skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could understand what goes on in the minds of marketers. Actually, wait: I don’t really want to know, I just want them to stop.

Who green-lights stuff like this? Why is it now considered “OK” to just shove stuff in the user’s face, for whatever reason, out of the blue?

I mean heck, I could fork a version of my UNIX shell to spam ads and prompts every other time you enter a command, wouldn’t that be fun? At what point are we just going to ruin all usability in our software on the altar of the Ad Empire?
Who has forgotten Stalin? Or Mao?
I worked with J for some time (in my free time) and I pretty much had to learn it from scratch 3 or 4 times. And if I had to use J right now I'd had to learn again because I literally forgot everything. The syntax, the words, the verb trains... everything is downright absurd.

I really wanted to like it so I could program in my phone, but it's just too absurd to work for me.

The basic idea I got from experienced programmers was: you don't code like that in the real world. Real-life code should look a lot more like code in other languages, with no tacit programming and a lot of redefining of one-char words into actual words to improve readability. Then... why would I code in J at all? And why am I not taught to code like that in J's help?
So, at some point I learned that you could use an aspirin tablet instead of rosin. It works, kinda, but the fumes are the kind that melts your lungs off.

But yeah, there's no "real" soldering without burnt fingertips.
"Network effects are mostly irrelevant for Uber’s business. Yes, they need a large supply of drivers to make the service viable, but this isn’t an advantage of Uber compared to regular cabs which have sufficient availability in most cities."

I've never been to a city where there were a sufficient number of cabs except for Manhattan specifically in NYC and London. Every other US city, the taxi situation is bleak to unusable.
In a world with rational actors and free computation, there shouldn't ever be a penalty for having more information about reality. Therefore, the only reason not to peek is that actors are irrational and/or computation is expensive.

Honestly, if the first 100 patients die into a 1,000-patient clinical trial, I have zero qualms about making the judgment to stop early, even if it wasn't written into the design. I'm not going to kill 900 people by religiously following bad statistical principles.

I think we should be open-minded and understand that sometimes peeking is ok and sometimes it isn't.

When the effect is large, you can end earlier. There's no reason to cling to a formula and procedure that requires a fixed number of samples when other methods exist that lack that drawback.
further warning, if you apply for a secret or ts clearance (which many, many IT jobs in the federal government require and particular anything that interacts with the DoD), you will be put through a polygraph... It's even more intrusive now and the background check is even more thorough in the post-snowden era.
So just find a public Wifi spot or the million other ways you can access the internet without your home connection.
And yet so many people learn

int* p; // p is an int pointer

instead of

int *p; // dereferencing p will give an int

I know this is the subject of holy wars, but once I'd seen the second one my eyes were opened and I had way less trouble. I think that declaration follows use is another of example of the amazing design powers of the patriarchs.
I like your points, but I like even more how you just hopped on and essentially shouted into the internet "hey everyone, I'm trying to buy a bidet."
Yeah if you use different OSes frequently it makes sense to want to just use one. Or at least have the same key bindings.
Yeah, that's one big one. It's really anyone with a dependent that has equipment needs (car seats, hockey gear, etc.)

"But, but, you can rent a car with a car seat!"

That response ignores the fact that there are 4 different major categories of car seats, most kids need a specific one at different times of their lives, and if you have multiple kids you need the specific combination of seats. And of course, car seat installation is hard and takes time, even with LATCH, and I wouldn't trust a random Uber driver just handed a seat to install it properly.
For me, the most annoying thing while browsing on mobile is the vibration ads/fake alarms. It's horrible. I haven't even seen a single good use of this vibration API, as it is only ever used for things like "Your phone haz virus click here now".

Why isn't there an option to disable it in Chrome is beyond me.
How much VC money has been pumped into failed business?

It's all rather irrelevant. I don't know if software has actually been a net loss, but I know that looking at failed airlines and extrapolating out to the successful ones is silly.
If only we could be so candid, maybe our tushies would get the royal treatment.
> if your product sees meaningful adoption in the industry they launch their own service and take all your customers

Yes, very similar to Windows, Android etc, when owners of the platform learn which product goes well, and then make it themselves.
I think humility is essential for managing discord. General Patton is a good example where a lack of humility got him into trouble and probably limited his career. Steve Jobs is a bit different, humility is being able to hear a different opinion, and I think Steve could hear those opinions based on what I've read about him.
To translate that as literally as possible into Dyalog

fizzbuzz ← {
{(⍵ 'buzz' 'fizz' 'fizzbuzz')[1+2⊥0=3 5∘.|⍵]}¨⍵
}

called as

fizzbuzz ⍳100

or just

{(⍵ 'buzz' 'fizz' 'fizzbuzz')[1+2⊥0=3 5∘.|⍵]}¨⍳100

with unnecessary parens

{(⍵ 'buzz' 'fizz' 'fizzbuzz')[1+(2⊥(0=((3 5)∘.|⍵)))]}¨⍳100
They might as well be more open about this on the actual page.
Yes, and while that's what 0.x usually means, in the Rust community (and in other communities) it's usually more complicated than that. For mio in particular it's been a crate that a lot of folks have been using and it's been working fine. I'm not saying that that's the message that the version number broadcasts. You're totally right that it broadcasts a message that the crate is immature. I'm saying that the actual situation is not as bad as it sounds.

Fair point about the bugs :) I wasn't aware of them, and I've only heard really good things about mio.
Totally agree. Stopping at 10% and then claiming the effect size is 10% would be silly. But seeing a giant effect and stopping is totally cool in my book. The bigger the effect difference, the fewer samples you need to judge it. So I think it can be fine to peek and halt. Nothing forces us to use a static number of samples other than an old statistics formula.
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in regards to > Please someone suggest me anything advice, article, blog

write something you are passionate and enthusastic about, otherwise it will likely not be a fun experience for you. for example, if you really enjoy hiking write about all steps of planning a long hiking trip. there are many examples of others doing something similar... in any case I would start with something I enjoy and like talking about as charisma is contagious
Amazon Web Services’ secret weapon: Its custom-made hardware and network
We've been using Discord a bunch at our company (HearthSim). We have a server for our user community, one for our open source org and one for our company. It's superb, works so much better than Slack ever could.

Are companies a market you're serious about? There is so much focus on gaming, it's hard to be sure. I mentioned to support recently one of our prime issues as a company is being limited to a single owner per server.

PS: Are you the same Stanislav Vishnevskiy I'm thinking about? I remember working on Guildwork with you!
Cube root of 7 is the right answer. It doesn't have a finite decimal or repeating decimal answer so a decimal answer is wrong. But I wouldn't take off points for giving a decimal approximation as the answer.

In college algebra, for most sections, we deal with real number solutions. They haven't reached the point of knowing about non-real solutions. We teach at the level the students are at. Without having had trig finding the roots of unity is hard and not comprehensible to the students so asking them for all three solutions is a bit much.

I would not give a student in college algebra credit for solving x^3 = 27 by guess and check. It demonstrates that they really don't understand what is going on. I give credit for demonstrating understanding. Not demonstrating that they are good guessers.
Unfortunately most of the US isn't like Chicago or NYC.
I think there is a real market for a software developer focused search engine. None of the issues we have matter for a search a normal person does which is what Google of course optimizes for. A search like "what are the best food carts in Portland" is fundamentally different from looking for the text of an exception that was thrown by a particular library version. Our needs are to small for giant Google to care about. But it might be a big enough market to build a nice little company.
> high bandwidth vehicles will do the bulk of the work, and seamlessly trade off to "last mile" self driving small vehicles.

Still doesn't solve the problem - just moves it. If everyone in my office complex needs a ride to the bus around 5pm, and everyone at the other end of the bus line needs a ride home at 5:42pm when the bus arrives in SuburbTown, there will still be unmanageable shortages of self driving small vehicles - unless you own your own.
No, it is completely relevant: ethics do have a place in leadership.

I don't think it is as clear cut as this comment makes out. What they did was come to an illegal agreement not to poach employees from each other. There are multiple reasons why that could be good for a company, and I doubt 'reducing wages' is close to the top of that list.

But ethics are important in leadership - I just think the case here isn't as simple as it is made out.
Wait, what type of fucked up world do people exist in where a website is blocked due to the word "fuck".
I was under the assumption that this was for a college algebra course and that the rational exponents had been covered. If it hadn't been taught then I would give credit. Indeed, I'd be impressed by such reasoning.
would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to
arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have?

Not actually a downvoter, but I do disagree with the sentiment: Google are simply choosing how to rank web-pages, for the people who visit their own search engine.

If there weren't any monopoly issues in play, there would be no question of Google's behaviour at all.

As it is, there are potentially monopoly issues in play, but in this instance, Google are simply penalising sites that provide a poor UX, which is a reasonable position for a search engine to take: prioritise the sites which provide the best value to visitors.

As an end-user, I would like duck-duck-go, bing, yahoo, and every other search engine, to penalise sites that use popups in this way.
Because people working hard in aggregate can improve the situation of _all_ people in the system if the system equally distributes rewards. The problem is we don't live in such a system. So I (and others in this thread) will continue to try to convince people to have more empathy until we do have such a system.
I'd start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system

I'm not up-to-date, but I haven't heard of new work on blackboards or federated rule-based systems for maybe 20 years now, after expert systems grew increasingly probabilistic (and procrustean), and BBSes based on binary rules showed little sign of escaping the classic brittleness of RBSes.

The wiki article mentions 'Bayesian Blackboard' systems. Maybe they had greater success?
Look again, search was deployed very recently :)

Edit: Appears it's still missing from some servers!
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I think some of this might be on purpose. There used to be a fair amount of talk about loyalty both directions...employer to employee, and vice versa. Companies that would, for example, suffer what might be temporary bad times without laying anyone off. Or employees that might accept a pay cut to bridge a similar temporary situation.

That seems to be largely gone now. There's no loyalty either direction. Companies layoff without remorse, and employees leave whenever they want as well.

So, with that environment, company level discussion about family and fun just tend to ring hollow. The employer/employee relationship is transactional...we pay you to do what you do.

I do think those things matter at a "direct supervisor" level...the person you work for should give a shit about you, know about your family, and so on. It just doesn't seems to scale up beyond that one direct relationship without seeming fake.
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Not to mention that, for abstract judgements like "product quality", these can also compound in non-linear fashion. Three A/B tests could show only minor effects on perception of product quality, but then if you put the original A next to the final B, you'll get much bigger differences.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/python_3_support.html

> Ansible 2.2 features a tech preview of Python 3 support.

So they are working on it.
The argument is to look at the primary documents that the journalists were working from, which shows collection that is far smaller than what the journalists claimed.
All of Lee's competitors are inheritors of similarly structured "chaebol" companies. If you think they have any interest in making the public opinion more accepting of chaebol's family members going to prison for breaking laws, you haven't been paying attention.

I have to wonder exactly what you think is "the state of Park's Korea," or if you just thought copying that phrase was funny.
>In reality, macro-scale rerouting around obstacles that the self-driving system does not know how to overcome is not a particular challenge, GPS systems do this easily. The definition doesn't say it has to take the most efficient route. ;)

Oh, that's going to go over really well. Say you're drunk, and want to go home in your self-driving car. However, there's a blind left turn that your car knows it can't safely navigate, so it happily routes you a 15-minute drive through back roads for a trip that should take 5. People are going to love that.

(I've heard that UPS does route planning with a system that discourages left turns, even sometimes doing three rights to avoid some dangerous lefts.)
It is hard to tell. Google is always changing the rules. Historically keywords in the domain name have been very good but I would not promise anything.

The blue hat answer is that you want to be all over the place with not quite duplicate content. Each site and each page is like buying another lottery ticket. The only thing better than being #1 is to be #1 and #2 and #3, etc.

A local Thai restaurant has brilliant SEO in that they have gotten themselves on many restaurant directories and grubhub and taken every chance they can to appear in as many hits as possible.
Ask HN: Why aren't Unicode passwords a big thing?
ASCII character set only has 127 input options. Unicode has over 128,000 input options. Wouldn't moving to Unicode enabled passwords make passwords, in general, exponentially secure?

In short, why do most websites restrict their passwords to the ASCII character table?
I haven't taken that much taxi in SG but never had a bad driver. Always polite, speak excellent English and knows where to go. Unlike in MY. They are however often very hard to find. So many taxis but whenever I seem to want one they are all occupied.
Think of it as as meme. The Hitler meme is big, the Stalin and Mao memes are not so big. You can look them all up on google but it's Hitler that gets cited in convo.
That inflection point happens after you have a _lot_ of cars on the road, much more any new entrant will commit. It's equivalent to saying the power company gets diminishing returns from additional supply after they've built enough capacity to meet current demand. No one but the natural monopoly actually gets to that point.
>edit: would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have?

Because that's literally how search engines work. They look at hundreds of metrics to try to return the most useful result.

If you want a metric-free search engine, you might as well ctrl+f for a list of the world's domains, because anything else will have subjectivity involved.
"gravity off" is a lofty term to toss around so freely. Consider an omnipresent force or curvature vanishing one spot. I can't imagine gravity but the effects in an ocean would obviously be to fill the hole with massive force.
> I think there is a reasonable expectation from the company's point of view that they get 40-50 hours of work

The only reasonable expectation should be 40 hours a week.
Physical store layout has nothing to do with online shopping.
"Try Dafny" is not complete. It doesn't have a link to request a special purpose keyboard to be sent to you.
Kinda makes you wonder if people will stop using Google search if it keeps them within the walled garden of other Google services. It wouldn't surprise me if Google is the next AOL in a decade or two, for reasons including this one.
Your last sentence is more relevant than it seems on first glance. If the majority of Target shoppers are looking for the seasonal section and not milk, then it's actually pretty equivalent.
with all the RESTful, SOAP web services, backend-just-give-me-JSON-objects etc, how relevant is CGI/FastCGI these days?
To be honest, it is more likely that the prosecutor is the one who has ulterior motives, such as trying to get revenge on behalf of one of the prosecutor's friends/family. Or even just for personal career advancement.
Planet Money #555: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episo...

Their conclusion: the jury is out, but "never breaking the cold chain" is a good contender.
You can probably come up with a proper formula, but you do actually need to put some effort into it to get it right.

Of course there's the generic Bonferroni correction where you just divide the significance threshold by the number of tests, but you'll end up with a lot more false negatives (where you just miss the result entirely), and if you want to keep running the test for arbitrary lengths of time it becomes even more difficult (you'll need to keep lowering the threshold). Then again this does give strong guarantees and might work well enough if you don't check the results often.

Basically to get the best results you'll need to balance the false negative rate against the false positive rate and the expected length of the test, which is a rather complicated trade off. But I expect someone will have done at least some of the calculations for simple A/B testing.
This doesn’t hold up to all sedentary modes of living. Monks sit all day but appear in some cases to have cells absurdly younger than chronological baseline.
From your first link:

> After turning a slight profit in the in the first quarter of this year, Uber lost $100 million in the U.S. in the second quarter. The loss increased in the third quarter, the person said.

That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of their U.S. business.
Does anyone know how this compares to Parse (I'm new to app development)?
My point is that you can still extract useful information when your stop is dynamic rather than static. One typical scenario is when your effect size ends up being larger than you originally guessed. There's little reason to continue if the difference becomes obvious.

In the future, I would appreciate it if you steelmanned my comments or asked for clarification instead of insulting me. It hurt my feelings. I wish I had written a better comment that hadn't incited such a reaction from you. Best wishes.
You can use it for good though. I viewed one of my most important tasks as insulating my team from corporate politics. That often involved me using politics on other leaders in the organization to keep their (useless) agendas away from my team.
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seamlessly?
As a Korean, I can't help but feel saddened by the omnipresence of chaebol or family run conglomerates.

I was born in a hospital run by Hyundai with equipments manufactured by Hyundai. The apartment block was built by Hyundai. Every morning, a bustling crowd of dads get into a Hyundai car, driving on roads paved by Hyundai, spend the next 14+ hours in Hyundai offices, factories, shipyards. If you were not of conscription age you were attending a school built by Hyundai reading a textbook funded by Hyundai justifying the sacrifice of millions of Korean labourers, now cast aside and shunned into a life of poverty. If you were due for military service the next 2+ years would be spent working in Hyundai built facilities and Hyundai Rotem (also built the Canada Line Skytrain in Vancouver) manufactured tanks. When you are finished you would return to your post-secondary studies sponsored by Hyundai with campus built by Hyundai subsidiaries. We called it, Republic of Hyundai, 7th largest city in South Korea. If you lived in Seoul, it was Samsung Empire.

When your business makes up over a quarter of South Korea's GDP, you are simply untouchable, from the law.

North Korea has Kim Jong Un, South Korea has 12 of them, all happily hidden away under the veil of "capitalism" and "democracy" giving rise to the second highest suicide rate after Guyana, a small South American country with 170x smaller GDP.
Why shouldn't people be able to get paid for their work? No one is forcing you to pay them; it's just the same as anything else has been: If you want the product of someone's labor, you pay them what they ask for.
Glad we're on the same page here now. Sorry if I came off as blaming the developer earlier.

Hope you find the time/inclination to pick up rust again! I'm sure these issues will be fixed eventually (hoping that is soon)
Do you think there's something different that Cockroach could do? Or do you think that the database market as it exists today leaves them without a path to building a lasting business?

Personally I believe that latter. I don't see how they're going to get people to pay for Cockroach with all the options that are already out there. I think they might have an even more difficulty than RethinkDB did because their interface is SQL which means that migrating to things like Postgres or RDS is a lot easier.
The same argument could be made for any arbitrary amount of time though.

1 week is not enough

1 month is not enough

1 year is not enough

5 years is not enough

10 years is not enough

20 years is not enough...

Do you really have Python projects that can't be migrated in 3 years?

At some point the line has to be drawn to move everyone forward. Extending the EOL for the last long-term of 2.7.x by 5 additional years is pretty generous.

https://pythonclock.org/
In my state, they take you if you're in the top 50% of your class. A compromise?
> In a self driving world, peak traffic will be served by buses

Huh? If suburban Americans aren't opting to share rides into work now and don't have or want bus services now, particularly not connecting bus services, what difference is non-human drivers going to make?
So they're comparing miles driven manually before a certain date to miles driven manually and automatically after a certain date? It certainly implies that Autopilot is safer, but why not separate it properly (Autopilot vs manual) and give us far more accurate information?

It just seems...odd.
This is a Microsoft Research project started in 2008 [1]. It was previously hosted on codeplex [2]

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dafny-a-lan...

[2] http://dafny.codeplex.com/wikipage/history