skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the two ice cream stands are next to each other, then the bathers will no longer select based on distance, but on other features. You might find them selling different ice cream, changing their prices etc.
Corporate tax rate is at 33% and 16% for small business, that doesn't strike me as particularly high, especially considered what it used to be in the US. There are many taxes on employee's but they fund their benefits, so that's something you don't have to provide separately to your employees and you can basically see it as part of the salary.
I make a decent business bringing European developers — especially Germans — without degrees into the UK where nobody gives a shit.
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That unions make startups unviable says something about the startup industry...
2.5em fonts on a 32" screen...

nope
> Meanwhile, in Delaware

More worryingly for the French, it’s as easy as it is in Delaware in other nearby EU countries, and cross-border EU commerce is easier than cross-state commerce in the US
The comparison doesn't really make sense.
The 40 hour week is still not guaranteed. Especially in startup environment overtimes are quite common. In US more so than in Europe, you can easily be pulling 50h+ in a startup with all that overtime not paid for. So it's not like we don't need unions anymore.
YubiKey can now log into iOS apps via NFC
So you mean to tell me that all those years of calling them "linux boxen" _actually_ wasn't crazy?
I'll always remember an ex-HS teacher I met. He had worked out a whole year's worth of chemistry experiments - worthy stuff with a lot of learning value - all neatly organized in one little, inexpensive box. A little modest masterpiece.

( Many small schools can't afford a big, fancy HS lab full of glassware and bunsens and labware and a closet full of chemicals. And/or the teacher didn't have the time or experience to integrate that well. )

And the result was that he couldn't get anyone to really look at it and see the advantages ... except other teachers, sometimes.

Selling the vision can be a bitch.
I'll go ahead and be 'that guy' and say it: I don't want my country to become a startup nation. I don't want management methods and labor laws to be reformed, or modernized, or to mimic those in the US. I don't want corporation-friendly tax rates to be enacted. I don't want regulations to be lifted.

There are, give or take, 65 million people in France. (Incidentally, this number is also, give or take, the amount of Americans who live in the most abject poverty seen in the developed world.) Not everyone among these 65 million is fit to 'move fast and break things'. Not everyone wants to be flexible, adaptable or able to sell themselves in a world of fast hires and firings. Not everyone is a young and dynamic entrepreneur full of 'innovative' ideas (whatever that means). In short, not everyone is a twenty-to-thirty- something with a moderately high level of education and relative affinity with the tech world.

On the other hand, everyone needs a steady job to make a living. Everyone needs the healthcare, retirement plans and other benefits our current labor laws entail with that steady job. In short, everyone is a human being with basic human needs.

Startups have one thing in common - they tend to fail. Maybe your average HN reader will be able to endure the typical working conditions with no guarantee of a stable income in the future, but they are the exception, not the rule. It is preposterous to imagine that an entire country's labor laws and regulation should align with the needs of such a narrow demographic so that foreign investors will maybe deign to notice it and shower said demographic with money.

Yes, there are many things wrong with our current labor laws. Yes, maybe some regulations are needlessly tight and stifle the growth of blooming startups full of bright people. No, that does not mean the US as a 'startup nation' is an example to follow. And if that means the next Facebook or Instagram won't come from here, so be it. Many of these startups tend to produce services that are superficially useful at best or actively harmful at worst. We don't need them.
Israel has so many start-ups and so much VC, solely because of the vast capital investment flows from the US. That's hardly a reasonable example for a large nation like France to work from.

It'd be like pretending Ireland's $70,000 GDP per capita is organic, rather than the result of US corporate giants using it as a tax device.
I wanted it for home use so why shouldn't I buy a consumer model? If it is so bad they shouldn't sell it, IMO.
Meh, weird article. None of the nice modern results (imagenet family, etc) were achieved just through gradient descent - this article, like most, seems to be missing the forest for the trees with deep learning.

It's not about the network architecture, or gradient descent on their own - it's the interaction, the dynamical system over weight space that training is.

Behind every great modern deep learning result? An enormous hyperparameter search and lots of elbow grease to carefully tune that dynamical system juuuuust right so the weight particle ends up in just the right place when training finishes. Smells like evolution to me. Deepmind even formalized the evolutionary process a deep learning researcher runs manually when fine-tuning a model into population based training https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-n...
I agree that's what stock options are for, but I disagree that, in practice, they have that effect.

I think it's important to differentiate between a "meanginful" share of the company and stock options in general. For the average engineer, joining after employee #10 where founder allocated 10% to an ever-diluting option pool, that doesn't seem likely.

Perhaps public companies' profit-sharing plans are closer to the mark, except that an individual employee is so much less likely to have the power to "move the needle" on profit that even that's questionable.
I always liked Voltaire's quote:

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."
Yes, I think parent saying "rather than" means that they prefer one over another. A both/and additive approach to diversity is much more just and healthy than an either/or zero-sum one. Indeed the latter just becomes discrimination in another form.
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One of the reasons I've disabled js on Medium.
Oh boy here we go!
Hope they'll make it, always liked voxels.
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a/k/a the Roman Republic.
As a French, it saddens me a bit to say that but you also missed one point: culture. My background includes some grad school experience at a top French university and then at a top US university. One big difference, which became even more obvious to me after I crossed the Atlantic, is that there is (almost) no hustle culture in France.

Make fun of the stupid apps and the copycats but so many undergrads at my American alma mater were trying something, and that is already so much more than what I saw in France. I have seen some undergrads in America make serious money through their side projects and big companies are more often seen as a stepping stone towards something else. In France, the holy grail is to get a CDI (permanent employee contract) at a big company and that’s often pretty much it. They can be great employees but making money within a structure simply does not require the same resourcefulness. I don't know if the culture is contagious once you arrive in a country, or if universities attract different profiles (probably both), but I thought it was also interesting to note that the immigrants were often resembling the locals in both countries.

In my opinion, even the best version of Macron’s plan is bound to produce underwhelming results. While French taxes and bureaucracy might not help entrepreneurship, I do not think that’s why France isn’t a startup nation. Rather, it’s the fact that France isn’t a startup nation that explains why bad policies and bureaucracy have been tolerated for so long. Understand me well: my comment is the opposite of an attempt to diminish the accomplishments of French entrepreneurs, who exist and face higher administrative hurdles than their American counterparts, but is simply written to share some observations on campus culture and entrepreneurship at two top schools.
In Persian, the same letter makes the oh/oo sound and the v sound. Weird.
It wasn’t snuck in. In theory, if you have sufficient # of health insurers, then the ones with lower costs will be able to offer lower premiums, and win more business.
> and some of them had lower ribs removed in order to fit a smaller corset. It was horrible.

This is as one would guess is not true.

Even with present day technology it is dangerous and urban legend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rib_removal

Back then you'd have a fair chance of dying.

Corsets doing damage is mostly urban legend in general.

And to state the obvious, yay women got to wear better clothes (I'm sure mens clothes sucked back then too) but it was the men who died in the war.

Women got rights on dead men's bodies, they had bad fashion, men died. I'm not so sure they had it worse, yay as a man you get to vote and if you're lucky you'll get to deal with PTSD for the rest of your life.
Amstrad CPC464 and CPC6128 were UK based Z80 machines. Not too bad. Mine had a little drive inbuilt and ran CPM. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 so anything was better than that.
This is so important, it's concerning to think about how many good years of smart people have been wasted. It should be taught in school.
Yes, which is why the & character is supposedly called the "empersand" in Scotland, for "'et', per-se 'and'".
The stability of the Pax Romana is so clear in this video. Small wonder the American Founding Fathers sought to emulate it when starting from scratch, rather than the chaos that ensued after its fall.
Zeno’s Paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles
That, plus the lack of magic.

I can always understand what a Go program is doing because of the simple semantics and lack of magic. It's an underrated benefit to be able to browse the source code of a dependency and grok it easily, first time.
VoiceOps is hiring across many roles in SF to build AI for b2b voice data
(two authors of many) Fritjof Capra. Michael Polanyi.
The evolution of language fascinates me. English has a fascinating history. 1000 years ago Old English and Althochdeutch (Old High German) were almost interchangeable (AFAIK). The really fascinating part was the period after 1066 for several centuries where English wasn't the court language of England.

Now this period and lack of centralization is probably responsible for the many dialects (which now are mostly just different accents for other reasons). But the language changed so much over this period. Middle English is largely readable (but weird) to the modern reader. Old English is basically a different language.

In this period English lost of what I like to call the bullshit like gender of (non-person) nouns. Case of nouns (other than pronouns) also basically disappeared. It still had the formal/informal distinction of the second person that so many other European languages had (but we lost that later). Verbs and nouns became way more regular.

None of this happened with German (although Germany as a country didn't really exist until the 19th century and was at best a collection of city-states prior to that) but German in its various forms was still the ruling language (although Latin always had a certain preeminence what with the Holy Roman Empire and the Electors and all).

Compare modern German grammar (where nouns and adjectives have to agree with case, number, gender and article). It strongly suggests that the ruling class seems to embody conservatism and traditions, which is unsurprising given that the status quo is pretty good if you're the ruling class.

You see this in England where the precursor to modern French was the court language of England for hundreds of years. This has the effect of keeping commoners out (even more than they already are by virtue of hereditary title).

It's almost like without central control English became more democratized.

Obviously the printing press had a massive effect in standardizing spelling (other posters have mentioned that u and v were largely interchangeable).

Radio (and later TV) had a massive effect on standardizing pronunciation.

But still English has rapidly changed. One example I remember is if you go back and listen to early speeches by Churchill you'll here him say "nazi" not as "natsi" but as "nazzi" (much like the non-American ss in "aussie"). But by later in the war (IIRC) the "ts" phenom had pretty much been imported into English.

Another thing I read was the mathematical model for how verbs become regular [1]. Basically, the less a verb is used, the sooner it becomes regular but how long it takes is quite predictable. Apparently "to wed" is the next verb to become regular. "To be" should take about 44,000 years.

It makes you realize just how rapidly language changes and how grammar really is descriptive not prescriptive and why it's completely pointless to get your pedantic about "literally", less vs fewer, "very unique" and so on.

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/09/2...
Another great video on this from numberphile - https://youtu.be/u7Z9UnWOJNY
Old English had [a plural ending in S](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Old_English/Nouns#Strong_Nouns) that predates Norman invasion.

You might be able to argue the Normans influenced the normalization towards plurals endings in S, but languages are generally pretty resistant to borrowing grammatic features wholesale versus, say, borrowing vocabulary.
Anecdotally, when I experimented with these, that's basically how I felt - it was very reminiscent of my imagination when I was much younger. As I started studying neuroscience, especially in grad school (I specialized in attention and sensory systems), the filtration theory made even more sense because our brain works on a lot of things in this way, especially our senses. I was also interested in autism and there's a fascinating hypothesis that the sensory effects are from malfunctioning sensory filters.
A history of Europe is a history of constant wars. Also, it is interesting that some countries have had relatively stable borders for a long time (like Spain, France, Germany, Great Britain) and some were reconquered many times (Middle East countries, Easterm Europe).
Agree completely. I think for-else is same as if-else in that if the condition satisfies then it executes the main loop and if not it executes the 'else'.
This startup lets people buy clothes, get fashion advice through text messaging
Anything by R.A.W. 23
Resolution for telescopes is ~size/wavelength. But there's lots of dust between us and the center of our galaxy, so you can't see it with visible light. Typical options are x-ray to gamma radiation, and long IR to microwave. To get decent resolution with microwave, you need ~10^4 km telescopes. This array approximates that.

Anyway, they're fitting their data to models for source shape. They argue that it's neither a point source, nor a uniform source of size expected for the accretion disk.

Bottom line, I think, it's probably hot spots. Our black hole is fortunately rather quiet. We've observed pulses of x-ray radiation from accreting stuff, scattered by gas clouds near the galactic center.[0] Also fortunately, the black hole's axis doesn't point near us, so we're relatively safe from getting fried.

0) http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/gcle/
There are a few reasons:

"Partisanship has been attributed to a number of causes, including the stratifying wealth distribution of Americans [2]; boundary redistricting [3]; activist activity at primary elections [4]; changes in Congressional procedural rules [5]; political realignment in the American South [6]; the shift from electing moderate members to electing partisan members [7] movement by existing members towards ideological poles [8]; and an increasing political, pervasive media [9]."

This paper also attempted to quantify the polarization:

"We define a network of over 5 million pairs of representatives, and compare the mutual agreement rates on legislative decisions between two distinct types of pairs: those from the same party and those formed of members from different parties. We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing. Yet, a group of representatives continue to cooperate across party lines despite growing partisanship."

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
After that, I had to read all the others too!
No, an explicit break skips the else clause and the else clause is evaluated if and only if the iterator in the loop raises a StopIteration exception (i.e., it's exhausted). For example, this code will still evaluate the else clause even though the break statement is always true, because iter([]).next() throws StopIteration immediately:

for i in []:
if True: break
else: print("Foo")

while this will not:

for i in [1]
if True: break
else: print("Bar")

The "conditional" in a for loop is that the iterator (l in your example) raises a StopIteration exception. I don't really like calling it a conditional though, because it's actually handled as an exception. I guess you could think of the condition being "are there any items remaining in l? If 'no' then evaluate the else clause." I've always considered the else clause on a for loop's proper purpose being to catch erroneous cases, for instance if you try and loop over files in an empty directory. Or if you have no matches searching line by line over a file. Etc.
"Unhappy with what he saw as Toshiba's failure to reward his work, Masuoka quit to become a professor at Tohoku University."
That is a weird choice, considering that he was looking for a better recognition.

He should have pursued a career at one of competitor firms, possibly in the US.
"Gumption trap". oh yeah. Book of wisdom. Eventually I read the sequel, also good.
um.. I think you've confused the interface and the implementation.

Interfaces are not the same thing as classes, and bringing anything from OOP to them will almost certainly result in Bad Things.
This is an index indicator for the UIViewPage and so on
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Yes, "then" would have been a better choice. But "then" isn't a keyword in Python.

"else" is used with try blocks to indicate the exception didn't take place. It makes more sense there, because it follows the "except" sections.
Bradbury creates a special experience that few other authors manage. Like Le Guin.
Ideas are Messy
But the future is undeterministic? Its a tree with lots of branches- of which one of those with variations will become reality.

To assume one knows the exact path, might be a helpfull tool for a small group working towards a goal, but from the eagle perspective, that is what all these companies are. Exploring branches of a tree of propabilites.

Thiel basically argues for not having his view as a large scale investor. But that is bogus, if you want to be a succesfull CEO you might have to pivot, pivoting essentially means giving up your branch- and navigate to another branch of the scenario tree, whos succes-propability is closely related to your tech. Which is why you should think about what is possible with the stuff you develop, not about one product.

This of course is demoralizing for the individual coder. If you write code that is product-bound, that code could go to the bin at any second. That is why they usually do not get told. At some level- there is only one product, on mission, one group against all others.

But at project management level, one should realize there might even within the same companys, several projects clustering around the same core-tech, trying to use what is possible for diffrent approaches.
And Athenes which had the democracy long before other countries.
Yeah, but for the same reasons, they'll be driven to offer nearly identical pricing, flavours, etc.
I started a small real estate business and asked my friend of 15 years to invest with me. He did sight unseen because he was a friend. I didn't know what I was doing. I made some horrible rookie mistakes. Even though we were suppose to be partners, I voluntarily took the hit on the loss and made him whole so he didn't lose any money. Our friendship was more than worth the loss. He trusted me and keeping our friendship was worth every penny.
Except in most cases the person paying is not the one that chose the insurer - the employer did.
Great fun following that saga. Esp. 'Separate Reality'
Why your business needs a North Star metric
This is the entire point of NSSecureCoding as well. You must provide the list of allowed types and any unexpected ones trigger errors.
> I'd say it's a significant result because it's a situation where natural competition causes a negative outcome for everyone.

Not everyone. It's a sweet deal for people in the middle.
For accuracy's sake:

https://lucycorsetry.com/2018/01/30/corsets-and-rib-removal/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/getting-waisted/

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/everything-you-kno...
No, but given enough generations with the new empire odds are culture, customs and language will probably change in the conquered area.
Unions are not necessary at all in any country that has decent and enforced labor laws. In developed economies they only serve as a levelling mechanism, which also make it impossible to fire anybody. The only people they serve are unproductive and incompetent employees.
What is the ratio of " Legitimate companies accept it, legitimate customers pay using it, and legitimate products are traded for it." to people using it for money laundering, ransomware and other illegitimate activities. Ransomware would probably not exist if it wasn't for cryptocurrencies.

Add the power usage, the graphic card shortage and the illegal activities and I suspect you're two to three order of magnitude larger than legitimate uses. Sooner or later cryptocurrencies will get banned, or at least fully regulated.
As an American, kudos for appreciating what keeps your country on solid footing, versus a culture that is essentially a lottery with more flash.
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How did I make it through the entire article and this entire comments section and not once see a link to a Nash Equilibrium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
Because reporters are assigned to beats. If you had bothered to click on the author's name, you'd learn that he's been writing about tech for the NYT for 11 years.

I'd guess that he heard about this through one of his many Silicon Valley sources. I'd further guess that he pitched the story to his editor, who then ran it their section, which it is their job to fill. Rather than the Nature or Ecology sections, neither of which appears to be an actual NY Times section: http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/sections/00000.html
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> he became big in a political regime which tried to kill him

In which alternate universe?
Rather than these, the original Winograd algorithm ("A New Algorithm for Inner Product", 1968) is more useful in practice, if not for matrix multiplication in software on the typical CPU architecture. This decomposition is directly related to the Winograd minimal filtering algorithms for fast convolution used in convnets today. Also, systolic array structures for matrix multiplication in hardware exist that take advantage of this reformulation to reduce the number of multiplies, as the cost in hardware is substantially lower for addition versus multiplication.
Very cool! How do you go about implementing and executing on problem roadmaps?
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