skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps upgrading their back end is part of doing those things?
So YC is the new Alphabet?
Track record of governments (U.S. or any other) to keep such databases safe and control the access properly is not very good.
Yes, Pitcairn and Roanoke come immediately to mind. Notice also that Paul writes "an island full of cannibals", not "an island of cannibals", so you may want to avoid making subtle and potentially misleading distortions to the original text.

Edit: When you say "island of cannibals" it implies an indigenous, or at least long-established, population, but "island full of cannibals" could easily mean a group of recent settlers who shipwrecked or marooned and then turned to cannibalism, as was likely the case in Pitcairn and Roanoke.

Not to mention - do you really think cannibalism was historically unknown on white European islands like the one on which Paul currently resides?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2141858/Tough....
Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong all have fantastic mobile infrastructure, unlike anything offered in the US.

Innovators there don't have to code with data caps in mind.

Minimalism with associated lighter data requirements is a US market peculiarity.
If data is just stored and encrypted at transport and at rest I would say not necessarily.

But if I read about that deep-learning magic they plan to do, I'm seriously concerned. Especially since I find the already existing note context feature quite invasive. Companies should only be allowed to do with my data what I give consent to.
The ELI5 is that the police officer's duty is to enforce the law, not explain it.

The slightly (but not much) more nuanced explanation is that 99% of police officers do not know the finer points of laws because they don't need to. They know just enough to get an idea of whether or not a person has broken a law. Once they get enough information to arrest someone, it's up to the DA if a law was actually broken and if they want to pursue charges.

It's not generally relevant to the police officer's day-to-day interactions with the public to have enough knowledge about the law to clarify the finer points of it to a layman, as they're mostly laymen themselves.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying this is the ideal, just that this is how it is currently in the US. The police pack the pipeline to the DA and the DA decides which cases to pursue (press charges) and which to ignore (release).
This is a great piece of nerd comedy. So true on window placement.
> couple of times that she liked me as a friend but didn't want to date me

The correct response for that would be.. "Don't worry, you're not my type."
That's very true. Driving 2300 miles East from Paris will get you to the Ural mountains.
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Thank you for sharing.

"...we were searching for the right governance model..."

I am very interested in comparisons of governance models. Case studies, war stories, analysis, whatever.

I joined a team working on OSS specifically to learn more about governance. The stewards of kuali.org were a consortia. It was a train wreck. Least common denominator consensus based decision making, layers of hierarchy, no accountability, paralysis and inaction, abundance of NIH / reinvention, etc.

Tellingly, kuali is now kaput.

Sadly, I didn't learn anything actionable about governance.
James Mickens is very funny :)

He had some really cool posts at Microsoft Research, which have sadly been deleted (originally for Usenix magazine too).

https://web.archive.org/web/20150208050249/http://research.m...

(see the bottom for the link to the good stuff)

Funny stuff:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150714155945/http://research.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150706121547/http://research.m...
A rye smile spreads across his face
Equally as an englander, I fear I have to point out that if Scotland wants true independence, you´re going to have to persuade your politicians to drop out of the currency union as well as the political one.
Yes, you're missing something. Presidents can pardon before conviction, like when Ford pardoned Nixon.
Business plan:

1. Tell users you're doing something for them.

2. Get lots of users.

3. Change product to screw them.

4. Profit!

This happens too often.
They have some context searching features -- so when you open or type a note it displays (off to the side) other notes, wsj articles and the like that are supposed to be contextually related.

I suppressed this because I found it a distraction, but if their searching and matching gets better I might un-disable it and give it another try.
So could you neutralize its communication functions (to a degree) by using a non-Intel NIC? Would a non-chipset Intel NIC accomplish the same thing?
I bought this exact one as a Christmas present for my mother back in 2013 and it broke within minutes of use. It felt shoddily built with very flimsy plastic parts. Thankfully Amazon has a great return policy so it was no big deal. I should add that I have a rough touch and it's always possible that that particular unit was defective.

Something else for people to consider: a moka pot will actually make stronger coffee than an espresso machine, so many people might actually prefer a moka pot.
> the problem is not collecting the information, but how it's used

You can (barely) control how the current administration uses the information it has.

You have no way of controlling how the administration will use that information in 10 years.
Yes I think that's a better approach, thanks. I don't know why I started using `bind` in my shell config.
You don't need to understand backups, you just need to follow the prompts to set up iCloud and turn on backups, at which point it all happens seamlessly without you worrying about it.
What do you think of this? - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3386875/Could...
I like this idea of getting together with former report a few weeks after they leave. I'm definitely stealing that one :)
This feels more like some company has some device or program running from all over the place, and for whatever reason got their DNS pointed at you. A botnet is generally used in an attack, not just creating random spam. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it. If you're really curious, I'd do two things:

First look at where the IPs geolocate to. Do most of them come from a particular country or region? A particular ISP/AS? Maybe a particular type of ISP (eg mobile carrier)? Further, you might look at when these requests are made, how frequently they recur from the same IP, etc.

Second, do a packet capture and look at the full request. Maybe it'll have a hostname or telltale header, etc.
I don't think the first point is an obstacle. Pardons can be conditional and limited to a specific (alleged) offense.
police need protection from themselves.

I read a story some time back about police getting access to a dna database from a genealogical software company. (http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-...)

With that database they began querying hundreds of thousands of dna samples with cold case samples. Ignoring the false-positive probabilities they started going after those hits. Long story short, they solved none of their cold cases, but investigated and harassed many innocent people; treating them like murderers.

Joe Schmo down at the PD isn't a statistician, or even a 'data scientist'. Giving total data access to the unqualified and over impulsive will harm more our society more than it will protect it.
$500 appears to be the ceiling.
But isn't that what FB browsing is? Internet "surfing"? Getting stuck in a Wikipedia rabbit hole?
As one example, GitLab CI does not have a good story with handling unit test failures from e.g. gradle.

You can choose to keep the build output from a failed build, which you can download as a zip file, unpack locally, and look at the reports. This user experience makes test reports mostly useless.

At the same time, they have test coverage badges, where test output is parsed to provide coverage. To me, that's really weird: You don't get proper access to test failures, but lots of work into test coverage.

(I have no knowledge of this, but I suspect that being a Ruby-shop, they have little experience with working with java projects, and therefore don't really understand how the toolchain works. This is all guesswork, though).

In the end, we cannot give up Jenkins. We need to know the result of our tests, and see the test output!
Hypothesis origin does not matter.

But not all things can be tested - think about dual slit experiment. You can't reproduce the experiment in the sense that you'll know which slit will be taken.
>plumbers, electricians, mechanics, roofers, HVAC specialists, etc, are all the ones that are currently in huge demand.

...You might get a different picture of things if you hang out in some of the skill trades reddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SkilledTradesNetwork/wiki/community...

...fer instance: "Here's what 10$ an hour looks like! Had to put in my 2 weeks."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Welding/comments/52byky/heres_what_...
class-central is great! I follow your twitter notices to keep up with upcoming courses
I added a comment to the parent, regarding test reporting. It's a showstopper for us.
Data-mining reddit is often a good start.

reddit serves some very narrow niches and outlinks to some very curious places.
Go rkt and rktnetes!
> Snowden was never convicted of anything, how can he be pardoned?

You don't need to be convicted, or even charged, to be pardoned; a pardon doesn't even have to be specific as to the crime(s) it covers, it can just cover any crimes you may or may not have committed during some time specified time period before the pardon was issued (as was the case with Ford's pardon of Nixon.)

It is true that the usual clemency petition process operates after conviction, but that's a discretionary administrative process, it does not reflect the scope of the Constitutional pardon power.
Not sure if he has authority. Not all time. Yes for a small company he did. For a large company I discuss it with him because he is the one who knows what I did last year best. If I got to higher ups and say "give me more money", they'll say something like "I think I've seen you in the kitchen, or the conference room". Well, in reality they'll read a performance review probably from my manager. And then probably talk to the manager anyway...

But what happens is I talk to my manager and they they'll go find out and make a case for me if they are not authorized to do it themselves.

> If he is then, again, there shouldn't be a problem since you both agreed that your compensation is fair for both sides.

Well that was the original premise of the post. If negotiating like one negotiates buying a car, showing counter offers and so on. They might feel like you tricked them, if you then don't do the job to the level of your salary.
If Intel said, "needs to be open source or we'll find another supplier" then it would become open source.
That is not Intel ME.
Ok. I can't edit my original statement. I shouldn't have put it that strongly, I guess.
Both this and chrisbennet's reply sound like paranoid fantasies but sadly, are 100% correct.
As much as people are freaked out by the capabilities of ME, I really like the concept of AMT.

I built a headless compile-slave box recently, and was looking forward to using AMT features to manage it and keep it headless, but found out too late that the board I ordered didn't have AMT support. Now, whenever its fragile boot-stack of GRUB+iSCSI+Xen+LVM decides to wedge into single-user mode on a reboot, I have to power the box off and carry it over to a monitor to see what's wrong. I'd much rather just fix it from my laptop.
Does Rust define collection traits for abstract interfaces like Set, Map, and Queue like Java's Collections interfaces? I don't see any in the std::collections documentation. Standardizing those APIs in the std lib seems as (or more!) important than providing concrete implementations like BTreeMap. I see some 2015 discussion about missing collections traits:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/collection-traits-take-2/1...

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/traits-that-should-be-in-s...

For comparison, here are Java's core collection interfaces: Collection, Set, SortedSet, List, Queue, Deque, Map, and SortedMap.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/interface...
I hear your argument, but then why not release your previous year returns? Presumably, those have already been audited.
From the article:

Evernote’s new CTO Anirban Kundu told me the first two areas that will be replaced by Google’s machine learning APIs are its voice recognition for speech-to-text translations; and natural language processing, used to help search for contextual content.

I think there is a good opportunity in helping users with notes categorization using ML.
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It does nothing to protect against having to do bit-to-bit comparison of keys when two keys hash to bit-exact same hash value. This is what's behind "hash flooding" algorithmic complexity DDoS attacks that cause O(n^2) CPU usage w.r.t. input length.

SipHash is the only hash function that has credible cryptanalysis against key recovery and collisions.

E.g. FNV1 is trivially simple to generate collisions against.
You'd have to prove that the use of the medication brings them to a simply average level of performance in the specific domain, e.g. focus, or resistance to strain. (Which is in itself a contradiction, since by definition from an athlete you ask a performance which is well above average).
Anything more than that would be an unfair advantage. Very hard to prove.
On the other hand, being a professional athlete is not a basic right. Some people are simply not able to do it and I don't see the issue in that. Want a decent life? Take ritalin, but then don't ask to compete at the Olympic games.

Edit: I said average. That's wrong. It should bring them to the low end of the non-pathological performance spectrum.
Looking at my daughter's textbook at a top-20 college in the US, I was stunned. She took a (core) class in philosophy/psychology. Very little time was spent on classics (ancient philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Freud, etc.) They were replaced by contemporary researchers (often from the same university), often with a VERY extreme, one-sided, politicized agenda (feminist, etc.). Pretty sad.
I would wager that most people who don't work in the criminal justice system and yet have weekly interactions with the police probably describe it as "unwelcome."
My guess: GPS tells you what country and city you are in, so licensed Google play content can be restricted by geography.
All hail our overlords the content restriction owners!
I agree with your point. In any case the posts that were removed were enticing violence and Israel claims that there were people that got killed as a direct result.
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Your comment might have more weight if Indians weren't queuing up to work in USA.
> ... for around $5,300 USD.

Well, let me take a step back and first say that the project is impressive and I really like it.

But the cost is staggering.
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As a long-time emulator user, I'm honestly a little surprised at how little security checking sometimes goes into these programs.
As an owner of an x230 I'm very very interested.
Does the requirement for a warrant, or that you be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" blow your mind as well? These are fundamental limits on police powers.
The purpose of a license is to grant a privilege, and use that grant as a lever to enforce desired behavior. That's why we license things like sales tax collection and driving. If you don't tow the line, you lose the privilege.

So I think it's completely legitimate and expected that licensure information would be retained for as long as the state's record retention law calls for it to be retained -- potentially an extended or even unlimited period of time. Possession of a license in the past for a license is relevant to future licensing, as is your good or bad conduct with respect to the license.

At the Federal level, my understanding is that with respect to firearms purchases, there isn't a way to correlate a transactional background check to a human.
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I find that perception fairly surprising, as for a very long time it felt like we did more red team than blue team. I do acknowledge that this has been changing recently, but only significantly in the context of building on the results in this paper.
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Doesn't Eataly have various vendors so there's no guarantee that you're getting espresso from the right one? I'm going to be vacationing in the area soon and getting good espresso is on my list.
> salaries and bonuses (even on C level) is too low in Russia to hide any amount of bribe in them

Let's say someone claims that their programmer genius Ivan saved a company ~1m USD/year with latest commit; and awards him $100k. And you see this unusual bonus, how are you going to know 99% of that doesn't go to someone other than Ivan?
The problem with this reasoning is that you assumed that Apple always had lots of money and that Apple always stockpile billions of cash but that is completely untrue. Back when Apple was months away from bankruptcy, Apple still had this dedication to details that we still find amazing today.

I am amazed by how quickly people forgot in what position Apple was more than a decade ago.

Apple caring about their products has nothing to with money. It just shows that they really care.
You're on the right track with this idea about the flattening of the distribution as N grows.

As in the article, let

X = # sixes in N rolls

and note that the expected value of X is N*p = N/6 in this case (fair dice).

The event of interest is:

{X >= N/6}

We want the probability of this event as a function of N.

It turns out this is a decreasing function of N, and that fact answers the question ("A is most likely"). But why does it decrease in N?

As you say, the distribution of X flattens out as N increases. The probability mass is spread out over the numbers 0...N, with a peak at exactly N/6. (Not N/6 - 1, or N/6 + 1, but N/6.)

About half the probability mass is between 0...N/6, and half is between N/6...N. So in general, the probability we care about (A, B, or C) is rather close to 1/2 (because it is just the right half of the distribution).

Since the distribution is flattening out, as N increases, mass moves out of the exact center (X = N/6) and toward the left or right. Since the event of interest is

{X >= N/6}

and not

{X > N/6},

the fact that the precise center is steadily losing mass (some moving left, some moving right) as N increases is critical.

In short: Because the event of interest contains the very center, as more rolls are done, the overall distribution flattens, and the interval between [N/6...N] benefits less and less by containing the (ever-more-diluted) center point.

This is another way to restate Stigler's explanation at the top-right corner of page 401 in the OP. ("The ranking ... reﬂects the fact that ... P(X = Np) decreases as N increases and the distribution spreads out.")
I have an x200 sitting around (although the case is cracked after a drop) but I've held off on trying libreboot because it requires a ~$50 piece of hardware to flash it (a BeagleBone Black)
RE: "We have no connection to most of the companies we fund."

This certainly isn't the perception on my part - the flood of posts from previous YC companies who talk about how they had help from other YC companies to polish their pitch makes it seem like current YC companies are definitively connected to previous YC companies.
Ok I see your point. Perhaps the line should be at calling for violence against an ethnicity or innocent individual.
If for example someone on the street calling to stab people of certain etnicity and show a diagram of where to stab to make the most damage, will be arrested in most countries. I don't see why Facebook should be any different...
I expect to be downvoted but my YC interview with Michael a couple summers back left a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm not really sure he asked more than "how is this a billion dollar company?" multiple times during the 10 minutes. I'm not sure why YC would pay $1k to fly us to Mountain View if that question was that important and wasn't already answered by our application.

Hope that was just a fluke though... Good luck YC!
> National Crime Information Computer

Center, not Computer
That's because most Israeli startups are targeted to US market because of lack of local market. Many get acquired when either they are threat to a US Industry Major or if they have saturated the market. Some get acquired for talent (Engineers from Israel are awesome) and it is easier to move Israelis to US vs trying to move Indians (Green Card waiting line for Indians is 20 years while it is instantaneous for Israelis - smart people don't want to become slaves).

One other thing most people don't realise is that life on an H1 is shit. You have to do a shitload of paperwork. You have to answer stupid questions when entering US. You have to answer stupid questions at Consulate when getting Visa. There is a lot of paperwork and uncertainty when you are changing job. No one should be stuck on h1 for 20 years. I did my 6 and am looking to get out next year if I don't get a Green Card by then.

With Indian companies, most are operating in Indian Market, are nowhere close to saturating Indian Market. I expect quite a few of them to be worth 10B or more.
I've always loved espresso, and it is indeed difficult to pull a great shot. To learn more about the mechanics of it, I got a manual EspressoForge[0]. Combined with a good manual grinder (Lido 2), a thermometer, a scale, and a pressure gauge, you can control the main variables* by hand. Steep learning curve, but once you get it, there's something immensely satisfying about balancing all the variables and seeing that perfect tiger-stripe crema pour out.

I'll be studying this article for a while.

* I also roast my coffee beans, but a trusted coffee roaster will work too.

[0] http://espressoforge.com/
It frustrates me that this article conflates a true and serious problem (the harm to American innovation caused by bad immigration policies) with blatant hyperbole.

The narrative is also totally inconsistent. Is the problem that foreign entrepreneurs don't want to come to the US at all (what it seems to start with/imply) or that our immigration policies make it exceedingly difficult even when you want to (the truth and meat of the article)? This would be a much better piece if it cut out the bullshit and focused on immigration.

The iPhone 7 has literally nothing to do with foreign entrepreneurs not coming to the US, so why is that the lede? It makes the whole article start on terrible footing.

> There are start-up incubators sprouting up all over India, and the quality of the start-ups is second only to those in Silicon Valley and China, which are running head to head.

Only someone with their head in the sand could actually think this is true. I've spent time in non-US startup hubs, including Chinese ones, and they're definitely not neck-and-neck. Chinese startups might be catching up, but they're still a distant second place by any conceivable metric.

> The reality is that America’s most innovative company is no longer the world’s most innovative company.

Apple might not be the world's most innovative company but I would happily bet that the most innovative companies in the world continue to be in the US.

> As technology designer Himanshu Khanna said, “Why should I move to Silicon Valley when I have a market 10 times as large here?”

By what conceivable metric is the Indian market 10 times larger in general? It's farcical and defies basic economics to say something like that.