skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain what the deal with qbism even is?

Like, I get that when you do weak measurements the random walk the qubit takes [2] looks basically identical to inference. That's not too surprising, given how similar the definition of quantum states is to the definition of probability distributions. But superpositions aren't literally probability distributions. In particular, unlike with probabilities, you can prove that super-logical agents can't rationally disagree about the superposition that a state is in. Superpositions can't be observer-dependent in the way that probability distributions can, because you can create situations where agents who are disagreeing about a superposition must be risking the highest of Bayesian sins: seeing something happen to which they assigned a 0% probability [1]. To me, this directly disagrees with Qbism's tendency to think about quantum states as subjective instead of objective.

1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=822

2: http://algorithmicassertions.com/2016/04/24/eves-quantum-clo...
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> I appreciate that the Java team at Oracle is taking it's time to get this right

Except they don't. Everything but Jigsaw has been ready for a year and Jigsaw is still not ready.

http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/2017/01/23/advice-for-jigsaw-r...

http://wildfly.org/news/2016/12/12/Jigsaws-Missing-Pieces/

> With their very strict backwards compatibility requirements (still compatible with Java 1.0 AFAIK)

When I checked a few weeks ago Jigsaw broke a lot of reflection code. It's debatable how much of this was a published API but a lot of things broke. I don't know how many of these changes were rolled back.
I meant it as a half-joking inverse of Thiel's claim pre-election that the media takes Trump literally but not seriously [1]. It's very clear now that much of what Trump said was literal.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/10/...
Another touchy issue is non-competes after employment, meaning that "you can't work for anyone else or hire our employees." States such as CA are very much against anything that restricts someone's ability to engage in free trade, especially when the restrictions apply post-employment. Imagine how ridiculous it would be to ask this of independent contractors, whose roles are defined by that they engage with multiple clients at once and have looser associations--that is, they are independent. Yet I see a lot of CA contracts for independents hold this clause, and even argue for its fairness.

From the BAR[1]:

Not only are non-compete covenants void in California, but an employer may be
liable in tort for wrongful termination if it fires an employee who refuses to
sign an employment agreement that contains an unenforceable covenant not to
compete. D’Sa v. Playhut, Inc., 85 Cal. App. 4th 927 (Cal. Ct. App. 2000). This
rule holds even if the agreement contains a choiceof-law or severability
provision. Id. at 934. The concern is that the presence of an unenforceable
non-compete covenant in an employment agreement may have an undesirable
deterrent effect on employees who do not know their rights under California
law. “[I]t is not likely that [the defendant’s] employees are sufficiently
versed in California’s law of contracts such that they would know (1) that the
covenant not to compete is invalid and therefore not enforceable by [the
defendant] and (2) that they could sign the agreement without fear they would
be bound by the covenant not to compete.” Id

Read your contracts. Get attorney review and specifically ask about the parts that make you uncomfortable. If you're planning to make $XX,000 or more from this engagement, isn't it worth the $100-$300 for the guarantee?

[1]
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/labor_law...
> (never a few lines)

You'd be surprised what you can do by carefully considering what the desired outcome actually needs to be.

Maybe there is justification for all the gems in gitlab's Gemfile, I didn't go through it with a fine tooth comb - but this reaffirms my experience that complex projects outgrow monolith codebases. Having an infrastructure outage take down your entire business is kind of a symptom of that.
Then quit and start your own company. I seriously doubt anybody has a gun to your head forcing you to do whatever it is you do.
Washington state has that as well!
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Plugins like https://atom.io/packages/remote-edit allow you to directly edit your remote code while still in the GUI. I still mostly use VIM, but its a nice alternative.
Huh, I never knew what that David Bowie song was about!
Different ways in which VR is used by industries
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Would you mind saying more about what happened to you?
The contracts I have when working with clients specifically mention type A and type B deliverables. One being "secret sauce" IP that the company owns and the other being general development tools and practices that I own and grant a perpetual license to the company to use.
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Well, I guess that's a good argument. Though I feel like unless it's part of the base language implementation, you'd have to consider it an extension to the language.

So CPYTHON can not in fact deliver those performances. But CPYTHON can be extended through Japronto to achieve them. I'd say it's still misleading, since casually when we refer to Python, it means CPYTHON.

Go's primary implementation provides all the fast goodies needed for fast performance. There could be a slow Go compiler which didn't, but when you say Go, it refers to Google's implementation.

You could argue that at least, CPYTHON makes it easy to extend the language with C. So Python language extensions are trivial to use compared to some other languages. So at least I'll give you that.
In practice the way to do things is to take a large firm and reconstruct it as a supply chain. Think like, say, a hypothetical car company. Instead of making your own engines, you source them from Engines R' Us. You might be ERU's sole customer but that is neither here nor there. If you have a bad year and need less production staff you just tell ERU "Hey, orders next quarter will be down by 60%. Plan accordingly."

ERU might have to take drastic measures. Ah, the lamentable if inevitable realities of being a small business. The car company, of course, the car company would never fire the full-time employees.
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> The implication made here is that the writer believes that gigster is going to "do something awful".

That's a completely bullshit attack and putting words into his mouth. Gigster has the potentional to possibly to do something awful in the future due to being a company made of different people, with there being no guarantee that the people you're talking to one day are still there the next. And trust is only possible between mutual human beings, not between one human and an amorphous ever-changing conglomerate of humans.
Ah, here come the bad analogies from the smoking apologists.

It's quite rare that I come across anyone who's even close to as stinky as a smoker who's currently smoking. Besides, as a practical matter, restricting bad body odor is not nearly as problematic as restricting smoking.
> To say that agriculture is good for the land on average is just an outright lie.

No one said that, but it doesn't have to be bad. And with the BLM, it is.

Farmers have an inherent interest in keeping their own land profitable, which is an incentive that never applies to leased BLM land. Same with ranchers, which is what BLM land is more commonly used for.

> I cannot comment on how poorly the BLM manages land

That should be your first step. It should be noted that ranchers do NOT want the land to be privatized, because it's less exploitable.

http://wildhorsepreservation.org/media/ranchers-want-our-pub...

Agricultural land is not going to be perfectly managed anywhere anytime soon, if that's what your standard is, but private property is managed less terribly. It should be obvious that people are better incentivized to care for their own property than the government's -- why is that so hard to believe?
what is this meant to do? The demonstration video just looks like a regular interaction with excel, with some coloured cells. My immediate questions as a clueless user (one with a cryptographic background nonetheless) are:

- How is this different from a regular collaborative spreadsheet?

- What attacks am I protected against if I use this product?

- Is the attack a real risk to my business, or largely theoretical?

- What problem does this solve that encrypting and emailing a .xlsx doesn't?

Overall it's quite hard to catch the value proposition.
Feel free to bring your own!
I always pull out Anscombe's Quartet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet The four datasets have the same mean, variance, and linear regression line, but are very different from one another.
I got a keyboard covering and placed it over a QWERTY keyboard to learn colemak. Might be a useful tool for you as well.
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The mess they are leaving behind are outdated, crappy apps. They don't adapt to modern screen sizes, use memory efficiently, download efficiently (bitcode), etc.

Apple is continuously improving and modernizing it's platform. They should be banning hundreds of thousands of zombie apps that haven't been touched in many years because they are not valuable and misleading to customers. But they don't, they allow you to keep your apps available on the store no matter how old or how poorly written. Finally they have their first platform change that's going to break them, and they can automatically boot them. That's a very good thing.
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I think "skew" is on of those things that are taught not because it is useful, but because it is easy to teach, easy to memorize and easy to test for.
Do you think this can be Uber for consultants?
I have 20+ yrs of using vim. Tried numerous times to switch to emacs, I started using VSCode and love it. It's not useless, my vim skills is still handy. Logging in to servers to hotfix thing is no longer something to brag about. Cattle not pets. If I really need to login to a server to edit something, I don't need a fancy .vimrc. I don't code live on prod.
4. This in some ways is worse than greyostrich's situation (because it cost you more), but in another way, it's better. It cost the company, too - the cost of the flight, hotel, and time for their people to interview you. They didn't just waste your time to try to spare themselves any effort; they had skin in the game too.

5. In the current legal climate, if they tell you why, they may be exposing themselves to a lawsuit. They therefore impose a company-wide policy of never saying why they reject anyone. It stinks for the rejected applicant, but it's not because they're being jerks to the rejected applicant. It's because of lawyers. If you want to fix it, you're going to have to fix the law.
Why is there any onus on him to conduct himself in any kind of appropiate manner if the contract sent to him was in turn wildly appropiate (and not even accompanied by a polite set of words)?
Sometimes I wonder is this is by design and using a dark pattern relying on the sunk cost fallacy and loss aversion... "I've already spent hours on obtaining this thing if I turn back now I've wasted all my time." It's what I truly believe some car dealerships utilize. They drag things out so that you don't actually "walk away" from the "deal" when they start pulling BS. Anyone who does this ought not be trusted. Why would/should I do business with someone that acts so shady?
I have not looked deep into this, but you might try Arch Linux ARM [1], which might have newer versions of packages (if it is anything like its x86 variant). It used to be offered on the official Rpi distro page [2] but I think it has since been removed, though I am unsure if that indicates that less effort is going into maintaining it. Regardless, I too would be very interested in scrutinizing these Raspbian security patches to see how quickly they are built and distributed compared with their release date, and if an alternative build of Raspbian that focuses on this was to be released, I would be very interested.

[1] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Thanks for the link. As I said, I believe you get downvote once you have 501 karma, not the 400 mentioned in that thread. (As an aside, that thread also notes that submissions, unlike comments, don't receive downvotes, only flags.)

I've also noticed that you have been getting additional downvotes, and that bothers me because I want people to be able to have a positive, constructive experience on HN. I think what you're perceiving as piling on is a reflection of how strongly the community values good comments, not organized behavior. If you find that a comment of yours is being downvoted, within the first two hours of posting you can edit the comment (or delete it entirely if it has no responses). This may prevent further downvoting.

A lot of your comments have been on political or contentious topics. Those are particularly difficult considering how passionate and strongly people feel about them. I'm sure that's one of the reasons you want to participate in them, because you likewise feel strongly. And that in and of itself is good. That said, while there are some political discussion on HN (and indeed more recently reflecting current events), HN isn't primarily for political debate. I suggest taking a break from those discussions and spend some time in other threads to get used to the HN community and build up karma, taking extra care in crafting what you write. I believe you can lose enough karma (once your karma is significantly negative) to the point where your comments are hidden from most members.

I hope this is constructive. If you've got further questions, feel free to ask me, or contact the mods at hn@ycombinator.com. In my experience they respond pretty quickly.
Always! But sometimes I miss the comments b/c I don't an alert when someone responds to me, sorry for the delay, hope you see this. We recycle the drives once we take them out of circulation. First we secure wipe all the of them, and then they get recycled.
Quick question for you since it seems like you are very knowledgeable.

I am the sole back end developer for a greenfield web application that is very data heavy. The application is still in alpha at the moment, but part of the development process involved prepopulating the database with about 10 mil rows or so spread out over about 15 tables. Nothing too crazy. However, once the application is launched I expect to have exponential growth in data due to the nature of the application.

Currently, this application is set up on Linode. The database server is standalone and I have the ability to spin up multiple application machines and a load balancer. Each of these application machines read from and write to the single database machine. The database machine itself has full disk image backups taken every 24 hours, 7 days, and month. I also do a manual snapshot from time to time. On top of this I also usually dump into a tar file on my own external drive every once and a while as well. I'm fairly new to devops stuff and most of my experience involves building applications and not necessarily deploying them. I'm wondering if what I'm doing as far as backups and stability is enough or if I should be incorporating other methods as well. Have any thoughts?
Yes, they do.

http://hintjens.com/blog:125
Hi,

Here to answer any questions.

I've been interviewing the past few months and a problem I was having was spending too much time between initial contact and speaking with a technical member on the team.

At the same time, there was a mismatch of qualified candidates who reached out according to some of interviewers I spoke with.

By creating a lower barrier application, focused on accomplishment and conversations, I hope to increase the quality of applicants while reducing the time from sent application to speaking with an engineer.

Also, at my old gig, there were nice referral bonuses. Engineers can also sign up and speak with potential candidates. Do proactive recruiting for your team and get rewarded.

I was inspired by the scrappiness of John Wheeler at OldGeekJobs. He started with a Google Form MVP and iterated based on the feedback. I've built a job board that no one visited before. I'm here to try a more iterative approach so any feedback is appreciated!
As the white husband of a brown wife, let me tell you, group selfies where I'm the only white guy in the picture invariably leave me washed out. Sometimes I make a point to expose for my face and everyone else darkens too much.
They built it, it's their property. If you don't like it don't buy an iDevice. For those who do buy iDevices, they can rely on Apple to ensure the quality of the apps and platform. Look at Android, it's the wild wild west, insecure and full of scammers.
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