skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d need on the order of hundred times the mass of Saturn to create a red dwarf, so the swimming pool might actually be enough to kick it into being a Sun-sized or even larger star.
Low barrier to entry.
> The price you paid was far above what the market rate should have been, which is why drivers were able to make livings on them.

This sentence makes no sense to me. How can something's "market rate" be non-profitable for the producer? If you have market forces acting on something the balance of forces will necessarily push the price higher than the price of production.

If something doesn't make sense to sell because it's too cheap, the market actors will not produce it, lowering the supply and decreasing the offer, thus increasing the price. eventually, you have to reach a price balance somewhere higher than the initial cost of production, for at least a subset of the producers.
You do understand that for all the talk and new terminology and claims of "learning" in the "machine learning" (ML) in the Google OP, what is in the OP is a poor introduction to some highly polished material in "regression analysis" in 50 year old books. So, the ML stuff is adulterated old wine in new bottles with new labels. That is essentially intellectual theft and corruption, and without references essentially academic plagiarism. You should be offended.

If they are going to plagiarize, even just teach, regression analysis, then at least they shouldn't make a mess out of it, and a mess is what they made. Google should "get that MESS OFF the Internet".

Students should be told the truth: Regression is powerful stuff. Sometimes the results can be valuable. The Google OP is an introduction to regression and does have some value. But the Google material is a MESS, and students should be informed that they are getting really low quality material and should see some references to some beautifully polished material.

So, I helped any students who would be the target audience for the Google OP.

You should know this; I believe you do.

I'm offended by the mess and passing that out to students trying to learn. You should also be offended.
> Even though the speed of light is 300km/s

You’re missing a couple of zeroes there ;)
T hink the value of this is that it's part of the guy's thinking process. If it produces better designed code then it's good with me.
From personal experience after having talked to several colleagues about this in private, all of whom feel this is wrong, the simple reason for why people don't speak or engage in open discourse is fear. And after having seen what happens to the ones that speak up it seems like legitimate fear.
Based on those assumptions, which I'll iterate below first, let's get the numbers:

1) hiring based on IQ, cutoff at 2 standard deviations above the global mean (mu = 100, sigma = 15, by design), 2 sigma above that makes 130. You get hired if you're the candidate with the highest IQ, if you satisfy the minimum of an IQ of 130

2) 8/20 hispanic, 8/20 white, 1.16/20 black, 2.6/20 asians (and let's just pretned that sums to 100%). Or: 40% hispanic, 40% white, 5.8% black, 13% asian

3) let's assume 1000 candidates for each position.

So each round has 1000 candidates:
400 hispanics, IQ taken from N(90, 15)
400 whites, IQ taken from N(100, 15)
58 black, IQ taken from N(85, 15)
130 asians, IQ taken from N(105, 15)

The numbers:
33.42% Asians, 10.85% Hispanic, 0.54% Black, 55.20% White

Odds of getting hired under those criteria:
0.25% Asians, 0.02% Hispanics, 0.01% Black, 0.13% White

And that's why nobody's going to be happy with expected outcomes. Just imagine the (completely "fair") news headline "Asians 25 TIMES more likely to get hired than blacks in the bay area".

import random

counts = {'h': 0, 'w': 0, 'b': 0, 'a': 0, None: 0}
experiments = 10000

for x in range(experiments):
candidates = []
for h in range(400):
iq = random.normalvariate(90, 15)
candidates.append((iq, 'h'))
for w in range(400):
iq = random.normalvariate(100, 15)
candidates.append((iq, 'w'))
for b in range(58):
iq = random.normalvariate(85, 15)
candidates.append((iq, 'b'))
for a in range(130):
iq = random.normalvariate(105, 15)
candidates.append((iq, 'a'))

# filter iq > 130
candidates = [(iq, typ) for (iq, typ) in candidates if iq > 130]

if candidates:
selected = sorted(candidates, key=lambda (x,y):x)[0][1]
else:
selected = None

counts[selected] += 1

total = sum(counts.values())

print total
for k, v in counts.items():
print "%s %2.2f" % (k, 100.0 * v/total)

print "odds of hire if hispanic : %2.4f%%" % (100.0*counts['h']/experiments / 400)
print "odds of hire if white : %2.4f%%" % (100.0*counts['w']/experiments / 400)
print "odds of hire if black : %2.4f%%" % (100.0*counts['b']/experiments / 58)
print "odds of hire if asian : %2.4f%%" % (100.0*counts['a']/experiments / 130)
print "odds of no hire at all: %2.4f%%" % (100.0*counts[None]/experiments)
> sent several thousand people to states that allow people to vote without IDs.

That is strictly not true, I believe. In the US, some form of ID (not necessary a Photo ID) is required to vote [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_St...
I think the advice in this article is good advice from a VC's perspective relative to that VC's returns in the companies he invests in. Is it just as good for the company founders? That depends on whether their true goals align.

The article is correct in that doing a deal with a big customer will largely make you beholden to that customer. You'll probably become what is basically a service company.

But if the price tag is high enough, and you're the majority owner, who cares? Maybe you end up selling your company to your customer a few years down the road for a sum that's small to a VC but big to you. We live long lives, if you enjoyed the journey you can then go start another company. Even if you don't get an exit, you can still make nice money just servicing the contract for years.

For a founder who'd be happy to have $1M or $10M in the bank and doesn't necessarily need to make $100M or $1B (yet....), doing a big deal (or preferably a few) and focusing your company on them is a lower risk strategy than trying to be the next Dropbox, and it can still yield great rewards.

If the only outcomes that will make you happy are a huge company or a huge exit, though, then Aaron's advice is right on the money. I also agree that you have to be very careful about the terms of the deal and have a way out if things go south. I don't think an inexperienced founder's first deal should be a big one--a scenario which worked out well for us was to do several smaller deals with bigger companies and then grow those relationships over the years. Once you have a solid internal champion at a company who owes part of their career success to you, they'll handle most of the politics.
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Any UDP service can be used in an amplification attack. It's not the responsibility of AWS or other hosting companies to shut down all UDP traffic.

The problem is the ISPs allowing spoofed IPs.
This assumes that the purpose of the doucment is to be archived, searched, diffed and reproduced. None of these is in fact the case. The purpose is as a tool in the production of the program being written.
The two differences I meant to highlight are that (a) this is only a claim, while your comment represents it as a fact and (b) even the claim doesn't state they were asked to "stop all recruiting of Asian and white males", only recruiting for low-level roles. For higher positions, white males were still considered, which I think gives the claim a very different sound than your representation of it.

I don't know what actually happened.
Sure, that’s all true, but you still haven’t shown that anything can go faster than the speed of light. Time dilation and length contraction conspire to cheat you from doing this.
Correction of a typo:

> So, the function f: R*n --> R where for each x f(x)

should read

So, the function f: R^n --> R where for each x f(x)

Excuse: Just now I'm using a keyboard on a laptop, and I'm not used to the keyboard yet.
Not nearly fast enough for this to finish in the next couple million years.
IT operations: The all encompassing tech role [Audio]
That depends on the country. You lose Dutch citizenship if you have dual citizenship and don't live in The Netherlands or renew your passport in 10 years.
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> NoScript Security Suite: since uMatrix will be used to block scripts, this functionality is not required from NoScript

This is a mistake. uMatrix will block requests which would pull source code, but it does not stop script execution, i.e. those embedded in the page itself. NoScript stops script execution completely.

NoScript also activates `<noscript>` tags which will allow content to render on Medium. And which break Twitter by redirecting away just after it loads...

Caveat emptor: NoScript is somewhat buggy in its WebExt form. Sometimes it needs a click on the global revoke button to render `<noscript>` again. Sometimes it pops up blank windows. I'm not aware of any alternative though.
The problem is the per request cost is going to be astronomical compared to what it needs to be once you e.g. get above the initial 1 GB/month tier. Bandwidth at AWS costs about 50 times as much as with Hetzner for example.

> Once you hit high levels of traffic, instead of panicking and trying to add more servers and fixing DB structure, you do a cost benefit analysis and see what to do next. Either work on reducing your cost slope, or make it logarithmic by moving to regular servers.

...and that's a good reason to try to avoid the lock-in of AWS specific services. Relatively entry level setups on alternative platforms will let you scale well past the system where AWS costs starts to get painful and people start panicking about how to cut costs. When you hit that point you really don't want to be facing a major re-engineering effort to be able to even use other options to bring the cost down just as the costs are soaring.
Eco – Digital currency for everyone from the co-founder of Uber
The only solution to tax / accounting law and software problems is to create a reference accounting system and set it as a applicable law. In other words, to describe the law in unambiguous language.

Do we really have to write a law in the same way as Romans did? Math as a science made progress after it invented a new precise language for itself.

I'm not talking about the whole law. Only about that according to which the software is built. Since no one calculates taxes today by hand, it is worth to write the law so that it can be easily applied.
This is a bit late, but re-reading your post gave me some thoughts.

> skip mode: while watching certain shows that were previosly recorded(mostly prime time) you can skip commercials at push of a button

This to me it's nice, but most DVR's now a days will do the same in 1-3 button presses, which is not the ideal experience, it's an inconvenience that does have a financial value attached to it.

> ability to stream or download shows onto mobile device. We download kid shows onto the iPad and they’ll play offline, and you can even delete the original off the TiVo

This is amazing, and if my dog needed access on his iPad (he's my only roommate, ATM), I'd subscribe just for that.

> ability to manage recordings and setup one pass from mobile device. (One pass is a feature that lets you record all episodes of a particular show)

This one is tempting me in spite of the status of this article.

> I’m probably an outlier in that I never had cable my entire life.

I would say an insanely valuable outlier. You lacked biases of DVR experience, whick is crazy hard to find. Thank you for sharing your viewpoint :)
What exactly is a style aggregator?
There are countries that provide military and policing and do not take %50 of your income to redistribute to the self victimized.

Your logical conclusion is non sequitor.

The point is that it is theft.

Whether they theif offers your "protection" for taking from you, is besides the point.
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To burn more fossil fuels.

You have to mine the token, then when you spend it, send money to miners on Ethereum. It's double the carbon!
Yes, that gives a slight increase in memory consumption. We can go overboard and allow a doubled memory consumption then.
Sounds very nice. I'll take a look at it. It should be useful for when I open tabs to links from websites that I usually don't go to (suggested by social media friends, for example).
I did, yes.
SegWit will do nothing for long term scaling. Watch and see.
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser\features\

WOAH.

That's some genuinely nasty stuff that no one would normally want on their machines AND visible only from an obscure about:support page AND with no clear way of disabling it, save for deleting .xpi files:

followonsearch@mozilla.com.xpi [1]
shield-recipe-client@mozilla.org.xpi [2]

There are also these two that explicitly disrespect and ignore one's updating preferences:

aushelper@mozilla.org
webcompat@mozilla.org.xpi

These appear to be a way for Mozilla to push "urgent" patches bypassing the normal update mechanism and user consent.

---

This is completely unacceptable. This sort of functionality should be in the main UI and it should be possible to disable it with one click, permanently.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2017/06/05/measuring-search-in...

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield - generalized engine for running "study" recipes.
There's First Party Isolation add-on[0] that allows you to enable it by default, and then disable it for a period of five minutes by clicking on an icon.

That way, you could click on it when you're using JIRA and have first party isolation when you're not using JIRA.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/first-party-i...
Interesting proposition. This could be a worthwhile weekend project. Will use Hugo for now as I don't intend to get my own VPS anytime soon but I'll definitely try this out. Thank you!
That argument only holds when cloud services do not adopt a common API between each other. (The GDPR might change it since it demands data portability in a common format)

(And posix stdin/out is quite terrible tbh, imagine if cat and sort could emit structured objects like in powershell)
> As far as I can tell, depression is in essence a negative feedback loop of bad thoughts that flood your brain and body incessantly creating negativity and sluggishness that further shape your thoughts and behaviour.

Science have a thoroughly incomplete and yet much more detailed and nuanced understanding of depression. I suggest you look into it, if you are interested enough to have an opinion on the matter.

I meditated for over an hour a day for several years - I had long term injuries that needed me to sit motionless several times a day while I treated them, so I would get myself set up, and the meditate through the session. (It wasn't a painful or otherwise sensate process.) I'd had started meditation earlier than that, with some classes and literature in college.

I'm actually up in arms now against people who insist that mediation/yoga/SSRIs/most therapists can make a damn bit of difference in the case of actual depression. I wasted 20 years of my life listening to them, when the people those things are going to help aren't actually depressed to begin with.
according to your link
> No ID required to vote at ballot box: California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C.
Yep, and ruining life of lots of people in the process.

But hey, all for big money!
That doesn't make any sense, e.g. having a Japanese passport doesn't let you vote in 180 countries you can visit.
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Hacking my sons ride-on car
Alzheimer’s disease is informally referred to as Type 3 diabetes because of similarity; this informal name
Is prevalent enough that when a different form of type I was discovered (which may or may not be cluster 2 in this article) it was called type 4
> NoScript also activates `<noscript>` tags

Ah, that explains why I occasionally see <noscript> on links. I use NoScript too, but only allow scripts from a select list.
Look at it from an interview perspective. If I ask "are you interested in exploring ML", and you're enthusiastic, my next questions are : What have you done? Have you taken any courses? GitHub? Blog Posts?

If the answer is that you're waiting for a special sign that it's worth doing before making an effort, then that really tells me that your enthusiasm for doing ML is not reality-based. Doing the ML thing is a pretty different mindset from other software jobs.
@venturis_voice
I tried to hear several of your podcasts, but the audio quality is sub-par. I understand that this is just a side-project, but may be think about at least move your recordings through a normalizer.
Video Demo of Atomic Swap on the Raiden Network Using Two ERC20 Tokens
Google Design: Fair is not the default
A history of Fingerprinting protection in Firefox
Although developers should know and do better, I think a big part of why they aren't doing it is because Microsoft has made it so hard to update Windows 7 since a year or two ago, all in the name of forcing people to switch to Windows 10.

You now have to visit and manually download the updates from Microsoft's Update Catalog website. Oh, and that website only works on Internet Explorer.
What is the "source" according to you?
ReproducibleBuilds
Shaken down for $35,000 by patent trolls for selling rubies in Clicker Heroes
why do u want to leave US? Isnt it american dream?
Posthaven is interesting! I'll have a look at it once I'm a bit more serious about blogging. Either this or something like Ghost.

You're right though. From what I can tell, most of these alternatives seem to be interoperable and I can jump around easily if need be. I'll start with hugo and see where that leads me. And I'll blog about that as well :) Great idea :D Thank you!
I turned 18 in 1999.

I found a discarded HP plotter from the mid eighties in the late nineties (about 1996/1997) and successfully connected it to my PC. There I used CorelTrace! to transform a scan of my father’s signature into a vector file. Then I was able to place any document the school wanted him to sign into the bed of the plotter and have it literally inked onto the page.

Excellent, reliable, indiscriminate forgery. (I’ve since owned up to this.)