skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even if the assumption is wrong, you have to decide how wrong it is. Enough to show 45-55 splits in career choice? 25-75? 10-90?
That’s a common myth.

They usually weasel word the scope of their generosity, treat loans as gifts, etc.

The sticker price is always negotiable, but state schools are usually ahead.
The article should have been titled “low blood sugar puts one in a bad mood”.
It was odd to watch them do a hard turn from applying more thoughtful analysis of games and gaming culture to hopping on the GamerGate train. I assume that didn't pan out for them as they'd hoped.
I just noticed that this week as well, although like you I have no idea how long it's been there. Pretty nifty little feature.
Thanks very much for this first-hand information! :)
actually i was wrong. i was thinking of GetSatisfaction. remember those guys?

re: recycling ideas
i guess if u are just starting on your first startup and just want to feel things out for the first time — its worth the toil.

but life is short. better to focus on real innovate
Nice product, just gave it a quick try. Some off the cuff thoughts,

- Consider a Zapier integration, might save you some time and make delivery/adoption faster

- In step 3 of onboarding you ask me to share a url with team members. Can I make this url private/sso? If yes, make the discovery of that immediate. If no, that's going to be a blocker for any internal adoption.

- PMs tend to organize their internal priorities and roadmaps in specific ways. I like that I can sort by "coming soon" "done", etc, in your list BUT, what I really want is a consistent visual delivery, this seems to usually be a kanban style board.

- Internal teams and stakeholders need to understand why what you're working on right now is the single most important thing that the teams need to be working on. It's important that this assessment criteria is clearly communicated, visually, and understand.
The definition of bootstrapping includes saving up ones own money to start a business, generally from a previous or other job. Most companies are started that way. Venture is the exception, not the rule.

And prior to EC2 a lot of people either just rented servers (in someone elses colo), or got a leased line and hosted servers in their office. Both were very, very common in the 90's.
Well, to be fair, it is a huge problem for the director of the FBI. His job is to investigate potential crimes by gathering lots of evidence and doing lots of analysis. The popularity of encryption is making it increasingly difficult for him to gather the evidence that he needs.

The problem (for him) is that encryption is a tremendous help to everyone else, and we don't (yet?) have a way to protect our data from criminals and from overzealous or corrupt cops, without also deterring legitimate investigations.
The Smalltalk-80 Programming System [video, 18:44] (1983)
Thanks for the run down. My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek.

To be honest as a DM/GM I generally threw out the rules as soon as they got in the way of a good narrative.

I'm quite tempted to give it a dabble again ...
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The non-handwavy answer is that mathematics is defined by a set of axioms through which all mathematics follow via logic and defining new structures / relations. If there were no 6, given the same set of axioms we could simply define something representing the same concept of 6 with a different symbol, because the concept of 6 is consistent with our axioms. Dividing by 0 is inconsistent with our axioms, so even if we define x = 1/0, we would be able to arrive at conclusions which contradict our axioms.
Nice analysis. I play a bit of Pathfinder from time to time. Do you think 5e copied Stealth from Pathfinder?
Why is that I have worked for a big multi national tech company and unless you had passed a 3 day course you where not allowed to interview candidates.

I would have thought that googles Hr would have a better proccess
I'd love to build one of these myself, but can't seem to find any information on what API/system to do so. Have they released details yet?
Apocryphally some places have a policy that all redacted documents must be printed then rescanned before release.
Now try looking at square root of -1 using elementary algebra...
I love this 2008 underhanded C contest along that same vein: http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html
>Yeah, but when you sell them to the public, you can't stop people from driving into other states or areas where conditions are less favorable; which I think is relevant and applicable to their original argument that actually having self-driving cars out in the market is further out than what the industry is saying.

You actually can. For instance - radar detectors are legal in some states and not others. If you cross that state line you can be pulled over and cited immediately.

Or to go one step further, you could be driving a truck carrying a load that's perfectly legal in the state you left, cross state lines, and be stopped:
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/policy/rpt_congress/truck_s...
I think you over estimate how many people were online 20 years ago and what the expectations were.

You could host a reasonably successful web site on a relatively low end server (say, a Sparc 10) off a T1 line (1.5 megabits) and serve a ton of users. They all had crappy connections and were used to waiting.
Could serve as a useful introduction to the topic of consistency and definitions, or what happens if you have inconsistent axioms.
> If you limit yourself to other old farts who still have their battered old AD&D 1e books

AD&D/1e (and other pre-5e versions) books are available in hardcopy and PDF, new, today. There's certainly a network effect benefit to 5e today, but 1e isn't limited to people with battered copies from the 1980s.
Real-Time 4K Video Streaming from a Drone anywhere in the world is possible now
Entropy drives the pace of molecular evolution
I have no opinion on AMD or how it compares to Intel or Nvidia, but this kind of enthusiasm about exponential growth reminds me of how Cisco was the largest company in the world by market cap in 2000.
The problem is that once you have the ability to do that sort of surveillance, every agency in your jurisdiction will want to use it for all kinds of other purposes.
Why do the service industry employees remain, if their kids can't go to good schools?
Show HN: Yopp – A very quick way to transfer a file from phone to computer
Think of an MVP as a series of experiments
Here’s where you’ll live when self-driving cars rule the roads
If the earnings bump is really driven by the Threadripper CPUs, then earnings mean very little as AMD cost are much higher due to much larger die and lower yields.
For every $100 worth of CPU sold, Intel is making orders of magnitude more profit.
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Fully agree. I think their work on training data augmentation (e.g., their ICASSP paper, http://danielpovey.com/files/2017_icassp_reverberation.pdf, or the ASPiRE model before) has a bigger impact on the practical usefulness of ASR than getting an X% relative improvement over the previous SOTA on the eval2000 set.
>> Yes, in a top school in NY.

Well that is sort of my point...When Asians compete for spots at top universities, they arent really competing against the entire united states, they are competing against the applicant pool.

Ivy League schools get more valedictorian applications than there are seats. Some get more perfect SAT scores than there are seats, so they end up using other factors like sports, well-rounded-ness, speaking ability, unique experiences, etc.

A lot of the folks in that applicant pool have all sorts of unique experiences -- summar safaris in africa, a performance at Lincoln Center, summer internship at a major law firm, internship at some Congressperson's office, etc, etc.

Those types of non-academic admissions factors disfavor most minorities (they espcially disfavor those of African descent given the lack of diversity in most of those fields, which is why i can appreciate affirmative action for clearly underpriviledged groups.)

Now, things are getting better for Asians, Indians, etc and are certainly better than what they were in 1996 when I applied to college. People always tend to point at Nadella, Pandit, Pichai -- but seriously -- how much of the real power base in the US is actually diverse?

Looking beyond technology into the broader economic, cultural, media, and political base of the US, can anyone really argue that Asians are so well represented that they deserve Negative application points relative to all others?
Just in case you want to see the official announcement:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-con...
First Ever Original Comedy Series Published to the Blockchain
I had a buddy from a gaming group a few years ago that had worked up a Java app that he ran through a projector pointed at the table. Lost touch with him though, or I'd point you to it or him.

I tried to turn him onto some modern development practices since he was looking to try to become a professional developer.
In a sense it's not a weird problem so much as the entire concept of forbidding a 6 is inconsistent with the axioms of mathematics. Reasoning about a universe without 6 will inherently include contradictions because you can always redefine something equivalent to 6 given our axioms.
Assuming your encryption subkey was also generated on the YubiKey, why did you not replace it as well?
Yes we should all get one either way.
There are lots of interesting competitive programming problems (and their related algorithms) that involve it. For example, it was important in the solution to a problem in the UKIEPC (UK & Irish programming contest to gear up for the ACM ICPC) this past weekend: https://domjudge.bath.ac.uk/domjudge/public/problem.php?id=3... :)
Yea the salient point there was the second part - whether it be hit tables or THAC0, 5e rules would expedite play.

Course some of us will sit there and say y'all should just be playing 3d6 instead, but I digress...
Games themselves are going through some interesting times. Several AAA single-player games are rumoured to have sold poorly (notably the Bethesda games Dishonored 2, Prey, and The Evil Within 2), and I've seen talk that publishers are now reluctant to fund those types of games. That would certainly explain why EA just closed Visceral Games and 'refocused' their single-player, story-based Star Wars game.

Meanwhile indie game developers are gambling their life savings, with very poor odds. For every Cuphead - which was funded by the developers remortgaging their houses - there are 100 other indie games that sell ~0 copies.

PUBG is sucking all the air out of the room in the gaming market, and I expect we'll see a lot of attempts to emulate its success in the near future, most of which will fail.
Interesting, but I don't actually care about diversity. The Silicon Valley giants, often criticized for their low diversity, are among the most successful companies of all time. Apple, the least diverse of them, is the most successful. Forgive me for following the example of the Usain Bolts and not the findings of sprinting researchers.
Threadripper is a multi-chip module composed of two Zeppelyn dies (the same 8-core die used in the desktop part). There is no larger die or lower yield problem. This is the whole value proposition of the Zen microarchitecture — high yields, low per-CPU costs, typical MCM drawbacks (high interdie latencies, duplicated functional blocks, etc).
because fuck you, trees! right?
Very surprised to see this on HN front page.

Control theory is a fabulous subject and has nice relationships to computational theory because classical (and more modern [s/d/o/nl/MPC] control theory) are obsessed with optimality, reachability and provable optimality and stability. In practice most control systems in the world are not designed nor run under the assumptions necessary to have an optimal controller. This is a field with a tremendous gap between theory and practice.
The least distinguished careers in NBA history
First of all, a clarification: the Facebook Live stream will be available after the event, right? I presume so, just making absolutely sure!

As an aside, it would be cool to have a recorded copy of source-quality video too. Maybe that's being a bit obsessive going that far, but I'm really looking forward to watching this event :) (and the last time I tried Facebook Live myself - doing the filming for someone else - the connection dropped 15 seconds in...)

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About commenting:

Hmm. There are few other general-purpose platforms that would be appropriate for this type of task (I can definitely concur that reddit for example wouldn't be concretely ideal, for a variety of reasons).

While a noteworthy amount of effort, perhaps the CHM site itself could be adapted to handle this. Obviously it would be most ideal to do this in a generalized way that could be reused for other things as well - maybe articles (such as the event article) could have a comment section (I'm envisaging a simple "Comments »" at the bottom - underneath the Location section in this case), with a realtime backend. That would make the system effectively implement the semantics of comments and realtime chat in one go. A bit of work to implement, but not at all impossible.

I'd envisage this feature being used in the context of "it'll probably be most convenient to comment on the Facebook stream directly, but if you don't have Facebook you can also use the CHM site over here." Time would tell what sort of split there would be.

I'm unfortunately not too great at keeping a good pace when I start projects (I'm too easily snowed under with real-life distractions and tasks, heh!), and that makes me slightly hesitant about offering to help implementing a system like this. On the other hand it could go really well. How does site maintenance work? Is there a volunteer team for that?

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I noticed that Alan Kay popped in here and answered my question. That was really awesome. :)
> That’s a common myth.

Since I personally experienced it, I'm pretty sure it's not.
Wasn’t clear, didn’t mean powerpoint but like it. Need to draw graphics on screen and manipulate them.
If you instead prefer your "next gen spreadsheets" simpler, open source and offline, you may like http://strlen.com/treesheets/ ;)
I was at a conference yesterday in the US where they casually mentioned they have a drone that can (now) find devices (phones) from 3 miles away to within 10 feet (or maybe 10 meters?) from a current IP address. The level of surveilence is out of control.
Hey, thanks for trying it out!

We have a Zapier integration! It's currently in beta, try it out: https://zapier.com/developer/invite/59728/b66bec80febabe914b...

Kanban coming soon. https://feedback.canny.io/feature-requests/p/roadmap-view

> Can I make this url private/sso?

What exactly do you mean? Would love to chat more. Would you mind hopping on our live chat sometime?

> It's important that this assessment criteria is clearly communicated, visually, and understand.

CRM integrations (Salesforce, Intercom) coming soon so you can tie monthly spend to those votes.
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You really think business grows so fast that you need instant servers?

Google ran for many years on piles of commodity boards and they were expanding pretty fast...

The amount of marketing hype around cloud services is insane because all the big tech companies have a vested interest in your renting their platforms. It doesn't allow you to do anything you couldn't 15 years ago, just makes it easy.
I think given the hype and (hopefully) coming importance of automated cars/automation in general in our daily lives, control theory is going to become increasingly popular over time. Maybe kids 50 years from now will have it as a mandatory course in their CS program.
Can confirm. Dealing with AMD drivers made me switch to Windows.
For the average person, meaning someone getting a business loan or mortgage, this just isn't true. Take a look at historical bank rates. They're much cheaper now than the 80's.
That's fair. I think both approaches are useful in different situations. Mozilla seems to be focussing on Siri-like use-cases as opposed to dictation. Even for dictation, for many people having to train the system themselves is more work than they're willing to do. I'm sure what you want will exist eventually :)
How easy is it to move your Airpods from your phone to your tablet to your desktop to your non-Apple work PC? Don't get me wrong, I think Airpods are pretty amazing for what they are. But they're still hampered by what they are. For someone whose primary concern is "I hate wires" they're great. They sound 'pretty good for earbuds' as multiple friends, some of whom bought them, can attest.

Personally, I can't stand the sound quality of earbuds. My closed-back Audio Technica over-ear headphones can be unplugged from one device and plugged into another in seconds (no pairing/unpairing, turning bluetooth on and off, etc) and are always 'charged'. Plus they sound lightyears better than any bluetooth anything.
We've toyed with the idea of introducing a limited free tier. Shoot us a message on Intercom and we may be able to make something work!
This was my thought as well. I recall reading that IQ/"G" and work products were the dominant predicative factors for good hires. Can anyone help with a source that confirms/refutes? Since new grads wouldn't have many past work products, it would make sense if employers use university admissions as a proxy for general aptitude testing, which are legally difficult to use.
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim might be right up your alley. Straddles that line between fiction and non-fiction, and might teach you a thing or two about DevOps.
someone received his invitation or rejection :-° letter?
(Not OP.) FreeBSD has been rock solid on 1950x for me. I've attempted to reproduce the "kill ryzen" reliability problem reported on some of the desktop CPUs and been unable to.
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Seeing as you've done some exploratory inference, are there any surprising correlations you have found?
Having negative revenue is technically possible, but the example of a company’s revenue being down 300% or 400% seems extremely unlikely. ;-)
Wait, what's all this talk about how I could learn all the software technologies and get a job without a degree? I'm 32, highly skilled at algorithmic thinking, and studying to go into the tech industry. After reading this stuff, I want to just go back to doing 3D art. These people sound insufferable.
I'm going to use this space to complain that there's still not a way to delete single messages on Android instead of the whole thread. This is possible on the web, and I've been asking Gmail for this simple function for years, yet they continue to avoid adding it in.
Yes, exactly. I do wonder whether a similarly good end-to-end system could be trained by constraining the alignments as I've seen done in some papers.
Because it costs a lot of money to to move, and poor people (service employees) don’t have that money.
Moneyball for college grads?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball
But the yield is increasing rapidly, and there is far less energy use, fertilizer which pollutes streams and the ocean, pesticides, and tillage which causes soil loss and releases co2 into the atmosphere.

I don't think there is any doubt this is the direction we need to go. Unless, of course, you are interested in maximizing the profits of certain corporations.
What about a simple add on that convert Google doc template with customer data in to attachable document ?
Probably just because it is the default when setting up the blog.
Maybe improv was just ahead of it’s time. It wouldn’t be the first time we see a product fail only to have a similar one years later become a success. I bet there are more people using excel for complex stuff now, they might as well find a niche.
Correct.

https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/historica...

The 1980s may have been a time when some borrowers had easier time getting credit at all, but it wasn't a time of “cheap cash”.
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>Less ambitious when you consider that it took millennia with a far smaller number of people who had less knowledge about genetics and breeding, were capable of farming far fewer plants per year, and did not employ a systematic experimentation program to develop their crops.

When Jackson started out, no one had decoded a genome.
The FBI still has a pretty extensive toolset when they need it. No amount of encryption is going to save you from a listening device planted in the area of your super secret phone calls.
I never gave my high school transcripts to my Google recruiter. I worked there for four years as an SRE (2010-2014), without having graduated college.

I'll admit I was an outlier - Most people around me had fantastic college resumes (And I was very lucky to have them to learn from to shore up places where I had weaknesses). There may also have been a different hiring track and bar for SREs. I didn't find it a problem then - But, given the known fickleness of HR (At my office, our best recruiter was forced out because she spent too much time hanging out with engineers outside after-hours) and the way Google has gone downhill since then, I'd not be surprised if this was now the case
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I feel way better at a stand up desk than a sit at desk. I think I’m pretty tech conservative and don’t drink soylent.
Ask HN: Researchers/academics, how do you deal with brain-information-overload?
I'm wondering how you manage thinking about many different not-well-formed ideas in your research process.

I find the academic research lifestyle highly variable: at times too dense with ideas and things to do, at other times less so. During the dense times I sometimes have trouble lingering on the few high-value ideas with increasing returns to time-spent-thinking-about-them.
Just buy your own domain and run Gmail on it. Super easy to do, and if Google dicks with me too much I can move my mail somewhere else in minutes without changing my address
Hey, at least you got a response. I got no return mail, not even a rejection letter. 3 tracked mails sent, 3 money orders totaling $120 (a princely sum for 1987), and no return mail. It was like a torture session picking up the mail at the box everyday (I had a break between high school classes, so I was the mailbox keyholder). Luckily, I also applied at the state school and got a pretty good package. Would have been better if my high school had filled out the paperwork on time. Makes me wish I didn't spend so many months studying the SAT & ACT because I was worried that we didn't have the classes that would cover the material at my high school.

Oh well, the local community college classes were only like $15 per credit hour for high school seniors (paid by the high school), so I started college as a sophomore. Gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
It doesn't seem shortsighted to me to recruit only from top schools, because companies that hire graduates of Stanford or MIT or wherever can and do hire people after they've been in the workforce for a few years to prove themselves. I went to SUNY Albany and didn't even manage a 3.0 GPA, (missed it by _that_ much) and after a few years of working for a local company got contacted by recruiters from both Google and Amazon. They quickly realized I wasn't the sort of person they wanted, but there was no artificial barrier if I had been a genius who was tragically unable to attend a world-renowned school.