skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think this can't be verified? You can see the formulas in cells, or you can see the macro code. Further, you could auto import older data inputs and outputs via data connections in Excel and set up some automated checks to flag if something is off.

Is there a use case where you think this wouldn't be possible?
Yes, in fact: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-...
It actually has nothing to do with 4WD or AWD, the article is poorly written and confuses several terms. At the surface 4WD is manually selected and AWD is 4WD all the time. Thats it they are the same thing, it's just 4WD means you opt to put the vehicle in 4WD.

The term the are talking about when traction is applied to the wheel with the most binding to the ground and away from the one that has the least traction is called a Limited Slip Differential and by virtue of the slipping of the low traction wheel it will spool the high traction wheel and bind it transferring torque to it. This can also be done by what is called a locker, either electronic or manual but manual lockers can be dangerous at high speed if you are not used to their manor. You generally only see manual lockers and welded differentials in offroad trucks. Limited Slip differentials and electronic lockers are available in both 4WD and AWD vehicles.

The term they are talking about to apply power to both the front and rear wheels is not a differential but rather a transfer case and it is not always at a 50:50 ration man times they run 60:40 or 70:30. Both 4WD and AWD have a transfer case, 4WD's allow you to select whether they are engaged or not.

The term they are talking about when they talk about adjusting power front to back is called a Traction Control Unit and is handled by a Body Control Module that may or may not also communicate with the Engine Control Unit or the Transmission Control Unit to defuel or detorque the powertrain, as well as adjust torque via electronic lockers in the differential to the wheels that need it and away from the ones that do not. As well as engage or disengage front and back axles via the transfer case. Many newer AWD systems have this but it is also available in most newer 4WD vehicles.

TLDR is 4WD and AWD can be virtually identical depending on the subsystems but the article confuses a lot of those subsystems as being unique to one or the other. Though the upper end of 4wd's have more "hardcore" options not generally found or offered in AWD vehicles.
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Why on Earth would you use Excel for that many data points?
I do a lot of work helping early and mid-stage companies scale their workforce and technology. Some companies scale by the seat of their pants: they hire people for specific needs as they arise (e.g. servers crashing, or too many sales requests coming in). Other companies scale in a more organized, planned process, like having a big vision of becoming a global company in 5 years. In both of these scenarios, especially because you don't have a co-founder, you're going to find that it's hard to give your #2 hire a sense of agency. You'll likely feel disappointed in their style (different coding practices, different customer interactions, etc.) and want to micromanage. To help with this, start them off on a non-mission-critical project (like expanding to a new region or building a feature that's been in the backlog), and be clear with them about what "success" means for that project. Having the definition of success be written by them, in their words, will also help ensure a two-way communication here. After they have a successful project under their belt, you'll find it easier to trust them with more important work. Also keep in mind that right now you have a product, but when you hire your second employee, you'll also be establishing a culture, so it's worth putting thought into what culture you want to promote.
>What difference then does it make it if is 30 days or 3 years?

Because a 3 year gap in your work history is much harder to explain than a 30 day one. Also, when someone runs a background check and sees that a hire was imprisoned for 3 years, they will think the crime was much worse than it was.

>Not necessarily, some people who know that with high probability they will get caught still perform crimes; drug addiction can be quite powerful. At a first glance, I would think that substance abuse treatment/improvement in mental health facilities can help here.

That's an exception that proves the rule. Drug addiction isn't rational thought.

>But in my view, your proposed solution does not do much either to the problem of deterrence.

I think prison terms as deterrence is an illusion. Prison terms as punishment which may have a secondary result of future deterrence is more likely.

>What if the police simply want to install a tracker, in order to investigate the possibility that the theft is being performed by an organized ring which regularly steals bikes, in which case a 3 year sentence could fit the crime? Standard bikes do not come with trackers; this will require active intervention.

You are simply adding complexity to the same immorality.

>I fail to see why there should be a blanket "no to entrapment" in the case of police, but continue to allow it for civilians.

Police can and do arrest you. There are privacy laws in the US against such things, or at least there were.

>I don't have an answer to this. On the other hand, in my view your proposals do not either.

As I stated earlier, I don't believe deterrence is the primary reason for sentencing. It's punishment for a crime.
Time and workload is certainly necessary to consider. However, removing parts of existing curriculum may not be the best way.

Considering the fact that computers have pervaded across domains, we could try integrating computational thinking with these domains. For example, you could teach Chemistry using simulations and modeling. It would deepen learning and, if the curriculum is well-structured, provide students the opportunity to learn computational thinking (within the context).

Integrating computational thinking in the existing curriculum has several benefits:
1. Deepen learning of the subject content: Enables active learning and knowledge construction
2. Learn programming concepts in the context: This is especially beneficial for students who have no prior programming experiences.
3. Not increase additional workload: Computational thinking (or as DiSessa puts it: "computational literacy") is a literacy skill like reading and writing. Here, we are proposing to use computers as a tool to think with.

This requires a lot of effort including providing professional development for teachers, restructuring curriculum, and supporting stakeholders through flexible implementation opportunities.
You and I didn't effectively bribe governments the world over spanning decades to keep emissions standards from having any teeth; many of these companies have. You and I haven't propagated climate change denial on a worldwide scale; many of these companies have.

We can certainly discuss individual culpability, but the only reason a significant portion of the populace believes in climate change denial is because there has been a massive effort to discredit climate science. Frankly, it's terrifying how effective they have been. Fully half of our government (the Republican half) seems to genuinely believe climate change is nothing to worry about, even while their states are flooding and in the midst of historic droughts.
TechShop is great for hobbyists with some money to spare (there are a lot of hidden costs, both time and money, that they don't tell you about), but terrible for professionals. Their machines are regularly not working for days at a time, and I've had experience with multiple locations so this is indicative of the company as a whole.

If you want to manufacture with plastic, I'd be surprised if there was any reason to do it outside of China. If you're working with metal, it's a much trickier question.

Along with EMachineShop, there's also Plethora. I've never used Plethora and it seems incredibly limited, but they've been around a few years and have a ton of people on staff (which can't be cheap) so they must be getting decent business.
Kids today don't remember needing a purchase order to buy hardware that had to be shipped, racked and configured. Adding scale went from 6 weeks to 6 seconds.
Why is food so much cheaper? Why is land so much cheaper? Why are utilities so much cheaper? What are they doing that makes everything so cheap? IMHO, this is really a phd thesis sized undertaking and would probably teach us a lot about the inefficiencies in our western system.

It's also not just because they're underdeveloped. Some cities in developing countries, like Luanda, Angola, have some of the highest costs of living in the world.
I've witnessed this first hand.

A lot of people complain that Asian parents push for curriculum choices that don't create "well rounded people".

It's a load of crap, IMO. Asian parents push their kids so hard because they've actually experienced true poverty and want, and came to America to give their children a better life. They sure as heck will push their children as hard as they're capable of to make sure their children will never experience that level of want in their lives.
I am aware of the impact the interstate commerce laws have on limiting what states can do. That wasn't part of your original assertion.

Thank you for replying. Have an upvote.
I'm also on a throw-away. I work for the Predix team and its a giant cluster fuck.

I think one month we had a 90% uptime. Our services crash all the time.

Our new boss has said he has around a 500-600 million budget for buying interesting companies.
John Kerry testifies against U.S. involvement in Vietnam, April 22nd, 1971
Ha, were people really saying this back then?
I learned about limited slip differentials from Marisa Tomei's great courtroom scene in My Cousin Vinny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFdJza0AbeA
The MOV mnemonic is more like a family of instructions, isn't it?

Not knowing anything about GPU programming, isn't it similar to Movfuscator in some respects? Both branches are taken and run simultaneously?
What are those rare valid uses for 3D graphs?
But if it werent for Kearns, we probably wouldn't have intermittenent wipers nowadays

What would be your reason for believing this?
I think focusing on calorie cost is a good start, but has its caveats. A cup of lettuce is 8 calories, an ounce of beef is 70 calories. People generally eat a cup or less of lettuce in their serving of salad. Whereas they eat 8 oz. or more of beef per serving (16 oz. burgers anyone?).

For decades my bodyweight would not go below 195 lbs. I turned vegetarian and now vegan, and my bodyweight is 178 lbs. I can do more pull ups, my body fat is at 14% vs. 21%, and I feel more energetic than before. I am very active compared with the average person.

One of the great revelations to me was how many calories I was actually consuming compared to what I thought I was consuming. When I was an omnivore, I was trying to keep my caloric intake to 1900 to 2200 calories per day given my activity level and weight. When I actually counted every piece of food put in my mouth for two weeks, I realized I was generally consuming 2500 to 2800 calories. It was cultural and habitual.

When I went vegetarian, and became more conscious of what I was putting in my mouth, I was down to 1850 or less calories a day. My body has stabilized at this weight. All of my standard blood tests show I am in good health.

My point of this expose was to point out that at 10x the expense eating green or vegan gets chipped away at by:

1. I only eat one-tenth of the lettuce or leafy greens based on calories vs. old beef consumption.
2. I eat 33% less calories per day as a healthy, active person.
3. If everyone ate healthier, and more greens (but less calorically), I think the numbers work out better.
If you can successfully outsource a non-core function, then do so. HR is one of those things that can be successfully outsourced particularly at the small scale.

The only maybe gotcha with outsourcing the HR function is that, while you can outsource the routine tasks (issuing payslips), you can not outsource to an outside firm the legal obligations surrounding employee contracts, employment law, obligations to pay correct payroll taxes, etc.

If you go the route of outsourcing HR, you may wish to consider investing a bit in HR consulting with the aim of educating yourself about employment law in your legal jurisdiction.
> Maybe a sharp increase in team-building activities. Taking everyone for lazer tag is cheaper than increasing salaries.

That can also be a sign that the founders hate each other and are about to split the operation - one of them is treating the employees as children in the hope that they go with a favourite parent's splinter company. They are probably doing it subconsciously.
I have a few qualms with this service:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting a server setup, installing Xen, and then rolling out your own VMs that way. From Windows or Mac, these VMs could then be accessed over SSH.

2. It doesn't actually replace a dedicated server. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

(/s)
That was also my first thought.
I'm going to disagree with some of the sentiments here. There are a number of tasks that you are more or less wasting your time on every day because you could hire people to do them, thus allowing you to free up your time to focus on what your competitive advantage is. It's really important that you called these things "chores." That says a lot about those tasks.

What you don't want is to hire a bunch of people you don't trust with any responsibility - that's a recipe for micromanagement, which is even more of a waste of time than doing the "chores" to begin with!

Take a long time to hire someone, but hire someone who can take the largest percentage possible of tasks off your plate. If you're worried about data loss, have backups. If you're worried about credentials, make separate accounts with different access. But you need someone who you can trust, who you feel like is smarter than you at some useful set of skills. Someone who is as passionate as you are about what you do, and hungry to make a good impression.

I was an early employee at a startup that was acquired less than two years after I joined. We grew from seven to seventy employees in about twenty months. My contact info is in my HN profile if you want to know more.
The vast majority of business do not need to scale on a dime.

You're paying 30-40% more to provision in 6 seconds in AWS (and let's be real, it's low 5 minutes at least for most resources like instances), but if you've got the cash to waste, go for it.

As always, marketing is key.
Two that I have enjoyed:

1. "Machine Learning" - Murphy

It's a classic and a rigorous introduction to the subject. It focuses on theory over implementation so it's more for developing a principled understanding of machine learning fundamentals than for getting you up to speed with modern tools necessary for solving real problems.

2. "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" - Nielson

This is a free online book that is very accessible and engaging. It covers basic theory and implements examples in Python.
I think the reasoning is less nefarious, Chrome apps never got that much love on other platforms, and I'm guessing they want to move towards Progressive Web Apps.
You can, as long as your first-order statement is in the language of set theory, by translating "there does not exist a bijective function f: N->R".
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Alright, time to bust a myth. As an AWD owner, every time I have a tire issue, they tell me I need to replace all 4 even if the others are good ... because AWD. "Won't someone think of the tires ... the tires need to to be the same size so they can rotate at the same rate."

Clearly, with AWD the car is designed to allow wheels to rotate at different rates (hence the diffs). Otherwise you would't be able to make a turn. Once you dispel that myth, they then tell you to replace the pair ...

Why do dealerships, repair shops and tire places keep insisting on replacing all 4? ... good for tire sales I guess.
I've never heard that jet engines are less efficient. From what I remember piston engines are 33% thermally efficient, diesels 36% and turbine engines are upwards of 60%+. Of course there are many types of jet engines and ways to get power off of them.
Well, later in that thread he did write:

"I am worried by the number of people that couldn’t tell that this was sarcasm"
Coming from a startup background:

1. Senior people leaving (as has been said by pretty much everyone else in this thread).

2. Not having a clearly defined problem to solve, or a well understood target audience.

3. Not knowing who the competition are, or just dismissing them as "not being as amazing as us."

4. Little or no customer research - if you hear the phrase "customers don't know what they want" and it's not immediately followed by "so we need to do research and find out" - run.

5. Building solutions that don't really map back to problems. This can manifest in a lot of ways, but the most common ones I've seen: projects constantly changing in priority (entire projects materialise and become urgent overnight), features that are arbitrarily demanded, or in an over-emphasis on polish and minutia.

6. Departments not collaborating, things getting thrown over the fence. Workflows that move in the wrong direction.

7. Lack of autonomy - a handful of people make all of the decisions.

8. Micromanagement. People tend to micromanage when things aren't going well, which tends to make them worse. It's a downward spiral.

9. Being afraid to talk to management about problems; being chastised for suggesting ways to improve things.

10. When mistakes are made, focusing on blame rather than resolution and prevention.
>Most interviewers at these company, especially those with little empathy or training, are looking to rule you out, and are looking to find a problem with whatever it is you do

I disagree with this. Although technically there is an infinite list of wrong moves, interviewers have a list of "right" moves that people do that they keep track of that demonstrate the interviewee's abilitie
In natural language processing, currently, research is published on arXiv and reviewed on Twitter. This is not how the institutions and funders involved would describe it, but it's what actually happens. If you're waiting for it to show up in a peer-reviewed journal, you're months or years behind.

Conferences are a good way to get caught up by letting the discussion of a number of papers happen in one physical place. The publishing industry is not necessary to organize conferences.

Journals seem to be a formalized mechanism for keeping score of the number of positive, novel results you've produced, in case you're ever up for tenure. Keeping score that way is not great for science anyway, because it biases science against negative results and replications.

When papers are discussed in the open on the Internet, you can see the discussion and choose who to believe. In formal peer review, you get the opinions of a few anonymous, uncompensated people, who would rather be doing something else, aggregated into a single bit.
My claim was specific too: if a corpus is biased -- as defined by evolving societal values -- then the word embeddings learned from that corpus will necessarily be biased too -- according to those same societal values, regardless of whether you think those values are rational and coherent.
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The reasoning I've heard is that your differential will get worn out.
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Fun to look through old EC2 email from back in the day (from 2007):

> We have an account at that is nearing its EC2 limit - we need to be able to create more than 20 instances, preferably as many as you can give us. Our application is exploding - we're doing well over 5M page views / day and it's doubling every 2 or 3 days, so the request is rather urgent. Can you have someone call or email us right away?

I remember at that time that it was just so much more expensive than physical servers at iWeb. Sure it was convenient, but the performance per dollar was something like 1/3 or 1/4. Crazy.
You don't provide enough detail for specific suggestions, but it sounds like you would benefit from having a mentor who has been down this path before.

Another way is start inviting smart and experienced people to lunch to bat around ideas. You don't even have to know them personally - a lot of people are glad to chat casually over lunch in the spirit of helping fellow entrepreneurs.

After having a few discussions like this you'll be able to see things from multiple perspectives and choose the best path to fit your business.

This will cost you nothing but lunch in exchange for some very valuable advice.
lmfao why was the goat on the damn deck?
> and let's be real, it's low 5 minutes at least for most resources like instances

If you've got a pre-baked application AMI, are using EBS-backed instances, and are starting them with auto-scaling or health-checks rather than manually using the console, then no, you really can have new instances up in a couple of seconds.

Mind you, the key (to getting a high ROI from AWS) isn't scaling up on a dime. It's scaling down on a dime, whenever your load decreases for even a minute or two, knowing you can just scale right back up. Being able to run with literally no paid compute-hours spent sitting around doing nothing waiting for a task can save you a rather large amount of money, usually quite easily compensating for that 30-40% AWS surcharge.
in addition to this, the wto also ruled that their export controls were in violation of trade rules

for laymen: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-06/china-scra...

not for the faint of heart: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds431_e...
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Thanks, I had a look and it's interesting, do you know if the Power Shell Library is just a distribution channel based on the Win 10 package management system that I linked in my previous comment, or is it a completely separate product?
Right now there is a paper I'd like to read from a journal that I used to enjoy as a grad student, Software Practice & Experience. It's $38 dollars to download a PDF of a 7 page article from 1991. It probably doesn't contain information that I need so I guess I'll skip it--too bad.

I do want to point out to HN readers that an ACM professional membership costs around $100/year. I think this is a deal because for $100/year more you get access to essentially all of articles published in all of the very numerous past and present journals. Student memberships are much much cheaper. I have also had IEEE memberships to order to get access to their online library of IEEE publications. For some jobs, these memberships are worth it.

All other journals, like Software Practice and Experience, are just too expensive for me to access on-line. Fortunately, some of these are available in large university library systems.
How does it compare with Mozilla's Shumway ( https://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ , "a Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript")?
Fascinating. Although the idea of public surveillance is a very hot topic, stories like this make a strong argument for adoption.
Outsource as much as you can (except the financials/accounting, unless you can find a trustworthy accountant).

Your first hire should either be someone that complements you, or that does your job (redundancy/"fault tolerance").

If you've managed to survive without a co-founder, then keep going without one. If someone ends up with enough responsibility to be the equivalent, then make them COO, CTO, CEO, or something along those lines.