skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The little animated chums strike me be as a bit too cute.

One has to take care to not anthropomorphize models. Even models ostensibly created to model aspects of human behavior, such game theoretic models.

Anthropomorphism might induce people either to think there's more under the hood than there actually is, and thus lead them to a hold a wrong mental representation of the model, or to naively assume that it's conclusions are robust to specification changes by making the conclusions a bit too familiar, even though even somewhat simple model extensions might significantly change their behavior (e.g. going from single to repeated games, which makes cooperatives strategies viable).

Comparing tit-for-tat strategies with the Golden rule, while mixing in references toe the Christmas truce somehow seems to go in the opposite direction of being cautious regarding model interpretation.
The industry is smaller and less resistant to change then the entire country. I also have the ability to affect where I work and my coworkers. I have almost no ability to affect the country besides voting and maybe arguably activism.
The team described may exhibit an extreme behavior. But, I think it's fair to say that women experience "death by a thousand cuts" in male-dominated fields, not just Tech.

I also think that young men learn the lesson of disregarding women early. I started coaching co-ed youth basketball recently. At ages 10-12, boys are already disregarding their female teammates as potential contributors. The boys aren't overtly hostile. They just don't even think about passing to the girls. They don't trust the girls to play good defense, so the boys try to cover too much floor, ironically allowing more points to be scored against us. I'm steadily working with them on trust and inclusiveness. But, it amazes me that they're so young and already need to unlearn negative behaviors.
Theres something about this comment that winds me up but I don't have the time to unravel.
> On an initial lump sum of $1MM, hat's $35K-40K/yr, not $12K per year. (I'm not sure where the 7% came from in your post.)

The original poster calculated the value off the $1.8MM (not the tax-deductible number), and simultaneously made a place value error ($12k/year is 0.7%, not 7%, of $1.8MM).
For Ravens’ John Urschel, Playing in the N.F.L. No Longer Adds Up
Damn. $250k for a RCE bug in Hyper-V. If that's on the legit market, I can't even imagine what it would sell for elsewhere.
Why are Uber and GitHub not sufficient as a basis for plausibility?

Because you know about them? That's arbitrary.
2010-07-19 12:00:00 co-worker: Hi

2010-07-19 12:00:30 me: Hello

2010-07-19 12:10:00 co-worker: I have a question about Facebook. Are you the right person to ask?

2010-07-19 12:10:25 me: May be. What's your question?

2010-07-19 12:20:25 co-worker: I want to know ...

2010-07-19 12:21:10 me: No, sorry. For that, you need to contact ...

Fast version:

2010-07-19 12:00:00 co-worker: Hi. I don't know if you are the right question, I want to know ...

2010-07-19 12:01:10 me: Hello. No, sorry. For that, you need to contact ...
then yes, it is deterministic :)
For an outsider Twitter looks like a UI hell. I can't figure it out in any 5 minute long attempt when I happen to open a twit. And I don't see a real incentive to spend more time digging through that messy UI, when there is a FB, RSS aggregators, HN, etc. Tons of distraction feeds in use already and forums too. Frankly it is a mystery for me how Twitter is still popular.
if universities didn't have to pay for journal subscriptions

You've misunderstood something there. With the "open access" model the costs are merely shifted around. In the traditional model the library would pay for subscription, now it's the researcher paying page charges for publication. In the past of society publishers the society had a reputation to lose, but Hindawi doesn't have such restraints on it.
Greek police arrested a man running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange
I understand your stand. But it is not about industry or men but people in general. I do not care about being in a professional environment where my she-boss adresses me by my surname but never forgets to mention how expensive we are. Yeah no sexist jokes but you still feel like shit. And (now generalizing a lot) women are control freaks. Also when in power they totally refuse the concept of criticism. You just cant really mention who/what is wrong. None is ever accountable for anything. Sigh.
I think a good example is the "Our app is huge, like my dick." line.

As a guy, this line was pretty funny, and I could see myself saying it (on an all male team). I might not say it in front of female coworkers though, but if I worked closely with one I may say it within earshot without thinking about it. It certainly wasn't an attack on the poster.

Are we just not allowed to talk about genitalia? I guess as a baseline rule it's inappropriate, sure, but he's not being suggestive or soliciting. As described, it's obviously a joke. Not sure where the offense is here other than he said "dick" in the workplace within earshot of someone who doesn't want to hear that.

I'll finish by saying that the rest of it was certainly uncalled for, but this one instance doesn't really stand on it's own as offensive.
Prophecy.
Stanford NLP is currently state of the art for single document coreference resolution. https://github.com/clarkkev/deep-coref
whither the university?

(1) MOOCs - student does not need to pay exorbitant tuition fees

(2) Sci-Hub - student does not need access to a university library

(3) ? universal accreditation - this piece is missing

===

idea for start-up: aggregate MOOCs, package instructions on how to retrieve information online, connect instructors and tutors to students, arrange accreditation, offer BA, MA, PhD programs, we have start-ups in every industry but higher level education, could it be possible? …
Used car sales has its direct antecedents in horse trading and dealing.

There was a famous-for-its-time story called David Harum, (1899), made into a film in 1915, and a radio serial in the 1950s. Its principle legacy today is the use of the term "horse trading" to mean "underhanded dealing".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harum

I'd run across it via H.L. Mencken's essay, "Bayard v. Lionheart", itself best recalled for its concluding sentence:

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

... but containing oh so much more, in the foil of a critique of the 1926 U.S. Presidential Election. Really, read it:

http://amomai.blogspot.com/2008/10/hl-mencken-bayard-vs-lion...

Both used cars and horses have several characteristics in common:

* They are anti-commodities. That is, individual items for sale are highly disuniform, complex, and not readily assessed.

* They are expensive. For the ordinary consumer, they are not purchases likely to be made frequently. (A horse and a car each have fairly equivalent useful working lives: about 3-10 years, depending on use and care afforded.)

* Sellers of quality instances are much inclined to stay away from the general market. It's a case where selling to someone who is specifically aware of the qualities of what you're selling is a far better customer.

This has other cognates. Software and consulting services come to mind.

The treatment in the economic literature is somewhat disappointing. There's Ackerloff's "The Market for Lemons", of course (won him a Nobel prize), but it's a generally underserved area of theory.
TIL

> The apps implementing the standard are called progressive web applications, not to be confused with confusingly similar terms like progressive enhancement or responsive apps.

Front-end moves at the speed of light, I reckon it's hard to come up with original names...

My brain already has to remember thousands of software library names and techniques and argument orders, etc. Not making your label meld into people's brains by being similar to other software names in the SAME niche is a good place to start though.
Yes, I've been learning that this is a fundamental realization to make that the pie grows and the economy is not this fixed sum game where someone grows rich at the expense of others. Thomas Sowell has written well of this topic and I like his perspectives on the matter. Milton Friedman his PhD advisor is fun to watch too on YouTube.

Some Uncommon Knowledge video of Thomas Sowell makes an interesting point about how the real question is not to ask why people are poor, that's the default position he claims. The real question to ask is why is there wealth in the first place.
>I only read stories to my kids that have good old-fashioned happy endings. A crisis occurs and the heroes overcome it by finding new knowledge and bravery.

Only? Why? (Pure curiousity, no judgement.)
If someone can steal 600k over a period of 2 years, I put 99% of the blame with the exchange. We still don't know if it wasn't an inside job, but I don't think it matters. The blame lays inside either way.
Thanks! I will certainly re-read it.

As I said to Peter Todd in that thread, I'm a neutral observer and a fan of both of yours. Having been a programmer for over a decade, it's a shame that even someone like me can get so lost in the rhetoric of this debate.

Thanks for all your blog posts, I point people to them all the time. My greatest wish (something I tried to communicate to Peter Todd) is that Core would write some thoughtful, clear, well-argued posts like yours.

But I suppose it doesn't matter, because as we both agree, the experiment has already failed.
99% chance playing in the NFL will Ruin your life
This data is pretty conclusive and brutal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=B7E022C7102331247DF7D02EAA603BB2&gwt=pay

Baltimore Ravens John Urschel, who is also pursuing a Post Doc at MIT, just retired. It can't be a coincidence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/sports/football/john-urschel-baltimore-ravens-retires-nfl-cte-study.html

How could you ever consider letting your kid ever, in any sense, play organized football? But seriously couldn't a judge find that as negligence on a parent's behalf in a pretty easy way (with a few more of the same studies and similar results)? Letting your child smoke or drink at 8 yrs old like Charlie Sheen might be less destructive. I am only kind of kidding here.

Compared to other barbaric sports, did the NFL just oust Roman Gladiators as the most deadly sport? At least in every match, there is a 50% chance a gladiator would live? #maximus
Maybe we should stop pretending we all start in the middle and then get pulled to the extremes as we are exposed to either (un)biasing information. Maybe we should assume that all wells have already been poisoned (just a saying not a value judgement), science or religion, figure out which team already claimed you and defend your tribe.
Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (2016)
Unity doesn't use C# for its runtime.
DO has a preconfigured image but last time I checked it out it was pretty out of date.
> even though even somewhat simple model extensions might significantly change their behavior (e.g. going from single to repeated games, which makes cooperatives strategies viable).

He explicitly examines this in the application, did you not run through it? He actively encourages you to modify the rules and see how it changes the results.
Composing Software in an Age of Dissonance [video]
As far as academic publication goes, Elsevier is literally the devil. Go 60 German universities.
Quite the movie plot you got there. Except that people dies and they try to steal money to avoid death, and also changing the time scale
Money begets money through investment, like gravity. In any random distribution of particles you'll eventually have black holes form with gravity.

People with this level of money are equivalent to kings or other monarchs. On some level it really isn't their money at the same time. When he dies, it's not his money any more.
Twitter has caused serious harm to myself and my family. I'm a big fan of the platform, but I've been "doxxed", harassed, and was even SWATed once by different people trying to get me to give them my username.

I'd release it, except that'd be almost as big of a pain. I'd have to release a new edition of my book, change all my websites. Ugh. People are dicks. I wish I'd picked a less desirable handle.
https://nuclino.com/ gives an expired SSL certificate error. (Got there because I wound up on the blog, and wanted to get back, so I edited the URL.)
The link is to the Bret Victor's rewrite of a scientific paper, in which he introduces illustrations and interactivity for the important (and difficult) points of the paper.

I edited the link to the more "lightweight" version (i.e. just the page, without loading his entire homepage as well, which is kind of heavy), so please consider trying again.

I agree with you RE blog posts, and the point of me linking to Bret Victor's work is to give an example of a form that's better-suited to the media we operate with today. Papers still live in the paper age (pun not intended).
This does look a lot like a much better Trello.

Does this support import from Trello?
There are thousands of contracts where no vulnerabilities have been discovered yet. Mostly because there are larger targets to go after.

It's not true to say that something is secure just because it hasn't been broken yet.

I agree with your call for balance, but it's unnecessary to jump to the opposite extreme.
The linear scale however is a physical property of the world (photons per seconds for example) and if we change the intensity in a linear way we notice that the perceived change is not linear, but logarithmic.
Hence volume or brightness controls typically aren't linear but logarithmic - people want it to change linearly instead of not at all at the one end and a lot at the other end.

The root of the magnitude system in astronomy can be found in the logarithmic nature of the eye as a sensor as well.
Addendum: there is one relevant thing. If Canonical actually agree that they're violating the license(s) and are just doing it anyway, then there's probably some warranted discussion. But even that is more an issue for the community than one for IP law (unless Canonical is doing it precisely to force a definitive license interpretation. I see no evidence of this). If it's just a case that one set of people think it's a violation and Canonical disagreeing, then it's doesn't become an issue until someone with standing decides to make it one.
Yeah, I'm not sure either. I've been using ghost's hosting for years, and haven't had a single problem with it.
I always feel that when I read these articles that the author is referring to a "single founder" as a hacker banging away at their Uber for Skateboards node or Rails app, as then applying the success of someone like Bezos, as if he built Amazon in a glorious one-person hackathon.
That's not the cost. The cost is to take a garbage paper with broken figures, broken text, in a barely parse-able English, written by someone who does not believe in citations or attributions, does not follow Chicago and produce a paper that is being distributed.

Late addition: The cost of distribution of a scientific journal in electronic format is minuscule - put it on a blog. Medium.com is free.

Another addition: I have seen a few of the author contacts. All of the ones that I saw said the author could publish his original manuscript on the web to free. The author could just not publish the result of the publisher's processing of the manuscript. Someone should ask the authors why aren't they publishing their original submissions.
Full professors at MIT on average make about $186k [1]. Assistant professors average around $124k [2], with considerable variation (I'd guess the full professors also have considerable variation).

[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N18/salary.html

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/MIT-Assistant-Professor-Sal...
There's a really interesting, recently released HBO documentary called "The Defiant Ones"[1] which is about the story of Interscope Records, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. Trent Reznor is interviewed in it, because he has worked with Jimmy Iovine for quite some time. Iovine, Dre and Reznor all come across as very smart, humble and incredibly hard working individuals.

Here's a clip regarding Nine Inch Nails and Iovine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJZdtyXAVo

The whole four episodes are well worth watching.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6958022/
Interesting idea. But it seems difficult in practice, mainly because it would be more than 20 years before there's any chance that the child could start paying the loan back. There are other issues, like, would it be fair to saddle an unborn child with debt who had no opportunity to choose?
I've read it multiple times, I still do not understand the simpleton strategy...
The Ultimate GPL Survival Guide
That's the case. Swift is currently not abi compatible, so libraries compiled with one Swift version only work with that version.
That comment you linked is incredible. I just wanted to point it out to make sure everybody reads it, very high quality.
Nobody cares if publishers could theoretically add value in some alternate universe. In practice, none of them do.

This isn't throwing the baby out with the bath water, this is people trying to stop this nasty ass bath water from being thrown out because there used to be a baby in it.
Microsoft rationalizes and rebrands Windows 10, Office updates again
their api does seem to have exposed comments in past. you could probably check with the team to see if they are willing to let you use it fir research project

https://developer.nytimes.com/
Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
Those reasons are understandable. I guess I'm confused why a software developer needs to save $200 on a travel device with < 1/10 the capability of something a bit more expensive. Kudos to him for experimenting.

I would love it if Android apps could somehow replicate the dev tools of a standard full-featured OS one day. I'm definitely a fan of ChromeOS.
This is why foundations exist; to hold accumulated wealth.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

http://tsffoundation.org/

http://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/ <- Jeff's parents, not Jeff
True. Some statistics I've seen once showed that Asus is the most reliable, but I got a lemon from them once. It's all just probabilities.
Automating Network Devices with Ansible
I haven't really seen any. You can't use the pin operator in argument lists to functions... that's the other "gotcha".
Hi Marco, as founder of Flicktek I would like to propose our tech in case you want to add more functionalities and interaction to your device, check what we do at flicktek.com!
None of them. These were people who were convicted and later exonerated.
Currently it is possible to export a whole workspace in the Markdown format. The downloaded .zip file contains all exported items including attachments such as images and files in a separate folder.

We are also thinking about adding HTML as an export format if there is any interest. What format would you expect as an export option?
They're pronounced differently:

History: /ˈhist(ə)rē/

Historic: /hiˈstôrik/

The 'h' is stressed in 'history', not in 'historic'. Try pronouncing 'historic' with a stress on the first syllable, it sounds wrong. Since it's softer in historic it's more natural (to me anyway) to use 'an'.

(Also, I'm french so I barely pronounce h's to begin with - so in my speech the stressed 'h' in history is kinda soft, and the unstressed h in historic is barely there.)

(edited)
Congrats! This is awesome and the best startup idea I've heard in months. Rooting for you guys and wishing you much success :)
> Apple supporting PWA (Progressive Web Apps) is hugely important because it enables a future where web apps can natively support browser, Mac/Windows/Linux desktop, and mobile iPhone/Android/Windows native mobile with a single codebase of open technologies.

If 'a single codebase of open technologies' is so important then the same argument says Apple should abandon their platforms in favor of linux/AOSP. I'm sure a number of people here believe that (and strongly) but ... (1) Apple has a few hundred billion counterarguments sitting in the bank and (2) the entire industry has greatly benefited from Apple's efforts at pushing their closed platforms.

And if 'a single codebase of open technologies' isn't the be all end all then the argument reduces to "Apple should subsidize the technology I'm invested in". I bet turnip farmers think Apple should buy lots of turnips too.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bill+and+melinda+gates+eugenics&t=...
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Can someone who's familiar with this research paper subscription model that is threatened a la Elsevier explain to me how we got here?

I am curious if at one time did Universities publish these independently and were they more accessible to the public? When did this practice of restricting access to papers via subscriptions begin?
Maybe use Slack in browser?
> Furthermore ~400GB per year is not particularly insane, you can get a 6TB drive for less than $200 and that'll be enough to store more than 15 years worth of blockchain.

Not everyone has access to such resources. You and I do, but many people run their lives on PCs with 32GB EMMC soldered to the motherboard, mobile devices, netbooks, public school computers with limited network-based storage, and internet connections that can barely allow a couple gigabytes per month. If a technology is not inclusive of the median hardware possessed by that (large) community, it will not gain traction beyond hackers with like us.

Also, the vast majority of people I know do not use desktop computers. Lugging around a 6TB external drive just to deal with payments, and then dealing with backing up that drive, is not exactly a good sell.
Wild. If the founders are reading, I met one of your friends (significant others?) in Bali in April.

Awesome work and hello from the States.
Bezos invests in his favorite stock, AMZN, which grows > 8% /yr
JavaScript explodes on the server side with the growth of Node.js
"As far as Debian/Ubuntu (and crouton), that's fine as far as it goes, but then you don't end up with a Chromebook, just a cheap mini-notebook with flaky drivers."

Hmm, I'm not sure about that. I went the Crouton route on my $169 Chromebook, and now I have both ChromeOS and Ubuntu. Plus I can switch between them quickly. And if I understand Crouton, the chroot is actually using the same kernel and drivers as ChromeOS. I haven't had any driver issues. And it's easy to set up encryption for your chroot. I think it's a good solution.
Have you tried VScode? It feels native. Much more so than Java apps of old (especially Swing).
watchOS 4 adds more playlists.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion coming from someone new to Python (2 years) but the way this versioning was done is definitely a pain point. Working with new code and looking up docs to achieve X, working with existing code and trying to apply the same solution. God it's annoying.

Having said that, I know the decisions were not made lightly, and were backed by logical analysis. If nothing else, it's a good case study for the evolution of future languages (looking at you golang 2.0).
Incorrect article on FB earnings causes algorithmic sell-off of stock
If it's part of the official rules, then it's not corruption! /s
Nitpicking but... Africa is a big continent, with a great deal of nations, and a large variety of income levels, with some of those incomes much higher than yours.
Most Amazon employees are non-shareholding warehouse workers (even if technically they go through a contractor)