skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who cares what some author or poet decided to write? Who cares what some scientist found? Who cares what food tastes like? Who cares what article someone posted on Hacker News? Who cares about the bug you fixed? Who cares what software exists?

We can all live without any of this, but why?
The article says

> "Meanwhile for updating Intel’s consumer chips, this is a bit more nebulous"

And then says why it's still ambiguous where that leaves non-DC users
The creditors make sense - they're getting high rates of return to compensate for that risk. LBOs are net positive for creditors, even though a lot of them blow up.

But I can't explain what CEOs and shareholders are up to; surely they know when an LBO is over-leveraged and likely to bankrupt them. Can anyone explain why these offers keep getting accepted?
Not to mention they all last forever. Might be daunting building up your spice rack and sauces for someone new to cooking but really the investment is like $50 tops to cover most cuisines and lasts 2-4 years.
Many of us don't want our cities to compete for who can slash the most taxes
thebrain.com is cool. Thank you for sharing!
Link to the smart contract?
We've done them before in Amsterdam.
How to build a SaaS with $0
This looks like much more involved and longer project. But still I'll get your book, looks very interesting :)
How much will go to the CTS fund?
According to this article, one reason LBOs are attractive derives from the US tax code:

A leveraged buyout (LBO) is a financial transaction in which a company is purchased with a combination of equity and debt, such that the company's cash flow is the collateral used to secure and repay the borrowed money. The use of debt, which has a lower cost of capital than equity, serves to reduce the overall cost of financing the acquisition. The cost of debt is lower because interest payments reduce corporate income tax liability, whereas dividend payments do not. This reduced cost of financing allows greater gains to accrue to the equity, and, as a result, the debt serves as a lever to increase the returns to the equity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout
Slightly offtopic, but my favourite knockoff of Top Gear is neither of the two successor shows but one made on a tiny fraction of its budget: Air an Rathad. It has adorable levels of enthusiasm and beautiful scenery without any of the bombast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fky8c
There is a great set of Khan Academy videos on the subject.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
>Sure, anybody can publicise any objection to any law in any system. Ensuring such an argument is actually paid attention to and that revisions are actually made is a different matter entirely.

It's not a "different" matter. It's just a matter of how a directly democratic system is designed. If I were designing such a system, a "reddit style" forum attached to the vote that lets objections or arguments in favor float to the top would be a given - at the bare minimum.

>Relatively easy for a representative to make a case for a particular amendment to a particular piece of proposed legislation by addressing the need to rewrite Clause 17b to a group of elected legislators whose full time job is scrutinising that legislation, and then proposing the amendment is voted on there and then, with the proponents of the legislation having a pretty good idea of whether making the change will be necessary to carry the vote.

And it's relatively easy for a rich lobby group with a think tank attached to jam their views in to this relatively "unscrutinized" clause by making donations to the politician's campaign. This is the danger inherent with "professional" politicians and "policy experts" of any kind (economists are particularly susceptible to this phenomenon too).

And, it usually requires a grass roots movement to bring attention to "17b" issues before the corporation stops getting its way. Instead of marching in front of Congress with placards wouldn't it be easier if we could just click a button to register our displeasure?

>Much more difficult to convince a significant percentage of the public who enthusiastically support the intent of a bill that they should take the time to read objections to Clause 17b

You could make a directly democratic system that didn't attach a forum to facilitate deliberation, but in my opinion, that would be a massive oversight.

Equally I think it would be an oversight to not implement voluntary vote delegation. I don't see why just because I don't want to delegate my vote to a sleazy professional "full time" politician I shouldn't delegate some of my votes to my retired mother or some other person I personally trust with time on their hands.
I'm sure there are all sorts of dark actors in the shadows on this one. Holmes is being hung drawn and quartered in public, but there were many other people involved in building up this chimera. The board of directors are an interesting bunch and Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is a colorful character. Holmes may have been a patsy, who knows...

Bloomberg and most other media companies pumped Theranos up for all it was worth, then Murdoch's WSJ deflated the balloon, having previously blown it up to dekacorn dimensions.

It feels like the pump and dump plays so popular in the dot com era by the money.
Wait, are those products listed at higher prices on Amazon or your website?

If I can get an item cheaper from the seller directly, assuming paying them securely is not a problem and shipping costs stay constant, of course I'll switch to buying from the seller's website directly.

Unless if the seller's website is harder to use or their business/domain is name not that memorable/trustworthy.
#machinelearning versus ai or machine learning or deep learning or etc.
What wouldn't it work with? It sounds like any treaty can at all override a claim to states rights. The 10th amendment is thus absolutely meaningless because the set of all rights that are supposedly left to the states can be covered by a treaty.
MusicVAE: Creating a palette for musical scores with machine learning
Microsoft Research also seems to be much more willing to create usable demos of their work.
It’s because silicon valley is stuck in ego battles and fear and risk aversion, eyes on world domination or bust, while China is a scrappy underdog not worried about pixel perfect proof of concepts. I like their style, like smaller US markets as I remember them. Yet to visit, but the Chinese I’ve worked with remotely and as students/colleagues are pragmatic and dedicated.
Hey everyone - thanks for bringing this up!

As some of you have deduced, the reason we added the extra clause was because we were concerned about supporting modified clients on our rendezvous server. We want to provide a good user experience for everyone using Tandem, and it would be difficult to do that by supporting modified clients as well. Like you pointed out, we don't want potentially bad forks to cause problems for others. The spirit of the license was not to stifle the abilities of others to contribute to or distribute Tandem.

With that said, we’ve heard your feedback and agree that this kind of stipulation is better suited for a terms of service on the server we host. So we’ll be switching to the unmodified Apache 2.0 license and adding a terms of service to request users of modified versions of Tandem to use their own hosted server.
The windows 10 Netflix app seems to have a good compromise: When the credits (opening and closing) of some shows (maybe only ones produced by Netflix?) start there's a "Skip credits" or "Skip intro" button, but it's not automatic.
Hahahahaha

I might be going to downvote hell for this, but as a computer scientist writing papers for a living, every hour spent writing latex belies your comment.

By the way, Context is a much saner alternative, although it still shares many of Latex' core flaws.

Unfortunately, that doesn't matter because most conference mandate use of their Latex or (ugly) Word template, and using Word is cause for ostracization.

You are also correct to say that version control is a big advantage of Latex. I wonder why Microsoft hasn't come up with a better competing solution.
What developers look for in a startup
(outside edit window. first sentence should be 'I eat soup' not 'I like soup')
yeah I don't buy that. Someone looking to identify flawed research can choose from a vast amount of subject areas to focus upon. The research that this person chooses to attempt to debunk is IMO telling.
So the part I've never understood is why companies accept these offer. Are we talking about hostile takeovers? Or just already-failing companies that accept the turnaround plan because they're short on options?

It looks like investors and the PE firm have obvious ways to profit here, but I can't work out what the company gets out of this.
Jeremy Clarkson had just assaulted a colleague following several other scandals, including racism rows. I assume they made a judgement that the reputational damage to their existing business wasn't worth it, whereas Amazon needed the boost.
Matt would appreciate your use of footnotes!
Even audio works now. Truly, this is the year of Linux on the desktop.
There are thus no States's Rights. The states rights are subject to federal government conspiring with foreign powers to remove them.
It was one of the very few that didn’t suck, IMO. That’s why I bought it. And IIRC it wasn’t the most expensive option.
I personally had read an article and want to go back to it couldn't find it. Also, I don't really like reading about of a lot of stuff I would like to filter out.
You can disable "Play next episode automatically" in your account settings on Netflix's website: https://www.netflix.com/HdToggle

The Netflix app on my smart TV honors that setting. Unfortunately, this setting does not stop Netflix from auto-playing the video when you first select it.
Wow this is a fascinating argument that rings — to me, also a woman, very much having also experienced some of this - so vividly true.
I can't tell. Is this genuine, or is it some kind of Poe's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) thing?

People say pretty silly things about TeX and LaTeX, but this is so obviously silly that I thought of it as being like an April Fool joke. On the other hand, the sprinkling in of admiration for DEK, for instance, doesn't mesh with that.
Toy-Con Garage is why Nintendo Labo’s cardboard accessories cost $70
The Simple, Serendipitous Joy of Browser Extensions
I'd suggest watching some of the recent lectures of Svante Pääbo on YouTube (and his papers on Google Scholar), he's very good at explaining the latest findings.

This one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4TLaRSJN2k
In case you are interested in providing feedbacks about the next episodes, my current list of potential ideas is:

1. Code snippets: show small self contained functions from random places inside Redis.

2. Redis Sentinel: the first design, the immediate redesign of v2, and how it is internally implemented.

3. The use of goto in Redis.

4. Redis protocol parsing and zero-copying of objects.

5. The odd Redis persistence model: fork() and fighting the copy-on-write.

6. Redis crash report. Generation and usefulness over the years.

7. Observability inside Redis: latency hooks, LATENCY DOCTOR and MEMORY DOCTOR.

8. Hybrid data structures: Streams macro nodes implementation.

9. RIO: Redis I/O abstraction and OOP in C.

10. Redis Cluster: how the Redis message bus is implemented.

11. Redis Cluster: hash slots tracking and redirections.

If you have any preference and/or other ideas, will be cool to hear.

About this experience itself, good things: shooting a video takes more or less just the time to record. Preparation is just a few minutes, and later post processing is an automatic process... So in 1 hour max everything is done. However I see that the reach of the videos is very low compared to a blog post, which requires more time to write sometimes, at least to have the same amount of info. So it's a tradeoff. Also consuming the video may be a problem for many, for instance for language barriers due to the speaker accent (in my case) and the listener ability to understand English without subtitles. Let's say I want to make 10 episodes and re-evaluate if it's a good idea to change style and do 5 minutes episodes instead.
I'm not exactly sure what's more "nebulous" about the timing for consumer chips. This timing is specified for both the consumer and server chips in the same sentence in the press release: "These changes will begin with our next-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code-named Cascade Lake) as well as 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors expected to ship in the second half of 2018." (I guess the nebulous thing is exactly which 8th generation Cores will have the update.)
Thank you for posting this. If I had to take one book to an island for the rest of my life, it would be a toss up between The Cyberiad and The Star Diaries.
There is a chrome extension that also acts as a wallet and allows you to interact with dApps called meta mask (https://metamask.io/)

Cipher is interesting because it's built for iOS/Android and allows people to use dApps on mobile (which Metamask can't do). In fact, CryptoFinalFour was designed for Cipher/mobile browsing first.
R/economics went over this a bit too. There are other issues with the model that and to make it very poor:

* - fixed rate of return (doubled or halved) make luck play an oversized role. One of talents greatest contributions is knowing how to let your winners run and cut your losses. The setup is close to a random walk by definition.

- risk reduction is hugely important. High earners especially when speaking of finance tend to know how to reduce risk. Only fools always bet half they capital in every decision.

* - talent would understand what events are more likely to succeed than just every event having the same probability.

- talent and preparation generate events. The more you prepare the more chances you'll have available. Most successful people have failed multiple times but keep trying.

- no learning. One of talents great benefits is learning from mistakes. And when combined with increased number of chances that talent provides, this is a critical feedback cycle the model misses.

- competition. Businesses aren't competing against the impersonal universe, but against other individuals. The trial events should have occurred in that context. If they really wanted to keep this silly 2D thing, it would have been better to have two agents roll against each other when meeting, taking talent into consideration.

Basically the model made everybody similar and then had an exponential random function. With such small tails in the talent pool, there is no other decision it could have reached. I'm shocked this is being upheld as valid research.

* Edit: The response by @edmccard below says that a couple of these might also be luck based (those related to evaluating events), and that is a really valid point. We know that stock pickers are mostly luck for example. It would seem plausible this also extends to evaluating what job to enter or what company to start.

Still not possible to easily type asterisks on HN without them getting interpreted as italics
Why doesn't this poison the image of organisations that have been through Bain Capital then? Who would buy shares associated with this behaviour?
There's also the awful justification throughout.
welcome to "how the media subtly shapes public opinion" and "editorial bias" :)
That tendency is valid when you're plotting your own future strategy, because you can't go back in time.

However when you're looking at society in aggregate, you have to consider what will happen, so the conversation is still useful when planning for the future (since people will be at different points in their lives) of the group as a whole.
Feynman on "why is ice slippery?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
Was she the CEO or not? If the CEO does not bear responsibility for egregious, dangerous fraud who does?
Key quote:

"The most important part of the answer is to remember the reasons for America’s success in the 1950s and 1960s. Government programmes, intended to surpass the Soviet Union in space and weapons systems, galvanised investment in education, research and engineering across a broad range of technologies. This ultimately gave rise to Silicon Valley, where it was infused by a spirit of free inquiry, vigorous competition and a healthy capitalist incentive to make money. It was supercharged by an immigration system that welcomed promising minds from every corner of the planet."

Even as local youth education was bungled, the flow of highly skilled immigrants and top-notch universities for wealthy and/or foreign students, helped maintain the lead.

Just look at the founders, key techies and CEOs - rare to find a WASP.

One key issue for China is that despite laxer immigration policies it is not an inclusive culture, it is very hard for foreigners to snap into a Chinese company. Language being the first obvious block. Environmental problems, free speech add to the mix - but, again, the US is hellbent on destroying those USPs (EPA under threat, ...).
I did not read it that way; I read the comment as saying "here's a place you could move that has no IP laws, but you probably don't want to move there for this other reason".
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Please, just deliver something that isn't just kinda shit first and then I'll be happy to hear about how you want a more coherent branding experience.
Would love to see the numbers of how many purchased and now in the drawer never to be worn again.
Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
First Lightning mainnet release
In their model the only benefit of talent is it makes you more likely to double your wealth given luck. This means that they assume luck is needed for advancement while talent is not. Hence they assume that luck is more important than talent, and it's unsurprising that they see the result.

Likewise the power distribution is built in. Power distributions are created by multiplicative laws and the only ways wealth changes in this model are multiplication and division. This means they also assume the power distribution they claim to discover.

It's definitely very hard to build models that match reality, but this one doesn't really seem to try and it's outcomes are so predictable they don't offer meaningful insight. Luck surely plays a huge role in success, but something like longitudinal studies where we measure the abilities of children and then follow their outcomes are likely far more insightful.
Rodney Brooks, pioneering MIT robot scientist and founder of iRobot, came out this year with a variety of predictions. For what I'd call "real" self-driving cars, robot taxis that can handle what normal taxis do, he says not earlier than 2035: http://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/

That's not shocking at all to me. There's a huge difference between "works well in carefully controlled demo conditions" and "works well enough to replace a mature product". A sunny day in Phoenix on a carefully controlled set of streets is very much the easiest difficulty level of driving.
And what Github is asking developers to do here fits that definition too. When they ask developers to contact the government and explain why this proposal is a bad idea, they are asking them to lobby the government.
> I wish people would try TeX out first as well. You literally type stuff and a paragraph comes out. Enter a blank line to separate paragraphs. It can't be much easier.

This may be because raw TeX is not very google-able, whereas large amounts of guides exist for LaTeX in particular. The best resource for it seems to be the TeXbook, which seems to still be in print and not freely available.

Side note: This is one of the reasons why I'm personally somewhat partial to troff, be it heirloom-doctools or groff. Many great resources, introductionary or otherwise, are freely available on the Internet at no cost, such as UNIX Text Processing and the introductions to the ms macros, eqn and tbl in the UNIX V7 manual volume 2A.
I would also assume that OpenGL is better supported on multiple platforms, by virtue of having been around much longer. You'll also be able to get more help if you run into issues with OpenGL.
Dumbasses
Unless this means that the next release of Android Wear won't be based on Android; it don't see the point of this rebranding.

To be honest, I thought that Android Wear was pretty much abandoned at this point.
> Interestingly, the value of most currencies is measured in terms of the value of other currencies, most of which have no value other than the trust recursively vested in them by civilization.

This doesn't make any sense. The value of any currency is measured constantly by its users conducting trades: when you buy a coffee, you're measuring the value of the currency used; when you pay for a haircut, you're measuring the value of the currency used. That is far more frequent and larger than FX trading.
I just recently switched from an iPhone8 to a Pixel2. Google Assistant is way better. It's faster, more accurate, and can do more.

I use it for all sorts of things that I would never try to get Siri to do.
Everyone just needs to know and understand the repercussions before signing up at a start-up.

But without risks, there is no progress. It's messy but necessary for innovation.
Source: https://gist.github.com/vincentchu/a4429de38ae15419f3b08c86c...

Contract address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x100cc2fa0ea14bf9b0740aeb8f66f...
By that logic, why aren't we already prosecuting drivers of older, less safe vehicles? Why don't we mandate that every single car on the road has a breaking system straight from a sports car(while you can still buy cars with drum brakes today).

Surely, if you only bought a more expensive vehicle, you could have saved a life! /s
As a follow up, what causes negative curl (when the rock curls in the opposite direction of rotation)?

Not something you are bound to see in professional level arenas, but not uncommon in clubs.

In fact, what makes club ice seemingly impossible to make behave like arena ice? There is a serious amount of research by Canadian universities that has gone into trying to make club ice act like arena ice for training purposes and the best we have been able to do is "almost the same".
Back in my college prime and I was knee deep in the stuff, I was the guy that would do an integral in my head and then screw up the subtraction at the end. I've just always been bad at mental arithmetic, and don't put in the practice to get better because it just doesn't affect my life that much.

So yes, we exist.
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I can forgive the '-b' creating a branch as a convenience. Having checkout perform safe operations by modifying HEAD when you pass a branch but destructive operations on the working tree when you pass a pathspec is too much. I appreciate your attempt to build a mental model for checkout, but I just don't find modifying HEAD and destructively overwriting working changes to be related operations.
Nancy Pelosi on ACA: “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU

And they did pass it, largely without reading or understanding, because of how voluminous it was. IMO bills over 20 pages long should be broken up and passed piecemeal.
Hey, I'm also a software dev interested in transitioning to PM as well. As I understand it, you'll have to do it either internally, via an MBA, or have someone else maybe who is already a PM / senior PM help you get in. That's my thoughts anyways.