skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your optimism about the value of your average CS degree, though I think it's completely unfounded. There are hundreds of thousands of CS degrees handed out from over a hundred accredited universities every year.

> I know that for at least four years they have been exposed to individuals who are at the top of the industry

The chances of all of those students being exposed to "individuals who are at the top of the industry" is pretty much nil (I'd even argue that folks who fit that description are not to be found in most, if not all, universities).

> peers who share the same interest and are now their close connections.

Those close connections with their peer groups is going to provide, IMO, pretty much zero value in the short term. That's a recipe for an echo chamber where programming memes are passed around and mistaken for wisdom.

In the long term, as they gain experience and learn about the real world, that's when those peer groups are going to be valuable. But by that point, if you're still looking for that CS degree, you're looking for the least valuable part of their experience.
I had state farm (auto) for a few years and at some point their algorithm just decided to screw me more than doubling my premium. My agent couldn't explain it so I just had to switch providers. Even this is basically a submarine for lemonade it'd be interesting to know how many insurers are using Machine learning and if not why not.
"Capitalism will destroy capitalism", very good! Maybe it always does by definition?
Seems like it would be simpler and easier to just build a datacenter near the ocean and pump seawater to it.

Regardless of how it works, I wonder if it's possible to get significantly more performance out of chips that are explicitly designed to operate at a much lower maximum temperature? Let's say you want to build a datacenter somewhere like the Northern coast of Alaska or Antarctica, and you have year-round reliable and abundant access to sea water that's barely above freezing, and suppose that you're willing to order enough CPUs / GPUs / bitcoin mining ASICs or whatever to justify your supplier to design and manufacture custom chips to operate in a lower temperature range. Is there some potential boon to performance or reduced manufacturing cost (due to looser tolerances) that might make such an effort worthwhile?
Since Feb 2013.
> Either you accept them all or you categorically deny them all.

"Identity politics" is not about what people say, it's about how they organize. It neither validates nor invalidates one's arguments. I reject your assertion.
Why will they keep hosting "major" press conferences for exoplanets? Don't we already know as time passes, we will discover more exoplanets like ours?
The downtrodden middle class (called "working class" elsewhere, fwiw) argument is a great one, but based on the data I am exposed to, it is not a big driver for people voting Trump. Everyone I know who voted for him is quite well off and doing nicely.
I didn't write the "unofficial" part, but I can answer the questions:

> Does it mean that people don't work on it full-time and it's a 20% project?

That there are a few of us paid full-time to work on this, plus some 20% contributors.

> Does it mean that it was developed at home without using Google's resources, so they don't have an ownership interest in it, but they are letting it be hosted on their infrastructure and announced on their blog to be nice?

No, this was developed by Google employees on Google's time.

> Does it mean that Google isn't sure how long it will want to continue to contribute resources?

I'm not sure what "Google" thinks about this, but I do know that the foreseeable future this is what I and my other teammates will be working on.

> Does it mean that support is only available on an ad-hoc basis (isn't that the case with all free Google products)?

There is definitely no support for Upspin beyond us and the community helping people on the mailing list.

> Does it mean that serious customers shouldn't rely on it to work reliably?

As is stated in the README, Upspin is still very rough. It's early days.

> Does it not really mean anything, and just thrown on there for legal protection (against what?)?

I'm not sure what "unofficial" means in this case but I hope I have answered your questions sufficiently.
Ask HN: How do you know when to run with an idea?
Entrepreneurial folks hash out new ideas all the time. How do you pick the ones that will stick?
Magnificent. This is not a partisan issue. This is a privacy issue.
It's the same story as with other similarly modelled startups like Deliveroo and UberEATs (and maybe Uber itself), both of which have slashed their groundworker's pay significantly
Ten thousands times yes. You've articulated my frustration with JT well.
Genuinely curious why you would think that the true reasons for people voting for Trump could be divined from a statistical analysis of HN posts? Is the HN posting population likely to be representative of his voters?
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The UN?

Which lines am I supposed to be reading between?
Consider that there are many underwater volcanos. A data center would be negligible.
Long time user of Putty, like many here. I liked this quote from their FAQ (A.3.3 What's the point of the Unix port? Unix has OpenSSH):

"There were development advantages as well; porting PuTTY to Unix was a valuable path-finding effort for other future ports, and also allowed us to use the excellent Linux tool Valgrind to help with debugging, which has already improved PuTTY's stability on all platforms."
F5Bot will be much, much faster. The idea is that you'd get an email when the discussion starts, and then you could go and join in.

Also, Google alerts doesn't get 100% coverage of the sites, AFAIK.
Insurance companies are _not_ hedge funds. They are also typically quite low margin, volume business. Further, in more common products such as life ins policies, the risk models are pretty heavily regulated on state/federal level.

Insurance companies make money on fees and on "using" the cash you're paying (upfront due to amortized payments) for your policies by making low- to mid- risk investments in various - typically low-liquidity - assets.

(Source: I create risk management systems for insurance companies)
> Instead of the tipping option appearing on the checkout page as it originally had, a default 10 percent “service fee” sat in its place.

If I could take a guess, I'd say this is more related to the user experience. I hate tipping. I'd rather just attach a 10-20% fee instead of needlessly evaluating someone else's performance with every delivery.

Or better yet, I'd rather just use a company that adequately pays its own employees instead of attempting to offload a portion of that cost on its customers.
Statistically Planes fall out of the sky more frequently. But flight is amazingly safe.

Given enough N number of an event, something weird will happen.

But given that outside of America's bizarre discussion - billions of people have been vaccinated, over generations, to no known trends or losses, I'd say that vaccines are worth using.

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This kind of debate is how Fox News and the rest of them made global warming into a debateable issue.

This is how creationism became credible to the general public.

You can ask these "reasonable" questions, and over fit on edge cases for anything. You can then present it to normal people and make it seem like that there is some issue.

Expert positions are discredited by saying there's a vast conspiracy, and that experts have a financial stake in the matter.

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Please stop doing this shit as a country.

You'll have perfected the art of making falsehoods credible forces in public discourse.

I could understand if this happened in some country where education was not widely available. But if it's happening in America, the first of the first world, and its deeply troubling.

These things are designed, planned and unleashed. America ends up acting as a massive proof of concept.

If you'll can't stop these kind of manufactured debates from spreading, then I don't know what the rest of the world will do.
> How many files per directory has this been tested on?

Not a massive number. The current DirServer implementation will likely run into problems once the corpus reaches a certain size. But there can be more than one DirServer implementation, as long as it satisfies the interface. (https://godoc.org/upspin.io/upspin/#DirServer)
How is Window's security model inadequate?
That's a ridiculous analogy.
Where is it advertised as "ready for prime time"? All I said was that WSL is likely now stable and compatible enough as a daily driver.

Also, remember that our primary goal for WSL right now is to provide a local development environment in which you can build, run, and test *NIX code.
But...aren't these various use cases for Neural Networks that impact regular people's lives in a significant way sooner or later going to have to show how they come up with a particular decision? And won't that be hard to do?
There are a few diamonds in the rough of academia who are still promoting free speech. Look to recipients of the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom for examples:

https://www.aaup.org/about/awards/alexander-meiklejohn-award...

Alexander Meiklejohn was a former president of Amherst College and a staunch defender of the First Amendment and the ALCU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Meiklejohn
It'd be interesting to talk about how this might work.
Same here. I think we’re fine. The certificate chains don’t show anything suspicious.
Only a racist and an Islamaphobe would want limited immigration and a strong stance against Islamic terrorism. Did you know that more people die every year of heart attacks than terrorist attacks, so we should just not do anything to stop terrorism.

Also, did you know that every single person in Mexico is actually an American! Yup, they are all 100% Americans who just haven't illegally crossed the boarder yet. As soon as they do, refusing to give them citizenship is betraying our American values as a Nation Of Immigrants (TM).
Oh god ^this. There is a particularly broken specimen of human on a skeptical website who's username reflects his obsession, "Sfseaserpent". He believes that there is a sea serpent, essentially a biblical dragon, living in the San Francisco bay. There is no amount of debating or reasoning which can move him one iota, and the most you can achieve is to cause him to stop acknowledging your existence for a time.

I have had experience elsewhere with someone who trolls various forums in an effort to spread the "good word" about Jehova. Sometimes, "The only winning move is not to play." It's not always the case, and sure, that line can be used as an excuse by people in bad faith to avoid an argument; it's still the prudent course sometimes.
I think it's possible if the labor owns the company.
I think flippyhead (hi Peter!) meant that we are able to utilize gravitational lensing to see beyond the natural limit of our telescopes.
I really can't see the benefit of submerging these -- the complexity involved with keeping out several hundred PSI of sea water just doesn't seem to make sense to me.

For the cooling aspect, they're already using pumped water and heat exchangers. What is the benefit of submersion vs just pumping sea water from a pipe to a land, or barge-based datacenter and using that to cool?
Yeah, the other side has no worthy opponents, THAT'S the problem.

/sarcasm
Are any of their competitors better? They seem pretty cheap (at least compared to banks) and they can't get much faster - once I sent money from the UK in the morning and it arrived in my Euro account on the other side of the continent the same afternoon.
Yes. AI is the marketing name for complex algorithms that nobody really know how they work or why they do what they do.

This will ruin countless lives.
Recent AWS presentation showed off very less dense server configurations than any commercial vendor typically offers.

I guessed, i forget now if there was specific mention, that airflow simply costs a lot more than I first realized, after all i am only dumping host fan exhausts into someone else's co'lo design, which then has to deal with that. I bet it's substantially different, owning the whole building.

So, what if just submerging containers or pods of servers in cold sea water, combined with unforced airflow designs, was a passive cooling possibility?

After all, in theory, there's no surrounding facility to cool, and space is unlikely to be a major direct cost factor.

Despite I wonder, given land reliably increases in value, whether, once land acquisition is factored out, the kind of permits and early studies might bring costs back again.(excluding design NRE)

Marine insurance struck me as a important unknown.

I grew up by the Channel coast in England, and i can't imagine anyone allowing heavy containers to be anchored or moored where they might break free into shipping lanes, without quite detailed study and assurances.
The caveat is that you lose whatever taxes you paid on exercising unvested shares. Gotta be really careful with that, as the taxes could cost way more than the exercise itself.
There's another interesting use-case: OAuth is in its extensions (OpenID Connect & XACML) can be used to create an attributes-based access control system (ABAC) (as distinct from an identity-based or roles-based one). The benefits of such a system are:

- It can be privacy preserving. Say you want to buy booze from an online bottle shop. In real life, you'd usually flash your ID to meet the over 18/21 legal requirement. But by doing this you're leaking a tonne of unnecessary information (your name, your address, even your date of birth). One implementation of an ABAC might be that you prove your identity to a mutually trusted third-party, who than asserts to the bottle shop that your attribute of 'over18' == True (this is a rough description of OpenID Connect). So the only thing the bottle shop learns about you is the only thing it needs to legally know.

- Flexibility. Say you're unemployed and receive welfare from the government. Under a roles-based system, they'd attach a role to your identity along the lines of 'is entitled to receive welfare'. However, if any aspect of government policy changes (e.g. an additional requirement that you have to be over 6 feet tall), they would have to audit each account and update the roles. Under an ABAC, they'd simply update the ABAC policy, and access control decisions would be made according to the new policy (assessed against your asserted attributes). It also means that access to new types of resources don't necessarily require new roles to be added to the system: it might already be covered by existing attributes within the system (i.e. attributes can be recombined in different ways to allow very finely grained access control without the overhead of maintaining an ever-growing list of roles).
For personal laptop I used two external hard drive as Time Machine backup.

For web app I store the mysqldump to Amazon S3 daily.
So then your answer is no, because then the venture owners don't own the company.
No problem at all. But the question was about Linux being free. And it's a good bet that a hardware manufacturer probably isn't going to ship with a community-supported distro with no support.
I have similar questions after seeing the example monthly rates they give for the competition. I've never in my life paid that much for renter's insurance, it's always been around ~100/year. Progressive and Geico (reselling Travelers), mainly.

So I just kinda assume it doesn't apply to me, or are best-case edge scenarios where they judge risk of certain customers dramatically differently. But it certainly can't be "legacy insurers have enormous overheads, making a $60 product ($5/month) impossible" as a unique advantage, since I pay $75 a year today.

(And it does cover property damage liability, not simply personal property, something they seem to indicate their own does not: "Renters insurance covers personal property, rather than real-estate." Maybe they mean renters policies usually carry less property coverage, like $100K instead of full value of the property, I don't know, but it's just another weird thing in a weird-reading sales pitch that doesn't seem to apply to the world I've been living in.)
Selective outrage over free speech is biased. If you take a stand for free speech you do it both inside and outside the institution. Where is his outrage over lies and hate speech from the President? Words can be weapons and quelling one side only is arming the other.
They have tens of thousands of customers, yet are worth multiple billions of dollars (valued at $2bn in 2015.)

That's just incredible.

Let's say they have 100k customers who each use the service every week. That's 5.2m orders per year.

Let's say $100 per order, to be generous. At a 10% service fee, that's $50m for a two-year-old 40x revenue multiple. Before paying their contracted workforce.

This does not make sense.

EDIT

What I'm really getting at is that these are optimistic numbers, in the wealthiest country in the world, that just elected a populist president (partially) due to economic insecurity.

What is the market for +10% on groceries and basic necessities?

EDIT2

It may be tens of thousands of contractors, not customers (thanks @trevyn!) This is confusing, since I'm not sure what verb to use for the end user on Instacart. ("I am _______ on Instacart" (consuming, shopping, grocing?))

Regardless, my number could be an order of magnitude off. I stand by the conclusion.
Access network drives?

Via SSH? Sure.

Via Samba? Yep: https://www.samba.org/~garming/

If you mean MOUNT network drives, then, not yet, alas. But yes we're keen to build that support when we can.
Sorry, no, your link actually supports my point.

> The interests of slaveholding states may have influenced the choice of the Electoral College as the mode of electing the president. James Wilson proposed a direct election by the people, but gained no support and it was decided the president was to be elected by congress. When the entire draft of the constitution was considered, Gouverneur Morris brought the debate back up and decided he too wanted the people to choose the president. James Madison agreed that election of the people at large was the best way to go about electing the president, but he knew that the less populous slave states would not be influential under such a system, and he backed the Electoral College. Another factor here was the so-called Three-Fifths Compromise, which gave added power to the slaveholding states under the Electoral College which they would not have had under any likely form of popular vote.[1]

This is clear recognition that the electoral college was seen as amenable to the interests of the less populous slave-holding states. The 3/5 compromise increased the number of representatives for slaveholding states relative, and number of representatives is a factor in the number of electors to the college.

Moreover, simply because Hamilton claims something in a Federalist paper does not mean it was the only consideration in the support of an electoral college. Wikipedia (incidentally, no, I do not agree it is a better source at all) even supports this point by noting that Madison supported direct election, as did James Wilson and Governeur Morris. Madison noticed that the slaveholding states would not consent to such a method of election.

Your claim could not be more wrong and you are twisting the evidence to unequivocally deny an argument there is very real evidence for.
Uhmm... maybe you're not there yet but we had a civil war a hundred years after the revolutionary war :).
What about spam? Disqus has some sort of filter for that, right?
If the process is entirely automated and consistently deliverable? Sure. But then that's not really exploiting labor.

For me, if I wouldn't be comfortable asking a neighbor who was less well off than me if they'd mind dropping off my laundry for $10 a month, I'm not going to do it via a shiny website.
It makes a lot of sense if you know how perverse financial markets are. The difference between those millions and those billions is the perceived potential of the company. All you need is some investment banker becoming convinced that noone wants to visit physical stores anymore, and suddenly money starts pouring into companies supporting that view of the future, almost regardless of whether they are actually profitable or are creating any real value.
Falling prey to hateful speech is not an affliction, it's a symptom of one.

Rationality is postponed when people are unhappy.
Would I be able to setup Linux environment in VS? i.e. would I be able to include and write POSIX application with this update?
That until won't last long. I know for a fact FB was negotiating last year with a few big insurance companies. Many individual metrics correlated to insurance risk are already available to FB customers, but the FB standard terms limit their use currently.
Virus checkers can stop intrusion and hence help integrity.

They can't (or actually don't) prevent loss of confidentiality.

Companies that run these MITM proxies are also protecting against deliberate extrusion of sensitive data.
Yes, the costs result in obvious discrimination against the poor and working class.
I'm sure no one in the insurance industry has thought of using AI....
It seems you've concocted this fantasy where "SJWs" are hunting down anybody who dares to discuss immigration and driving them out of town with pitchforks. I'm sure you believe this but it has no basis in reality. In fact what you'll find if you step back and look at the bigger picture is that (1) the debate around immigration isn't new, it's been going on literally since the birth of the Republic (2) for most of the Republic's history both the State and the people have been violently anti-immigrant and (3) this has moderated and most respectable polls on America now show a population that largely welcomes diversity [1].

My own theory is that immigration is just a symbol that culture warriors like to throw around. It doesn't mean anything in itself. It's not like the situation in Europe where you've seen recent spikes in immigration, in fact by most accounts (largely due to the poor economy) immigration has lessened in America. The thing that changed really was the complete, unreserved embrace of immigration as "the greatest evil" by the right.

The real point being that... it's certainly possible to have reasonable discussions about immigration. Up until -- I want to say the late 70s -- this happened all the time. But reasonable discussion is no longer possible about this topic. The people pushing for it have constructed a paradigm where immigration is going to destroy America and anybody who doesn't see this is a stupid... SJW. There's no facts, no evidence, just propaganda and fear.

So that's where we are and it's unlikely to change any time soon. The challenge now will be having a democracy and constructing policy when a good chunk of the people have abandoned the rationalist tradition.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/06/diversity-we...
Indeed. The author charges for access to his premium content (and value added services) so obviously it is not worthless.
Or the cost of the tape-out outweighs the number of customers using the feature.
What problem was Instacart trying to solve here? I use Amazon Prime Now and Google Express, but don't really factor in the tip when I think how much Prime costs me. I don't make that many orders though, so maybe people feel it as an additional cost over time.
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