skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's just based on how much of a threat a group is.

I don't think this is the reason. The offending group could be arbitrarily big or small. Today's true problems (from the perspective of likelihood of affecting the civilization or the planet) and today's problems that dominant ideologies care about and feel threatened by, are two completely different things, sometimes laughably so.

I think it's entirely about signaling, and that applies to all sides. When a person or movement or another social entity claims they care about X, the real information the entity is conveying is "caring about X is now the color of our flag, raise a flag of the same color if you're one of us". The actual issue of X is largely irrelevant and can even revert if necessary (i.e. if the signal becomes too unreliable to detect potential members). At least this is what I've noticed across cultures, ideologies, languages, continents..

Edit: Incidentally, that's also why you hear complaints about double standards all the time (how come Europeans don't criticize it when... how come Feminists are silent when... how come Conservatives are nowhere to be found when...). Logical consistency is rarely a useful signal as people are not well-tuned for detecting it and have great capacity for bypassing it: by applying self-deception, compartmentalization, a host of biases, and by building narratives and simple models in their heads while ignoring all evidence to the contrary. It's difficult to think of even one group that enforces logical consistency as its signal (maybe logicians? who knows?)
The new thing that worries me about the deal is what might happen to Hulu? Now Disney owns 66% and Comcast owns 33%. Will Comcast take its content off of Hulu once the consent decree expires?
Wait back up. That statistic used median values and quartile values to describe debt, and an average to describe income. This is how people mislead you with statistics. Average income is going to be higher than median if the highest earners earn several times more than the median (which they do).
I work for a company similar to GrubHub outside the US. 'The Cloud' works great for us. Think, how many people order food at 9AM on a Monday? Therefore, we only have a very small amount of servers running. However, 7PM on a Friday... thousands.

Yes, it's still mega expensive. But allows us to scale when we need it and not have to worry about the hardware, cost, or management of it.
> But lets play along, lets say that effectively no single person at google would voluntarily let himself work with Damore. Why do you think that is? Because 99.9% disagree with his essay? Or because he became a target for scorn in the public eye that overpunished him?

I'll give you a hint: if you are a female engineer, and you are put as a report for Damore, would you ever have a lingering feeling he might be biased against you if he decided to promote your male peer instead of you?

Do you think that consists a liability for the company? Does the company own the onus of making sure Damore doesn't put them in a position where they might be sued for gender discrimination?

> He was not fired because he wrote a shabby essay. He did not get fired for writing the essay itself.

Wrong. He was fired because he publicly said "fuck it, I don't believe that women are equal and you have to suck it up." That's his prerogative, but doesn't entitle him to a job anywhere.
Most of the big data science libraries are sunsetting support by 2020, so I don't think supporting Python 2 is a great idea. It used to be true that there were lots of libs stuck on Python 2, but I'm struggling to think of any major ones that'd be relevant to Excel that haven't moved forwards nowadays. No way it'd be worth the confusion of having two different versions of Python and the documentation headache that'd be. There's a case to be made for keeping Python 2 around for stuff like internal software, but you're not gonna be running that in Excel.

http://www.python3statement.org/ <- look at the list of projects dropping support... NumPy, MPL, Pandas, SymPy etc.
Is Comcast not a private company too?

This feels too much like a similar argument that people have been making lately, where silencing voices can only be considered "censorship" if it comes from the government. I'm so tired of seeing this! It's part of a larger trend, where people arbitrarily narrow definitions in service of their argument. It's disingenuous, to say the least.

(For the record, I'm AGAINST censorship whether it's Twitter, Comcast, or anyone else who provides services to the masses. Small private "clubs" like your model train website are a different animal. And yes, obviously that means that there are grey areas that cannot be cleanly resolved. Such is life.)

(Edit: toned down my response a bit.)
Flagged hey? I'm serious, look at his LinkedIn if you don't believe me. His professional title is PluralSight author which he put on his senate inquiry docs. His CV for that was his LinkedIn page
> The cigar-shaped object ...

All they have is a light curve, right? No imaging, right?

If so, "cigar-shaped" is just speculation.
> piece of professional journalism?

Does the Huffington Post count as professional journalism though?
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We actually have a pretty decent understanding regarding how the immune system remembers illnesses, although it is above my pay grade. if interested, read up on "adaptive immune system"

the genes involved in autoimmune disease are not as well understood as in some other diseases, and the individual contribution of any one gene is pretty small in autoimmune disease (compared to, say, spinal muscular atrophy). so as you say, a gene therapy approach might not be the right tool for the job.

a lot of current approaches focus on "retraining" immune cells to be "good" rather than "bad" cells. here's a blog post about one of the leading startups in the space which was acquired by celgene, a large biotech company, for almost $800M earlier this year, just 3 months after raising their series a: https://lifescivc.com/2016/09/re-balancing-immunity-via-regu...
My comment is that you cannot have CP without a reliable network, an unreliable network is equivalent to a partition event. This might be a naive assertion, but how else do you have a partition event? I'm confused about what you were trying to say. The post talks about being effectively CA which is what I understood about spanner when I came across the system.
Now, the US telco market has to prove that it works without these rules. We will see...
I have this right now. First in a small mountain town, and now in Longmont, CO, USA. $49.99/mo for 1Gb/1Gb no caps, no extra charges.
Google doesn't try to suck up all your time it just tries to give you what you want when you want it

Yea, and spy you out completely in the process, then sell your data to the highest bidder. Can't decide if I'm more creeped out by FB or big G.
fuck it at least I have a gigabit pipe from fios now
btw I have RPI3 too, thanks for mentioning. it would be fun project to figure out can we reach true source on that chip. but 1,5Mpbs? highly suspect. they don't have space nor clock speed to sample so many true events on that tiny chip. need to dig into the Broadcom spec to find out more!
Another commenter did you a favor and explained why using 10pt is worse than using 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927837
Foreclosed: Destruction of Black Wealth During the Obama Presidency

http://peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/F...

This white paper goes a long way to explain why this occurred.
It rotates, so its brightness changes over time. From examining this data they can draw some conclusions about its shape.
First Alien Star System with Eight Planets Found
In The Killing Star, it was Star Trek that sealed Earth's fate. Humans came off as dangerous know-it-alls :(
I am having trouble finding the background information on this. Basically, the WHATWG took the W3C DOM and wildly changed some foundational concepts without a thorough understanding of what those decisions mean.

Here is a very simplified description of this problem years after the fact: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/102

It is important to understand the DOM wasn't created for HTML. The DOM, starting with DOM level 2, was created in parallel with XML Schema. This is evident when reading some of the W3C mailing lists and comparing release dates of W3C publications.

Attribute nodes can be independently walked when walking the DOM. By removing attributes as a node type you break this functionality. You can use this little utility I wrote as a proof: https://github.com/prettydiff/getNodesByType/blob/master/get...

Browser vendors are extremely shy about adopting new technology that makes for breaking changes. They will do so, but you need to have an incredibly strong argument. WHATWG's changes to the DOM had no beneficial argument, except perhaps developer convenience for those developers who cannot figure out DOM walking.

The DOM is a pretty solid technology with regard to extensibility, predictability, and sturdiness. If you maintain a large major browser and somebody came to you with breaking changes and a bunch of weak bullshit for justifications what would you do? Also, imagine if you will, that if you ever challenge the people bringing you this pile of shit they will troll the hell out of you in a very visible and immature way.

The response from the browser vendors was to simply say nothing and ignore them like they were never there. I got into an argument about this with the WHATWG on a github issue once, and wish I hadn't. Ignorance is like a black hole that sucks everything in and it never stops to allow rational signals to escape undamaged.
I think the book you're talking about is Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right." I worked through the problems in this book with some friends, and it is a very good presentation.

After doing that book I wanted to see what other books were out there, which ones were the good ones, and sort of classify them. I came up with this list: https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-24-best-linear-algebra-bo...

I classify the books as Generalist (like Axler's), Theoretical (starting from e.g. modules rather than vector spaces), Numerical (matrix normal forms and algorithms), Practice (books full of problems), and a few other categories.
I found it... if you go to bit-player.org/limits and increase the "output consumed" variable by a couple of percentage points, the outlook is massively improved. This implies that as business reinvest less, the outlook improves. So apparently if we want to avoid overshoot and collapse, we should be convincing profitable companies to increase their dividend payouts!
The arsonists and thieves can go to jail. The rest can take advantage of the existing programs and stop refusing help.
I don't care indeed, but someone has to think about the potentials and ecosystem that it could lead. Don't block the possibilities and help them to be in right way.
You are thinking in terms of affine coordinates i.e. (x,y) coordinates. The math is better explained (but not as easily to visualize) in projective coordinates. The conversions work as follows:

(x,y) --> (x : y : 1)
(x : y : z) --> (x/z, y/z)

In that case, the "vertical line" will intersect the elliptic curve at (0 : 1 : 0), which is the identity element of the group.

Tangent lines are considered to intersect the curve "twice," (EDIT: "twice" at the point where the line is tangent and one more time at a third point) which is analogous to a polynomial equation having a double root. There is also a triple intersection case (EDIT: "triple" at a single point, all lines intersect the curve three times), which is possible at (0 : 1 : 0).

I'll leave it to the "reader" to work out the group law in projective coordinates based on the conversions given above. One neat trick: you can avoid inversions in the field by using projective coordinates and cleverly using the Z coordinate; this is a common optimization used in practice.
Between 2003 and 2016 they took some massive desktop applications and put versions of them on the web and mobile...
Google Fiber failed because being a telecom network operator means tying up billions in capital assets in your infrastructure and then only making 10% margins.

Google’s business model is built around low capex and 35% margins. It’s simply a terrible fit for the other side of the company. Exponential growth becomes logarithmic growth and drags down their financials if they scale out too far.
Not getting accepted isn't seen this way. YC itself says they can't fund all the companies they want to. I know a number of founders who were rejected from YC and while they don't plaster it on their website, they don't hide it if it comes up.

YC is not some magic oracle at picking startups. They just have way better dealflow because of their reputation and how simple their process is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...

It's been there far longer than you think, just in different forms. It's changed as the internet has.
It's a pretty logical next step and just like start-up school but at a higher level. The ones that are slowly squeezed out are the later round investors and it is very much in YC and the founders interest to have those founders make the very best decisions in later stages of their companies.

Think of it as start-up high-school.
So far, I count five posts from your account just within this sub thread. Not one has any citations for claims that you make. This undermines the credibility of your arguments.

Please back up your statements by pointing to sources that support your interpretation of laws and events so that others can verify them.
> If I was Facebook, I'd start to think about how to add more value to people's lives.

Thst would be pointless as people do not pay to be on Facebook. And people aren't paid to be on Facebook. People are the product being sold.

Proof: this last move tries to improve the product (people's time) for its actual customers (advertisers).
All these people saying SF is less tolerant than the Deep South are almost certainly not gay.

I came out in college in a big city in TX and it was fucking brutal.

Someone who thinks SF is intolerant has no fucking clue what real intolerance looks like.
If the author bought bitcoin instead of writing that post, he would have made 35x his investment.
I, for one, welcome our new mouse-eared overlords. /s

At this rate, I wouldn't be too surprised if Disney ends up buying WB and a rather awkward Marvel/DC crossover is gonna happen on the big screen.
Python is used a lot for number crunching/data science. It has an ecosystem for that. Excel has the numbers. People want the two together!
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In China, the author is a visiting foreign multimillionaire — the type of person whose conversation will be enthusiastically received no matter the content.
The author doesn't seem to think about systems with query-level tuning of CAP systems. Cassandra and many others offer the ability to time how much consistency you want in order to increase availability or deal with partitions.

It is likely Spanner is doing this behind the curtain.
> In Michigan, I could easily offer everyone residential 500mbps to the home via fiber for $50/month and cover all costs, no problem. But only after we already had a few thousand customers. The cost for your very first customer is somewhere north of $50k/each, and prices don't become reasonable until your in the thousands.

Sounds like you could benefit from and ICO to gauge interest and raise the capital necessary for infrastructure development ;)
Anathem, Neal Stephenson. (Seveneves also mentions plane change maneuvers but Anathem has this quote repeated verbatim several times and is closer to the topic at hand. Then again, more people seem to be disappointed with Seveneves' ending, so who knows.)
Except that things are not that simple; have you ever looked a Schoof's algorithm or pairings? Pairings are fascinating but visualizing what is happening is quite difficult IMO.
Direct link to the videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/LivermoreLab/videos
As I explained to conanbatt, the problem is that he put himself in a position of being perceived as biased against women. Even if 90% of the company agreed with him - even if the CEO agreed with him - any Legal department would recommend firing him, rather than have to deal with the liability.

I propose a mental exercise: let's say that Damore had written a similar "manifesto" but instead of concluding that "women are not that interested in engineering" he concluded "black people are not that interested in engineering". Would you see a problem with that? Do you think that might create some friction with fellow engineers of color?
> I'm kind of glad to hear that to be honest...

Whaaat! Come on. Surely you'd gladly take the disappointment of missed opportunity for the absolute earth shattering wonder of proof that we are not alone.
I thought there was a project for typed Excel. Any news on that one?
> yet I waste so much time on it every day

I recommend deleting your account. Facebook wants people to think that everything happens on Facebook, but really almost nothing happens on Facebook. It's basically a useless recreational drug that is wasting the lives of many people (and severely damaging human civilization with its reality distortion -- time will tell us the full effects).
This is incorrect. Firstly, it's 10 per second. Secondly, it shouldn't be all that hard to imagine "side chains" or even "local-party networks" being built to handle transactions and use the underlying blockchain as a settlement mechanism. This is, as I understand it, how the lightning network works/will work, and I see no reason to think it wouldn't improve Bitcoin's adoption, which is already orders of magnitude better than other cryptos.
Yes, I think it's overblown.

I got what I think is this same message from Comcast a little over a year ago at my father-in-laws house. It alerted me that I needed to upgrade his still working but End-Of-Life cable modem to a newer model to keep continuity of service. I recall being slightly alarmed by the injection, and then somewhat disappointed that they weren't going to continue support for the old modem, but my eventual conclusion was that this was a useful last ditch effort to contact a customer. His contact email for for Comcast is in unchecked comcast.net address, the mailed notifications probably were thrown away as junk mail, he gets multiple spam phone calls per day which he usually ignores, but this message got through.

Surreptitiously modifying web pages would be atrocious, but a last-ditch effort at notifying a customer that they are about to lose service is not the same as Man-In-The-Middle attack for nefarious purposes. I agree that there is a legitimate fear that once it becomes known within the company that this capability exists it will eventually be used for something worse, but (even as someone who despises a lot of Comcast's business practices) alerting customers that they are about to lose service is not something evil in itself.

Everyone technical knows (or should know) that their ISP can modify the content of non-encrypted pages. I can't help but think that most people who complaining about this are actually more distraught at having their illusion of security broken than they are at Comcast's behavior. Getting mad at this is like threatening to sue the locksmith you hired for demonstrating how easily your current locks are easily bypassed with a bump key. The problem is not with the legitimate uses of this sort of injection, but the potential for misuse, which has not yet been demonstrated.
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The W3C fork's versions are arbitrary too though (yearly). You could organize a yearly update on what's new in the HTML Standard if you thought that would be valuable to people. It wouldn't change the fact that browsers release new features based on the ever-changing standard every six weeks. But it sounds like at least some people would find it useful.

Personally I'd tend toward weekly or monthly, although I admit that yearly is more likely to generate HackerNews posts ;)
Contrary to the cliché, the vast majority of millennials did not go to college, do not work as baristas and cannot lean on their parents for help.

Maybe the vast majority don't graduate from college, but the majority enroll according to BLS, and have for some time:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/69-point-7-percent-of-2016...

One of the hallmarks of a bubble is that the conventional wisdom support it wholeheartedly. The early 2000s US housing market is a case in point.

I remember vividly discussions with prospective first-time home buyers at the time. I told them they were taking a big risk borrowing money to pay for something that could quickly decline in value. Let's just say the conversation didn't go much further than that.

Today I have similar discussions with parents of high school children. Debt is still the funding mechanism, but the asset is a 4-year college degree. As before, this is a guaranteed conversation-killer.

There are many causes for the challenges faced by millenials, but worship at the altar of 4-year degrees, and especially the appetite for debt financing, is one of the biggest.
What's special about 5GHz? What about 700MHz-2100MHz?

Even with its high latency, packet loss, data caps, etc, LTE internet fits the need of a huge segment of casual internet users and has been doing so for some time now.
The headline makes it sound like Hubble is sending people random lenses, that aren't the ones that they want from their prescription.

The actual case is that they just skirt around the regulations that require a prescription. Where I live, we don't need a prescription for lenses, and we manage to survive.
This is a thoughtful and informative comment.
Why not normal concrete that already takes in CO2 from the environment? A interesting read about what went wrong in the Biosphere atmosphere:
http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/bio3/2000projects/carroll_d_...
I'd recommend watching these videos for some motivation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

And remember, linear algebra has broader application than just geometry!