skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct assuming you are referring to distinctions among "classical liberalism"[0], the more recent "social liberalism"[1], and related branches of liberalism.

In fact the tenets of classic liberal principles is more or less congruent with the ideology of American conservatism[2] again as contrasted with "social" and related forms of conservatism[3].

The extremes of the "social" variants of liberal and conservative thought define the appearance of the virulent modern versions of "left" and "right" wing politically-polarized positions.

Worth pointing out that other dichotomies of Republican/Democrat, populist/globalist construction are context-dependent and frequently orthogonal to a stance within the classic conservative/liberal political spectrum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_Sta...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
Tanenbaum's Operating Systems isn't there. Sorry, this isn't a good list.

/fanboy
Hahhahah if you think having a Nobel award winning professor is not a great investment, you frankly don't understand how world works. There are Universities in some part of the world that will gladly pay more than what Edinburgh U. could, just to have him listed on the website.

Actually I have met people who did put in hard work in the initial years of a Unicorn statup. Guess what the value of their equity greatly exceeds the salary. And if the startup were to even kick them to curb they would live happily on their enormous earnings. Doing great research to an extent is similar.
It somewhat reminds me of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Martin_hexadecimal_...

I've also seen various notation for writing numbers in hex used by some reversers/crackers/demosceners mostly from Eastern European countries, who probably used hex enough to develop something similar to a stylised form of 0-F but distinctly different from those letters/numbers for easier reading and writing. (This was when home computers were still relatively new, and it was usual to make great amounts of handwritten material when working with them.)
This can be mitigated by evaluating all the models on a hold-out test set (similar to what kaggle does and what was done in the netflix prize). The multiple comparisons problem is also mitigated by the fact that the models wont be completely random, there will likely be some positive correlation between them.

edit: Also, by hoeffding's inequality the number of training examples needed for a given level of confidence is only logarithmic in the number of models (even assuming they are independent). See page 6 here: http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes/cs229-notes4.pdf
Neat.

Yeah, it does look really cool, just verbose. And you say it's easy to implement....

Maybe I can get it running on my gameboy?

I kid. Sort of.
You can get someone in as a software tester basically off the street which is comparable to a jr baker. AKA limited part of the process that makes developers more efficient. We also use collage interns to do some development tasks, which might take 6 months of focused training from scratch so 1-2 years training from tester to Jr dev seems about right.

Thus there is a path for someone to be useful their first week with zero training to gradually become a senior developer in less than 10 years.

PS: Just remembered, my dad actually went from cabinetry to developer and his background was a few years of a philosophy degree. Granted, this was ~40 years ago, but the jump is not as hard as you might think.
Have you considered incentives for new subscribers? My experience is that there is no shortcut to growing subscriber base but you can slowly do it by offering a short educational email course, a PDF of 10 tips, or an ebook (which has the additional benefit of helping establish her as an authority--particularly if you self-publish to Amazon through Createspace. "Newsletter name by the author of Book About Topic".)

Create a separate landing page for each. Here are some free landing page templates you can use:

https://www.leadpages.net/the-ultimate-list-of-free-landing-...

Here is a blog post on the ebook option:

http://blog.engagetactics.com/the-step-by-step-guide-to-crea...
This looks great, although roughly 5 years too late.

Adobe's late 2011 communications around the Flash/Flex platform and the ensuing alienation and loss of a large developer community must go down as one of the low-points in corporate planning and communication.
This.

The free press is not objective, or benevolent, or ethical. Yes, parts of it may have started that way, but today's free press is merely free, in that it can and will say anything, within legal bounds. It ends up saying whatever gets the most eyeballs.

We need a better way to disseminate factual information to the public. Sadly, I have no idea how to do that.
I'm not sure why you have this idea that academia is resistant to paradigm shifts; they happen all the time. Any papers that are "risky" enough to start such paradigm shifts end up getting cited tons.
I understand why people think Maciej has a "vendetta" against YC, but I definitely do not. We considered joining YC's last summer session, after Altman generously invited us. I've recommended several startups to YC, over the objections of other friends to some of the same startups, and YC has made money as a result. I'm personal friends with both current and former YC partners, and numerous YC founders. I started a VC-funded startup in '99-'00 and worked for another VC-funded startup for 4 years after that, and attempted to raise money in '05: I am painfully aware of how abusive Silicon Valley was to tech founders prior to YC, and of all the work YC has done to remediate those abuses. I often feel like YC gets a bad rap. In fact: I even feel like Paul Graham often gets a bad rap.

But Paul Graham and Sam Altman are comprehensively wrong about Thiel, and I would be doing them no favors at all to pretend otherwise.

I'm Catholic. I come from an Irish Catholic family. I have at last count 13,492 first cousins. I do not know all the names of my aunts and uncles. But I do know that most of them are... "aggressively" pro-life. Some of them support Trump, because they feel a moral obligation to vote for whomever is going to appoint pro-life judges. I do not hold Trump support against my family.

Despite the fact that half of HN seems to think I'm a Republican, I am not. But I have plenty of Republican friends. Most of them have repudiated Trump and think he's a disaster for the party. But some of them believe in good faith that the cause of limited government is better served by Trump than by Hillary Clinton. I think they're gravely mistaken. But I don't hold that against them.

I'm fine with doing business with any of these people.

However, if you're in the audience at a Trump rally whooping and hollering your approval for Trump's claim that some women are too ugly to have been assaulted by him, I want nothing to do with you, at least until you've repudiated that disgusting notion.

If you're the person telling reporters that you're going to perform much-needed "racial profiling" at polling places on election day, to intimidate minorities from voting, I want nothing to do with you, at least until you've repudiated that disgusting notion.

If you're a billionaire who has stood on the largest imaginable stage and told the nation on live television that Donald Trump is the only honest candidate, and who donated $1.25MM to the Trump campaign after he threatened to jail his political opponent and started a national tour inciting white voters to distrust the votes of minorities in a rigged election, then you aren't a supporter of the Trump campaign. You are part of the Trump campaign. I want nothing to do with you.

Nobody who claims they'll "join the resistance" after Trump wins can coherently argue otherwise.

I don't demand that Altman and Graham sever ties in any formal way with Thiel. I don't know what that would entail or what's going on behind the scenes. But I do require them not to support Thiel publicly --- at least, if they're going to claim to be part of the resistance against Trump. You can't oppose Trump but defend the Trump campaign.
>Some would claim that his foreign politics are punishing innocent people just for being muslim.

Definitely. I'm far enough to the Left that I resent Trump for being so bad that Clinton can pin both parties' godawful policies all on him.
Well defoo means abandoning your family and cutting all ties. So it would fit here if you extended the meaning a little to mean cutting ties with any relation not specifically family.
EG part-time partners don't have a legal vote in the direction of YC.

Are "part-time partners" employees?
A janitor is more familiar with his building than the architect.
Fixed wing aircraft are far more efficient, enough so that lipo batteries are pretty practical. Many drone delivery concepts I've seen are a hybrid fixed-wing with vertical take off and landing. Amazon appears to be an exception. The only image I have seen of their drones is a traditional multirotor, and they claim to be aiming at a ten mile range with a 5 pound payload.
My understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong!) is that it's pretty easy to burn out FPGAs, electrically, in a way that it's not particularly trivial to do with other sorts of circuitry. So one downside of exposing your bitstreams is people are going to blow things up and demand new chips.
The claim is that even something trivial like buying the card is a political act, not that it is activism.
Agreed, but presumably OP is looking for a way to aid the discovery of the newsletter to prospective readers.
Napster had a tail 40,000 files long, with the decentralized web we'll need a tail 1,000,000,000 documents long or something.
The problem with sharing is that you can inadvertently keep a massive string alive by only holding on to a tiny piece of it.

Span<T> conveniently side steps this issue by only existing on the stack, meaning that you can't stash away the span somewhere and accidentally keep the underlying buffer alive longer than necessary.
Yes, but Hillary has done some despicable things, like defending a child rapist (and laughing about it).
The Protégé basket of funds contains five hedge funds, not twenty.

The returns are far from indiscernible from S&P 500. At the end of 2015, the S&P 500 portfolio had seen 3x the profits of the Protégé portfolio.
"This bullshit" is an almost direct quote from _A Theory Of Justice_ (I think I altered the pronouns). You hear it regularly because it's one of the most important works of political philosophy in the modern American tradition.
As any sort of 'partner' is he representative of the world you folks are out to create and the values you stand for?

Because if not your organisation is being judged on who you say are members of your team; part-time, equity supported or otherwise.
I think names for fields are largely defined by social forces behind it not its ideas. Terms like "statistics" are sociological artifacts, not mathematical ones. The difference between stats and machine learning is analogous to say, the difference between Canada and the United States. They're neighbours, separated at birth, share many of the same values but still each have their own personality, worldview, goals and culture.

Walk into a statistics department in a university, and you can feel the differences in culture. It seems to boil down to things about what one considers sacred. Confidence Intervals, Hypothesis Testing and Rigor are things statisticions hold near and dear to their hearts. Want to be a statistics phd? You'd better understand all the differences between convergence in probability and convergence almost surely. And things like Probability Approximate Correct Learning, VC Dimension, Random Forests, and even Deep Learning should sound like heresy to a true, card carrying, statistician.

Another odd cultural difference. Statisticians love citing old papers. You can call a paper about 20 years old "the classical work of" in ML. Stats has a much higher standard for this. The classics go way, way back to a time before I was born. Its gotta be an issue of pride.

But yea, I do feel for the most part, I feel the fields are converging, even if it seems like ML is consuming statistics, not the other way round. Stats majors are publishing in places like NIPS rather than the traditional journals, not the other way round. Just a feeling though. I have no stats to back up this claim.

But there's no point saying "A is a subset of B" unless you want to spice up your happy hour conversations in the pub.
"To build on that, for most of these blogs this is the first time they're earning any mentionable revenue from running their websites."

So, you monetized websites that previously weren't with product their users will enjoy. Sounds like a nice design pattern for bootstrapping businesses on non-profit organizations or sites. One to remembet. I especially like you keep it win/win.
Wow, thank you! Very interesting! Quite odd that none of my follows mentioned this going live, must be an issue of too many github issues.

Time to dig into this a bit!

edit: For anyone else perplexed and surprised by me, seems `floodsub` is their moniker for the new tech, and it was (in part) merged in here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3202

This is really, really cool! Also, if this implementation is robust and performant, this is huge for IPFS.
I appreciate the charitable reading and will try to do likewise.

I see a significant difference between private political opinions (including their expression by voting), and a public political act like a convention keynote speech.

It's important in a pluralistic society that we live and work with people with very different political views. But Thiel doesn't just have his contrarian opinions, he is actively working to promote the candidacy of someone who is a threat to our basic democratic institutions.

To me that's a significant difference, and the reason it calls for a public and forceful response.
Given the blatantly fascist, racist, sexist, and anti-democratic rhetoric coming from the Trump camp in recent months — to the point where I'm genuinely, for the first time, fearing a violent and horrifying end to this election — powerful people like Thiel should be raked over the coals for their behavior. These people are willing to nuke the government just for the chance to grab a bit of power for themselves. I find it shameful and disgusting.

Yes, chastising people for their political beliefs is a slippery slope. I understand that. But this rule can only hold in a moderate political environment. When a candidate stands before violent, cheering crowds and promises to tear up the constitution, the people propping him up need to be held fully and publicly accountable.
Sure. The one area where this advice begins to break down, however, is with M.2 PCIe SSDs. I personally don't keep up with laptops, so unfortunately I can't offer any specific recommendations, but if you can find an otherwise solid laptop with an M.2 slot that's the way to go. They're about 2-3x faster than SATA-based SSDs. It's not the same order-of-magnitude jump in speed a SSD offers over a HDD, so I wouldn't necessarily call it a make-or-break feature, but it's something to keep in mind (for that, you'll definitely need the latest-generation "Skylake" platform)

Also, to save yourself some time researching SSDs:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds
Like others have already pointed out, I'm also not sure if giveaways are the best option since it might not attract genuine interest, which I assume is what you're after.

Even though you might have the most insightful newsletter, getting awareness about this with a target audience can be tough. I'm not sure what the subject on your wife's newsletter is but, if she's not already, she should be active in the community targeting this audience. E.g. if there are discussion forums regarding the newsletter's subject then your wife should participate as an insightful and active member of this community and be viewed as an authority on the subject. Then having a newsletter sign up link in your public profile of these communities might then help in getting genuine subscribers.
If a new CEO of Coca-Cola made a speech announcing a proud partnership with the KKK or Al Qaeda and ran an ad campaign informing the public then sure I imagine that'd be a lawsuit. Coca Cola would never disassociate its brand, every reasonable person could predict the forthcoming disaster and every shareholder would want to recoup their losses.

So yes, CEOs do have a duty to avoid saying certain things, sometimes. Does it extend to Trump? Not quite, I don't think, but the very idea of it is not unreasonable.
> "I also would love to see the ability for the decentralized web to "plug into" the centralized web (i.e. publish to Twitter/FB under my identities)."

Diaspora has this functionality:

https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Integrating_other_social...
Thanks for the link. It actually provides a lot of context, and made me reexamine the passage in question.

It's clear now that it's an accurate description of the scene in the video. I think I was thrown by what appeared to me to be a shift from a factual, matter-of-fact description of the video shifting to what seemed a more artistic expression of the events when it gets to the actions of the dogs. It's clear now that the portion about the dogs is an accurate, if stylish description of what the video showed. At this point, on reading it again after watching the video, I'm unclear whether my initial response was an odd interpretation on my part, or justified given the information at the time and presentation in the article. In any case, I think it's better to error on the side of caution and giving the benefit of a doubt, so I'll assume the problem was my interpretation, and retract my objection to how it was presented (it may still have been presented sloppily, but I'm not longer qualified to assess that).

I do have some observations regarding the video though:

1) It's undoubtedly clear she was attempting to be a journalist based on the video presented.

2) I don't think it's necessarily good journalism, but it is journalism. I would have preferred if she got a statement from the other side regarding the event, or at least attempted it and mentioned whether she was unable to get someone to respond or they responded with no comment.

3) Unless there is evidence she incited people to action in some way, this looks to be a simple first amendment defense, and will be thrown out quickly. It also probably happens a lot with reporters and local governments. She's just a larger name so it gets more press. Doesn't make it any less important that those rights are upheld though.
There are some flash-in-the-pan things and some that are evergreen.

When it comes to the former, getting HN front-paged, a Techcrunch write-up, PH, etc tends to lead to a spike in traffic and eye balls, but very rarely do you get your true base of customers from these things. (But hey, they don't hurt!)

In the latter category you'll hear things like SEO, content marketing etc. Those are all important and must-haves, but these days it's also table stakes since it's what everyone is doing as well. When it comes to getting differentiators that can take you from $1k to $2k or $2k to $4k you need a distribution channel -- preferably a partner or a distribution platform where you can narrowly focus on a small audience. Yes, this means you'll need to reach out and talk to people with similar audiences and folks who are willing to help. For those of us who prefer talking to computers (coding) more than talking to humans (eww emails and phone calls) this can be unnatural but is also extremely important.

I'm personally happy to chat with any part-timers looking to grow their projects or even become full-time entrepreneurs. Just hit me up via my profile here on HN.

My personal experience: I've started two businesses as side projects that went on to be full-time ventures. Ronin (https://www.roninapp.com) was started in 2008 (eventually went full-time, acquired, and then spun out). Later on Reamaze (https://www.reamaze.com) was actually a side project on a side project, but is now at full time with a small team and growing very nicely.
Why We're Living in the Age of Fear
Would have been nice for Brenden Wich when he was burned on a stake for his support for Prop 8.
while this is surely no small feat, it sounds like this is the fruition of the author's accumulated experiences, network, and reputation

True for most success stories. Overnight success is so rare (and often fleeting - all of the rapid online successes I can think of are underwater now - all the best things were slow burns, including this very site). It's about accumulating bricks here and there and building the wall over years. People who never lose hope and who keep building those bricks will reap the rewards in the end.
Contacting my Senators would only incite them to pass a law giving oil companies a right to prior restraint of publication. They could tell from my address that I'd never vote for them.
Very interesting concept. I meditate regularly and would love to fit this into my morning routine
Then could the operators not do this? Just claim that they sent it out to N people and they all suggested the stock. How would you prove they didn't.
Mate, stop it. We all know that the whole thing is just marketing for you, like PC bros from South Park that want to get some "puss". This behaviour breeds support for Trump. People feel they are being attack.
Political affiliations are protected classes in some states. Source: http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/discrimina...
> Or a white American pussy is more valuable than a foreign brown life?

That takes this thread from beyond dreadful to beyond disgraceful. Please don't comment like this here.

Without that sentence your comment would have been fine—at least relative to the thread.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720961 and marked it off-topic.
That's actually a really good point if it's what he did. The common approach to employment is placing it safe using one job's revenue to get to higher-paying one. Or even savings. Many startups or bootstrappers go all in with different incentives and cost structure. Plus time available.

So, it's worth learning things like that in these stories in tracing the bigger picture of how the success story played out with what ingredients that might work next time.
I don't know if he was doing research or not. (And I'm not trying to judge him either way, since I know almost nothing about him.) But when he was doing his Nobel-winning work, he was publishing on average about one paper per year. Then he published one paper in 13 years, and then zero papers in 17 years (and never again). He could have been doing research but unsuccessfully.

He didn't lose his job. (One might argue that he should have, but I won't.) He just said that he would have a hard time finding a different job. Isn't that obvious? If you are looking for a new job at a research university with zero publications for 17 years, you can hardly expect departments to be dying to hire you.

I think most people in that situation are not doing any research. Most researchers with ambitious research projects still manage to publish occasionally, not just for "the system" but for themselves. You want to know that you are making at least a little progress on something. Andrew Wiles, for example, published every year or two throughout his work, with the exception of one four-year gap. [1] No 17-year gap.

[1] http://web.math.princeton.edu/WebCV/WilesBIB.pdf