skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who was born in the US but his parents are Iranian. I am friends with him since we were 5 years old. This guy is the opposite of a threat to this country, but he's pretty much stopped traveling internationally after he was detained and accused of bringing rocket launchers into the country by some stupid border agent who ended up just trying to be "tough" on him to see if he would crack.
All of my colleagues who transitioned to running their own consulting firms did so by leveraging existing relationships with their employer's ex-clients. This is in conflict with every one of their non-competes. Since then they've built their businesses mostly on referrals. This is not what anyone would advise you to do but it's what I've seen pay the bills. YMMV.
Of the 48M, somehow 31.6M of them are inexplicably One Direction fans
Singapore is a bad example. How about a (hypothetical) guy/gal learning ML from Coursera and living in a remote village in Indonesia? No way to go to college because it's simply too far and he/she has to support their family. The person stumbled upon Kaggle, and started to compete with the best in the world.

Only Kaggle has the full data to be able to make an accurate decision. I don't really think indexing account pages is even remotely enough to find the really talented people among the noise.

I think Google acquired Kaggle for one of the following two reasons: 1) they wanted to expand their talent acquisition reach[1], or 2) they wanted to build a platform like Kaggle aimed at Google Cloud, but figured out that it was just easier to acquire Kaggle itself.

[1]: Google will NEVER be satisfied with its talent pool given their size and rate of expansion. The company is prepared to do a ton -- perhaps even acquiring Kaggle -- to get the best of the best, wherever they are.
That's also what GIMP has right :) They added the (IMO perfectly useless) standard menu for the unacquainted...
Heh, personally, it feels like 80% of twitter are various "Social Media Automation Tools" following and retweeting each other.
This person has little understanding of evolution or genetics. Seems a strange article to post here.

To be positive the reason the lactase persistence allele has become very frequent in Northern Europe was not due to a population bottle neck, but due to the small selective effect of being able to extract more nutrition from milk than those without it. The people with the gene had more children (on average) that survived to adulthood and so over a couple of thousand years the allele came to become very frequent in some populations. This is evolution in action.
Exercise changes the way our bodies work at a molecular level
If there's a solar flare big enough to destroy every computer on earth, you won't have a chance to care about gold in the aftermath.
> [•••] selling and relationships are the most difficult things to master for a consulting company and you will die without those skills.

How about outsourcing the sales part?
It works, until you try to drive a car. And then you'll find that your reaction times and coordination are not what you think they are.

Personal experience, caused an accident when I was 23 this way and learned an important lesson: don't drive without having rested.
I don't have a problem with that, necessarily, if the 7-11 robber is using a gun.

But still, the Crazy Eddie guys should have gotten more time. They probably would, today.
IBM has figured out how to store data on a single atom
A friend is blind. The iPhone+voiceover is his primary means of conducting business. We've often talked about UX. Here's what I've learned:

Voiceover is currently an extra layer over a visual interface. So, it amplifies the gesture cost of a visual+touch UI.

After writing a NLP interface for a productivity app, I learned that most of the verbal interaction took less time the visual alternative. It didn't matter if you were sighted or blind. Fitt's law meant that navigating a visual+touch UI was too slow.

So, I'm now working on a verbal+touch UI. In that regard, voiceover users are power users.
Cosma Schema wants to help spaceflight companies
Thank you for your response, but I'd like to understand modern perspectives in the frequentist vs Bayesian debate. I know that in the past, Bayesian methods were oftentimes impossible to use in non-trivial analyses because calculating the integral over the probability of the data was infeasible.

But now that we have efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms along with fast and inexpensive computers for sampling from posterior distributions, why isn't every statistician embracing Bayesian methods if they provide so many benefits over the classical approach?
Nope. Nothing was destroyed. Usd moved from one account to another. Nobody dug up vegetables. Nobody planted any.
No, what you're saying is that the simulation would mess with our observations - but our basic logical axioms are not dependent on observations to be valid - that's why they're axioms! They are used as valid starting points in reasoning, and nothing the simulation does could change that.
From my experience I see managing output is far better than managing time. Also, it's showing bad attitude when your team is playing games.
>I obviously have to disagree and I want to stress again that I am talking about the way the term free will is commonly used, not about the way it should be used. Go and ask people.

The "way most people understand it" is a little moot point, because most people don't really think about it that much. So when asked they just say some hazy and generic version of what it means.

Unlike programmers and logicians, lay people are quite bad at giving precise definitions -- and thinking what those definitions imply.

Philosophy has investigated free will for millennia, and has frequently (if not almost always) gone beyond the naive immediate understanding of the term by laymen.

>Here I just want to note that this interpretation might have its very own problems, especially what constitutes external influence? What if steak is out? Or if the restaurant is on fire? What if I force you at gunpoint to order fish? What if I kidnapped you twenty years ago and only gave you fish for four years so that you hate fish today? What if you are under the influence of drugs?

Those are still fine for free will. Even at gunpoint, one is still the one taking the choice (they could chose to die just as well). Free will doesn't imply arbitrarily bending the universe to one's will, or that nobody puts hard problems on the agent of free will.

Else, Sophie wouldn't have much reasons to feel bad for her choice.

>and I would not be to surprised if, upon close inspection and careful definition, it turns out that the agent is identical with the past light cone of the decision.

Perhaps, but the decisions are made at the edge of different light cones -- which are the different persons.
why wouldn't you build a fortification like a house to keep the beasts at bay?
This reminds me of the Onion Talks episode, "Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought"[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY
"Everyone who has an opinion on how Bitcoin is doing is the same person."
Does iPhone has a firewall? Or does one have to trust Apple and app developers that they won't collect a single byte of "anonymous" "analytics"?
I can't vouch for it myself, but the Django Girls tutorial [1] is the resource I hear recommended most often for learning Django without any prior programming experience.

[1]: https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/
Moom for Mac is great with near perfect functionality. Hover over the "Fullscreen" button and you can select by a customizable grid for size and placement. Also quick half sized options.
Things like this, more than anything else, are what makes me wonder how anyone can view Republicans as anything short of working against their constituents. It just baffles me.

Why would anyone want this?
Hey cosmorocket — I've gone on a similar endeavor last year starting my own full-time, one-man company focusing on contract software development. Most of my work is independent contracting vs freelance though I'm starting to experiment more. I'm also doing related work such as (paid) technical writing. Having this flexibility is perhaps the biggest advantage to me. So far all work is purely contracting, not consulting, though the terms seem to be thrown around interchangeably these days. My business website is sparse but is at [1] for reference.

I've found that finding clients is not as big of a challenge as envisioned. Marketing / sales / and all that turned out to be pretty irrelevant in my use case. I also didn't bother making a portfolio — my best work is private low-level backend dev that can't easily be shared and often not even discussed (this is a challenge). So far I've received most work based on personal reputation as opposed to any type of proposal or competitive process.

Partnerships are very helpful — being able to recommend a front end dev or graphic designer on a whim is a big service to your clients. This one I underestimated initially and am still working on developing a nice organized rolodex (and currently seeking software to simplify the approach).

Feel free to reach out if I can provide any other relevant thoughts from my experience (email in profile).

[1]: http://www.edmistonsoftware.com/
Thanks for comment, it makes sense. Do you do anything to increase people productivity? for example: I hate to see people playing games in the office, but I know at the same time that it might be healthy to have this kind of freedom.
Discretionary secondary screenings can have a lot to do with appearing nonthreatening. If the guard has a quota to hit (even an unstated one) and wants to minimize effort spent on dumb secondary screenings, it pays to choose people who won't put up a struggle.
The part I preferred is this one:

> HAL has to be extremely careful before committing the first murder. It is possible that he wasn't entirely familiar with the EVA procedure, it being one of the few tasks on board the Discovery that does not require his participation. Perhaps he needed to observe a dry run to study the astronaut's actions and calculate when he would be most vulnerable.
So... which country earned your respect? Out of interest in people's perception of human rights.
When you get a package of what-should-be drugs from China or Colombia or anywhere, who's to say what's actually in it?

It depends. Someone looked at PDE5 inhibitors (i.e. Viagra) purchased from online pharmacies and found that their products were accurately labeled. They were "own-brand" and from a clandestine lab, however the product was what is claimed to be. But these pharmacies rely on repeat customers and word-of-mouth, that encourages them to be responsible.

Dunno about opiates. If the customers seek consistent quality and use a "research chemical" website instead of a guy on a street corner this may actually be a step in the right direction, you get consistent quality, and opiate addicts with a regular supply of drug are surprisingly functional.

The patent literature is vast and the pharmacology established. You don't have to resort to the kind of experimentation that Shulgin did when he worked on phenethylamines (i.e. amphetamines).
My solutions of Psets of CS50. Only for viewing Do not write off :)
What are your practices to manage output?
> and unfortunately, the fact that modern medical science just does not have effective treatments available for some of these conditions.

I suspect that many psychiatric illnesses are indicative of metabolic disorders, and/or malnourishment. An effort to apply the findings of physiology to psychiatric practice would certainly lead to an Understanding that would allow effective treatments to become mainstream.

> Branding these people as criminals and throwing them in prison is outright cruel.

In the future the 'war on plants' will certainly be recognized as a crime against humanity, or at least as society's autoimmune disease.
Clarifications:

decimal: Not base 10, but fractional, those with a decimal point
binary: Not just 0 or 1, but base 2.

0.01 is a binary positive decimal number which is 0.25 in base 10.
Awesome work, this seems like something pulled from the future.

One quick question have you considered including Python related stuff?
I abhor status meetings with the round-robin format. As an individual contributor I love to collaborate with anti-meeting managers. The catch is to get the IC's to provide timely information on successes and blocks. I like the idea of asking that all the IC's email announcements of their successes as they happen. There's one less reason for the "status" meeting. The rest of the equation is to get people to automatically network about their blocks. That takes care of another major, routine component of status meeting. Now it can be valuable to workshop or otherwise, in one place, collaborate about a problem. I once had a manager who supported classic-form scrums. He was the one who had the Outlook fu for scheduling a meeting on the calendar, so he scheduled the scrums, but he did not appear at the scrums. He did circulate among his reports, but he didn't have to have long conversations with them, because all the other mechanisms were getting the work done.

A regularly-scheduled meeting tends to become the ONE channel for communication, and with such a meeting on the calendar it is a little unconvincing for a manager to say that they want to hear about blockers before the meeting instead of during it.
> What's amazing to me is that this question of a simulated reality would not have even been possible to comprehend 150 years ago.

I love this, but I would rather phrase it that it would have been much more expensive to communicate the ideas as efficiently back in the day. This both captures the essence of what you're saying (which is something I totally agree with and was just thinking of yesterday when thinking of the idiom "shave the yak"), as well as speaks to some of the critics of your statement that say you're not giving enough props to philosophers of old.

Btw, I don't want to be pushy or start a flame war, but actually reading the Bible and thinking in exactly this mindset of "what if I were a hyperdimensional population planting seeds for training 'simulacra'/AI characters" is incredible. I was never religious before a couple years ago, and let me tell you, the logic in the actual Bible (not the dogmatic interpretations still memetically floating around today) is awesome.

I'll give one example, and again I ask forbearance and patience of anyone who get their hackles raised: God's name. When he's speaking to Moses, Moses says "Who should I tell them is giving me this message to lead them out of Egypt?" God replies "I am who I am" (which is also a multi-layered phrase "I am what I am", and "I will be who/what I will be"). Yahweh ("LORD") is actually "I am". So this is the fundamental, recursively self-defining "Name" of God. When reading it, it just seems weird and out of place. But when reading it in context of today's understandings of the magnitude of the size of the "Universe" (vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big) combined with the prospects of computation and "What if I were to program a universe that is designed to itself program universes?" (and many other reasons), I've done a 180.

The hard part is 1) Getting over existing, dogmatic interpretations and all of the negative connotations associated with them. and 2) Actually believing it. The interesting thing is, the actual Bible repeatedly talks about the practitioners of the religions not understanding and not getting it. It's a theme both in the Old and New Testaments (It's why the Jews crucified Jesus, after all).
You've undoubtedly met lots of people who have used cocaine recreationally. I think it's a lot easier to do than using opiates recreationally.

Cocaine gets a bad rap and probably justifiably so (as it has ruined or taken more than few lives) but it's not the same type of addiction as opiates. If people were able to use cocaine responsibly in small amounts I really think it wouldn't be much of an issue. The trouble is that people have trouble gauging where they and tend to go overboard, particularly during a session. But it doesn't have to be used like this. A good analogy might be turning up a bottle of liquor vs slowly enjoying a few beers. With cocaine many people are simply unable to resist the temptation of overdoing and it causes problems. But in my mind it's not the same level of harmful as something like opiates or methamphetamine.

I don't recommend running out and looking for cocaine because "hey it's not really that bad" though. Chances are good you'll get carried away. As for smoking or injecting cocaine, that's a whole different topic.
> Is that any more annoying or any more inconvenient than having your hard-earned savings devalued by your government?

I wouldn't recommend holding fiat currency as savings, except for perhaps 2-3 months of salary equivalent in case of emergencies. The rest should be stored in other assets based on your risk profile.

But it is currently a fact of life that we must exchange our cryptocurrency for fiat if we want to buy goods and services most places. While the number of merchants accepting bitcoin is growing, it's still quite small compared to the number of merchants who take local currency.
The ideal would be to work someplace like this http://www.space.com/17815-mars-rover-jet-lag.html with a 24 hours + 40 minute "day"
The great irony in tech is that we all rail on tech outsourcing, but no qualms about it elsewhere (marketing, sales, finance, HR, etc). I get it if you aren't quite big enough for a full time person, but just remember incentives are usually against you.
Wow, with untrustworthy politicians and super dodgy ISPs like these, who needs the CIA to spy on you? At least the CIA would keep it more or less in house.
I do some consulting; not a majority of my time but I work with some people who are fully in that business and I have a "company" i.e. separate legal entity made for these tasks, which is useful especially if I need to hire someone else for a bit of help on some task. Yes, the steps are absolutely generic but I believe that there shouldn't be anything specific to software consulting; the basis of how "renting expertise" business works is the same, no matter if that expertise is in software, hardware, consumer psychology or geology.
If you really want simple solutions to more doctors:

Don't promote/require undergrad before med school. As in premed is not an actual degree anyone would ever get. Don't require multi year residency's, if the goal is education then 12+ hours days actively block that goal by inhibiting memory formation.

Shockingly both of those require zero money and would add up to 4+ more years of practice and lower education costs. However, US doctors don't want that as it would lead to lower pay just like every other country.
Oh? Where do I find the docs and the download link? It has to run on Linux laptop or my Windows desktop, both which have perfectly capable hardware. I am not buying a Mac for the privilege of developing software for an iPhone.
No, it isn't. The clocks have the two hands rotating in different directions at times, too.
Wrong link? Title describes https://phys.org/news/2017-03-discovery-bevy-quasars-boost-e... but submission points at a story about Mars terraforming.
Software business is different - that much redundancy in planning would make you loose customers or annoy higher levels of management. That is whole reason for agile - you trade safe planning for week by week transparency and tight estimates.

It us also price for doing bew things. Web shops that crank one similar project after another tend to be on time - they work like factory.
A cryptocurrency that doesnt have the ability to go on a shared marked isn't reliable and is a true rupture between what institutions believe in and what the people share in common.
So until we can give a precise, reductionist definition of what suffering is - and enumerate all that can/can't experience it - then animal treatment is not an ethical question? Given a hammer and a choice to hit either a kitten or a rock for $10, what distinctions between the two would you make to help your decision? I think a central nervous system and/or an analogue for a response that we recognize as pain are a decent starting point.

What proportion of meat-based meals are eaten instead of plant-based meals specifically because of that lack of human ready plant food being available?

Do the bacteria which are targeted by plant antibiotics pose a similar risk to humans as the bacteria that affect livestock such as pigs?

It might be ethical to euthanize a majority of cows etc., if it could be done instantaneously, painlessly, and somehow without creating humanitarian or environmental issues. It would have to be a perfect hot swap, though.

When technology and space exploration allows, I would also support simply relocating these Earth species en masse to other customized planets where they can live/suffer/die in more natural or "fair" terms without our systematic interference.
Hah that's interesting almost the exact same thing happens to me if I allow myself desired rather than scheduled sleep.

In a way though I wish my natural cycle was closer to the typical 9-5. I found it easy to be isolated or depressed on the days when your waking life is so different than everyone elses.
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This is a result of what I call "audience economy". People want an audience and are willing to pay for it. Audience likes to see a prior audience. Bots enable prior audiences. Platforms like fiverr enable bots.

Get 5000 twitter followers for $5

Those 5000 fake followers make you look good to people that come across you, and they flow.

So it's all about an initial audience.
Outsourcing is a useful and necessary skill for entrepreneurs. Outsourced dev has a bad reputation overall but there are also good devs in other countries. That said most business work is far less complicated than dev work, and the risks of doing it wrong are lower.

If a dev turned entrepreneur values their time @ $100/hr and a 10-hour business task can be outsourced with a 15-minute description to someone else for $15/hr, it's the "right" decision.
> Why would anyone want this?

Surely you can think of someone with some reason.
That's the thing though, a difference of smaller than a grain of salt would be a death sentence.

So if you try a small sample, or a large one, it doesn't matter.. it could be the next hit you try has that extra microgram of fentanyl.

I have had friends with brothers who died from taking a all night study aid in university, that happened to have Carfentanyl in it.

Always caution on the side of safe regardless of what type of illicit drug is, or if it's your first time, once in a lifetime.

They just don't make illicit drugs like they use to...
They could definately kill u always, but now the potency of a microgram difference can and that's pretty scary.
I'd only heard of Crazy Eddie via a New York area local historical society, the Beastie Boys, who boasted [1]:

I splash on beats like sauce on spaghetti
Putting MC's out of business like they're Crazy Eddie

And once made an ad for an album in the style of the Crazy Eddie ads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OR8O0u2fDY

[1] https://genius.com/Beastie-boys-shazam-lyrics
And it's failing patients left and right, who have to somehow go to work while already stressed anxious or depressed while now having to deal with rapid mood changes, insomnia, or one of any other side effects. If you roll the dice and get the wrong medication you will be worse off where you started. People shouldn't be used as test tubes - in no other field is it okay to "experiment" on people like in psychiatry.
Ehh, it's just another part of education, let some people pay their own way. However, that requires fewer years upfront so the costs are more reasonable.