skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What else is he going to do if he needs personal cash, take a loan?

If he believed in the stock, why not?
The concerning thing is that the headline frames it in the context of Trump, implying that the government is pursuing the information at the President's request.

However, about ten paragraphs in they mention:

> There is no indication that the White House was aware of the summons, which was signed by a Florida-based supervisor who works in an office that investigates employee corruption, misconduct and mismanagement. The supervisor could not be reached for comment."

So all we know at the moment is that some manager, somewhere in Florida, is looking into `ALT_uscis`.
And yet, the article mentions Trump multiple times (including in the headline) before that, giving the impression that Trump is pursuing legal action that would seem to compromise freedom of speech.
It's not unreasonable to infer that the journalists taking this angle on the story have an axe to grind.

Either way, I took a brief look at the `ALT_uscis` account and didn't see any tweets alluding to malfeasance or obstructive action in their official capacity, so I'm inclined to agree that this is government overreach.
Obviously this wasn't the case when you commented, but this is now on the front page (ranked sixth). I guess people noticed after all!
Am i going mad? Windows has a command line ftp tool, I used it this morning. Is it just a Windows 10 thing? because it was also on my netbook running 8.1 out of the box.
I always figured Amazon and SpaceX would just grow to be sister companies. Let SpaceX handle hardware and negotiations and let Amazon handle logistics and sales. Instant 45-minite Anywhere-On-Earth delivery service. I think there would be enough cash for them to share.

I have no doubt that Amazon wants to dig deep into space mining and being the backbone of the early solar economy. Who doesn't. It's gonna take a series of extremely smart investments for whoever does manage to pull that off. The barrier to a sustainable space economy is quite high.
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> I think you mean "a non-objective standard." The great virtue -- and great flaw -- of stack ranking is that it's very, very, very objective.

Stack ranking usually takes as it's key input management subjective evaluations of staff performance, which is why the subject units are usually small suborganizations. It's mechanistic in what it does with that input, but it absolutely is not usually based on purely or predominantly objective measures.

Organizations which spend the effort to develop meaningful objective performance measures usually also spend the effort to find better uses of them than inputs to rank-and-yank systems.
The national champions are going to have a difficult time matching SpaceX on cost if for no other reason than the respective governments will force inefficiencies on these organizations by dictating where the rockets are built and by whom. That's what made the shuttle so damn expensive.

SpaceX won't be immune from this sort of meddling, but it's in a much better position to resist than, say, Arianespace or Roscosmos.
I know! I was just pitched the idea because the OP seems to not be "famous" from what he's saying, but he still seems to have that problem.
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This is one of the reasons I dislike anti-discrimination laws.
> I see no reason to go digging for problems. When I encounter one, I'll do it then.

It was the same with init, but instead of digging into greppable script files, you need to dig into Google and systemd manpages first, then dig into the actual issues second.
Yes, milo yiannopoulos'a criticism of the ghostbusters movie. Show me the actual "hate speech". It's become common for any criticism of liberals to be framed as hate speech.
It's hard and time consuming to build smartphones in the first place. Sometimes you have to do hard and time consuming things.

I don't see that a requirement to continue to honor the warranty after third-party repairs has been made represents any sort of undue burden on Apple, let alone one so terrible that it justifies overturning hard-fought consumer protections and returning to a system where companies are allowed to screw over customers pretty much at will.

Apple always has the choice to err on the side of caution and honor the warranty even when the third-party repair is at fault. That caps the cost to whatever it costs them to provide a replacement device. Which is probably something like $200 if your phone isn't brand new.

If they feel it may be worthwhile, they can try to determine whether a third-party repair is at fault for the problem at hand. But they don't have to.
This sounds insane. Why would you hire a cohort of employees only to fire them later?

The simple answer is "because it's cheaper to hire them and see who works out than to put together a better hiring process". No hiring process is going to be perfect; at scale, companies can reasonably say "X% of our hires aren't going to work out".

Consider the situation of university scholarships. At my institution, we offer entrance scholarships based on high school grades, extracurricular activities, and an application essay. If a student doesn't maintain a 3.5 GPA (we have A+ = 4.33, but the average grade awarded across the institution is 2.80) then they lose their scholarship.

Every so often someone says "hey, why are we taking their money away? Why are we making them stress out over keeping their grades up?" -- and my answer is always that if they're having trouble maintaining a 3.5 GPA, we made a mistake in giving them the scholarship in the first place.

Now, the situation isn't entirely analogous; in particular, if someone has worked at your company for 10 years and repeatedly demonstrated that you didn't make a mistake by hiring them, a single bad year probably doesn't contradict that. But if you know that you have a consistent rate of 10% of your hires turning out to be mistakes, it's not completely unreasonable to go around to your teams and say "those 10 people you hired last year? Figure out which one was the mistake".
While I think you can definitely draw some parallels, differential privacy seems more targeted at metric collection. You have to be able to mutate the data in a way that it becomes non-identifying, without corrupting the answer in aggregate. Apple would still do all their training in the cloud.

In contrast, what Google's proposing is more like distributed training. In regular SGD, you'd iterate over a bunch of tiny batches, sequentially through your whole training set. Sounds like Google's saying each device becomes it's own mini-batch, and it beams up the result, and Google will average them all out in a smart way (I didn't read the paper, but this was the gist I got from the article).

Both ideas are in the same spirit, just the implementations are very different.
"culture contribution" misses the mark.

Companies aren't asking "what do you bring to the table" (which could work for "culture contribution") ....they asking "would you disrupt what we already have going" (and potentially how much would it cost us...1 senior engineers time, 4 mid engineers time?)

"Culture fit" is vague. It should stay vague and mean whatever companies want it to mean in the moment.
I guess I fixed the issue that you pointed out, it was a new bug in testbed. Thanks for reporting!

You may need to force-reload the example to see the update. Please let me know if the issue still exists for you.
I'm not a trump supporter but I know some and this is simply false.

There are many people who supported trump who strongly dislike him, especially when it comes to racism, but found key aspects of Hilary's platform unacceptable and didn't see another choice.

It's quite possible to be bothered by both sides.
That would be much appreciated.
This might not be a popular opinion -- or the "right" one -- but, personally, I'm glad to see this happening (and I hope it happens more) if it has the effect of getting folks to pay attention and address the underlying problem.
do the current rate limits constitute standard access?
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If that were true, I would have just said, "Hey, fuck you." :-)
Nope! But this is a regular SVB checking account not one through Atlas so I'm not sure what the differences are. My comment is defending SVB the bank, not necessarily the Atlas account which I have less knowledge of.
It's on the roadmap but I can't give an ETA at this time.
This whole subthread makes more sense if we're talking about college hires. I can see why the idea of a homework assignment and a week of paid consulting might seem appealing for people who don't already have a job and haven't already been through the interview process a few times.
Where is this feeling coming from? There's only fb, twitter & instagram, no? I'm not seeing people using their phones less..
This is bad. This is very bad.
In the past some minority rights activists described themselves as "social justice warriors"; it's a genuine subculture. There are a handful of people who still identify themselves that way.
I keep my eye on the Folding@Home spreadsheet of GPUs and their price/performance ratios, updated with price changes regularly. My 2012 Mac Mini going full blast does about 5k Points Per Day (PPD), while the Titan X Pascal does 1200k, but performance per Watt is the key metric. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v5gXral3BcFOoXs5n1M6...
Early email providers in Argentina used Unix to Unix Copy Program (UUCP) to move forward your messages to some of the few internet connected servers. IIRC you would write email in Pegasus or Eudora and then upload/download your mail with a 9600bps modem to a UUCP server.
One specific example is venture debt. If you raise a bunch of money from a whitelisted VC, SVB will lend you money on top of that. Maybe you raise $9 million from Accel Partners in a series B, and SVB lends you another $3 million. You get cash now without much additional due diligence, pay it back, over a few years, and keep more of the equity.

Another nice perk is working a banker you can call who understands the cash needs of startups. You can speak to a person in plain English about how your whacky business model needs to work. They see all sorts of new weird stuff, and they are conditioned to want to help you. The value of having someone understand the highs and lows of startup life, and who will go the extra mile to resolve any hiccups is subtle, but nice. Basically, a startup banker for startups is nice in the same way a farming banker is nice for farmers.

They can also help introduce you to investors. Having a banker on your side when you're raising capital is not trivial.

That is all that comes to mind.
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We are going to publish a public roadmap soon.

Yes, we do plan on supporting Bitbucket Cloud and Server but I can't give an ETA on that right now.
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I suppose you're free to believe what you want, but the microsoft renaissance is literally the companies marketing/PR.

This is what they pay people to say on websites like Hackernews/Reddit, etc so that people like you and I start repeating it.
I think what makes the Porsche not look weird but the Tesla does, is the fact that in the Porsche the front tapers down to below the top of the wheels, while the Tesla has a significant flat upright with a sharp edge at the top; it appears like they allocated space for a grille but didn't fit one. I think it'd look better if the front tapered down more and with a smoother edge, like the Porsche.
Cheers. :-)
> It says something about the platforms integrity

And? I don't have a stake in the integrity of twitter or any other private business. If I don't like the product, I don't use it, same as any other business. Frankly, my default assumption regarding any business is that its integrity only goes as far as it affects the bottom line, and that has proven to be true with pretty much every business I've encountered. None of this has anything to do with free speech.
You are correct, thank you I read the last update wrong. I personally still attempt to not do business with these organizations for multiple reasons.
If he lived next to the bars or downtown that would probably be reasonable, but I can't imagine he would bring in too much money (as opposed to living in a large metropolitan area).
Doesn't it change color naturally and indicate?

If it ain't broken... Why does it need to be easier? Biome is important. Don't mess with it.

This technology is probably not for me. But you're welcome to make your poo rainbow if you want to take that risk.
Yes, there is in the United States. Oddly enough there are no such laws in Canada.
Yeah - it doesn't seem unfair to get compensated for that risk
I heard the same thing about desktop Linux for years. 200 distros later, guess what, Windows is still king and Apple is still selling boatloads of pricey machines.
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Will the free Search API have lower rate limits than they are currently?
Find someone in the finance industry. Show of your trading algorithms in action.
Which is already the case like for 10 years. That is why no Startup ever challenge Google for their Search. It is basically the Matthew Effect but on Web Scale.
They show a route so you can feel safe in the car and know how close you are to your destination.
I kind of like this simple explanation 'because I like money.'
The vast majority of people in any organisation are good people who want what's best in the sense of the greater good - that does not prevent organisations from doing bad things.
Is this how WW3 starts?
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I'm curious why his profile says

> Medium member since Feb 2017
I was making leaps because everyone sees it coming and it's boring. No need to make it longer.

I don't think analogy is the word you're looking for.
I opened a Capital One 360 account a few weeks back. Approved instantly, and got my debit card 2 days later! Great experience honestly.
>Because you can't measure what people don't want, or what their relative preferences are between comparable items.

In what way do prices help with that? If more Fuji apples are requested, you know people like that over the other varieties. If you want one brand of apples over the other, one brand's products_distributed variable increases by one. Sorry if it appears as though I'm being obtuse.

>And this applies not just at the consumer level, but in the decisions firms make regarding their supply chains.

Howso?
FUCK

Sorry all. That is what I felt on reading this. We just don't need war.
I feel like that is going to be confusing for Win10 users.
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"THE US has launched a massive cruise missile strike against Syria – despite a warning from Russia not to get involved."

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/603497/trump-syr...
I know that's the analogy people make, but it doesn't hold up.

Newspapers were hawked by criers in the street, or sold at stands directly adjacent to competing newspapers, or delivered to your doorstep where the other guy could place his competing paper right next to it. All the conduct was in the real, person-to-person world where every physically able person has the same access.

That access is completely non-existent in cyberspace; the user pulls only what he wishes to receive. In the physical world, the user receives pushes from everything in his environment.

Twitter is not a publication, but a piece of telecom infrastructure. People do not go to Twitter to see what Twitter thinks. They go to Twitter because they believe Twitter will successfully carry the communication from the people they trust and want to listen to.

Is it equally OK for the phone company to kick you off and take your phone number because they didn't like what you said through "their" telephone infrastructure? What about your ISP kicking you off because they don't like what you're posting over "their" pipes? If you don't like it, you can go to another company, or heck, even start your own, right?

Not only were newspapers publications with a monolithic, easily attributable point of view, but newspapers did not have circulation that reached into the billions either (and if one newspaper did get that large, they'd have been broken up in antitrust).

Now, companies can alter or silence someone else's speech, and remove the entire audience, because ironically, the audience no longer needs to go into the real, physical world that exists behind the keyboard to find out what's happening. They implicitly trust these platforms to present the information they request.

There are many big differences between cyberspace and physical space. We've made a lot of short-sighted policy by pretending there's a 1:1 mapping. Let's not keep that habit up.
That was actually my first idea, but everyone knows that the odds are with the house, and as people pointed out the odds are printed right on lottery tickets and people still buy them despite the terrible deal on offer.

I figured that adjusting say 8% of the ads to reflect an (imaginary) 8% incidence of problem gambling would actually be more effective, by balancing the legitimate commercial desires of the casino, the legitimate worry of gambling addiction, and making the billboards just unpredictable enough to keep people playing...er, guessing.
For now I think the best completely-open device is Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

The software and motherboard schematics are totally open. It includes an mPCIe wifi card (Ath9k) specifically to avoid binary blob firmware.
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> We're talking about the same Twitter that shut down Milo Yiannopolis' account because Twitter didn't like what he was saying?

Nope! We're talking about the same Twitter that shut down Milo Yiannopolis' account because he openly encouraged people to harass an actress (Leslie Jones), including sharing fake screenshots making it look like she tweeted a bunch of offensive stuff, because she was in a movie he didn't like (Ghostbusters).
This is speculative, but it seems like the privacy aspect is oversold as it may be possible to reverse engineer the input data from the model updates. The point is that the model updates themselves are specific to each user.
What ToS did he break? Because as far I know he broke none. He did however call out that actress who has a twitter account full of racist tweets which do violate the ToS and her account is still active and actively posting racist tweets.
Then all they'll do is find a reason to have it subpoenaed.
I still don't understand how sysv scripts can be so long and hard-to-read for such a simple task.
Ha! Thanks :)

The "genius class" on YCombinator isn't my intended audience. Those folks can go jump off a cliff.

My intended audience is the average person who jumps in a car and drives without thinking what is beyond the windshield. I think these people are interesting because they are making to-the-second economic decisions while driving. Given that:

* road space is a fixed asset

* information about upcoming road conditions is uncertain

* people can use devices to gather best-effort information from Google

* a driver can only choose one route

* the choices drivers collectively makes a market

* drivers choose to be risker to save time

The write up today is really just a foundational observations.

Cheers,
Chris
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Why are we are fascinated with CxO compensations?
One of them does around here. The one that always amuses me is '05% payout on slots'. I like to imagine some nice people handing a crumpled up $100 to a cashier and getting nice crispy bills in return totalling $95.
Just curious as to how many of these replies have used systemd
> Was, not is. I believe that's an important distinction.

It is, but it's yet to be seen if this kind of dramatic behavior is behind the project's leader. It was all very dramatic and still very fresh. An apology is only the first step towards making it past-tense.
For some things, yes, and we are planning to do this. Deployment is different between our projects though, so we'd prefer our deployment method to live within the repo beside other build steps.
Even if all the physicians were to decide to do their accounting the way you recommend, one would still need to make adjustments for the costs of doing business, when considering reporting of income like that found in TFA, which certainly does not include such adjustments.
Particularly relevant: "Federated Learning allows for smarter models ... all while ensuring privacy". Reading the paper, Google would still receive model updates, so this statement seems based on assumption that you can't learn anything meaningful about me based on those higher level features (which are far reduced in dimensionality from the raw data). I'm curious how they back up that argument.
Wanting to spread your investment is a normal concept, as is keeping your investments secret.
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Huge implications for distributed self-driving car training and improvement.
Why not just compile to asm.js?
> you're not bothered by it

I'm genuinely curious, by what logic did you come to this conclusion?
That didn't happen. You were lied to.
If the government were to pursue this kind of action against "criticizers" of the government on Twitter, that's all they'd be doing. Your imaginary scenario may well be terrifying to you. But it's not reality, as you seem to know by using the word "potentially." Focus on reality instead of a dreamed-up fantasy, and you won't be so truly terrified.
My understanding is that Andrew Lewis first said it.

http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...
Why is the linear combination used to train the sentiment classifier? Why does its result get taken into account?

Is this linear combination between 2 different strings?
Milo was banned for repeated rule violations and getting a troll army to harass Leslie Jones. Stop trying to revise history.
I don't like it at all. Personally, I want a screen that displays the speed and the battery status directly in my line of vision, not on an LCD screen off to the right that you can't read in direct sunlight.
He's got a VC fund called Obvious (mentioned in the post). If you want to know more details their portfolio is listed here:

https://obvious.com/portfolio
>I carry a higher risk allele for a non-trivial disease (along with lower risk alleles for some other non-trivial diseases), and the test placed me in those corresponding statistical risk buckets which are different from the general population.

How do you know this is accurate?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/science/i-had-my-dna-p...

>23andMe said my most elevated risks — about double the average for women of European ethnicity — were for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, with my lifetime odds of getting the diseases at 20.2 percent and 8.2 percent. But according to Genetic Testing Laboratories, my lowest risks were for — you guessed it — psoriasis (2 percent) and rheumatoid arthritis (2.6 percent).

>In the case of Type 2 diabetes, inconsistencies on a semantic level masked similarities in the numbers. G.T.L. said my risk was “medium” at 10.3 percent, but 23andMe said my risk was “decreased” at 15.7 percent. In fact, both companies had calculated my odds to be roughly three-quarters of the average, but they used slightly different averages — and very different words — to interpret the numbers. In isolation, the first would have left me worried; the second, relieved.