skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you read Dylan Matthews' investigation [1] a major takeaway is that the foundation's impact comes primarily from influencing corporations and governments. For example, to make AIDS drugs cheaper they convinced the manufacturers to accept much lower prices in exchange for much larger volume, and they convinced governments to make very large orders.

I find it a bit troubling that in the article he makes passing mention of the drug company the CGI was working with but no mention of how they got into huge trouble for not actually passing many drugs, including the AIDS vaccine through QA.

You really have to wonder the about effects of pushing down the margins of a drug company who wasn't even following safety standards at the time.
This isn't a simple question, but I just wanted to mention that around the turn of the 20th century, there were a lot of changes in math.

A bunch of fields got reformulated and there was a rush of mathematicians coming up with new ways to express problems, which led to brand new fields. These ideas then filter into other sciences, allowing for those researchers to better describe and solve problems, etc.

That isn't to say this is the only reason, but it's a contributing factor.
Who are these authors? The feds aren't "paying universities not to sped their endowments" they are paying them to take more students. All that will happen is that universities will cut funding for financial aid. Rule number one for any university endowment is that you never ever ever touch the endowment to fund ops [0]. Ever. Because the second you do the internal politics of the university go completely insane with everyone trying to get a slice of it for their pet projects. You especially don't use it to fund students tuitions. There are many people who can pay full ride for all their children. Do we really want to go back to living in a world where the vast majority of students who go to elite universities are there because their family has money? Because that is the world that this would create.

0. In fact I'd say that this is rule number one for trying to build ANY kind of lasting institution.
Could you explain that in a little more detail?
I keep seeing this posted and I just really have no idea what people are talking about.

I've been using Android since..right after the Nexus one came out and I don't see this awesome ok Google feature everyone talks about.

All I have ony Nexus 5X is the same old voice search that gets the basics right and not much else.

Everyone I know has an iPhone and I've always enjoyed interacting with Siri more and have never noticed a big difference.
Of course not. That is the point: exceptions do exist.
Reactivate Siri, scroll down.
We need to be more inclusive, but only if you hold opinions I agree with.
> If it made you dumb we would not have evolved into the intelligent species we are today.

That is the whole argument of western civilization, that suppressing anger is what allows us to be an intelligent species.
A bit of an aside, but WOW. I am amazed both by the dedication and skill needed to reverse the format and protocol of some undocumented binary files without even having access to the code that processes it, and on top of that, the dedication of building a UI to help along.

I know it's not the main topic of discussion, but sometimes I find it overwhelming and frustrating to analyze things that I have full access to the codebase, and it's really quite humbling to see this level of success and dedication.

Really impressive work.
Even if your tuition to Harvard or Yale was $0/semester, you still need to live nearby to attend. And if you're going to succeed, you're not going to want to have to take a minwage job in order to eat/stay warm/have clothes. Having the money to set up a student in a completely separate apartment (or whatever) means you're more likely to be in that $125k range than not.
Streak (YC S11) Hiring a Customer Solutions Engineer
As Customer Solutions Engineer at Streak, you'll be the friendly face of our codebase. Users will think you're the smartest person they know, and the rest of the Customer team won't be able to imagine life without you.

Any given day might include:
- Teaching our existing API new tricks (and help users maximize the API)
- Building/supporting internal tools to help make the Customer team more efficient
- Adding new magic to our Zapier integration
- Helping users come up with great Javascript formulas to customize Streak to their business
- Working directly with users alongside Success and Support to answer the age old question: Bug? User error? (... disturbance in the force?)

The perfect candidate has a CS degree (or glowing bootcamp recommendation) and is looking for an engineering job with a social twist.
What Happens When Your Post Hits the Top of Hacker News
Linux mainline explicit fencing – part 2
I'd add that $100M makes it easier, a felony conviction, especially at the federal level is no joke.
Not to mention that Sanders was not a Democrat until he became a candidate for president. Politics is about building coalitions. Maybe if Bernie had nurtured closer relations with the DNC he would have gotten more favorable treatment.

And it's not like the nomination process is sacrosanct. For many years primaries were ignored altogether in favor of smoke filled rooms. That only started changing in 1968. It was made more democratic in 1972, which resulted in the nomination of George McGovern, who got his clock cleaned in the general. Sometimes party elites do know better.
Mitchell's book is canon, if a bit dated:

http://www.abebooks.com/9780070428072/Machine-Learning-Tom-M...
9/11 terror suspect held in Guantanamo to have surgery
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970
> 4. Please point me to the illegal or unethical behavior here.

Well to start, Qatar is funding ISIS according to other emails so maybe don't accept money from states that sponsor terrorism?

I mean we could go into how they stone gays for being themselves and women for having the gaul to think they can drive but we all know that's totally ethical.
Bear in mind that that feature is disabled for good reason, it has some serious security implications (e.g., your visited file history is potentially leaked, as well as sensitive text ending up in your .vim folder).
It's one more step along Google's path to eating the internet. Google-served content discovered through Google search rendered in Google's browser running on Google's operating system on a Google-manufactured device connected through Google's ISP and Google's network protocol (QUIC). Vertical integration.
NASA may be looking beyond, but the US is still very much focused on leo. The US military and surveillance agencies have plenty of birds. They are constantly launching new stuff. They long ago gave up using men in space, that's NASA's thing, but in terms of rockets and access LEO is still an American focus.
If your comfortable with calculus and linear algebra, then that is plenty to get started. Bonus points if you know probability.

Plenty of top universities put their ML material online, so I would pick your favorite and check it out. My school teaches roughly based on the Bishop book (I think he keeps a free pdf online). It's dense reading but has information on a huge array of topics. Someone else may be able to suggest other books that are a little more focused.

Really though, I would just pick a school, look at their course website, get their textbook, and work through the posted material at whatever pace you feel provides the value you are looking for.
This might be of interest! "Actually using ed": https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/
The expectation was wrong and the anger was right. It's the target of the anger that's wrong. That's why self-control and kindness were the better option. Further, they're more likely to get what you want out of the situation. A situation you've already invested a lot of effort into. The rational choice is doing what works. This also prevents extra anger. It's best choice for your emotions, too, even though they won't let you see that in heat of the moment. Hence, understanding that in a non-angry moment to start making a habit out of controlling and directing anger properly.

Although, I went further to not get pissed off at all as many times as I could for typical bullshit of corporations. I mentally relax, do other things, and am ready to focus the second support answers. I do something similar to what was advised. You'd be surprised how much good service I've gotten from especially Comcast but also others. There's, as author says, people that just don't give a damn. Most are happy to help and happier to be appreciated. Which is sincere on my part by the end of it so long as they put forth effort on the problem. :)
Include cuts off Y Combinator because Peter Thiel is a part-time investor there
> Implied in it is the idea that the Clinton campaign had an obligation to release their opposition research on Trump as soon as they had it. But of course, they have no such obligation: they're not journalists!

But these women are coming out on their own because of cooper's question? I don't understand.
I think it's unfair to compare the "haptic" feedback of a person being spun in a cyclone simulator to someone being handed a ball to touch. Are you saying you feel like you had vertigo for several days after shooting the novint pistol?
"If you hire people by interviewing them, you will hire people who are really good at being interview."
The "State pressuring FBI" story is an example of the press doing their best to make news out of nothing.

Inter-agency conflict and negotiation happens all the time within the federal government. It's not corruption because both sides are career civil service. For there to be a serious story here, the Post would need to have some evidence that Clinton asked Kennedy to do this, which they don't.
How breakpoints are set
Yes. Conservative areas may make a point of banning them. The house and the car are the pinnacle of consumption in America.

On the flip side, car culture is already on its last legs. Cars became hideous in the 80s, and monotonous in the 90s. And increasing gearheadom is derided as lower class, non-white, or rural.

Cars themselves with their reduced noise, better suspensions, and more sealed interiors isolate their inhabitants from the outside world and the feel of driving. I once had the joy of riding an MG-TD: thrilling at any speed.
IPFS isn't in the business of providing storage for free to users. If you want it stored forever you should pin it or use a service that does the same. Just because the name is permanent doesn't mean the data is unless it's in demand from someone.
Riots often occur when groups feel they have no other recourse. There is sometimes a positive fallout from the riot but at such an extended time that it isn't clear the riot had anything to do with it. It's a group activity that shows a group of people all feel similarly about a subject. An expression of which is usually considered positive except for the presence of destruction and violence during a riot.
Actually, I have ship corpses right now. All I have to do is to make them persistent past the player "logging out." Of course, this seems rife for griefing.
I don't get to personally ban anything. I'm just a private individual whose only contribution to political debate is HN.

Elected representatives do get to take action against foreign state actors that they determine are 'weakening the nation'.
Ahh, so they are doing it as a deterrent.

But perhaps there is other things that they are trying to deter people from doing.

Like, maybe they want to deter people from pissing off powerful governments by leaking and embarrassing world leaders?

Mind you, multiple American leaders have called for him to be arrested.

Maybe the giant elephant in the room has more than a little to do with why the government is spending so much money and effort trying to arrest him.
I'd never heard the phrase "crazy pills" before but I've read it three times in this one topic, from three different posters. Hmmm.
Platforms, distribution and audience – how to get read in an infinite web
If you where starving and you had three choices:

- Get "real food" from a humanitarian aid organization that's enough to feed yourself
- Get soylent from an aid organization but since it would cost less you also get enough to feed a second person
- Die of hunger.

I'll take the soylent option and that's where I think it's true colors will eventually shine. I hope Rob takes it there some day. If you agree with this message you should not just say yes, you should buy some soylent. Your purchase is an investment in the future you want to see.

If you don't support that idea, then that's ok too.
The Vienna Convention is only the current basis for international law. The concept of diplomatic immunity is at least as hold as history itself. Yes it gets violated occasionally, like nearly every law and custom we've ever created. That's generally treated as an act of war though. You're the only one in this thread that said anything about Ecuadorian soil.
Wow - now you forced me to switch from what I have to Caddy. Cool nazrak, tks!!
Ok so lets take your version of events. So when this climate leads to situations were the media then starts working hand in hand with the DNC to leaks questions and give one candidate a leg up, at what point is that not a conspiracy?

At a certain point there is evidence to show people in the media coordinating in private to try and reach a common outcome. If a bunch of people in the media working together to distort the truth isn't a conspiracy then I'm not sure what is.
I don't believe it. I do believe that many of these minimalists are slightly delusional.

They claim to not "own" things, but they are still using things. Sometimes that means greater consumption. Not owning a towel is cool, until you start drying yourself with paper towels at the gym (I saw this today). Not owning tools is cool, if you are rich/well-connected enough to find someone to fix all your stuff. I own a small mountain of tools, but also haven't had need of a professional plumber or carpenter is years. When my office chair or laptop breaks, I'm able to fix it myself. Reuse is better than recycling. Sometimes that means owning tools. (I carry a set of screwdrivers even in my laptop carry-on.)

And all the stuff in the OP looks far too new. It doesn't show much wear and tear. So either it isn't being used, or these things are being replaced too soon. I own many shirts. Some are shiny and new. I wear those when I want to look good. I have other shirts for daily use. Eventually the shiny ones become daily shirts. I own more shirts, but I consumer fewer because I find uses for shirts that a minimalist would throw away prematurely. That makes me the better minimalist because, over the years, I will consumer far fewer.
Yes please! An iPhone that is customizable and can then be securely locked down with the customized config/properties.
Agree it's a signal for low-quality bordering-on-clickbait content, so subconsciously also find myself avoiding them. Unrelated: formatting lists like in your comment makes them really hard to read on mobile.
Did you try making a demonstration of anger at the parties who were thrusting these things upon you? This actually can be the correct course of action sometimes.
A Combined Online Crowdfunding & Outsourcing Platform
Ya'll should release the source code along with those awesome SIGGRAPH papers every year!

Edit: Hyperion renderer would be the bees knees too.
Obama on Silicon Valley
Since static typing systems use dynamic typing to determine the static types, his comment about dynamic types languages being dead is simply wrong.

Many years ago, it became obvious that static typing is useful in some class of programs, dynamic typing is useful in another class of programs and soft typing is useful across them all.

A range of typing systems exist now, they will continue to exist into the future as long as we have need of digitally based computing systems.

We live it and we continue to solve the problems put before us.

As a side not, it was interesting that he didn't specify a List("abc", 0, 0.2) and answer what the static type of such would be. There are many examples of data structures that has non-uniform base types which can only be determined at runtime.

Let the silly season start.
Linux Bootable Clone
It's probably a lot easier for them to manage EBS than per-host storage. And also probably a lot more efficient as most of that ephemeral storage is wasted, but EBS is elastic and you can just provision what you need. For most workloads, EBS is fine, and if you don't need lots of space, it's cheaper to get c4 instances with a small EBS volume than a slower comparable c3 instance with local storage. So the savings _is_ passed along.

All that said, I expect the next generation will have at least one type with a mid-range local SSD available if only because there is real demand for it. But it's not going to be cheaper than using EBS, unless you use most of the disk.
The emotional and rational aspects of the brain are separate, almost competing. The first thing you learn in combat training that's worth a damn is that being hot on emotions and/or adrenaline makes you illogical. People do stuff they later said was incredibly stupid. This is also said by many perps of domestic violence where anger kept building until the urge to attack was uncontrollable. Logic just wasn't there anymore because that's not where logic comes from.

We're taught to recognize we won't have as much self-control, train ourselves to avoid letting emotions control us in an encounter, spend times when we're calm to prepare for likely situations with rehearsed reactions, and defined points when we stop attacks. The combination of these, esp with repetition, lets us handle a highly stressful and illogical situation with low risk of permanent consequences. An ability almost nobody in these classes started with.

Same is true in customer service, management, etc where you're dealing with stress, anger, and/or uncertainty. Same principles. The customer service people most of all since they deal all day with people saying or doing things that would piss them off. By not getting pissed, they keep customers, get paid, and keep their companies from loosing customers. So, the principle to avoid acting in anger where possible just keeps showing up with financial losses or jail time avoided many times over by following it.
Key quote:

"The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences -- setting aside my Syria and Yemen portfolio -- then I think those suggestions are terrific. (Laughter and applause.) That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked. No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up."
> (For those not aware, (((echo parenthesis))) are an anti-semitic symbol used by white supremacists to highlight people who are Jewish.

Then why do I see self proclaimed jews on twitter with the walls? I though it was a joke.... Considering it's... twitter.
And if it wasn't for them, you couldn't improve your ship and be able to explore the galaxies.
Second that. I had no idea of his involvement in CS, though, and I'm happy to see this here.

I did my master's in Acoustics (Am an M.E.), and his books were some of my go-to for "foundation" concepts in Acoustics. As a professional nowadays I still reach out to them from time to time. Like you said, he was still fairly active on conferences. He left an amazing legacy and is sure to be missed in the Acoustics community.
Ah okay, I assumed you were implying it should be the responsibility of the State.
I learned this from The West Wing, along with most of my knowledge of how federal politics works. There are conservative Democrats, and liberal Republicans. Being a bleeding heart liberal in a swing state isn't going to win you the a seat.

This is in strong contrast to Westminster parliaments, where political parties are for the most part a monolith, only occasionally allowed a "conscience vote" (that's not to say there isn't infighting). To vote against the party is a very good way to get booted from the party, which as far as I'm aware is practically impossible in Congress, the closest you have is being expelled from a caucus.
American Fall (The Sequel)
Thanks, formatting fixed.
UEFI support is HUGE. So happy to see this. Finally we're nearing a feasible open-source solution for FDE on modern laptops running Windows.
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/xEykRg?editors=1100 in retrospect probably not a complete solution in of itself, but if doing the top 3 borders, with a :after with a gradient background image, should work for all colors
And the elephant in the room is Google's chip https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercha...
Samsung Chromebook Pro is a super-powerful laptop with an all-new stylus
And I expected something from tje hundred years war on the middle–modern transition. Hah!
And a window into some of his feelings towards the Normans --they were not sugar coated but were quite eloquent[1]

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=_cnrjlrzUE4C&pg=PA148#v=on...
Kellyanne Conway hasn't installed russian dictators, that's really out there.
How Clones Can Experience Unequal Economic Outcomes
it sounds like you're basically advocating something like an s&p 500 buy-write index investment instead of just an s&p index investment, right? basically selling covered calls on your index investment.

I agree with your premise, and make a pleasant bit of side-income selling covered calls on individual stocks that I own, but it seems like the buy-write indices don't actually fare well, or at least $BXM doesn't. Way worse than I would have expected actually...any idea why?
I'm reminded of a quote from Skunk Works, attributed to Soviet engineer Alexander Tupolev: "You Americans build airplanes like a Rolex watch. Knock it off the night table and it stops ticking. We build airplanes like a cheap alarm clock. But knock it off the table and still it wakes you up."