skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be confused: I thought the only reason those third parties were trusted in the first place was that they were co-owned by all the banks? My point was, you replace one cooperative system with another functionally equivalent one, and nothing much changes except that there are fees to be collected in the process. A centralized settlement system is like a commodity, it's standardized and cheap to run, but a blockchain can be sold. There's also an unjustified assumption that the new system wouldn't have banks paying fees, because blockchain. There's a long series of posts on Alphaville about just that. All those trust and legal issue don't just disappear.
When people say "30% of your income is spent on housing," do they usually mean pre-tax or post-tax?

The article claims you need $145K a year to afford a $2000/month apartment. But assuming that you lose 40% to taxes, you would still be left with $5,250 a month after housing. That sounds a lot higher than it should be for the lower limit of affordability.

If you assume 30% of pre-tax income, and $2000/month rent, you get a required income of $80,000 -- still high, but not as outrageous as the figure he comes up with.
It used to be Digital Fusion before Blackmagic bought it.
I think you might be missing the distinction in the above post. Node.JS != Javascript.
As someone in the field, this is a refreshingly accurate viewpoint. What do you think are some of the needs in the genomics space that aren't being tackled?
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I am currently doing a (simple) sentiment analysis for the complete reddit comment set. Perhaps when I am done with that, I can have a look at the HN corpus (where to download?) for correlations between upvotes and users, though I doubt that rating post quality by sentiment is easy.

But it could be useful to look at the comment history of a user. When someone who is an overall positively minded contributor (with a high average positive sentiment) suddenly writes one scathing reply, this could mark a potentially interesting thread.
A bit OT, however, I think it's worth pointing out:

->order to get some protections from government spying.

I suspect the governments who actively make their own citizens vulnerable to spying by other governments probably won't be around that much longer. The kind of incompetence and arrogance that comes with making your citizenship vulnerable to foreign influence to protect the status quo in the name of "national security" has never ever ended well for the status quo.
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That's what Amazon went for, with very limited success (that said, not really targeting privacy conscious users or free software enthusiasts, so outcomes might not apply)
So, what interesting things could be done with this data?
Yep, our days here are numbered. Every thread on our community FB group has a hordes of people fighting any new construction (including housing) tooth and nail, even on lots filled with stripmalls, decrepit crackhouses, or asphalt parking, keeping LA decidedly third-world--it boggles the mind.

Our rent went up 7% this year alone.
Not sure why you'd go out to the lagrange point? Or the moon? It's much farther away (a few days travel instead of a few minutes), it's way outside the limited shielding the earths magnetic field gives, and there's nothing there. Why's it better than LEO?
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Thanks for this. I have not found this such a problem for developers I have interviewed (might be because I am hiring niche backgrounds), but for the sales area frauds are a huge problem. I wish there was the equivalent of fizz-buzz for sales people.
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Meh. Microsoft built a text editor with it and only because it was the simplest choice to have finally a os-independent editor (maybe now they would have go for .net core if they had a good cross-ui library). Facebook and Google had to use it because you are talking about framework for the web, and sadly our browsers support directly only javascript as scripting language... they have not chosen it, they were forced to use it.
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I think the reasoning is that understaffing means each examiner can't spend as much time looking for prior art, so things might be patented that should have been rejected by a lengthier prior art search.
I was thinking about this the other day, and the best solution that I came up with was to hit Mars with Ceres in hopes that the collision will be sufficient to restart geological activity on Mars. Sure we have to wait a while for things to cool down again and coalesce, but it seems a much more feasible solution than living in bubbles or trying to create an artificial magnetosphere.
Yes.

Tier 1: Those who solely re-implement. You can do a lot copying and pasting. It's just not worth as much money.

Tier 2: Those who re-implement while creating anew, typically in specialized areas or occasionally very well over a wide range of tasks.

Note the importance of re-implementation to both job tiers.
Hear, hear. I can't for the life of me understand why that experiment isn't being tried hundreds of times, all over the world. Learning how to create sustainable sealed ecosystems is one of the most important things we can do. Quite apart from the valuable knowledge we'll gain, once we get that nailed we can seed those suckers all over the place - South Pole, Sahara, orbit, Mars, upper atmosphere of Venus...

The really weird thing is we already sort of know how - "bottle gardens" are a thing. It seems to be mainly a question of scale. So why aren't we building bigger and bigger bottle gardens?
Not that I know of =/
in the 90s there was microsoft...

outside of internety places, big iron and academia, that was it. 'must be compatible with windows' started appearing in 'request for proposal' specs.

what microsoft pushed got massive mind share.
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Not yet, but we've got some other courses in the pipeline!
Linux based I would assume?
Tech choices are always a big deal. Especially when they lead to rewrites.
You might be better off looking through the code of a mature image processing library like OpenCV or this one (recent HN post) written in Go which is very clean:

https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild
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Maybe the point is that deemphasized the phonics technique for 3000 years and focused more on lessons like this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=E-diAAAAcAAJ&dq=reading&pg...
Cool. My question was adressed to anyone here btw.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
This is a rather obscure question. I'm curious, why do you want to know?

I assume the smoothing/acceleration etc. that is applied at the OS level is independent of differing mouse models. However, different mice may have different onboard sensitivity and preprocessing configurations.

With regards to specific details for various obscure operating systems, I'm pretty sure you're going to have to research that yourself.
The parent comment reads like a very focused adaptation of Billy Joel's lyrics from the 1989 hit single "We Didn't Start The Fire"[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire
Is mapbox going to work immediately with leaflet 1.0?
Came here to say the same thing, I was really hoping for some better questions like the ones in the "How to build the future" [1] interview...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBQmEqBCY0
Well, the entire premise was "your script-kiddie GUI code, but on server!". Microsoft on the other hand is just chasing the ball (Node/Python) or where it will roll (TypeScript, C#).
Ghostery hid it from me, but it had a button for "play one time" that worked perfectly.

It sounds a little like a scratchy cello.
> You do realize that Python was not only built to appeal to "non-devs"

... as an alternative to C++ and Perl. And in that respect, it is a snap to pick up. It is pretty easy, not as easy as, say, Javascript, but still easy to pick up, I agree.

Node.js is cancer. We all use it, because of the momentum it has with designers instantly being able to declare themselves "full-stack devs", but make no mistake -- Node.js and npm are an abomination that we will look back on in ten years and shudder.
This is the Amsterdam startup scene, basically an extension of the US startup scene where you can smoke weed. Try France, Spain or Italy that truly have a different culture for tech things, I am not sure if you will like it.
I think a part of it must be that writing synchronous code in NodeJS is nowhere near as elegant as in Python. We started writing some tooling in NodeJS (for dealing with REST API's in particular, posting and receiving JSON, which is native to JavaScript so should be perfect), but ended up reverting to Python mainly for this reason.
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the src directories, and command_modules directory inside of that all contain separate Python projects. This allows them for instance to make changes/updates to particular parts of the azure-cli but without releasing a new version for each small sub-part.

Instead they could have created 17+ github repo's and had each part have it's own repo... instead it's now all contained in a single place.
"overly verbose" might be giving too much credit... it's bad code
It is not illegal in most of the country: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/what-can-we-learn-from-st...

And minority enrollment tends to decline in states where affirmative action is banned, so I don't think there are any conspiracies involved: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/24/us/affirmative...
Who's to say that neural nets aren't implicitly learning these concepts as they train? In fact, I'd be very surprised if nothing about the networks' internal state corresponded to linguists' models of how language work.

Nothing about focusing on the math and not the language means that these concepts don't have a role in how the models learn language. Just as nobody is told about parts of speech as they're acquiring their native tongue, we don't necessarily need to explicitly tell machine learning models about parts of speech in order for them to learn how to use that aspect of language correctly.
Excellent point! If more people would get interested in this field - and this mission/vission, we should be able to endure a little (a lot actually) cringe-worthy questions.
That burning man guy though...
It is really a matter of cost and utility. My answer is specific to "germline genetics" - i.e. inherited risk of disease, rather then sequencing a tumor sample or microbiome.

[Cost]
In order to provide clinical results in a CAP/CLIA environment we need to ensure sufficient coverage to call all SNV/indels and all CNVs. This means we need much higher average coverage then 30X.

Since your exome is just 1-2% of your genome, and your exome encodes 20,000 to 25,000 genes, this means that 30 genes is <1% of your exome which itself is just <2% of your genome. So the Illumina sequencing costs of 30 genes alone are on the order of a fraction of a percent of the cost of doing whole genome (assuming you are using the same machines and the same coverage).

Now, there are some caveats to this, e.g.:
-You would use a slower, higher output more expensive machine like an X10 to do a whole genome at scale.
-You can save some costs by doing whole genome versus a targeted panel as the pulldown step of the panel adds additional unique costs of its own.
-This does not include fixed costs of sample collection, or secondary confirmation, or other costs that increase the price per test. This does not include labor costs, bioinformatics, or other items where sometimes dealing with a whole genome is cheaper per bp of DNA then doing a smaller panel of genes.
-I think the "$1000 genome" isn't really here yet.

In a few years, the cost of sequencing the whole genome will be a few hundred dollars, at which point I think it makes sense to do the whole thing.

[Usefulness]
It is important to note, however, that most of the genome is not very actionable right now. At Color our focus is on providing you with information you and your doctor can use, which means most of your genome is not characterized well enough to be clinically useful. At this point, depending on who is doing the estimate, only 30-60% of the 20,000+ genes you have are ascribed to a function, and even then it is often unclear how impactful a mutation in those genes are....
A number of years ago, around or shortly after the time I read the Mars Trilogy, I remember seeing an article about how the three largest populations of high altitude humans (Peru, Nepal, Ethiopia) all use a different biological process to deal with the effects of hypoxia.

The lower the pressure, the safer the structure, so one imagines you could have a colony where many of the workers from these three population groups, nature taking its course and we end up with legitimate Martians. People who could live in cheap structures or deep canyons with no suits for generations before the rest of us.
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As someone who does a ton of Node/JS coding as well as some Python, I am personally offended! Ok, not really, but I think you're wrong :)

I think VB is more similar to Python in the sense that both languages were designed with some sense of simplicity and straight-forwardness in mind.

Both PHP and Javascript are much more complex from a language design standpoint, which makes them more difficult to learn "well" for beginners. Yes, they are both hugely prolific because of the web, and lots of people copy/paste code around not having any clue how it works, so I won't deny your "generations of garbage" comment. But you're assessment is a little too simplistic.

A good engineer can write high quality code in "almost" any programming language. It's the coder, not the language, that determines engineering quality.
Glad to see this. Setting up service principals with the Node-based CLI was a multi (4-5) step process.
That'd make sense if twitter has an under the radar project to make sense this data "cheaply".
I do - The not to be hired pile of resumes.
Thanks for tracking this down, I thought that passage made little sense indeed.
Assuming they weren't signal jamming, they should be within their rights to prevent people from transmitting on their private property.

My impression is that OP's title is innacurate - 4G was not restricted, but creating your own hotspot was in violation of their policies.
Node.js wasn't built for baby devs, it was built for professional devs who had to use JS anyway because browsers to be able to use the same technology on the back-end rather than using different languages front- vs. back-end.
Oh boy did you miss something in the 90s! It was call active pages (or some bullshit, I have tried to block it from my memory) and it made Internet Explorer the king of browsers and still locks in a lot of government agencies and business from upgrading their infrastructure, because they don't want to lose or have to pay to redevelop "critical" applications to their daily work.
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If the government can strip your citizenship away because of their suspicions of your ties to terrorism (ie, extrajudicially (ie, arbitrarily)) , then do whatever they want with you because you're no longer under the aegis of the law, enshrining the right of citizens to not be detained indefinitely seems kinda toothless (hey, wasn't that the status quo before the War on Terror?). If they want to do this to a citizen, they can dispel the protection by making the target not a citizen anymore.

All this is especially troubling because, as noted below, the Constitution, and other human rights legislation, typically extends protection to "persons".
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What? Node.JS is Javascript. JS at the end of the name stands for Javascript!
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> Low scores are very susceptible to noise (the delta between 50% and 60% is greater than between 85% and 95%)

This seems untrue from information theory.

The entropy of a question is maximized when its probability of being answered correctly is exactly 50% [1]. If your only goal is to have the least amount of measurement noise given a fixed number of questions, then you'll want each question to be hard enough to filter 50% of the class out, and to minimize the correlation between questions.

For example, 10 independent 50% questions reveals as much information as 16 independent 85% questions.

> Imagine I gave this as an exam to a math class of 20 students. One person scores a 1. The rest score 0. Is it meaningful to curve this?

You're looking at only 1 tail but ignoring the other. By symmetry, a question that only 1 person gets correct tells you exactly as much as a question that 19 get correct. An exam with a 90% pass rate (before curving) is no better than a 10% exam.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_entropy_function
> If you disagree, no one is making you watch this. You're free to hit the back button.

Why would somebody want to only consume media they agree with?
Reading a NOAA report about Hawaii's weather is much cheaper than going there, yet people still go.

A total waste, I say.
>>Reddit's last round valued them at $500 million, and it is something like the 25th most visited site on the Internet.
That's a successful company by any standard.

I think you're conflating "impressive" and "successful." I would say that based on the numbers you've given, Reddit is an impressive company (it's hard to get any company to that level of private investment and internet fame!), but it's not necessarily a successful company yet.

Being that Reddit's valuation is solely attributable to private investment and not revenue generation (so far), the only sound way to judge whether or not it is a financially successful company is based on its potential return to investors.

By the standards of most VCs in tech, a $500M exit is suboptimal, which will result in either a modest return or just getting their money back. This is not good for a firm's "batting average" when they're trying to beat the SPY with a ten year fund. They need to cover their losses (which, indutry-wide, represents approximately all of their investments), their staff and business continuity costs, their management and performance fees and still beat the market. Modest returns aren't helpful in that regard.

You also have to consider the likelihood that Reddit will transition into a mature business that can exist profitably on its own, without continually receiving significant infusions of cash. If it can't find a way to navigate out of "tech adolescence" it's not really a successful company. The last numbers I read indicated that Reddit has achieved an annual revenue of $8-10M, which is an annual return of >= 2%. Considering that the S&P's average annual return is about 7%, you could earn $10M on $500M by sticking it into an index fund and literally burning the other $25M you would have generated by doing nothing.
Really? What are all these desktop e-mail clients other than Thunderbird, Outlook, and Mail.app? And how many of them are cross-platform?

I remember looking into whether there were alternatives for a while and really not being able to find anything.
Nothing! But I was surprised that _Dresden Files_ was aimed at adults. I thought the first Harry Potter book was more complex, both in plot and writing style.
I bought the book and looked through some example programs. That was enough for me to get going.

The main things you want to keep in mind is that the queues and such are not for large amounts of data. It is better, for example, to statically allocate three buffers, and then send the buffer number over a queue interface, rather than send the data itself, which involves two copy operations.

The other thing to pay attention to is that you should only be using the ISR specific versions of the API inside an ISR. That, and minimize the code in the ISRs in general, but that is applicable to anything.
With only one tanker, you can launch the tanker first and then launch the transporter, so it isn't any faster than launching a tanker and transporter simultaneously.

To go any faster you'd need more tankers as well. I don't forsee the tanker having commercial value short-term, so this would still increase the cost. With two tankers though, you can just have a full tanker waiting in orbit which is the fastest possibility, so there is no need of extra boosters in that case.

I agree with the premise of multiple boosters though. I wonder if a spacecraft could be made that could do both commercial earth orbit satellite missions, and serve as a tanker. This could finance a larger number of tankers. I think you'd need a 3rd stage on top of the tanker in this case to get the satellite in position. [EDIT: I mean either carry the extra fuel, or carry a 3rd stage + satellite, not both at the same time.]
Depends who you talk to. But yeah, it can be a much bigger pay cut for some people.
Culture is a legitimate source of differences between people and groups of people.
I am the author of the Motivation page; the choice of language was really focused on what's best for partners and customers; I believe either language could have "done the job".
The first paragraph says how much a resident would need to make to spend 30 percent of earned after-tax income on rent for a two-bedroom apartment.
The various * Companies weren't exactly going into uninhabited areas, they were calling at ports that had been involved in global sea trade for many centuries albeit at a slightly lower volume. Despite this there were still a series of disastrous bubbles due to speculation on the various * Companies [0].

0. https://ericrossacademic.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/mapping-th...