skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it work with Sublime Text? Its multi-cursor abilities would be useful here.
Kids getting called Nazis for supporting Trump:http://news.wgbh.org/2017/03/14/local-news/newton-young-trum...
Since you mentioned Julia - are you using it for math or math-related programming, or doing something else? It looks interesting to me, but I'm a web dev (Python on the backend) and don't have much use for most of the math stuff, so I don't know if it's suitable.
Thanks, but most remote workers I spoke with during the interview process don't trust cryptocurrency yet...
Scaled-up voucher programs like those previously advocated
by Secretary DeVos show the worst effects. There have
recently been four statewide voucher programs: Florida,
Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio. The Florida study is
inconclusive, and the others show large negative effects. In
some respects, the Louisiana results are more convincing
because the results have been corroborated by two different
sets of researchers and students were assigned to vouchers
by lottery—the most rigorous way to evaluate vouchers. In
terms of providing convincing results, the Indiana and
Ohio programs, are somewhere in between, but these show
negative results as well.

Voucher supporters argue that the results have been worse in
the recent statewide programs because they have been
“heavily regulated,” by which they mean the requirements
that students be tested, that these results be made publicly
available, and that schools must let in any student who is
eligible for the voucher. The fact that this fairly minimal
oversight is considered controversial or heavy-handed,
however, only reinforces that private schools are designed
to be exclusive and have little interest in external
accountability.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-managed-competition-i...
we were selling software

No. You were selling the solution to a painful problem that just happened to implemented in software. That's not the same as selling software.

We've been conditioned to expect that physical, tangible things are expensive - but software? That should be cheap, or better still free.

I think this is where the Django influence is strongest. People who buy enterprise software don't think that it should be free. Quite often they have strange expectations that they need to pay prices far higher than anyone would reasonably charge. $5000/month for an app that could be replaced by a cron job and a shell script isn't unheard of. I strongly suspect Tradescloud could have greatly benefitted from a mentor who had experience and success in selling B2B software.
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Alcohol still killed a lot when it was illegal, though, and for new reasons: On average, 1000 Americans died every year during the Prohibition from the effects of drinking tainted liquor.

I do support your idea of a list you could write yourself into. Sounds like a solution with way fewer bad consequences.
Very recently, another team claims to have managed to disable one version of ME completely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116719

Perhaps they could work together on this.
There is no such thing as privacy anymore. Even the encrypted communication is not private as far as i know.
Only if the two are mixed in a nonlinear way (e.g. "heterodyned").

If a sonic and ultrasonic frequency are combined together, but a low pass filter doesn't pass the ultrasonic one, the ultrasonic one doesn't exist on the other end.

Hence, there can be no beat.
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CrashPlan is shutting down their consumer products and BackBlaze is at the top of my list largely due to these great posts.
Netflix is in a interesting situation. They're like whole foods right now. Someone out there with a lot of money will eventually gobble them up, the question is who, will it be amazon, apple, or some chinese company. Only time will tell. I don't think Netflix will go the way of Blockbuster because their integration into the television market is so high, on so many box appliances connected to so many televisions without reliance directly on cable television. If netflix tomorrow ran into issues with aws, they'd switch in a heart beat to IBM's SoftLayer, or Google Cloud, they're not worried, I'm sure by now their entire stack is agnostic to aws, and they're prepared to move if the event ever occurs. Just a educated guess.
Actually, in the example here, you're wrong: Google Home/Assistant only works with proprietary Google products[1], like Play Music and YouTube Red, with the exception of Spotify... which isn't a competitor for the same type of music service. (And heck, Spotify is a huge Google Cloud customer[2]. Google's still feeding their own here.) It's an excellent example of how Google uses monopolistic design to prevent you from using say, a voice assistant with someone else's music service.

Google should be required, by law, to permit Amazon Prime Music, Groove Music (Microsoft), and Apple's iTunes to integrate should those companies so choose. Note that when you search for music on Bing [3], it offers up links to buy it Amazon and Apple as well as Microsoft's own service, whereas Google points you to YouTube [4]. Google is playing by a very unfair set of rules compared to most others.

In your weather example, maybe I can pick which weather site provides my preferred weather results. Or Google can pass my flight status request right into flightstatus.com and return information... again, leaving that option open for any of their competitors.

The problem here remains that Google primarily feeds into Google, which is, as the EU has clarified, illegal.

[1] https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7030379?hl=en

[2] https://www.wired.com/2016/02/spotify-moves-itself-onto-goog...

[3] https://www.bing.com/search?q=lady+gaga+the+cure

[4] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=lady+gaga+the+cure
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But I have experienced exactly this. Not an orchestra, but a recording of a band. I guess you can split hairs about the definition of "fool", but I have been fooled as you describe.
Who remembers when Target's website was hosted by Amazon.com (not AWS)? Probably 6 or 7 years ago now. IIRC Toys'R'Us was also but left earlier.
That’s again the same issue. Nice theory, and theoretically is true, but all real algorithms also subsample high frequencies, and scale them back up with nearest-neighbor.

The same issue happens with audio. Nice theory, completely broken realistic implementations.
I'm not quite sure what has time got to do with it. I don't believe I mentioned that this was more than 2.5 years ago.

I'm talking contemporary companies - Mongodb still holds far higher startup mind share than Postgres. MEAN/MERN stack is still a thing.
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Philippines - Remittance via local banks.

Remitely makes it easy, but the fees/exchange rate is high.

I also am debating about sending a prepaid debit card w/ PIN, because local ATM fees are only 50-100 peso for international transaction. Maximum 52php, but the full interchange rate is applied 49-52 PHP/1USD vs Remitely 47-48PHP.

At $500-700, that's $10 to send via the service + $10 in exchange fees.
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1. It's a success of his IRB. Of the many requirements he described, both by his IRB and the auditors, he didn't make the effort to try to understand how any of them could be good for his subjects. Instead he focused on how they affected his study, and tried to find the bare minimum he had to do to get approved. If the result of it is he doesn't want to deal with IRBs anymore, it might be for the best.

2. I believe this study could have been done with much less personal effort. His hypothesis is the screening question leads to unwarranted diagnosis. He already had Dr. W. convinced that it's plausible, and willing to do full diagnosis to his patients. And he had other doctors that would only use the screening question. All that's required to refute the null hypothesis is compare the rate of "yes" vs "no" in the set of Dr. W's diagnoses, with the rate of the doctors that just use the screening question. If his hypothesis is true, the other doctors would get more positives. That's 1 bit of information he had to extract anonymously from the patients' existing records, which is a strict subset of the methodology he developed for the study.
There are other options, closer to what you're looking for. Try

Object.entries(dict).forEach(fn)

Or

_.entries(dict).forEach(fn)
I am a senior dev and work in a fortune 10 company. I only do it for money. I used to very excited about software, but after 10 years of development have realized, only few get to have fun at software and also get paid for it.
Scott "fucking" Alexander is a blogger, not some sort of god immune to criticism. He's also not an expert authority on, as far as I can tell, anything but psychiatry.
I was skeptical about those Purism products which shipped with proprietary BIOS and they claims they are working on coreboot and disable Intel ME in the future.

At least, they are trying to keep the promise of coreboot part(It's coreboot not libreboot or librecore so it must contains binary blob firmware... still better than nothing)
Well, most 100+ employee companies are probably older than the law. Other than that, your attitude is of the rather useless variety: it's easy to disprove, as just a single counter-example is sufficient.

I'm actually not even sure if the majority of US companies does /any/ business in foreign countries. Even among those 100+ sized, an awful lot of them are hospitals, regional cleaning companies etc that couldn't bribe any foreigners even if they wanted.

(edit: just noticed that I had missed the "sharing economy" qualification. You may be right in that context.)

Then, to take an example closer to this audience, there are all those that sell into foreign markets but have basically no contact with those markets other than what's mediated by their payment processor. Think of some medium-sized ISV: under which circumstances would they even get into a situation where bribery was an option?

Is corruption something that actually occurs in the US–to such a degree that a significant portion of white-collar employees know how it works? Because I've never seen it, and wouldn't know were to start.

The FCPA is actually among the rather great achievements of US diplomacy. Until its enactment, my wonderfully law-abiding home country of Germany still allowed foreign bribes to be tax-deducted. It wasn't that bribery itself was tolerated domestically–far from it. But they considered it a matter of pragmatism to adjust to lower moral standards in other countries. Of course such rules only perpetuated those "lower moral standards", and German businesses never were the powerless victims they claimed to be.

When the US started to enforce rules against foreign corruption against domestic companies, these had a strong incentive to lobby for similar standards abroad, and for the US to use their unparalleled power to directly enforce such rules against foreign companies as well. The result was the almost complete elimination of corruption among a segment of the economy, namely large internationals, and specifically their b2g business.
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No, it is not, please do take a deep look at oversampling in D/A conversion and the artifacts of digital filtering, articles are out there.
I don't have an fully thought out position, but I will say that without abstraction, you couldn't talk about logic or reasoning as these deal in abstract concepts.
At the market level, stock returns only come from 4 things: dividend yield, real earnings growth, inflation, P/E expansion/contraction.

Looking at 10yr+ returns, the dividends and real earnings growth are likely to be relatively stable. The big wild card is P/E expansion/contraction. Dividend yield + real earnings growth gives us a baseline real return of around 3.6%.

A 30% PE contraction over the next 10 years would bring that return down to 0% and would still leave the PE at historically high levels. A return to historical valuation levels would mean a negative return in the neighbourhood of -3% annually.

Of course, it is also possible for PE to expand another 30% over the next decade causing stocks to deliver great returns.

Which scenario the world follows is more due to sentiment than economic performance which is why it is not predictable. Although there is certainly a probability bias towards the downside

With that said, valuation levels tell you a tremendous amount about risk levels, which are VERY high right now. Which might inform you to lower your stock exposure if you can't handle a large drop in pricing (either due to not being able to sleep at night or the effect it would have on your lifestyle).
Amazon used its dominant position in books to enter a whole lot of other markets.
I loved the casual and original expressions of the host, it made the whole demo look much more authentic and convincing. Pure presentations like this is truly an work of art. Hats off to it.
How much of this is controlled for other variables? Maybe people who are more active, more engaged, and have more reasons to take care of themselves also are more likely to drink several cups of coffee to give them a boost toward those goals. Staying active and engaged is probably pretty important to your health especially as you get older.
I am thinking about the end application. All the more reason to ignore all of the benefits of a web solution and spin the highest performance version. Because performance is critical when viewing tons of cameras and lidar with near-realtime playback.
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Disappointing that this refers to LinkedIn instead of placing responsibility at the feet of Microsoft.
I think one thing that made this happen is that this is a presentation made to exercise an interactive software tool that—although it can also be used for one's own experimentation—was mainly written to be used in the presentation. It's a case of making a custom "musical instrument" crafted to play exactly the song you're about to play on it. A lot like Bret Victor's "puppet controller" app in his presentation Stop Drawing Dead Fish (https://vimeo.com/64895205); or the actually-an-instrument "MIDI fighter" created by Shawn Wasabi for his music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeybdD5UoQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2eUpt3MVE).
That is true in some foreign countries, but probably not as many as one may think. Uber ran into a lot of trouble in countries such as France and Germany, where attempts of bribery are probably doomed–if only because whoever you're trying to bribe is quite likely not to even understand what you're trying to do.

That doesn't mean you couldn't find corrupt people in those countries. But the sort of regulatory trouble Uber was having would require bribing group of local officials all over those countries. And only a single one of them would have to go public to not only ruin your chances in that country, but also get you into trouble in the US.
Those are arbitrary categories. You could argue (as Google does) that buying products and discovering web sites are both just subcategories of "search". Conversely, you could argue that buying books and buying clothes are completely separate businesses.
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I wanted to learn how to develop alexa skills and built this really simple skill. Took me less than an hour from start to finish. Im publishing it soon.
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Who needs to pay when you can startup a simple droplet / linode instance / lightsail / <VPS> of your choice and setup phabricator. It's not exceptionally complicated, written in a language that doesn't require complex configuration, can poll repo updates from remote servers, can additionally host repos. Also used by some major companies & open source projects. Uber, wikimedia, freebsd , redhat, KDE, Blender, Dropbox, Quora, Disqus, Khan Academy, LLVM, Cisco Systems, Bloomberg. So it can't be that bad.. I use it every day, gets the job done, and I don't have to ask someone else to do a pull request.
Were you looking at the XHR (Luna) or WebSocket (Luna2)? We can do a follow up blog post on sync if you're interested.
Welcome to the present, called "the rest of the world that's not the US" ;)

(yeah, yeah, I know that many countries still have outrageous prices for networks, be it fiber or mobile).
Not him but you see this very thing now. Look at pollution and CO2 emissions for an example of how technological progress can directly threaten humanity.
I've done signal and sound-processing courses at the university. I know the Nyquist-Shannon theorem. I know all about samples, and digital sound not been square staircases.

I know and understand how incorrect down-sampling from high frequencies can cause distortion in the form of sub-harmonics in the audioable range.

I know about audible dynamic range and how many decibels of extra range 8-bits are going to give you.

I know all this, but I still have to admit: if there's a hi-res recording (24-bit, >48kHz) available for download/purchase, I'll always go for that instead of the "regular" 16-bit 44.1/48kHz download. I guess escaping your former audiophile self is very, very hard.

Anyone else want to admit their guilty, stupid pleasures? :)
> What baffles me is why nobody else reports drive failure stats?

Amazon, Microsoft and Google probably have too much to lose from calling-out the vendors of poorly performing drives and the ever-present risk of a lawsuit - which is probably the overriding concern: if Contoso Storage Ltd had a single bad batch that coincidentally Azure used for their storage operations, they'd report a on-the-whole inaccurate failure rate, and Contoso's revenue and stock price would dip accordingly.

Given the size, scale and marketing of AWS, Azure and Google's Cloud services respectively I don't think them publishing their hardware failure rates would positively affect their cloud services revenues any detectable amount - all for more work to analyse and publish the findings and the subsequent liability.
I second this. Currently using it (though not the borderless account, looks like that is new and need to check it out) to pay contractors in Canada and Australia.
From the article: "Murray subjected his unwitting students, including Kaczynski, to intensive interrogation — what Murray himself called 'vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive' attacks, assaulting his subjects’ egos and most-cherished ideals and beliefs."

I guess that's technically "just talk" but it's not what most people would think of as "just talk".
Even in 2017, and even with recent Gmail improvements, it is still a best practice to inline your CSS before sending email to ensure they don't fall apart in one of the many clients out there. This tool inlines your styles in real time and provides a handy preview so you can see what's happening.
> I fail to see how a database full of mismatched documents is valuable in prototyping.

Again, as you yourself even brought up, just because you don't have an explicit schema doesn't mean your data needs to be schemaless. There can still be an implicit schema to your data that depends on the shape of the documents you store in your database. And in a prototype without real data (I'm defining real data here as data that can't be trivially discarded without consequence), the documents that actually end up in your database will have a uniform shape simply because your code only operates on the current version of that implicit schema, and older versions can simply be deleted.

> But from another perspective entirely, I find actually designing the schema to be the best place start when I prototype an application. If I have the database design correct then designing the corresponding UI or API is almost trivial. Now obviously that's just one style of development but it's a no less valid one. And I don't have to do anything more to move to production.

That approach is certainly valid. I just wanted to make it clear that using a schemaless database doesn't mean you can't do any schema design up front, it just affords you the ability to skip the overhead of updating and adhering to an explicit schema at every step in the evolution of your prototype. In order words, you let your code and your product needs drive the changes and growth in your schema, and only look towards solidifying the changes in your schema into an explicit document to adhere strictly to once you have more concrete insights into how your data model needs to look, driven by the data needs of a working prototype.

I feel I've stated my position as clearly as I could, so I'll leave it at that. Feel free to reply if you still take issue with anything I said, but I probably won't be responding.
The crux of the case against Microsoft was that they abused their monopoly position to prevent OEM's from using competing software. The analogy here would be Google forcing ISP's to sign contracts which require them to block Amazon.
WebGL may be good enough if you are producing low-res visualizations/interfaces and using the rest of the CPU/GPU to crunch the simulation.

Epic got the Unreal Engine running in-browser with WebGL and asm.js. The stuff Uber is doing isn't anywhere near as graphically intensive as that.

disclaimer: I work at Uber, but not on this project. Also, I used to work on game engines, which have a lot in common with these types of simulators.
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FWIW, we switched from Trello to Restyaboard and very happy with its features and speed.

Disclosure: I have suggested few features for Restyaboard and its developers implemented them.
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I'd rebuff your hydroponics idea, and add that it's worth considering aquaponics. You drastically reduce the amount of growth and nutrient additives, as the system becomes effectively a closed-loop with fish (and aerobic bacteria in the growing medium) creating the nutrients required.

Setup costs are generally large, but aquaponics scale very well.
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I think the primary thing you are missing to get the speed improvement is actually doing the packed computations (e.g. computing two values at once; e.g. the numerator and denominator).
Have you guys considered offering cloud service backups, e.g. Google Apps backup?

There are providers like Spanning or Backupify, but I'd prefer to buy it from you because I've been a Backblaze customer since the early days and I trust you.
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That's how I pay my remote workers to.
The key difference is that Microsoft prohibited these things on hardware sold by other OEMs. Microsoft tried to control what Dell and HP could install on their computers - and not just those running Windows.

Apple controlling what Apple installs on Apple hardware is a completely different ballgame.

Honestly I think Google is more likely to run afoul of this with their "anti-fragmentation" clauses. Google requires that OEMs that want to ship Android may not also ship products that run Android forks. That's not too far off from Microsoft's "per-processor" licensing.
It seems like the "column families" of Cassandra would appeal to you.
More is better right?

Deriving pleasure from listening to music has a large subjective component. So if I've paid more for a track and / or I got the most amount of bits I could I'll probably enjoy it more. Also makes for great conversation topics.