skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grandparent's statement "there are such things as facts" seems to support the idea that the evidence provides unambiguous support for the author's thesis.

I think people discussing complex phenomena (like poverty) tend to overstate the power of their evidence; they overstate its ability to support the conclusions they want to draw from it.

This was illustrated in dramatic fashion when many/most of the most educated, "enlightened" people in the US had a reality check that their model was off last November. If there hadn't been an actual vote, people would probably still be insisting that Hillary Clinton would have won, had there been an actual vote on Nov 8.

And that was the simple question of "how many people will show up to a polling station and mark a box for HC vs DT"! And the evidence consisted of pollsters who were asking hundreds or thousands of people that precise question every day! That should have been much easier to model and predict than poverty! It didn't even get into the causes of why people think or vote in certain ways.

And yet still we have people looking at complex systems and problems like poverty and saying "it's not because of X, it's because of Y" with a feeling of certainty. And thinking that they are justified in their certainty because they claim this is what the "facts" say.

I think, first of all, that grandparent hasn't even accurately summarized their own link, which says "Children and eldery make up slightly more than half of the market poor." Their statement that "essentially" 80% of the poor are children and elderly has already caused a significant amount of the underlying data to be "lost in translation".

I think, second of all, that bucketing elderly, children, the disabled, etc into "vulnerable populations" and saying they comprise 80% of the poor doesn't really support the author's thesis at all.

No one blames a child for being poor. It is not a child's responsibility to support themselves. So saying children are poor doesn't really speak to whether poverty is a personal choice. Children are the responsibility of their parents, so it is the parents choices that would be relevant here.

Elderly people, on the other hand, generally spend their lives realizing they will be old someday, and therefore poverty of an elderly person does not necessarily say anything about whether poverty is a personal choice. It could be a lack of effort put into saving during their working years.

I want to be clear that I'm not against safety nets, or in favor of doling out blame and judgement towards poor people.

What I am against is the (to me) crazy amount of overconfidence many people (on the left especially) have in the ability of their data to "prove" their political positions and arguments.

And I'm not even against people's right to hold convictions that the evidence doesn't fully justify. What I am especially against is when people use those convictions to pass blame and judgment on others. The clear subtext of this article is that we are all guilty, as a society, for making poor people poor.
Government regulations created the twisted non-market for healthcare that exists in the united states. Pretty please don't sign us up for more government.

You know there are 7 big health care providers in my state building spectacular facilities as fast as they can, and they don't have to compete with each other? There's no competition. Every pleb goes dutifully to the assigned provider his employer sends him to.

You think it's an accident there's weak consumer protections in the U.S. of A? You think it's just dumb luck that health care has no market forces to control costs? We're all about rapacious crony capitalism here!
Awesome :) Have you started monetizing it yet? For me that is something that should be done in the first 3 months. That gives you an idea of how valuable it is to others. If it is giving a steady stream of revenue then awesome.
I agree with these 100%, and I've followed similar rules throughout my career so far (and will continue to do so).
Thanks :)

But yeah, never said I had a good sense of visual design. It does work reasonably well for the target demographic, though (baby boomers and older for the most part), and at least there ain't any <marquee> or <blink> tags.
I agree. I own fantastic books from both NoStarch and Manning and a few from O'Reilly to name a few publishers (I really like tech books). I check NoStarch about once a month to see if there is something new on the horizon and unfortunately there's usually not a huge amount. Manning's MEAP program usually has 25+ books in the works and there are at least 5 I'm waiting on. Tldr; I wish NoStarch published more of their great books.
One tip that would probably help you find new and interesting ideas: Try to read ask HN threads, shown HN threads (the new ones). Just the other day some guy posted about how he could get notified of remote tasks. I think that is a good problem to solve. You'll find many like these once you start reading comments.
Javascript is a weakly typed language and no superset like Typescript or Flow will solve this problem, just mitigate it.

However, on the other hand, I think that a good, experienced developer has no problem with that. The bugs that the experienced developer "fears" have nothing to do with type errors, which at the end are rather easy to solve...
Currents Fishing Network Application, 1.0.0 Released
The other part of the situation which we're not hearing and are unlikely to ever hear are the cases where the interest was somewhat mutual. Given the billions of dollars at stake and the fame that comes with startup glory, I don't think it's a stretch to believe there are some female founders that try to use their sexuality to their advantage. Perhaps I'm naive, but given how blatant some of the stories have been, I wonder whether these men didn't arrive at their apparent level of bluntness without having gone through a few rounds of being more subtle and moving a lot slower. I'm willing to bet that these men have been somewhat conditioned into this level of behavior.

Don't get me wrong...the behaviors in these accusations are reprehensible and, even if the interest was entirely mutual, it would piss me off to no end if I were an investor in any of these funds that the managers were using my money to pursue women or generally anything other than trying to invest in the most promising companies. Even if they didn't have an obligation to the women pitching to them or common decency, which they do, they still have an responsibility to their investors which they completely violated.

But if we're going to be consistent, we need to call out anyone who brings anything sexual into what should be a strictly business setting, and I'd bet there are people on both sides of the pitch who've done that.
If gravity is waves, it stands to reason that there would be lots of noise that correlated as various events in the universe reach earth.
Being born to two educated parents is not luck on your part, but well deserved reward for a long, concerted effort on theirs. You're not a random happening on a clean slate; you're just the latest offshoot of a family.
Some Go concurrency tricks
I agree there is utility in it (and have done reading at that level of comprehension and below), and it's more interesting than children's stories, and it's a great way to improve your vocabulary, I was just pointing out that despite sounding good 90% comprehension falls well short of comfortable reading and you're better off trying to read easier texts than struggle with more difficult ones.

In fact that was one of the reasons why I made a program called Chinese Text Analyser [0], so that you could quickly identify suitable texts based on your current vocabulary without needing to read the novel first.

0: https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/
I've worked for a number of startups and observed that some people are great at collecting money but don't know how to spend it wisely after getting it, just as some politicians are great at getting elected but don't know how to govern.
I Am One of Many: Fixing the Systemic Issues in the Tech Industry
"Bookish" is an excellent word, the experience here is very similar to reading a good book, but an interactive one. I fell in love with this design from the 1st glance actually. Interestingly, I experience it be very different from Reddit.
Nvidia cause nvidia is prolly gonna power said aig
What happens from now onward will be unbelievable
The rabbit hole now goes high up, as well as deep.

"In the months ahead, IGE hired more adults, a slew of VPs with decades of industry experience among them. The company also brought on a former Goldman Sachs investment banker named Stephen Bannon, whose mission was to land venture capital."

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/
Frank Zappa fan here.

The ironic part of all this is that FZ records are a case for getting into LP records. For example the original version of the Hot Rats album (1969) has the original released audio, while the CD version (1987) has a totally different remix, with different instruments in the mix, different edits of the solos, etc. Like a different album.

The "You are what you is" LP (1981) shows excellent sound quality while the CD (1987?) is one of the CDs with most atrociuous sound quality ever made, this is widely acknowledge. Not due to the digital medium, but due to wrongly applied compression.

The "Shut up and play your guitar" album has tracks recorded in 24-track analog tape versus 24-track digital tape on the same CD. It is curious, but the analog tracks sound remarkably better than the digital tracks. I know, this is a digital CD, but the quality difference is there.

EDIT:

> FZ: You do get different stuff, and the reason you do is that the dynamic range of the digital tape is 90 dB and the dynamic range of a record is about 45 to 50 dB.

The signal-to-noise ratio of a LP is about 66dB if you consider the low frequency spectrum, which includes rumble. Regarding dynamic range, uf you consider only the high frequencies (>1KHz), dynamic range approaches 100dB on the higher end of the spectrum. This is thanks to the RIAA equalization curve.
What is a file? (2011)
something I've never understood. These guys (Kalanick, McClure) are multi millionaires, and could probably get any number of women to take interest in them on that basis alone. Why risk career suicide?

Why would they need to hit on women at their workplaces? Why isn't the normal dating game (where they have a massive edge via being loaded) sufficient? I don't get it (at all).

What am I missing? These guys seem to be (borderline) insane and incapable of rational thought.

At the workplace do the work! Leave the political/religious/mating etc games outside.
I believe OP was referring to the studied fact that leaders and business moguls tend to exhibit many more of the sociopathic check points than the ordinary person.
I think the point that the parent commenter is missing, and you're not illustrating, is that women are very frequently propositioned in the workplace.

To stcredzero, he's innocuously asking a woman colleague of equal rank, who he has rapport with, out to a movie. He sees it as an opportunity to develop a relationship that could lead to a happy marriage. He doesn't get that many opportunities due to various reasons, so he's taking the chance he has.

She sees it as yet another colleague asking her out, when it's likely another male colleague asked her on a date that very morning, along with the dude on BART and one on the street as she walked to work.

The workplace should be focused on work, not another place where a woman has to be on guard.

People do form romantic relationships from working relationships. This should be approached with the utmost of care, because the workplace isn't the appropriate place.

The appropriate place is social events, with mutual friends; a Tinder date; a friendship struck at your local Linux Users Group meetup (you never know), etc.
it's not inherently different from computing but i don't think any of our current architectures are amenable to "real thinking". a computer that really thinks needs something much, much different from a von neumann or harvard architecture. so much different that it would almost be weird to still call it a computer.
Math 115A – Linear Algebra – Terrence Tao
Did he come up with "paid, laid, or made"? I've heard it from sales people and thought it predated McClure.

The kitten and "money shot" is absolutely unnecessary, but I get the coarse language for "paid, made, laid"- the idea is that compelling products and services target base desires.
Intellectual consistency would require acknowledging the systematic repression of women in western history (not being able to vote, etc), and thus, the effects of what is still a patriarchial culture as often as not.

In other words, your argument attempts to ignore simple historical facts which you can verify easily on Wikipedia.
Walking even a tiny bit slower can signal dementia
Well, research is showing a huge decline(40%) in empathy between 2000-2010:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/born-love/201005/shocke...

The article mentions few of the possible core reasons: a large decline in face to face time which is being replaced by the likes of facebook, a culture that emphasizes individuality far too strongly, brutal competition that's deeply seeping into the culture and strong inequality - whose turn to isolate us.

>> What's surprising is that I'm not even depressed,

Sure. But that's just your current luck. Statistically we're seeing an increase in depression, anxiety, etc.

The sad thing, it's like world war I, we're seeing all those trends(and others) and we know where they are heading, but there doesn't seem anything we can do about it, on the societal level.
Oh sweet summerchild.
How does their niceness in other situations matter?
Also plottable, one of the few large typescript open source libraries you can depend upon.
Only on the platforms that support Valgrind, with teams that bother to use it.

Given that Apple, Microsoft and Google keep doing presentations about such tools at their conferences, and my experience at enterprise level, I would say not so many bother to use them.
The LINPACK benchmark feels a bit like bragging. Of course you can demand an exact dot-product operation for any implementation of your standard, and then use it to compute an exact vector-matrix product, but floats could do the same if it were part of the standard. The fact that it requires a 1024-bit accumulator makes me doubt that it would be used for a massively parallel implementation e.g. in GPUs.

The overall idea of choosing a number distribution that loses less precision for common operations and orders of magnitude is pretty compelling, though.
If you want to look at the data and run their code w/o installing any software, check out their ready to view/run Jupyter notebooks:

https://notebooks.azure.com/losc/libraries/tutorials

1. click on a notebook to see the html rendering
2. or clone+run to execute/edit the code (need to create login)
and that until 2005 reddit was written in Lisp
Tiny devices are also attack vectors, as if there weren't enough vulnerable devices on the Internet.
That may be. The contentious part is how simple that is. It's simplistic to suggest that it's simple, in other words.
To say it requires an "insane" level of self control is ridiculous.
.com

Undisputed king. Anything else is a noise.
Come up with creative .com brand name that is not taken.
McClure is a marketing guy. Yes, VC is a niche area of PE. But you don't overwrite 20 years of cultural influence from your main profession just like that.
"The average student loan debt in 2016 was $37,172"

To be clear, the opportunity costs of unearned and non-debt payments generally would be in north of 150k range. Assume 30k/year income 4x years is 120k, plus the 37k debt, plus non-debt spending.

" An Associates will net you about $400M over your lifetime, a Bachelors about $1MM,"

And the same monetary investment in a fund earning 7% interest will be worth more than three times that over the same time frame.

It is not a good financial investment, on average. Some degrees have positive ROI. Many - most - do not.
One thing I don't fully understand about Filecoin (or siacoin for that matter): can I utilize this as a service provider to directly host and deliver content to my users, or do I need to sit in the path of the traffic, and retrieve the content for them? Or does this not fit into the traditional hosting model at all? Filecoin mentions the retrieval market, but I'm struggling to find more details.

A concrete example would be a file or image hosting service. I can pay to store my content using Filecoin, but am I required to retrieve the content and transfer it to my users?
I was actually looking at that after I saw this question. PiAUISuite/voicecommand (looks like it can be used with APIs but doesn't need to be) seems to be one and Jasper another. I don't have personal experience with either (yet) but I suspect they're not nearly as good as Alexa/Google Home, especially with a basic microphone. I'm thinking I may play around though.

http://stevenhickson.blogspot.com/2013/06/installing-and-upd...

http://jasperproject.github.io/
Build a very small thing that would provide value. I've built quite a few products. However, the most successful product to date has been one that I wrote in a week to solve a problem I had for my websites. So, my take away from that is to try and build simple things.
No because there is the whole C part of Objective-C, including UB.

So unless there is some validation of 100% of the code writen by the team and third party libraries, it is impossible to ensure there aren't C style coding tricks being used.

Also ARC only applies to Cocoa like classes, there is no bounds checking, implicit casts are like in C, C style strings are still used in many APIs, and this are just a few examples of unsafety.
> The bugs that the experienced developer "fears" have nothing to do with type errors, which at the end are rather easy to solve

Not sure how you define "experienced developer", but I think you got it backwards.

A good type system enables you to structure your code in a way that most sublte bugs are "converted" to type errors. That's the magic of types!

Your type definitions aren't just some syntactic sugar so that the type checker finds some typos.

Your type definitions are a vital part of the code base that you design to protect it from changes that introduce subtle bugs - the kind of kind you can easily foresee when you wrote a particular module, but which others (or yourself after 6 months) won't be aware of. This is especially important on refactoring, but also super helpful for non-trivial extensions.

In that sense the types are like unit tests. Although they are less flexible than unit tests (so they are no substitute), they make most of your unit tests unnecessary and are shorter and easier to write and to maintain than those unit tests. Most importantly, however, they "test" all cases, statically at compile time, not just the specific cases of your unit tests.
That just moves the chain of causation one link earlier.
For a company like Palantir, I would imagine most of their clients are running older browsers, possibly even IE <10 still.

I'm not familiar with their product, but a web app would certainly introduce more developer time spent on keeping cross-compatibility with older browsers while a Java/native app is practically WYSIWYG.
I see... they bought a company called WooCommerce a couple of years ago [0].

I think your choices are (a) find a different domain name or (b) talk to an attorney. You don't say what your site does, but if it's very different from e-commerce, you might be able to successfully fight this [1]. You will need a lawyer, though, and some amount of money.

Good luck!

[0] https://ma.tt/2015/05/woomattic/

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/is-it-trademark-infri...
how many columns do you usually have on Trello? Whenever I try to use Trello I end up having too many columns
Definitely makes sense, especially if NYPD contracted with some firm to replace Palantir, and now wants the algorithm because that's the hard part to copy. Obviously the methods by which they are able to process information is the reason governments pay them big bucks.
Inheritance based OOP models tree-like entites well, where hirachy is defined and clear cut. Unfortunately, lots of real life domains are best expressed by graphs - commonly a DAG. You need to pay attention to your edges and not just the nodes. Inheritance based OOP gives you one keyword to express your edges: extend, and it's horribly inadequate. Mutatable state is not a issue in Java OOP, lacking the expressive power is.
What part of this is a fact? I'd argue this is literally the opposite of a fact - it's a model and a prediction based on it. Those are things that may be based on facts, but that in no way makes the theorized conclusion a fact. https://xkcd.com/605/
Handling Authentication Secrets in the Browser
>The commenter was making a comparison to the original sexual harassment topic, where a bad actor (VC executive) abused a social dynamic (sexually harassing women founders) in which the aggrieved were the less powerful participant (needing to raise money to fund their businesses).

I don't understand how that's comparable when the bad actor in that situation isn't protected from scrutiny, while in my hypothetical, the bad actor is protected.

>The comment points out the parallels between your fear of men being taken advantage of by BPD-afflicted women, and the far more likely event of a male superior abusing power over a female subordinate.

I still think that the latter has some recourse in the contexts that we are discussing. The former has absolutely none. As social and power dynamics shift, what makes you think that my hypothetical is going to be less likely to occur than the VC one? Also, what makes you think that it will only be BPD women targeting men, and not other women as well?

>On another note, it seems like you have a strong personal experience with a woman diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. I think that this traumatic experience has made you more sensitive to the risks of this happening to others. I understand how you must feel. I don't think the risk is as high or is as catastrophic in a business situation, if a company adheres to the law and conducts thorough investigations of personnel accusations.

Yes, I've actually been pretty obsessed with personality disorders and mental health in general after dating someone who is a BPD poster-child. I knew absolutely nothing about either before that, and I was like most people and just used broad labels like "crazy" or "weird" or "depressed" instead of looking deeper into it.

Learning about it all of the different personality disorders has helped explain a lot of things about why people act and think in certain ways. I honestly think that their prevalence is exceedingly high in American millennials working in tech. Something about our upbringings and lifestyles has resulted in what I would consider a mental health epidemic that most people don't want to acknowledge or discuss, let alone treat.

In regards to the risk not being catastrophic, I don't think that's fair. The odds of having a life-ruining experience with a BPD in a professional context are low, but you're not going to make it out in one piece.

Thanks for actually responding btw :)

It's a bit upsetting when other people drop some snarky comment, and then just downvote and stop replying when reproached.

I only have good intentions. I mainly just want people to know that BPD exists, and that it should be accounted for in some way. I think it's really dangerous to provide them with absolute power when it comes to making claims that don't require any sort of proof.