skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some companies use some kind of agile methodology to manage the work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

two of the most widely used being Scrum and Kanban

which could be used to track how your doing against your self. although recommended not to be used for evaluating employees so take with a grain of salt.
Doesn't worry me in the least. I am surprised they weren't already heavily filtered.

I also don't use facebook at all.

It would worry me if an ISP or other group that should be a common carrier were censoring things. Or if the government censored things. But people on facebook are willingly buying into whatever facebook is providing.
Having been an employee at several startups that have transitioned past the 30-40 headcount mark, there does seem to be a breakdown at that stage. What is the cause, and how do you deal with it?

Oversimplifying the cause is that you go from having to manage people and problems relatively directly to managing through layers of indirection. You deal with it by knowing what effective layers of indirection are available to you, and learning how to make best use of them. There is no concrete recipe because each company is different, and nobody has really abstracted out commonalities to make the subject easier to learn.

The article does give a list of important indirection tools, and a list of books that give insights on the key principles. And also stresses how, in the absence of general theory, you need to get personal assistance from someone who has concrete experience with the transition.

So this seems to me to be very useful advice, even if none of it is directly actionable.
I saw one of those earlier this year in the Austin area. It was distinctive for sure. There aren't very many 2 door hatches and SUVs
See my other comment. In the competitions discussed in The Selfish Gene, PD strategies are allowed to have memory and the simulation is run thousands of times per round. However it is pretty consistently the case that long-term memory is not an outright win for either the competitor or the opponent, compared to the simple "tit-for-tat" strategy which only remembers the previous iteration.

Of course the PD only models certain kinds of human/animal interactions. Knowing that a particular person is a cheater or is vindictive or whatever is obviously important for evolutionary strategy as a whole. But the question is more about heterogenous populations. Is there an optimal strategy that wins more than any other across a wide range of opposing strategies, including if everyone else is actually using the same strategy?
Let's hope he pays up because California could use the money for infrastructure and environmental remediations.
You can change this by going to your Amazon Advertising Preferences page[1]

More info here[2]

1: https://www.amazon.com/adprefs?ref_=ya_advertising_preferenc...

2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2017/02/12/how...
The article mentioned an instance where the instinctive reaction would get you killed.
The risk of death is 100%, coffee or no coffee.
Whenever you start asking "Why does company X need all these people, what do they do?" Think about your time playing Kerbal Space Program and learning how the rocket equation works. In order to get a heavier rocket into space, you need more fuel, which itself weighs more, so you need even more fuel to launch all that extra fuel, which itself weighs more, etc.

The same kind of thing is true with companies. In order to hire X more employees who "do actual stuff" you need to hire X * Y% more other employees to support and manage those do-ers, which, themselves need X * Y% * Z% more other other employees to support and manage them. Suddenly you have Digg with 300 employees. That's kind of how it happens. I don't think there is such a thing as a medium-to-large company with just "do-ers" sitting there doing things without support staff like project managers and HR personnel

(not to say these people don't do things, just not in the sense of directly making products, which is the root of the "what do all these employees do?" question)
"In Snowdrift... no Nash Equilibrium exists at all."

Doesn't that contradict Nash's existence theorem? I believe Snowdrift has 2 (pure) Nash equilibria, namely CD and DC.
I think below 40, employees have multiple roles where you are expected to think on your feet. It attracts a certain type of person. Above 40, you are a cog in the machine. You really need to keep to your role and the company succeeds because of the role you do.
Much of ML is optimization. This is linked to calculus by derivatives. There is the simple part that at a minimum or maximum the derivative is 0. However, more relevance comes from gradient descent. This depends very heavily on calculating derivatives, and its one of the most universal fast optimization methods.

Beyond that, for iterative methods, convergence is a matter of limits. This again is calculus. Formulating iteration as repeatedly applying a function, we converge to a fixed point of that function if and only if the derivative at that fixed point lies between -1 and 1. Again derivatives come in.

Finally, for error estimation, taylor-expansions are often useful. Again, the topic here is calculus. Notably, all I can think of regards limits and derivatives, not integrals. That might just be due to my hatred of integrals though.
> I have a feeling given your screen name I'm talking to some who is equally biased as I am to Java :)

The main difference: I have a Lisp Machine at home. :-)

> Hmmm an IDE is supposed to be a REPL and more.

No, a Read Eval Print Loop came from Lisp in the early 60s. It originally means to read a data structure, treat it as code and evaluate it and print the result data structure. READ, EVAL, PRINT are actual functions in Lisp. This stuff executes in a LOOP and is enriched by all kinds of stuff.

An IDE does not need to have a REPL. If it can interact with a running application (for example via a debugger), this might still not be a REPL.

> However for the case with Java it can be done with JRebel and various other tools.

Even JRebel can not do to a running JVM application what some Lisp implementations can do. Not near of that.

> IDE with a powerful debugger will let you evaluate expressions based on a state that is stuck... ie setting breakpoint (as well of course as investigating current variables and such)

This is pretty basic.

> traditional REPLs

Check out Symbolics Dynamic Windows and McCLIM on the Lisp side...

Old demos from me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_ELJjbnWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whxPd4haKc

http://lispm.de/videos/lispm-3a.mov
That's the right idea overall, with a few caveats.

1. Yes but you need to manually inspect and verify that the images are of the right class

5. Images are grayscale, not only black and white.

Additionally, MNIST and fashion-MNIST have all their objects centered and of similar scale. This is a large part of what makes them a popular first test for any image model: they are very simple to solve as the model need not be very robust to fit the dataset.
I was here in town for both Rita (the storm that "didn't happen" that put 3 million people on the road at once) and also Ike. Lots of rescues have been needed but that number is tiny compared to the population of Houston. Your suggestion to evacuate certain areas doesn't work here--there'd be far too many areas. Houstonians are generally knowledgable about staying safe in a storm such as this, and evacuations have often led to avoidable deaths and other problems in the past. I've been sitting in the middle of the city for days and I'm with the local officials on this one, not the governor.
Three words......Facebook Tracking Pixel

You go to Amazon, they tell Facebook what you are looking at, and then can dynamically create ads specifically for you.
Maybe he should just get a big button that says "push here" on it.
> Common Lisp's REPL

The SBCL and CCL REPLs do not support readline-style editing. This actually makes them infuriating to use outside of Emacs or some other IDE-like environment. There is definitely a market for a high-quality, implementation-independent Lisp REPL.
Straightforward:

1) Amazon tracked your research and likes to use " ad retargeting" if they see you leave before checking out to remind you to come back and purchase.

3) FB offers advertisers a variety of retargeting means + insanely advanced cross-device tracking. Like a building full of PhD's advanced. Maintaining privacy by logging in from different devices / accounts / etc is a thing of the past if you EVER cross-pollute between browsers / devices / etc the signal is picked up and then compared with browsing behavior etc to get a strong profile. (1)

(1) https://www.facebook.com/business/a/performance-marketing-st...
> 4K at 30 Hz (H.264/H.265) and 60 Hz (M/JPEG) supported

I am greatly amused at the thought of 2160p60 MJPEG. That must be extremely efficient…
I switched from vi to acme a few years ago after watching this video, and I'm still happy with my choice. It took me a while to figure acme out, but it has some killer features like:

- files and command line sessions are both just windows. You can split, move them, and EDIT (including output from CLI commands) anything you want. This feels much more natural than having a dedicated run section in the editor or using a separate terminal (that obviously can't be split next to a file window).

- a really short list of commands it supports (very little to memorize). But since it's so easy to interact with acme through the filesystem, you can easily customize your own workflow. For example I wrote https://github.com/mjibson/aw which is a web interface to Go's guru. But there are at least 2 other acme interfaces to guru, both with different methods of interaction, depending on what the author preferred. Overall I like this a lot more than memorizing a pile of vi shortcut keys.

- manipulating text is pretty fast with the mouse + acme's chords and the esc key.

- right click to search or go to file:line is much more powerful than you expect.
A very large factor in this reasoning is that people look at the statistics and then intuitively decide the statistics will not apply to them because they are much better than the average driver.
I'm not actually disagreeing with you. My point was those same tasks had/have to be done at Digg, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
Podchaser (IMDB-like site for podcasts) enters public beta
Small four wheelers are super sketchy at scooter speeds. The short wheelbase makes for quick and flighty steering and the narrow track makes them tippy. You have to lean to maintain balance, but leaning is not initiated and controlled via steering like it is on a two-wheeler, so it feels less natural.

You also have a big increase in cost and complexity. Twice as many wheels which means more bearings, more suspension components, etc. You need a differential and drive shafts and CV joints, which are expensive. A solid axle would be cheaper, but a solid axle on the street makes for some tricky riding dynamics. It is heavier, so the parts need to be stronger. The motor is harder to get at, which makes maintenance harder.

And no matter what, a scooter will always be smaller and so will always have better places to park.
VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case
> "If the state wins, Hyatt would be on the hook for at least $13.3 million in taxes and penalties from 1991 and 1992. At past court appearances, the state has argued that Hyatt owes more than $55 million when interest is tacked on to those initial charges."

> "The Franchise Tax Board has already spent $25 million trying to collect the money while defending itself from Hyatt’s lawsuits, department spokesman Jacob Roper said."

Is it just me or do the above numbers sound ridiculous. Why is the govt spending $25M on a case, that if it wins, would result in a $13-55M payout?

Edit: To put the above numbers in context, the IRS recoups about ~$60B in tax enforcement, on a ~$10B budget. That's a 600% return on investment. I would have expected the California state tax enforcers to budget themselves in a similar manner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/irs-budget-cuts-def...
This is not detailed enough for "Show HN", just a screenshot.
embedded questions in a headline should get the same sentencing as those ending in a question mark. It is not hard to point out the answer in the title. I won't try at it, thohgh, since I won't read the article (either way or because of) Betteridge's law of headlines.
I have had similar experiences. Others have already mentioned some cross-browser fingerprintig techniques. One of the worst that many people don't know about is that browsers hand over your local IP. Check this proof of concept:

http://net.ipcalf.com/

The media device IDs the browsers provide look even worse:

https://jsfiddle.net/u4n4s296/

I am not sure if these are unique to the device type (for example a certain soundcard model) or to the device itself. If it's the latter, then that is an indestructible cross-browser cookie right there. EDIT: As per icebraining's comment, in Firefox they are not not cross-domain, not cross-browser and get randomized when you delete your cookies.
Why wouldn't they? It seems like Westerners believe in comparative advantage to the point they can't imagine wanting local competitors to other countries' most successful monopolies.
What happens when you take a photo of a photo, recursively?
I'm aware of the gene-centered view of evolution, but I think that interpretation of the sentence in question is quite a stretch. If that was the intended meaning, then I apologize.
In a Blast from a Financial Crisis Past, Synthetic CDOs Are Back
> LW introducing a version that supports iOS? That's huge!

That's a delivery compiler with a relatively complete LispWorks runtime, minus the runtime compiler. It's a bit expensive. It lacks any GUI and is supposed to be used inside an Xcode iOS application.

There is also one for Android...

They are working on the 64bit ARM version. The 32bit ARM version is out for some time.

LispWorks for Mobile:

http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html
>I wonder if Apple is ok with this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

Oct 2012. Never forget.
I cannot emphasize how wrong you are, on every point.

They are not even close to peak market for their longboard. Ride one around any non-NY/SF metropolitan area for long enough and you will realize no one has seen these things before. You get stares. You get people asking to ride. You get people who literally cannot help but smile when they see you fly by.

And then put someone on the board and get them to the point where they are maxing out Eco mode; This is how a friend of mine convinced me to buy one, and afterward I've directly influenced four boosted board purchases. I haven't had a single person get off without smiling and laughing, even the ones who were initially scared.

There is so much room for growth just for the board. Primarily: Eco Mode is definitely fast enough for commuting purposes. Create a cheaper board which maxes out around there. Moreover, there's room for the price to drop on all their boards.

Let me tell you why someone will pay more for Boosted: Safety. This is why Chinese cars have never been able to compete with the West/Japan, its why Toyota and VW are the #1 car manufacturers, its what Tesla blasts all over its marketing. Safety is stupidly important in this space, and China has never given a damn about it.

Cheaper boards fall apart. The decks are lower quality, so they split. The drive motors fall apart. A belt breaks and you lose braking. The bluetooth connection fails and you lose braking. A bearing comes out and you lose a wheel. A battery connection crosses and your feet are on fire. You knick a puddle and water hits a PCB. Go on Youtube and you will find even mainstream competitors like the Inboard having connection issues, and they're not even cheap. Boosted, by and large, doesn't have these issues anymore.

Boosted is going to continue to grow the longboard product by dropping prices and introducing more models, that much is certain. They have the best product, and second place is so far behind you'll need binoculars to see them.
Both of these are by Asian(-American) artists: M. Night Shyamalan and Ted Chiang.
> And even if one does not want to accept it what are the choices given similar technology is now integrated in other processors?

Unfortunately, there are few, but alternatives are being pursued by a few different groups which you can support in various ways. In rough ascending order of time horizon:

- Minifree sell old ThinkPads, with old processors which predate the ME, and use Libeboot[0]

- Purism use new processors, but do their best to neuter the ME, by buying processors with minimal remote control features, stopping the ME from being able to control the networking card, using and running Coreboot. They're working to use me_cleaner to completely neutralize the ME on new processors, but there's lots of work to do to fix bugs caused (e.g.[1]). I think they'll get there in the end![2]

- Raptor Engineering are trying to fund a run of fully open POWER processors (less powerful cores, but loads of them). Avoids Intel altogether. Very large upfront costs.

- The RISC-V team at Berkeley are working on a new instruction set. Years before you can buy anything, but I'm sure there's a way to send them beer money, or apply to work there![4]

None of these is projects is ideal, but by supporting them you're enabling people who care to keep working on the this problem.

[0]: https://minifree.org/

[1]: https://puri.sm/posts/neutralizing-intel-management-engine-o...

[2]: https://puri.sm/

[3]: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
Death from what? I'm assuming some sort of heart related danger based on where and who was doing the research, but this doesn't tell me anything otherwise.
Fire trucks and ambulances I've seen when driving against traffic lights/flow of traffic always slow and stop to make sure that there will not be an accident even if they have the right of way - they don't drive like police in pursuit on TV. I'm sure there are exceptions but the general case is the emergency vehicles are planning for other traffic to not yield until it is clear the other traffic is yielding.
Lost Turing letters give unique insight into his academic life prior to death
To enforce the law? If we only enforced laws when economical to do so we'd leave most unsolved.
Cool! It would be great if you can mention our awesome list in your article, so people know where to post their new-trained models.
They use the Facebook Pixel https://www.facebook.com/business/a/facebook-pixel

They segment users that visited each product on Facebook with a custom audience and then create ads for similar products that they show you. This is all done programmatically.
Show HN: Alchemy's twist on the agile scrum board, using NATS
I care, and I'm not alone. The problem and it's consequences aren't widely known outside of the tech community.
I understand the underlying architecture is fundamentally different, but the end result seems kind of akin to some of the "complex event processing" (CEP) tools out there like Esper (ie. feeding incoming data into established queries instead of executing queries against at-rest data). Would this fit similar sorts of use cases / fit into the CEP market?
People don't like this. Please respond and tell me why.

Can you defend Trump? As near as I can tell he doesn't have any actual stances. He contradicts himself constantly. He acts like a child instead either a politician or a statesman. He turns down expert briefings. He appears to be embezzling money by having his security stay at his properties. He takes far too much vacation. He has a curiously large amoutn of ties to Russia and appears to have at least some unsavory ties with Russia. Anyone supporting this idiot is not qualified to pick a leader. I say that having voted for democrats an republicans.
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I have the same scooter as the parent comment and I have to say I feel significantly safer on my bike. I like the scooter and it's fun and useful for quick errands where I don't want to get sweaty. However, the breaks are not nearly as instantaneous (I'm sure there are scooters with better breaks though) and I can't maneuver it nearly as quickly as I can my bike in the event of an emergency (or even just general travel).

My experience may be a bit biased though, considering I'm both a pretty experienced cyclist and I have to deal with the crazy San Francisco hills.

EDIT: Also, I do a fairly regular 12 mile round trip bike commute. Have only done it a couple times on the scooter for fun and it was terrifying compared to my bike.
I've always think that "My Big Fat Greek Weeding" was close to that concept. Instead of a big conflict that is resolved at the end, we have small conflicts that are resolved almost immediately after being presented.

Toula feels ugly, ignorant and trapped in an uninterested job. She begins to study, changes her clothes and make up, changes job. She still remembers that she was rejected by the other girls when she was a child, but now in college, she tries again and is accepted. She likes a man, he likes her back. Her father doesn't accept a "xenos", but he tolerates him. He's not catholic orthodox, he gets baptized. And the last part of the movie lacks any conflict, and nevertheless, we're thrilled to see the happy ending materialize because we got to like the main characters.
Quite surprising iOS allows that kind of sample rate for a background app.
Does Amazon really use the fb tracking pixel? I wouldn't think so
I am working at FB but not in ads or related team. But I had talked to a person who is directly working on it.

Amazon is different to other AD buyers. Amazon does not want FB to know what customers are doing on its own site, so there is no FB tracker on Amazon at all. However, Amazon can choose what ad to deliver to you on FB backed up by its own team.
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Immediate mode is simply a way of designing your API so that there's no creation, destruction, callbacks, etc. It's a convenience to the programmer, because they can explicitly express what they want to happen at a given moment, and the application state is known at any given time. It's a general concept that can be applied to any code you write, and it most certainly doesn't forbid you from keeping track of dirty regions between frames, that would be ridiculous.
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