skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the likelihood that even a minute's consideration is given that this represents some sort of natural thought pattern that we can just learn to ignore, like other forms of tribalism?

My guess would be no chance at all. There's a real dedication to the idea that this sort of thing is all socially constructed despite literal decades of no progress at all in any way you would expect if such an idea were true.
Creativity also applies to athletes. They have to come up with new solutions to solve problems all the time - such as coming up with a novel way to bypass the defense of the opposition and score, given a particular situation. Just because they combine their physicality with prior experience, knowledge and cognitive ability (which they can't use too much of given the "realtime" demand) doesn't make them any less creative. IMHO They're more creative than most people on here who are implementing CS ideas already explored decades ago.
Definitely not the same team. I never crawled to them and asked them. I've mentioned itd be a good feature, they decided to rewrite window management over and over again. Can't help that.

The racket community includes disgusting transvestites and a bunch of cucked out and Guy Steele wannabes.

Very little talent, lots of public dollars to spend rewriting things nobody ever had trouble with.

Now they want to reimplement all of racket in chez. They prove me right more consistently than any other project I criticize.
This is more likely a response to the recent reversal of FCC privacy rules.

This may not defend against state actors, but will against nosy ISPs.
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Maybe it's because most high-performers are mostly well paid (and sought after). Assuming this, they are no longer chasing the 'money' since they already get it as a side-effect of they add to the projects they are part of.
considering you need 16.6 years to deplete the 1000 000
I'd say lot could happen in 16.6 years

plus if we consider inflation 1000 000 on day 1, worth a lot more than in 16 years

So I would say ... take the 1M
HTTPS doesn't hide metadata, of course. An exit node can still see what servers you're connecting to.
Keep in mind that insurance companies make decisions based on a change in cost of only $0.05 per member. $16 per person is HUGE when you're talking about an insurer who covers 30M+ people.
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Twitter's problem is that the vast majority of tweets are never seen, or barely seen, by anyone. This means that for most people, there is no incentive, in the form of social acceptance, to tweet anything.
Retweeting your reply achieves the same thing in the end. You've replied to the tweet and made your reply visible to your followers.

With regards to UX, it's debatably more or less confusing, but the functionality is still there.
When I recently moved to Toronto, this is how I picked the neighborhood to live in.
the basis of the riddle is the widely held assumption that the surgeon is is male, which is more or less justified based on demographics, even if it is a biased assumption.

evidence: https://datausa.io/profile/soc/291060/#age_gender

now, it's an interesting riddle because it exposes the way we often generalize from demographics even when there are reasonable contextual clues that our generalization isn't accurate.

however, I don't go so far as to call this a prejudicial kind of bias. I don't really think that the tendency to generalize from observations is unreasonable or necessarily connected to prejudicial or exclusionary actions.
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imo, this sort of middleware (api management) should always be handled by a reverse proxy
Evernote is a good example of that.
I am not a mathematician but are there any others who have problems with Godel's 'Theorem'?
Depending on your life insurance plans, $1mm could be very nice if you aren't already in great health.
I wouldn't call doing nothing "saving" Obamacare. There are still severe problems with the current system because the number of young healthy people is not offsetting the cost of sick people as expected. If Government subsidies are removed almost no insurances would be in the black. This is not sustainable, needs reform, and everyone knows it.

Also, "There are many people bear responsibility for the GOP’s failure to improve upon Obamacare." is quite a statement. Since the author acknowledges Obamacare has some shortfalls, shouldn't the onus of improving the bill be on the party that rammed it through before reading it?
OT: That social media bar is killing me. It takes up the firsts few columns of letters making it difficult to read, and it keeps reappearing whenever I scroll the page.

Who does stuff like that?

Edit: I actually stopped reading the article because it became so annoying.
Even an annuity is not guaranteed; the issuing company could go out of business, or we could have rampant inflation that wipes out the value.

Of course, those things might have a very low probability of happening, but there is also a low probability of a well-diversified portfolio from being wiped out.
As far as I know, most people wish on their deathbeds that they'd have worked less, been with their loved ones more, and generally would have done more anything else than work.

I get that there are extremely driven individuals who want to achieve great things - and some of them are even able to do so - but articles like this should be understood in the context of a culture where common people work themselves to death trying to achieve "success" defined by the surrounding culture rather than in their own terms.
I would take the $5000/month, because $1M is only $3333/month according to the 4% safe withdrawal rule. Where do they get these annuity equivalent number referenced in the article, anyway?

I might make a different choice if it was between the two amounts with no strings attached (i.e not necessarily for retirement), so I could invest a bit more aggressively and keep working.
ISPs are not 5 year olds.

They are not going to intentionally fuck over the congresspeople that voted for this for chump change. It's incredibly stupid to think they would.
The problem isn't exclusive to Georgia (or the South). The State of Oregon also filed suit (later dismissed, IIRC) against Malamud for republishing their laws. And most progressive cities publish their official code through 3rd parties with restrictive copyright attached.

This problem exists for all of America.
> I couldn't ever tell someone else how to curate a set of follows which will engage them. Seems like twitter can't either.

The problem is that many people think of twitter as a tool to talk to someone. In reality it is a tool to subscribe to people. Micro-blogging is a stupid word, but it is true. You get use out of twitter by treating it like an RSS client:

Find feeds with content that interests you (personal things of friends, musicians, artists, game devs, people talking about political issues that interest you, activist groups, etc.) and subscribe to them.

That covers the use case of the average person. If you feel ambitious you can also become a content producer, but that is of course a real investment.
Here is the modern version of the riddle: if you are to analyze your e-mail responses (e.g., tone, wording), do you notice any gender bias?

I was intrigued with the story[0] where the colleagues of opposite gender swapped their names when signing their client e-mails, and the responses they received were heavily gender biased. While this may be anecdotal, I would not be surprised if this is more prevalent than (hopefully) appreciated.

[0] https://twitter.com/i/moments/839950218099576832
Digging into the history briefly, patchable microcode seems to have existed in commercially released computers as far back as the 1960s.

"...CCROS [microcode] cards on the [IBM System/360] Model 30 could be replaced in the field. This made design modifications easier to accomplish, as well as providing for field diagnosis. ...

The later System/360 Model 25 and models of the later System/370 series were configured with at least one portion of the control store being read-write for loading microcode patches and microdiagnostics."

https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/uprog.html
I think I've lived too hard in my youth to make $1m via the $5k a month count before I kick it. Plus I'm a gambler so I'd take the $1m up front, considering my bet is that I'll die before I collect.
I'll second Jonas in being amazed and humbled by the GraphQL community. There is just so much great stuff going on right now. Apollo is doing great work and we use the Apollo Client for most of our examples at Graphcool.

I'm happy to answer any questions about the GraphQL ecosystem as well as how it might fit for your specific use case.
I think it means doesn't value because convertible notes set an upper cap on a valuation, but don't actually set the valuation.

e.g. the next round could be at $40mm, and if it's priced, then this $5mm note would be at $40mm (minus any discount on the note). or if the next round is at $100mm, then this note would be at $80mm.
Going along with "reviews," in this era of blogspam, I like to read the comments first so I start out a skeptic, if I should be. Very often, the top comment for an article is a rebuttal, if there is some misinformation in an article, or perhaps a poorly-done study.

Basically, people who are smarter than me usually get to tell me why the journalist is wrong.
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Its rather odd that you chose to fight the battle of what is 'scientific' simply based on logical reasoning - which is flawed to begin with. Logical arguments serve no purpose here without practical proof.
I find the (repeated) use of the word polymorphism here a bit confusing...

I'm mostly used to it an class inheritance-related contexts. Is it used differently in the Node/JS-community?
> One concern about Dropbox I have is its inability to establish itself beyond its File Storage / Syncing software.

On the flip side, it works really, really well cross-platform. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS - you name it, they have it. And it's 100% hassle-free.
Every drug is approved based on a risk vs. benefit analysis. The FDA can't know exactly what will happen when the drug is approved since you can't test a drug on every patient prior to approval (that would be unethical).

No one should be surprised when a few drugs are pulled off the market post-launch. I would argue the FDA didn't make a mistake here and the system works.
> it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free.

OneDrive is perhaps not quite as polished and its Linux support is lacking/unofficial/nonexistent depending on your viewpoint, but Microsoft's push to Office365 means that if you subscribe to it you're getting at least as much storage as Dropbox offers at a monthly cost that's ~70% of Dropbox for a single user, or 5x that (5 * 1TB/user) at the same annual price as Dropbox. On top of that, you get the assorted Office apps.

One notable weakness of the non-Business version of OneDrive is the lack of version history, so if that's important or you have no other forms of backup then that could be a deciding factor.

I'll leave out of it the question of whose servers data resides on and passes through.
Sorry, but this is naive and bad advice. Rate limiting is a critically missing component in many service APIs, for more reasons than I can even comprehensively enumerate off the top of my head.

Scaling an API of any real value is NOT trivial, and struggling to scale an API to meet user demand does NOT necessarily mean that the backend was poorly designed. This is a naive generalization that is hazardous to the industry. Please don't spread it.

Here are some reasons why a lack of rate limiting / user auth is practically negligence. There are more, to be sure. I have experience operating a customer facing API for Bazaarvoice, so I think I know what I'm talking about. (We do thousands of requests per second and power reviews for the likes of Walmart, Best Buy, and 4,000 other retailers and brands worldwide.)

* Multi-tenancy
* * client A over extends and causes client B to be unable to use the API
* * client A needs scale independent of clients B-F
* monitoring
* * suddenly a client is making fewer than usual calls, why?
* * suddenly a client is making more than usual calls, why?
* billing
* * want more requests / second? Upgrade your contract
* * it's easier to measure how much I should charge customers per request or type of request, when I can see the rates of those requests and what it costs me
* security
* * DDOS attack? Start by setting the limit to nothing, or rejecting the requests
* * leaking API auth info is less dangerous, if it happens

I think some other sibling comments mentioned other great reasons. The takeaway is that a valuable API will most likely be difficult, expensive or both difficult and expensive to scale, and rate limiting is extremely important.
Right, especially given that it seems like, had they been fair at the start, he'd likely never have gone to the media.
shame since shared library was suppose to be "DRY". Why not run compression and then encryption?
Of course it can, but it cannot tell who is making the connection (this is
implemented by onion routing) or what was sent (this is implemented by
TLS), and without the payload it cannot infer who is making the connection.
I think you might be missing the assumptions here. No service I've ever seen is 100% available. If you assume that things can (and will!) fail then you need to design for failure.

Load shedding helps mitigate failures of insufficient capacity. When you need to prioritize some things over others load shedding helps here.
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You insinuated it to be illegal, I insinuated it to be dishonest.
> But why only choose to study all-white groups and groups of two whites and one black? What about the other two possibilities: all black and two blacks and one white? Did this not even occur to the researchers? I could imagine that all-black do the best, or that two black and one white do the worst. Who knows. The sin here seems to be not even considering all the four combinations.

The author fails to consider the possibility that there were not enough black students to do a study of this format. The university where the study was done is (currently) roughly 5% black and 44% white [1]. Given this breakdown, it is likely that the dearth of black students resulted in the study's design.

1: https://oiir.illinois.edu/about/demographics
> I think my problem is that sudoku is simply saturated. But not many sites have pencil marking ability, and my site ranks high on Google for that.

I believe that as well. Anyone that is big on sudoku today started in 2005.
Strange how you are suffering from an illusion either way. From quoted annuity prices I've seen the $5000 is actually worth a bit more than $1MM in net present value.
I just bribed my kid to do his homework.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bribe

I am using the word correctly. Perhaps you should consider if you're interpretation of the word is not biased?
That's a slippery slope; if my neighbors plant tulips and I HATE tulips, I don't get to sue for damages, even if the tulips weren't there when I moved in.
Then again, taking the 1,000,000 and taking out some slightly lower annuity leaves you the million at the end to give away to family.
Stories usually disappear becaues of user flagging, not the mods. Except for that one time... ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086
> Which is all to say, it's a fascinating space. It's very ripe for innovation.

is that a euphemistic way of saying its a train-wreck, where society is hobbled by rent-seeking behavior by monopolist cartels that have used a combination of anti-competitive business strategy and regulatory capture to extract massive amounts of wealth from their captive audience of sick people?
We don't want them to be "sold". We want them to be prescribed as needed by medical professionals.
It's also nonsense because it doesn't factor in the fact that if you live past 81, the 5k a month is worth more even ignoring the safe withdrawal rule.

A pretty poorly constructed example for WSJ I think
Yes, but again it's not about "keeping up on the latest pharmaceuticals" that's small chunk of time. The changing landscape of existing drugs that have been out for 2+ years is much larger than the number of 'new' drugs.

Look into AIDS medications for example and pills are often a mix of 2+ existing drugs that work well together. And again, GP's rarely have to worry about the new Cancer drugs etc.
Rate limiting is a way of failing gracefully. Ideally your request handlers never fail, but if they have to, having a rate limiter filter out some requests (based on rules you control) is usually better than the default failure behavior of your server framework.
WHAAAAAAT?!

You don't hang around scientists much, do you? The people researching and making these drugs do not make a very good living. Not caring about your salary is seen as a mark of a good scientist, I've heard it from many, many people I work under. Most scientists make absolutely crap, even the ones in the pharma sector.

The majority of the pharma profits go straight to the business people that make all sorts of weird deals, jack up prices after cornering the market, get certain chemicals/processes banned so they can re-patent the same drug under a new mechanism, etc.

>Why spend years getting a PhD in biochemistry when you can go make $400k/year with just a BS at Google?

Because they like the work and find it interesting, go ask literally any scientist today. Reducing the profitability of pharma companies will hardly move the salaries for scientists because they are not at all tied to profits.
Twitter is gradually moving to final policies that will actually get me tweeting regularly. When I'm able to publish my memoir -- which incidentally, is coming along very nicely -- as a single tweet, I will know that I, and Twitter, have finally arrived. God speed the memoir tweets!
What regulations are you referring to that would prevent this?

You can just as easily book a hotel and throw a party there and do all sorts of damage. They don't take much of a deposit either (or they hold a card) because there's a fine line between protecting yourself and a sensible amount for your average guest.

The problem here is that AirBnB takes a good chunk of a booking and doesn't do much to vet guests. They also haven't shown to be friendly and trusting with hosts that make claims even though they market a policy to protect larger losses to make you feel more willing to add your home to the pool.

I've been lucky; only had a few bookings I wouldn't want back and mostly they just destroy the hot tub with spilled drinks and I have to refill it. I try to avoid one-night stays as much as possible. I set a higher deposit too to filter our the partiers and don't do instant book. They'll choose a place with a lower deposit and instant-book instead. I also have 3 outdoor cameras so I can see what's going on at my place and how many people are showing up. I'm legally approved to sleep 16. So if it gets crazy; I'll call the police.

I think it's stupid to rent out a condo unless you vet every guest manually. However, I'd still ban it if I was on their HOA. It's a real security issue. You have to trust the person who books and everyone they bring. AirBnB should enact a sizable fine for exceeding their approved guests. Then we could just submit video/image evidence of how many people came and AirBnB could hit the guest with the fine and not be so stingy with their "insurance" policy for hosts.
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> The notion that every practicing doctor has enough free time - or is even smart enough - to keep up on the latest pharmaceuticals, is ridiculous.

How do doctors in other countries with functional medical systems deal with this problem? Health outcomes across the developed world are very similar.
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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.

I will say this though. 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.
I can kind of understand the CIA's anal-retentiveness here, regarding mundane company-sponsored activities. The NSA got its first dose of massive journalistic exposure partly because James Bamford, who wrote "The Puzzle Palace" in 1982, got his hands on internal NSA newsletters, which were apparently like any company's newsletters in that they were meant to be read by employees and family members. He was able to FOIA all of these newsletters, get some inside information about the NSA, and eventually use it as leverage to get the NSA to give him more access:

http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.de/2008/11/interv...

> Among the documents was an NSA newsletter. These are things the NSA puts out once a month. They're fairly chatty, but if you read them closely enough you can pick up some pretty good information about the agency. . . . When I was reading one of the newsletters, there was a paragraph that said, "The contents of this newsletter must be kept within the small circle of NSA employees and their families." And I thought about it for a little bit, and I thought, hmm, they just waived their protections on that newsletter--if that's on every single newsletter then I've got a pretty good case against them. If you're going to open it up to family members, with no clearance, who don't work for the agency, then I have every right to it. That was a long battle, but I won it, and they gave me over 5,000 pages' worth of NSA newsletters going back to the very beginning. That was the first time anyone ever got a lot of information out of NSA.
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There's only one of those "friends" (FlooP): Hofstadter explained that there is no more powerful "GlooP" language, because FlooP turns out to be as powerful as any computing formalism that can be implemented on a computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP
> Now I can independently expand on my own ideas, and reject unpromising ones.

Unpromising in what sense? Unpromising for you personally, or for the greater good of humanity?

Research always comes with a risk. It is called "re-search" and not "re-find" for a reason. You can learn some heuristics that will help you explore, but it is certainly no guarantee for finding anything.
> One of my colleagues went on to ascribe the ‘horribleness’ of many computer systems in everyday use to the “brusque masculinism” of their creation.

The idea that males must be more "brusque" than females is the same thing as saying that females are "attentive and caring" (in comparison to males). It's just an old stereotype.

I didn't think this article said anything new, or well.
Wow yeah. That's noticable to the point that it's almost extension-worthy.

Any idea how much potential that snippet has for causing issues if applied generally across the board?
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Unless you self host a server and/or set one up yourself, there is no way to ensure your vpn is un-monitored. But even then you're still vulnerable at the ISP level, man in the middles, or maintainers of the server.

Check this out for a visual guide of what is available or not with and without tor:
https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https