skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The donation pay what you want model suggests that the developers think the product might not be worth anything. My advice for a business: figure out how much you need to charge to make enough money to run the business and charge well in excess of that. If people pay it, then there's a business. If they won't then there is not. If the developers are unwilling to charge money then it's not a business...which is ok so long as nobody pretends it is one.
In my experience, qualitative arguments of the form above rarely change people's minds but a quantitative model will help.

The question asked is the causal network that contributes to mathematical genius and the distribution of contributing causal factors within the population -- P(genius | factors)

Various factors are clearly involved: P(genius | intelligence), P(genius | hard work), P(genius | self-confidence), and so on.

If we accept that those functions are probably not uniformly distributed and that some have a stronger impact than others, we can see that most arguments can be reduced to describing those functions or describing the distributions of those factors among the population.

Where most educated people's intuitions lead them astray is that the experience of segregation in higher education and employment has led them to vastly underestimate the actual variance in factors like intelligence, hard work and self-confidence among people.

Vanishingly few individual actually possess the right combination of factors required for mathematic genius.
You're half right

>Organic food is just for rich countries who can afford to produce food inefficiently in order to feel good about themselves.

The organic label is bullshit and has no consistent meaning. However, there is a difference between the farmer who grows for maximum yield and the artisan who tries to maximize taste.

I think many people confuse the label organic with higher quality foods, hybrids, and heirlooms or more generally quality.
Very nice demo and explanation of concepts. Thanks.
The original comment was comparing maps and folds to loops, not the general application of maps.
What I am saying, is that the two biggest complaints that women who have worked in this industry have stated to me, are being hit on, and being harassed. Not as a single incident, but as a pattern. The only argument you could make against this is that I'm lying, and women haven't actually said these things to me.
Thanks! I usually go to TurboTax for accounting needs on a personal and side project basis, since I'm fairly literate in tax processes and personal/side project income isn't very complicated. Any personal experience on a local accountant being better for you than a service like TurboTax?
Generative adversarial networks in Deep learning.

Basically, it pits two networks in a "duel" and one of them is a generator network that learns to make images.
Math is a high IQ game. Anyone who tells you otherwise is kidding themselves.
well than it won't go bancrupt I guess... There is not really a competitor.
Happened to me in Germany as well. I always wonder about the incentive to the bad guy, but it is really great considering the hassel of getting all the new documents is far worse than the loss of the money I usually carry with me. The police even adviced me to wait some days before starting to apply for new documents, because this happens in most cases.
The FCC is dropping its probe into zero rating
Certainly much nicer than the traditional way of doing this :)
What is better with avy?
I don't disagree that those are risks, and I do not like the large agriculture firms or the climate of that business from what I've read. I'm with you here.
not necessarily. Most of the people commenting here seem to agree the relentless march of technology is good and desirable. It's probably just old people that don't.
I work part time at a drug store and people over 50 constantly make comments about "that new chip card" or "this computer age". I always pin it on lack of adaptability and then make a joke about it on r/lewronggeneration or something
> I was alarmed at how often I checked Facebook chat.

A bit unrelated to your broader point, but I recently dropped my phone and shattered the camera lens, and have been astonished at how much less I'm using social media. It's even more surprising because I don't actually post that much and don't take a ton of photos relative to others.
I love your Just For Func videos! I wondered if you could make one explaining pointers in Go. No explanation I've found really settles in for me, and while I'm getting a 'feel' for them writing more code and getting feedback from the compiler, I'd like to find a good explanation of them. I'm asking you specifically because you have a really great way of explaining things, and a warm presentation style. Either way, thanks for all you've given through your talks and videos!
Sorry:
Cela n'est aucunement une loi "Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees" (Article 1(A)(2))
Le sénat et l'assemblé nationale n'ont pas leurs mots à dire. C'est des juges et des fonctionnaires qui statuent.
A more familiar example to many on HN of the same regrettable response would be the way React was first received. Despite having an interesting approach to solving some common practical problems in web development, and despite the underlying theory being tried and tested in other contexts, some people seemed to reject it just because it didn't maintain a clear separation of HTML, CSS and JS code, which in their minds was a deal-breaker even though there's no objective reason that such a separation is necessary.
In San Francisco, I regularly watch people jump the turnstile in front of crowds and usually an apathetic BART operator and no one cares.
> Most of my content has a universal appeal by design.

Maybe you've just gotten used to this idea? It is possible your data is vastly different from other individuals, even if it appears universal on the surface. It is very easy to feel exempt from scrutiny if one thinks their data is only included into "safe" or "popular" categories or topics.

(Not entirely related, but this type of uncertainty helped me rationalize the deletion of my Facebook account.)
My field is hypnosis, or more generally, "changework" which is jargon, but essentially hacking the psychology of clients to get desired outcomes.

There's been a renaissance of study in placebo effects, meditation, and general frameworks for how people change belief for therapeutic purposes or otherwise, but to me, that's been going on for a long time and is more about acceptance than being a new development.

One of the most exciting developments that's been coming out recently is playing with language to do what's called context-free conversational change.

Essentially, you can help someone solve an issue without actually knowing the details or even generally what they need help with. It's like homomorphic encryption for therapy. A therapist can do work, a client can report results, but the problem itself can be a black box along with a bit of the solution as well since much of the change is unconscious.

It works better with feedback (a conversation) of course, but often can be utilized in a more canned manner if you know the type of problem well enough.

I'm working on putting together an automated solution that's based on some loose grammar rules, NLP, Markov chains, and anything else I can use to help a machine be creative in language to help people solve their own problems, but as a first step as a useful tool for beginner therapists to help them get used to the ideas and frameworks with language to use.

So essentially, I'm getting a good chunk of the way toward hacking on a machine that can reliably work on people's problems without having to train a full AI or anything remotely resembling real intelligence, just mimicking it.

Before you go thinking, "Didn't they do that with Eliza?" Well yes, in a way, but my implementation is using an entirely different approach.
Thanks. And I see from the downvote on my comment above that it is offensive to suggest that Canada might have a policy that favors the employee more than the employer.

Mussolini would be proud of these pro-employer watchdogs...
>I think you are ignoring the fact that for some people, the manipulation of the analog media is part of the joy.

No, I'm not ignoring that aspect and I understand that physical touch of media can add enjoyment for some people.

What I disagree with is the constant biased narrative from writers that emphasizes analog media's attributes. That perspective presents a one-sided view favoring analog such as:

1) physical media you can touch is better than digital bits you can't touch

2) ownership is better than subscription (Spotify streaming)

3) listening in 20-minute side of 1 album is better than instantly jumping around a large music library

... ergo, analog is overall better than digital consumption. (As I stated before, I disagree as a person who straddles both the vinyl and digital eras. I've had extensive experience with both formats and the digital experience is better in my case. Many people besides me have come to this same conclusion.)

Yes, holding in your hand a vinyl album's cover art and reading its lyrics can add joy to music but there's also the opposite view that seems uncool to write about: there's also joy in not handling physical media. It's this second perspective I'm emphasizing and it doesn't take away from anyone who prefers their vinyl records.
I am sorry but I disagree. Even if you have the money to fully investigate every patient you may not be able to help them all. You can probably tell better who might have some chance and who is almost lost but aside from that, no sorry, not yet for quite some time. And also sorry, but survivors bias also sometimes makes us think that some kind of treatment worked, but it may also have been pure luck.

(Background: My colleque (MD PhD) who works in a precision oncology project from the bioinforatics side just lost a friend where he and other specialists where involved in the treatment. And that was not an exception. The search space of what might be the issue is just to big, the human population is to small to solve some genetic twirks (yet, hopefully).)

Edit: Sorry, overread your point about the not allowed treatment. You are right, the colleque above is able to predict better treatment in 65% of cases that gets applied only in 25% of patients (of total). Still, I would not go so far and say that those alternative treatments should also be applied right away because we would not know what would happen and while it may be good, side effects are a serious issue that cost lives, the hospital potentially millions (we are in europe, thank god) and are of limited scientific value. Studies will be done in to these treatments at a point in the near future but that may not help the current patients. This might sound cruel to you but it is probably the best we can do. Untested treatments are a serious problem, no good doctor would want to have anything to do with that, sorry.
"waste time at a party" - CMON, I get the point he's making, but like, parties ARE fun. Reading about the life of a character in a book will never replace living a life in first person.
Interesting podcast about mTor and where Sirolimus (Rapamycin) was found.

http://tim.blog/2016/10/20/my-life-extension-pilgrimage-to-e...
These Burner Phones Can Help You Evade Data Snoops
So there are many fields of math, and you find you're good at one type,and even be a genius in that field...
Thanks!

Unfortunately it's not available to try. I spent a lot of time building it in my free time and eventually got burnt out :/ It's still not to a point where it's usable (it's edit only). I'd love to revisit the project in some form, but time/money/other projects are obstacles at the moment.

I still think the concept has merit, but the implementation is more difficult than it seems (including lower-level design decisions, e.g., like the discussion in the other comment here). Good luck to you if you do give it a try, though. If nothing else, you'll probably learn a lot ;)

There's a little more info on the project here, btw, if you're curious: http://westoncb.com/projects/tiledtext
Maybe it's because I don't have the "depth"
of some of the HN users, but Go feels great to me.

I doubt I have any more depth than you as a programmer, but I've gone one step farther than you down the language safety progression, so maybe my thoughts from here will be interesting.

When I moved from Python to Go not only did my code become more safe, I actually became a better programmer. There are a lot of silly things that you can do in Python that you can justify saying "just this once!" or "it's only temporary!" that are much harder to do with Go. I started writing a lot less complicated functions that did different things with different types, and moved to writing simpler, single purpose functions whenever possible. This was great and I learned a lot.

Then I moved from Go to Haskell, and the same thing happened again.

Haskell makes you specify whether a type can be null or not. It has referential transparency, so you can't mutate variables as a side effect of a function. It has sum types, eg:

data User = Unauthenticated | Normal UserId | Admin UserId

.. that make it really easy to enforce invariants and are also super convenient to use because of pattern matching. I write a lot less "stringly typed" code now than I did when using Python or Go.

Now there are downsides -- Go has a great standard library, and it's tooling is fantastic (even down to little things like gofmt). I'm not saying you'd have a better experience with Haskell, just that there are real reasons why someone wouldn't want to go back after trying a more featureful language than Go.
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I first heard this 13 years ago. A friend visited an airline, and had a set of cables pointed out to him: "That's the feed to the NSA".

I thought it was well known that the NSA had feeds into the airline reservation system. We know for sure that the CBP gets data from all flights which overfly the US, or which might overfly the US.

There are well known stories about planes making unscheduled landings in the US (emergency, storm, delays, etc). Cue CBP opening the front doors, walking down the aisle, and pulling one guy off the plane.

"Sorry sir, you are forbidden to enter the US, and you have just done so illegally. You're under arrest".

Except for most people, we haven't cleared customs, and haven't tried to enter the States. So the rest of the passengers are "OK". Mostly.

This is known as having your cake and eating it, too.
In my experience writing go is very fast and reading go is also very fast. The language was designed to be very comfortable, and they did a great job with that. You sit down to write something and you don't have to think too much about the best way to tackle the problem, the lines of code just flow from your fingertips. There's mostly one way to do everything, which makes doing things easy.

Code review is much the same.
Isomorphic Node.js app with react and redux to help students to revise for GCSE
Overlap – really cool effect for combining several styles of the same UI object
I have always liked this one:

http://eloquentjavascript.net
It is very advanced at dealing with the negative externalities its own system creates ;)

The gantries cause drivers to congest other roads, to stop in the middle of the road near the turn of the hour to try to lower the fee required... I'm sure there's billing errors.

In Singapore, we call it "Every Road- Pay".

Sure we have low income taxes, but this is a less than desirable way to make up for it.
It's not just that: introductory Calculus at even community colleges is designed to weed students out instead of emphasizing on teaching and comprehension. With tactics like curves, rushed test-taking, unrelated material on exams, poor lectures, and a "learn it yourself or die" attitude it's clear that many types of different learners are not given a fair shake.

That is to say, many bright students who may be good at Math someday (like Hadamard) are unceremoniously kicked out of Math fields because of the sink or swim nature of teaching today either through lack of confidence or simple inability to muster the proper grades.

This makes you wonder: how many potential geniuses in Mathematics or other STEM fields are we losing due to darwinian teaching tactics? I suspect many more than we're willing to admit.
while I encourage the practice, the argumentation of political unpredictability is a little light.
How Many Startups Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
The strange thing is seeing record players for vinyl that output to a USB port. Or even Bluetooth. Huh?
Couldn't agree more. If .NET Core had been around 5 years ago, I never would have bothered to learn Rails. That's not a knock against Rails (ASP.NET still can't touch their "it just works" asset pipeline), but I've been a C# developer for much longer, and a Linux fan for even longer. So it's awesome that I can finally have my cake and eat it too.

C# has become such a joy for me to work with. The language itself has been progressing at an impressive pace without adding too much superfluous stuff or making it unwieldy. I feel like it's gotten to the point that most of the pain of strong typing is gone without sacrificing any of the benefits.
America's Biggest Asphalt Plant Is Shutting
Except iq is a terrible metric....
Prisons should be home to people you're afraid of, not for people you're mad at. It seems that a lot of prosecutors forget that (for a multitude of reasons)
I read somewhere that hes incredibly smart, but very lazy. Just because he didnt do too well ealier on dosent mean he's not a genius. Most people no matter how much they work, still won't achieve 1/100th of what he did.
JavaScript – Application Version Manager
I also enjoy it, but just wanted to note that Go is not really a systems programming language, unless you mean "cloud/network systems".
thanks, for such a nice comment :)
I think they look quite stylish, in a nerdy sort of way! Some day young hipsters with good eyesight will be wearing huge klunky glasses like that but without any lenses, just to look cool. They could even include big batteries and a USB phone charger!
Any examples you can point to of adaptive UIs?
Distributed Object Storages Seeweedfs and Minio
How do Minio.io and Seeweedfs compare in stability and ease of use in applications
I found it fascinating that the question we're asking is wrong. It shouldn't be "Why do women leave engineering?" it should be "Why do men stay in higher proportions?". It seems that being arrogant makes working as an engineer more palatable. I know I suffer from this problem and many of the men I know in engineering do too. So between dealing with self-doubt (the imposter syndrome) and being around a bunch of oblivious ego maniacs, why would anyone stick around?

Honestly, this article just fed my confirmation bias. I have (ashamedly) believed that the reason there were so few women around me in engineering (specifically software engineering) is because they were too smart to be lured into the mind-numbing, sedentary, OCD-laden field by money alone. Leaving the number of women in the field approximately the same as the number of men who genuinely enjoy it. The rest of us are just out for a paycheck that most women deem "not worth it" (especially if the pay is not equal -- separate but related issue). I know that there are many cases that are not this simplistic, but in my experience, I have only seen women leave teams I was on for the same reasons as men (better position/pay elsewhere). I have never seen or heard of any Mad Men style harassment or the like in my immediate environment. I'm not sure if the coloration I have of normalcy is skewed by my experience or if the coverage of the gender gap has colored everyone else's. I'm sure this is what we're all asking ourselves in this industry the more this topic is covered. Regardless, it seems that we can't have these kinds of conversations as a country until pay is equal.
Thank you for the answer.
Do you happen to have an English translation of your comment? The forum is overwhelmingly English; while we could use a service like Google Translate, it might be better if you posted a translation of which you approve.
It lacks any kind of purity

What language is pure anything? Even Smalltalk wasn't pure Objects. Programming languages are pretty complex. If you look deep enough, you'll find the leak in the abstractions.
There was no exit, the people waiting in the checkout lines blocked the only possible exit.
It will be shocking if there's a 2:1 female:male ratio at the bleeding edge of math anytime in the next century, even if word problems are required at lower levels. As for the rest of the fields, I suspect the media as currently constituted to celebrate rather than lament, when they can no longer ignore the situation entirely.

[EDIT:] 'HeavenBanned's sibling comment should be restored; it's a good point that is seldom made about math.
5 ways to build a tech career
Fallacious first paragraph. Not everyone has the potential to become a genius en math, or any other discipline for that matter.
It enables their follow and fork functionality

Doesn't WAL replication only let you restore a full cluster, not a single DB? How do they get around that?
For Android you can use Firefox and ublock origin. FF allows you to use add-ons.
Well put. The important thing is to see what the tradeoffs actually are. Unseen tradeoffs often look like obvious wrongness.
There was no path to exit other than waiting in line behind shoppers waiting to pay for their items.
It's more than "bland." There's a whole lot of "just works" in the whole ecosystem.

Now, say you're a Google exec, you know you're losing a ton of developer hours as people ramp up

Why wouldn't ramp-up time be a big company's most significant cost?
If you tax vacancy then you're discouraging vacancy which would encourage non-vacancy (decreasing vacancies). The Empty Home (Vacancy) tax is to encourage owners to either sell their vacant property (which would increase supply and lower prices) or lower rents on their vacant properties to find tenants and fill their home. The goal is to decrease vacant (empty) homes and lower housing costs for people that desire to live there.
His last point about poverty destroying genius was what really struck me. I remember reading that 71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day. That doesn't seem to be enough to get a decent education and contribute meaningfully to any field. This means that the world is working at 30% capacity. Our species only gets innovations from the 30% of inventors, entrepreneurs, politicians, scientists who were born in circumstances that allow them to contribute. How many more Srinivasa Ramanujans are there scattered throughout the world who simply didn't run into an obscure textbook or write to all the worlds top mathematicians. What would our species be like if we were working at closer to 100% capacity in terms of scientific innovations and discoveries.
I've been looking at Stripe Atlas. For $500 (early access) they do all the paperwork for you, but that's for a C-Corp. I'd also be interesting in resources for other types of businesses, as I'm not sure which direction I want to go in.
Nope, it's a high logico-mathematics IQ game (no shit ?), Which is only part of IQ.
DEs are one thing, but the biggest issue was a split over programming interfaces. One that has yet to be rectified even with the efforts of Freedesktop (in large part "Hijacked" by Gnome, Icaza's creation in the DE schism).

In the end the problem is likely the same as we are seeing on the web. People loves to code, not write specifications and sticking to them.
I'd just like to note that math in early years is taught as rote memorization problems and doing things over and over again like memorization. Contrast this with higher level math which is highly creative...
Yeah, systems programming != distributed systems. I think Rust is a better example of a modern "systems" language.
How do you define 'high IQ'? +30 from height of bell curve or how much exactly?