skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. select 2,000 random Bay Area 24-34 year-olds in the field of IT.

2. divide them into A and B, a test and a control group, obviously randomly. (1,000 each.)

3. Give them the same idea. They are to prepare pitch decks for it and get funding.

4. The test group is told to fake already having made a $10 million exit. They are not allowed to exactly lie, but their job is to go out of their way to give this impression. (Literally fake this impression by any means necessary short of outright fraud or lying.)

Predicted results:

5. 0.000% (0 out of 1,000) of the control group will be funded.

6. Approximately 104% of the 1,000 in the test group will be funded, many of them before they've even left the room in which you are explaining the test protocol. (They might try out what you're explaining, via a quick email from their phone.) The reason it's more than 100% is that many of them will be funded multiple times while the test runs, i.e. for more than just the company they're seeking money for but also a second company.

7. What is remarkable is that I predict the same result if you gave the test group a really shitty idea, I mean objectively a terrible idea, and the control group an objectively ground-breaking or just awesome idea. This part is hard to prove though so better to give everyone the same idea.

What is my point?

My point is that not only does faking it work, it is the difference between 102% and 0.000% efficacy. You would never get funding for an idea that is the best idea of the 21st century, but you will get untold fortunes for pseudoscience if people think you've "made it."

I realize I am arguing from a controlled thought-experiment here but this is the state of the world, folks.
Mozilla has around 1050 employee's give or take a dozen (at the Mozilla Corp at least, Mozilla Foundation has a few as well, but is accounted for separately afaik).

Some top executives and board members are paid 1-3M according to documentation out there, sure. If you compare to other companies where they'd be in charge of as many people at a similar level, this is substantially under what they could demand.

As an employee, they pay us well with great benefits, though I could likely make 2-3x as much at another company (just like the execs). I rather like Mozilla's mission and my work though, and the work-life balance is nice.
EVs are expensive and cost cutting was the only way to make early ones viable. Even with all that cost cutting, the Leaf is a $30-35k car.
As long as the rest of people are spending money, some part of the industry will still target them. In video games, for all the games that chase the whales, there are still many games that don't. As long as there is money to be made, someone will go chasing it. While I have concerns about chasing whales, this is not one of them.
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Do you mean universally accepted as payment for goods?

The fact that it takes an hour+ for one transaction to be confirmed (i.e. behind ~6 blocks) seems like a huge UX problem for buyers/sellers. If I'm going to use bitcoin to buy a TV, I'm not going to wait around an hour for the merchant to say I'm good to go. And transaction fees are so high now that it makes no sense to use bitcoin for small transactions.

Other issues include refunds/disputes. If you receive something in the mail from a seller that is not as described, then no equivalent of a dispute/chargeback process to get your bitcoin back.
I would think its more related to royalties.. 'up and coming artists' are also cheap artists. I would am interested in subscribing to such a service for my properties.
Soundhound also recognizes songs by humming. (Shazam can't)
Damn, that's unfortunate. It has a bad side-effect of giving EVs a worse name then the deserve.
You're missing the point, yahoo needed to be default engine in Firefox to help with selling itself at a certain price tag, that's about it.
There is nothing preventing you from talking about traffic systems. There are, however, laws preventing you from claiming to be an engineer with expertise in the subject in a public forum.
When I go on a trip funded by my company, I make sure I spend the allowance in full. I travel business class and spend lavishly. Yes, lots of middle class might be in category of these whales occasionally.
It needs a max-width somewhere. This website was not designed for 25' screens.
This misses my point. My point is that while I am a "doctor" I am not a physician, and that even though I use the title in other places it's prudent to be very careful about it in a medical setting because it could be misconstrued. Perhaps it would be prudent to demonstrate similar care when addressing the government organization that cares very much about licensing engineers while one is using the industrial exemption.
They essentially hold for math, which is a pretty big deal.
Remember that AlphaZero played 44 million games of chess, whereas your average professional chess player has played somewhere on the order of 10,000-100,000. Self-play works, but rather slowly.
Radio stations use this kind of technology to keep track of the amount commercial content is played which gives then gives them a indication on royalties they need to pay.
> If I imagine police wanting to replace a team of people surveilling some person or people or place with a camera, I don't notice any outrage.

Here you are talking about "warranted" surveillance.

Traffic cameras are warrantless.
Was it "The Algorithm"? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDS9gmdHtB8)
I really like "Pointers" from this album.
No my ideal system would allow more people to create things that are massively successful.
Apparently it is a bug. It works for search engines shipped with Firefox (such as DuckSuckGo) but not for others (such as StartPage of Qwant). See https://twitter.com/gchampeau/status/938757076213518336
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I think your comment about computer vision illustrates what's wrong with this industry. If you were able to do computer vision 5 years ago you should be able to get up to speed now. This attitude doesn't allow most of to build a decent resume but instead we have to chase the latest tech all the time and none of our experience counts. For example I would prefer someone who worked on a big complex web site ten years ago with the tools available then over someone who has done a simple web site with the latest React version.
I just thought about quite an ironic situation. A new-hire at Apple starts their first day in a software dev position for desktop applications. They're very excited to be creating consumer Apple products. The new-hire is introduced to their team.

New-hire: What are we working on?

Supervisor: iTunes for Windows.
I'm having the same thoughts.
> The asset that is not stable is the fiat currency because it's being depreciated all the time.

Checking accounts (M1) have grown by (only) 8%/year over the past 2 years.

Savings accounts (M2) have grown by (only) 6%/year over the past 2 years.

Physical cash in circulation has grown by (only) 5%/year over the past 2 years.

Even if we value bitcoin today only by it's future 0% emission rate starting at around the year 2036, bitcoin shouldn't have been rising more than 7 or 8% per year relative to the US Dollar. Anymore is unlikely to be sustainable. Am I missing anything?

Citation: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/default.h...
I use it to store database passwords and AWS API keys on EC2 instances that are running web servers. When combined with a dead simple key distribution client/server setup, you can sleep a bit better knowing that even if someone managed to copy the entire hard drive, they wouldn't get your keys. Of course, if they get root on the box in operation it's all over, but anything short of that should be survivable. It beats the hell out of writing them all in the clear to "config.php" and checking that in with the rest of your site source.

I've also used similar code to manage an encrypted file store for a small business - since each file gets its own locks (essentially a cryptographic ACL) and each attached key is publicly identified, it's easy to see who can read (or change) any given file. Being able to remove lockboxes without decrypting the data means that a sysadmin can strip access from someone who leaves the company without needing an all-powerful "root" key.
Half of the message is made of your pre-conceptions.
a small correction: artificial neural networks (ANNs) are being abstracted away not AI. Currently there is no common language yet to describe AI.
Other than AppMakr that's listed in the article, I believe there are many other 'app making' companies that are affected. One of our active app store apps was built using Appery.io but we haven't received a notification like the one shown in the article.
It appears that what you wish for is already a feature on iOS, Android, and Windows:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/identify-song-cortana-windows-1...

Side note: WinPhones had music recognition integrated since 2014 at least, but nobody seemed to notice or care.
I too have a degree in both Math and Economics. I started a medical clinic with the goal of reducing the cost of healthcare in the US by 50%. Our patients' out of pocket expenses for primary care are less than a typical cell phone bill on a per month basis. All of our prices are transparent and available up front. I know a bit about reducing costs.

However, I will not fall back on my credentials since I prefer evidence instead of grandstanding.

Here are a few links that I think could help change your mind.

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/mercatus-mitchell-con-...
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/cochrane_on_hea.htm...
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/10/michael_munger_4.ht...

I've excerpted the following quote from the first link as I think it summarizes my viewpoint quite well.

"A review of 19 peer-reviewed academic studies finds that CON laws have worked largely as economic theory predicts and that they have failed to achieve their stated goal of cost
reduction. The overwhelming weight of evidence suggests that CON laws are associated with both higher per unit costs and higher total expenditures. The evidence is mixed on whether CON laws have increased the efficiency of particular hospitals by channeling more patients through fewer facilities, and there is no evidence that CON decreased overall investment as its proponents had hoped. The weight of evidence suggests that CON regulations persist because they protect politically potent special interests from competition"
> It's also nice to be able to show other groups: Yes, you can be a "do good" company, and make a good living.

...so long as a "don't be evil" mega-corp continues paying for it
You're missing the forest for the trees. We provide huge rewards to a small number of people but why? Yes, consumers don't like them as much but if that means some people starve and others make billions maybe that's a problem with our socioeconomic system?
I am gonna have an aneurysm. It relies on CUDA, yet you can't get a recent Apple machine with a proper desktop Nvidia GPU. No, I don't want an external GPU box. What the heck are they running this on internally?

Actually, don't tell me. Just sell me one.
Ya I looked into them a bit and couldn't really be bothered. I also don't have a windows computer or any modern consoles so I'm stuck on the Java one either way. The whole thing just seems like a sneaky way to make more money off of it ans have tighter control over the community.
I assume you will advertise on your website?
Looking at Vitamin D on Labdoor:

>6 of the 19 products in this report exceeded their label claims by greater than 40%.

>All 19 vitamin D supplements met or exceeded their claimed vitamin D3 content, ranging from +0 to +900.0 IU versus their stated label claims.

>The average label variance in this testing batch was 22%.

Wow.

Let's look at melatonin:

>Only half of the products tested (15 of 30) measured melatonin levels within 10% of their label claims. 7 products deviated from their claims for melatonin by at least 25%. 3 of those products recorded 40% or more melatonin than their label claims, and 1 product had less than 1% of its label claim for melatonin.

Vitamin B12:

>Overall, vitamin B12 measurements in this batch analysis ranged from 515 mcg to 6990 mcg per serving, deviating from label claims by an average of 27%. 3 products also recorded vitamin B6 and/or vitamin B9. 9 of the 13 products recorded more vitamin B12 than claimed, with one product recording as much as 74% of its label claim for vitamin B12. All products passed heavy metal screenings, and recorded vitamin B12 levels considered to be safe by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)1.
https://gist.github.com/ksenzee/276d60f3e251b1dfafaf52ed8dbd..., which is based on mixins at https://medium.com/@gisugosu/css-grid-layout-spec-2-to-spec-.... The @gisugosu article lets you use named areas, which my gist doesn't support; my gist lets you use autoflow, which the mixins in the article don't support. If you're using both methods, you'll need a combination of the two.
What, then, exactly is the difference between your scenario and Coinbase being the bank?
>This is pretty unlikely given that lithium is recoverable

This is a bit of an aside, but I think it's interesting that oil is recoverable from plastics via pyrolisis.
If you want to know whether an IP is from a VPN, Tor or a compromised server you can do that for free using the Shodan API (https://developer.shodan.io).

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Shodan and identifying the type of connection is something we're often used for.
Google is moving stuff from the Microsoft controlled desktop to the browser.
Indonesia -- 47%
Thailand -- 39%
Brazil -- 36%
Turkey -- 36%
UAE -- 36%
Viet Nam -- 35%
Saudi Arabia -- 34%
India -- 32%
Malaysia -- 32%
...
UK -- 14%
US -- 14%

https://wi-images.condecdn.net/image/3K6WrWwGrKN/crop/810
Faking it is fine when you are working for people who are also faking it competing in an industry of fakers making a product for people who want to fake it. Just make your fake more real than others fake.
$400k/year? is that for Principal Engineers and Directors? What would a senior eng make there?
The first generation battery was 24.0kWh, the 30.0 came a few years later as an option. The original range was 73 miles, then 105 miles, to now 150 miles.

The OP was apparently comparing 2011 figures to 2018 ones.
I would imagine streaming a song in a store is much cheaper than say putting in a TV ad. But I'm no expert.

FWIW, it was this song. Sounded amazing on the store speakers. Even today, it barely has 100k views - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdGEqbwSQ0
> without the bullshit

Save for the endless cross-posting. Out of control trolls. and the FTDSOJ thread.
I am sure the 'underground songs' also cost a small fraction of the price of licensing mainstream songs.
Apparently. Hadn’t heard about that. R.I.P.
My point is Golang doesn't have a very safe type system.

It's better than plain JS, but if valuearb really wants to experience type saftey, they should look somewhere other than Golang. Swift, which they also brought up, would be a much better choice.
Bit silly but doesn't work in incognito mode, any way to get around it?
Money can buy a new engineering office in a more immigration-friendly country.
Bitcoin reached 19400+ and yesterday, back to 18000
https://us.teamblind.com/article/bitcoin-reached-19400-now-b...
Do you mean "Getting to YES" ?

"Getting to NO" is a book about breaking habits.
Big companies fund bands or give them exposure because if the song becomes popular its good for relevancy.

Check out Levi's as a good example in the 90's.

I know of one or two alcohol companies that fund small bands road tours in different countries as well.
The problem for me is that I've learned to avoid macros in other languages. It seems to me that when you've got a fairly complex program, you need a fairly complex mental model of what the program "is" to understand it. But if you introduce macros, or code writing code, then you have a much more complex mental model since now even what the code "is" can change. What is it about lisp that makes this an easier sell?
I'm curious if you see this as a good thing, bad thing, or a bit of both? I did lots of enterprise programming in 1999 to ~2004 and had to struggle with stupid stuff like creating wire protocols or FTP modules. Working in tech is so much fun now as I can do the actual work without worrying about foundational stuff. And for those who like to do foundational stuff, they can work for one of the vendors who create the foundational stuff.

In the 1990s in college, it was worse, I had to sometimes write some data structures, etc because there wasnt a good standard utilities package.

I'm pretty tired with all the grunt work I need to do these days as a machine learning practitioner. I'd love some abstraction or at least automation of the rote work. Keras is great at some of this, but i'd love a lot more of it.

I'm VERY INTERESTED in hearing everyone's ideas on this, this is a big pain point for me, to the extent that i'm trying to actually build a solution around it.
Is it as good as Shazam at finding songs? I remember trying it early and not being impressed, but it was very brief so my sample size was too small.
It's not Wall Street's fault or whatever boogie man's fault that the Bitcoin tech doesn't actually work as some idealistic libertarian creator imagined it would; the fault is in Bitcoin's design itself. Even if the price wasn't fluctuating like crazy it simply doesn't work well as a currency due to technical limitations (eg, the time and cost it takes to process a transaction in the real world has always been impractical), but it shows promise as something that holds value (like gold).

The Outline creates articles with pureed facts written in a carefully standardized "no-nonsense", language-as-spoken-today linguistic style for mass consumption that are often deceptive, political or just technically wrong. Don't trust it.
Disclaimer: I may be completely wrong, but I don't think OP is saying that while writing normal ObjC that you need to write the message passing in assembly. Instead, that you could recreate ObjC in regular C but you would have to use assembly to construct the message passing portion of the language.
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That is a good analogy, if you choose to you can use a bank (or Coinbase) but you also have the option of doing everything in cash or managing your own Bitcoin wallet. Prior to cryptocurrency if you wanted to quickly send money around the world without going through a bank or other financial institutions you were out of luck.
Yes, some of the platforms abstract away ANNs, I especially like how Keras does this. However, the pipeline and lifecycle (where one often spends 90% of the work) isnt abstracted away. Thoughts? What would you want to black box, what would you want to automate, what would you leave openly exposed?
Coinbase can't print money.
I think an academic would be scientific in a data science role. You don't have to invent a new algorithm or tool.. just take the right approach.
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I am most certainly not trolling, I was merely pointing out that the parent's characterization that "its maddening that all 3 lanes seem to travel within 3-5 mph of each other, usually right at the speed limit" sounds to me a lot better than 3 lanes with large speed differentials between them.

I don't understand the desire for people to want to exceed the speed limit, even if as you maintain, they are capable drivers in suitable conditions with a suitable vehicle. The speed limit should just not be exceeded, except when needed to expedite an overtake. Whether you believe you are capable of safely driving 85 is irrelevant if the speed limit is 65.

> forcing people to go slow or worse to pass you on the right is causing a much larger safety issue

You are pinning an argument that I never made. I was never defending left-lane bandits. If someone is driving 10 under in the left lane, yes that's bad they should stop that. But if all 3 lanes are moving steadily at the speed limit, you have no right to insist that people move to accomodate your desire to exceed the limit.

You are bringing up Germany to suggest that it's safe to have faster speed limits, but then mention that licensing requirements are much more stringent in Germany. I wish the US had such requirements, we might then have a safer culture of driving! You can't take Autobahn rules and try to make them work in the US because the level of driving ability is so poor.
Not when I can avoid it ;) My real work is HPC, but I'm looking at this from a hobby perspective.
Its interesting to think about this. During my undergraduate studies, I dual majored in Computer Science and Theater (to offset the pure science of CS). One of the first aspects of performance is obviously "learning your lines". Its seems obvious, but one of the ways actors do this is by simply verbalizing the script. Although it doesn't help with deeper understanding of the literature, it also allowed the speaker to personalize the words and understand the how and why the character was saying what they were saying.

It would be even more interesting to see this expanded. In terms of performance, the next element suggested to improve script memorization suggested to me was to read the script aloud while walking around. Does the walking around aspect build from applying environmental context (actors typically recite lines while moving) or is it engaging physical aspects of the body (learning while "exercises")?
Very excited for this - I've used GraphLab Create a few times for building recommender systems - drop-dead simple API, supports explicit & implicit data (1-5 stars of purchased/didn't purchase), and can leverage content features (product category/department, color, size, manufacturer) to help with sparse data and cold starts.
A few others have posted references. We did it as a lab in my undergrad signal processing class. Theory is simple: transform time into frequency domain and you have a fingerprint of the song. I guess the value is in the execution, a la Shazam.
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One note about RoR: it's very opinionated about using convention over configuration. It's very efficient if you generally work with it's convention. However, if you design and/or goals are regularly in conflict with those conventions, RoR might not be the best tool to use for that project.
Slightly off topic...

It is useful to pretend to be the "go to" member of the team and simulate a conversation with them. Start an email to that person asking for help, and then think about the response s/he will send, then update the email until you can't predict the response. Often, you'll find a solution on your own.
I've used Keras to mostly automate ANNs and then drop the trained models into TensorFlow Android. I wouldnt classify it as easy. However, it used to take months to do this, nowadays it takes days to do it. Still incredibly painful and mostly an undocumented black-art.
Yes, stealing focus by another application should not be permitted by the window manager / OS. Windows XP had a feature or a 3rd party plugin that would simply blink the application in the task bar if it attempted to steal focus. I also seem to remember a similar feature in Gnome 2, though it could be a false memory.
http://coding-geek.com/how-shazam-works/
Does it? I know for a fact that artists in most of Europe get fixed fees for different types of public performance (played on the radio/played at a company function/etc.). Only "royalty free" titles manage their own contracts. No TV station actually talks to some band's manager to license their song when it plays on the car radio in the background.