skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you wanted to you could also point out that we're forced creditors on the trillion dollar F-35 program... doesn't get us very far.
This seems to be begging the question of whether it's possible to have a well-tuned fitness function that doesn't map in some significant way to the underlying reality.

Sure, maybe there's no point in us knowing the difference between hot and cold, as long as we avoid contact with both of them. Only wait, there is a point - if we know the difference, we can take different actions in response to each in order to respond in a more survivable manner to both. And this is indeed what we see - as well as abstracted signals (like 'pain') we have signals which measure our environment more directly (like 'hot' and 'cold'). These signals raise our fitness because they let us know not only that we should take action, but in what direction that action should be taken.
His agreement stipulated that he had ISOs for 709,568 shares at a strike price of $.001471.

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=3847...

"This Amended and Restated Incentive Stock Option Letter Agreement (this "Agreement") amends and supersedes paragraph 2(c) of the Employment Agreement between you and the Company dated October 24, 1994, regarding the grant to you of a stock option (the "Option") for the purchase of 709,568 shares (the "Option Shares") of the Common Stock of Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") at an exercise price of $.001471 per share (reflects stock split effected on November 23, 1996)."
We are talking startups: Your typical early employee that didn't grow past mid level dev is out of position by year four. Even though their options are vested, chances are that can't afford to exercise them, and will be worth zero if they quit. Therefore, firing those kind of people as a matter of course is probably not what they want. You joined early for the great equity (a bad idea in the first place). Imagine how bad it would be if you risked getting fired if you don't grow into a good architect!
> Wow, this was hard to read.

Well maybe the reader had something to do with it.
I think one* of the reason is payment is hard.
There are lots of people without Credit Card ( Non-US specific ) and this makes paying requires a little more friction.

Yes, I think IAP are only monetizing some users.
A lot of money to be sure, but he'd have an order of magnitude or two more if he were the last cofounder instead of the first employee.
Why Snapchat making augmented reality glasses isn’t that bad an idea
>certain dogs being able to recognize conditionals but not predicates

Could you elaborate on that, please? That sounds very interesting, but I couldn't find anything on my own.
So, in other words,

"Man is the measure of all things" – Protagoras

"We see things not as they are. We see things as we are." attributed to Anaïs Nin
I really dislike articles like this. People come out of the woodwork to criticize or defend rock music to the nth degree, when the truth is, it doesn't really matter. The 20th century was a huge anomaly in the history of music. Standards were created, established, and destroyed multiple times due to evolving technology and cultures came together in a unique way for the first time that cannot be replicated (since we gradually converging on a monotone culture thanks to post-war globalism).

(Aside: rock was never as popular as people think. Look at the chart toppers from any given year. You'll be surprised how much you don't recognize and how much was rock)

I really like rock music and I hate pretty much anything that gets radio play today. I'm cool with that though because through the internet, I've discovered dozens of bands and albums that are making albums that I love right now. I see more shows than any of my friends. My friends all like different kinds of music, and they've found their own niches, and they're all happy with that, too.

As a consumer, now is the best time to be listening to music, regardless of genre.
Multiple people have asked about his wealth. In the S-1 it gives you a good overview of the minimum amount of wealth generation potential he had.

His agreement stipulated that he had ISOs for 709,568 shares at a strike price of $.001471.

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=3847...

"This Amended and Restated Incentive Stock Option Letter Agreement (this "Agreement") amends and supersedes paragraph 2(c) of the Employment Agreement between you and the Company dated October 24, 1994, regarding the grant to you of a stock option (the "Option") for the purchase of 709,568 shares (the "Option Shares") of the Common Stock of Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") at an exercise price of $.001471 per share (reflects stock split effected on November 23, 1996)."
Korea is a fascinating place. I am currently on vacation here and did a tour of the DMZ. The tour guide was really passionate about unifying the two Korea's and essentially freeing the North. It is a very strange experience visiting the DMZ, which is essentially a theme park. South Korea is definitely profiting massively from the "show" North Korea is putting on. I shamefully bought some DMZ chocolate.
I am waiting for God to send a white person. The white person will see God talking and announce it to the World. Just be patient.
I seemed to get a bit more from his TED talk than I did from the article. I think the main thrust is an attempt to show that not only do we not see reality (which I think many people would agree is probably true), but that in the vast majority of evolutionary simulation models, perceiving reality is actually a disadvantage. The new angle seemed to be the experimental data from computer models.
A third difference is that credits you earn from an accredited university are transferable, whereas those you earn from many of these degree mills aren't.
> I petitioned some of our directors

What directors? I couldn't figure out from the post who Martin Danko is or who he works for.
Weird. Last week I posted something similar [1]. It is a reader for HN and reddit.

[1] https://sras.me/reform/#/setconfig;reddit=programming,scienc...
Jumping Off a Cliff
"In the summer of 1994, Ron Britvich created WebWorld, the first 2.5D world where tens of thousands could chat, build and travel. WebWorld operated on the Peregrine Systems Inc. servers as an after hours project until Britvich left the company to join Knowledge Adventure Worlds (KAW) in the fall of that year. In February 1995, KAW spun off their 3D Web division to form the company Worlds Inc."

It's really odd to think that NCSA Mosaic had just been released a year earlier - and if you go back to 2D, rather than 2.5D, the first persistent multiplayer virtual world launched in 1986, several years before even non-graphical web browsing was a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)
> Servo developers would definitely also like to write a JavaScript-engine in Rust, simply because of the gain in security.

(Servo developer here)

This isn't really the case. There is interest in doing this, but it's not something we definitely want to do. The problem with writing a new JS engine is that you need to duplicate years of performance tuning so while it might be safe, it would take immense amounts of work to make it efficient. Rust's safety benefits get reduced when you have JITs and all involved, too.

It would be nice to have, sure, but the amount of work in making a usable one is huge.
Steve Yegge's "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns".

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
I spent many, many hours building things in Cofmeta and mars. :)

AW was ahead of its time, but internal shenanigans basically stunted and killed it.
The SOUND BURGER, on page 11 of the linked book, is truly both the best looking and best named record player I have ever seen. http://rittormusic.tameshiyo.me/9784845627226?page=11
It boils down a simple question: what is your health worth to you? Make no mistake, extended crunch will take a toll on your body and mind and put considerable strain any relationships you may have.

What good will your equity do you if you're ill or burnt out?
Very cool. It's like an instrument out of the Mos Eisley bar.
Oh man, I'd probably spend the first half of that time adjusting to somebody else's development environment, and the second half troubleshooting all the runtime errors caused by various ':w's and 'u's scattered throughout the code (unless it were an OS I was familiar with, I'd hesitate to implement this in a language that requires configuring a compiler & build system. Fortunately, most web software seems to already be written in portable languages).
Chasing Asteroid Bennu [video]
Yep and by definition you can't have a clinical diagnosis of depression if you have any life situation that would explain it better

MDD and the like are mental disorders, not moods
In Australia there are R&D tax concessions that apply differently based on whether something has shipped. That is, bug fixes on an unreleased feature are eligible as R&D, but once the feature ships work done on it is no longer R&D.

No idea if a leaked build would count as shipping for these purposes, though.
I feel like this works from a misinformed or co-opted definition of "rationalism." A rationalist is someone who tries to think clearly in order to win. Science, logic, the teachings of Plato; all of that stuff can inform a rationalist as they try to achieve their desired outcomes in the world.
bought me a copy, look forward to having a read :)
Actually hardware has regressed, because most traffic is from mobile devices.
I've heard of gas, but I'm not entirely familiar with the cap. I thought it was determined by how much the contract wanted to spend. Are you saying there's a fixed cap as well?
> While there clearly is a world separate from us, Hoffman says, evolution does not give us access to that.

Ok. So what? If we can't get out of "the cage", but manipulations of state still "work", isn't this moot?

I happen to think we _can_ get out of the cage -- that there _are_ nonspatiotemporal entities we can perceive. We usually call them "integers".
Android Security Bulletin–September 2016
The entire rack gets replaced with new equipment eventually. Probably get replaced every few years or so.

For most of the SMB clients I have, I don't build new servers any longer. I can buy rackmount servers pulled out of a data center that are a few years old at about 1/3 the price. I just put new disks in them and a new OS.
And the navy made tor

And the nsa contributes heavily to Linux kernel and most of our crypto

Most of our technology is one way or another funded by the military doesn't mean there is some giant conspiracy
> there will never be another Rock genre in terms of popularity

That is purely based on your recent experience, and I believe it to be short-sighted.

As an example, Classical Period music was popular roughly between 1730 and 1820. That's 90 years- in comparison, Rock is only about 61 years old.

Rock will no doubt continue to influence future musicians even when it is no longer the predominant form of popular music. But, assuming history repeats itself, which it tends to do, Rock probably won't be the last popular form of music spanning several decades.

And I believe what will replace Rock will be some form of electronic pop.
Thank you for this perspective; was a new take on a lot of the common tropes I've heard.

As said in Mr Robot, debt is the invisible hand that coerces us all
> Odd then that you mentioned Let's Encrypt 5 times in your Chrome security report (and reported this to the Let's Encrypt security team, as if it's their problem), but didn't mention DigiCert once: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=620776

It's not odd when you consider the point I'm re-quoting below (which isn't really negated by Bitcoin reselling since Bitcoin anonymization is non-trivial and since it still requires payment):

> Well aware, but not having to pay for it makes it more widely accessible.

As you noted, the bug report is readily accessible for anyone to view, and it entirely supports the quoted assertion above. In the end, we'd rather draw attention to the free CAs and HPKP-supporting user agents first and foremost in hopes of locking down the problem where it's most conveniently exploited because it is their problem, at least in our eyes. We can tackle the resellers later, and the entire problem of the broken CA model thereafter.

Hopefully that satisfies you.

Edit: shot you an email. Something from your tone strikes me as this being a personal matter for you. Our goal here isn't to antagonize anyone, just to make sure we've done our due diligence in disclosing the issue to those on the path of least resistance for attackers.
Miniature-Donkey Therapy
They're not dying. They've gone through the Hype Cycle [1] and have moved from being new and exciting tools to being just... tools.

[1] http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp...

smt88's post is consistent with what I've been seeing as well. Two or three years ago there was an uptick in gradual typing as a transition from dynamic typing to static typing.

Functional Programming's influence and inspiration is showing everywhere, from .map() and .filter() utility libraries, to Functions-as-a-Service (Lambda, "serverless") computing, to Java 8, Model-View-Update (where Update is a Pure Function) stuff like Elm, Redux.

The NoSQL hype is finally over, we now have datastore decision diagrams that help us pick a database on its merits.

We are starting to realize that doing complex stateful logic on the client often means also doing complex stateful logic on the server and synchronizing the two, so single-purpose libraries like React are heading towards a world where we'll be rendering on the server again and just pushing virtual dom diffs on the wire. We have all the pieces right now, but so far no one has come along and done this yet.

Opinionated frameworks are falling out of favor; everything is about minimalistic libraries you have to chain together yourself. While this means more creative freedom, it also means more moving parts to orchestrate, and more problems you have to think about yourself.
It's so cute when neuroscientists try to be philosophers. They're so poorly cut out for the job.

(He needs to read more Husserl.)
> I (hopefully) think this is what Servo is and will end up being.

Not really the plan. Servo may eventually become a product, but that would be in the very far future. But Gecko can use lessons learned from Servo, and try to share code with it, so you can incrementally replace parts of Gecko.

> and has no interest in supporting Windows XP.

I don't think that's the case? We don't have users on XP so we may not support it right now, but that's just an issue of priorities and not having the resources to fix all the things at once.

There are more XP users of Firefox than there are on Linux (probably for other browsers too). If Servo was a product it would probably care about XP.
> If they know where to look they could issue a warrant for that info, and Grabr have your credit card information.

Bitcoin funneled to paypal cash?
Because not everyone had time to think deeply about every field that everyone on HN specializes in and it's sort of pointless to complain that an article about your specialty doesn't teach you personally anything new.
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I was thinking primarily of rent, but I'm not sure if house prices wouldn't fall pretty quickly too - people suddenly cant afford payments, supply goes up, a few short sales to lower expected prices, sellers who can't afford to wait for a better offer - bang.
I'll give you the same advice I gave the OP. Raise the issue. Any reasonable company would provide you with a suitable resolution.
I think this might be a reference to the "WebM for Retards" repo which was banned. After that event, someone ran a search and found myriad other repos containing "problematic" language which were ignored.
I asked the same question. My gut reaction is that this is just something that seems philosophically appetizing on the surface but breaks down when you start asking questions.

"We should view genes, not organisms, as the fundamental unit of propagation. They optimize for their own survival, not necessarily the organisms." --- this is an insight.

A testable hypothesis being, "altruistic behavior that seems detrimental to organisms clearly exists, detrimental to the organisms survival. Perhaps this behavior propagates because genes that encourage this type of behavior ensure survival of other copies of themselves within other organisms in the population."

I'm having a hard time discerning A) the exact insight here and B) whether or not there's a hypothesis to go along with it.
I agree. I felt the same about Meddle. I think the whole article kind of read like a nostalgia piece
>>Taxpayers do this already: it's called grade school and high school. The public has an interest in an educated populace.

If society has an interest in an educated populace, then we should go ahead and make college free for everyone by funding it directly with taxpayer money, versus indirectly with student loans.
This is all very nice and abstract. But let's make it concrete.

Multiple studies have found that the more realistic we are about our prospects, the more likely we are to be depressed. The more optimistic we are, the better we are likely to do even though we are wrong.

As a result we have a constant bias towards believing that the world is likely to turn out better than objective evidence would show. And on this evidence we are biased to explore new things, have babies, and so on. Which improves our evolutionary fitness. Even though we perceive and predict the world less accurately.

A similar cognitive bias is towards seeing patterns where there is little evidence that they exist. That is because if something is random or a pattern, there is little cost to acting on random data if it isn't there, and a concrete benefit to following it if it is. So we are pattern seeking animals at the cost of potentially becoming convinced by astrology, ghosts, religion, and a wide variety of other superstitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel

Nothing like a little LSD to give a little insight to the world.

The mind isn't a learning device, it is a filtering device. Much along the same lines of "The web is a collection of everything we know. Still you'll be lost if you don't use a search engine to filter everything you don't want out"
I run my own companies so no, but I know what you mean. I however suspect that this runs deeper than just Google's hiring process:

We're all (technical folk) steeped since we were 12 years old in a culture that says that solving tricky problems in the most elegant way is what gets you love. This way of thinking predates computers by thousands of years. I think this is the root of why you see everything slant towards cool trickery rather than solid engineering and working stuff. There is something of an age factor but only insofar as the more experienced people end up having this way of thinking partially beaten out of them by real life experiences and the benefit of a long time observing the "nons" in the world.
The pull back from DDT has had all kinds of devastating effects. For instance, bedbugs are an actual fear now, for the first time in ages.

But there has been outrage about the effects of wealthy nations that drew the benefits of DDT before banning it (like, getting rid of malaria) and now putting pressure on poorer nations to _not_ use DDT, and suffer the consequences.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/magazine/what-the-world...
Imagine you had a force field generation machine, that could produce fields in any size, shape, density, etc.

If you made a force field in a tubular shape about 8 inches long, with a smooth rubber tactile force, that was squishable, but still somewhat firm, .. would it be a banana? If you moved that force field close to your mouth would it provide sustenance (whatever that means)?

Would you be touching a real thing?
That's actually a question of qualia and as long as you see the same frequency or collection of frequencies as the same color consistently, you can swap them around arbitrarily, but if you can't tell the difference between, for example, red and green, that is a real disadvantage.
- Founder of Baqqer

I don't have a problem with self-promotion, but if you're more interested in supporting Gmane than in promoting Baqqer, it shouldn't really matter if the donation is via Baqqer, Gratipay, Patreon, a Bitcoin address, or even just a PayPal donation link.
Why are those sequences equal? Does it generalize, or is it just a coincidence.
I wonder if it is also partially due to family structure in many western societies. Around mid twenties, it is generally expected to have a job and have moved out. Many move away from family and friends due to work/university. Or just live far enough away (but in the same city) that it makes it harder to have regular contact. Combined with the later average marriage age (from low twenties 40-50 years ago, now to late twenties to early 30's), as well as overwork/poor work life balance, people don't have the time/energy or even the means to socialise as much and create meaningful connections to others.
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It's so beautiful. I think I'm going to cry :)
> Humans have a blind spot because they can operate just fine while having a blind spot. However other organisms don't have a blind spot thus blind spots are not selected for.

I'm not quite clear on your point of view, can you clarify? The phrases "blind spots" and "other organisms" are very vague. I'll try to rephrase it into something manageable. This is what I think you are saying:

Humans [cannot see behind their heads] because they can operate just fine while
[not seeing behind their heads]. However, [other species] [can see behind their
heads], thus [seeing behind one's head] is not selected for.

The "other organisms" are other species, as logically, the "other organisms" don't have "a blind spot" and therefore could not be human, which do have "a blind spot".

Do let know if this is correct, and I'll get back to you.

> The missing piece is something where getting the wrong information has value

I'm unclear where this disagrees. That's exactly the point of Hoffman's theory: an (sometimes) incorrect view of the world may have more value than the actual (correct) view of the world.
You also can't detect the Higgs field, or neutrinos or dark matter and energy, or gravity waves, or really vast amounts of forces and particles that are nonetheless very real. Most of 'reality' is totally invisible to us because it doesn't help us survive.
With some exceptions, how sad.

Here's what I commented on my post page @dbdebunk.com:

If you want an example of how lack of education on fundamentals can handicap practitioners to the point of inability to comprehend, then check out the exchange that my post has triggered.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12437389&goto=news

There are a couple of exceptions, but other than that, it's very sad to see the level of intellect in the profession (or, more accurately, lack thereof).