skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure? I'm nearly certain that PLOS is a publisher that charges manuscript charges for OA papers - most do.
Thanks, T2_t2.

I certainly understand the OP's concern about being fleeced here. It is a very fair and understandable concern. But the founders' claim that investors are being scared away could be very real.

It's a delicate balancing act because while the OP doesn't want to get taken advantage of, I'm sure he also doesn't want to engineer a situation where the company can't get funding and his shares become worthless.
Your IPO Can't Fail If It's Not an IPO
This is great news. Now maybe they'll have the resources to ditch your phone number as your identity. Traveling overseas is really frustrating when you get a new sim card and your Signal identity changes.
Why should the government take the ideological view of favoring one type of company over another?
Against Popular Culture
Will be buried, but fantastic "fear and loathing in WeWork" kind of article. Loved it.

WeWork basically parodies itself.
This narrative seems to be common these days about WeWork:

- it has a high valuation
- nobody there really works
- everyone there is a stupid startup that won't pan out
- WeWork is a scam

In the past, I've worked at fortune 50 companies in private office, at startups in open office, rented space personally at various coworking spaces, and currently rent a hot desk in a WeWork in Brooklyn.

Where I work, on any given weekday the shared workspace of about 45 desks is 60% full with people working silently or talking very quietly. It is a great environment for technical work. The music doesn't play in the shared work space but it does in the common eating area / kitchen where people frequently do work and talk to one another.

I think this "trash the new unicorn" mentality is fun to write about but in my experience, WeWork really is better.

One example of something they do extraordinarily well is that their phone booths actually work and give real privacy. The internet is always perfect. Things like that matter when you want to be productive. There is paper shredding service. The mugs are always clean. The snack bar is cheap and always stocked.

There are also network effects. I frequently have meetings in Manhattan spread throughout the day. No matter what part of town I'm in, I almost always can rent a desk at a location nearby for free (or for $25 if I've done it a lot that month).

This is just my experience but IMO WeWork is definitely worth it. I pay $350/mo. Maybe it's not for everyone but I am happy giving them my money for what I get in return.
If library authors can expose types of their dependencies, it still is an issue. Consumers must use the same exact version.
That’s a good point, of course in the last decade the DoJ is all about not prosecuting, and just collecting fines. Sad state of affairs which must change.
Also considering questions like "why does this app want all my contacts?" or "how do I know I can trust the implementation? or, critically, "how much does it even matter when the OS itself might be compromised?"
I don't think MIT EECS department has much to fear in the way of selling itself. MIT turns away almost 12 undergrad students for every 1 it admits.
This raises an interesting point. Having said that losing experienced members is particularly painful, I am now thinking about how someone's feeling of meaning in life affects lifespan. Could it perhaps be the case that there is a self regulation mechanism in which perceived usefulness drives the brain/body to try and stay operational longer?
"to donate to" would be more correct, but very likely, a prickly editor said "YOU ENDED YOUR CLAUSE WITH A PREPOSITION, BE GONE WITH YOU!" and deleted the 'to'.
Blockchain-in-js
Considering the diversity of opinions on cryptocurrencies, this post leaves me with no idea what you think about PGP.
Because Puerto Rico stands guard against Cuba and Venezuela. Saipan stands guard against China, Russia, and North Korea.
Mods need to update title. The current title is "It’s Not About Ranking #1 – The Monopoly Strategy"

Seems to be a generic article about SEO
How exactly did the Eaton's become rich? I didn't realize there was that much money in running, unless you are someone like Usain Bolt and have endorsement deals.
Because that is indeed a very effective approach. In a game where rules can be broken or warped to suit your goals, doing so is a smart move. Just like in life, where rules don't actually exist.
I was driving at a similar point, but I think this might be a % of available slack in lifespan, which does not discount physical inevitability.
>Joe Average investors

Not if Joe Average invested on FANG stock.
How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE
How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-jeffrey-immelts-success-theater-masked-the-rot-at-ge-1519231067
Anyone know if such a script exists?
I can’t figure out what to do with my near gigabit access. My hdd is slower than my internet so file transfers can’t sustain it for long. My Usenet binary downloading server also can’t keep up when par checking.
How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE
> Why should the government take the ideological view of favoring one type of company over another?

Because it does that inherently when it decides what form of business organization to allow in the first place. Corporations are creatures of government, not nature, by creating them and setting standards for what the rules are for governing them it is favoring a particular type of company. But taxing them and then creating a variety of more-or-less tax exempt categories with different behavioral restrictions it is favoring one type of company over others.

Even if it chose not to charter corporations (or similar, newer types like LLCs) and only to allow sole proprietorships and partnerships, that would be favoring one type of company over others.

The question is not whether the government should favor certain forms of business organizations -- there is no way that it can avoid that. The question is what forms it should favor and how.
Or, for those that don't want to use Python (in case it isn't installed, or requires a non-core module, I dunno) but have access to a Linux box:

# echo -n "password" | sha1sum
5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 -

Take the first 5 characters, in this case "5baa6" and use at the end of the API endpoint in your browser. E.g.

https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/5baa6

Then take the all the rest of the hash after the first 5 characters, in this case "1e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8" and ctrl-f search the results page for it.
My apartment regularly is a mess when I'm not expecting visitors, but at work it still annoys me that people just put cups they drank some water from into the sink instead of the dishwasher. I bring my own thermos and tend to not eat at work so I never need to use the sink or the dishes, yet I often clean it up a little or completely because it's a 2 minute job that makes things better for everybody.

But just walking by that pathetic mess (pathetic not because it's so gross, but because it's so unnecessary and lame) lowers my opinion of my co-workers in a vague and therefore unfair way, so this thread made me decide that enough is enough. I'll address each and every person I see putting their dishes in the sink, friendly, but firmly. I want to encourage everybody to join me in this quest, in their corner of the world. It's not a small thing, and we can't very well talk about big things like integrity, justice, pollution etc. while people put their cup in the sink instead of the dishwasher half a meter away, to make it someone's else problem.
> It does, however, take a little longer to fully grok how lazy code evaluates

I doubt it would take anywhere near as long if students were told from the get-go that the only thing triggering evaluation is the destructuring as it happens during pattern matching.

Unfortunately it seems like most teaching resources would prefer to uphold a sense of mysticism.
Thanks!

I thought it was an accronym.
Map based news
I don't know. I think automated driving is a big use case, even if I don't necessarily agree with his very pessimistic view of AI.
Dockerized posgresql with local data storage on Ubuntu
It's OK as long as you are in charge of when the updates happen. Your system is good in that it is a manually triggered process.

It becomes a problem when a full rebuild includes deleting external dependencies, downloading latest sources, and rebuilding everything. When that happens your build environment is a constant moving target. The problem grows exponentially with the number of dependencies you have. When you have a project with a 1000+ dependencies, all pulled latest, nothing will ever compile, let alone your own code.
Fair. I should have asked why the government should favor employee owned corporations over the more common structures.
Being able to voice an opinion and have it be heard, although not necessarily followed, is kind of the definition of "having a voice" in this context.
No, they would deserve a hefty, HEFTY fine and regulation barring them from providing services to anyone under 18 years of age, and then they deserve to delete all the relevant data themselves (with oversight). However Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Photobucket are not in the business of selling shady ass spyware whose sole reason for existing is for stalkers, creeps, jealous ex-lovers and helicopter parents to invade people's privacy and personal security, so they have at least a little bit going for them over this sleazeball company. _Very_ little, but a little still.
Now, lets assume i grow some elephant stem cells into molar-cells- and apply this strategy to 3d print fake ivory and rhino - maybe the slaughter can still be stopped.
Suppose that The Motor City wanted to help the local car industry. Would they build roads that favor keeping a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry for 20 years, or would they build roads that require yearly purchase of a huge SUV or a full-size AWD pickup truck?
And it's even synchronous. Funny to read their router specs though. 800Mbit wireless and 4 LAN ports with 1Gbit each. How would you even use that? I would be so glad to even have fibre and not that crappy DOCSIS shared medium crap.
> if the US govt doesn't care about Puerto Rico, why are they going to care about this island?

It mostly doesn't, until things get so out of control that they are persistently in the news, as happened with slavery on the island in the late 90s through mid 00s, resulting in pressure which shutdown the sweatshops.
Here's a trial strategy consultant on some of the factors behind East Texas as a venue for jury trials, seen through the lens of mock jurors: http://www.thejuryexpert.com/2010/03/east-texas-jurors-and-p...
But Troy could still very easily guess the complete hash. It's the one with the 47,205 hits.
The persistent narrative is that people hate change but eventually they get used to it, and look at this data which shows improved metrics.

Except for the catastrophic failure of Digg v4, there's a general refusal to believe that change can ever be for the worse. As long as people continue to use a service, however begrudgingly, everything is great. Subjectively, I see more and more irritation from normal (non-nerd) people at non-chronological displays. People like control and certainty about the information they're seeing, and clever algorithms take that away.
> Note that F 1.1 requires G 1.1, but G 1.1 also requires F 1.1. Declaring this kind of cycle can be important when singleton functionality moves from one module to another. Our algorithms must not assume the module requirement graph is acyclic.

I thought we cannot have cycles in Go packages.
The Go spec says "The importing of packages, by construction, guarantees that there can be no cyclic initialization dependencies."
What am I missing?
You should explain to your son why copyright is 70 years. Disney. Vote with your dollar.
> result is mass deaths and injury

Do you have some hard evidence that shows that most traffic accidents are caused by people not complying with speed limits vs. people being inattentive, people under the influence of drugs or alcohol, people making invalid turns, people slamming on their brakes but the driver behind them is unable to react in time, etc.?

The notion of "speed kills" is not always correct. If everyone on the highway is driving above the speed limit, then driving at the speed limit and slower than the flow of traffic would actually become a cause of traffic and increase the risk of a collision.
Same goes for UX designers. Very few direct hire positions, and almost everything is a 6 to 12 month "contract to hire" that magically never turns into an actual position. Plus, I'd say that for every job that a company advertises, there's at least 5 or 6 recruiters who will post ads for that same exact job.

Anecdotal story: I interviewed at a well known ad company here in the Metro Detroit area, and the recruiter let it slip that he had sent 16 people their way before me. While I'm sure that this guy was just throwing warm bodies at the position in hopes of earning a commission, it's kind of unbelievable that competition is that fierce here.
...to buy expensive money
I understand the point you are trying to make, but a RSA key is a RSA key.

The only benefit of gpg here is for things longer than a password. The script is encrypting the password directly with the RSA key. The performance and security will be weaker on things much longer than a password.
Moxie seems to be the right person in the right position. I’m excited and happy for him.
As part of my work, I've had t o read (and implement in code) papers from Elsevier journals.

The authors included Chinese, Turkish and Slavic people. And I didn't even have to look at their 35 dollars for a paper when they don;t even have the decency to help authors with some English copy editing.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

> a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.
If Waze's police and red light camera indications cause more people to comply the law while driving, isn't that already better than not having this feature at all?
This same sentiment also applies to engineering teams. Projects we've worked on, systems knowledge, ops battle-scars--all fade away.
Of course they can. DRL is a very very specific set of techniques to train decision-making over multiple timesteps.
I'm an apple customer. I care a lot about this kind of thing. It's one of the reasons I'm happy to be locked into the brand.
I use a catchall address on my own domain name, and use sitename@domain.com to sign up for everything.

You should be using your own domain for email anyway
You cannot build all of analysis from category theory. Categories, morphisms and functors are not nuanced enough to encapsulate everything in analysis. The question was not, “Can you restate some results in category theory”, the question was “what cannot category theory build?”

What you’re linking to is part of a relatively small corpus outside of e.g. algebraic geometry and topology that has successfully been used for nontrivial results. And as another commenter said, while it can be used for e.g. computation, it is extremely poor for complexity theory. There is a reason why basically any analyst (as opposed to algebraic geometer) will use set theory instead of categories for their work.
Adding a space after it reduces the number of times to 0. Quick fix!
It's amazing to me the number of friends I have who claim to be poor but then spend every weekend getting drunk at the bar.

If you can't afford $1000 to repair your car without going completely broke, you should not be going to restaurants, bars, concerts, movies, or anything else the average "poor" american blows their money on. Those are luxuries for people with disposable incomes. If you choose to spend your money on luxuries even though you have nothing in savings, you do not deserve sympathy when you eventually go broke.
"Itanium tried to move the instruction-level parallelism and the burden of re-ordering execution to the compiler"

That sounds a lot like "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardware system to exploit it"

Just swapping "compiler" for language. They didn't succeed, but they did try

Edit: helping me understand where I'm off might be more helpful than a downvote. Does swapping "compiler" for "language" not respresent what Intel was trying to do?
This example shows a hazard of floating-point, but it does not show that the FP error is worse than modeling error.

Here, the problem arises because the equational system is ill-conditioned. Yet you present the system as if the coefficients are known exactly.

In reality, this ill-conditioned model can arise for two reasons:

+ The equations represent a physical system that is ill-conditioned -- a slight change in the system can produce a huge change in its output. So where did those coefficients, with their 8 digits, come from? A minor error measuring the coefficients will throw off your "correct" solution. In this case, modeling error is every bit as important as floating-point error.

+ The physical system is not poorly conditioned, but the model is. In this case, by definition, modeling error overwhelms floating-point error.

So the essay still advances the correct perspective -- if you are modeling an ill-conditioned system, you had better spend a lot of time worrying about the effects of modeling errors, before you get hung up worrying about FP errors. And if you know the system is ill-conditioned, then poor conditioning in the model is one of the things that an experienced analyst will be prepared for.
That’s untrue. You will only be able import the library once and that version will be common across your all of your dependencies. Only major version breaks change this equation, but as explained in the third article those imports will have different names and are effectively different libraries.
Thanks for the feedback. It's good to know this is a blocking feature for some use cases.
Well...

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US real median income growth does not look nearly as nice as the picture you paint.

http://www.multpl.com/us-median-real-income-growth

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middl...
Sadly, this question cannot be answered based on this information.

When you say "pivoting to something completely different," are you going to be using IP developed as part of the current company? If so, starting a new company will be very difficult.

And the note holders don't want their money back, most likely. I mean, if you dissolve, they'll have no choice but to take it. But they were investing to get equity down the road. Query how you raised $2M and apparently haven't spent any of it. How long ago did you enter into these notes? I would have to imagine it was pretty recent. And you didn't know about the pivot then? That's possible, of course. But it's a concern the noteholders may have.

There are lots of strategies to move forward. But it's pretty fact specific. I think fab1an's advice is really the best.
I have the answer to #3, New news, I really do. It's been percolating in my mind for 12 months now, I know how to build it too. However I am not a business man and I have a family to feed so I'm working on someone else's software to put the kids through school. - every-dev-ever.
Definitely not. Nothing here is particularly novel, `vgo` just stakes out a different position on all of the relevant spectrums than most (all) other package managers.
Translation for metric units users:

32 ounces ≈ 0.95 litre
I always tell people that deleted code is the best code.
Ex-Google Employee Claims Wrongful Firing for Criticizing James Damore’s Memo
It's not much different from Hashicorp Vault or Cyberark, etc.

Both are like locking your house key in a lock box that has a different key. PCI, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPPA, etc, created a whole new category of funny software.
President Trump Hosts Discussion with Parkland School Shooting Survivors
The difference is in the MO for publishing in a given field...not the conscious venue selection so much. From what I know, computer scientists have a high publication rate, rank conference publications as pretty important and sometimes write papers that are about something they built.

Compare this to economists. For economists, it's all about hitting a home run a couple times...publishing a few career-making papers in the best possible journals. Economists will publish only a couple times per year, and their papers are sometimes very long. The review process is crazy: the time between first draft of the paper and final publication can be like five years.

I think what determines this is the difficulty of ascertaining the quality of a piece of work. In CS or math or math physics, I think anyone in a certain subfield is capable of ascertaining how good a paper is. It doesn't need to be extremely long or flashy, and chances are it will make an incremental improvement. By contrast, let's say an economist publishes a paper called "do red light cameras encourage speeding?" The intended audience (economists) doesn't really know anything about red light cameras or driver behavior. They don't have the time to do all the data analyses themselves, and until recently would never even have access to the data. So they look for a bunch of other markers of quality: writing style, citations, length, venue, etc.
Now with numbers and without comments from European anthropologists in Singapore: https://qz.com/1185488/chinese-scientists-used-crispr-gene-e... .

Spoiler alert: I wouldn't want any other country to follow the example of China. Sometimes, human lives are more important than KPIs and being first...

Some interesting parts:

> The Chinese ministry of health has to approve all gene-therapy clinical trials in China, but these regulations appear relatively relaxed. According to the WSJ, at Hangzhou Cancer Hospital, for example, a proposal to test a cancer treatment that modifies patients’ immune cells was approved in a single afternoon. One member of the hospital’s approval committee told the WSJ that she did not really understand the science laid out for her in a 100-page document, but was told that the side effects were mild. This was enough for her to give it the go-ahead.

...

> China is taking the lead in the global race to perfect gene therapies.

> Scientists have genetically engineered the cells of at least 86 cancer and HIV patients in the country using Crispr-Cas9 technology since 2015, the Wall Street Journal reports (paywall). Although no formal scientific papers have been written about these experiments, doctors told journalists at the WSJ that some patients have improved. There have also been least 15 deaths, seven of which were in one trial.

86 (!!!) patients.
updated my comment with my source of info
Well, there was that time when I was getting an EE degree where I asked my drives professor if I could use an induction motor as a generator, and that's the response he gave.
If you want to think like that, so do morning coffees, someone eating chicken for lunch and someone on a diet! Seriously, some adult thinking needs to be in place. I know several people with alcohol problems, devout Muslims and an abuse victim. Here's a hint, other people drinking isn't a problem for them. That's a part of life and they're mature enough to accept it. Sounds like the person you're replying to has plenty of inclusiveness, no reason to stop everyone elses enjoyment for the sake of the possibility that someone's not matured enough to accept it.