights and weights. Although for real-world purposes, they can usually be approximated as Gaussian.

With that roughness in mind, I think it's okay to say that the Stefan–Boltzmann law, the inverse-square laws of Newtonian gravity and electrostatics, or Kleiber's law, which are all listed in the Wikipedia link are close to a power law to be acceptable counter-examples.

(Stefan–Boltzmann assumes a perfect black body, the inverse-square laws ignore relativity, and Kleiber's law is a rule-of-thumb in the first place.)
Possibly, but that would suggest a conflict of interest which is apparent here. More of an appeal to authority perhaps?
If the item is provided to Amazon in it's own shipping-worthy box wouldn't Amazon just ship it as-is? Boxing it again only adds labor[1] and material costs.

Granted, that would only work if you only bought one item. If you bought multiple items they would have to be packaged together in another Amazon-branded box.

[1] Labor and/or robot maintenance costs.
When does this sort of thing become an act of war? It seems like "cyber" stuff is taken much less seriously in that respect. Maybe it just gets more attention.
Agree with the comment that the blogger doesn't understand what phishing is. This could be done against a huge number of people through various approaches with ad network code or targeted attacks controlling path to internet. That's all setting aside how trivial it would be for nation states.
I have a couple android devices older than that running aosp without a sweat. Even the nexus one is surprisingly functional on CyanogenMod.
That's why I'm at w loss for the titling if the article. Stern has always been wonderful, ahead of the curve and a game-changer for radio. Private Parts is a great primer for anyone not familiar, and is not bad at all for a biopic.
Its hard to say what your best course of action is without seeing the development agreement. In mainly comes down to whether or not you guaranteed any warranties on your product.

If you did make such assurances, Your best course of action is to start a paper trail to document your corrective actions(looks like you have already started). Additionally, if the vulnerability is likely to cause damage to the consumer if exploited, you should notify both the customer and the deployment developer in an email. That will at least make the client aware of the problem so they won't be blindsided if it is exploited.

Its much better to come clean and fix a small problem now, than it is to ignore it and have the small problem turn into a huge problem. Patches happen all the time.
Facebook, I think, will be one of the defining companies of this century, all built around improving the human network. This company has nowhere but up to go
Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys
1 billion iPhones * average selling price of $650 = $650 billion dollars in sales.

Pretty impressive!
"Of course, Trump isn't likely to murder dissidents..."

He has expressed great enthusiasm for locking up dissident journalists and committing war crimes against those he considers enemies, and boasted he could murder someone in the street and remain incredibly popular.

So, no, he hasn't quite outright expressed a willingness to murder dissidents, but seems to get a little closer to this line every day.
MSFT had >$600 billion market cap in 1999.
Where do you listen to the interviews? I was recently obsessed with finding the interview he did with Larry David, but could not find it anywhere. Someone posted it on YouTube when it originally aired, but it has since been taken down.

I found no official channels to pay for access to his catalogue or anything.
Moment is one of those libraries that was for a very long time one of the core utilities for every project I worked on.

The shifting nature of JavaScript has meant i've recently dropped it in favour of something more modular, but that shouldn't diminish the value I gained from it.
I'm pretty sure the UAE is obsessed with spying. Personal anecdote: I once dated a girl who's the daughter of a high ranking official (while she was in the US), and the government spied on her text messages and forced her to break up with me. At least according to her.
"X is a solution to problem Y" doesn't imply that X is a hack. You'll need to be more verbose if you were making a more specific argument.
> A person with stable beliefs, even if they aren't ever challenged, has no such direct evidence to suggest they should be less confident

That's like saying someone who comes up with a bunch of scientific hypotheses and never tests them should have more confidence in them than someone who does. Holding on to your beliefs even in the face of evidence/arguments to the contrary is not a sign of having better or more considered beliefs, it's a sign of arrogance. If you truly think that you're never wrong about anything so there is no reason to even look for contrary data, that is especially arrogant.
I don't know of any objective benchmarks on that regard, but I do know that Linux is famously erratic in conserving power, with results often varying a lot depending on the specific hardware.
Because it's far easier to keep all batteries in one location and have short haul trucks do a round trip, dropping off a flat battery in exchange for a fresh one. Very little logistics involved in keeping a bunch of stations stocked.
I'd guess maybe half are in use in some form? (Probably on the high side.) I have my current one. My older 5 plays music and podcasts over my stereo and has a waterproof case for use as a hiking GPS--no cell service. I imagine it's pretty common for N-1 devices to be used as effectively iPods within families.

My 3GS is in my travel bucket for use with foreign SIMs but is effectively legacy drawer at this point.
I wonder how often there is an actual, statistically-significant difference between the performance of the first and second, third, (etc) place entries.

Performance on the test set is a point estimate of the classifier's performance, but there is some variance around that point estimate due to the precise composition of the test set. For example, a classifier will perform somewhat differently if these 10,000 digits were in the test set instead of those 10,000 digits.

Academic papers have gotten better about reporting confidence intervals, but I don't think I've ever seen a contest that uses them.
So do you use encryption on that combined version? If yes, how do you deal with different requirements (one website says symbols required and more than 8 characters, another says symbols forbidden and less than 8 characters). If no, what stops someone who finds one password from changing the service name part and trying it somewhere else?
"look at" isn't an argument—I would willingly trade a lower life expectancy for a higher quality of life. Epicurean argued—very successfully, I might add—that a longer life is not a better life. Rather, it is only in addressing our fears for the future it provides any benefit at all, and it's not clear the industrial overhead of pacemakers are worth the reduced anxiety of sudden death, especially when the quality of life has already greatly diminished due to age.
Whatever you want to call it
Do you explain the dollar value of the food prepared by the chefs to new hires, and offer to make up their compensation by that dollar value if the chef services are ever terminated in the future?

I've worked at and interviewed with companies that had fringe benefits like this before and always found it off-putting. I'm a grown human mammal -- getting food for myself is my job, not your job as my employer. If you want to be nice enough to do that because you think it makes me happy, or it is kind, or it boosts productivity, or it subtly manipulates me into staying at the office later or something, that's all fine -- but then it should have no bearing on what compensation I'm paid, and should not function as either an incentive nor a disincentive to work for you.

But it tends to always be presented like this. It's asymmetric. The employee is asked to essentially forsake income they would have otherwise gotten for a short-term benefit that has no guarantee of continuing in the future nor converting into cash if it's discontinued. It just strikes me as paternalistic (good ol' papa company is taking care of you, heh heh heh) and a little inconsiderate -- masked with some veneer that actually it's supposed to be considerate.

Totally as an aside to my points above, as a vegan whose primary hobby is cooking, I never much enjoy chef-prepared company food anyway, even when vegan options are available. I strongly prefer to cook everything I eat for myself, and so I would simply be paid less than other employees who are paid their salary and are paid via the food benefit that does work with their dietary choices.

Of course, because of the low-status nature of being vegan and the one-sidedness of job interviews (e.g. you can't raise an ethical question like this with HR thinking uh oh this guy's some kind of ethical hard ass who won't be pliable, abort, abort), I unfortunately have to stay quiet about my true feelings about this kind of thing, even though it matters to me a lot.
For comparison with other checksums you should look here

https://github.com/minio/sha256-simd#comparison-to-other-has...
Very interesting. Tangentially - it surprised me how ubiquitous gradient boosting was in these competitions, since the algorithm was never mentioned in my stats/ML coursework. Especially seeing how well they perform.

I'm particularly interested in your fourth point - uniquely valuable external datasets. I hadn't even thought about that being a factor.
I would highly recommend Lois McMaster Bujold. She is not hard sci fi though and the sci fi elements mostly act as a setting for the story.
This data actually has the impact of me not applying for a job. I'm thinking of looking around - been at my current gig as a senior engineer for years and I have about 15 years experience. But at my current comp at a major Corp in nyc, I'd need to make about $225k minimum before stock options (including perks mentioned in a comment here ) to switch. I'm not a manager just a senior dev.

Maybe I'm the type of candidate they are trying to weed out, but I'm not looking for like 300k or something. Just market rate for my skills. I've got a family and it's expensive to live in the nyc area
I did see it. Not sure what you mean by this.
I didn't downvote it, but I'd argue the comment had no actual content in it.
" Even so, we have to accept that someone is attacking our nation’s computer systems in an apparent attempt to influence a presidential election. "

This is so comical. If the DNC was actually acting in an ethical, responsible and legal way, the email release would not influence the election one wit. Instead it makes it even more clear that their apparatus had already chosen the winner - and it wasn't Sanders.

On the other: Why even have computerized ballots? Back to paper. Not perfect, but hacking problem solved.
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/463/
Proposal: The Rust Platform
You might be wary about using that term. The use of the term "virtue signaling" is also a common method by which bigots signal their virtue to other bigots. As http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior#.22Virtu... puts it, the term was:

> "seized upon by reactionaries almost immediately and broadened to just every instance of somebody publicly expressing a desire for a better world. Just like SJW and whiteknighting, the user assumes being a prejudiced, oppressive asshole is the default and knows saying as such won't get them any traction, so they throw terms around that assumes bad faith of "the other side" in order to poison the well. "

Since I doubt you have no desire for a better world, I'll assume you mean it in Bartholomew's original sense. Unfortunately, others have ruined it enough that it's no longer a meaningful term of discourse.
Inept. Yes. Makes two of us—apparently.
Sorry, this is not true.
I find it interesting that Facebook is slowly starving Google of advertising revenue. Google has been singularly unsuccessful at developing a business outside of their search advertising business that makes them the sort of margins they need.

In my opinion Google is sacrificing their own search product[1] on the altar of staying alive looking for an answer that works. The challenge with that strategy is that a company that doesn't need search advertising to stay alive will have the freedom to compete with Google in terms of quality user experience.

One has to consider the question, what would the marginal cost of adding quality search to Facebook's infrastructure be? And what sort of margins would their search product need to return to support that? I can imagine a Facebook search product with the accuracy and reach of Google's but without the crappy pages that nobody really cares about anyway. With 15 - 30% margins instead of 80+% margins.

I remember watching IBM fade in the 1990's. It wasn't pretty and for as long as I could remember up to that point it had been the biggest fish in a very big market. The gorilla as some would say. I watched as an alliance of Microsoft and Intel decimated the retail business, Sun, HP, and later Dell decimated the server business. Nobody who mattered really thought IBM was dying or even threatened.

Google won by making Google a destination in every web browser, and Facebook is winning by making Facebook the destination on everyone's phone. And the desktop browsing experience is fading and fading.

Something will come along and derail Facebook but it won't be another social network. It will be something which changes a fundamental part of people behavior and interaction with their world.

[1] And to be clear it is creating a backlash by attempting to monetize so heavily the user experience is compromised as are the search results.
I think you are reiterating your claims without demonstrating why these things are true. There are a wide number of issue which require a deep level of research and experience to consider.

It's unfeasible to educate all 150M+ voters to the level where we can be confident their opinion on the question is informed. Absent that, their votes will only measure how the question feels with respect to gut-instinct and common "wisdom". Moreover, it would be a waste of time to have 300M (we need to teach the children too) people all be educated on the minutiae of every public policy. The field of public policy is an actual discipline precisely because it is something that people need to specialize in.

Given questions like,

- what range of broadcasting frequencies should be set aside for public use?

- what should the maximum allowable individual gross income be before one should be required to pay AMT if it exceeds AGI; what about jointly-filing couples?

- what should the agricultural subsidy be for soy and grain farmers?

how do you think the average person is supposed to decide these things?
Generally items aren't sent that way, or the box has markings on the outside. Anyway the dropshipper couldn't know this for sure.
While dense and not necessarily for the mathematically faint of heart, I've learned a ton about NLP and ANNs through http://cs224d.stanford.edu/.
Groupon still not profitable
Haskell Platform is the last thing you should take inspiration from. Many of us have been doing our best to kill it off. Maybe the downsides involved wouldn't affect Rust in the same ways.

My suggestion, look at how Stack (the tool) and Stackage (the platform) work:

https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack

https://www.stackage.org/
(1) Things happen with technology, ATMs in particular. And in general (just as with an erroneous charge to your credit card) it might take a few days to straighten out. In this case, it might help to employ Occam's razor, and assume that you didn't stumble onto a criminal gang inside of Citi, out to randomly fleece customers making attempted cash deposits; rather, just another case of technology (inevitably) going wrong, and the people at the branch not being trained in how to respond sensitively to the consequences.

(2) Like the other poster says, it's a good idea to be circumspect (at least) about ATM deposits. If you must make a cash deposit at an ATM in the future, consider filming the whole transaction, taking care to make sure that your ATM card is clearly identifiable, along with the amounts and quantities of the bills (and perhaps a few of their serial numbers). That would give you much more leverage should you find yourself in the position of needing to force one of these banks to investigate the mishap properly.
Okay, actually for city deliveries with low speed limits and lots of stops plus traffic lights (regenerative braking instead of wasted gas while idling!) 120 miles is not as limiting.

I could realistically assume that you're driving only 2/3 of the time at average speed of 30 mph... and that comes out at just 240 miles per a full day, and you could get a partial charge during e.g. lunch break, so if the battery was just a bit larger, then it's actually feasible.
Here is the code: https://github.com/kingreza/social-go
For those of us unfamiliar with Haskell, could you expand on the downsides a bit?
They aren't the only company with more than 0-2 chargers per parking lot, I could name a bunch of others. The point I'm making is that more chargers are on the way.
I simply cannot foresee a scenario where the Node community is active enough to put in the effort to make Node work with ChakraCore, anode continues to remain popular and widely used, but after adopting ChakraCore the community does down to the point where they are incapable of replacing ChakraCore if MS turns hostile.

In addition, if ChakraCore is adopted, it's almost certain there will be a major fork that continues running on V8. The most likely scenario will be that Node will continue to run both in parallel, and soon enough the JS engine bindings will be abstracted enough that it may even become a bring your own JS Engine type software.
previous_year_revenue * ((growth_rate / 10) + 1)

For example, a company with a 50% growth rate and $10MM in yearly revenue can be said to be worth about

$10MM * ((50 / 10) + 1) = $60MM

The above formula shouldn't be used to determine acquisition price. It mainly provides a sense of how much a company could be worth. Other factors to consider are intellectual property, cash balance, employee quality, etc.
I'm someone who doesn't "get" poetry at all. I don't like reading it, writing it, or listening to it (unless it's set to music i.e. lyrics).
Not a problem. Let's use paper. (And dear Supreme Court, kindly stick to the constitution this time.)