skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly shows that?

What it probably shows is that using the cloud isn't a magic bullet to making you scale indefinitely, you need to work on your code to decouple from the infrastructure too.
It always amazes me how much we still have to learn about physics.
There hasn't been enough time for evolution to act in this case. HIV has only been endemic for a generation or so. Bacteria can run through dozens of generations a day, so the process goes much faster there.

Assuming HIV isn't cured, then this defense would probably form the basis of eventual widespread resistance to HIV in humans, perhaps centuries from now. But it didn't arise as a response to HIV.
Elon Musk's Mars colony vision slammed as elitist and evil
The I/O bandwidth would have to be tremendous. I'm not sure the technology even exists.

Or else split the I/O into a zillion little independent ports.
I wonder if there will become a time where globalization has evened out living standards for most of the non-wealthy, and "first world problems" become "modern world problems," and real problems like obesity become taken seriously, instead of derided as a reflection of "poor values."
This is pure marketing that might convince decision makers and execs that didn't play Pokémon Go.

No doubt, the CRE program could prove valuable. But in this case, they are congratulating themselves on a rocky and widely panned launch of a product on their platform. One might wonder, "If this is what deploying a viral app on Google Cloud Platform looks like when you have help from Google engineers, what chance does anyone else have of getting something right on their platform?"

I think that's probably the wrong takeaway, but it's not difficult for me to imagine that being the only conclusion one has.
The Alexa Prize
> We asked three people who retired in their 30s and 40s to explain how they’ve made it pay off.

Alright, let's see how they do it...

1. "a blog where he chronicles his retirement experience"

2. "writing a book about retirement"

3. "blogging about financial independence"

It seems the trick to early retirement is blogging about early retirement.
Very astute points wrt the demand for banking services. Banking will always be with us.

Bitcoin has the advantage over fiat of having been designed with incentives of participants aligned so as to make the likelyhood of inflation extremely small over the long term. So the scenario that Bitcoin makes better is the one in which money printing would have occurred, but now can't because of recourse to Bitcoin.
This isn't a gift to Hillary, or a matter of fairness between her and Trump. It's an evaluation of her qualities on another (largely before-unseen) metric. If pure sexism got us better presidents the sexist decision would be the right one, but as you'll see, it isn't actually sexist.

Imagine yourself as a sport team leader. You've normally picked large bruiser types and you say "Hmmm, I should try a lighter person with better speed." You don't know it'll work out, and it's "unfair" to the big bruisers, but it's a rational thing for a team leader to do.

Considering that left-handed players often get a benefit from simply being unique, choosing a female president could pay out now even if in the long run there's no real difference.
I kind of assumed that is enough to get the point across, but my point was that a flat currency relies too much on the moral code of a few human actors, whereas in Bitcoin, the contract agreed upon by the majority of the network is not enforced by humans, but by a cryptographic protocol.
I think it is sort of hard to asses the "true value" of a game, but I do agree with you that No Man's Sky is No Where Close of being worth $60 in comparison to other games.
All this to open a day trading account in the Bahamas with a company so flaky that they can't offer accounts to US persons or even to Bahamas persons. It's one of those "trade offshore with high leverage" companies. "High leverage" means high interest charges, which means the return on investment drops. (Their site is vague about interest charges. Not a good sign.) For day trading, the "house edge" is improved. This racket is more commonly seen in foreign exchange and in "binary options" (which are a total scam).
> SDE3 at Amazon is a career position

That's what they say in every 1:1 but when you get to see how the sausage is made in the annual OLR you quickly realize that people who are deemed to have no hope of getting promoted to PE end up in the bottom right or middle right boxes of the infamous "9 box" ranking grid and are given hints to move on. Most people in that position move on anyway, as they end up getting low or no RSU refreshes due to their low "growth potential" (one of the 3 ratings that are used in the stack ranking process - the other two are communicated to the employee but the growth potential is not).

I can think of very, very few SDE3s I came across at Amazon who had 12+ years of experience, and of those some did eventually get promoted to PE. I feel fairly confident in saying you won't find any statistically significant number of SDE3s with "a lot more than 10 years there".
The most important thing nobody teaches lower class people is how to work "the system."

"work hard" is the catch phrase everybody shouts from the roof tops.

It's a lot like tax filing / accounting, or hiring a lawyer for a public trial.

In the case of the lawyer, society has recognized how absolutely hopeless it would be to defend yourself in criminal court, and the law entitles every individual to an attorney. A lawyer helps you navigate the 'courts system'.

Tax filing is similar but less extreme. You can make a simple error on your taxes, or grossly overpay without an accountant. An accountant helps you navigate the 'tax system'.

Everyone with some level of wealth understands the value of a good lawyer or a good accountant.

To make it simple: when you're coming from poverty there are many important things that "you don't know that you don't know". Coming from wealth, you have the advantage of "knowing about what you don't know".
And here I thought this only happened to me. I have sometimes dreams of very specific conversations with someone else, and then days or weeks later it happens. I'm sure its just an interesting psychological phenomenon, but still.
> As Gladwell points out, it’s often only possible for poor kids like me to reach their potential when we have a champion who can not only show us the way but help carry us there.

This is just how simple it is.

And the ones that get help are not the ones that need it, which leads to bad results. VCs are not interested in funding poor people, whatever their abilities or vision.

VCs invest in Stanford grads, where 90%+ of the students are from well off backgrounds (look it up). Why? So if something goes wrong they can say to their LPs "It's not my fault, they went to Stanford!"

A young Steve Jobs would have a harder time raising money today than he did in the 70's. And he'd have a harder time than any random person who got into Stanford - where the admissions program is easily gamed by the wealthy and connected and the graduation rate is 95%.

The limited help available is all being directed at the ones that need and utilize it the least.

The upside for poor people is that being poor forces ones to grow as a person. Steve Jobs used to walk across town to eat free food at the hare krishna temple...no wealthy person could ever imagine what deep reservoirs of drive a thousand humbling experiences can create in a person. It's something you would wish for your child despite the pain required.
$236 is small change compared to how much bitcoin I've personally lost in the various hacks - MtGox and others.

Even so, I still think bitcoin is a brilliant tech and valuable experiment.

It is wrong to think of bitcoin as a direct competitor to fiat.

Just like mp3 / bittorent did not destroy the music / movie industry, bitcoin isn't going to replace fiat currency.
Not now and not in it's current form.

But it's going to be around as an alternative to the centralised banking system and as a very interesting social experiment and self-governance technology.

In time, both techs are going to merge - meaning that banks will implement all kinds of 'blockchain technologies', while virtual currencies will implement all kinds of services which the banks currently provide.
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For me it was the reverse: The first half of the article describing the warped perception is far more interesting to me than ABMT.

Having a mindfulness practice, I don't see ABMT as going to be anything more than a bandaid. That bandaid might have some temporary effects, but it doesn't address existential suffering at all.

Further: stuff like the Wim Hof (Iceman) breathing method has greater effect because it teaches your mind to gain awareness and control over your body's fight-or-flight response. It won't address the emotional and mental stuff (which therapy and mindfulness practice addresses), but it does teach your body not to spiral out with fight-or-flight responses, and gives you enough space to work with these emotions.

I was also thinking about it: what do I see when I see pictures of violence and threats? Maybe I am idiosyncratic, but when I look at it, I tend to feel a lot of pathos for the suffering involving both the aggressors and the victims rather than personalizing it as a threat to me. (That is, instead of thinking "OMG the world is not safe for me", it is "That's a lot of suffering we're inflicting on each other"). Having pleasant pictures is not enough. The deep mental programming also needs to be addressed.
I wonder how realistic it is to get the simplest ARM design and make "your own" chip? I mean there should be blueprints somewhere, if you could ask someone to make a small batch of these chips? It would be too small to be worth it for someone to inject a backdoor into it. Or you could make that into an FPGA... Am I talking nonsense?
This american's life's episode "Three Miles" (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/550/t...) won the reporter her Peabody award and is one of the most touching and haunting stories on pretty much the same topic.
Yes but how much of those calories are you burning off every day ? - you would need 3,500 above your daily burn rate
Damn, that's harsh.

Only way I know round UK min wage is to be self-employed, or one of the fake "self-employed" like some delivery drivers have had to become. Surprised the IR haven't slammed the door on that little scam yet.
It confused me a great deal when it first started making the news in the 80s. But that was because I had a lot of exposure to the other kind of aids due to having a paraplegic living with us for a while, plus I was maybe 8 years old at the time.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy
It was actually the CTO of AWS, Werner Vogels. :)
Hypothetically, yes.

But please don't think of Rust (or anything else) as a silver bullet. If you are doing systems programming you are going to deal with unsafe code somewhat frequently. And, by not being exposed to this kind of programming often enough, it's possible that more errors will slip through the cracks.

Then there's a whole class of errors that cannot be prevented by memory safe languages. They cannot prevent crappy practices.
But with just one generation it should be enough, right? Some individuals are resistant and some others not; the non-resistant ones die and the next generation is of mostly resistant; the next one would be mainly individuals more resistant; etc
Ugh, I remember having to use esc+alt+shift+shift debugger to try and get the server back long enough to down it. And praying that VREPAIR didn't run on restart.
USD to EUR and back again is the most liquid market there is but if you do it in the stupidest way possible (like at the kiosk at the airport) you'll also lose way more than 4%.

OP is either an idiot who thinks he can day trade but can't plan ahead and calculate fees or (more likely) he has an agenda against Bitcoin.
>it's perfectly possible to use Bitcoin on your own

Though not competitively, which was the point being made in the article.
ORWL was designed specifically to prevent undetected tampering with any of its electrical components, including the entire motherboard and storage drive. When tampering is detected, ORWL immediately and irrevocably erases all your data, even if it is unplugged at the time.

and...

Upon any tampering, the secure microcontroller instantly erases the encryption key, causing all data on the SSD to be irrevocably lost.

If only the key is deleted, wouldn't that leave the drive susceptible to brute force?
Very interesting. Thanks for the insight.
The Modern Mind May Be 100,000 Years Old
"Niantic phoned in to Google CRE for reinforcements" -> Note this was post-launch on the world's largest ever mobile launch.
> it's well known that a rep from AWS was also throwing jabs at them during launch for their issues

That's pretty low. FWIW Simcity 2013 is on AWS and the launch was far more disastrous. Doesn't prove anything.
Following on your first point, the paper (grudgingly, IMO) says:

> Whether the initial eighteen weeks is worth the roughly $419 million in annual costs can be debated, since Carneiro et al. (2015) find some benefits associated with the initial reform.

The citation is: Carneiro, P., K. V. Løken, and K. Salvanes, “A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children,” Journal of Political Economy 123 (2015), 365–412. - http://harris.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/Salvanes%20af... . Its abstract is:

> We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after were entitled to 4 months of paid leave and 12 months of unpaid leave. This increased time with the child led to a 2 percentage points decline in high school dropout and a 5 % increase in wages at age 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave.
At some distant point in the future we will understand biology so well that we can see the ways in which evolution produced local maxima for certain processes, and we will be able to see alternate versions that are more optimal but would (almost) never evolve on their own.

At that point, we will indeed be able to create artificial molecules or genes that make brains more efficient at using oxygen and sugar to produce rational organized thoughts. But I have no illusions that anything groundshaking will happen in my lifetime.

Unfortunately, the fastest way we have to advance is to tinker and learn from our mistakes. I will leave it to other people to volunteer for that process.
There are equally strong objections to their attempt to dominate the political system by spending billions of dollars, from the local to the national level on an extensive range of elections and organizations.[0] At one point, they were planning to spend approximately as much as the Republican Party on this election cycle (they don't seem to like Trump, so maybe they backed off a little, but I don't know).[1]

Why should two voters have so much more influence than 310 million others? It's anti-democratic.

I also think this the parent post presents an overly-moderated depiction of their views - but I'm too busy to look it up myself right now.[0] Certainly the existence of a few things I agree with among their extensive activities wouldn't mean much.

[0] Wikipedia, which I wouldn't put much faith in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Ko...

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Maze_of_Money.png

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/26/koch-...
I noticed a few years ago that what set me apart from my junior days was that now when I have a question, I decide what I think the best course of action is, send an email with the question and my choice, along with a statement that I'm proceeding in that direction unless someone stops me, and then start working on it.

Previously, I'd either have no idea what to do with it, or just not work on that thing at all. (Usually I'd move on to something else, since there was seldom that I didn't have multiple things that needed doing.)

It means that I'm a lot more efficient at getting things done, but I never get so far out of the proper path that it's a problem. And even going down the wrong path usually produces something of value for the correct path.
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Another way of thinking about this is the phrase: it's expensive being poor.

If you don't have the excess income to absorb these small mistakes/oversights/misfortunes then there are secondary effects (job loss, civil fines, court fees, etc.) that can destroy you financially.

Edit: butchered my phrase
Thanks, we've updated the link and title from http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/first-person/2016/9/27/13062....
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Let's just compare it to NR:

C22H24Cl2N2O4
vs
C11H15N2O5+

Hmm... More C, more H, the same amount of N and just a bit less O (but who cares, right? O is everywhere). But it has extra Cl! ISRIB has extra Cl!! NR has no Cl! I'm definitely going with the first one!! Easy pick.
Yes and no. In principle it would be possible to do something like that, but you could only do it for a part of the image and you would lose the focus. You'd basically be trying to transform an extended source into a point source. In practice it's easier just to use a smaller telescope for a longer period of time.

Incidentally, this is related to a puzzle: can you burn a paper with moonlight if you have a sufficiently big magnifying glass? It turns out that you cannot (at least as long as you're using a normal magnifying glass that brings light to a focus), because the highest temperature you can produce is the temperature at the surface of the moon. In the limit of having an infinitely big magnifying glass, the view from the sheet of paper would be the same as the view from the moon, and so the temperatures would be the same as well [1].

[1]: Making various assumptions about radiative thermal equilibrium, etc.
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It's also evident in this story that another challenge that faces many poor kids is a simple lack of knowledge about what career and education options are available to them. I applied for college on time because my mom made sure I did. It wasn't high on my priority list.
Microsoft Is Losing This Key Tech Exec but Gaining a New Unit
That chart is not at all accurate. If it were, it would be telling us that over time, they expected no change in data volume? They set a single number as "Expected volume", and a single number as "worst case", with no planning for growth at all? That's what this chart is showing. Either they were so poor at planning that this chart is accurate and the fault is on them, or the chart is inaccurate and we can't really trust any of the data it represents.
What happens when everyone chooses the same good school?
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Article states that it was still prior to the US launch date.
Wow, you have an incredibly naïve and rosy view of what life is like for the lower and working classes. Maybe you should try meeting some of them in person and seeing what their lives are really like instead of spouting this BS.
Thanks for the detailed answer!

The reason I asked about beans specifically was because, as I understand it, they're harder to digest. I'm guess the corn I see in the toilet doesn't leave many calories on my stomach either.
This article is interesting to think about alongside: http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/first-person/2016/9/27/13062...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12606829

That is the HN posting of an article about how the poverty mindset still persists.
I see what you're saying, but to be the devil's advocate - someone at some point in the family of "Cartoon Republican Villain" was also a poor sob with a single shot to make it. The tragedy is that he forgot, or never knew about it.
That is all the more reason to praise and appreciate those individuals that come out ahead, despite such circumstances. But I would say it's not a reason to excuse and attribute poor performance due to difficult circumstance, which is generally the type of thing such a story/explanation is used for. And it's unfortunate that it's used for such a narrow use-case, when it could rather be used to inspire.
It worked well for the people that cared to use the information.

A third of Americans are obese. You know what will fix that? A pill that reverses obesity. Invent that and I promise you every obese person will take it. Nobody likes being fat. Until that day, all these other "solutions" are just authoritarian feel-good nonsense.
I just want Spotify to sort out the removal of lyrics
None directly. Virtually none indirectly. They need to get promoted to Principal Engineer first, then Senior PE, and then DE. Circa 2 years ago I'd guess there were at most half a dozen DEs company-wide and iirc half of those were hired in to that level as opposed to being promoted.
I hate to say it, but every new Microsoft announcement makes me think "Never again" more than "I can't wait to use that."

Nadella seems to be making great moves that are good for the ecosystem. Yet a decade and a half of Ballmer is hard to forget as proof of how Microsoft trends when it doesn't have competition. (And I'm not faulting most of the people involved; I'm sure any other company would have done the same thing in Microsoft's position)
Uhh.. yes but enjoy brute forcing a 256 bit key.

See you in a few trillion years.
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Only if exposure is total and death before reproduction highly likely. Even in South Africa, the vast majority of the population isn't infected. Those who are infected still often pass on their genes before they die. Unchecked HIV will certainly increase the concentration of these genes over time, but with the current situation it'll take many generations.
I assume the encryption is strong so brute force would be useless.
"expensive being poor", you mean?
That is amazing.
How would a psychological phenomenon work in this case? Do you mean that you unconsciously act out the dream in real life?
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the future of Bitcoin/USD is decided by a shadowy cabal of bankers/miners
That's what I meant by "overeating": whatever is beyond what you need to sustain.
Quite a lot more than a few trillion.
An AI that would be able to drive in all conditions (but not be able to do anything other than drive the car) would still be an ANI.
1) ACH sucks - not bitcoin

2) USD to BTC can suck depending on the company (1-2%) fees

3) Yes most of these first gen companies are expensive due to lack of large volumes and high risk
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Originally learned about Alpine as a base image for Docker, but now I pretty much use Alpine for all "Raspberry Pi and Friends" projects.

Since it runs entirely out of ram by default, it solves a lot of issues with having to "safe shutdown" these computers.

My only complaint is that it's difficult to "pre-bake" the Raspberry Pi images, through something like CI.
This is pretty neat. But is it just me or does the dog picture look better in JPEG?

When zoomed in, the JPEG artifacts are quite apparent and the RNN produces a much smoother image. However, to my eye when zoomed out the high frequency "noise", particularly in the snout area, looks better in JPEG. The RNN produces a somewhat blurrier image that reminds me of the soft focus effect.