skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meaning is the difference between a verified by the scientific method approximation to the truth (some aspect of it) and a chimera, created from math formulas.

Not everything which could be described with a set of equations necessarily exist as a physical phenomena. Most of abstractions have no existence outside peoples heads, except those verified by scientific method, which means multiple independent replicable experiments which exactly the same results.

Unverified assumptions are called beliefs. Followers of some set of beliefs and dogmas together is called a sect.

From the philosophical point of view, strictly speaking, this is a non-science. When people trying to "prove" an abstract theory (a product of imagination instead of a product of a process of reduction) they perform not scientific tests, but complicated simulations. Any simulation, by definition, cannot prove anything about existence or non-existence of a simulated model, not even validity of the model. What could be concluded is only that the simulation matches the model. Or not.

This performing of a simulation instead of controlled observations is the essence of modern bad science, be it in economics, "medicine" or whatever is based on a sophisticated models based on abstractions.

Simulation prove nothing. Observations do.
Does DO even offer custom images? Last I spoke to the owner he said they had other priorities.
> Moishe Lettvin has a talk I really like, where he talks about a time when he was on a hiring committee and they rejected every candidate that came up, only to find that the “candidates” were actually anonymized versions of their own interviews!

Steve Yegge I think has a similar post but from a different angle and he calls this problem the interview anti-loop. Depending on who ends up on your interview panel you might get high or low marks across the board and it won't be in any way correlated to your actual abilities.

Making good teams like Dan says is a hard problem mostly because recruiting is a hard problem and letting anyone other than the team handle the process is why things are broken. If you want to work with great people then you personally have to be actively involved in recruiting great people by going to conferences, going to meetups, writing blog posts like this one, etc. But that sounds very time consuming and most companies don't think recruiting is actually an engineer's job so they never properly budget for it in terms of training and other resources.
I prefer not to say exactly, but it's enough to post on this thread and also enough that I'm considering making another one. Their top authors make serious money.
One does not need to flatten tree if tree modifications are allowed. Just use Deutsch-Schorr-Waite algorithm.
Very good priorities. I would also add the importance of reducing global militarism, and making progress on dismantling nuclear weapons.
Why? Can you elaborate on demonstrating that is false?
Consider that most buildings built in the 1980s or earlier have at least some lead pipes in the building plumbing, not to mention the mains. In the Bay Area, how many of us live in buildings built in the 80s or earlier? With the way landlords act around here, I would be very much not surprised to see high lead levels coming out of faucets.

From 10 minutes of research it looks like SF is lead-free for water mains, but this talks about how fixtures even up until 2010 potentially contain unsafe levels of lead: http://www.bayarealeaddetectors.com/blog/

And this is just one contaminant: http://www.livescience.com/56210-what-is-chromium-6-in-tap-w...

https://www.epa.gov/ccl/types-drinking-water-contaminants // https://www.wqa.org/learn-about-water/common-contaminants

While I personally don't buy bottled water (lucky enough to have RO filtration at home and at work), I don't really blame those who do out of fear. Unless you get what's coming out of the actual taps you use tested regularly, you don't actually know what you're drinking.
Yeah, that's the only thing I've seen from them in this domain. It's just woefully lacking imo. I don't want to pick people to follow individually... I want to pick entire communities of people to follow.
Melinda Gates Was Encouraged to Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner, disagrees: https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company
Valid question. I was thinking about maintaining local copies of useful information for emergency use. Most things are going well in the world right now, but it is possible that there could be long term outages in infrastructure.
We're all choosing centralised silos despite having personal preferences otherwise. This is a systems outcome, and not one we'll change individually.

A distributed social network may arise, we just haven't yet seen the initial conditions, value chains, and systems structures that will bring it about.

This article gets excited about blockchain cryptocurrencies as the substrate, since money is a ubiquitous need. Well, it's worth pursuing. I'm still angry with Google & Facebook for killing off federated chat, which was the other nebula in which a new star protocol might've been born.
Excel was a copy of Lotus123. Once they killed it, by cheating, they took it a long way further though.
> (most IRC servers keep logs anyway)

IRCd developer and network staff member here. Dead wrong. I don't think I've seen a single IRCd that keeps logs, and doing so would make it much more expensive to run an IRC network. Additionally, it would be a huge violation of privacy, and we value our users' privacy. The IRCd only logs server events (e.g. network-wide bans, server connection/disconnection, use of administrative tools) and user connections/disconnections (for anti-abuse purposes).

If network staff have logs of something, it was either because their IRC client was present in the channel or because someone else gave them logs.

Most of my network's servers hang around 2-3% CPU usage and <5GB disk usage, and we'd like to keep it that way because we don't want it to cost a lot to host. We have an average of 1000-2000 users per server.
It is a fact. Some people don't understand. And even if it were false, that doesn't make it condescending. People are wrong about things all the time without it being condescending.
I would suspect incompetence on the part of a company, before I assume hypercompetence on the part of a rival company.
Another way to think of it is that permuting rows corresponds to multiplying a matrix on the left by a permutation matrix, and permuting columns, on the right. Since matrix multiplication is associative, they commute!
That machine you have, because can do general computations (Turing Complete) can be attacked on that message until its stack dumps and you have access to perform general computations on the underlying system where that program was running.
Bootstrap is a CSS3 framework, hugo is static content generator written in Go.
I think it's helpful to know others are having success, even without the details.

That said, I'd love a high-level overview without knowing the niche GP is in. "It's a content site" or "It's a blog reviewing popular products in an Amazon niche" would be helpful without exposing them to undue risk.
That's what the Burrows–Wheeler transform does for text. A similar approach could work for images.
Agree, s3cmd is simple and effective. I have written bash scripts to regularly take db dump and put it on S3. Same can be done for folders.
Fair enough. I'm just curious if the suffering aspect comes from Taoism, or the various Buddhist sects which have come through the region. Even though Theravada certainly emphasizes the 'middle' way the Buddha spoke of, extreme asceticism and suffering is certainly a part of Vajrayana and Mahayana sects (especially the former).

I'm familiar with the classic texts of both Taoism and Buddhism, as well as with Buddhist sects, but know little about contemporary Taoist sects or popular Taoist religion.
And your /wp-contents/uploads/ folder...probably worth backing up everything in /wp-contents/ since some plugins create additional directories.
I lived there for ten years, learned Spanish, married a local. I did a similar thing while I was working remotely and the tax advantages were amazing. Contact me at dan.eloff @ popular Google mail.
Think about it like this: for a 100x100 image, there are 100!*100! ways to double-shuffle. But there are 10000! ways to shuffle the pixel. So a lot of structure remains in the double-shuffled image.
So essentially lists created using social graph algorithms. I probably wouldn't use it personally but I can see how it could be useful.
I agree, but people aren't going to pay someone to run a server for them when Facebook, twitter, snapchat, etc are free.

It's also hard to argue that it's fundamentally different if you don't run it yourself.
This perspective depends on mentorship quality being constant across all of these programmers.
"The lack of a free license or source code hasn't stopped all kinds of creative modding".

My son still plays mostly on 1.7 because that's where the modding pretty much stopped. There is absolutely no chance of modding ever happening for PE, Windows 10, XBox, Playstation, etc. They give you shitty limited options so you can remake some mini games that the modding community invented. And if you think MS isn't eventually going to merge the code bases, you're crazy.
If you haven't heard, patio11 is the original creator of Bingo Card Creator [1], which is both an excellent example for your purposes, and as a bonus he's helpfully shared many useful lessons from it on his blog [2].

[1] https://www.bingocardcreator.com/
[2] http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
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I think I could justify it just fine.
I thought they also do it to expats, except for some token amount such as 100k/yr.
In California: 39.6% federal income tax + 12.3 CA income tax = 51.9%
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what iOS does, where every app is sandboxed and can't access anything from others?

Of course, there may be exploits derived from kernel/"supervisor" bugs, but all apps are sandboxed by default, for better or worse.
But it fits the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well and small, composable tools!
He mentioned SF.
The sites I host on DigitalOcean are all very simple Rails sites deployed with Dokku. The source code is in GitHub and the databases I backup hourly to S3 with a very simple cron job.
I doubt the value of feeder today is such that it's worth selling off... We're trying to grow everything, user-base, product, revenue, and are still figuring a lot of things out. If you wanna talk about it some more, my email is erik@feeder.co
I'd agree with both points, but only 32% of voters are registered Democrats. Sanders polled far better than Clinton within the other 68%, although amongst registered Democrats, Clinton stayed 15-25% ahead during the entire primary IIRC. On Twitter, in addition to Democrats, there were also Republicans, Independents, Argentinians, and others commenting on the primary. That's the definition of a wider sample.
On the other hand, the past isn't even past. Ads on careers.stackoverflow.com have Joel Test markings on them.
The data analysis required to improve search relevance, video recommendation, A/B testing, feature improvement - basically anything, relies on crunching data on as many users as possible. For example, you cannot get to Google or Facebook's level of artificial intelligence research and performance achievements without truly vast amounts of data.

This criticism of decentralization is in addition to my parallel comment in this thread about how you cannot realistically and significantly improve privacy with feature parity.

The performance and reliability would also be difficult to manage without centralized servers. You're not going to be maintaining the same uptime guarantees.

Finally, how are you going to motivate development in a decentralized manner? You're removing capitalist incentives to improve the product. This would have to be managed by a consortium of companies, which doesn't sound like a much better situation than we have now, or it would have to be an open protocol. If companies weren't earning a profit on developing features for further user demand, how would the products improve as well as they do now?
I record on Windows using Visual Studio and Atom with the atom-typescript extension. I recorded the video using Camtasia and bought a nice mic with a pop-screen and boom arm (Rhode podcaster USB). It was about $600 for the Mic and Camtasia. (Note I made this investment back easily and I have it forever now). Camtasia includes all of the video and audio editing capabilities required for Pluralsight, but I also used Audacity to do some of the audio editing because there was a nice compressor plugin that another author recommended. PowerPoint is required for the slides. Many authors use Macs and Keynote and similar software is fine - they just take mp4 files as the final deliverable.
> I think I could justify it just fine.

Do it, then. Don't just post worthless snark.
Twitter's best bet is cut costs by bring employee count down to 100, 50 sales related, 50 engineering and move their infrastructure to AWS/Google Cloud which take the company to profitability. I think once they become profitable, it opens a lot more opportunities to explore new markets. Right now they are in a scramble to get users. Being profitable and focusing on one thing at a time will do them wonders. Should start by shutting down Periscope and have a new tab in the app for Live.
I think that the "paint factory" part is "amusing" due to lead. Oakland had lots of lead in the soil from previous industrial contamination: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Oaklan...
You're quite right, my apologies, I saw a thing and wrote a response to something you hadn't said.

I suppose I mean to say that this is the thing really - income tax on its own is not working, evidently, given that it is so easily avoided. Surely the idea is that everyone should want to commit as much as they can to the furtherment of their community, nation and species. The very fact that things like this, game-theoretic winner-take-all, tax "avoidance" (because it's legal, therefore morally fine), exist is enough to make me wonder if there is any point at all to my existence, let alone the existence of the poor sods who aren't fortunate to make even as much as I.

But then I strongly suspect I'm a lefty pinko communist and shouldn't be trusted in a proper discussion about actual fiscal policy.
Two things, plenty of tax relief measures existed back then. Actual tax rates were much lower. In fact, the top earners pay more of the total tax pie than they did back then. Also, if you adjust the brackets based on inflation, the highest bracket is the equivalent of $5M plus. Hardly anyone paid it back then.
Ah :) I did initially think it might be Gumroad, since Gumtree shows as a free classified ads site. But then thought Gumtree may have a payment and distribution feature too.
It has been the case for 10 years, anyone knows that, I don't see the problem. If you're not happy with it just use API keys.
I read that as "giving votes to mummies." I thought "Jeez, I've heard of the 'graveyard vote' but this is a whole new level."
I spent a whole day once at LinkedIn over 8 different interviewers, after which they ghosted me.
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There's lots of interesting discussion from the original post in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204007
There's a LOT that the phone OS and hardware manufacturers can do at the hardware and firmware level to make things better. A good model would be the security strategies used on game consoles, the recent generations of which have moved critical pieces of the system to embedded processors (sort of like the secure enclave on recent iPhones, but with more isolation).

Not putting device drivers written by random external engineers into the trusted part of your OS would be a good start. So would not letting any page acquire executable permissions without being signed (not sure what you do with jitted code -- if you can't effectively sandbox it, you probably don't want to run it, and yeah, that's a drag). Forbidding external processors (e.g., the radio module) from becoming physical bus masters is also a great idea. Encrypted memory (at the cache line level) has been in consoles for over a decade; it's not that expensive and it's a nice first defense against stuff like RowHammer and folks mucking with physical wires in a lab.

Consoles take this level of security seriously because it's not just about customer privacy or security or similar pesky stuff, it's about the revenue stream. (Secondarily, it's also about limiting the actions of bad actors on hardware under their control -- it's much harder to cheat on a console).
It seems there is too much focus on what is "fair". If one looks at all the opinions it's very hard to come up with unified way to define what is "fair". Going by comments one of the unifying themes is "fair"being defined as "me" paying less and someone else paying more. I think many people feel if 1% payed more in taxes and the rest payed less it would lead to more disposable income in reality it would very likely lead to asset inflation just for a different class of assets.
Is that personal or corporate? It sounded like OP was talking about a business.
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That blog post has absolutely nothing to do with the OP's point. It's talking about economic policy, not the rationale behind moving countries.
>How do we know that Plato wasn't reporting what Socrates taught him? And, if true, how can we be sure that Socrates didn't get the idea from someone else?

Quite plainly, we don't know. It seems irrelevant, however, as the line of inquiry was about whether the article-author mistakenly attributed the Allegory of the Cave to Socrates when the 'correct' attribution is to Plato (that is, the established/agreed-upon/canonical attribution), not whether or not the Allegory is a wholly original, purely inspired, spontaneously birthed thought from Plato.

In regards to the ideas truly being Socrates' or those of a precedent, I'm aware of nothing that indicates that being the case (other than the standard A influences B influences C, etc, nature of philosophy). I'm no expert, but it seemed clear to me in reading Plato's work after the death of Socrates (e.g., Republic) that he is radically departing from the views of his teacher. If the counterpoint is that Plato received all of this wisdom from Socrates, then attributed the introductory bits to his teacher and kept the juiciest for himself, we know that's not the case: many other contemporaries wrote about the views of Socrates and some even recorded Socratic dialogues.

In Republic, Plato advocates things like an elite intellectual class that actively deceives the hoi polloi and prevents them from accessing philosophy, yet Socrates was put to death for his repeated attempts at engaging all Athenians who would listen in philosophical debates. Socrates warned against the youth of Athens losing their ability to think critically, while Plato advocates a utopian system predicated on the vast majority of its citizens not questioning things at all. In fact, it's frequently suggested that Plato's dramatic departure from the Socratic notion of "I know nothing" and the near-totalitarian features of his Republic are direct results of the Athenians turning on and executing Socrates. The entire idea of a Philosopher King and an enlightened ruling class micromanaging the lives of the producer/worker and guardian/soldier classes seems like a plan to ensure that no great thinker ever suffers the same fate as Socrates. With the rebellious and reactionary nature of the Republic established, it seems clear he didn't get the ideas contained within from Socrates. This seems especially true because Plato does not discuss them until ~380 BC, almost two decades after the death of Socrates. If he inherited or stole the ideas, why wait so long to talk about it? And why didn't anyone else know about it (Plato was one of several students who followed Socrates)?

I've glanced, very lightly, over the Wikipedia page for the Eleusinian Mysteries, and there's nothing specific leaping out at me as inspiration for the Allegory of the Cave (other than the idea of a layered underworld, but that's not unique to the Mysteries or particularly reflective of the Cave). I'm unfamiliar with these ideas; can you expound upon the connection, or is the argument just that because the Mysteries were ancient and once orally disseminated, there's a chance that the Allegory was too and merely reported by Plato as original?
Or... We could reduce government spending. That also works from an arithmetical standpoint.
Why does the US continue to let plastic bottles of water (or anything) be sold? I agree that it's terrible for the environment. I'm guessing that the reason is "lobbyists" :(
> Given that we can't depend on people to do simple things like handling escape sequences correctly, that seems pretty important. (Also, the 'jq' command is nice.)

jq stores all numbers as doubles, which means it can't handle 64 bit ints (or larger integer numeric types).

It's otherwise a great tool and I wouldn't point out a negative such as this, but you did explicitly mention that you know JSON won't be fed to a bad parser.
Amazon's PaaS offering (Elastic Beanstalk) isn't too difficult to use and may be less expensive than Heroku.
I wasn't really suggesting that businesses keep using the same web 2.0 models. Just fishing for ideas for the distributed web. If teams are actually going to commit thousands or millions of work hours into making products, then there should be a way for them to be rewarded for their job. Making money isn't inherently evil, but making it at the users' expense is.

idk, there could be client-side Bitcoin mining if somehow you can find a breakthrough mining algorithm (maybe using Algebraic Cryptography or Satisfiability Theory) that runs an order of magnitude faster than current and users are OK with running it.

e-commerce could have some kind of payment system with escrow where you could charge a small operating tax. Hard to ensure everything works though since all code is running client-side, which can't be trusted.

pay per download probably still works.

others?

I agree that ads, tracking, IAP, and other stuff should be left out.

It's weird to think about services which as the creator you really have no control over once it's released (I'm thinking of Freenet or GNU social style services). There aren't any services that I know of which are both 100% distributed and making money on the regular.

Not really well thought out ideas, just putting stuff out there.
personal income tax rate
On the other hand, don't we always hear people say that it's a really bad idea to write your own crypto algorithm, and you should use something that has been extensively tested and vetted instead?

I would posit the same applies to writing your own programming language: it may be fun to do as a hobby, or when you are learning, but may not be a good idea to use it in production to rewrite your company's flagship software.
If their employee compensation, which includes stock-based compensation, decreases then their expenses will go down and their losses will decrease. Of course, presumably their ability to attract and retain employees will also decrease.

A lower stock price could translate into lower stock-based compensation costs but you'd have to dive into the details of what they issue and how they issue it.
How California Became the Intellectual Capital of Trump’s GOP
I was pretty happy with openshift until I recently discovered it was impossible to update the version of an os package I depended on. On heroku, custom buildpack and it was done in 5 minutes.
Yeah, I thought of this too upon reading the article title. Be careful with this stuff and be sure not to get on the bad side of Uncle Sam.