skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some public-health treatment of information spreading, though not a whole lot of it. I've been the source of some, though the ideas pre-date me considerably. You could go back to religious contexts, the concepts of apostasy and blasphemy, or even (per I.F. Stone) the Trial of Socrates, for prior art.

For information specifically, it's interesting in that there are at least three possible goals:

1. Restricting or combatting the spread of toxic information.

2. Encouraging the spread of useful or helpful information. There's a great deal of this under the rhubric of "diffusion of information".

3. Limiting, for socially beneficial or malevolent purposes, the spread of generally private information.

The first two instances have clear epidemiological and evolutionary cognates: limiting the spread of disease or disease agents (bacteria, viruses, prions, contaminants), or the process of evolutionary advance or propogation of fitness adaptations.

The question of concealment ... thinking through here, I'm coming up with concepts such as camoflage, mimickry, colour or shape-shifting (e.g., cuttlefish, octopus). There are bacteria and viruses which evolve or mutate rapidly making various antibodies or antibiotics less effective quickly (another element taken up by fake-news and propaganda sites -- one article I was reading yesterday noted how new most such outlets were, earlier pieces I've seen noted how new sites were emerging late in 2016 and growing to million+ daily user). I need to think more about that.

As for the antivax situation, I've pointed out that information campaigns to refute anti-vax ideas regarding the efficacy (and safety) of vaccines against viruses which attack DNA/RNA, are an information attack on an information attack on an information attack on an information attack on information.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/manw8sighyj2in4661tyla
Hard work is what you do once you have a creative direction. Before you have creative direction, you need "work hard" fertilizing your mind with inspirational material, then relax and let your brain create connections on its own. This process might need to be repeated frequently, but it is how big ideas are grown.

Think of your potential idea space like a box. When you relax the box moves around and reconfigures itself into different shapes. If you are actively thinking, this locks the box in the current location and shape. This can be useful when you want to explore the current box a bit more, but there is only so much exploring you can do within the current box before you are just retracing your steps. If you are always in explore mode without letting the box move and reconfigure you're just going to generate small variations on the same old ideas.
Your example doesn't make sense. That bill didn't represent a repeal or a simple solution of any kind, just some fairly meaningless modifications to Obamacare that nobody even wanted to vote on.
Most of those safety mechanisms are actually implemented in C.

Just saying :-)
there's been some mod drama in the past year but hopefully they've figured it out. i don't know if biased moderation was ever a big problem, but OTOH you wouldn't know unless you were constantly watching. comments have been consistently high quality either way.
> then why do you even go through the motions of K-12

To learn things I would guess.
650,000 prepared but unsold meals? I hope they were able to direct them somewhere worthwhile.
I use Box but Box has some flaws compared to Dropbox. Sync is broken and they don't care. On Dropbox you could have the windows client installed and open a Truecrypt file, make some changes (add/rename/delete/change files within the container) and when you close the Truecrypt file it syncs the changes properly. Do the same on Box and it looks like it's working but it's silently losing your changes; no errors, warnings - nothing. I reported this and they don't care. So you can only trust them with whole files. That's fine, once you know, for a free product, I guess. The version control can be seen as a deletion with no undo too; if you accidentally increment the version number of a file (by uploading a new file of the same name, I think this is what I did) then the earlier version is there but you can't get at it with the free service. Not even by deleting the newer one and reverting. So be very careful what you do. Still, it's better than nothing as a free secondary backup.
One of our group leaders in our research institute learned physics at the dawn of quantum mechanics, saw theory translate into practical applications (e.g. laser technology), and then boost and transform theory again. She is 90+ now.

It was great to hear from her how long it took for the right theories to overcome the barriers of adoption, how fashion works in science, and how many things we think as new are actually really old stuff in new clothes.
Evolution Is Slower Than It Looks and Faster Than You Think
And before that, they had WorkDoc and WorkMail. I think the line can be hard to draw: is RDS application? What about RedShift? Quicksight? Echo?
> The idea that science advances only when old scientists die is used to promote the idea that science has nothing over politics. It is anti-science propaganda.

Sounds to me like you believe that science proceeds without politics.

> Young scientists are hungry and there not enough positions for them. Every department has that old rockstar or two who doesn't really push the boundaries of science anymore, but takes up available positions. When they retire or die, new people come in who are still young and full of energy.

This process you've described here resembles the political process we observe in government (or any human social system that involves a competitive hierarchy), with the exception that in government the problem of 'taking up available positions' is attenuated by the existence of term limits for most leadership positions.
And AWS Connect. Certainly the are headed up the food chain.
The other Bloomberg article gets into the details of why this company has burnt so much cash (1). Shaking my head after reading this:

In August of 2015, Munchery held a party at the Line Hotel in Los Angeles to celebrate a new partnership with chef Roy Choi. He's known for his Korean taco fusion food truck, Kogi, and for his L.A. restaurants, including two in the Line Hotel. Choi's new contract promised him more than $100,000 a month to design his own line of meals. He was also consulting on branding.

At the party, people lined up around the block for free kimchi pork fried rice served in Munchery's cardboard containers. Pishevar, Munchery's chief hype man and a major investor, arrived wearing a black cowboy hat. Hollywood filmmaker Jon Favreau attended.

By the end of the year, the startup ended Choi's contract. It cost the company more than $500,000, according to people familiar with the matter. Choi had provided Munchery with just two recipes. An agent for Choi declined to comment.

Around the same time, Munchery also terminated a contract with marketing agency West, according to former employees. The firm had helped Munchery offer free meals to attract new customers and to strategize about its branding.

Munchery spent heavily on direct to consumer marketing ahead of fundraising rounds, former employees said. In a month, the company could easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars putting flyers on people's doors offering discounts on Munchery, they said.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/munchery-...
> Not even sure how to define these things properly, but everyone seems to understand them intuitively.

Focused vs. diffuse thinking.
If you feel(touch) you've been clear(see-through) and fair(bright, sunny) with this line of rhetoric, I'm happy to drop the advice.
Wow... it's awesome!
I'm not the kind of person who hates changes, but everything that Twitter does certainly irritates me. I liked the service ten years ago when it was IRC-like. This is just one step towards their target of making it annoyingly complicated for power users. I've had this for weeks on Android (A/B testing?) and I was kind of hoping they'd drop it... nope.
A stupid Ai that starts loving art:
In the abstract yes. But if the company essentially borrowed money from people on the basis of that high valuation, then its a problem. And that's what they've done. Actually, they literally did just borrow money, according to the headline, although I was thinking more of the equity raise process where although there isn't a literal loan, the investors have an expectation that they will get their money back (*N, where N >> 1) at some point.
As a shareholder, hopefully never. Building infrastructure and platforms has three wonderful benefits:

* Good customers, where good is defined as smart and willing to spend money. Going up the stack means dealing making sacrifices on both of those dimensions.

* Less complex products that stay relevant longer. Amazon builds legos and leaves the task of putting them together to others. The assembly can create value, but also adds complexity that becomes difficult to manage over time. S3 was launched in 2006 (!) and I'd bet will outlast high-order products like Box and Dropbox.

* Scale. Building apps means targeting smaller sets of customers. At Amazon's size, it's not clear what kind of application software would be a better use of their resources than simply continuing to solve platform problems.
what a beautiful idea. of course, congress will pass some sort of law giving their browser histories an exemption.

then he'll just have to buy their browser histories from the Russians, which would present the administration with a dilemma, given that Trump ran against this sort of globalized trade...
Boeing is well aware of the problem with workers forcing things to fit the wrong way anyway, and take that into consideration, making it as hard as practical to do so.

For example, if the hydraulics are hooked up backwards, the controls are reversed, which is a disaster. So the design:

1. uses different port sizes for the input and output
2. one port uses left hand threads, the other right hand
3. the lines are physically not long enough to reach the wrong port
4. very clear labeling
5. inspections and signoffs
Perhaps a frivolous comment, but I'd still rather take the $1M, and especially at 35. I'm a few years older and would still prefer the $1M now, even if it was clear this is my entire retirement contribution.

I'd back myself over the next 20 years to turn that $1M into something worth considerably more. If I made a mess of it, I'd still hopefully have enough productive years left to salvage the situation.

Whereas $5,000 per month is $5,000 per month forever. Unless you can live substantially under that amount and save a good chunk each month, you're never going to have capital to really grow.
Alternative explanation: Star scientists are just highly productive scientists. After they die, their not-as-productive collaborators can't keep up with the amount of publication as high as before. Naturally collaborators publication percentage falls while Non-collaborators' rise.
Intel Now Packs 100M Transistors in Each Square Millimeter
It's Basically Just Immoral to Be Rich
I'm guessing they won't move very far up the stack for the time being. It seems to me that once a process is able to be software-itized at least two things happen. One it comes under that old adage that any computing program/application can be done for half the resources/time every 18 months. The second is that producer surplus (profit) that emerges from an information asymmetry becomes consumer surplus when that asymmetry is able to be defined in software. All supply side economies of scale seem to be disappearing and what we're left with are companies that have a monopoly on some raw input or a demand side economy of scale (network effect).
This doesn't sound like a microcode patch. They made changes to the actual game code to "better optimize for AMD".
I've got one colleague who mistakenly let Dropbox psuedo-merge his personal and business accounts several years ago. He still hasn't completely fixed it!

I was around when they introduced the "multi account" support, and it was very easy to see how/why they did it. Instead of updating their clients to support multiple accounts (which they should have done), the client just keeps supporting only one account. Then on their back end they return "merged" content to the client. You can easily see how this can create chaos, because other people can also be updating your personal and business content, and untangling it all is a mess.
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"They barricaded themselves inside with 14 police officers being unable to get them out until morning.”

What? In America (god bless thee) police would have broken down doors and pepper sprayed those monsters, hopefully a few billy clubs to the head as well and arrested them all.
Historically speaking, income streams are worth 20 to 25 times their annual payment. Like, there's examples of this ratio from France in the 1400s, IIRC. So $5k/mo = $60k/y = $1200k. Granted, this doesn't take into account how annuities generally don't pay to a recipient's heirs, so there's an actuarial table discount to take the ratio down.
Such an interesting read.

Is there any similar sort of stories(both fiction and non fiction). Esp related to dealing with bad hiring, toxic employees and frustrated managers.
RSS on the desktop 15 years later – the launch of Electric River for the Mac
Should I use Nodejs on the backend and VueJS for the Front end?
I am about to start a new web project and I was thinking of using Nodejs on the backend with vuejs for the frontend.
Is it a good idea or bad idea? What tech stack would you use?
Please don't say it depends :)
I'm an American working in the Netherlands. Filing US taxes has improved, a lot last year in my opinion, since it got easier to file electronically for free...
But compare: I got a letter from the Dutch government a few weeks ago saying I don't need to do anything since as far as they can tell my situation hasn't changed since last year. In the US, some people believe that the tax return that they get every year is some kind of bonus. Here, my employer withholds the correct amount. Why is that so hard?
Gag clauses are routine for this kind of thing. I'm a bit surprised you haven't heard of them already.

Maybe it's a more UK thing?

Here's one example around employment law, but similar clauses exist for pre-trial payouts of no fault "damages". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9967899/Gagging-ord...
Unless you're hitting an IP node that transcodes to g.729 or something, landline phones should sound pretty good; the mu-law codec uses companded 8-bit PCM that roughly equates to about 14-bit linear in terms of precision. If you're sending a lot of very low frequencies (most phones and line cards have a pass filter in them to remove stuff below ~60-100 hertz, so while the network is very capable of sending it, it doesn't always in practice), you'll start to hear companding noise, but it's rarely the case that it gets loud enough to cause an issue.

As for the sample rate, 8 khz is a bit low, but you can make it sound significantly better with a bit of equalization; usually turning down frequencies near 1 khz a little goes a long way. Sometimes too, it doesn't hurt to gently (and I stress, gently) reduce frequencies near ~300 hertz if it sounds too muffled.
> you may have to sign something which says "that is it", waiving your right to sue anyone for anything more

Isn't that quite different from an NDA though? With insurance, everything is documented and available for access in case you need to reference it at some later point in time. With an NDA, the settlement is effectively hidden from view and is much harder for you to legally discuss if you need to reference it at some later point. For example, if the owner decides to sell the apartment and the prospective buyer wants to know the history of any damages.
I'm not sure why you have it in quotes. But FWIW, most of my questions were cleared up by these two wonderful books: Peter Smith's An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems and Torkel Franzén's Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse
logical fallacy

- these people are famous/successful

- they also have characteristic X

- therefore if I want to be famous/successful I should aspire to characteristic X

it's a logical fallacy
The most important part of language tooling for me is reproducability. I should be able to do the following to any project:

git clone <project name> && cd <project name>
<build tool> build

And have it fetch all of that projects dependencies, and then build the entire system.

Anything that requires machine-wide package installation is immediately disqualified (user-wide package installation is almost as bad).
"Every department has that old rockstar or two who doesn't really push the boundaries of science anymore, but takes up available positions. When they retire or die, new people come in who are still young and full of energy."

Which is basically the norm for a lot of industries. I'm not even sure I mind this sort of thing so long as they are still contributing and producing. I just wish there were enough space for the young folks to do their stuff too.
Annuities have an advantage because it effectively transfers wealth from people who die early to people who live longer. If you're only around to enjoy the annuity for a decade, you overpaid for the income stream. If you're around for five, you've underpaid.

It's a vaguely similar advantage to taking out a reverse mortgage.
That's why annuity rates are higher than interest rates.
If you start a company and you break even then you're free to not grow. As long as you're happy with the money you're making and you can pay stuff, rent, insurance, equipment, services, surprises etc then you don't need to.

But if you can do it, someone else can do it, and if they are criminally inclined, sly, lucky, or are prepared to pay people less or provide a lower quality product, or they have money to burn or are backed by people with money to burn then they can take you on and, until they are caught/run out of money/lose business due to their business practices catching up with them, they can take your business. Companies which are set up with other people's money and/or which go public are going to have to answer to the people who "own" them about why they're not making more money this year than last year and the people notionally running the company will be out of a job if they can't explain this.
Can't believe they didn't cite/discuss the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962) written by philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn. From the wikipedia article about the book:

"Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in "normal science". Normal scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of such conceptual continuity in normal science were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
> would you not consider the "I worked harder than others, therefore I'm more successful" sentiment self evident?

Not at all.

We can swap anecdotes about successful people all day, but the fact of the matter is that hard work guarantees nothing, and it's not a prerequisite for success.
I've been following LENR since late 2011, have had a google alert since then. I have follwed it for so long without any big break through that I have about given up.
There are some big companies that have got involved, makes me think there is something to it but, I have ben thinking that for 6 years!
The war didn't just happen. It didn't start out as a war to end slavery, either (that happened later, with the Emancipation Proclamation).

As for prison labor, most of the cost of that is borne by the taxpayer, not the company using their labor. Keeping people prisoners in the US is very expensive.
kill http&lt;2 until 2031
While I agree that _this_ is an extreme demonstration, metaclasses are powerful tool for developing dev-friendly Base classes/APIs in your libraries. Django models, for example, use metaclasses so the fields you define are more expressive while creating instances.
> I trust ISP companies more than I trust VPN companies because ISP companies are in the USA and are much larger

That fact only supports their practice of selling user data. If we did not have such a barrier of entry for new ISPs, the market would be able to react to this abuse. But instead, large ISPs like AT&T, Verison, Comcast, Time Warner, etc. hold the market so tightly that they can get away with abusing their customers without a serious reaction.

Because ISPs have so much control over the market, the only viable response without regulation are VPNs. A VPN can sell privacy to a customer who feels abused by their ISP. Since privacy is essentially the foundation of the VPN provider's business, VPN providers compete to prove to customers they can protect their users' privacy.
I'm also frustrated by their tiers. I think they're worried that casual tiers would eat into their profits, so they only offer "slightly not enough" or "way too much".
Around the World by Daft Punk – Coded in Sonic Pi
Russian President Vladimir Putin Denies US Election Hacking
You mean, nail v1? No adjustments?

It think most folks that support Obamacare know and expect that adjustments would be needed as new information flowed in.
It depends on how good you are at investing. For example, if Warren Buffett was starting over again, he would probably make better use of the $1 million.
Imported, yes. According to this article, they escaped into the wild:

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/capybaras-may-b...
The franchising is a factor because franchisees have latitude in setting their own policies for employees. eg one franchisee could offer education credits while another doesn't. Or one could pay more than another, beyond just local circumstances.
This reminds me of Caislean (https://equalit.ie/portfolio/caislean/
I think since it's internal services, you control both the client and server side. Applying back-pressure would be a good alternative than just using rate limiter on the server end and let your client just flood away your internal service interfaces.
HTTP/2 and SPDY indicator
I expect my 401k withdrawals in retirement to be much smaller (in real terms) than my present income, and therefore taxed at a lower rate, as my salary is heavily inflated above what my standard of living would require due to 1) local rents, and 2) my savings rate.

With sane housing priced and no need to save, I could live the same way on about $45k/yr less.
Sorry, I can't really comment on our roadmap and our priorities within it.
The UI for trimming and setting the quality of sent videos is really neat. It's still annoyingly hard in 2017 to send videos from one mobile to another without needing to completely trash the quality via MMS or upload an often-gigantic file (captured in 1080p or higher) to an intermediary like YouTube or Facebook (and then wait for backend processing).
I like how it drops down at the beginning of the year when people make new year's resolutions but then climbs right back up.
What's the point of being rude about this? Guy wanted to do something, and executed on it really well. Really well-laid out docs.

That's a fantastic hiring signal, unlike being a jerk on the internet.
I actually read the parent comment before going to the article and I still had a hard time figuring out the answer. It may be because I was primed with the fact it's a "riddle"; the entire time I was trying to come up with a clever answer rather than thinking the surgeon was the mother. Father+daughter vs father+son didn't have much of an effect, but bias was probably present, nevertheless.
Where's typogenetics? :D
After about 10 years of consulting in the field of thermodynamics, my week of work has now settled to 25h. I simply cannot be efficient after 4 to 5h of intensive work in this field. What is interesting is that not a single customer complained about it.