skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong, insulting people in any medium is fun, but it's less fun in real life because

- you're limited to insulting only those in physical proximity, and the logistics of traveling around and repeating insults for greater insult coverage are a hassle,

- your insults are easily traced to your identity, opening the possibility of social or legal consequences,

- and, unlike the Internet, physical harm is an option in real life, which is a very bad consequence!

That's why, for assholes or political dissidents alike, the Internet is so wonderful!
>> What exactly is 'sentence space'?

It's a multi-dimensional cartesian space where each sentence occupies a single point (i.e. a set of coordinates).

The point is that once you have such a sentence space, you can then do geometry over it. Like calculate distance between sentences etc. The hope is of course that the sentence space is constrtucted so as to encode the semantic relation between sentences, so for instance sentences that are close to each other encode similar meaning etc.
I usually find that people are happy to complain about work. Maybe this becomes less true at small startups.
bisq is closer to localbitcoins than it is to gdax. there's no central orderbook, and orders aren't executed in real time.
As does my wife.
I wish I'd found that before I went to Iceland last August! I studied German in college but don't speak it now, but it was fun to see some cognates in Icelandic. I loved Iceland and want to go back some day.
Producer surplus by definition is benefit to the drivers. It's the amount actually make minus the minimum amount they'd be willing to take. This paper purports to show how the minimum drivers are willing to accept (their reservation price) changes by the hour. Flexibility -- fact they can choose to work when their reservation price is the lowest, or only lower than what they'd actually make -- is definitely a benefit.

Obviously a driver's alternatives are a big factor in whether/how much to drive, but flexibility might even MORE valuable to drivers who have other jobs, because they can work around it.
You’re certainly correct. That isn’t to say that people raised in less fortunate circumstances can’t learn good financial habits (and to make good life choices, for that matter). But you are correct that those who are raised by competent parent(s) definitely have an advantage over those who weren’t.
We use Dep. It's good, much better than the buggy mess that is/was Glide.

My only criticism is that "dep ensure" will actually parse the code to discover dependencies through import statements, which is also what Glide does. To me, this is antithetical to the purpose of a Gopkg.toml/lock file. In other words, Dep's full list of dependencies isn't actually in the Gopkg.toml file; it's a sum of Gopkg.toml and your code. That is confusing.

My desired behaviour:

* "dep ensure" should always used the lock file, nothing else, to install;

* "dep ensure -update" should update the lock file to what is specified in Gopkg.toml (and only that);

* "dep ensure -add" (which I think should be "dep add") should b required to add new dependencies to the Gopkg.toml file.

Aside: I wish Go projects weren't stuck with BSD style flags (-update instead of --update). GNU style is more common and arguably more practical. I applaud whenever a project (e.g. Prometheus, recently) finally sees sense and goes over to GNU flags.
that is true, though contributions can be made (I mean, PR welcome!) it would be a great addition
there's also some basic scripts here https://github.com/mozilla-iam/federated_access_proxy/tree/m...
As a society we make decisions like this all the time. How about cars?
Sometimes I see Ebay sellers selling random bricks by the pound.
We are in a capitalist system that optimizes around financial gain. Our educational system has traditionally not had the same goals. Its not hugely surprising that it is not the best vehicle for creating perfect financial goal achieving cogs. Apprenticeships, Bootcamps, online training, etc. are way better for a vocation oriented education. You lose the well rounded, empathic, and critical thinking gains that a traditional college education rewards, but we don't seem to really care about those qualities anymore anyway.
SIMD. As you say, "you have to fight (or escape to assembly) the compiler to achieve" SIMD, even in C++. But in C++, you can correctly align the memory in preparation. In Python? Not so much.
I deeply miss games that had massively branching storylines. I understand why gamers dislike them (especially the completionists), but the branching gameplay was what set the first three WC games apart. (And maybe WC IV? I don’t remember much about branching in IV....)
Privateer was my personal favorite because of the exploration / trading / upgrade system. There are similar experiences today, but most of them fail to replicate what was special about this game (maybe I am just wearing nostalgia goggles though)
So in simple terms, you concatenate the word vectors and feed them to further network layers to arrive at a reduced-D representation?

Either way... Very nice, thanks!
I used that argument during my counterfeiting trial, didn't go over too well until I started talking about broken windows...
I can understand that an app may be more convenient to use, but needing to use the website instead of an app seems pretty different than having no place at all to post the messsages that most users do not want on Twitter.
I’ve had it installed before and received the prompt “to install the update of this extension please accept the new telemetry conditions.” I don’t claim every user sees it (maybe I’m a/b tested?). I’ve rejected it, and checking the repo wouldn’t help for that.

The new requested permission, different from the ones previously accepted by me is, if I remember:

"Monitor extension usage and manage themes"

What's that if not a new telemetry? In a privacy-oriented extension!

It's explained here:

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/wiki/Per...

""Monitor extension usage and manage themes": Required to provide interoperability with other container Add-ons by checking if they have the required permissions."

How about not being required? Older versions really didn't require. Knowing the management (see "Looking Glass"), even if the extension is not using the telemetry at the moment it's just "hey the user already agreed!" Especially troublesome as I haven't agreed anywhere else.
I'm surprised (and delighted) you say that such a straightforward approach works well, thanks.
Nope, don't think I am.

That's also style. SW self-aggrandizes and arrogates credit while he talks about CAs and complexity; NNT bloviates and inflames while discussing statistics.

Your comment says that you don't like his work because he's an Islamophobic, misogynistic, dictatorphile: you loathe certain elements of his style - aspects of the form that his function is wrapped in, so to speak - to the point where you no longer appreciate his ideas. Those ideas haven't changed: they're still about skin in the game, resilience, randomness... All the stuff you liked in Fooled by Randomness.

All of which is fine! I'm not trying to change your mind at all.
It's very hard, if not impossible, for someone to have a "their own website" that doesn't have someone in the loop that can kick them off: hosting company, domain registrar, ISP, etc. See what happens regularly with piracy sites, for example.
Tech company Lanetix fired software engineers seeking to organize, union claims
This paper has actual data on earnings from all Uber drivers in all cities in the US. They find that the average earnings are $20 per hour with a standard deviation of $5 (there is substantial variation across cities and especially across time, with late nights on weekends being especially high earning). http://www.nber.org/papers/w23296
The authors are very well respected economists from UCLA and Yale, though it should be noted that one author was a former Uber employee.

This is substantially higher than the estimates in this newer study unless you think that the per hour operating costs of a car are $16 per hour. The new study bases it's numbers on self reported values from a relatively small sample, which is much less accurate than calculating an average using Uber's actual full database.

Another interesting finding from the study I linked is that a majority of Uber drivers work 20 or fewer hours per week and place a substantial value on the flexibility that they get from being able to choose their own hours.
Predicting e-sports winners with Machine Learning
Pushing over SSH failed since hours
> “It’s an asset class like any other” says a lot about how market economics affect people’s conception of value.

Indeed. There is a strong argument (does this go back to Kant?) that art only "works" when it is not pragmatic. That a tool is not art, no matter how elegant and functional. Hence, if art nowadays works primarily as a financial instrument, it is not actually free to do the work of being art. If an art fair is visited with an eye to current and potential economic value, and the art at the fair is represented and even made with that eye, then it ceases to have the "that image saved my life on a sad day" or "I see in that painting the terror and fragility of existence" or such energy that we actually seek in the arts.

(Of course, you could argue about whether anything pragmatic is not art, e.g. that industrial design is art. And things get really slippery with ceramics. As the article suggests, much great art has been made within very strict economies, often via commission. But a well made bowl or a portrait of a bishop are still not asset classes...)
btw: We collect material along these lines over in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
Instead of calling it education, the term brain washing is more appropriate. :))
This seems to me like a workaround for the fact that React requires `render` methods to return React elements. And I suppose it also takes advantage of the fact that the `read` method can `throw` its way out of your `render` function, obviating the need to check its result and manually `return`. But not gonna lie, I'm pretty suspicious of overreliance on creative use of `throw`ing as something that is going to cross through application code's control flow. But perhaps it will prove convenient enough to be worth it.
Twitter Is Public, but It Could Offer a Lot More Privacy
I'm not ignoring your point, I'm discarding it. The skillset involved is so nearly-completely overlapping that nobody who's any good would take your less money for not-less work. You are asking whoever you want to pay to provide an economically inferior service for less money while they are capable of providing an economically better service for more money.

If you think you're right, I encourage you to put your money where your mouth is and start this firm. But it'll hurt.
That's a problem if you want to compare the effectiveness of specific treatments. AKA, is doing A, or B, better than C. Or even more basically are screenings useful?

If you want to look overall you can look at the number of people dying at each age of each type of cancer independent of both diagnosis and treatment. AKA how many 43 year old women died of breast cancer. That also has some problems for people that died of cancer before it was detected as cancer, or people who died of suicide or related complications but not necessarily cancer on it's own. Even more critical is reduction in the rate people get cancer in the first place.

Still we are not talking about a small gap, when you start seeing a 30+% drop for a wide range of cancers it's easy to see that yes treatments are extremely useful. Even if you only get an extra say 2 years that's still 2 years to die of a car crash and not cancer.
You're missing the point. When there's less shares, the EPS increases, making it appear the company is performing better.

It's the easiest lever a CEO can push on to look good.

The numbers don't lie, right?
I'm trying to find a source to support your argument but I'm not having any luck.

Coursera's original course offerings gave free certificates upon completion. My understanding is that MOOCs started charging for certifications in an effort to pay the bills. The jury is still out on whether these certifications are taken seriously or not.
Looks the charges have nothing to do with manipulation. Not directly at least.
Regardless of whether this is greenwashing or not, I congratulate Lego for being always on top of innovation. They now hop on the train of environment-friendly and win good publicity with it. They are constantly reinventing themselves.
This is just obfuscation. Making it harder to hack won't prevent hacks. Anything that can be changed by the client, expect the client to change it.
https://outline.com/kJVEkY
It's just one part of an ecommerce business.
Marketing imo is way more crucial.
Some of that depends on how you want to define commonly. White and asian Americans have a near 40% chance of becoming millionaires with a graduate level education.

Without a high school diploma, white Americans have a mere 1.7% chance of becoming a millionaire. A 20+ fold difference.

"What Are Your Odds of Becoming a Millionaire?"

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-millionaire-odds/

"Bloomberg News asked economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis a question: Would it be possible to calculate the odds of being a millionaire for anyone in the U.S., based on age, education and race?"

"According to the sample, a black person’s odds of being a millionaire increase from less than 1 percent if he or she doesn't complete high school to 6.7 percent with a graduate degree. White Americans without a high school diploma start out with slightly better chances—1.7 percent—that rapidly improve with more school: A graduate-level education increases their probability of amassing a net worth greater than $1 million to 37 percent."
> "Earning a degree is about signalling, and not just learning"

This is nothing new.

It was this way since the beginning of higher education in religious institutions. Higher education was a social signal that gave clerics power over many aspects of society in their roles as religious leaders and advisers to rulers.

In Europe it was common for non first-born sons of aristocrats to go into the clergy via the academic route. They didn't do this to give up power, but to associate themselves and their families with powerful religious/academic cultural institutions.

Even during the post WW2 broadening of higher education access, it served as a bridge to upper social classes.

You can't get rid of the class signalling aspect unless you can get rid of class as a cultural phenomenon, which is unlikely.

Being broadly educated will always be a signal of class, no matter how it is achieved, simply because it implies that you had the resources to study things that are not of immediate vocational value.

But many aspects of higher education that don't have vocational value have a lot of value in creating an informed, adaptable citizenry.

You can, however, reduce the degree to which higher class association via higher education is needed in order to learn skills needed to achieve a decent livelihood.

One way to achieve this is to reverse the trend of large cuts to public higher education funding, which is the largest factor in the increased costs of those institutions [1] (not fancy buildings).

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...
Thanks a lot for this reference. Do you happen to know of any other research in this area? I'm looking for academic work on the topic myself and not finding as much as I'd hoped for.
> defining 'evolution' in this sense is entirely at the discretion of the scientists

That’s utter nonsense. No general definition of evolution (whether as a general concept or whether via a specific mechanism, such as natural selection) requires sexual reproduction. Only some mechanisms do (in particular, obviously, sexual selection). Evolution by random mutation and natural selection (the core concept of the modern synthesis, which underpins all of modern biology) is completely independent of sexual reproduction.

> For sexually reproducing organisms, speciation occurs when an organism can no longer reproduce with its predecessor

You’re misunderstanding something that is used for convenience, but is really a vast simplification. In reality speciation isn’t one defined point in time (hence it’s idiocy to ask what species the parents of the first human were — evolution is gradual!). To name just one specific example where your example breaks down: ring species [1].

> […] science still can't prove [speciation in sexually reproducing organisms].

Once more, that’s utter nonsense (e.g. [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635482/
On your website:

We streamline the whole process and help you every tools you need in one place.

should probably read: We streamline the whole process and help you with every tool you need in one place.
Correct. If anyone else is interested you can get started here and modify things for yourself for your own purposes [0].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
I believe being at the right place at the right time with the right people matters a lot. And the 'right' part of this equation is more luck than talent, although preparation can definitely help.
This is funny on like four different levels.
> Even if we don't consider the fact that the cost of vehicle depreciation, maintenance and insurance is an "almost-fixed" or marginal cost because you are going to own the vehicle and pay for the insurance any way,

But all of these costs go up if you drive more miles. Your vehicle depreciates more if you put more miles on it (but not if it's parked in your garage), you need more frequent oil and tire changes, and your insurance rates go up because you're more likely to make a claim the more miles you drive annually. And rideshare insurance is more expensive.
I can't read the paper you link but in the abstract-ish thing you've given here, $20 is a mean. The MIT paper says $3.37 is a median. Both could simultaneously be true!
Lego will release its first sustainably sourced bricks in 2018
Thanks, correcting!
Its about the footprint of the production.

The problem here is that prior processes in this field needed alot more input energy and they have relied on conventional power input. They actually had worse footprints despite "producing plastic from thin air".
> No one cared about Russian influence before Trump got elected

That's not true at all and you know it. Russian influence had been a point of discussion well before Trump's election. Heck, Hillary implied that Trump was a Russian puppet during the debates.
It is a modern day cargo cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
I think that helps to prove the point.
vgo is at least phrased as being a proposal, not necessarily the future of Go [1]:

This post sketches a proposal for doing exactly
that, along with a prototype demonstration ...
I intend this post to be the start of a productive
discussion about what works and what doesn't.
Based on that discussion, I will make adjustments
to both the proposal and the prototype, and then
I will submit an official Go proposal, for
integration into Go 1.11 as an opt-in feature.

Of course, this is Russ Cox, so chances are that his proposal will carry more weight with his fellow core Go team than that of Dep's authors.

Sam Boyer's follow-up is interesting reading [2]. I get the feeling that despite their ongoing discussions, the Dep team was/felt ambushed by this move.

[1] https://research.swtch.com/vgo-intro

[2] https://sdboyer.io/blog/vgo-and-dep/
The public should absolutely become educated and empowered.

But what does that have to do with spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get stuff that you could get for free from a library or online?
The paper actually uses a $0.30/mile figure. "A Median driver generates $0.59 per mile of driving, and incurs costs of $0.30 per mile."

The paper actually seems to be trying to make the point that Uber drivers are gaming the tax system because their actual costs are lower than the IRS allowance.

$0.30 seems like a fairly reasonable number and it also matches up well with renting a car that's intended to be driven for a week like this and just buying gas for it. (There's also some cost associated with deadheading to the next pickup.)

The $0.59/mile revenue does seem a bit low. UberX or Lyft would seem to typically have pricing in the neighborhood of $1.00 to $1.50 per mile of which about 75% goes to the driver. So $1/mile would seem likely to be a better revenue number in which case the net is more like $0.70/mile and I would have to believe most drivers, even in a larger city, are driving 10 miles or more in a typical hour.

I doubt driving for these services is a huge win once all costs are taken into account but it seems closer to being a minimum wage job than a total bust.
"One point of contention I have with this article is that it mentions that many CEOs were born during certain months and have names starting with certain letters. The mere mention of the phrase I am about to use always draws the ire of the HN crowd, but I see a big correlation/causation issue with that specific data point."

On the point of birth month, there is a cause. Kids born before the cutoff year for kindergarten are younger than kids born after the cutoff. At that age, every month of development makes a big difference in social skills, which leads to more leadership opportunities. Obviously it's not a direct causation but this point should not be ignored.

"As for the larger point of the article, I always frame this conversation in this way: if you were lucky enough to be born in a first world country, you can become a millionaire through hard work with relatively little luck involved, but you have to get very lucky to become a billionaire."

I agree with you and I would add that "hard work and thriftiness" lets most people with average luck become millionaire. This is the sentiment of the Millionaire Next Door.