skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traffic happens when distances are increased. Someone sees a slight slow down and they then slow down and give 20 seconds of space (I have seen cars and trucks give 200+ feet of distance for some odd reason. Then the flow is cut down to 10 cars a minute instead of 120.
I don't know how far out it would be but with the changes to their keyboard and the addition of their touchbar I wonder if their long term plan is a touch screen in the bottom half to replace the keyboard and pad. Without some kind of tactile interface I hope I'm wrong about my suspicions.
We had a dropbox, but that was only used by me. Mostly we just sent out emails to each other in a giant list. Sorry! >o
Thats not really true though. The vast majority of t-tests are done using a sample average as a test statistic, and by the CLT, as the sample size goes up, the distribution of a sample average becomes approximately normal. So unless you have a really weak sample size, the t-test assumption holds even in the absence of normally distributed data.
> I can't even count how many times I have seen a tractor-trailer in the left lane at 70 mph passing a tractor-trailer in the right lane at 69 mph, as passenger cars stack up behind them. It creates a dangerous situation that I can only avoid by slowing down or exiting the roadway.

Presuming the max speed was 70mph, your post epitomizes the real danger. Traffic should not stack up behind vehicles traveling at the maximum allowed speed. Or at least, it should not stack up in a dangerous way. Twenty vehicles stacked up at proper following distances, all traveling 70mph, is actually optimal. Yet you seem to disparage it. You will never achieve optimal traffic flow if the general attitude toward actual optimal patterns is disdain.

If the max speed limit was above 70mph, ignore the preceding paragraph.
Privacy Battle Brewing: Are LinkNYC Kiosks Surveillance Devices?
Can someone explain how is it possible to steal Bitcoin if every transaction is recorded in a public ledger? Does not every bitcoin have its own signature which allows you to track its movement? New to this.
If you have to do this again at any point, you will likely find more success if you attack the accuracy of the speed measuring equipment, and specifically any traceable calibration of that equipment. Calling into question the accuracy of the GPS location fix in the photo did not directly say anything about the speed measuring device. This is because the speed measurement device was very likely not the GPS locator unit that stamped the photo. The speed measuring device was likely an independent radar or laser unit. The prosecution should bring with them proof that the unit had been field tested that day to verify correct functioning andd field accuracy, and as well should bring the calibration evidence showing professional calibration of the speed measurement device. But unless you question the speed measurement device itself, they have no reason to say much about the calibration status of the device. And since most defendants argue simply "I wasn't speeding" the prosecutors sometimes get lazy and leave the calibration documentation behind. If you question the calibration and they don't have the requisite evidence, then you've got something you can use to convince the judge to rule in your favor.
Maybe it's a mix of both. I think it's a huge stretch to say the author or this book is weighing in on nature vs nurture and genetics vs practice debates though.
Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet
We aggregate our data from multiple existing sources. I'm going to add a Data section to our site explaining this in more detail.
I wish this article got into:

1. how to find the hiring manager for a role (take a wild stab on LinkedIn)?

2. after that, reach out to them directly on LinkedIn and reference the job listing? Attempt to guess their email format and cold email?
Interestingly, someone mentioned on twitter the same thing happening to them on ubuntu With slack. Would this be an issue with slack interjecting itself for key strokes?
Those who can't pay don't get their care for free. They'll be hounded by debt collectors the rest of their life, whatever credit they had will be trashed, and some will be pushed into bankruptcy. We are all paying for it.
This. We still can't overload foo(List<Integer> x) and foo(List<String> x) because vintage 2004 JVMs wouldn't be able to distinguish them. Type erasure was a horrible compromise from which Java will probably never completely recover.
> Here’s what I care about: ...

> I don’t care about your hobbies, your family, or your GPA.

Do you advertise this to prospective candidates, or do you expect them to read your mind and read every other employer's mind?
Empirical Evidence from a Prominent Russian Cybercrime Market
Wasn't there stories recently about how just nine people had 50% of the world's wealth?

Edit: Nevermind, it was eight people.
Chicago's freeways have two speeds, 35 and 80, and they switch between the two in 100 yards or less..
so, they're actually just removing the option for websites that use still use a /#! url structure to send a pre-rendered copy of the page.

not quite the same thing as abandoning ajax crawling.
We pay a far lesser portion of our GDP in Europe for health care and we have a longer life expectancy, higher chance of survival for the majority of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

It’s not that hard to understand; you try to control market forces when you’re talking about inelastic demand because that kind of demand is an opportunity for serious abuse. Isn’t that the reason the US has its war on drugs? Yet it can’t see this more expensive and deadlier problem?
Why don't we just hire more judges?
Based solely on the pictures in the article, I just bought a copy of this book. It will arrive Monday. If I like it, I plan to buy at least two more as gifts.

I've been looking for a book like this since I had my first kid three years ago!
0... the best side business is the one without clients...
I'm in the exact same boat, except wife+daughter instead of gf+dog! I'm pretty stressed and anxious, particularly with a soon to be vacant home layered on top, beginning right in the thick of a Maine winter.

I'm just putting my head down and trying to take one step at a time, knowing that I'll be pretty excited once we're settled in SF. I've done a corporate move once before, albeit just up the coast, but I can tell you that it will start to feel better as you lay out a plan. Figure out the big stuff - for me, I have a 3rd car to get rid of, a contractor has me by the balls on snow removal/lawn service, and we need to figure out what's coming with us and what's staying here - meaning we have to figure out if the place will be vacant/a vacation home, rented (vacant or furnished), or sold at some point. For me, I'm trying to get our heads around those big pieces, and once they're settled the rest will seem pretty doable. Oh, and finding a place to live. We gotta do that too. Knowing my new address will really help settle things.

No way around the stress, but every once in a while, think about the opportunity and why you chose the new city. Moving always sucks, but there's usually a good reason we decided to do it.
The number of people who mined for it without using fiat currencies to buy the hardware and energy is, I submit, such an astronomically small value I'd demand you prove to me it exists at all. They might exist, but I suspect their stories are singular.

> Still others exchanged goods and services for it.

I'm not sure what your point is here. It's not difficult to imagine existing state currencies influence these processes. I've also pointed out it's not a very good argument for either side of the libertarian fence.

But hey, let's focus on minutiae as opposed to the larger ethical and social questions surrounding bitcoin and derivatives. That seems like a rad use of time.
Papers are wonderful.

Posters are wonderful.

Papers aren't Posters.
For costs: medical service + profit + profit accounting overhead + cost shifting overhead > medical services

There was a period in time where there were very high losses in emergency rooms because there are legal obligations for conferring care in that setting. Many emergency rooms were getting closed down and that's also a big problem for communities. So it's in a way understandable (not necessarily excusable), because some of this I would infer is cost shifting to meet those obligations. Maybe it's shifted to too much profit now.

Both sides of the problem, IMHO come from completely disconnected cost/profit transaction loops in America's healthcare. It's one big reason why single payer systems cost so much less. There is a much more straightforward relation between costs, care, and budgets in those systems so you can actually manage the direct problems instead of managing multiple red-tape layers each trying to competitively maximize, minimize different areas.
There's a "postal" field in the API output containing the postal code.
How long did the experiment last for? Were they able to replicate the results in the same monkeys at a later date, or was this only for a month or so?
I understand your point, but i'm not sure it applies to bitcoin anymore... it has become a trading currency, a weird sort of stock, it's not a buying currency, so I don't think your argument fully applies. At the most it applies as a storage of wealth, but not as a purchasing power, because it's completely impractical to buy actual stuff with due to transaction cost.
When a handful of people control 40% of your market: it’s not decentralized.

When you consume more energy than your house does over 1 week to make a single transaction: it’s not efficient.

When it takes hours or days to settle: it’s not fast.

So what is bitcoin, anyway? From what I can tell a way for people to get rich.
Gasoline is an inelastic good but its price is relatively low and affordable because of the abundance of suppliers. In the US, local monopolies provide health care.
>> I personally don’t understand how anyone who thinks the government is awesome

This is where I think some libertarians wander off from what those largely in favour of state actually think.

I think a lot of people would agree there's a lot wrong with government, but most would also rather have one. They just want one that's run better.

Your libertarianism seems quite pragmatic and I personally sympathise with the ideas behind libertarianism - lack of coercion, lack of people making arbitrary moral decisions (like drug laws) and imposing them on society.

However I also like public services, welfare safety nets (BI is indeed interesting) and various other things that only come with state-level cooperation.
Fair. In my opinion generics are good alternative to macros or templates, because they are much more constrained.
> Branching lines of thought are very difficult for most people.

I haven't watched it, so this question might not be relevant - but how do you explain the popularity of shows like "Game of Thrones"?

From what I gather, it has several various plot lines woven over and around multiple episodes and seasons.

People also don't seem to have any problems deciphering the various "plot lines" within their own circles of family and friends (in my experience with people who seem to have waaaay too much drama in their lives).

Is there something about "video" that makes it easier to parse in this fashion than text? Does emotional attachment to characters in such dramas (or personal involvement) make it easier to understand intertwined plot lines?

Just musing on things here...hmm.
IMO every Data Scientist needs to be able to quickly identify a win and deliver quick value, even in a longer term ML project. Iterate and get something out. Most people in large businesses cannot do any data ETL or build a dashboard, so if you can do that in the first few weeks of a project you've already got a deliverable/win.

Having some expertise with BI applications (e.g. Tableau) has been a major strength for showing value.
Intel's drivers are open source and they support wayland. Unfortunately, their GPUs aren't very powerful so it's a poor fit for ML.
I have an OG MBP with the same problem. It's seems to have improved, but I still occasionally get kernel panics (?) when I resume with multiple monitors connected.
... because it provides a convenient metaphor for your family and shits sufficiently onto the Ethereum ecosystem to force people to consider modifying it so that it's usable?
The trouble though is that UT-Dallas is still not a spectacular school, so the talent does not rank among the best. It's serviceable for what TI needs, but not the best. And few people will relocate to Dallas just to go UT-Dallas. TI may have gotten by with that level of talent in the past, but if you're a company that is pushing the boundaries, that level of talent may not be sufficient.

If you locate near an already great university in an already attractive city (e.g. UT-Austin), you can tap into a talent magnet that already draws people from around the world. Remember, the talent pool is now global and tech companies that aim from anything short of that would be depriving themselves.

Talent pool size is a real problem. To cite an example: for years, many French-speaking universities in Montreal had a hard time drawing global talent due to the language of instruction; on that basis alone they were less competitive than English-speaking universities in the same city (e.g. global English-speaking universities like McGill draw a from a larger and much more competitive pool of students from around the world) simply because their pool of students are constrained to French speakers. Just as an example: most Asian students will probably not bother to learn French, but many are already learning English in grade school. This means French-only universities lose out on the two biggest pools of engineering graduate students: those from India and those from China. To make things worse, French students from France rarely want to study in Quebec because most of them believe their own grande-ecoles to be better (there is also an element of French snobbery involved when it comes to Quebec).

Anyway, my sense is by setting up shop in a city that already draws global talent, the premium you pay in salaries over the long run is going to be far less than setting up your own university (considering how expensive it is to run a really good university). The payoff is much greater. University reputations are expensive and slow to build, and as can be seen in the UT-Dallas case, one is uncertain to succeed even with sizable investments.

p.s. of course, this argument breaks down if your company does not require a very high level talent.
take my money
Annotated digest of the top HN posts for the first week of December, 2017
dear God I hope not.

I wouldn't mind if they made the touch pad into a screen. Probably not that useful, but it wouldn't bother me.
> However, storage is so cheap that you should never NOT collect data if you can.

Unless it involves customers and clients, in which case it's actually a sneaky liability... At least in terms of PR, if not legality.
If you believe that Järlström misrepresented himself then, like the State of Oregon, show us the quote where he did so.
The real question is... how many hashes can it get for ETH mining?
I've seen a handful of those, and I love them. Not necessarily for me, but for the people that look at the resume before me (HR, Head hunters, etc).
If you are interested in the various failures of the American health care system, I recommend reading Catastrophic Care by David Goldhill. It's a bit depressing, but eye-opening.
>obvious solution is to do useful work rather than throwing away work on crypto

Keep in mind that the parent stated multiple conditions in the problem and your "obvious solution" only addresses the "too many resources" component.

Doing "useful work" is obviously better but still doesn't address the "fair say in decentralization".

>I'm trying to design a system where something like 95% of the work goes to useful computation, [...] It's a hard problem.

And to make it an even harder problem, also try to design a cryptocurrency system where Bill Gates' billions to buy supercomputer hardware has no advantage over a typical homeowner with a cheap computer. Maintaining _economic_ decentralization is very hard. I'm not aware of any decentralized protocol that has solved it. Heck, most whitepapers about decentralized protocols don't even explicitly discuss it.
Having studied how humans learn, both are important factors. Genetics determines the upper limit, and teaching and practice determines if you reach that limit.

But when it comes to teaching, it is important to teach both how to learn, as well as basic concepts to build upon. By teaching the child these words and concepts, they can then expand from there. They can get curious then use their training on "how to learn" to learn more about the topics presented.

To successfully teach a child, you have to do both.
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This is kind of an important detail
I eagerly await the article in a year explaining how all that is old hat and explaining the new, new way, based on last month's Javascript trends.
Yep, it is appalling that these laws are still on the books in so many states. For those who live in CON states you should expect your healthcare bills to be about 10% higher with no increase in quality of care due to monopoly pricing. The FTC goes into further detail here about the history and reasoning behind why the laws exist and why they should be repealed here[0]

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...
While I disagree with parent comment I think it was meant to draw a comparison between GNUnet and IPv6. As in "we can't get people to adopt IPv6 despite it's being backed by just about every large tech company, how is GNU going to get people to switch to this?".

At least that's how I read it. But as another poster pointed out I don't believe it's GNU's intention to get the whole world to switch, just make it available and if people can and want to use it they will. And then hopefully those people make it easier and easier for others to use it.
All life insurance is in a sense third-party?
Google has done a ton on work extracting chunks of the OS and moving it into OTA updatable components. Google has also done tons of work on making the core OS easier for OEMs to update.
I prefer "2006 – 2009", but with a thin space.
Not obligated, no, but certainly the polite thing to do. Problem is in Seattle, what was a polite thing to do is now considered an obligation. “No matter how slow I’m going, you have to let me in” has been local culture for the seventeen years I’ve lived here, wrong as it might be. Which means when they’re creeping down the exit ramp, if they end up beside you they won’t even look when they move over. No, I am not exaggerating, they will blindly merge right into you if you don’t watch it.

So, no, one is not obligated to yield, but at some point you’ll do it anyway if you value your passenger side door panels.
If this is allowed to happen then who in their right mind would ever again underwrite a CDS for a companies debt if some other company can so easily force a default event.

Would this be terrible?
It sounds like Producthunt + Kickstarter could have possibly helped a lot here.

Incidentally, this post may prove to be another great channel - imagine this wasn't a post-mortem, but a pre-Kickstarter update on the process & journey of working on the book...of course, making the HN front page these days requires quite a bit of luck.
> 80% interview rate.

What does this mean? 80% interview pass? 80% successful hires as manager/interviewer?
Yak shaving must be SV slang or something because I've been doing this nearly two decades and I literally never heard that term before... and the rhyme/picture was not helpful in teaching me what yak shaving is.

However, when I Googled the term I understood it.

A reader may learn a few software terms but I don't think this book would teach anyone, child or adult, a fundamental understanding of programming; which is what I would look for in a children's book. It also significantly narrows your market to only people who already know how to program.
Understanding Blockchain Fundamentals, Part 1: Byzantine Fault Tolerance
I like this idea. I also know there are investment funds out there who want to purchase options + share in the upside from employees, so I'm curious if you guys could work with them?

Also, the questionnaire feels more heavy than it actually is.
if one viral application can break the ecosystem, then it probably needs to evolve
Thanks to FAUCET, Poseidon Now Supports Switches Running OpenFlow 1.3
Did anyone else feel that this post was very difficult to read? I'm not being insensitive. I haven't really understood what the author was saying in this post.

All I got was that some colleague (or her husband was it?) was feeling bad for the author. After that it was a lot of words & sentences, broken up into paragraphs. Couldn't get anything more than that.
> Yeah, I really dislike that the title sounds like it's a fact.

I do wonder how much people try to manipulate perception with media to serve their trading interests... fake news is so easy these days. Just look at what happened yesterday: a bunch of online news outlets output a bunch of speculation about the new 15,000 high, over the next 12 hours it created a sort of bubble going up to ~17,000 that popped and re-established it's original price point at ~15,000.

It's possible the opposite is being attempted here: trying to create a short term crash bubble, so they can get ready to buy on the down, before re-establishing it's original natural market value.
They are abandoning the ajax crawling scheme. "Scheme" in this case in the sense of "documented interface," not in the sense of "we plan to do things." Easy confusion though, since the scheme didn't see much uptake that I'm aware of.
> Oh, wow - I've reported this problem along with na example exploit to Apple about 6-7 years ago

Any proofs? Perhaps you can demand a bounty payout or sue them ignoring!
The beast of Bentonville battles Amazon, the king of the e-commerce jungle
Yes, but you can't fix that. And the faster you go, the longer it takes to stop (to the power of 2). Rule of thumb I've read is 1 car length for every 10mph to be able to stop in time in case if accident up ahead.

Obviously safety gets triaged with need to get somewhere in a reasonable amount of time, but at a certain point you hit a maximum and since we can't drive in unison, there will be a rubber banding effect.
I like data too but that approach has several hazards. The most obvious is liability: if you store it, you have to be responsible for protecting against misuse.

The second, however, is more subtle but often more damaging: people often assume that the data they have is the right data or complete so the drunkard's lampost problem is easy to fall into and people might not realize it as quickly because, hey, those numbers were based on so much data it took a day to run the query! Web analytics is notorious for that — people would make statements about performance, browser support, etc. from a bunch of log files and miss that this was skewed by bot traffic, confuse their server's response time as being a reasonable proxy for the user's perceived load-time, etc.
Is there a simple way to test this? Maybe on a site hosted on Netlify anyway?
i'd like to hear about this city
If that's true, then why are you here at HN? The UI is little different than Slashdot from 20 years ago.
Sure, and you can see that it has been stolen.
This is for Dynamic Neural Nets, which do not need back propagation. The benchmarks are amazing.
Hedge funds embrace machine learning up to a point