skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you start to teach "the trivium and quadrivium" somewhere in poor rural part with no jobs and high social problems, the kids there wont become like elite students from elite families with great prospects and ideal environment.

For that matter, not all kids from great environment ends up in elite school or are even able to follow education with super higher speed and expectations.
Technically, it's supposed to be 'till-duh-s' but we've taken to calling it 'till-dees' (rhymes with Arbys) because that's just more fun to say.
Corpos would love it.
Sure - I won't claim that I've got it solved or that it's an easy thing to do at all. I think it's actually a very common mistake to act like it is easy, and that you should be able to write a perfectly-objective rule or draw a bright line between what's allowed and what isn't. Anyone that's done much moderation on the internet knows that it's definitely not that simple, nothing where humans are involved is ever that black-and-white.

There are certainly blatant cases that there's just no reason to allow (and if you look at Voat you'll see a lot of those), but there are also a lot of more difficult ones that will take work to try to sort through. There are a lot of very smart people that have put a lot of thought into these issues while running their own higher-quality communities, and I think we need to try to learn from them instead of shying away from doing anything because it's a "hard problem", or hoping that AI will somehow solve it.

Just as an example, here's a recent blog post by some of the mod team of /r/ChangeMyView, which is a group I respect a lot and I think have done an amazing job of creating a place to have civil discussions. This is the level of reasoning they're putting into "simple" cases like whether "that's bullshit" is too rude: https://changemyview.net/2018/03/28/thats-bullshit-rude-enou...
Ebola may be made airborne locally as some body fluids may be aerosolized during rapid expulsion of air from the lungs.
Oh that's a good question in context of middleboxes. I don't know of any that force HTTP/1.1, but they might actually!
And US government does not ? A lot of propaganda around Syria seems heavily managed by US government.
In order for prevent the law from becoming feckless, there had to be an element of discretion on the part of the enforcers. It’s there to cut the bullshit of companies who use blatant trickery/loopholes to make themselves seem like a smaller company in order to reduce their potential fines.

But as I already said, the stability of the EU’s economy depends on fair application of the law. If the EU levies a 20 million Euro fine on a company with 20 million/year in revenue, the chilling effects of that action would cause much more than 20 million in damage to the EU economy. That should be blatantly obvious. Despite propaganda to the contrary, the EU has a very good record of behaving as a reasonable government entity, moreso than most. They’ve championed quite a few consumer-friendly pieces of legislation that have managed to not destroy the applicable sectors.

If you think this is a valid concern, I can only assume you’re just as worried about other outcomes that have insane, struck-by-lightning levels of unlikelihood, in which case you are not going to have the spare cycles to be able to successfully run a business anyway.
Interesting. I was just writing about this yesterday:

If the book's ideas were of lasting consequence, it's a near certainty that more clear statements of them have been produced in the intervening years. You may lose some of the aesthetics of the original—but often times the true aesthetic value is debatable (or at least relative), and if it's truly there it still may not be worth losing the increased clarity and further refinement of ideas found in later works.
People keeping their jobs is not the most important thing one should strive for with no regards to anything else. Especially not in tech, where it's more than likely that it won't really hurt them.
looking to do this at an intermediate level. any commands you can recommend?
Being genius helps with that.
why are there so many companies trying to "solve hiring". i get it's a big expense to make a bad hire but how are there like 10 different companies thinking they have an edge on

1. existing practices
2. each other
I've heard the joke hundreds of times but I honestly think naming things is (one of) the most challenging parts of building anything software related.
Uh, if you drop an egg out of the first floor window onto cement, it will break.

The answer should be a form of binary search, but since you only have two eggs, you'd have to do a sequential search from the bottom floor. You have one chance at a mistake, so I would almost say start with the 2nd floor, but I know it will break on the first floor.

I don't see how that in any way gauges programming what so ever.
A lot of govt jobs are already this. Glorified welfare/sine cure, whatever you want to call it.
It's a little humor that anyone who has dealt with any of these methodologies would likely appreciate (if they don't wilt at the sight of profanity).
Shame there aren't more concert pianists out there... but given the leverage big data can give (a small percentage change in what a big organization does can still save or earn big bucks) this is a competitive position, just as playing concerts is only for the few.

You want a better employee than your competitors have. You'll take all the expertise you can get, plus the ability to invent new techniques as needed. Everybody wants the very best 'cause that last 1% of skill can still be worth a lot of money. Everybody wants someone who can hit a lot of long balls for their team, as it were. There might be a floor on the skill level you could make some use of, but there's no ceiling.
I am a board certified anesthesiologist in the USA. What is your justification or source for calling this false?

Fentanyl is given to nearly every patient prior to intubation and frequently redosed throughout most operations.
My business lost around $90k for a perfectly legitimate website that actually did amazing CTR too.
> I'm working on a concept for a q/a site for people who would enjoy answering questions and/or get answers to questions more than they like playing teacher, mod or what do I know.

Isn't that sort of what Quora is? I've only visited Quora through links from HN but the threads there that have been linked here seem to be that kind.

(The main reason I don't use Quora directly is that I dislike the way they always try to force visitors to register in order to browse the site. Same goes with Pinterest.)
So.. kinda like Donald Trump's tweets?
Is each row the same as
if the remainder on division of the cell number by the row number is 0 then red, otherwise black?
It is stupid phrase. Men dont have exclusivity on toxicity. I’ve known plenty toxic people of all sexes. There is danger to accepting these kinds of terms that are associated with malformed world views.
You should actually read the paper. An IP user making edits to a controversial Wikipedia page is nothing like what this paper is talking about. To summarize:

1. The Chinese government has a massive, coordinated effort to post on social media to serve their propaganda goals.

2. That effort attempts to distract from things they don't want people to consider, rather than just loudly pushing the party line.
That's the thing about viruses. Ebola-Zaire was as you describe for humans. But Ebola-Reston was airborne-transmissable to (Rhesus?) monkeys.
Has anyone tried using a neural net to tap into the pattern of prime numbers?
A month or so ago, this article was shared on hackernews: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2010/06/22/the-surprises-never-eend-the-u/

There's clearly a visual pattern there - which is why the images are interesting at all - but it's complex enough that you can't quite nail down exactly what it is, only attributes of it.

Could a neural net be trained on images of the known prime space, and begin filling in blanks outside of it as likely candidates for new primes?
This was years ago for me, but as bad as it is losing the amount earned, it was just the lack of response when trying to understand why you were terminated. I had no idea why I was banned. I didn't employ any shady tricks. The only thing I noticed in the few weeks prior to the account banned was a higher CTR.

I actually emailed Adsense support at that time to let them know that it was out of the ordinary for my site.

Additionally, I also had an account on the CPA affiliate side of things with the same account that was banned because it was tied with the Adsense email account.
Oh, I'd love for kids to understand it -- it's far more important than doing it, and if we were teaching that understanding it would likely all be worthwhile. I'm saying that we know from the data and qualitative studies that we don't teach kids to understand most things we teach them, and they forget how to do them very quickly.
One particularly expensive component of stuxnet is deniability. Although the commonly accepted theory for stuxnet's invention is "a state actor", specifically the United States, there's no proof of that at all. And conjecture without proof poses no threat to the US government.

If the government were to, on the otherhand, bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, one small mistake in the plan could ruin their chances of deniability, bringing down international condemnation on the US.
>Vi is on every unix system

Except Debian's install CD. They only have nano.
That's how SomethingAwful worked as well. While money isn't an equitable solution, and it gives the forum a financial incentive to ban users, I think the idea of forcing users to somehow put some skin in the game is a great idea.
thanks for this comment. I realized that I skipped a few steps in the explanation, so I am updating it now.

But essentially you see that the equation is S^2 - S - 2L < 0

from that, you can solve that the roots of the function are:
(1) 1/2 + sqrt(2L) and
(2) 1/2 - sqrt(2L)

That means that (S-1/2-sqrt(2L)) * (S-1/2+sqrt(2L)) < 0

The second term is always positive, which means that we need to make the first term negative in order for the inequality to hold.

=> S < 1/2 + sqrt(2L) which leads to O(sqrt(L)) when you let L approach infinity.

Does this make sense?
There have been several discussions about that (and about images in general). Right now the consensus is that there are far better places for porn all over the internet and it's a niche that brings in too much negative behavior. In a nutshell, it's not something they are interested in having on the site.
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I remember the "all developers should have offices" from Joel. Did he change his mind recently?
I think people really crave silence inside of their own head, rather than silence in their environment. People tend to live by default through several layers of filtering (emotions, relation to the past, protection of sense of self, scanning for threats, etc.) and also one or more voices constantly telling them things that may or may not be related to their current environment (thoughts).

It is possible to cut through most or all of this and experience relative silence inside your own head through regular meditation. Highly recommended.
> it's very easy to come up with something that looks really good but is horribly broken in subtle ways that you won't find until it's too late.

My experience has been that this doesn't matter in a lot of cases. A product can be both, highly useful and subtly broken.

One of the biggest boons to my productivity was realizing when something is good enough and to move on. You can waste so much time tuning for precision and recall.
Yep, this is sneezing. Ebola is scary because it is one of the most contagious diseases.

But in any complex system, it's very hard to predict who will contract the disease and who won't. You can see similar scenarios play out after Chernobyl, where some people who were very close to the reactor which blew up where seemingly unaffected and lived long lives, while others who were relatively far away passed from radiation exposure or the subsequent cancers.
Ok, so the uplink gateways don't actually sink/source packets to the cleartext Internet, they have one more (encrypted) hop to your datacenters first?
If the numbers of integers-per-dot was set to 1, the sequence would simply highlight prime numbers as they progress through the pyramid shape since “Parallax Compression” would no longer apply.
This looks really cool! There's a lot here that I agree with.

I strongly recommend avoiding the urge to prematurely automate processes involving trust (or granting people additional powers). It would allow you to grow faster, but you don't need to grow fast.

Trust signals are useful when they are costly (at least, costly to fake). And if your site can be driven by an API, that changes what is considered costly. Getting a clique of accounts that upvotes the same way you do is not so costly if you're just driving an API.

It may be counterintuitive, but... imagine you have some metric that you were considering using as a criterion for granting trust to a user. Let's say you've got the "TrollPercent" metric that shows the percentage of someone's content has been tagged as trolling, or the "KeynesianBeautyVoter" metric that shows how well someone's votes correlate with everyone else's. Then rather than automatically changing that account's status on the basis of these metrics, their account is merely flagged for a human to review. A human moderator can then say "oh, that person's content really is a cut above" or "wait, this person has only ever accessed the site via the API and they've somehow upvoted hundreds of posts in the last 10 minutes..."

Anyway, none of this concern is meant to detract from the essential goodness of the idea, and I hope this succeeds.
Does the company you are at now pay developers the same as the companies that ask these types of questions? In my experience the companies asking these types of questions are picky because they can be.
> material nonpublic information (proprietary research)

Agreed. Insider Trading.
That's interesting. Do you have more details / refs?
Actually it’s kind of interesting that primary code is not studied in CS. Given all the Carmack lore going around, I’ll add that I learned quite a bit of x86asm from his Wolf3D release that could not have come from any book. I guess the value was mostly in trying to figure out why he did something instead of having it explained.
All ad networks take money away from publishers all of the time. For example, it takes a while to compute the quality score of ad clicks and realize that a site's traffic is full of bots that click on ads and never buy anything. The publisher will see income that gets subtracted back out, sometimes a month or two later. The advertiser (presumably) gets a refund.

It appears that Google did something different this time, I don't know what.
TLDR;
The most earnings are generated by software that solve problem for a niche of entrepreneurs/companies who don’t have programming knowledge/programmers in house.
My Journey of Building a SaaS Startup in 2018 – Intro
That something something is actually Agent Based Modeling / Simulation.

Back when I was in academia I used to develop ABMs to represent the behaviour of complex systems with a simple set of rules of agent action and interaction.

The game of Life is the quintessential example of that.
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I don’t think it was remotely serious, he probably just wanted to say it to tease him a bit
So does the US with it's media machine.
If you haven't seen yet, reddit itself is also tilting heavily towards prioritizing funny/quick content (even more than it did before) as well. The new desktop redesign that's in progress has infinite scroll, auto-expanded images and auto-playing gifs/videos, and so on. They also added a new default frontpage sort (that you can't change) that tries to hide any posts you've seen before every time you load it, which kind of destroys the ability to have an ongoing discussion thread.
The first post you wrote like this was flagged off the site. If enough people actually see this one, it will be too. What you're doing here is abusive and says more about you than about anything you're trying to argue. Please stop.
Snapchat is not a "dick pic network" and if you've read the article maybe you could understand how someone can have a personal connection to a website, it's users, and the culture around it.
Because they don't know anything about EU authorities and have no reason to trust that they have the interests of US small businesses at heart? To them, this could potentially be a money grab with no pain to their constituents. It's already playing out to some extent with their new tech taxes.
You know what would be great? A society where people can knowingly disagree on fundamental concepts with one another and remain mutually respectful and cooperative. And studying philosophy is a gateway to that. Students have very few things in common with most philosophers because most philosophers lived hundreds and thousands of years ago. But reading philosophers will show them their points in common, to various extents. I mean the contrast and comparison is against classes where students memorize the exact order of the US presidents and force read books to the point of hating them.
Ha, I cannot resist pointing you to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrVskziCc4w
I would also like a clearer explanation of how this was generated, maybe with pseudocode, and would also like to see the larger images mentioned in the post.

As it is, the explanation doesn't really make sense to me.

EDIT: Found this lower down: https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u...
There's been some pie-in-the-sky chatter about that. When the tildes identity system (with the trust and reputation and karma decay) is fully cooked, it might be possible to extend that by setting up a mastodon instance. That's not going to happen for a long time, though. The site itself has to come first.
Shoes was started by why_, who also wrote A Poignant Guide to Ruby. Highly recommended.
Step 1) create value
Step 2) make sure cost of creating value < value created
Step 3) profit
It's unfortunate you are being downvoted, but using emotional language like "idiotic" is not helpful. You are, however, factually correct. It is a plain fact that yes, traditional funeral practices in sierra leone and liberia did contribute greatly to the outbreak. One of the things that stopped the outbreak in sierra leone, more than anything, was the massive public education campaign embarked upon by the response agencies, which after several months finally got cooperation from the civilian population to:

a) if you see a sick person, don't touch them, call the special response phone number and a PPE-equipped response team will be dispatched

b) if a person dies, do not touch the corpse, do not wash the corpse, do not handle the corpse

c) know how to identify the early signs of sickness and where the ETUs were (ebola treatment units).

It is actually kind of difficult to contract ebola because you need skin-to-skin contact with sweat, blood or vomit from a very sick person with a high viral load. It's not highly aerosolized and doesn't last very long in the air from coughing or sneezing.
It sounds like he made the call immediately after the Apple engineer admitted Carmack’s solution was “ideal”. That may have been the culmination of Carmack making the more convincing points (not recounted in TFA) but the fact that Jobs pounces on this admission and ends the back and forth immediately seems like that is a big part of what he was looking for or how he made up his mind.
But what you're describing is exactly what you'd expect if you were dealing with overtones, actually - one tone of the two actual tones that create the illusion of the overtone has to be substantially lower than the other, always. If you knock out one tone by dumping some frequencies, the overtone vanishes, and those who were hearing it now hear something else. Those who never heard it, hear what they heard before.

The basic idea here is that if the harmonic match of the two fundamental (actual) tones isn't exact, then some listeners will hear the overtone, but less sensitive (or perhaps more refined) listeners' brains won't hear it. And many conditions will make it easier or harder for the listener's brain to (falsely but vividly) infer the overtone, including a lot of acoustic reflection (my bathroom example.) Completely knocking out one of the two fundamental tones will change what's heard by some - since now everyone will be hearing the same thing.

Similarly, shifting all frequencies up or down, even if all the information is preserved, can cause everyone to lose the overtone since the overtone is now at a frequency above (or below) what we can hear, so the brain doesn't hallucinate what is beyond it's capacity.
The West African outbreak needed a huge response because it had spun out of control. The numbers for this outbreak are still pretty small.
Please don't post shallow, inflammatory dismissals on Hacker News. We're here for substantive discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was like you until I made a surprise discovery. I hear "Yanny"* if I tense my inner ear a bit (as if I'm about to pop my ears - doing this on demand is not a universal skill apparently)

* I still don't hear "Yanny" - it's more like "Yi-a-hee". Weird, but close, right?
We already have quick algorithms that say "is it prime" with certainty. Reducing the required time from O(log^6(n)) to O(1) isn't particularly important from cryptographic point of view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test#Fast_determinis...
Isn’t the sieve’s eventual shape just the list of prime numbers?
You can already do that: just assume a bill does the opposite of what it says it does.
No, this won't help with finding primes. As they noted, the pattern for ranges of size k only holds for k lines. So to find a prime of length N (on the order of 2^N), we need to have k=O(2^(N/2)). However, this yields a guarantee that a prime lies in a range of size O(2^(N/2)), which is not particularly useful. We get exponentially better probabilistic results from the prime number theorem.