skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After five years on the job, no one cares about your cute degree but the 21-year-old version of me who knew nothing and was a tiny bit terrified of being found incompetent cared.

True for the most part. But having a degree from the right school opens doors that you would otherwise have to devote years of self-study and aggressive marketing to, magbe, have a chance at prying open. If yoh want to build a career at Google that doesn't mainly consist of grovelling around in AdWords, step one is to have graduated from a God-tier school (e.g., Stanford).
Silicon Valley Wants to Fix Your Crooked Teeth
totally agreed. I went into the declarative/static argumentation on medium https://medium.com/@layerjs/getting-started-with-layerjs-17f... but it really depends on the audience if these terms trigger the interest.
There will be optimal designs based on other design factors that need to be taken into account.
That was how I was treated for the last year or so. It's not good for morale or retention. Even if I'm working on something that doesn't have a deadline, I still want to get work done every day. I'm not tech support and I won't stay in a position where that's my job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

I get it, but I can't quite wrap my head around a mathematical universe with no substrate. As though any internally consistent ontology with self-aware structures (and, it seems to me, also those without) just "exists" apropos of nothing. What's doing the math?
> Yeah you're right, the subdifferential of f(x)=|x| at the origin is the interval [−1, 1].

I'm confused where you're seeing absolute value? I never had absolute value anywhere. The second example I wrote just amounted to y = x.
That all sounds hard.
Why was the title changed? The interesting part here is that it has been open sourced and made free. Now it sounds like it's a new engine or active project.

http://impactjs.com/blog/2018/05/impact-is-now-free-open-sou...
Thank you. This is a MUCH better resource.
See http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30708210-AT-T-Residential-G...

You can also do essentially the same thing with a userspace 802.1x proxy like this one: https://github.com/SeanMollet/1x_prox

Bypassing the router ensures that stupid router firmware does not do stupid things to my packets, such as special handling of public IPs.
A New Cryptocurency Mining Virus Is Spreading Through Facebook
Sure, but the article makes it sound like these are very specifically hand-tools - but I didn't read any of the actual research. And as I recall, the Pacific is one of the places where some pretty damn big birds live, probably big enough to crack open big mammal bones with just their beaks.
Jake and company are doing nice work here. By comparison to the R community, I feel that the Python community sometimes swashbuckles toward new libraries without always doing a good review of prior art. Not so in this case.

Vega / Vega-lite are doing something cool, namely bringing the grammar of graphics to the web. By extension, Altair may not be the only plotting library you need in Python, but it's rapidly becoming the one I'd look to first.
It's better not to post home pages of things like institutions or magazines, but rather to submit the most interesting specific link that is available. We've found that discussion is only substantive when there's material to sink teeth into.

Edit: since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16987095 includes such a link, let's try changing the submission to that. Original url was https://engineering.virginia.edu/cap-research-0.
At the very least it would spread the cost out over everyone rather than just the people who end up needing the drugs that pass the expensive process.
yes, that's on the todo list to couple scrolling of two overlapping layers (e.g. scroll other layer x times)
Want to be a top developer? You should build things
Ah, I didn't realize OP was arguing the $68/mo was insignificant. My mistake.

I see $68/mo as a decent chunk of change (that's enough to pay for a new computer every two years or so) so that's probably where the confusion stems from.
Where I think we disagree is that I would say impostor syndrome doesn't simply go away when you get better at something. This is because as you get better, you will encounter people better than you (especially if your career is advancing etc). To perfectionists or self-critical people this is hell.

You basically say "don't say you're good at something unless you really are", but have no threshold for this. This quote from your article highlights this:

> If you don’t want to be a fraud, or feel like one, do the hard work of learning(...)

There's no upper bound on the level of knowledge required here. Am I "good" with Python because I can understand basic syntax and scoping rules? Do I need to know all of the standard library by heart? Python 2 and 3?

Impostor syndrome isn't when you are a fraud, it's when you think you are but really aren't.
> What are some practical uses for this?

Exercise sheets for discrete mathematics courses.
At least half of my colleagues have degrees in mathematics.
This is the only comment in the whole thread that comes anywhere near the way I think about this subject. Everyone is presuming that people have their value systems formed by watching movies. I think that's as false as it is dismal. The way we form our value systems is highly complex. We get a lot from parents and real life role models, our own thinking about things, real life events, the systems we're part of, chance circumstances, and much more. A film or book may very well hint at the writers' value systems, but that is not simply transfered to the viewer. The viewer brought their own value system in with them, and at most had it very slightly modified, or more probably enhanced by whatever they identified with in the story, regardless of the presumed moral.
Honestly, I don't want to work for someone else, and I've ended up as a consultant/contractor who provides a service on the basis of a completely equal footing with the client. I find it far preferable to being a standard employee, I get more control and usually more respect. Plus, everyone knows it's just a gig, not your life.
The numbers are left in the drawers once someone finds their number.
This "look at it as a permutation problem and follow the disjoint cycles" idea is loosely what rainbow tables are based on (although I think in that case because of the possibility of hash collisions they aren't guaranteed to be disjoint cycles, which requires extra work to solve).
Do the prisoners remove their number from the drawer if they find it? It's not clear from the problem statement.
I don't think that matters too much; the important thing is that the bones were split with what appeared to be human tools, whether it was hunted or found.
I guess the point GP was making about Aerodynamics is that you can't exactly patent the bernoulli's theorem.

If you wish to build an Airplane some things are going to look quite similar to how others build it. The same goes with rockets too. May be F1 cars etc. Things like that.

At some point your design will look as physics wants it.
Or he's just in a manic episode of his BPD.
You are right.
http://reboot.fcc.gov/spectrumdashboard/searchSpectrum.seam

So here is the plan- we jam a frequency of a local TV-station, nobody views, who is just sitting on the spectrum for license worth.
After proofing for one year and one day, that nobody listened to it and nobody cared- we pronounce that this spectrum is unclaimed and should be returned to the government to be auctioned off.

Under normal circumstances this should not go through legally- but hey, there is booty,
there is a government in debt and
there are interested parties.

Its the perfect storm and just having legal rights - didn't help the native Americans either, didn't it?

Come to think of it- maybe planning the heist in public was - ill advised.
The statement "That prisoners 5 to 8 will also find their numbers can also be derived from the information gained by the first three prisoners" is poorly worded. I think the author intended it to mean the information gained to you, an outside observer trying to prove this statement. There is no transfer of information from one prisoner to the next.

Also, when the prisoners find their number they don't remove it. No drawers are ever empty. They just have to open a drawer that contains their number.
Yale discovery of ketamine’s effect on depression is tempered with caution
Oh man, scientific errors are everywhere, remember the mystery serial killer striking in multiple countries seemingly at random? Turned out, the swabs in the DNA kits were contaminated at the manufacturer by a single person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
Ha! I used to play that game with one of my previous colleges. It's a good lunch break kind of thing.
What beliefs do you think are supported by this study?
Some of the folks in the article are setting themselves up as "Cryptocurrency Gurus" now too.

sigh.
Two things:

1) You don't take your number when you find it. I guess my brain assumed "find" meant "find and take with you to prove you found it." Perhaps a better term might be "encounter."

2) Here's a much better explanation (thanks micaeked): http://datagenetics.com/blog/december42014/index.html. Essentially, the algorithm works because following numbers to drawers will eventually create a loop (e.g., drawer 2 points to 4 points to 6 points to 2). By starting with the drawer with your number, you're guaranteed to be in a loop with your number. The only question is whether your loop is less than 50 drawers long...

Furthermore, this confirms that there IS no transfer of information from previous prisoners in any way.
The more specific we try and make the $616M figure, the less accurate a predictor it becomes :-). I didn't want to go too far in that direction.
I’m not too worried. The earnings themselves were better than expected. Elon said this in a tweet but its reiterated in the earnings - projecting positive cash flow in Q3 and Q4.

And such dismissive behavior (as much as I am not a fan of it) is not uncommon among stressed-out CEOs - Jobs, Gates..
Glad something like this turned up.

A productive approach to a real problem people have.
"Sacconaghi pressed ahead with another query about Tesla lowering its 2018 capital expenditure projection to $3 billion, from $3.4 billion. Ahuja said the carmaker would spend less by simplifying its approach to automation and curtailing infrastructure outlays.

'And so where specifically will you be in terms of capital requirements?' Sacconaghi said.

'Excuse me. Next. Next,' Musk said to the call operator. 'Boring, bonehead questions are not cool. Next?'"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/elon-musk...
In hotels? Further away? It'd be more expensive or more inconvenient so fewer would come, but residents wouldn't be bearing the negative externalities as much as they are today.

I live in SF so while I wholeheartedly agree that more building should help solve the problem the reality (here at least) is that existing homeowners have strong incentives to oppose rezoning and new development as it might hurt their home's values. Many people have overextended to be able to buy here that anything that could cause dips in prices is vehemently opposed. I'll admit SF has a broader set of issues at play here but AirBnB just further strains an already strained situation.
Likewise, something to wonder, is many reviews will - at least in the past - would reference that they never met the "owner" of the listing. I know some cities are trying to crack down on this, however how hard is it to setup a company that has a structure where a real person gets listed as owner (and perhaps gets paid $100 a month for using their identity) and the company manages everything, acting as "real person?"
Absent evidence of harm AND a plausible mechanism for harm there is no reason to assume harm. All we have at the moment is an uptick in a particular kind of cancer without a plausible mechanism how do we assign that to cell phones?

Why don't we see a similar uptick everywhere for example instead of just in england?
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Donald Trump Jr. tweeted #MeToo, and Twitter's response was savage
That looks interesting, so we've changed the URL to it above, as explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16988002. Thanks!
Haven't read the paper, but isn't the causality the other way around? As in, troubled companies call on bullish analysts to try to keep up good appearances, but then underperform anyway because of their problems?
Is Elastic search a paid software like Algolia?
I should've chosen my words more carefully for such a tacit response... in this case, I'd revise it to "couldn't email solve this problem?"

I see where you're coming from though w.r.t. communication vs. scheduling. I found this on a quick search, which has a free tier that I might try: https://calendly.com. Still, my worries are that:

1. it's not like email/calendaring/slack will go away, so now I have yet another tool to maintain (at least Calendly have calendar integrations)

2. like email, it could be abused, just in new ways I don't know about yet... what problems will arise that drive us towards more new tools to solve them?

I'm not sure the marginal improvement over using email/slack/calendars, plus some sort of rules/expectations, would be worth adopting another tool, but I am curious to see how it works out.
My favorite version of this is the one that shows one prisoner to make a single swap of two drawers' contents in order to improve their chances. Surprisingly, this allows for a 100% success rate.
> Why does everyone always assume the worst?

If the worst isn't part of the strategy, they should explicitly forbid themselves from doing the worst in their Terms of Service. Or at least publicly advertised in a legally enforceable manner. The fact that they don't is pretty good red flag that they either are doing it or want to leave the door open to doing it later.
The commitment scheme solves "cheating" in the sense of "dealing cards in a different order depending on how the game goes".

There are other types of cheating, e.g., leaking the order to players and perhaps picking a non-random order in advance. Those will take longer than a parenthetical in a conversation about Bitcoin to address. Do you think that a blockchain is capable of solving any of these types of cheating more than some offline stateless scheme could?
I am working on an app idea that uses Wavenet. What did you have in mind specifically? What would be useful?
I think they made a mistake pricing per seat. At 300 users that’s $1,810/m for what is essentially a wiki. Companies that size will already have an Intranet that can replicate the same functionality. Shame.
I once had $100K in cash. I spent it trying to get a business off the ground. If I had it to do over again, I would most likely buy a house. If I didn't want to do that, I would stick it in Vanguard, and then promptly raise my 401k contributions.
Are you referring to NYC in general? Because certainly it's possible to earn money (or at least increase equity) with investment properties.
Yes of course. My point was merely binary, about what kinds of tissue can get cancer. I thought that was appropriate for a question starting with "Is it possible".
Musk sounded exhausted.

If Smith & Wesson launched a consumer flamethrower there would be outrage...Musk has been able to distract with lots of shiny objects but the clock is ticking, even amongst his niche fan base...I hope all the people who are working so hard in Musk's various companies come out of this ok...
So you're basically building a distributed application just because you can't share memory properly. This can be very efficient if little communication is involved or a total nightmare if you have gigabytes of data where you need lots of random read access to walk the data structures at high speed. If you're not careful you spend most of your time pickling and unpickling the stuff you send over your pipes while requiring duplication of your gigabyte data structures in order to gain at least some parallelism.

I don't see a way around this mess with the current structure of python. You would have to reimplement the data heavy part completely in another language that provides proper threading models.
To be fair, he's not entirely wrong. I guess people just don't expect this type of response. But then, acting within the confines of normality isn't really the trait that may bring the dawn of a new era of humanity.

Interestingly though, markets are reaction to this response emotionally.
I think it's a mistake to look at this from the perspective of software developers. It's called "Teams" because it's for teams - which can be anything from software developers to facilities maintenance people. It's for teams that have questions (and answers), not for software developers who have questions (and answers).

By way of experience with this, we run an internally written Stack Overflow clone of sorts for a large industrial printing product we make. It's meant for people in our organization who have questions and are looking for answers. And as such, there are no "wrong" questions.

For example, someone might ask, "I'm traveling to the San Diego site - what's the most convenient hotel to stay at?", and create a new tag for "san-diego", "recommendations", and "hotels". Or they might post about "Top-of-form mark detected too close to the previous frame" using tags like "print-engine" and "top-of-form".

For us, both types of questions are very valid and "on topic" questions to post in our internal stack.

When we first launched our stack, we imagined it as being a kind of "crowd sourced internal knowledge capture" tool. But a real evolution in our thinking has occurred, and we've found that most people use it to post questions and answers at the same time. In other words, they've solved a problem and want to share the solution. And SO's "question/problem statement" followed by "answer/solution" template and framework makes it very easy for them to share this knowledge. Contrast with a wiki for example, where they are presented with a blank page and told to "document this issue".

One feature we are considering is the idea of wizards for certain types of posts. For example, if you are posting an answer about equipment work that requires opening electrical panels, we probably should have a warning about only doing this if you are certified for it. So the wizard idea might say, "Is this a solution that relates to electrical safety?" Checking yes automatically appends some boilerplate text with a caution about electrical certification.

We've also found that the voting up/down feature isn't that useful. People just don't do that voting stuff, nor do they really care about their reputation. What we are going to do is replace the vote system with a simple, "Did this answer help you?" type approach. It's literally the same thing, but with a different way of asking it. Because we don't actually do "down" votes, a "Yes" is a vote up, and a "No" prompts the user to post a comment explaining why it didn't help them, assuming it was what they were looking for. Was the answer not clear? Was it wrong? Did it not work? Is the information out of date? This kind of feedback (via comments) will help answer authors evolve their content to be better.
> Musk is not incorrect to suggest that investors who can't take that kind of risk should not be along for the ride

Risk is fine. Blind risk is not. Questions about cash position for a money-losing company with less cash on hand than it burned in the trailing 12 months are prudent.
"No 'Bonehead' Analyst Questions Please." - Elon Musk on Tesla Earnings Call
> There's also the fact that bitcoin has no central monetary policy.

Once the fractional reserve bitcoin banks have popped up, there is no monetary policy, including no way to control money supply. That there are institutions that can create economically bitcoinlike payment units at will, obviously causes the value of bitcoin to fluctuate (chaotically, would be my guess). And traditional banking can easily replicate that, only thing we need to do is remove all regulation of financial institutions. Yes, there are reasons why the regulations are in place.

> it's resistance to chaotic global events makes it a very good hedge against global disaster

Not much of a disaster in my books if you have continuous access to internet and electricity.
I don't know about the startup study you're thinking of, but I've seen studies that suggest the main difference between under 30 and over 30 in the workplace is that the over 30 crowd simply spend less effort. That is to say, they both output the same amount, but the older folks don't spin their wheels as much. I'm not sure how much of this is experience at a task, since I'd expect a more experienced worker to need less effort at a given task, and how much of this is physiological. My personal experience is that 20 somethings waste a lot of time on shit that doesn't matter in general, but, again, that could just be that I've wasted enough of my own time to have a better sense as to what's wasted energy.

Where it gets murky for me, is that by 30, the majority of brain matter is now grey, which is great if you're dealing with things that don't change quickly, cause grey matter is smoking fast, but not so good for fast moving areas like tech, because it's not as plastic. I could see a slight argument for ageism in tech, for this reason, but I've been doing it so long, that I'm finally starting to see history repeat itself, and it's really easy to see past the hype of most 'new' technologies, given that they're often just repackaging of some idea from a decade ago, and it's a big mistake not to have someone on the team who can recognize these trends.

Personally I really think it's a mistake in general to avoid diversity though. There are so many diverse tasks in software, that you really need people who are happy doing different things. Also getting different viewpoints and concerns can really round out a product, and can make finding bugs easier.
Yes, that's actually the causality they suggest in the paper.
The Bateman character in the film was directed and shot by Mary Harron. See her other work to get an idea of what made him different.
I agree, and not only that, our solicitors advised us that by appointing a DPO when it's not needed we assume the responsibilities of companies who do need a DPO.

In other words, if you don't need a DPO you definitely shouldn't just appoint somebody because that feels like the right thing to do.
icebraining's claim is that Satoshi did invent something, but the thing he invented was not Merkle trees.

If you have an application where forging or forking the tree isn't meaningful (e.g., any possible Certificate Transparency Merkle tree can be merged at any point into any other one), then the thing that Satoshi invented is not useful to you, and having it cost $2 billion to build such a Merkle tree is a waste.
Yeah but his questions weren't really that great. The two questions from analysts he skipped before throwing it to the youtube guy were tough questions asking about specific details that Elon obviously didn't want to answer. Youtube guys questions were softer which is why Elon stayed with him for so long. I have to say I think letting someone like Gali ask questions at all is pretty bad, it specifically degrades what these calls are for. It's basically a filibuster.
But then, acting within the confines of normality isn't really the trait that may bring the dawn of a new era of humanity.

Truly, this sounds divorced from the reality of anything Elon Musk is involved in. He’s making electric cars, rockets, and solar panels, not fusion power or immortality pills. Let’s be realistic! I think it’s important to separate what he actually does from what you desperately hope he may someday do.