skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The baseball team currently with the highest roster salary is not the Yankees, but the Los Angeles Dodgers by almost 20%. They're currently in third place, behind teams with the 16th and 26th highest roster salaries (out of 30 MLB teams)[1].

Obviously it's early on the season, but we can look at last year's season to get a better heuristic. The top two teams in terms of roster salary were once again the Dodgers and Yankees. The Dodgers did come in first in their division but finished the season 12.5 games behind the eventual World Series winners, the Chicago Cubs, whose roster salary was barely 2/3 of the Dodgers. Oh, and the Yankees came in fourth place (of five) in their division, a whole nine games out of first place.

So yes, spending money helps you be a contender, but spending the most money is not a good metric for the best team (at least, not in baseball, and I'd imagine that being smarter about spending your money rather than spending more is useful in other fields as well).

http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/2017/
http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/2016/
http://m.mlb.com/standings/?yyyy=2016&view=divisional
Yeah, and of course anything biometric can be represented as data that can be stored on another machine/is NOT secure. Best case is behavioral challenge/response, but eventually even that will be cracked (probably just as soon as there's a working implementation).
I'm really glad New Zealand decided to disallow software patents

No, that is not the case.

http://www.ajpark.com/ip-central/news-articles/2016/05/new-z...

What the Zeds have done is really not so different from what the Supreme Court decided in Enfish:

claims purporting to improve the functioning of the
computer itself, or improving an existing technological
process might not succumb to the abstract idea exception

Abstract software is excepted (disallowed) but software which really controls machines is allowed.
Thanks.

Both "# modprobe -nr mei" and "# modprobe -nr mei_me" report that the module isn't found.
came here to make note of this as well. thanks for the prompt fix, i'll check it out again in a couple of days :)
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A bit more on topic, I was asked to read a book on leadership and teamwork that's a bit of a cliche these days but Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success covers a lot of these ideas specifically in a sports context. A lot of leadership texts revolve around sports out of sheer ubiquity in subject matter among business leaders culturally but beyond some pop sociology type of research I really don't pay much attention to them in a business setting. Why? In much of the world of software, day-to-day work is not a race against a competing team towards the exact same goal as much as it is a race against oneself and against market inertia whether that may be the default mode of failure or convergence to an equilibrium point that needs to be readjusted as the team discovers the hidden rules of a game.

In fact, a lot of business is probably a lot closer to something more sadistic and cruel in gross mechanics like from Takashi Miike's 2014 As the Gods Will (and the manga of the same) - arbitrary filters where the rules are very clear only until after people have died. Some stages test raw individual skills while others test cooperation. And in some cases it didn't actually matter if you had either of those because "luck" is the bigger factor (the fact few in practice agree upon these slack variables to achieving business success shows how random things are for survivorship moreso than controllable factors like skill and effort)
ANYTHING is better than Yelp. It literally does everything in the book to get you to download the app (to collect your user data, presumably) and is literally designed from the ground up to promote businesses that pay them to
be higher on the index.

Their sales tactics are borderline abusive, too. They will hunt you down forever until you sign a package with them, and they give you zero time to think about whether their ad package (which only works on their site and has a super high CPC compared to AdWords) is right for your business.

They need to go away
And many people have "knowledge" we'll never "understand". So ?

(Is anyone excited about the implications AI has for philosophy ?).
I agree with the sentiment. However an issue I had using PhantomJS is that it doesn't support modern JS rendered sites ( doesn't support much es5 at all it seems) I needed to create a pdf from such a site and couldn't get PhantomJS to do it. Headless chrome saved the day.
As a rule, honest hard working people never fall on hard times, never have medical problems, never have circumstances turn against them, never get hit with spurious lawsuits, are never victims of crime or mis-selling. Everyone who works hard is successful and rich, therefore everyone else must be lazy and undeserving scroungers trying to unfairly obtain what they don't deserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis hogwash.
The audiences are a little different. TripAdvisor is easier to game, I find it a good guide, but there are definitely false positives. TA is very accurate for shitty restaurants.

Yelp is weird because when it's good, the reviews are great and super insightful. But you don't necessarily get a great picture of the area. (My typical use case I showing up in randomtown, USA for 24-48 hours.)
I feel the same way about math and statistics. It makes much more sense if the knowledge is applied and makes it more interesting and worth learning.
It's going to be tough for AMD to claw their way back into this market anytime soon. The market for low-end to mid-range servers has been on the decline for a while and the explosive growth from cloud providers is starting to level off too.
1 Light Year = Pepsi Planet

2 Light Years = Pepsi Galaxy

8 Light Years = Pepsi Universe

Man, that's a small universe. To be fair though, it's clearly marked as an unfinished draft.
> When a ball is about to hit your face your brain “can’t remember how to calculate the velocity and acceleration of the ball and predict that in 100ms it will impact your face and thus you need to send a signal for your hand to move to cover your face”.

It's likely doing optical flow calculations (much simpler), rather than integrating an ODE. Richard Dawkins apparently makes the same mistake about "catching a ball" in his book.
holy crap, well done!
It is when people want to launch things and get lots of buzz, then HN is great. But when people express criticism suddenly the user community is a bunch of angry peasants to be kept at arm's length.

I've gotta say I'm getting real tired of entrepreneurs that want to be everybody's friend when they're getting their exciting new venture off the ground but are too cool to discuss the nuances of business with anyone outside the VC bubble whenever they run into a PR problem.

That's a general statement, not directed at the academia.edu team. It's a sad reality that a lot of what passes for entrepreneurship today involves telling users, employees, and investors that they're each the most important group so as to make as many people as possible happy, right up to the point where a conflict of interest emerges and then trying to obscure the fact of its existence with platitudes.
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I wish i could give 2 upvotes
Citation needed. My Apple ID doesn't have my name or address.
Engineers are more likely to be Creationists and/or conspiracy theorists than graduates of other STEM degrees:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineer_woo
Plumber: Convert R code to a web API
Aysh, Mytal, Wyyd, Watyr, and Fyre. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing
This. There are three (and arguably only three) common programming paradigms: imperative programming, functional programming, and logic programming with lineages back to Turing machines, lambda calculus, and formal logic / proof search, respectively. Languages can be broken down along other dimensions, but usually the term "paradigm" is reserved for the sort of irreducible foundation of a language, and these seem to be the three useful ones.

Edit: to put a slightly finer point on it, this irreducible foundation mostly has to do with how the language "computes." Imperative languages compute via statements that modify program state. Functional languages compute via proof reduction to normal form. Logic languages compute via proof search.
Ya'll should come out to the NY Haskell meetups. Get the word out.
Hi throwaway212838,

First, that sounds pretty bad — honestly I’m sorry. It’s good to hear direct feedback, as we obviously want to do better than this outcome right here.

On salary: We previously had a program where we gave significant monthly raises in effort to drive fair and aggressive compensation in an ongoing basis. The goal was to pay more, not less, by forcing a review and adjustment on a regular cadence. However, we decommissioned that system in favor of standard offers because we struggled for a lot of reasons you pointed out about complexity. Based on a few debriefing conversations with candidates, we learned and changed to a bog standard system; now all offers are in the range listed (or higher.)

Our interview process can be involved when we’re hiring for key roles; at minimum we require a discussion with 4-5 folks, which can take 2-3 weeks. Generally the process is that you send us an email, and we try to get you on the phone with the best hiring manager for the role. We often request a 3-hr work assignment, a couple of Skype calls, then move to an onsite if that makes sense for all involved.

I can see how you’d be bummed spending the time without the expected outcome. We’ve taken a lot of risks and made plenty of mistakes building this company, but we try to adapt and improve pretty quickly. The important thing is that we try to assemble a team of honest people with big ambitions and a lot of talent… and in broad strokes we’ve accomplished that. It’s led us to an enviable market position with some awesome technologies and unique challenges. If you’re curious, we were at Facebook's F8 two weeks ago on stage talking about specific innovations at Blackstorm: http://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/65620/blackstorm-labs-o...

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Society is not a garden where everything grows and blooms on a predictable schedule, notwithstanding the efforts to make it that way in places like North Korea. Culture is messy and proceeds by fits and starts in my experience.
Looks like Apple machines are safe.

"Are Apple Macs impacted by this at all?"

"No. Apple hardware has an ME, but Apple don't ship the AMT firmware for it."

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html
I'm kind of uncomfortable calling "declarative" a paradigm; it's a broad (and not binary) feature. Prolog and SQL are, respectively, the leading examplars of the logic and relational paradigms. They are both fairly declarative (but then, in the age of optimizing compilers, even C is somewhat declarative: your code constrains the result but it doesn't dictate the how as much as it seems to.)
Recent Developments in Bit Parallel Algorithms (2008) [pdf]
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Apart from the volume characteristic this doesn't seem to hold. Vanguard creates ETFs on diversified baskets of stocks picked(rules based) by other people eg: S&P, Nasdaq etc. YC actually has to review each and every application and independently determine whether to accept them.

At a push, I'd go with - Investing in stocks:Vanguard :: Investing in companies : Random funds that will only invest if you have a brand-name lead investor
Yes looking back I think asyncio was a blunder.

I've been using Python for more than 12 years now. Used threads, then Twisted, then eventlet, then gevent.

Switching to Twisted was hard but oh well, there was nothing else that did the job right for lots of concurrent requests. Unfortunately it also created a separate library system, fragmented and cumbersome. You'd want a library, you find it "oh but it doesn't return deferreds it blocks the current thread". Or vice versa when using threads, I'd find the perfect library to parse my protocol but it returned deferreds only. Then eventlet and gevent came about it was like a breath of fresh air. I remember refactoring a largish code base from Twisted to eventlet and it was something like a 50% reduction in code size. Then gevent came about with more improvements and so on. Then async came, and now it's like back to Twisted. Find a library but well, it return the async thing not a result, so it has to live in a separate ecosystem. You have write async this async that everywhere.

Also, maybe if async came 5-7 years ago it would have taken over but now once people have to rewrite everything with async they'd also start looking at other languages: like Elixir and Go which somehow managed to avoid "async everywhere" and still do the right thing. Python almost had that too with greenlet based libraries. Embracing that would have probably made more sense, but oh well...
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And pay like 10x more + shipping because you only wanted 1 song on the CD?
Nope. Just good developers and engineers.
Not just SANs, pretty much their entire product line. iLO is a very common IPMI deployment at companies with HPe gear, which is a number of very large ones.
I think the proof is fairly simple:

i) Tell a person how a Turing machine works,

ii) Give her reams of paper

iii) Make her miserable by running some instruction.

iv) ?

v) Profit!

Seriously though. I don't think Turing completeness means anything at all; we're increasingly beginning to understand how important representations are. As hackers I'm sure we understand what this means in terms of PLs, but this is no coincidence IMO.
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"Understandable" is not necessary computable. Understanding an algorithm is equivalent to the Halting problem in my books.
Basic Income - lol!!!

It sure was inspired by SciFi
Looking at the LuaJIT changelog [1], it's interesting how many bugs need fixing in each version: 20 in 2.0.5 and 32 in 2.0.4.

Compare this with PUC Lua [2], which seems to have very few bugs: only 4 in 5.3.3 and 3 in 5.3.2.

LuaJIT and PUC Lua appear to be very similar superficially ("LuaJIT is Lua, but fast"). The relative bug counts reinforce the fact that in the details, the two implementations are very different - for example, LuaJIT uses a lot of assembly language while PUC Lua is pure C89.

The advantages of LuaJIT over PUC Lua seem to be performance and its FFI. I thought PUC Lua's only advantage was portability, but perhaps PUC Lua is also a generally more "correct" implementation?

[1] http://luajit.org/changes.html

[2] https://www.lua.org/bugs.html
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Also interested in 3D engine pointer.
Sure!

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Because the lua code moonsript emits is inherently slower.
Apple has never really bought something and left it alone before. While the Beats headphone brand was good, some people wondered if they would change it somehow. "Beats presented by Apple" or something like that. Start putting their logo on the product, etc.

I'm not saying it would be a smart idea. I think Apple did the right thing. But Apple couple years ago may well have made a change like that.
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Even if Apple were to improve the sound quality my guess is they couldn't produce them any faster so why bother?

Because cachet is a vital part of Apple's marketing strategy. If they could capture some of that kind of attention for doing something respectable, they would benefit.

Plus they have additional constraints on them because they're using Bluetooth.

That is significant. However, Bluetooth is improving. Other forms of technology are improving as well. We're getting to the point where very linear drivers combined with digital processing are starting to make a difference. Soon, we'll be able to make such devices cheaply, with sensors that are fast enough to make regular consumer devices perform like today's high end headphones.

Apple has traditionally cared about aesthetics enabling technology. Their screens are good, and while not high end with sound, they have sold decent sound hardware in their laptops. They were early with Toslink. Steve Jobs cared about decent sound as well.
http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html
There's a map here of how loud it is and noise analysis:

https://www.docdroid.net/xfNMCgz/draft-supplemental-ea-space...
Sports is a terrible analogy for work. A sport is a game with rules that are created to create an entertaining event. The rules are defined. The outcomes are always instances that never build to a lasting change to the structures that created the outcome. Work is not like that in any way.
Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2040, 30 years sooner than expected
Not really. They once owned a big chunk of Expedia, and TripAdvisor when it was part of Expedia.
>Yes, you'll never lose the actual RSA key bits to an attacker. But that'll be cold comfort after an attacker uses a hijacked SSH process to compromise every account you log into.

But if you enable (and require) the touch feature, it'll be pretty obvious if someone's trying to use your agent to authenticate somewhere else, no? I'd certainly notice if I had to press the button twice while I'm logging into a machine that should only request auth once (i.e. I'm not proxying through another box).
ECC RAM is a bit of a hard case in that the memory controller needs a slightly different wire protocol for ECC vs. non-ECC DIMMs. "Back in the old days", this was one of the justifications for having a northbridge separate from the CPU. Now, in the name of efficiency, it's all on-chip, making ECC a processor feature rather than a motherboard feature.

That being said, it'd certainly be possible to fix this: just ask RAM manufacturers to make their non-ECC memory have the same pin out as ECC memory, with the ECC pins just stubbed to always report that everything is okay. Then all processors could just include the ECC version of the memory controller.