skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Econ students or not the prof should have failed the complainers for not understanding "the material" (in this case the clear scoring rubric).

I remember a physics exam of the sort "here are three questions; you have four hours answer one". I couldn't answer any so just struggled for a while on the first; I ended up with 25% for work shown and, to my astonishment, the only passing grade.

(BTW the big lesson from that, which has been useful all my professional life, is "show your work". It means I can come back to it later, or I can collaborate with / ask for help from another person, who can show me where I'm a bozo or forgetting something or need to learn something).
Value is not intrinsic to the object, but varies depending on the market and its rules. Go to another country and your labour might be worth more or less.

So your labor is not worth $3/hour, it's worth $3/hour in this market. The approach I think would be better for everyone is designing the market so that your labor holds some value.
Inconsistent axioms can provide a valid proof of Kolmogorov complexity, but not a sound one. Thinking a false statement is true is not learning.
I think part of what the OP is intimating at is that this prize is for something that had been well-established for some time in other ways. It's kind of like giving a Nobel Prize to a physical chemist for demonstrating that subatomic particles exist, using chemistry paradigms, when physicists had been studying quarks and leptons and whatnot already for years.

Showing how this plays out in economics is important; I don't want to downplay the significance of the work from that perspective. But it feels a little bit like giving a prize for discovering something that an entire field had known about for some time. I think it says as much, if not more, about the social dynamics of science as it does about the phenomena being studied.

I agree completely that the micro and macro level phenomena are not the same, but in this case the chasm isn't that great.
It was restricted to one very artificial game mode (1 vs 1 mid, Shadow Fiend mirror matchup) that is not representative of real games, but is good for practicing one aspect of Dota. Some items in this game mode are banned in order to make it less safe for both sides, and so that there is a better chance of one side dying before ten minutes. People have beaten the bot by both "breaking" it and by just outplaying it (but the latter very, very rarely).
The "victims" (as often happens with MS updates) will be the most vulnerable customers (think of your mom or pop that have a plain Windows install on a tablet or laptop and that suddenly can not listen anymore to their preferred - lets say classic - music tracks).
> To both yourself and the person you're replying too, please don't put words in my mouth.

What words did I put in your mouth? I cited the 2^80 figure in your blog post and a reasonable theory for why you would bring up such a figure. "Regurgitated" came across as snide so I apologize for that.

Note that you used this unsubstantiated figure to say "the fact that there’s disagreement is a bad sign." If there isn't actually any disagreement and the figure is unsubstantiated, why is it not baseless FUD? (BTW I notified you of this error in your blog post some time ago but never heard back.)

> what I said is that post-hoc review hasn't been done, even a year after the fact.

I know, I wasn't replying to you. As I said, I believe more auditing is needed. I also don't believe some kind of one-and-done audit of the software/deterministic builds would satisfy either of us.
>> "Eventually you'll lose your drive, and therefore data if you don't backup."

True, but someone will come up with a "databank" of sorts. Who knows, we might backup on DNA or space, as in cosmos.

Is what we type right now escaping in space like TV transmissions? Any physics major here?
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Its a good question, and I hope someone with more knowledge also responds to this, but I don't think they are the same thing. There is a difference between things that give you pleasure and things that you enjoy doing. e.g. you might not enjoy doing drugs if you're an addict but its almost always pleasurable.

So I think enjoying something is more long term, higher level aspect than pleasure, which seems more short term. Which explains a lot why people engage in activities which they may not really enjoy, but get the short term pleasure hit. e.g. binge eating, binge TV watching etc
...they can play in the sand and bushes and water, and just be kids, without adult supervision.

Recreate Lord of the Flies with GTAV? =)
Normative publication behavior varies by field, but is generally well known and openly discussed, critiqued, modified, etc. inside each field. It's not exactly kept quiet.
Yep. I tried Groove when I first upgraded to Windows 10, but at that time it didn't deal well mp3 files on my NAS. Windows Media Player has worked flawlessly and I use it every week.
If I were to guess, the benefits would result from making very "tight" optimizations to e.g. networking or scheduling that are specific to the workloads they deal with regularly.

Remember, Linux is designed to run on as many machine configurations and support as many workloads as possible. To achieve this, kernel devs sometimes cannot adopt the most optimized implementation because it may lead to unforeseen corner cases.

On the other hand, a company like Alibaba knows exactly what kind of machines and workloads they are dealing with, which means that they can make those optimizations and gain a slight performance boost relative to mainline Linux.
>anyone can upload to arxiv.org

I thought you needed an endorsement from someone already in the system, or were affiliated with a university?

https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
So... great benchmarks but they couldn't even gain more than +2 average fps in most games compared to last gen 7700.

The title makes you believe that it has some serious gains over previous gens but nope. I wonder how much Intel paid for this review...
Presumably in relation to power draw? The 8700K seems kind of like one of those "Overclocked straight from the factory" deals that you see a lot with Video cards.
This is horrible, and beautiful. I love it!

Another way of extending it (besides the suggestions) could be making a collection of nasty HN comments. Try to match the topics and you might be into something! Mandatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/810/
True and succinct, although "destroyed" is excessive -- its still just as possible to enjoy undertale on its own.

R&m though really is a victim of its fanbase. I tried watching the fan favorite s3e01 with my dad, who has seen all of seasons 1 and 2, and he really couldnt follow the plot. It made me realize that I probably only liked it because I watched each episode of seasons 1 and 2 at least twice (the dvd commentary is great). I'm just going to skip watching the council of ricks episode from season 3 with him, it's really self indulgent.
Unless there are in-depth APM limitations on the AI, there's no contest for AI vs. A human.
the article doesnt mention this but I will ask ... does sephora attract more female candidates because it is a very popular makeup brand?

Or perhaps do they also get less male applicants because it is a female dominant brand?

"“Everyone spoke,” she says, “and felt comfortable offering opinions on anything from e-commerce to a shade of blush.”"

For me as a male I would not feel comfortable offering my opinions on a shade of blush. I am not offended by this -- I just have zero experience with blush.

Am I sexist because I wouldnt want to work there but also can see why women would be more successful there in tech-centric roles?
Eat the cost of the super phone. Make it super easy to use, develop and distribute. 5% or even flat appstore fee. Then maybe. They did it with the Xbox, but I think they got lucky with the timing on that one.

This is like them releasing an 8bit console with no games and just as expensive. In 1988, when everyone already owned a Nintendo or Sega.
Intel's historical response has been run it hotter when AMD introduces something that's competitive.
>microsoft includes WMP by default

"that's anticompetitive!!1!11"

>microsoft makes WMP opt-in

"muh workflow!11"
I worked in IT support for a while, and saw that many business apps are expected to come with a browser interface now. If companies could be weaned from their dependence on Office then Chromebooks would take off. Eliminating the support issues for Windows would be a big deal.
There is no requirement to be affiliated with an institution to publish, or even hold any kind of degree. If the journal or conference is double blind, they will never even know about your credentials.

Of course, credentials do imply some skills and content quality that cause publications to be accepted, but the reverse isn't true.
Why isn't anyone launching a competitor in this space. There should be lot of room for innovation with current tech to create a entire organization competing in everything Luxottica does and may be more.

Clearly because of this monopoly there is no innovation from within industry except for designs. There is no substantial feature development around glasses, lenses or frames, again Silicon Valley has to step in and do innovation by combining two different industries.

Seems like this problem will never get solved.

Governments seem to be just surrendering to Corporate all over the world. Clearly Corporate have more buying power and they take care of themselves and not the general public. So there is no entity to take care of general public's interest.

:(
I still don't get it. Cultural appropriation is everywhere, and the inevitable and obvious result of cultural mixing. What makes this different?

Maybe it has more to do with economic competition than cultural sensitivities?
Is there a similar project that does dns filtering? That would workaround HTTPS.
I might clone this and adapt it for break-ups
And GTA has a limited pool of pedestrians that repeat themselves and return over and over.
Not in the original Super Mario Bros. You run across the bridge, dodge Bowser's attacks, and "win" by reaching the Axe on the far side. The strong implication (within the NES's limited visuals) is that by collecting the axe, you have destroyed the bridge and sent Bowser plummeting into the lava. Alternately, you can hit him repeatedly with Fireballs, and he will eventually die like any other enemy.

Mario absolutely "kills" Bowser in the original games. Though, of course you're quite correct that he returns in the sequels, and it's heavily implied that the Koopa clan does not die upon contact with lava, unlike the rest of the creatures in the kingdom.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Axe
The issue with heat.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
I think tokenizing services are a very good idea in general. I just think there are easier and more effective ways to handle the AuthN problem.
Problem is, this was developed 5 years ago, well before the developer joined Microsoft. I understand where you're coming from, but the article is misleading.
Honestly I'd rather have the ridiculous fans than pretentious people here arguing and nit picking stupid shit to sound more intelligent​. It's a show, watch it, enjoy it, stop trying to hold everything against some fictional​ ideal model. "Ooh but it's not really THAT existential and nihilistic" who the fuck cares you hipster; what elements it has in those areas goes well beyond most other available shows. Much like creating a government to hide from the government, it's pretty damn hypocritical for you all* to sit here and complain about other peoples opinions gumming up the show by complaining about the show with your own overblown armchair drivel. Watch it or don't but shut the fuck up and move on with your day.

* Of course not actually everyone
I don't know; personally I feel like the scale here is much too low to be relevant. Also I think not investing the time to tune sort and dist keys makes the comparison meaningless.

But maybe that just becomes meaningful at larger data sizes and maybe most people work with less data most of the time.
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"Well, if anyone can start a company the door isn't shut. I don't buy that white men only invests in white men. I think people invest in companies (for the most part) where investors think they will gain the most money from."

Numbers don't lie. And there are countless examples of times where women-led startups couldn't even get meetings with VCs, but after adding a male founder, suddenly were asked to come in for meetings.

"I think countries of the world should make it easier and less expensive to start a company. That is the best recipee for success in my view. If it is less of a risk to create a company, more people will do it."

Most of the costs are not something that countries can help with. You're still going to need funds for equipment, salaries, and such.
Exactly, Rick is a faithful depiction of someone who believes individual lives are ultimately meaningless, which is implied by the whole multiverse scenario. Why does it matter if Morty1 is mistreated and is only kept alive for selfish pleasure? There are an infinite number of Mortys, so Morty1 is nothing special.
There's also oddity around NaN - if x is NaN, then, on a compliant chip, x != x regardless of whether it's ever visited main memory.

If you find some reason to use a NaN inside one of these GeoPoints (at one of the poles, perhaps), and the equality of them depends on the equality of doubles, then you may give your users a bit of a surprise.
This is a really fun, clever idea for a weekend project. I'd be very curious to hear what your experiences are in a month or so, or after some future rejection email, to see whether it really conditions you.

It might be interesting to send the email at random times on random days so you can't get used to it, which I believe is a similar method to how games will increase your response to rewards by making them irregularly timed.

Either way, nice job!
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I remember the HD7, I was eyeing it off for a while, I could buy one, I just couldn't find a phone store near me that would let me try one. I moved to Android and the HTC Desire HD.

I had been a Windows Mobile 6.1 user.
It'd be nice to have standard rejection emails from popular companies: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.
maybe you can try to publish via

https://distill.pub/

or you can try to publish via open review,

https://openreview.net/
Personally I use VLC for video and Winamp for music, but I still think Windows should ship with SOME sort of media player.
Urban centers through most of human history have lacked a lot of open spaces, and kids have grown up fine. Human brains are incredibly resilient, and you can raise healthy kids even in dense urban areas.

The problem seems to be more about the constant stimuli that comes from internet enabled devices and video games. I grew up without access to much video games or the internet but that made me dream up entire fantasy worlds as a kid, because I was bored. I don't think the current environment allows kids that kind of space to just be bored and create things via imagination.

I'm not a child specialist though so I might be totally wrong about this.
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What Will Programming Look Like in the Future?
I think you might be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses.

Indeed, we tend to forget the problems. I tend to have the same feeling (10.5 and 10.6 were rock-solid), but with a little digging I found this comment from 2008-me on another website:

And a lot doesn't. My printer (a Laserjet 5L, connected through a parallel to USB converter) works without a hassle on GNU/Linux. It worked terrible on Leopard until 10.5.2, after a certain number of pages, it just refused to print anything but empty or mangled pages.

Similarly, the wireless support is quite bad in Leopard. E.g. I worked for two months on the Eduroam wireless network full-time. On a MacBook plus Leopard, the connection was constantly dropped, and it usually took ten minutes to authenticate succesfully. A friend, who has an Ubuntu laptop OTOH, had no problems connecting at all.

[snip Linux rant, irrelevant]
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I just commented here about how that episode may have gone too far in terms of fan service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435761

I liked the episode too. But the show now has an identity crisis: the fans (you and me) want to see the serious side explored, but it's honestly a bit pretentious and definitely less funny.
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Windows phones themselves are fine. But two things were massive failures:

1. Microsoft created development tools that are not appropriate for real-world use cases and tried to push that on devs and companies, which failed spectacularly. The demand for apps which work on Windows desktop and Windows phone literally doesn't exist. It doesn't matter that Microsoft would have loved it if people built apps like that. If there is no demand for such apps they don't get built (and they didn't). You get garbage (compared to WPF or even WinForms) "metro" or whatever you call them now desktop apps that are intensely hated by Windows users and you get a WP app that you can't reuse to build an iOS or Android app... The UI was also completely different so you couldn't even really reuse much of the design. So no code sharing, no design sharing.

What .NET devs wanted was a way to build apps using C# that work on all mobile platforms (we never cared about a mobile app working on desktop). If you had given us that you would have had your apps purely by virtue of piggybacking on iOS, Android and .NET popularity. We complained about the retarded "multiplatform within the Windows ecosystem" approach from day 1 yet Microsoft released several iterations (not backwards-compatible, of course, so they were losing some devs each time) of this garbage before finally listening to the market and embracing Xamarin at which point it no longer mattered as WP was a joke. A LOT of people love C# and are willing to jump through hoops to develop multiplatform apps with it. XAML is also very cool. Microsoft had that part in the bag, yet completely failed to use this to their advantage. Imagine if when WP7 (or even WP8) was released Microsoft was able to say "here, you can now develop mobile apps in C# and they will also build for iOS and Android!" .NET devs would have jizzed in their pants.

2. Microsoft threw the existing WP users in the trash with WP7 -> WP8. My iPhone updated for like 7 years through god knows how many iOS versions. When I bought a new one, it felt almost exactly the same except faster due to better hardware. People were wary of buying a WP because they got burned once.
It would be a great CPU if you could buy it, it is very much a paper launch, seems significant quantities wont be available until Q1/2 2018. No retailers I checked have it in stock.

https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/damien-cox/intels-cof...
Well their investment basically killed Cyanogen inc and Cyanogen mod.

Good that it's open source, so they forked it, and is now known as LineageOS.
I think everyone's financial situation is different. I agree with you that if you try to cater compensation by a hire's lifestyle choices, then it does get really hard to keep everyone happy.

IMHO, living in SF is a choice, especially at a remote company. Just like buying a Tesla or choosing to live in your car instead of renting an apartment is also a choice.

I don't think companies should pay one employee less because they choose to have a cheaper lifestyle than the employees that buy Teslas or live in San Francisco.
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Android released couple of months after the iPhone. Windows Phone couple of years later. This is it. Microsoft could have easily been the leading mobile platform.
Writing a retro 3D FPS engine from scratch
i wonder if we'll be forced to buy an iMac Pro to get this chip in a mac
RED’s new $80,000 8K camera is probably a very good camera – The Verge
It was their game to lose ten years ago, but only barely and not recently. In 2007 when the iPhone was launched, Windows Mobile had about 40% of the smartphone market, RIM had about 20%. But the smartphone market was nothing compared to today, the vast majority of phones were feature phones. Nokia's array of candybar phones absolutely dominated in 2007, with the Moto Razr was still big. Then Apple unveiled the iPhone, and the guys at Android said, "Oh shit." Meanwhile Steve Ballmer said the iPhone would never succeed. Ballmer drove MS into the ground. Everyone pivoted to the iPhone model except MS, who spit out WinMo 6.5 in 2009, and finally WinMo 7 in 2010. By 2010, the race was pretty much over. The rest of what MS did was half-assed at best.

You're 100% right, MS beat MS.
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> Instead of basic income wouldn't it make sense to have some sort of basic "lifestyle" provided by government. Out of the box you get a very small government built apartment (no rent or utility bills, all part of the package), vouchers for 3 meals per day (government run canteens in these government apartment buildings), free healthcare and education also provided by the government.

The government is bad at operating a business. They aren't subject to competition. If they do something poorly they don't lose business so they just keep doing it poorly. There is no reason to ever have the government build housing or grow food instead of just giving people money to buy housing or food.

Government products also have another flaw. If the government provides $500 worth of free government housing, and you have $200, there is no way for you to turn that into $700 worth of housing. Improving your housing by $200 costs you $700. It's a poverty trap.

And allocating money to specific things has the same problems. Governments are bad at allocating things. Give someone a housing voucher and they'll buy housing, even if they don't need housing as much as they need something else. Many people would be better off to e.g. live with relatives and use the same money to pay for car insurance so they can drive to work. With a housing voucher they can't do that, so instead they waste the government's money on unneeded housing. And in the process raise both taxes and housing costs for everyone else.

Moreover, in any situation where that isn't the case, vouchers for necessities are equivalent to cash regardless. If you're buying $200 worth of food anyway, a $100 food voucher is the same as $100 in cash, because you use the food voucher for food and use the $100 you would have spent on food to buy whatever you want.

Which means that vouchers require a voucher checking bureaucracy that spends resources doing something which is completely redundant in every case that it isn't actively harmful.

It's far more efficient to just give people cash and let them figure it out for themselves.
I may be reinventing something that is already done here, but it occurs to me you could also put canary accounts in your data (say one every 100 entries) and use it as a tripwire to alert ops the moment one is passed to the auth service.
How powerful and easy to pick up is Google App Script compared to VBA?

Given your experience, do you see GAS overtaking VBA, and if so, in which fields? (Finance?) What industries were the companies you helped switch over working in?

I ask because I'm while I'm roughly intermediate with VBA, I'm not sure if I should continue pursuing VBA or invest in something that might be more valuable in the future.
If programs are not axiomatic systems, then they cannot learn, period. Only ones that have consistent axioms have a hope of learning, and even then it is severely limited.
Did somebody say anti-corporate slant?!?