skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this strategy, I'm gonna explore it more.

I feel no difference between your two phrases, but the editor in me is triggered to think "should've wrote 'i wandered like a cloud.'"

I can think of specific writing that really worked for me. Peter Watts for example described the passing of one spaceship "under" a blacked out space station, describing how the only thing the astronauts could see were surfaces lit up by their own ship's thruster fire, behind them, casting long shadows ahead. I liked that.
Pagerduty wants to disrupt your work/life balance
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“In Theory” is doing a ton of hard work in the title to cover that up. In theory we could run internal combustion engines on sawdust, or fly using helium party balloons, but they’re not good ideas when you look at the full checklist of pros and cons.
I would buy this rare and beautiful piece of technology.
Without knowing much about your business, I’ll just say B2B work can be a tough but more importantly long road. So 9 months may not be a long enough timeframe to judge failure.

My B2B startup focused on government clients, and we’re about to close a deal that took 2 years to close. Many times in that period I wanted to quit, but believed it was better to keep moving forward.

Only you know your business and market fit, and if you think it’s run it’s course then fold, otherwise fight a little longer and work with the success you’ve had so far.
Perhaps so. With inherently safe designs, though.

Not some simplistic scale-up of Rickover's submarine engine.
Or maybe it means you have to curate your crowd rather carefully if you're into outperforming arguably the greatest chess player ever.
How about school is optional too? That alters consciousness. The problem with both is they can cause you to be less able to contribute to the society. You do have some responsibility to do that because your life is supported by the other people in that society. You can't survive well alone in Somalia with no support network.
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Contact me for marketing. It doesn't matter if the product is the best thing since sliced bread, if it's not marketed it will fail.
What’s your specific objection to leaving skin color out of this?
I thought this article was fascinating, not because I believe Pagerduty wants to disrupt work/life balance, but because it's almost a "Missing the forest for the trees" view on uptime/availability for a service/site. I think the author misunderstands that it isn't designed to ping just anyone for any reason whatsoever.
Do you think the new cofounder will substantially change your ability to have 5 successful pilots in the next 3 months?

Are you excited about the space? Do you think you are uniquely able to contribute? Do you still think the market is there?

If your answer are no to all or most of the above, it sounds like maybe you should close up shop. I think returning VC money is dumb. Returning friends & family might be worthwhile.
This is not scientific in any way. when I'm exposed to sunlight for a long period of time without sunglasses, at night my eyes hurt.
I tend to think that pain is a way the body has to let you know something is not right.
Looks neat and wonderful. It’s always impossible to compress all structure from high dimensions to 2D or 3D via something like PCA or t-SNE, and the focus on “geometric” insight is also encouraging. Cool/appropriate name too, nice choice of well-supported dependencies, and minimalist design are all appealing. This could become a go-to toolkit for early stage exploration, while it’s also pretty and smart enough to wow a coworker / investor. Hope it continues to really develop conceptually and practically!
> The main thing I took away from this survey is that the state of the datasets researchers pass around is kind of terrible. None of them are very large. The biggest one looks to be a pile of manga of dubious copyright status.

That's true of most of the big datasets. You don't really think ImageNet negotiated licenses with all 10 million+ owners of the images, do you? They were all ripped from Google Images based on search queries. Yes, there's an 'implied license' for anyone posting images online but 1. a large fraction, probably the majority, of the posters don't own the copyright in the first place; and 2. that implied license almost certainly doesn't extend to unlimited redistribution forever to everyone as part of a ML dataset. Likewise MS COCO, Visual Genome, WebVision... (I remember Google released a giant photo dataset a while ago - not the photos, just the URLs! You were expected to download the images yourself.)

To a first approximation, IP law is so maximalist that the answer to 'can I do X' is always 'no'. I used to occasionally do copyright clearance for photos for WP, and it was a nightmare. A single photo would take months for all the back and forth, and that didn't even involve money.

> I find myself wondering if it might be worth spending some resources reaching out to independent comics creators to get copies of their source files, which will often have consistent methods of organization and labeling across hundreds of pages, as well as machine-readable text, and building a new dataset or expanding existing ones.

They will charge too much, refuse to license appropriately, take months to decide, ignore you, be confused about what they are agreeing to, may not have copies, it'll be very messy data if you can convert the formats at all to a common format (necessary if you hope anyone will ever use it) and after spending a ton of money and time, you'll have a small dataset a few orders of magnitude smaller (and much less proportionately diverse) than Jin's Getchu, COMICS, nico-opendata, Danbooru2017, 'Quick, Draw!', etc. NN OCR is also pretty good these days so the benefit of the raw source files might not be so great either, and it won't have the stroke-level data of 'Quick, Draw!'.
I know a team who completely threw out their original idea and a co-founder after 6 months. They started from scratch and created a company with a $1m run rate revenue after 5 years.

Right now you have a team and funding. That's normally really hard to setup i.e. persuading people to join you to start a company and get funding. Take what you have and run with it. You might need to change the product or dump it all together.
agreed. in the valley you do hear it attributed to intel.

the other long-time intel—ism that has now been appropriated everywhere is the OKR system. it was really weird moving from intel to google and hearing someone from peopleops talk about “this part of google culture called OKRs.”
Taking a moment to enjoy a success, or just that a major heap of work is over, is critical.

The industry has a major problem with burnout. If we don't slow down, and take a break, then eventually, burnout becomes inevitable. The mind gets overworked.

Some people celebrate to recharge. Others stop using a keyboard, and find something else to do.

I don't recharge around others, I find it exhausting. But after a major project ends, I do usually find myself buying the new hit PC game, or taking a hike into the mountains.

Your coworkers celebrate, so that they can feel the weight of the release lift off easier.

Something else might already be playing that role with you - and some releases will be easy for you, and several months of hellish stress for someone else.
I don't think that you'd actually want a dog driving your car. But yes, the anti-tank dogs didn't work out. So maybe you don't want dog brains.
the pilots that signed with us signed because the pain point is real and we did a good job pitching them/they are extraordinarily impressionable. the problem is that a key assumption necessary in actually delivering value turned out to be pretty much false (basically we saw almost no adoption amongst users).
That's funny, calculus II proved divinity to me.
No, not at all. I also don't like what the implies instead of a.
> Contact me for marketing

I'm not OP, but how?
> The quadratic equation violated the cardinal rule of numerical analysis: avoid subtracting nearly equal numbers. The more similar two numbers are, the more precision you can lose from subtracting them.

Are there other "rules" like this, regarding numerical analysis? I understand this, but I've never thought of articulating it like that.
Soft drink tax is proposed in the UK, so it's similar to cigarettes or alcohol in that respect.
Yes, that's what I meant. They were dogs.
That’s a surprisingly weak and imo damning response.

The primary car evaluated by Munro was built in 2017. We have significantly refined our production processes since then, and while there’s always room for improvement, our data already shows that Model 3 quality is rapidly getting better.

So can people who bought your alpha/beta iterations trade in for version 1.0? Treating a huge material purchase such as a car like a software product is guaranteed to get you into trouble.
I'm sure Oracle has figured out something to screw you over once GraalVM becomes popular.
Voting rights are eventually restored in most of the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement#In_t...

A lot of states do restrict the vote for those on parole or probation, but once the supervision ends the vote is restored.
Proves?! It isn't even an anecdote in favor of your thesis. The World Team stayed with the world champion until move 54 (something proved 13 years later).

Avoid over-generalizing.
So prosecute those crimes. I don't think the criminality of drugs have any effect on addicts in the status quo. No one is calling for decriminalization of crimes to support an addiction, only decriminalization of drug possession and use. There's a public health issue with alcohol, tobacco, McDonald's, and sugary sodas as well.
In these kinds of discussions about marijuana I often see people supporting the legalization of all drugs (see current top post in this thread). As someone who disagrees with this stance (but has very little personal experience with drugs and is probably misinformed about some of these things), could someone give counter-arguments for my concerns? I'd like to better understand the point of view that all drugs should be legal instead of a very specific subset of "safe" drugs. (I do think that marijuana should be legalized)

1. It's been medically shown that some drugs cause aggressive and violent behavior. Why should we allow an increase in that kind of behavior if it could be largely prevented as it is now?

2. If all drugs become legalized, what's to prevent addiction to certain drugs sweeping across an entire population and devastating productivity? If drugs are more accessible it seems likely that more people would experiment with and become addicted to more debilitating drugs.

3. It seems like whether drugs are legal or not, if you get addicted to some types of drugs you become effectively unable to earn an income. Even if legalizing drugs reduces the prices, aren't the people addicted to them still going to commit crimes to make the money they need since they still can't work normal jobs?
Not being able to discuss your project with other students in an operating systems class is insane. You need to get input for the subtle bugs that are going to occur.

There is a reason why operating systems and compiler classes are notorious.

However, if 5 hours debugging is too much, I'd get out of the field now. Try debugging something for MONTHS while your bosses are all hanging over your shoulder.

In addition, 5 hours spread out is a problem. Subtle bugs require intense focus and you should be doing 5 hours per session. You have to inload and control a lot of details, most of which are irrelevant, in order to find the thing that really matters.

I really wish I could teach a "debugging class" where I hand groups real code with frustrating bugs. Unfortunately, no CS department would ever let me teach it as it would destroy enrollment.
I sincerely don't get that position. We've been presented with a story; whether that story actually happened in unknowable. So how can it possibly affect the story's quality as food for thought?

I'm feeling like Brian: https://youtu.be/9czBBKof7Yo?t=1m30s
I cannot agree.

This sort doesn't prove nothing about "Wisdom of the Crowds" because the wording is too broad. But it is evidence that crowd can outperform the best individual at least theoretically. The worst mistake the crowd had made was openness of dicussion allowing Kasparov to read this discussion. It gave him the advantage and by his own words it was cruicial advantage to win.

Chess is the good candidate for hive-mind, because it is computational task which can be parallelized. You can hire tons of minds, and made them to solve different parts of the common task. There was some issues with management with mind-resources, the worst at the end-game, when many people lost their faith and started to discuss not a next move, but what is wrong with hive-mind.

> The most rigorous experiment I've seen performed, tested a group of reddit users on estimating lines in an image [3]. Some expert individuals were far more accurate than the group average.

I'm not convinced by this. There are few objections.

1. There was no discussion between elements of hive-mind. So the abilities of hive-mind remains unused.

2. Suspicious statistics.
a. The articles compares estimates of individuals with estimates of hive-mind. Hive-mind have one set of answers, while answers of individuals are combined with knowledge of true answer. There are no example of individual outperforming hive-mind on all four data points at once.
b. There are no attempt to estimate probability to get top individual answers by chance. Maybe those selected individuals are no better than average person, but just lucky ones?

3. There are different tasks. Different tasks needs different data processing, different data processing needs different processors. For example, there are tasks that benefits from parallelizing, and there are tasks that do not. Here we come close to (1): if you want hive-mind to outperform individual, you need to find a way how to use superpowers of hive-mind with this task.
Some big names signed there. Sounds like a death sentence for this journal, despite the prestigious pedigree. Either it will wither or become a second-rate trashcan.
i need to research this jim keller guy, sounds like it might yield some interesting stories. from the article it almost sounds like he was responsible for every successful amd architecture. so now that intel got him who knows how quickly things will turn around again ;)
>Do you think the new cofounder will substantially change your ability to have 5 successful pilots in the next 3 months?

substantially? hard to tell. he is hungry, and smart enough (from what i can tell), but he's no magician (who is anyway?).

>Are you excited about the space?

no. we are not building tesla-spacex-oculus. it would be very hard to be excited about b2b tradeshows. i am excited about potentially building a successful business.

>Do you think you are uniquely able to contribute?

not as of yet.

>Do you still think the market is there?

yes.

>I think returning VC money is dumb. Returning friends & family might be worthwhile.

there is no traditional vc money. it is only fff money.
Assuming it is not a mind and isn't in massive pain is also too many assumptions. If your stance can be proven, fine - but the ethical problem is getting to that proof without creating disembodied minds living a life of absolute torture, with no senses or possible actions or communications... just an endless experience of pain.
The observations found that females stay in their burrows and have babies. This one was I guess the 16th one found and followed through the study.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-28/worlds-oldest-spider-d...
Thanks! Even if I get could a few smart individuals to put together a 'bias detector' mvp that would be an awesome portfolio project!
I got a letter from TSB earlier this week stating that they have to send me paper statements this month, they are unable to provide paperless statements for the time being.

That just doesn't make sense.
of course but if the product is terrible spectacular marketing only gets you so far (which honestly exactly where i think we are - after lots of high touch sales we got some pilots despite product deficiencies)
Maybe human brains would work in China. But that'd be pushing the envelope.

In Hannu Rajaniemi's Flower Prince trilogy, he posits that the minds of billions of people will get uploaded, and that all but a few rich ones will end up as slaves. Basically apps.
What gave you the misapprehension that chess doesn't have bold and cautious attacks and defenses, and dramatic games? It certainly does.
The implication is that police and courts are racially profiling or being racist. But you shouldn't believe that without evidence. Other possibilities include - more police presence in black neighborhoods because of violent crime, so it's easier for them to find drugs while they're there, or black people being more careless about being caught.
Then do something about that! Don’t quit, go talk to the users and figure why they didn’t adopt. The answers are laying right in front of you but you seem deterred by doing the work. B2b is hard, try harder before quitting.
Tesla's response is to this article[1] which is found in Motor Trend. The article includes summaries of the Munro & Associates report and Tesla's response. Maybe link to that instead?

[1]http://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-3-teardown-decons...
The 2nd paragraph of the article answers the question. The parent seems to have overlooked it, because it quotes from the 5th paragraph. From paragraph 2:

City Attorney Pete Holmes acknowledged the racial disparity in marijuana convictions, citing an ACLU report showing that African Americans are more than three times more likely to be arrested for pot possession than whites, despite the facts that blacks and whites use at the same rates.

If it appears on HN that someone in the world is trying to do something positive for any minority, someone on HN will object to it.
What I love about Python is that it has a limited set of "symbols" I had to learn. I would have for new cryptic combinations of characters to arise with some kind of meaning.

> The LONG version looks like your expressiveness is limited by the computer. It's like having to use simple words when you talk to a child, because a child is unable to understand more subtle and advanced sentences.

Fantastic! Easy to understand code is what makes Python so great.
No, but if you’re trying to balance your imports and exports get to g some telecommuters certainly helps.

Part of what kills small towns is all the money draining out. Big box stores accelerated that because nothing but the retail labor and utilities are local.
Its more than just violent vrimes, if you weigh the benefits to society of drugs the negative aspects clearly outweigh the positive aspects. With alcohol alone there are the deaths from overdose or accidents from drinking (drunk driving is the biggest but not the only cause of accidental alcohol related deaths) and the tole that addiction takes on people. I think in a world where enforcement worked there would be a good argument that the societal problems are more important than a personal freedom that brings little benefit (even if I'm not sure I would agree with that argument). As it stands enforcement doesn't work so obviously legalization is the best choice but people who are very pro-legalization often ignore the fact that recreational drugs currently seem overall bad for society.
The evidence is firming up that UV (esp UV-B) exposure is linked to cataracts and macular degeneration.

https://nei.nih.gov/news/briefs/uv_cataract

https://www.macular.org/ultra-violet-and-blue-light

Blue light from LEDs that are out of spec can also be a problem. The EU already has standards for this.

http://www.cree.com/led-components/media/documents/XLamp_Eye...
I don't think that a reasonable argument could be made for legalizing meth or heroin, for example. They're just too destructive/deadly. It's like how not wearing a seatbelt while driving is illegal, it's to protect you from yourself.
Failing something is learning. A lot. Take that lesson and turn it around. You still have a runway to take off from.
And that's ironic because AlphaGo's achievement was proving/making Go too easy for a computer / hard for a human to play well enough to be worth investing resources in making a human good.
Do you happen to know of a good graphing package for high dimensional data in R?
>The answers are laying right in front of you but you seem deterred by doing the work

...i've been the sole full-time founder for 9 months. i have worked every single day of those 9 months (doing everything - sales, customer success, investor relations, product). i am not deterred by work - i am deterred by the prospect of burning money chasing a delusion. the users didn't adopt for the same reason every users of every other advertising channel fail to engage: no one likes overt ads.
Wow, most downvotes I’ve ever gotten, for simply showing support for other people on this site, nice...keep ‘em coming!
The first example

http://hypertools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/plo...

seems a little disappointing -- it seems to exemplify more than solve the problems of representing 3D data on a 2D screen. (Is it interactively rotatable or something? I did run it locally in a notebook and it didn't appear to be.)
Why wait? I already feel they're useless...
I'm not sure this is proving anything except that by developing an algorithm that filters out some predictions you can improve upon those predictions. And that is probably quite obvious given there are some users (presumably) on the site who are just trolling and fairly easy to identify and filter out. Unfortunately, I can't see the data on the Brier score of individuals.
On the plus side they aren't being eaten alive as it happens in the wild.
This is probably the key. Do you know why users aren't using the product? Have you asked them? It sounds to me like you have a market where one side has a problem, but the other side doesn't.
I'd give the somewhat cliched advice of whether you believe you will fail, or believe you can succeed... you are correct.

If you do choose to go forward, the fact that you have failed so far is not relevant. You had pilots. They failed. You know why. Dig deeper into the causes of the failures. Fix them. Get feedback from the customers, and fix the product. Fix the operational issues. And try again.

That is no different than the actions you would have taken from a successful pilot -- to listen to the customers, evaluate what happened, improve on it, and do it again. Iterating on a product is a process that doesn't end. You always take a step forward, no matter where you are today, and you end up in a better place in the future.

Whether or not to walk that path is completely up to you.
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Is prolonged solitary confinement considered torture? How about if it's in a sensory deprivation tank? Then add paralytics.

Now contemplate consciousness with no sensory input at all (not even your own heartbeat or normal bodily sensations when you move, etc.) leaving only whatever phantom sensation the traumatized nerves generate, like amputees' phantom limbs and phantom pain, but for your only sensation.

On an individual basis this may be the most terrifying thing I could ever imagine.
How much time cutting corners actually saves (math)
If it makes you feel any better it took me 11 years to make any money with my startup.
>It sounds to me like you have a market where one side has a problem, but the other side doesn't.

yes that is probably a succinct way to express it
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