skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is contact information in my profile. If this advice were genuinely being given in good faith out of some kind of concern for my welfare, it could have been done privately.

Since it wasn't, I see no reason to take any of it at all seriously. Posting it publicly like this amounts to mudslinging. Publically announcing that me being upset over people repeatedly making personal attacks against me is, in your opinion, a banworthy offense amounts to planting ideas with ill intent. That in no way looks like any kind of good faith effort to be helpful to me personally. (Their personal attacks are a violation of the rules. If you want to crab at someone, it should be them, not me.)

I will add that "my true political opinion" is an incredibly specious characterization of my remarks. There is zero political opinion expressed here. I am one person who just happens to be female by accident of birth who is trying to figure out how to make my life work. That is it. There is zero political anything to my participation here. Getting fed up once in a while by the uphill battle I face for simply being female is not some political position.
Correct, the SIM800 line are 2G only which I believe is only provided in the US by T-Mobile as you mentioned. In the UK things are a little different, where the vast majority of the core mobile network providers still supply 2G networks, but I believe some of them have published plans to decommission them within the next couple of years.

In terms of 3G, 4G and LTE modems, they’re a little harder to come by quite so readily, and are a damn sight more expensive too! You can pick up an 800L for £1-1.50, for 3G it’s close to £20-30 from what I remember.
> Why am I paying for a game if it doesn’t have dedicated servers? And I’m forming over money for the expansions ?

Becuse none of the people that work on the game want to work for free.
Everything was really strong in the past. It's just important that you can choose your strain.
Isn’t it only illegal because of the consent decree from the big lawsuits?
> firefox --profile $(mktemp -d) --new-instance

Thanks for that, I can now replace `chromium --temp-profile`.
This sounds a lot like Elite: Dangerous's netcode model, which is pretty bad for many of the same reasons.
Most important for me:

- remember nothing (clear head), write down everything (and with enough detail to really remember e.g. some decision instead of just jotting down a keyword)

I have yet to figure out how to handle too much to do though... Sure, just drop the less important stuff, but at some point something will break or someone else will depend on work I didn't do.
Even the README says you need to start a server. So it’s not quite serverless.

(“Serverless”, at least to me, means a platform where I don’t have to worry about running servers.)
The framing here is priceless.

> Jurvetson is the highest-profile venture capitalist to be forced from his job amid an industrywide evaluation of how Silicon Valley treats women.

And then later.

> The departure comes as Jurvetson was being investigated by his own firm for harassment. An entrepreneur had alleged predatory behavior was “rampant” at DFJ. The woman, Keri Kukral, did not name Jurvetson in her Facebook post.

So the "industrywide evaluation" is individual victims coming forward and reporting past abuse. That's a very charitable take that implies the industry is taking some sort of proactive action.
This happens in most PvP games though, eventually a hack is found that allows people to spam messages to win battles/races. In racing games this happens alot to slow other players or force them to disconnect. In Madden when it was on PC, it was very common for people to run something like this as they started to lose, forcing the other player to disconnect and losing reputation while they gave the victory to the player that didn't disconnect. Spam disconnections are handled better now and incentive is mostly gone from that through game design and verification (a user spamming is booted in cheat detection systems), but you have to be aware of that in PvP especially real-time battles, sports or racing type games.
That's scary.
>Why am I paying for a game if it doesn’t have dedicated servers?

More like: so $ATVI can grow 550% in 5 years.
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Warframe is just really good (except the latest expansion was rushed and had many bugs), it really has no business being F2P with how good it is.
Well it will work on a GSM/GPRS/2G network. As you noticed, certainly in the US, those are getting rarer by the minute. AT&T shut theirs down on 01.01.2017 [1], and other providers also have plans to discontinue service in the near future.

So on these networks, this module will simply not work or you are always in roaming.

[1]: https://www.business.att.com/content/other/2G-Sunset-FAQ_201...
Can you suggest how the build processes would skew it? For all 3 projects I believe the recommended build method involves a cli tool that installs each package once.
Just this week I was involved in a comment thread where people defended Wikileaks' impartiality.

This is a huge bombshell.
To be honest, this just sounds like a bunch of hand-wavey excuses as to why someone shouldn't be paid more when the value of what they're doing goes up.
As author Julia Ioffe notes on Twitter, the story has now been updated to note that @realDonaldTrump tweeted about the release of Podesta's emails 15 minutes after @Wikileaks wrote to @DonaldJTrumpJr about it. https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/930197548651999232
It's from the 2016 earnings letter. He was making a completely different argument, namely, that accounting that ignores options expense is bullshit (many companies still present this separately in their earnings reports).

The relevant section is as follows: "To say “stock-based compensation” is not an expense is even more cavalier. CEOs who go down that road are, in effect, saying to shareholders, “If you pay me a bundle in options or restricted stock, don’t worry about its effect on earnings. I’ll ‘adjust’ it away.” To explore this maneuver further, join me for a moment in a visit to a make-believe accounting laboratory whose sole mission is to juice Berkshire’s reported earnings. Imaginative technicians await us, eager to show their stuff.

Listen carefully while I tell these enablers that stock-based compensation usually comprises at least 20%
of total compensation for the top three or four executives at most large companies. Pay attention, too, as I explain that Berkshire has several hundred such executives at its subsidiaries and pays them similar amounts, but uses only cash to do so. I further confess that, lacking imagination, I have counted all of these payments to
Berkshire’s executives as an expense. My accounting minions suppress a giggle and immediately point out that 20% of what is paid these Berkshire managers is tantamount to “cash paid in lieu of stock-based compensation” and is therefore not a “true” expense. So – presto! – Berkshire, too, can have “adjusted” earnings."

Full pdf: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2016ltr.pdf

I guess the difference is that big scaled companies have revenues, and cash, whereas small companies don't. But I don't think that's so true anymore in a time when companies are doing nine-figure investment rounds. I'm not saying it's typical, but I do think this model of "bundled options+cash" has got to go.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were a disaster. But without American military protection during the Cold War, there are a lot of Europeans that'd be speaking Russian now.
It is nice to see comeuppance for those who used their position to hurt others. I'm hopeful that the past few weeks lead to a new culture where victims do not fear retribution for speaking out or going to authorities, but I fear that without a concerted effort to make that happen things will go back to normal and this will just be a blip.
> That isn't a very strong argument.

Not sure what you're referring to. The fact that there was precedent that MPs could have copied and pasted to be on the safe side and avoid the Supreme Court having to decide? It's their job to make good laws, not just to give speeches suggesting what their unwritten intentions may be.

> The leaflet, distributed to all households in the UK by the government at taxpayers' expense, also gave a very clear and unambiguous statement

Yes, but as we know, the entire point of the court case was that that statement was not the government's to give.

> The whole non-binding issue only really hit the headlines after the fact

That may well be, but it does not invalidate the legal argument behind it.

Don't take my word for it. Don't take the words of "lots of people in the UK who weren't constitutional lawyers". Take the Supreme Court's. Do you really think its ruling is "using sophistry to undermine democracy and civilised government"?

I understand that you dislike the way these debates have developed. I don't understand why you don't blame this on the MPs who had the power to prevent it.
That would never happen because the military industrial complex IS America. And that's exactly what nobody in Europe wants.

The military is a drain on the budget and every cent that goes to it is a tragic waste. Nobody in the US would ever describe the military as a "necessary evil".
For those who are paywalled out, the article refers to this paper done by a NYU professor and Uber's own economics team.

http://john-joseph-horton.com/papers/uber_price.pdf
It's easy to get lost in the hype of statistical methods and neural networks, and in doing so forget that these do not make up the field of AI as a whole. Making predictions is, in my opinion, a subset of what AI generally addresses. In AI you often want to behave intelligently in a given system; that is, you want to observe a system and not only characterize it in a computationally amenable format, but use that characterization to decide on an action. You may make "predictions" in determining this characterization but what you're really looking for is the action, or rather a policy on your problem instance.

For example, in AlphaGo, the "predictions" are some heuristic evaluation of a Go game-state. The actual desired output of the AlphaGo system is not how good a state of the game is, but how to choose the best move at a given stage of the game. This is done through Monte Carlo Tree Search, an AI algorithm separate from the choice of algorithm used to make the prediction of "goodness" of a state, which does not in itself make predictions but uses the predicted heuristic values in order to determine the best move. In fact, MCTS can be used in the absence of a learned heuristic prediction altogether if you can derive a good heuristic to evaluate a state given the problem domain.

I think a better way to consider AI is as a set of tools for solving general problems. There is of course a bit of ambiguity here in what qualifies as general and what does not. Making a prediction given some input vector or data (classification/regression/dimensionality reduction) is a pretty general problem, but so is the problem of making optimal moves in a game. There are also general problems such as how to extrapolate from ground truths to prove a theorem (automated problem solving), or how to plan actions to arrive at some final state given some initial state and a set of possible transitions (planning), which are generally considered as part of AI.

Similarly, these biofilms are solving a complex problem with many different components. The dendritic swarming is essentially a method for solving the multi-armed bandit problem. The film needs to budget food consumption when it finds new sources so that it does not colonize that food source too heavily (expending too much of the food itself) so that there is enough remaining food to give to the dendrites, so there is a notion of planning with a temporal component (e.g. the metabolic rate of the colony). And the film's ultimate goal can be considered to maximize the total food consumed by the film and its member's descendants. To me, that makes the "intelligence" capabilities of the film pretty clear
Classification and regression. Given examples, predict labels or values for new data. SVM used to be more «hot» than neural nets and are still very useful.
Most of what I'm doing isn't writing non-idiomatic code, but following different idioms. Avoid instantiating classes (including Dictionaries and Lists) with new every frame, cache data you know you'll need to use again, avoid boxing/unboxing (casting to and from the 'object' type).

I can't share any of my own code, but the sort of things that I'm doing can be exemplified by these two functions from Unity's physics API: [1][2].

The first returns a newly allocated array of the data, while the second takes, as a parameter, the array to populate and returns only the number of elements that it populated. If I know I'm going to be doing a big raycast each frame, I can instantiate the output array to a reasonable size in my class declaration not have to pay the price of the garbage created by allocating a new array every frame.

[1] https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.RaycastAll....

[2] https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.RaycastNonA...
The pictures here are amazing.
EXPLAIN driven SQL programming is my motto.
I stand corrected. Thanks Miguel for your work.
Perhaps the world would still be okay if the US spent a little bit less on defense. Once you can defend yourself, having 10x more jets won't do you any good.

But yes, European NATO members should spend a bit more. In fact, this was resolved under Bush with non-binding spending targets for 2020 (2% of GDP).

Credit where credit is due: many of the Eastern Europeans NATO members have already hit spending targets ahead of time. And if you google a bit, you see countless articles about European countries committing to increasing defense spending.
The firm itself is leading the investigation, rather than an outside individual bringing a lawsuit.

This is a much more proactive scenario than the KPCB-Pao situation several years ago.
People with kids have lower salaries and are passed for promotions. People (women mostly) expected to have kids or suspect of wanting to be with kids at least some of the time too.

Jerks affect productivity of those around, people who were bacstabbed, people who were not told information, people who were lied about, people who were smeared (including professional reputation aka calling good ideas stupid to get dominance), etc.

So yeah, if local jerk has lower salary and is refused promotion, then it is kinda fair.

Still, he himself is to be blamed for his behavior.
I have seen him being very responsive to paying customers and his charges are reasonable. However, it seems he did get deluged with delicious users whining at him after he saved that service, and you wouldn't reasonably expect a one-man business to be able to handle that.

You could always try tweeting him. He's also on HN.
Not a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chanos#Enron_collapse
Siraj Raval does a great job of explaining AI topics with fun, fresh, and easy to understand topics and examples:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A

Here's a recent video where he talks about how to create new Pokemon with Generative Adversarial Networks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network).
Nice contrast from the usual MNIST dataset, especially if you want to be inspired to think about novel ways to apply this stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz6dNf7X7SA
If you wanted to get data though it would be easy to macerate the stool to collect samples surely.
The SIM800L seems to be a Quad-band GSM module with GPRS.

So yes it's only 2G, but you've got the potential for SMS and maybe even 512kbps data. No idea about an audio channel (voice calls).

Whilst 2G is old, it's supprisingly battle tested and goes through walls quite well. A year ago we were told to expect the phasing out of 3G networks and to expect carriers to expand 4/5G with 2G as fallback.

Also, you gotta bear in mind, this module can be bought for £5. Getting a PCI-E 2/3/4G micro-pci card for my laptop is priced at closer to £200, so this is a great starting place. Expanding to a module that supports multi-networks either later or as an upgrade wouldn't be overly difficult - this is just a super cheap way of being able to test with real SMS, real networks and real recipients.
I'm not so sure about the analogy, but I get your point.

I think you're right that transparency is a big problem here. As long as others have perfect knowledge of the situation, they can factor the extra risk into their negotiations (e.g. Ask for more equity, because common shares are worth less if there are others with preferred shares).

The terminology surrounding this is quite misleading too - as you mentioned in the grandparent, having 1% of a company sold for 1M, doesn't mean you'll get 10k, which is pretty weird. Not sure what the solution is though - maybe it's just for everyone to be aware of how preferred stock works and make the cap table public.

It would also be nice if there were a standardised way for a company to say "We won't offer preferred stock for at least X years". Something like that would make me much more confident in taking equity in a company. Which, in principle, is actually what I want to do - but all these kinds of tricks essentially mean I can't (because I can't properly estimate the value of what I'm offered). Public cap tables would help, but wouldn't protect against future investment rounds with preferred shares.
> ease its strained relationship with drivers, who have long sought better work conditions and higher pay.

Who knew sitting on your butt, listening to the radio and driving your car around the city were poor work conditions. They should try working in a coal mine for a living. Man some people don't know how good they have it..
What is your reference on NQSO taxation at vesting under the current rules? AFAIK they are today taxed at exercise; ISOs, in contrast, are not necessarily taxed at exercise, but may trigger AMT.
Nick Bostrom says it's one of the worst discoveries we could make. Especially if the life is complex like animal life. That would greatly increase the probability that the great filter is ahead of us instead of behind us.
That's been built into Firefox for well over a decade:

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/22/how-to-use-dynamic-bookmar...
Jevon's Paradox [0] is probably more appropriate.

As resources become more plentiful (available performance-units, whether delivered through faster software or faster hardware), demand counter-intuitively increase, in part because the cheaper per-unit price makes people feel they can use the resource more freely.

This phenomenon describes why no matter how fast our computers get, it's unlikely that they will ever be "fast enough".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
The Strange Art of Writing App Release Notes
How does Missouri make this a fair fight?

The power of government. Missouri can definitely pay for quite a few attorneys (maybe do a tobacco litigation type deal) but the danger is that other states will join in. Having taken on Google can be quite a thing on your resume as you seek higher office...who will resist it?
Only a couple or reasons they'd deliverately do that. Most common is if the employee is outside the U.S. and not a U.S. taxpayer, making the distinction irrelevant.

Or, if you plan to early exercise immediately upon receipt, you actually are better off with an NSO (due a shorter holding period for long-term capital gains treatment and there being no spread between exercise price and fair market value at the time of exercise), so sometimes you will see that too.

Or, if you want a longer than 3 months exercise period post-termination, you'll do an NSO instead of an ISO.

But otherwise, yeah, maybe just a mistake.
No. Hangouts only works on Chrome and Safari (with a plugin). It does not work in Edge or Firefox, as we've phased out support for third-party plugins.
Going undercover to expose animal cruelty and get killer rabbit cages banned
Other than the leaked financials, I haven't seen any leaked or public information specific to the US alone that suggests that one is subsidizing more than the other. They could be subsidizing equally. Or Uber could be subsidizing more. Or Lyft could be subsidizing more.

Do you have any evidence to demonstrate that only in the US Uber is subsidizing more? If so, please share. I haven't yet heard a single convincing argument supporting this popularly held belief that Uber is subsidizing more.

All I know is that all of Uber's business is more efficient than Lyft. Plus, this is after taking into account that Uber shoulders most of the market's losses when it comes to penetrating a new market and getting laws changed to allow TNCs. Once TNCs are an established business in most markets, the legal costs should drop, shrinking G&A, thus leaving it even more capital efficient.
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I did spend some time looking over Indie Hackers yesterday. I am unclear whether anything I do at all fits there. But thank you for suggesting it. I am trying to figure out how to get taken more seriously, in spite of it being an uphill battle for various reasons.
Because of course, whoever is leaking this information is only doing it for the noblest reasons.