skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're radically changing the goal posts of success if a wide swath of educated, hard working young professionals can't afford to lay down roots in the cities they grew up in because of the current absurd asset bubble's effect on home prices.

Additionally, your example is kinda silly. on an income of $200k, you can afford a high end luxury apartment with approximately half of your income - as a bachelor.
Yes, if the baseline for the richest country in the world is "has a roof" then hard work mostly is enough to succeed. But there are too many people who work extremely hard, sometimes at two or three jobs, who barely can afford to eat and need government assistance. So no, hard work is not a good terminology.

There simply isn't a link between "working hard" and any measure of success above the lowest baseline. Some people succeed because of a small one million dollar loan from their parents without having to ever work hard.
I'm talking specifically about modeling iid/non-iid sequences of data from events, experiments, etc. Haven't read the paper so, I'm not sure if I'm talking past the authors or OP.
Press release talking about the reasoning behind open sourcing it at: http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2018/03/webos-enters-next-phase-as...
Tracking expenses may or may not be worth the time. You need to exceed what your standard deductions are as an individual just to "break even". Now, was all that tracking of expenses worth the time to save a few dollars, along with paying business license fees & taxes? If yes, then keep working it.
I got really excited about thresholdout a couple weeks ago, but I've since cooled; setting the threshold seems like too much black magic.

I thought the Zillow blogpost [1] was a nice intro (and I'm a sucker for Seinfeld references), and it demonstrates the sensitivity-to-threshold value in a way the original academic authors never did.

[1]: https://www.zillow.com/data-science/double-dip-holdout-set/
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I purchased a plane ticket recently through Google's system. It was an efficient and pleasant process and they had my card on file already.

It allowed me to bypass the multiple nag screens and upsell screens that you have to usually have to navigate when purchasing (especially from budget carriers).

If they do this for other products, I can see it catching on.
I would imagine sperm banks do something similar. They have standards for who they accept, they won't take donations from just anyone. And I really doubt they just roll dice and give you a random man's sperm.

Sleeping with some person doesn't tell you anything about, say, their family medical history. Sperm banks check that stuff.
I tried turning it off and back on again
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I suppose you could call it a two-node consensus algorithm, the same way plugging a flash drive into your laptop is. Even after reading, I don't see the benefit of viewing TCP this way.
You do realize that SV is not the entire American software industry, right? There are many H1Bs in the mid-sized Southern city where I'm from, where it's extremely difficult to find a software development job and where the economy is already struggling. It's just wrong.
Then you're just not looking hard enough, or your moving your goalposts of what you count. You're also falling into the trap of believing that all children are planned. Pregnancy happens even if you take precautions to have safe sex, and in many parts of the country, a person's options for dealing with that are extremely limited.
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> The sole thing presently keeping Russia from invading Eastern Europe and taking more territory, is the US military presence in Europe. The sole thing keeping North Korea from invading South Korea and attempting to annex it, is the US. The sole thing (maybe temporarily) keeping China from officially annexing Taiwan, is the US military presence in Asia.

I don't now about Taiwan, but I doubt it as the other points are utter nonesense. China is the only reason why NK still exists. And China 'protects' NK because the US wants it.

And I have no idea where you got the russian thing from. That makes simply no sense. It was true about ... 40 years ago? and thats stretching it. The economic sanctions from the EU had a way bigger impact on their last 'invasion'

> Not Germany, not France, not the UK, not Australia, not Canada, not New Zealand, not Japan, not the UN.

I agree on that front. None of them deserve that title. Nor does the US though.
The position of 'leader of the free world' is - in my opinion - vacant at the moment.
I have a pet theory that we've been systematically under-estimating inflation for the past many years, and that all these sky-high market caps are really the result of the dollar not being worth as much as we all think.

Don't really have numbers behind it, other than things like a 12-pack of craft beer almost doubling over the past decade.
Does anyone have a script or app that can go in and delete every post I've ever made? Google turns up a few Chrome plugins that all look dubious. Be great to have an authoritative guide to deleting everything without fully deactivating Facebook (since there is still a lot of utility in it w/r/t rolodex, event planning)
It's a product that's there's already a large, regulated market for, in fact (as blood plasma specifically). It wouldn't much extra effort to only buy it from young desperate people...
My point is that just saying "we have data X,Y,Z" for a person doesn't explain the logic. It allows you to check that the input data is correct, but you don't understand the decision from it. What you need is an explanation saying something like "X is too low, and we think that Y in the presence of Z is a significant risk factor."

The need for the explanation is because an AI can learn to discriminate against protected classes even if they aren't explicitly part of the dataset. You might not have included race in the inputs, but you did include their name, and it figures out that people named "Jakub" should be declined for a loan. The AI can't say that it's because they are Polish, but it learned to discriminate against Polish sounding names because of all the racism in the training data. We could uncover that if the AI was able to explain that it denied the loan mostly because of the name, and that the other pieces Y and Z did not factor into the decision as heavily. Just saying X Y and Z doesn't help us figure out which of those pieces are the important parts for denying a loan.
That would be very unfair. Obama was Illinois senator for 3 terms, elected to US Senate in landslide, president of Harvard Law School, attorney, professor, liked by everyone who knew him, great listener, worked across the aisle, etc. So yes, almost stark opposites.
True enough, but how much revenue is FB bringing in on these platforms? These platforms all have alternatives and aren't exactly sticky. If FB turns the screws to increase ROI, customers are going to leave.
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It proves that hard work had nothing to do with succeeding. Getting a biochemistry degree is hard work yet it gave the owner nothing more than a job a high schooler can do.
Lots of interesting details about the hardware in the developer documentation:

* 6-DOF tracked controller

* Eye tracking

* Multiple depth of field display

* Persistent location tracking across multiple rooms

And limitations:

* FOV is going to be rather small

* Variable depth-of-field doesn't work well with objects less than a foot (30 cm) from your face

* Takes a few seconds for the system to adjust when you move real objects around (so if you move your couch, it won't notice instantly)
That's why so many people are against any sort of gambling. It's essentially a laundering vehicle for organized crime (even state sponsored ones).

Why do you think James Bond was always around a casino? Winnings can cleanly pay for hitjobs.
Elixir turns from wonderful to magical once you grasp the GenServer concept and learn about its extensions, namenly GenStage. The producer/consumer pattern and the back-pressure logic will allow you to build incredibly scalable, resilient systems. When I first saw it in action, I was mesmerized.
Most logical comment in the entire thread. Thank you =)
Obama was a senator for 13 years before being elected president.
I don't have personal experience with this, but it seems to be that OP could have done this using their pipelines and maybe the graphs?

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines.html#pipeline-graphs
Just search ninja's youtube, it should come up to the top.

Cartoony makes it fun in a way that realistic graphics based games just can't match because of the aesthetic. It begs a silly-ness to elements that make it enjoyable and Epic can refresh at will (player skins for St. Pattys day, hidden Llama's on the map, Chinese new year theme, etc.)
I mean, I personally do agree with that. If you have a full time job, you should be earning enough to where you can provide for yourself and your family without having to resort to food stamps or welfare or anything like that. Unfortunately, Amazon, Walmart, et al disagree.
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> atoms are made of protons neutrons and electrons each which is made of 3 quantoms.

Electrons are currently thought to be indivisible, and protons and neutrons are made of three quarks each.

I've never heard of the word "quantom" before... where does it come from?
Because this is HN and people here are interested in exactly such generalizations.

It's mildly interesting to consider the ways in which scratch-offs can be gamed. One can collude with a shop owner to peer behind the scratch-off material with a machine, for instance. It is about as interesting as figuring out how a biometric ID can be gamed by a simple replay attack, storing all the aspects of your fingerprint and replaying it later.

What's MORE interesting is if the lottery was far far harder to game. The general principle is fascinating. We think we can KNOW the truth but using simple math we can SHOW that when evidence on both sides piles up and yet contradicts the other, you cannot recover and somehow come to KNOW the truth.

Thus you see the situation today when people confidently assert one side or the other, but each side has really strong arguments for its side.

Each side will say the other's arguments are bunk, but rarely actually engages with them in depth.
different indeed, everyone I know in Ireland uses it.
A little late, but I think one of the most important distinctions between "otherness" in a place like Tokyo versus a place like the US is the fact that you can "become" an American in at least one sense if not completely, but you can basically never be Japanese in almost any sense.

It's always felt that America is the kind of place that once you've put in your 6 years (I think it's 6 now) on the way to citizenship (or however you get your citizenship), and are sworn in/become a citizen, the next person that implies you're un-american you're free to punch in the face (most of the time not not literally). People may imply it, but the way the country is built/the culture is structured is at least supposed to imply that once you choose to join "Team America" so-to-speak, you're a team-member and that's that. America struggles with the divisions and history between the cultures/races within it, but I think that's natural, sometimes healthy, and to some degree inevitable -- there's no way you're going to have lots of cultures mix without conflict/racism. So if you start with the preconception that friction is a 100% certainty, the question is whether you can see it, and whether the culture is one where you can freely discuss it or not.

Japan on the other hand, is like 95%+ Japanese last I checked -- there just isn't enough mixing at any sort of scale to widen the idea of what a Japanese person is, and much of the segregation is intentional (which is fine by me). Even Japanese people who go abroad for a long time as children and return are treated differently, and have to be careful when re-entering society, there just isn't any hope of melting into the society in any reasonable sense for someone who is in actuality 100% gaijin (and looks nothing like a japanese person).

While I haven't lived in the UK, I imagine it's the same, they seem to have a melting pot culture very similar to the US in this sense, in some ways they seem even better mixed than the US -- I feel like I see less overt racism there.

I don't think this phenomenon is limited to Japan of course, just happens to be on topic right now -- I imagine being a white person in Nigeria or some other prosperous African country would be a somewhat similar situation as far as otherness goes.
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"I was just following orders" is widely recognized as a poor replacement for good citizenship. I endorse BART's stance.
Reddit discussion from last week, where the author responds to some comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/844rve/my_first_ye...
Having a bad rap inside the tech bubble affects them in relation to recruiting and retention though. If the tech zeitgeist turns against Facebook as a "cool place to work" that's pretty bad news for them.
As someone who had to use UltraEdit once and wasn't allowed to use another editor (besides Notepad): Giant NOPE from me.

It has by far the clunkiest editor UI I ever used. I would never consider it a productivity tool. On most other ones, my reaction would be rather "meh" (oh my zsh and the silver searcher are nice, actually). I'd guess that with a list of a couple of unixy tools, you'd do much better for productivity.
The ads are being run exclusively in San Francisco. My post is simply addressing the same audience they are.
You used [1] but didn't provide a link at the bottom. Did you forget to cite something?
Snapchat is not owned by Facebook. FB does own whatsapp though.
No. spend any time outside the US and you’ll see the Facebook and WhatsApp are integral pieces of tech used extensively for business instead of the more photo sharing / news / groups way it’s used here.

Unless Facebook was discovered to be doing very illegal things I wouldn’t count on anything changing, and even so they would potentially be fined and a few people fired ala Volkswagen but IMO extremely unlikely to be broken up/disbanded/sold/rebranded
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> other than things like a 12-pack of craft beer almost doubling over the past decade

That's the thing about inflation, you need to look at a large basket of goods to estimate it. Different people feel price increases differently depending on what they buy. It's the aggregate number that matters at the end of the day.
Strong evidence? Beyond it simply being a collection of historical accounts by historical people, of varying accuracy?
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Well, no, I'd say that it means that the line of work matters much more than the amount of work put into it.

Between two salesmen in the B2B industry, the amount of work put forward will create a difference in their overall pay. But both salesmen will make more than the hardest working waiter or waitress.
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There's a lot of noise in the Bay. What is actually worth my time to attend?

And are there any resources (newsletters, bloggers, etc.) that are spectacular and worth the read on my morning commute?
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Note: its available on Safari Books Online. I would guess that a fair number of people here have SBO subscriptions.
Pretty sure Facebook's "delete" is just a Boolean toggle called isDeleted with everything else unchanged.

But I guess this is the best we have.
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The difference is between "the technology" and an "implementation of the technology". Sure, P2P DHT exists. Just like blockchains exist. But a specific blockchain, which is append-only, is trivial to make illegal by embedding illegal content in it, making every user of it technically in possession of illegal material. You can use a DHT w/o breaking the law. You cannot store child porn on your computer without breaking the law.
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The opinion that the tech giants (e.g. Google, Amazon, Facebook) are becoming/have become predatory monopolies is seemingly gaining mainstream traction. As a computer scientist working in Silicon Valley with a more technical appreciation of the history of these tech giants, I often find discussions amongst friends and HN about Antitrust+tech to be highly opinionated but weakly informed in terms of legal and historical precedence outside of our tech bubble.

So- I’m looking for y’alls recommendations for books on antitrust in the U.S. that put this debate in a more historically informed context, ideally with opinions from people in the legal-know-how who operate outside the Silicon Valley circle jerk. Any recommendations? Preferably info about the origins of the anti trust sentiment in America, it’s seeming decline, and why people are concerned about it now.
> For the last 7 years I've been only living on the 7th and 8th floor, I think only twice I had problems with the elevator.

Still it's a bother, especially if you're a senior citizen. Also you still spend much time just waiting for an elevator and riding it,

> I'm very fine with that, I don't need huge spaces to live all of by myself (or with my wife + kids). As a matter of fact I have several coffee shops on a 10-minute walk radius, there's where I also spend most of my free time.

That's ok, but many people would like something more than a 50 m^2 flat and don't spend most of free time in coffee shops.

> I don't have that much spare time, and as such I don't have time for gardening (plus, I don't like it). On top of that, "raw" nature beats "gardened" nature by several orders of magnitude

I don't mean some fancy garden, just grass and maybe some trees/bushes. And I don't agree that raw nature beats it by several orders of magnitude, of course someone likes it better, and it's no mountains, but it's still real trees, real flower and real grass.

> I want my kids to be able to wander by themselves in wild-ish forests just outside the city (as I used to do as a kid, while I was living in an communist apartment building), I don't want them to enjoy the sort of "manicured" nature that the suburbia promotes.

If you want that than living in a large city is really not an answer. Your kids only can do that if you live on the very edge of the city. And suburbia has more places like that because it has more edges (there's many detached patched of sprawl). Or you can live in a very small city.
European cities in the 1600s were massively over-populated for much of the same reasons non-Western cities are massively over-populated now: The rise of industrialization, a lack of available housing, poor infrastructure, and massive population growth coupled with rapid urbanization of a traditionally agricultural workforce.

London, as just one example, was an ugly, disgusting, miserable place until the mid 20th century, so it takes time to sort these things out. Cities in India might be a mess today but once their population growth simmers down and the cities can get better organized they'll be much less crowded.

As filthy and disgusting as the slums of some cities in India are, London was worse. The Thames was so polluted with sewage that paddle boats would churn it into this vile froth, like bath bubbles from hell. People who fell overboard from boats would drown because they couldn't be seen through all the foam. Even though the Parliament buildings are right on the river, and the smell in the summer was absolutely unbearable, it took decades for a proper sanitation system to be built because of a lack of political will.

Better infrastructure means you can even out the population density better. India, like many other industrializing countries, is way behind the curve. China is one of the few that's been building infrastructure like its going out of style. It's not the one child policy, but aggressive city engineering that's keeping a lid on the problem.
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Yea, Facebook had admitted to missing mobile and the WhatsApp purchase was driven very much by the knowledge that the for platform was losing streak.
probably not very expensive, considering it was broken in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge#The_pr...
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I don't think it's a poor analogy. We all can cite anecdotes of people being fed up with something, but it won't lead to its death. Your IT dept anecdote is just OP's "I know people that quit Facebook."

Also, look at how people use Facebook. Quitting it would absolutely require a change in their social habits and opportunities.

Too many HNers look at Facebook through the lens of their own slowing social life. Long out of university, aren't meeting people regularly. Yes, makes sense that you could delete Facebook with a skip and a hop.
Well to Epic, their games are usually a showcase of their engine. It makes sense to open source their assets.

It also helps that Fortnite is a massive success.
Of course they can. It's a political choice not to.
Aaaaand there it is. The've basically converted their writeoff to a lossleading/marketing spend. Nothing wrong with shrewd business moves, and I guess they're not trying to mislead people intentionally.

Well nice of them to release the assets at least, I'm sure devs who are already committed to UE4 are pretty stoked.