skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Working towards bettering your children lives is a reason many of us get up in the morning.

Absolutely! it's just that when someone has a lot of success because their family helped them, they are successful because of that help. It's not a "meritocracy". The same reasoning can be used to invalidate the claim that there is a "meritocracy" of families. If you claim "family X has more merit than family Y", well you can apply the same reasoning to show that just like person A got their privilege from family X, family X got their privilege from situation Q (not from an impoverished country, not from a persecuted ethnic or racial community, not ravaged by war or genocide, not enslaved, etc. etc.).

Some of the comments here seem upset that the author is trying to link a correlation to a causation. That's not the case; the premise of the article is about the lack of a cause of something; e.g. that someone who is extremely successful cannot claim that such success is obviously due to merit. If anyone is to be accused of premature "correlation == causation" it would be those who claim that merit is the leading factor in one's success.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579299
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I've never spent just $5 on a Fiverr job. Example: if you want someone to design you a logo the $5 will get you a low res one but you'll have to pay another $40 to get the PSD files and revisions.

With that said, I've had some great experience with it hiring creative types.
They're just another place to do homework or work now. Not sure where people discuss things in real life nowadays.
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The thing is, interest on loans is tax-deductible for businesses (in the US, but I expect more broadly too), like any other business expense. So people may just set up shell corporations to buy the house and get the deduction anyway.

Of course then the capital gains tax treatment would be rather different.
This comment isn't very kind to the Go developers, and it makes a lot of assumptions about what they know. The Go developers understand what generics are, and why people want them. They realize that generics would enable programmers to write less code, and in some cases keep them from relying on reflection.

Something else that's well understood are the tradeoffs necessary to implement generics. All of the facets of this are discussed here: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-...

Anyways, it seems like all of the comment's stated use cases are accounted for. Arrays and slices are already generic. Queues are available in blocking and non-blocking flavours via channels, which are generic. Sets are available via maps, which are generic.

The builtins get you 99% of the way there. The developers decided that the remaining 1% of use cases were not worth the trade-offs of implementing generics.

Go consistently makes trade-offs that favour simplicity, compilation speed, and not hiding runtime costs. Depending who you are, you may or may not value that more than the ability to write code that uses generics. I agree that people who want generics should not use Go, but I don't agree with painting the Go team in the way that this comment does.
Welcome to the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository (1994)
While not a Havard alum myself there were traditions and parallel institutions at my alma matter that existed long before my grandparents did.

There's something to be said about the culture that these places provide and the atmosphere that is forever lost when they close.

Something might replace, something may not, but the tradition will be reset.
Maybe Kodak should take the "Insta" back from instamatic.
I said that it's common for shorts to post, and you're saying that I'm wrong and that it's not surprising that a short posted in this Tesla thread. Gotcha.

Most Tesla-related threads on HN, no matter what the original article is about, contain some combination of the following:

A stock short posting about why they're shorting Tesla, usually for reasons completely unrelated to the article.

Someone complaining that they live in an apartment and don't have a place to charge.

Someone complaining about the Tesla touchscreen controls being worse than physical controls, generally without indicating that they're aware that Teslas have the usual steering wheel controls.

Animats complaining that Autopilot is misnamed. (I suppose that's what his YouTube url list is about, I guess he missed that part about "don't post video links without explaining what's in them".)

A complaint that Tesla cars are only for rich people.

A complaint that since some places in the developing world don't have a reliable electric grid, that... well, I'm not sure what they're getting at.

A complaint that we can't all switch to electric cars tomorrow, because the Grid isn't big enough.

A complaint that electric cars aren't good because a lot of electricity comes from coal.

A complaint that electric cars aren't good because of the fairly modest environmental damage that comes from lithium mines.

A complaint that Tesla, SpaceX, and Solar City are more tied together than they should be.

A complaint about Elon's reality distortion field.

A complaint that there's a gang downvoting anti-Tesla comments.

A complaint that there's a gang downvoting pro-Tesla comments.

A complaint that all Tesla threads get flagged off of the front page.

A suggestion that we could use car batteries as grid storage.

Complaints that Teslas aren't luxurious enough. (Uh, isn't Tesla's #1 selling point performance?)

I can go on, but, you have probably already noticed that this thread is scoring pretty high against this list. And really, it's pretty boring. Which is probably why this story has been... wait for it... flagged off of the front page.
The logs don't necessarily have to be public; they just have to be accessible to the browsers browsing sites using those certificates.

Requiring CT universally, even for "private" CAs, provides detailed evidence for several kinds of problems, such as various laptop vendors who have pre-installed MITMing proxies. It doesn't prevent those kinds of behaviors, but it makes denials less credible.
Did you read the whole article?
I use fresh incognito tabs constantly. So I guess I'll never see the image, and never know something is amiss.

By I also never click an email link to login unless it's a plain text password reset. I receive authentic looking and topical Dropbox share requests from actual contacts (who have been hacked) trying to phish my Dropbox credentials maybe 4-5 times a year so I'm always on the lookout for it. This is a classic attack. Always check the URL!
You knew exactly what was meant but just in case - you still need nominal growth to avoid negative real growth
RIP Script [1]. Some samples [2]. Comments and Specs [3]. Video of a RIP rendering [4]. RIP Editor [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol

[2] http://archives.thebbs.org/ra108a.htm

[3] http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/PROGRAMS/GRAPHICS/RIPS...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtWmPO-cLR8

[5] http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
Consider that as late as in the 80's on home computers, frequencies for all kinds of stuff were often chosen to be convenient factors of a suitable starting point so that they could be generated by stepping down frequencies from a single crystal.

Frequency choices even then were driven by cost/complexity to the extent that e.g. rather than trying to synchronise things in other ways or decoupling various clock rates, the CPU clock rate of many computer models were chosen based on how other things were clocked.

The Commodore 64's and Amiga's at least were both clocked slightly differently in the US and Europe because the CPU clock affected bus timings, and bus timings affected the custom chips for graphics and sound, and it was most convenient to time it all to match the video refresh rate of NTSC and PAL respectively.

Given that, I'm not at all surprised if the BBC decades earlier found it more complicated to handle 439Hz given whatever clock signals they had available to create it from and/or wanted to be able to match it against.
That sounds like typical libra talk. I'm an Aries so I don't do that.
But how can such a baiting civilization know that it's more powerful than the baited civilization, and that it itself is not falling into a trap?
I've spent quite a bit of time with Haskell, and all the beginner text like this link are easy to grok, but where I've constantly come up short is trying to write an app with, for example, a configuration and a database connection. Having multiple levels of Monad transformers just confuses me and I never get anywhere useful. Something like:

App MaybeT IO (StateT IO (EitherT IO Text SomeRecord))

Or something. I haven't figured this out.
I think you meant dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568250
The Cloud AI wars are heating up, with everyone now offering GPUs specifically for HPC and Machine Learning use-cases, or advanced Machine Learning APIs like Microsoft’s Cognitive Services.

That said, I really like Google Cloud’s new Machine Learning APIs [0], which go the extra mile and let you train & run your own models, in a NoOps kind of way. This is greatly useful because there is relatively little value, in my research so far, in just using pre-packaged models like Google Cloud Vision or Microsoft Cognitive Face Detection — most cases I’ve run into require building your own model, or transfer-learning to your own use-case. Kudos to Google Cloud for offering that in beta early, and I’m hoping Microsoft will follow suit!

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/ml/
Is this an ultra-low-current battery, or an energy generation technique?
Interestingly enough it started out as being defined as 1 dm³ in the 18th century, then in the early 20th century was defined through water at highest density, then in the 60s back to 1 dm³.
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Have you considered running Reddit ads on history-centric subreddits?
Of course Elixir is more welcoming—the language is "practically" functional, easy, and made for building stuff. Haskell's purity and academic background is definitely a big impact on its culture.
Because they are public, have investors and are for sale. They are going to keep cutting until they appear cheap enough to buy. And once they are bought there will be more cuts. Twitter is having death pangs
Isn't VS the way to go for building the Windows version for many projects? Are there ways around it?
Their ratings are comprised of two parts - CR's own driving tests as well as reader survey that goes into painful details of each car owned, number of malfunctions and costs of fixing those malfunctions over the previous year.

Model S was a fairly new vehicle, so in year one they only did the first part - there weren't many Tesla owners who were also CR subscribers who also have had the car for at least a year to generate a reliable corpus of reader ratings.

Things changed in year two when reader surveys started trickling in, with Model S owners reporting higher than average amount of issues, which impacted the overall ratings.

CR's own driving tests still earned Model S a "CR Recommended" badge, it just no longer came with a spotless 100-point score they've previously assigned.
What's the rent decline curve correlation per-100 persons laid off I wonder.
One of the authors here. Mostly he was just faster than us! Most co-authors are busy right now starting jobs at new places (plus trying to get published at an old school journal for the comfort of chemists out there).

Max has done a very good job writing a neat implementation of our autoencoder. I encourage everyone to go invent some new molecules!
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I wonder, have any studies been done on identifying why some people find physical contact repellent? For example, I strongly dislike being touched in any way by bosses, salespeople, etc. It immediately makes me distrust them.

What leads to this difference, and have any studies or persuasion artists tried to detect and account for them?
"Yeah I really wanted a Tesla but then I read Consumer Reports. Yeah it's still around. Anyway, I got a hummer instead."
-- Nobody, ever
Sounds like vaporware. These sorts of innovations rarely seem to be robust enough to commercialize.
Hi Josh, thanks so much! I feel the same way - fellow founders are our peeps. Great questions.

Community is of course amazing to have, and very necessary. We've all been to those horrible mixers where everyone runs around talking about how they're KILLIN' IT. Those are huge wastes of time. It's always done through the little things - events, mixers, dinners where smart people hang out and know that they can trust each other and share what's really happening. YC has worked incredibly well because everyone knows that you can trust each other since if you violate that trust, you'll get kicked out of the community. It's something more people should do. Of course since we're later stage, the founders will be spending a lot more time with their teams than with each other.

We're probably in between YC and a16z. We're a smaller fund, so we can't afford as many operating partners and staff, but we'll be able to do a lot. My goal is to spend almost all of my time with the 20 or so companies we work with in a year, so it'll be more concentrated. That's what will be necessary to get companies from seed to Series A, across that dreaded funding gap.

We've always supported founders to make the right choice whether they want to sell, or not. In terms of alternative exits we haven't gotten there yet, because that model is pretty unproven but I really like what Bryce is doing and I really want it to work, because its clear there is a lot of stuff out there that should exist but can struggle to get capital.

Most seed rounds we see come together are between $1M and $3M these days, so that amount of capital lets us get our percentage ownership (which is necessary for portfolio construction) while also letting a good round happen with other good seed investors. Most folks want at least 18 months to 24 months of runway to get to a solid Series A or profitability, so a lot of these numbers work backwards from that.

Thanks again for your questions Josh! Hope we can be helpful to you down the road.
Fabric is a good product, but all Apple has to do is wave their hands and it's dead. If/when they launch their own product, third-parties fun will be over.
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>Daum branch

Last updated in 2015 - http://ykhwong.x-y.net/

Reminds me of the Gameboy Advance emulation scene and the mess that was VBA - eventually mainline was abandoned, VBA-m seems to be the maintained fork, but there's also VBA-rr.
The blog post this submission links to has some summary and comments. I'm not sure if it's truly a dupe of the PDF linked to in the parent's submission. Open to being educated, though.
It is a specific component of the CT protocol that the CT server will only accept certificates signed by a CA that it trusts.

Google actually launched a separate CT log which allowed certain CAs that aren't usually "trusted", but still only from a specific list:

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/03/certificate-transpar...

Edit: Section 3.1 of the CT RFC:

the log SHALL publish a list of acceptable root certificates ... Logs MUST verify that the submitted end-entity certificate or Precertificate has a valid signature chain leading back to a trusted root CA certificate
14.4? Slow down there, friend, we lucky people were using Hayes 300 baud modems. I still remember my glorious upgrade path:

300->2400 (now we're cooking)->4800->9600->14.4->19.2->28.8->56k

USR, Courrier, and Hayes were usually the best ones for me. I skipped 33.6 among other upgrades. The Courrier also had that extra punch if you were lucky enough to get one on the other end.

The Unix stuff was pretty pedestrian as far as programs, but on Dos, Windows, Amiga, Atari ST, C64, and some others, some cool programs for connecting. I think on Dos I remember using Terminix and Telix quite a bit, but the names mostly escape me by now.

Anyway, I guess now it's better I don't have to dial with options like *70 or use the various AT codes to get online, handshake, and stay there.
I thought it was interesting that something called "Project Oxford" on the .ai TLD redirected to Microsoft Cognitive Services. :)

By the way the the entire list of .ai domains makes for interesting reading: http://anguilla-ai.com/list.html

Here is the top 30 entities (inc. unknown) because I have no life. Make of it what you will.

USA	2871	Japan	66	Singapore	27
China	636	Netherlands	53	Spain	27
Anguilla	338	Russia	48	Austria	26
United Kingdom 314	Brazil	46	Norway	22
(unknown)	229	France	44	Denmark	19
Canada	135	Hong Kong	41	Ireland	17
Ukraine	126	Sweden	41	Italy	17
Australia	115	Israel	36	U.A. Emirates	16
Germany	113	Switzerland	30	Belgium	15
India	89	Korea	27	Finland	15
That's because you, as a 37 year old healthy individual, are subsidizing your father's healthcare. That was one of the main goals of Obamacare: push up and force premiums on younger people to help pay for the increasing costs of the large Boomer generation.
I think tumblr is struggling with this too. The closest thing to targeted ads I see are very broadly (nation level) geographic targeting.
"Other" contact with orca? does it means that there are three or four specific types for orca contacts previously defined?

W5564WTF contact with orca, left fin, just a scratch, subsequent encounter
>If there's a situation where priming might work, it's when the person being primed has either no particular opinion on that issue or when they're in agreement with it.

That's generally true. However, that's often the case in salary and pricing negotiations. Unless you have done your research first, you will be influenced by priming.

I bought a house. I'm not good at handy work. I need to hire a handyman to repair a few things. Do you know how difficult it is to get a good estimate on how much repairs should cost?

There's a skill building workshop I want to attend. With these kinds of workshops, you usually attend only once, so you don't have prior experience with costs. What should I pay?
> Why can't you use a debit card for that?

In practical terms, because in the US the handling of debit card fraud and credit card fraud is vastly different.

In the case of debit card fraud the money is gone from your account and you then spend some months trying to get it back. In the meantime, you don't have that money.

In the case of credit card fraud, you contact the credit card company, they reverse the charges, and then it's their problem after that point, not yours.

Assuming you have any self-discipline at all, a credit card is a _much_ better idea than a debit card in the US.

> Isn't the best credit history one where you never need credit in the first place?

The best credit history, if being used for the sane "will this person make timely payments on this loan?" reason, would consist of a history of timely payments on exactly this type of loan, with no debt outstanding right now.

Never needing credit before may mean you always had lots of money, or that you simply never tried to do anything that involved any large amounts of money and now you want to do such a thing....
acoustic coupled modems anyone?
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Great answer, thanks. Following the comments in your profile page is a rabbit hole by itself - another rabbit hole: looking at other comments by people with great HN contributions...
Is there a big enough market for their expertise? There aren't a lot of companies in the world that operate on the same scale.
Great article!

It would be fantastic to make all the code snippet interactive with the klipse plugin.

http://blog.klipse.tech/javascript/2016/06/20/blog-javascrip...
You can find some RIP files in some of the old ansi packs from the 90s. Acid, ICE, Dark (I think) and some others (Union?) all had RIP at least for awhile. It's been too long and I only did ANSI and ASCII art in those times, though I knew plenty of people that did RIP art.

Anyway, check http://sixteencolors.net/
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So I recently had a chance to use these APIs for a Microsoft hackathon project and wow are these APIs unstable right now.

I was trying to use their Linguistic Analysis API for POS tagging some text, and even for text as short as 500 characters, the API took over a minute to respond. If I bumped it upto a 1000 characters, the API would just error out and give a 500 status code without any explanation after keeping me hanging for over 5 minutes.

The same was the case with the speech to text API and some other ones as well.

As much as I appreciate there being something like this available for public use, these projects are effectively in alpha state and are not yet fit to be used in serious apps.
>If it manages to persuade you to buy it, then we can say that he's a reliable source of information on persuasion, since he successfully persuaded you.

Good catch. I did not notice he had written the article.

Well sure, buying the book may show he's a reliable source of information on persuasion.

But, you know, being a very widely cited researcher may show it better. :-) I've encountered references to his work in many places.
God.

Oh, wait, which universe?
It's completely ok to resubmit stories after some time has passed if it helps them reach more people who may have missed the original submission. I don't think this would be considered a dupe.

The only gripe I have is guidelines say to stick to original sources so I'd rather see a repost that's closer to the source :)
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Watch as miniature data centers begin dotting the landscape to handle the latency issues.
Just looking at 15 second speech recognition, the prices at Google are 50% higher and IBM about 25% higher. So kind of the same ballparks. Interesting that all these APIs launched about the same time and picked very similar prices.
I mean just a couple days ago on the front page we read about a Paypal multifactor bypass by.... Wait for it... Deleting the token field from the post request.

Vulnerabilities are often trivial in hindsight and lost in a massive forest up until the moment they are serendipitously discovered.

I'm not saying a proper audit shouldn't have found this and flagged it. But yes, agree strongly, vulnerabilities can be surprisingly hard to find.
Exactly. I bought a Diamond Rio when it first came out, but it was early. It was difficult to explain to non-techies.

Apple figured out how to tap into the early adopters and make them influencers to bring in the early majority. Part of this was making it easier for people to be able to get music on to the thing. iTunes had just come out shortly before the iPod and started hitting its stride in tandem with the device.
John Baez, this weeks finds in mathematical physics [1]. He started blogging this in 1993! there's so much stuff there now. I keep finding amazing things in the TWF's, and not wanting to close my browser tabs because it's so precious. And you wouldn't believe what he can do with a bit of ascii art. Truly he is one of the heroes of the internet. (He doesn't do TWF's anymore, but there's a bunch of other places where he posts stuff.)

Try this one for starters [2]. The earlier ones are much more hardcore.

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/twfcontents.html
[2] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week236.html
How do you even grow like that? The current staff during that spike must have spent most of their time interviewing people.