skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like with a lot of projects Google dogfoods, it's well-adapted to their values and has a lot of blind spots on things that are unimportant to Google.

Google executives don't care about formatting; the vast majority of them are technical, and culturally Google basically has a "don't care about superficial stuff, you have bigger problems to worry about" attitude. And the idea that you might want to print something out is a terrible anachronism; the whole reason we have multi-exabyte datacenters is so you never have to deal with paper again.

It's not naivete, it's arrogance. Basically Google wants to see you move into the 21st century, and if you don't, that's your problem, you'll eventually be forced to because the rest of Google's feature set is so good. Same reason IE support is pretty shitty on a lot of their products.

The only two real gaffes I can think of that really were naivete were the sound on the PacMan doodle, and the lack of privacy controls on Google Buzz. It basically never occurred to Googlers that you might get in trouble for having sound blaring out of your work computer (this, BTW, is my fault, I did the code review for the sound on the Pacman doodle), or that you might get in trouble because your boss knows about stuff you do on your personal time.
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It’s not about Amazon, it’s about the tendency that most online-based consumer businesses evolve into monopolies. Mostly through network effects paired with smart M&A.

So, the question is not if anyone can beat Bezos but rather beat online monopolies in general.
>> competitive pressure is what drives progress

>You can reasonably say that competition can drive progress. Your sentence implies that it is the primary (or sole??) driver of progress, and that's nonsense.

actually competitive pressure is the primary driver of evolution. Some aspects of evolution when applied to humans we call progress.

>There are tons of cases where reduced competition and increased cooperation can provide more progress.

cooperative behavior in a group evolves when it helps the group to compete, and thus it may result in increased competition between the groups. Organized human society would be an obvious example of cooperative behavior. Massive battles and wars and other atrocities inflicted by the human societies upon each other, and overall effect of the human society upon the rest of the Earth species doesn't seem to qualify as reduced competition. If anything, increased competition between organized human societies, like wars for example, has significantly sped up the tech progress as a result of the need for weapons development.
They mention a tool called Relativity being used. A google search turns up this website:
https://www.relativity.com/

Though I am not sure if it is just collates data from MacOs logs or does some kind of deep analysis to pull data.
But Vue.js may take this position soon. :)
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A thing I hadn't really thought of was that perhaps the main goal from Uber wasn't to explicitly gain access to Waymo secrets (as in documents etc) but simply how to recruit the whole self-driving cars team from Waymo. Uber trying to one-by-one recruit them from Waymo would probably have been much more difficult compared with what happened - Levandowski creating a start-up, whose whole aim was to get acquired by Uber.

> At one point, Levandowski said that he asked Brian McClendon, who left Google to join Uber, how much Uber would be willing to pay for the Chauffeur team, claiming he wanted to have a market value for the team

Ie it's more "I'll make it so you can buy the Chaffeur team" rather than "I'll let you buy these design docs that are Waymo confidential".
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You have to be in the same time zone as Zurich (UTC+01:00, although 2-3 hours away is fine, no other timezones will be accepted), if you can fly in 1x / month to Zurich would be great.

Sharoo.com is Airbnb for cars (like getaround.com) that is gaining popularity in Zurich. People can rent private, fully insured cars starting from 5 CHF/hour. Car owners can make money with their cars that used to do nothing.

Current engineering team: 1 frontend end engineer (living in France), 2 Backend engineers (1 junior, 1 senior), 1 hardware engineer building "the bluetooth box". Our growth ambition for the next year: 4 Backend/Devops, 2 Frontend

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It reminds me of Microsoft making more money with Android patents than with Windows Phones.
"Your margin is my opportunity" - with that kind of attitude, Bezos is indeed a tough competitor.

However, what puzzles me the most is the fact that investors are letting Amazon chug along with barely any profits. Can someone please explain to me how Bezos is able to pull off a P/E of 240 for AMZN, when the company has been around for 20+ years and no longer considered a startup (i.e. no more hyper growth phase)? For comparison, other tech titans have P/E numbers as: FB (37), GOOG (36), MSFT (27), AAPL (17). Only NFLX (216) is in the same league as AMZN.
Which sounds like a fancy way of saying that "there is a 5% chance of the data being noise (while the null hypothesis is true)".
Only in the case of naive port knocking. You can always generate the knocking sequence with something like TOTP to avoid replay attacks, while also detecting attempts at replaying a previous knock.

Edit: Sorry I misread your comment as talking about replay attacks, not MITM'ing. I'm not an expert, but I believe MITM attacks are typically mitigated by performing the knock out of band over a covert channel (DNS, etc). AFAIK, there isn't really a way to prevent them entirely.
I have a severe case of this. So few personal projects even get started because I get caught up in scalability and what not.
In my mind, what swayed me towards static typing languages was after I played around with Haskell and was able to use the 'deriving' clause.

The realization that with types, smart enough compiler can implement interfaces for me, was amazing.

Unfortunately, I am afraid that it will take a while for these techniques to go mainstream. A.f.a.i.k most a mainstream language can do, is to fill in the method stubs for you.
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Once you start using Tor and public Wifi, you admit that what you're doing is illegal. I think in these cases, many people tell themselves that they operate in some kind of gray area.
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Optional typing has not failed in Clojure, it's growing with clojure spec
Just a thought - I suppose you wanted to post with a throwaway account, but claiming to be the inventor of the patent gives your identity away
Clicked a few times on a wrong link? That's 15 years in the can for you, you filthy terrorist. If this idiot has her way the future looks about as exciting as Auschwitz.
Thanks for saying this so clearly. Anti-Immigration hate has nothing to do with „economic insecurity“. That‘s just something people say because they desperately want to find a somewhat rational reason for xenophobia. But there isn‘t.

For some reason, all the people I know that complain about immigrants are actually pretty well off. I think they don‘t have any real problems in life, so they just come up with some imaginary threat.

The people who actually suffer from economic hardship don‘t worry about immigrants – they have enough problems of their own to worry about.

Not sure if my observations are representative, though.
Out of curiosity, why did you leave? This has not been my experience with most founders, so it sounds like you hit the jackpot. Would you also be willing to share what company this is?
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Anyone has experience with PrimeNG??
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We change the reconciliation industry with blockchain technology. We are probably one of the few companies world-wide that built a production-ready blockchain product and not only a POC.

Our platform delivers flexible infrastructure for regulated financial institutions to share processes and data securely, on a need-to-know basis, without the need for reconciliation. We have solid funding, and our clients include stock exchanges.

If you want to move to the US, working for one year in a non-US location will get you a intercompany-transfer-visa (L1-visa are the best, as they can lead to a green card and your spouse can work, too.) We have around 100 employees Zurich, NYC, Budapest, Sydney, London and Hong-Kong.
We have these roles opened:

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- Lead Build Engineer - Zürich or NYC: Design, support and promote scalable practises for fast and seamless build, test and release engineering to adapt to growth and changes of the organisation.

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- Software Engineer - NYC or Zürich: Be involved in all aspects of the software development life-cycle. Primary focus on Financial Services Post Trade but other functional domains are being investigated, too. We value a healthy mindset and attitude towards formal specifications and verification, as well as testing and quality. We use Java, Scala, and Haskell for backend development of new technology concepts. We look for strong engineers. Regardless of which language you use or how you learned it, we’re looking for people who can write clean, effective code

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Equity Agreement Question
Need help deciding how to craft equity agreement between 2 co-founders.
Here is my situation.

I am the original founder. I run a online store of digital products. (Software)
I created the web site, infrastructure, installer packages and paid for it out of my own pocket.

I brought my friend on to the business for 30% of all sales of the digital products.
Also I agreed to pay him $300 each month to work for me until we make profit.

I have also agreed upon with him that I need to make back all the money I put out first from revenue until the point we turn a profit.

I also pay freelancers to help with projects.

What should be in my equity agreement plan and how should I craft it ? Am I doing anything wrong?
sure, that makes it state-managed monopoly or whatever else you call it; keeping to the topic, any competition?
No one has ever established human intelligence is computable. A number of the problems I mention just have no computable corollary. E.g. As far as computers are concerned there is no such thing as truth. For us humans to make that claim is inherently nonsensical (I.e. Is it true there is no truth?)
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Are you open to interviewing students who are graduating this coming spring?
For a genius, Levandowski "did not recall" a lot of important details :)
Er, the type of the result(positive/negative) should be orthogonal to the methodology, from the point of the reviewer. Reviewers should be checking for all these many combinatorial ways to get an incorrect result, whether it's positive or negative.

It may be true that positive results are more useful than negative ones, but that doesn't mean we should put zero value in negative results. I think that's what parent was trying to point out.
I was expecting a scientific solution to help wine taste better.
Do you know how to make a client ssh application in HTML 5? Or what some resources are
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Because anyone can setup on Amazon in the marketplace these traders benefit from the association of being in a location (all be it virtual) and due to the limitations of photos at being able to convey the metrics we consciously and unconsciously perceive when looking for goods in the real world, like touch, weight etc, these traders can exploit people's ignorance, which when coupled with oversea's trader's who are not bound by the same legal constraints to protect consumers can get away with very poor quality. This quality is traditionally what the buyer(s) working for the shop/store would undertake in order to not trash their reputation or brand names. In todays world where's its easy to start up and fail, arguably the brand & reputation is less important when you realise how easy it is to game the Amazon review's, but ultimately it demonstrates how price rules over everything else. So whilst the West has offshored its manufacturing pollution to China, China has sold us our landfill dumps.
Google uses FUSE extensively. Basically there are a bunch of daemons that make the various cloud source repositories look like a local disk.
It looks like Windows 7 with the Classic theme.
Then what isn't an important number? Is everything worth a headline? How do you select what is and is not noteworthy or important for an investor or news consumer?

Why is Tesla missing it's Model 3 targets at the very beginning of the production run (hundreds of cars) more relevant than the Model S and X productions exceeding targets by "several thousand"?

Looking at the first two columns of WSJ tech page that lists that article ... articles are on (Apple, Tesla, Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs/Bitcoin, Uber). Looking at that list of companies, would you guess that WSJ's editors are pushing the most relevant and important information, or the information their readers want the most? One is gossip, the other is news. People gravitating towards the news they want to see and news producing information tailored for their audience is the greatest force of evil in the 21st century. Popularity drives every news outlet to the bottom until you can't tell the difference between TMZ and WSJ.

Where do I go if I want to read actual news instead of the business gossip column?
We aren't infallible, but that is different than the inconsistency of a formal system. Insistency means the very concept of truth is nonsensical, since an inconsistent system can prove everything. It is fallacious to equivocate the two.
So 260 instead of 1500 model 3's. Bootstrapping has a lot of uncertainties so that's not very unlikely even. What's stood out to me was this,

> In total, we expect to deliver about 100,000 Model S and X vehicles in 2017, which would be a 31% increase over 2016.

31% increase from 2016, that's a huge bump in delivery and I wonder how/if this affected the model 3 production.
1) Creating disturbes

They need the disturbes to force Catalonian people to radicalize and take part pushed by the tread of violence, real or felt (Those 893 people beaten equals to the 0,01% of the total population.

And they need it also as bait for fishing international actors, much needed to legitimate the actions taken. "Look how mistreated we are by this evil people", "look how oppressed we are". We have earned with our suffering the right to be free and have a country. Would you don't please recognise our small, hopeful and happy new country?

Yes, this is what they are saying now and this is how manipulative are they.

2) Justifying the largely announced declaration of secession

Declaring that "invent random number here" therefore the majority of people asked for it in a "democratic referendum", even if the referendum was a total mess, there are arguments to consider that many votes are fake and miraculously, we have still 2 millions of votes pro-independency after hundred of electoral tables where closed and urns confiscated by the government. Not much different to saying that, after everybody in the room has taken a piece of pizza, we still have the entire pizza in the box.

3) maybe (I'm talking hypothetically now) divert funds to pay the fines put by jury by previous separatist events to the former politicians at charge

4) and maybe being so obnoxious that will obligate the central government to take drastic measures, providing a safe exit for the politicians that promised independence for years to its public but can't do it and really don't want it.

Whereas allowing the wheel to keep spinning of course ("I really wanted to declare the independence and live happy forever, but the bad guys do not allow me to do this, we need to keep trying harder").
If you want to make something intelligent, then you got to give it free hand to run experiments, to check if the correlations it detects are causal or not. I think that is the link between pattern recognition models from current day and AI. So the system must be made of an experimenter (implemented as a RL agent) and a lab (implemented as a simulator) - basically the same setup we use as humans to advance science.

Current day philosophy is like current day ML - detects correlations but can't run experiments to filter out the bad ones, so they (philosophers) are stuck with a combinatorial explosion of theories. They key component missing is a good enough simulator, both at physical and abstract level.

Yann LeCun saying the main problem in AI is how to make a predictive model of the world (a simulator): https://youtu.be/cWzi38-vDbE?t=1933
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Ironically, the frame problem is one of those things AI cannot solve. The myopic belief in computational intelligence is a result of our materialism, which in turn is a result of our unwillingness to acknowledge God and live according to His will, which is ultimately best for us.
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The BBC isn't government funded though. It's funded by the licence fee (which is deliberately set up as a fee not a tax for that reason)
Sounds a bit circular, are you somehow saying the definition of "the primary driver of evolution" is "competitive pressure"?
I think the average American could do just as good of a job as the H1b developers working for large enterprise shops (I.e. most h1b visa holders).

As such it is directly taking jobs from Americans without benefiting them.

It is even worse because most of these jobs are entry level and could help drastically increase the number of highly skilled American tech workers.

And because of the way the h1b visa is abused a lot of niche companies who actually face a talent shortage can't get the talent they need.
Well, duh. Is that really an article from today, or did something from a decade or two back get recycled.
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Popsa is an e-Commerce startup that uses data to automatically create personalised prints such as photobooks, calendars, posters, canvases, and postcards.

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Press releases are usually free. Companies use third party providers to ensure that every investor/subscriber receives information at exactly the same time. Paying for company publications is extremely uncommon. For a public company I'm not even sure if that wouldn't be illegal.

You can still pay for premium services (via Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, etc) but subscribing to company news releases can be easily done by just visiting a company's investor relations website.
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>It seems like something like this would already happen naturally

it is naturally happening right now as humans with their tech is just a tool of Nature - following George Carlin logic of "planet [Earth]'s goal was plastic packets, so it produced humans who produced the packets, now humans can go" :)
The visibility of suicide is declining. The suicide rate is up, definatly up. They are just "accidents" now - people driving into a truck for no apparent reasons.

Take a black marker, open your local newspaper page and mark any not reasonable accident as suicide (if you dont believe me join a fire-brigade and find out for yourself).

You have a little chess-board in the news every morning.