skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The secondary markets have Uber shares at an ~$50 billion valuation. So that speaks somewhat to what the lower valuation is going to be for the tender offer.
It doesn't,but since I learned about this person,I commented on this aspect of the story. Technical work should be judged on technical merits. Being called fake because of your appearance is unfair and so is marketing technical work using your appearance. My objection was towards unfair abuse of someones appearance whether by the subject of the story or by her accusers.
This is known as "Price Discrimination" and is perfectly fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Prolog may be a "declarative" language, but you can still write imperative programs that rely heavily on resolution order, cuts and whatnot. So the natural solution in Prolog may be slower, but that doesn't mean you can't make it faster.
Given that the MBTA is a money losing organization I'm not sure revenue maximization is necessarily the strategy that should be sought.
> but it's a difference in what is being measured, not in how it is quantifiable. Measuring them with the same units doesn't imply that they are perfect substitutes

I agree! Please read my comments carefully. I am not arguing against the usefulness or deep conceptual importance of natural units! I am critiquing the terrible explanations being given in this thread.

> Likewise with spacetime: for most purposes human non-physicists think about, they are completely non-substitutable. So practically, it works well to use a "Troy" sort of system for one. But it's a purely human distinction.

No! Space and time are not interchangeable in any universal sense even if they are universally linked by a symmetry. A space-like interval and a time-like interval cannot be interchanged with each other by a Lorentz transformation. The distinction between space-like and time-like intervals is observer independent.
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There’s the related “interviewer is fundamentally wrong and unable to see it”:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ilh7o/wh...

He didn’t even understand the question “what would you have to see to convince you that you’re wrong?” meaning he wouldn’t even be able to recover from the error!
I'm not entirely sure I get your argument.

The MBTA faces a bunch of horrible infrastructure limitations:

1. Only two rails for all subway lines, so a lot of the maintenance requires downtime.

2. The green line is on horribly dated signaling mechanisms, and also has to deal with traffic at various points.

3. The commuter rail has terrible stations, often requiring a very long time boarding, and single tracks at many points.

Alot of that would make your operational complaints better. Sure, there are problems with the MBTA, but likely the solution isn't to avoid fixing anything.
Thank you, that seems like a good analysis of the article. It does, indeed, sound absurd.
The local stores are setting prices in comparison to other stores in the area. The online store is setting them versus other online retailers.

If a competing store in the area has a sale on an item, target (for ex) will mark it down too.

But that has nothing to do with the online website... the website doesn't care what the local price is.
Once upon a time movies were too big to download, and now look.
A big 48 MWh Tesla Powerpack system will power the island of Nantucket
I'd say my argument is that rail based transport is inherently flawed given the politics surrounding funding its maintenance. Using the highway is better and more politically digestible, IMO.

1. Buses would encourage better maintenance of roads -- roads that are used by regular people. Other people like that.

2. Buses can go anywhere cars can. They can be swapped out in a more modular fashion, and are more resilient to delays as rerouting can happen instantly.

3. Buses, finally, can be scaled more easily. A single small town in the South or North Shore that wants public transportation? They now have access with a single double decker, high speed bus.
Reverse sunken cost fallacy? It doesn't matter what you paid for the BTC, it only matters what they are worth the moment you buy the pizza.
I'd certainly like to be better at it and I do try but those first minutes a stranger while you are searching for a common topic can be gruelling. I'd rather be introduced by friends who say "you both like X" and go from there.
The "Reply All" podcast had a fantastic episode on this. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/ (Click the "show transcript" link to see the transcript.)

One thing they realized is that it was impossible to convince anybody that Facebook doesn't listen in on microphone conversations, even given all of the facts.

One of the co-hosts, Alex, gets on the phone with five people to try to convince each of them that Facebook doesn't use the microphone. He's unable to convince even one of them.
Many people want to be near other people, restaurants, stores, etc. If I could live anywhere I want, I wouldn't live in cramped, overpriced housing clustered around major employers, but I wouldn't live in the wilderness either.
They have a pretty extensive reading list, all NCOs and Officers are required to read from the list as part of the criteria for career advancement.
Interesting; this could also be a newer thing. The only time I tried and failed at two Targets was probably a couple years ago by now.
I think it’s because there’s way more context to All of the stories we’ve been exposed to. We can’t judge their opinions or thoughts when we don’t know the additional details they have that would skew or change context.
Very possibly (I'm from Greece, and Golden Dawn are Neo-Nazis). What's the difference between them and alt-right?
That seems (to me) to be a "horse before the cart" kind of approach.

First you need to find something to work on and then work on it. That's how you get experience.

You might list your skills and interests and ask if there is anyone here who has an idea you can invest in by working on it with them.
Can anyone explain why $1B is being invested at a $70B valuation, while existing share holdings are being purchased at a lower/to be determined valuation?
Not to mention whatever task you’re actually doing inside the Promise will be an order of magnitude slower than settling the Promise itself.
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SVG would actually be great if it wasn't such a feature creep. Filters, masks, scripts and animations are supported only by some renderers, often inconsistenly. This does not seem to stop SVG generators producing documents using these features, often unnecessarily.

Good SVG can even be human-readable and -editable. I've actually fixed simple broken SVGs with vim and a pocket calculator.

PostScript is great but as a binary format not very modern, where text-based formats seem preferred. I had to look up WMF and dumping calls to Microsoft API as an 'open' standards does not sound too exciting, either.
author is relying on his own limited technical knowledge on wether it can be done or not.

There are plenty of ways to do it like sampling / increase sampling when other fb friends are around or maybe they just listen randomly and in the end they’ll have a well built profile about you.

It’s not like it needs to be listening all the time or respond anytime a keyword is said.
> the larger block size does mean it has higher chance of being centralized.

That's actually false though. It really is that indisputably simple especially at the on chain throughput levels being discussed presently. The medium of exchange use case does not compromise the store of value use case, it actually is a necessary component of it. Non mining full nodes are not an essential aspect of the security model, and were never intended to be. The core client is just bad. And the only reasonable actual excuse for the limiting of on chain scaling to the level forced by bitcoin core is because it's in the business interests of blockstream.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7c0f4x/what_is_the_lon...
Even the legendary romance between T'sais and Etarr began with Etarr saying thus: "Tell me of yourself." Small talk is hugely important.
I don't think they're listening through the microphone, but I've been wondering to what extent they use your photos to determine how to market to you. For example, most of my photos on Facebook show me with either hair or a hat on; as I've gotten older I've actually developed male pattern baldness, and so one day I thought it would look best to just buzz off the rest. I had a picture taken of me and use it as my Facebook profile pic. Since then, I seem to get more and more ads in my feed for hair transplants. Maybe they classify your photos and sell that data?

If you think about it, there's a lot more guesses they can make from your photos than listening to a bunch of disjointed conversations. They really don't need to hear what you say.
The problrm is that Japanese journals are less competitive. So, second-rate researchers can continue to publish in these and "work" (i.e., look productive).

The biggest problem with Japanese universities is not funding (there is to much), but the old chaff with tenure.

Unfortunately old second-rate researchers has a lot of institutional power (and funding).
That sounds like a generic corporate slogan, not a contractual obligation
I used to order everything from them online - it was great, then I checked receipts and realized they were ripping me off.

No more orders from me.

No idea why they would do this - aren't they trying to compete with Amazon? They are only hurting themselves now.

I do still go to their stores every other month and try to stock up. Maybe that's what they want.

But they are no longer an internet company to me. And long-term I think that is foolish.

I wish Amazon grocery prices were competitive. But they like brand names too much, and I avoid those usually.
I imagine it’s literally as arbitrary/inane as you’d guess — they want to keep their official private valuation propped up.
No, their slogan was "always low prices" not lower.

Also it looks like they have/are changing their slogan, I did not read more to confirm... Just googled to confirm the slogan.
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Simplicity of implementation. GDI's drawing primitives exist in practically all other drawing APIs so translating it to Cairo, OpenGL, or Direct2D should be trivial.
You're forgetting that for brick and mortar stores which already have an efficient supply chain built for getting items to their stores it might be more expensive to get an online supply chain in place.

Physical stores still make money: especially WalMart, which tends to cater to lower income groups which may not even be shopping online. And they don't have the online volume yet to reduce the prices as much as someone like Amazon.
I did two quarters of proof-based math courses recently with pen and paper, then started using an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, and a program called notability. I think it’s better than paper! I can erase, resize easily, move things around, but it still feels like writing with pen and paper, while making it much easier to not lose all my notes :)
A few thoughts:

The Monty Hall comparison is about shifting human knowledge about an underlying system with a definite state. What, then, is the source of the uncertainty in QM in this author's view? It is not our knowledge about the "true state" of things, because of course there is no single true state.

The same could be said about any appeal to "perturbations" from the measurements we make-- in order for a "push" from our measurement instruments be the source of uncertainty, we must explain it in terms of an unknown disturbance making a precise value imprecise (otherwise, the use of "our instruments" as an explanation for "uncertainty" can't be the final tortoise upon which the world stands). Because of the impossibility of a "precise physical value" this explanation doesn't seem satisfactory to me.

It seems the article (like many interpretations) does no better than to say "don't ask" about what lies underneath those probabilities. At best it says "our knowledge is uncertain" but then stops before it says precisely what we are uncertain about.

His points about analogues with classical probability are well taken, but I don't think they suffice to explain or dismiss quantum "weirdness", though it's quite possible I missed the point he was trying to make.

In particular, the article sweeps many-worlds away too quickly, IMO. Many worlds is what we get if we assume that observers are ensembles of particles which can exist in a state of superposition, just like any other ensemble of particles in the universe. "Wavefunction collapse" is what such an observer would expect to see upon becoming entangled with another system, without any additional a priori assumptions. Fundamentally it means that, after measurement, we cannot treat the system and the environment (and the observer therein) as separate-- another way of stating the phenomenon of decoherence.

In other words, I think it is not unparsimonious to assume that "multiple universes" exist, because we already know that ensembles of particles exist in a multitude of states. We simply note that the universe, too, is an ensemble of particles and draw a straightforward conclusion from well-established facts. To me, it seems almost more ontologically bold to reject this.

It is also not unparsimonious to assume that "multiple universes" exist, even after measurement, because delayed-choice eraser demonstrates that wavefunctions can be "un-collapsed"; that is to say re-combined with the other superpositions that Copenhagen supposes "disappear" after measurement. It fact it seems to me a fairly clear refutation of (common presentations of) Copenhagen-- But perhaps the author is on my side about that one.

Either way, this article seems to be a quite thoughtful overview, and I quite agree there's a lot of confusion and woo both within and outside the field.
I think 0xBABAD00C's comment is on the money. The gif is almost a non-sequitur and does not seem to support the conclusion the article is trying to reach.

The second part of the article makes a claim that is worth discussing -- that probabilistic inference does not work well in nonlinear domains.

I think this is true in one sense, but in many practical situations we can usually to get something to work well enough for it to be useful. Assuming we can (approximately) split up the domain into multiple regions and get probability distributions for each region (with transition functions between them), we can continue to make inferences under nonlinearity. That said, this is a concession. Perhaps there are techniques in deep learning that more general in nature.
You can even plan the menu and make specific asks for each friend — you are on salad, you are on dessert, you are on beer, you are on wine, and the house provides the main. Simple. We’ve also tried catering and it is fine but it feels less intimate.
We may be kindred spirits. My dream is a cabin in the woods with nobody around. Nobody. Wish I'd realized that before I had kids :)
> You wouldn’t expect to pay the same in Mountain View as you would in Albequerque.

If this isn’t the appeal of walmart, what is?
Well, for example, the no cloning theorem has a classical analogy. I prepare a coin so that it is heads with probability p. I give you the coin. Your job is to prepare two coins so that they are independently heads with probability p. You aren't told p, you only get the coin to work with. We are going to repeat this many times, and with various values of p, and someone will test whether the coins you are producing follow the right distribution. It's obviously not possible for you to do particularly well at this task. See [1]

I'm not aware of a probability analogy for tunneling.

1: https://marozols.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/three-myths-about-...
I also want to assume good faith, but some people in education are far more skeptical. I have been in meetings where those in charge or enforcing policy said things like "officially we have to have logins for each student", when a teachers said they preferred a simpler platform with a single quiz URL and students putting in their own names to identify their submissions.

I think one of the major problems with other products, is that they come out swinging with an accusation that all students cheat. Most tools these days have unique problems per students, which can make it harder to go over an assignment, because no one did the same problems.

I know there are varying opinions for what constitutes technology for improvement of a process, vs tech for the sake of tech. I think the world needs a digital way to represent symbolic math, it's one of the last complex processes done daily by millions that is locked out of a computer. Making something digital allows you to have undo/redo, and could eventually lead to a lot of interesting productivity enhancements. Nearly no one writes large amounts of text with pen anymore, because there is just so much more flexibility with a word processor.

One of the few things that forces people back to pen and paper is if part of what they need to write involve math formulas, because the current editors that include equation editing aren't fast enough. This platform isn't currently designed for mixing text and math, but it isn't too hard to add soon.
When I was a hiring manager, people came in for interviews, some of them with many years of experience on paper, who couldn't walk a linked list.

IMHO basic screens are needed.

I also want to see how a person handles discussing problems, I like writing out an API and discussing how to use it to solve real world problems, what are the holes in it, what are the implications of the choices the API author made?
Firefox ESR has TLS support and should work on XP until next year, at least. Telling people to switch browsers to use the site isn't great, but it's certainly an easier sell than switching the OS.
Whenever China is discussed on HN, someone usually pops up with overly negative and biased comments that explain why China is doomed prefaced with "I have lived in China" like it adds extra validity.

This is like an Chinese international student coming to the US, reading about the opioid epidemic, obesity epidemic, the rust belt, black gang violence, out-of-wedlock birth rates, the world's highest incarceration rates, Hurricane Maria destroying Peruto Rico, mass shootings in Vegas, Flint water crisis, healthcare bankruptcy, the rise of alt-right Trump voters, 11M illegal immigrants, high P/E in the stock market, unsustainable pension obligations, social security crisis etc. and coming to the conclusion that the US is doomed. Obviously, the US has many problems but to only focus on the negatives but not the strengths is not an objective analysis.

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Regarding your anecdotes:

1) I a cousin who grew up in rural Shandong, who moved to Shanghai with nothing and live in one these neighborhoods "a few subway stops away" and drives an electric scooter. While the living standards is not as good as the city center or rich western cities, his apartment is small but clean with running water and functional toilets. His standard of living is not any worse than when my family first immigrated to Canada. To say 90% of Chinese people in Shanghai lives in squalor is absurd and shows how biased you are.

2) These anecdotes of some your rich friends are pretty meaningless. I'm sure you can find vain people in any western city including the bay area as well. I know rich Chinese families who "half" immigrated to Canada who still have plenty of assets and business in China and want their children to go back after graduating from a Canadian university.

3) Making bets like this has cost hedge funds billions of dollars:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/down-240-...

4) Make similar comments like this about African American achievement and you'll quickly realize how racist it is and stop. But it's suddenly okay to say the same thing about Chinese since westerners aren't socialized to understand the racism and do not feel the same amount of shame.
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What does Taleb have to say about the odds of success for someone who stays at home playing video games all day?
There's no such thing as an unbiased source, but some sources are a lot more biased than others.
I'm amazed that corporate owners would sacrifice great brands like ESPN, NFL, etc. for dubious political gains.

ESPN excelled at showing sports. When they veered into politics (especially politics that run contrary to a huge portion of their viewer base) a rapid decline was entirely predictable.

Who pays for this? (Perhaps a better idea: Who will gain from this, and when?)
The $1B that is being invested at the $70B valuation is direct from the company and Softbank will be purchasing preferred shares like any other VC. These preferred shares have extra rights, things like liquidation preference, board seats, voting rights, etc.

What specifically they will receive is unknown, but at the very least they will have a 1x liquidation preference on that $1B invested, which means if the company sells for the total amount of money raised (well below $70B), the investors get all of their money back.

So think of preferred shares like "insured" shares, which is why investors are willing to pay more, because the likelihood of entirely losing their investment is lowered significantly.

However, Uber may not want to raise more capital, take on extra dilution, etc, so they are selling only $1B that will flow to their balance sheet.

The other $9B will be purchased from common shares, or employee shares. These shares do not have these preferred rights and most significant they do not carry a liquidation preference. Which means if the company sells for the amount raised, or below that, you lose the entire $9B.

Since there is no downside protection and there is no liquid market, this is usually used to negotiate a lower price than that of preferred shares.

If there had been considerable time between when the last priced round happened and when secondary shares are purchased then the investor may have to buy them above the last round price because the company has made significant traction and the perceived value of the company is now higher.

But since the last two priced rounds are at the $70B mark and these shares are unsecured, they will usually be bought at a discount.

How much varies but you can expect a 10-30% lower price.

However, since this is sponsored by the company early employees will most likely be allowed to sell shares at a very large valuation compared to what their strike price is.
I don't think that's the case either. Its more of a "ain't broken so why fixit" problem which hasn't affected people on a personal level just yet, so it isn't regulated as much.

Its astonishing to me that in the US it requires a court order to tap someone's phone and yet the NSA collects and analyzes the online data of US citizens...
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85% of American millionaires are self-made, i.e. they did not inherit it.

"The Millionaire Next Door" by Stanley
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