skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such an interesting comment for me given the plan in the article. I grew up in the tri-state area as well, but north of the city and so my access point was always Metro North and thus arrived at Grand Central. Every time I'd show up there I'd have this unbelievable excitement to see Grand Central's soaring ceiling, the clock at the information booth, even the feeling of the heavy (are they?) bronze doors to 42nd or Lexington... There really is something magical about an epic entrance to a city and our very different experiences speak directly to it.

I see the comment about the traffic stats not necessarily justifying spending dollars on the experience of Penn Station, and I partly agree with that, but there's something you can't quantify about how important a first impression is (or maybe you can quantify it; I imagine you, pavement, and all the folks like you, who might have been turned off by that Penn Station experience flipping to Grand Central as the entryway and how many more dollars you might spend in the city over the course of your lives as a direct result of that improved first impression).
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does he live in japan and ship from there? Or live in the uS and somehow gets the candy?
Thanks for the correction. I was not sure at the time.
(1) The CEO is actually much more heavily invested in the company than the shareholders. His salary, and probably the major part of his assets, are dependent on the performance of the company. On the other hand, the average share holder is well diversified.

(2) Therefore, a CEO will be incentivized to pursue a highly conservative strategy, while the shareholders may wish that he takes more risk.

1 is true (assuming heavy equity-based compensation), but 2 does not follow from 1.

What does follow is that the CEO will do whatever he can to make short term gains for the company before he exits, even if it means kicking the can down the road for future managers and long-term shareholders to take a hit on at a later date. When the whole management team is on in this short-term focus, it is colloquially referred to IBGYBG (I'll be gone, you'll be gone).

Shareholders are not a homogeneous group of investors. Some pension/mutual funds invest with the goal of exiting in 10 years. Some activist shareholders invest with the goal of pumping up the price, then cashing out within 3 months (see Carl Icahn and Apple). A sizeable (and growing) portion will be owned by index funds while some will be owned by hedge funds, etc. Then you also need to factor in employees, executives, etc.

One (newer) way to make this group happy as a whole and solve the IBGYBG problem is through clawbacks - punishing ex-executives for the things that happened on their watch. Check out Wells Fargo to see how this is playing out in Congress and in court.

The question the paper is trying to answer - what motivates CEOs to "exert effort" in able to return industry-beating results - seems like it has a simple answer to me: no CEO wants to fail at his/her job and be known as the one who presided over company X's slow decline into bankruptcy/irrelevance. Doesn't look so good on the resume when shopping around for your next C-suite role.
Your comment is what is wrong with this industry. Lying supine is not sexual
Anything that seemingly violates supply and demand is a scam. Another way to say "The jobs are too few" is to say "The CEO's are too many"
The antenna is incredibly strong (or would be if it got some sunlight) so it's important to not interfere with communications in deep space that we may want in the future and even sensors on earth. These scientists—I imagine—fell in love a long time ago from staring at the deep beauty of space; it'd be quite a shame if we drowned it out with our petty no-longer-useful noises.
I don't find either to be a very attractive alternative, Common Lisp just has that kind of ... air around it.

Although I admit that Clojure is a decent language.
In that particular case, I used Vertica which loads data in R really, really fast and straight up use a very big machine.

That's not how I approach it most of the time though. I mostly use out-of-memory algorithms, sometimes open source, sometimes Revolution's (now Microsoft). They process things in chunks. You can see BigLM and SpeedGLM for quick examples. h2o is also very popular platform. You should probably check the High Performance Comptuing CRAN Task View.

I have also used Netezza and Hana and both worked well for the purpose. There's also Teradata Aster but I don't have experience with it. There's also the open-source MonetDB which has in-database R threads and also an r package similar to rsqlite.

There are also map/reduce packages for Hadoop.
Sure, but there's a strong attractor for using the same root zone everyone else is using, by following the generally recognized steward (hence root.hints). Especially with naive protocols like http that lookup a name for every single object retrieval.

For instance, I'd love it if this recent TLD vomit could be nipped in the bud by people choosing to run their own root.zone. But as it stands doing so myself would merely inconvenience me. And this herd effect is magnified further because the custom is for ISPs to run recursive resolvers for their customers.
Midtown Manhattan is a sinfully ugly tourist trap, especially around Penn. I'd argue it's the worst neighborhood by far. It's a twinkle in tourist's eyes but I avoid it like the plague.

The thing about Penn too is that it's extremely difficult to calculate your bearings. There's no significant landmarks to orient yourself by - every corridor looks the same. I use Penn regularly and I occasionally get lost if I happen to use a different entrance.
I run a local instance of Pgweb [1]. While not as feature packed, I find it sufficient. As another comment notes, PgAdmin has a lot of GUI related quirks making it awkward to use.

[1]: https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb
Perhaps, but that mindset is what led to the tragedy you mention in the first place...
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Neural networks are a good example where mutable structures are the only realistic choice. You're dealing with fully connected networks of millions of nodes, each of which needs to be updated multiple times for each layer at every pass.
The article seems to assume that CEOs are believe that they have very little impact on a company's success, and that they calculate how much effort to exert accordingly.

My understanding is that CEOs tend toward hubris and that this assumption is false in most cases. If so, then it might be more efficient to up the strike price, but the current situation isn't as inefficient as it seems (thanks to hubris).

Relatedly, if CEOs were granted deeply-underwater options, wouldn't they demand much more in base pay, to compensate? I'm not saying they "deserve" higher base pay—just that if a board wanted to institute this change, they'd get push back from the individual. Otherwise it would look like a disguised pay cut (imagine if your boss came to you and said that to incentivize employees to work harder, all options were going to be issued underwater).
24 hours offline every week has made a world of difference for my health
perhaps you might not have started your own comment with the erroneous view that 'bad coders' are to blame when R proves to be deficient at extra-design tasks.

Oh I further note your R consulting vocation. There you go. Vested interest.

BTW, I love R. But my love is not blind.
Can you recommend step by step process to earn $1000 per month through amazon affiliate site?
What languages would you like to replace with Rust? A just-for-fun survey
What language is this?

How can I compile / run it?
I've seen this claim multiple times in this discussion, with no data to back it up. How do you know a CEO's job has more "risk" than a developer?
I guess the point is that it is the ROI calculations that don't differentiate between the skill or the market conditions.
In addition to Hudson Yards (which I don't really have an opinion on) and the completion of the High Line's northern end, there's also been a fair bit of other building and, I guess, gentrification in Hell's Kitchen generally. New restaurants, hotels, etc. If I'm going to a show at the Javits and/or want to otherwise be in the vicinity of midtown theaters, that's where I tend to stay these days. It's convenient, has good access to reasonably priced restaurants, and is close to many of the theaters and other Midtown attractions while being outside of Times Square craziness/crush.
In some cases, but in many cases its easy to see who is contributing above whom.

The problem really is at the level of a programmer politics is at play, given a whole lot of more number of people fight for fewer resources.
Every time I see more investment in Manhattan I wonder, would the money be better spent in the other boroughs?
Personally, I'm partial to: http://conceptviz.github.io/

edit: this is more about visual explanations, but I think a lot of ideas are transferable and go hand in hand
I, for one, think that Fold's documentation can be seriously improved by describing its behaviour in terms of code, rather than category theory. All I'm saying is that when even you describe a Fold, you do so in terms of non-category-theory terms, and that nothing is added by category theory itself. This is much the same way lenses have some kind of category-theoretic interpretation, but exactly the same level of understanding can be achieved by thinking about them in terms of code. And if there's no difference, that means category theory is essentially unnecessary.

I also want to say that I don't believe Fold was discovered from category theory, it seems to me more like a neat generalization of foldl, and then once they had an idea, they asked questions like "is this a comonad?". Indeed, it's far easier to me to figure out what's going on by reading http://hackage.haskell.org/package/foldl-1.2.1/docs/src/Cont... to see the Applicative instance itself.
Indonesian Slum Dwellers Challenge Eviction Law in Landmark Case
Submitting a link to a product page or a descriptive blog might be a better way of engaging the Hacker News community.

Good luck.
The external Apple keyboard is far from ergonomic, its function has always been primarily aesthetic - like the long line of unergonomic but oh-so-pretty Apple mice.
We currently have a Spec temperature of triggering a 'freezing event" at just above freezing Temperature 33-35F.
A mini ACSL tutorial for Value, part 2
The day PostgreSQL had a decent development suite, that's the day PGSQL is going to rocket, it's sad that even the freaking MySQL and SQLite have better (free) tools.
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>it's extremely difficult to calculate your bearings.

Yep. I take the train into Penn Station at least a couple times a year and I still invariably walk half a block in the wrong direction before figuring out what direction I'm facing.
I've been using JetBrains DataGrip for my postgres needs. Been pretty good.
Are you using npm? How many js developers use it around you? 90%? 95%? As I said in my previous comment it does not make difference in the end whether the tool is bad or the language. If I have to use that tool to leverage the good parts of the ecosystem (eg. use all the libraries in nmp) I can either choose not to use it and lose the the advantages of it or choose to use it and have a crap software which is in the hands of a private company and who can take over my packages (even which I have published years ago) without question.
Not exactly. I wanted to avoid too much scientific notation.

- GIMP uses Θ(n * r²) algorithm

- Photoshop uses Θ(n * r) algorithm

- r<=10: Photopea uses Θ(n * r) algorithm

- r> 10: Photopea uses Θ(n) algorithm with a large linear coefficient

For r<=10 Photopea and Photoshop use the same algorithm. PP is slower not only because of Javascript, but also because of multithreading in PS.
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>“I think they’ll get by,” he said when asked how his 595,000 followers were taking his silence. Twitter “will be okay too,” he said.

To journalist Sarah McBride, the most interesting angle isn't his Twitter silence nor his hiatus. (Lots of celebrities take a break from Twitter.)

What's really puzzling was that he deleted all his tweets. Did you ask him about that?
We don't really need a full swarm, at least not until we can use it to compute something useful. Even Mercury, the smallest planet, has enough raw material to build more space stations and power-gathering sats than we know what to do with at present.

If you had a partial Dyson swarm right now, what would you actually use it for?
I believe he finds it funny that the guy spent over 5k on a chair, but uses an pretty unergonomic keyboard. (I have used the new apple keyboards on the new macbook 12'' and imo, it's not too bad once you get used to it. But I'd totally exchange it for some kind of mechanical keyboard.)
You baitin... how is a lesser known git command a git alias?
The cost of options is borne by shareholders more than by the company's compensation budget. I picked a random large company from Yahoo finance (Proctor and Gamble). The CEO's pay is $4M/year. If you paid him nothing, the rest of the employees would get an additional ~ $.75/week.

GE (another fairly large company) is in approximately the same situation. Immelt gets about 4x as much, but GE has about 3x as many employees.
Nicely done! Your 3d extensions could be further extended (performance notwithstanding) to create some pretty cool procedurally generated VR experiences. Thanks for sharing.
Can anyone lend some background to the story that opens the article and gives it its title?

> [Erdős] said, “Guy, veel you have a coffee?” It cost a dollar, a small fortune to a professor of mathematics at the hinterland University of Calgary who was not much of a coffee drinker …. When they sat with their coffee, [Erdős] said, “Guy, you are eenfeeneeteley reech; lend me 100 dollars.”

> “I was amazed,” recounted Guy. “Not so much at the request but rather at my ability to satisfy it. Once again, Erdős knew me better than I know myself. Ever since then, I’ve realized that I’m infinitely rich: Not just in the material sense that I have everything I need, but infinitely rich in spirit in having mathematics and having known Erdős.”

I don't mean to interpret this too literally, but I don't understand. How can it be that someone has to check his budget for a dollar cup of coffee, but is infinitely rich, in (as he himself says) not just, but at least, the literal sense of having $100 to spare?

(I know that the point is the richness of knowing Erdős, a privilege I missed—my Erdős number is and will probably remain 3—but the non-metaphorical part of the story doesn't make any sense to me. Also, it avoids the question of whether Guy made the loan!)
i'm a 18-30 millennial in tech who has never used twitter, is it really more addicting than reddit, facebook, et al.?
That is my extension :). Source is here for those interested: https://github.com/berrberr/streamkeys
My wife got a new car, and I looked up in the owners manual for what kind of oil it takes. The manual's section on changing oil was "To change oil, take car to an authorized Kia workshop." I died a little inside that day.

[edit]

Fortunately there was an "SAE 5W25" indicator on the oil reservoir cap.
The nulls get coalesced. In what way is it not solved?
Thanks!

No, not really. ConvChain though is related to symmetry breaking, the same way as MCMC simulation of the Ising model is https://github.com/mxgmn/ConvChain
It's all one version now. The desktop version is just a wrapper showing the web UI written in Python and Javascript/jQuery.
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a) it's kind of hard to hide a launch system where the fueled-up booster stack on the pad weighs two and a half times as much as a Saturn V and the launch is visible with the naked eye from a hundred miles away.

b) There is a reason we don't use Trident D-5 SLBMs (or the Russian equivalent) for precision conventional explosive strikes on targets which otherwise require long range bombers with intricate in-flight refuelling arrangements to hit: something about not scaring the other folks with strategic nukes into thinking we've initiated a first strike and hitting the big red end of the world button.

TLDR: even the big guys don't mess with space-based or sub-orbital weaponry. The risk of a misunderstanding is non-trivial and the perceived costs are far too high.
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Unsure, it seems only posts that reflect the negativity of the application are being down voted.

Being this type of site I wonder if a lot of the employee's at Niantic have accounts and could be down voting?

Either way it would be nice to hear why other users are down voting these because the users comment is within the guidelines.
"we are so dominant in space I pity the adversary who would come against us" Lieutenant General Franklyn Blaisdell, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Air and Space Operations
It always makes me a little bit sad when people get excited about about fancy "quantum" things that don't use the full potential of quantum computation.

With classical computing, if you plug in a widget and that widget spits out a bunch of supposedly random numbers, then you have to take it on faith that the widget isn't cheating and generating highly biased output. (For example, a deterministic cryptographic RNG is almost maximally biased, but it's computationally infeasible to tell just by examining the output.)

With quantum techniques, if you are willing to plug in two devices and process their outputs a bit, and if you're willing to trust that the devices aren't secretly communicating, then you can get provable randomness. You don't even need a real quantum computer to do this. [1] You still need to trust that the devices aren't actively malicious, but you do rule out accidental implementation issues that introduce subtle correlations between output bits.

If you are using an actual quantum computer, then you can go much farther and generate uniform random bits directly and even, under certain straightforward conditions, prove that those bits didn't leak out via a side channel. This is more or less the same principle as quantum key distribution: if Alice and Bob run a QKD algorithm to generate a key (n uniform, independent random bits), they are effectively running a protocol that verifies that no side channel leaked the bits. A malicious eavesdropper is a form of side channel, so those get ruled out as well.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3427
It's not just Amazon. No large cloud provider offers recent GPUs. I believe the blame probably lies with NVIDIA.
JP had this in Grandma's Boy in his awesome techno cave room[1], which is a somewhat unfortunate movie that pokes fun at the personality side effects of people who immerse themselves in technology. I like the movie's themes but I wish the premise wasn't so much about mocking and taking down the weirdo boy genius. I too want robot legs and there's nothing wrong with that!

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWD6rpivqM
Apple keyboard are made to look good. Good ergonomic keyboards like Thinkpads have key travel 1.8-2mm. Thinkpads will also have keys with rounded edges and bigger spacing between keys.
The day we deleted our VM images
Realistically, we shouldn't build anything big in NY. The costs are out of control, insanely slow, and wildly unpredictable. No one even knows where the money goes.

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/mtas-costs-loom-large-14688...

What we should do is focus on a completing few small projects with time and budget constraints comparable to the rest of the world (e.g. Spain, Hong Kong or Delhi). This should be done with the goal of excluding all the current people who are robbing us blind (i.e. no MTA workers); bring in French, Japanese or Indian contractors as needed.

Once we can build and maintain a transit system at reasonable cost, then we should think about big projects. Until then, why throw good money after bad?
This is the part the people miss, they all "work" on each others boards. It is a you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours deal.
Yes, HSMs are very expensive and after talking to a few people in this industry we got the impression, some of the ORWL features are not present in HSMs. Like the ability to Geo-lock the device using the key (mounted in the ceiling). Waling away with the device will render it useless as the keyFOB is missing.
Apple uses fingerprints in addition to the PIN. To do anything security wise in iOS, you have to enter your PIN. You can use your fingerprint to unlock the phone but only if the phone has been unlocked by the PIN previously. I'm sure numerous improvements can be made for this system but it's more of a form of second factor authentication than a primary form of authentication in iOS.
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One technique that can be useful is imposing domain-specific restrictions, then passing responsibility down the chain.

For example, most people only have a handful of recent conversations; can you get away with ignoring distant-past conversations when it comes to read/unread marking? If so, you could send recent normalized data to the frontend and let it derive the unread state client-side. React has some nice tools for efficiently deriving state from server-sent data.

This isn't always the best solution, but it's something to consider.
Assemble an Orion ie nuclear pulse propulsion ship in orbit. These can theoretically acheive .1c, Proxima Centari in 40 years (give or take).
> What exactly was wrong with the 1998 setup? ISI and Jon Postel were managing fine back then.

John Postel did great things for the Internet. However, to make a point or as a 'test', one day in 1998 he redirected most of the Internet's DNS root server traffic to different servers. That was the last straw - maybe the only straw. Here's the Wikipedia version, which matches my vague memory of the story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Postel#DNS_Root_Authority...
Did anyone else notice the test string at the bottom of the article?
Also building that new tunnel under the Hudson!
Test your (soft) skills
Nobody I know uses Twitter, I think its a California thing.
Stashing is great

Because some things are only possible while there are no changes. (I changed this one-off file for testing or debugging something, need to pull latest changes, so I stash)

Stashing comes from a tool called quilt https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/google-cloud-...
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Which is rather ironic given what a complete and utter failure VMWare's attempt at a public cloud was. That's not even commenting on vcloud director...
You can use ZeroTier if you need to traverse a NAT or don't have a static IP and you don't want to deal with DynDNS. That's what I do to access my work computer. It's free and works perfectly.