skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much agree with you (as someone who has since worked for such people too).

Luckily we mostly had temporary interns as employees, and I can confidently say that they had a good experience, as we are still in touch.

The biggest problems of the inexperience were that we had to ramp up our skills on the job (for me programming), including the mistakes you make there, which killed a lot of the runway, and the lack of business knowledge which ultimately lead to us running out of money.
Interestingly, the fallacy is actually good reasoning. Even though every permutation is equally likely, the permutations fall into equivalence classes of "notoriety", and the class of ordered sequences is far smaller (== less likely) than the class of disordered sequences (which are all equivalently noninteresting).

(This is entropy, as it applies to both information and the physical world.)
I made an archive link for you: https://archive.fo/qVRU1
It is indeed noteworthy. I respect all of these people hugely and I’m glad you’re willing to lump me in with them
Most markets in existence are in meatspace, and trolls in meatspace risk life and limb. Online, the costs of trolling are much lower, which is why trolling threatens to destroy everything good on the internet.

If your solution is counting on "some reason inexplicable" that took me literally two sentences to easily and accurately explain, I'd worry.

If you think trolling hasn't caused collapses, well, I note that your site has four pictures of people who are unlikely to experience what I'm talking about.

Wikipedia definitely has issues, but most of those issues involve exactly the sorts of things we're talking about here: trust, and who has it. Most of their issues would be solved with more centralized control, not less, and still the issue of who to trust with that control remains.
To be fair, node.js just merged the --experimental-workers module for actual webworker-style threading.
Mergers like this are required to keep competition and the free market alive.
Firebase user here. Played with GAE in the past and now running all the backend code in functions.
Oh gawd. Please stop.

The Economist is doing it. 538 has done one. Everyone is doing it.

They all wind up with similar predictions.

Germany, Brazil, France and Spain are favourites.

This is what the betting odds, transfermarkt and the mean salaries of the teams also tell you.

There are limits to prediction. The WC is a good place for people to learn that.
Except that we don't want trustless money. We want reversible transactions, and funds that can be seized.

Given how My.Gox and the DAO thefts went down, so do people actually using cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin does a great job of being trustless money, and a terrible job of being money. I don't need trustless money in my life.
> Dave is to the open Web what RMS is to FOSS.

This is a great analogy!
> What does "turn off" even mean

Google is dominant in search engine (Google Search), advertising (via profiling and Doubleclick etc), e-mail (Gmail), mobile (Android), and in browser (Chrome).

There are alternatives, but they are dominant. Though perhaps Android is the worst example due to iOS there's basically two choices you got: apple juice or robot oil.

The fear is that Google -consciously or not- abuses its position to leverage another, under the guise of "doing good". They did embrace & extend with Google Reader (which is, by its very definition, proprietary software). They may do something similar with e.g. AMP or HTTP(s). If it isn't already happening. Heck, Android is more and more restrictive with each release.
> If B were to pay X a bribe of amount N, so X enforces the statement with amount N, B could also directly enforce the statement with amount N

You're assuming the bribe comes in your made up currency. B could bribe X with real money or out of band coerce/intimidate X with threats and violence.
> "Do they? I agree with your view on the takeaway from the Milgram experiments - that conviction in cause is the necessary factor in addition to the nudging from the authorities. Does it makes it any better?"

A Nazi who is a true believer is emphatically not better than a German who was merely following orders. I think most would say he's actually worse.

However an observer who recognizes the of role belief is better than an observer who discounts belief and views the situation only as Milgramian obedience to authority. The former observer is better than the later because he has a more accurate understanding of the nature of the problem, and is therefore better equipped to deal with it.

I'll also say this: I personally believe dedication to a cause is amoral. If it's the right cause, dedication to it is generally moral. If it's the wrong cause, dedication to it is immoral. It's not dedication that made true believer Nazis evil, but rather the cause to which they had dedication. Many of the men who died fighting the Nazis were similarly dedicated to their causes. Furthermore, specifically relating to the Milgram experiments, people who are dedicated to a good cause can be mislead into behaving in an immoral way. If we didn't recognize that, we might be left to conclude that apathy is virtuous.
Here is the very basic equation we are all looking for:

M(faang) <= M(su) + (CV * ES * CS)

where M(faang) is the money/salary over the expected timeline earned from a FAANG-ish company (many many of them), M(su) is the money/salary earned while in a start-up, CV is the Company Value when the Start-Up lotto is cashed in, ES are the Employee's Shares as a proportion of the company that the employee can sell for money, FR is the Fail Ratio of Start-Ups that get to the point that they can sell the company and don't just flame out.

Lets run some numbers to get a feel for the equation:

Say M(faang) is $125k/year and the timeline we are looking at is 7 years; that's $875k total. Say that potential start-up employee is making only $60k per year for those 7 years; that's $420k total. So, the expected paycheck at the end of the 7 years needs to be at least $455k.

So, CV * ES * FR must be $455k. FR is typically said to be 90%, as in 90% of start-ups fail, we'll take that as dogma too and set it to 0.1. ES is likely to be very small, even for very early stage employees, so without nearly any consensus via googling, let's set it at 0.001. CV is the company valuation when the start-up lotto is won, these days it's tough to find this out (it's mostly a power distribution), but let's be a bit conservative and set it at $500M. These numbers give us $50k.

That number is about 10x less than what is needed at a minimum. The start-up fail ratio is really never going to change. So, either the CV must become about $5B, not $500M, or the ES must go upwards from a thousandth to a hundredth (honestly, either situation isn't unreasonable) to meet the minimum pay requirements.

You can play with the numbers yourself and add conditions too (stock mechanics, value of medical benefits, rent issues, taxes, etc), but the math isn't calculus, just nested algebra. Hopefully this will help others out when thinking of trying to join a start-up as an employee.
Well, the judge has to base the decision on a whole bunch of laws. It's not like judges get to decide this on their own.
"Get rid of mutable data" doesn't play well in embedded (at least for many applications). I have worked on an embedded system where the essence of the problem itself was one giant shared mutable state. (It was a video router for television stations.)
Still are. But goroutines are o.k. :)
I have trouble imagining that people would use such a service.

I think the point of intrusive, unsolicited salesmanship is to convince people to look into products that they would otherwise ignore. People go to home depot to buy hardware, not to meet with salespeople.
This is a great question, unfortunately, there is no yearly physical where they cover the mental health aspects when it's fundamentally the most important thing. It's sad, as a society with no strong connections we are left to our own devices, when it comes to this. I remember, at one time, your friends or family would immediately notice if something was off. It was as simple as that. I believe we've lost that simple connection, to look deeply at someone.
Meditation is the best thing for me, and I have tried quite a few things. Nothing else comes close in my experience, and it only gets better with practice.
This is a perfect example of abuse of ML. Last world cup ML predictions were a joke. I guess we won't learn the lesson. And if by chance any of these predictions work, we'll take it as a valid thing.
The merger is set to close next Monday. DOJ can file for a stay, but the judge warned them that would be unwise.

I think the DOJ will just take it as a loss.
People like myself with both presbiopia and myopia can still comfortably view something close to the nose (without glasses).
Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study
One of my favorite tidbits was that it was considered very fashionable to have a well-educated Greek slave -- they were often more well-versed in literature and philosophy than their masters.
Containers that just do resource allocation and minimal isolation (masquerading as configuration management somehow) are neglecting the power of strong network and storage layers over BSD Jails (although still maybe up to par with Solaris zones only recently?) that made them indispensable for systems administration at high velocity and scale. The fact we can use pluggable SDN stacks or different filesystem drivers like ZFS and LVM instead of bare bones overlayfs is important for an ecosystem.

In contrast, VMware with its multi-year cycles to release pluggable storage and network that was only available to a few already-entrenched vendors stifled progress under the vSphere ecosystem. I knew it was over for VMware when most of the large-scale customers were simply running containers in ESXi or if they were on OpenStack they did the same thing with an additional layer. With productive organizations, the needs of application developers always supersedes the needs of those managing the applications in production barring something non-negotiable like security / regulations.
> First of all, not a lot of teams won the cup twice in a row

That is just because winning itself is low probability. But repetition is not a factor.
Awesome questions.
We do understand from the company standpoint that its difficult to give the roadmap and the timelines of the product. However, a lot of the user's decision is completely based on the road map of the product. Without being clear on this, how would you expect users to use the product?!
Parallel NFS, which was introduced in the NFS v4.1 protocol.
Even without visual distortions, none of us ever see things as they are :)

As a fun fact, you can drive on LSD if you’re experienced with psychedelics and know you can trust yourself, at least under doses <150ug. Absolutely not recommending it to anyone, but the visuals don’t really get in the way. (I’ve only driven on acid once, when I witnessed a really, really bad skateboarding accident and had to rush a stranger to the ER).

IME most people handle psychs fine, some can handle practically anything, and some will lose connection to reality and basically forget how rational thought works on an eighth of mushrooms. There’s little indicators that have given me an idea of how someone might react, but you never know for sure. Thus why the advice to have a trip sitter is always given - personally I’ve never needed a trip sitter, but I’ve seen people who absolutely did.
Firebase doesn't support Access Management with a limit to one project. So if you generate login:ci token it'll create token with access to all your projects and there are no other ways to manage it. I don't know why it still not implemented. Be careful.
There was a hype wave about multithreading (hey BeOS) that started around 1995.
Ok, we've taken 'little-known' out of the title above, to satisfy those who know more than a little. But let's please switch to something other than the title now.
Like the advise on investment products - past performance is not an indicator for future returns.
I've been working full time in Go since 2012. I've never had a use for generics.
Yep. Twisted, Tornado, and asyncio are all built on the concept of event loops.
Seattle repeals tax on companies like Amazon
The post should also mention AMP (E.E.E. for HTML) and Material Design animations (which appear to be applied to sites during rendering in Chrome, even when the sites don't use Material Design).
Getting back to the OP: in a very real sense, the set of Real numbers does not exist. Therefore, it is impossible to know its size via experience. The only possible way is to derive it from chosen axioms.

Note that even your conception of 3 is reliant on axioms. How do you "know" that 3 ducks is the same 3 as 3 fingers? Only via axioms.
Also a non-redactable public record, although it's a bit hard to do that robustly; you need a transaction saying "find md5^[N]([X]) xor [md5^N(X) xor data]" to ensure you data is already securely embedded before anyone can determine that it's classified/copyrighted/otherwise-censor-bait.
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They dropped the prefix because Mexico wasn't in a position to object. I wouldn't be surprised if many expected at the time that the newly founded US state would annex Baja eventually.
All fine points. I don't think it could work like that haha.

Maybe it could just merely point to real-world examples, without so much detail. I dunno.
There is a response to this: Why Events Are A Bad Idea
(for high-concurrency servers)[0]

[0]: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/threads-hoto...
Which is what a lot of ex telecoms monopolies are doing as they cant really grow organically anymore another example is BT sport funny how Murdoch's press started bashing BT after they started competing with Sky
I struggle with the same thing. More than anything I find exercise boring, and I'm jealous of the kids 60 years into the future where playing a MOBA in VR will be killer exercise.

But really, after a certain point, MAKING time to exercise is a bit like brushing your teeth, doing your taxes, managing your finances, and showering regularly: It's something you have to do as an adult or face the consequences.

Does exercise give you more energy? Does exercise help with depression? Is exercise REQUIRED to be a healthy individual? Over and over again the research has shown the answer is a resounding YES.

Personally, I like Jocko Willink's advice about gyms: Home gyms are essential. They are much less hassle. You don't have to pack a bag, commute to the gym, deal with the other gym people, shower, commute home, and collapse after a two hour gym adventure. You can just throw on your gym clothing, walk into your garage, throw some music or a podcast on the radio, and get to work.
24 Hours of SSH and Telnet Attacks
Ma Bell 2.0
Honest question, what uses does blockchain have?

I have yet to find a single use case that isn't better served by a few centralized or federated systems.

Even digital currency I believe is better solved by systems like GNU Taler.
It apparently bears repeating: the U. A. W. is not the only union model out there. It could even be argued that it is one of the worst, hence the reason I specifically called them out.
Lifting is the best thing I ever did for my damaged, pre-arthritic knees. Most of the suffering is probably not from the cartilage, but rather from weak muscles and tendons. Strengthen those, improve knee function, and the effects of arthritis are greatly reduced, in my own experience.
A comment I oft make about startup layoffs, which is unpopular: (and apropos whether you consider Tesla a "startup")

Reckless decision making leads to positions that are usually unnecessary, so many layoffs in such companies are positions that shouldn't have been hired for to begin with.
Completely agree. Go has parsing and type checking and what not as part of its stdlib. However they choose a code generation approach which is a separate step and often relies on code comments. Even if security fears of compile time execution were allayed, the Go stewards are very unlikely to support altering the very strict-yet-simple grammar for multiple reasons. Macros would be very welcome, but they can't help improve the language if the language is intentionally inflexible.
That's a valid question/concern but that we're addressing the correct interpretation of Musk's statement.
I didn’t detect any hint of hate in the OP’s comment, more appreciation and irony.
Thanks for this! As my own marriage approaches, it is disheartening to see things like GP post. What you have here makes much more sense to me.
Except when they do. Activist judges & judicial legislation [0] are not a new thing.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judicial%20legisl...
Absolutely. Many tribes throughout the amazon have different plant concoctions that end up producing some variant of DMT. While I haven't experienced DMT, I have tried mushrooms, and I can say without a doubt that it reshaped my mind and helped me see everything from a more positive, compassionate light.

I think the key for tribes in the amazon is the important ritual associated with these drugs. They aren't taken at a rave, they are taken with very serious purpose in mind.
Researchers find some shades of LED lamps threaten wildlife
No Team actually has done it before...
This surprises me a bit, because I attended a lecture at Karolinska Instituted by Jorge Ruas in 2017 about a series of papers produced by his research group where they actually seem to have figured out why developing more red muscle - which is the endurance muscle, not the kind you produce with weight-lifting - protects against depression.

In short, red muscle it produces KAT enzymes that break down kynurenine, which is a substance produced by stress that is associated with all kinds of mental illnesses, like inducing depression, if it remains at elevated levels for longer periods of time. So it protects you from depression by removing one of the substances that causes it. IIRC, kynurenine is then turned into kynurenic acid, which then activates white fat and turns it into "beige fat", a kind of almost-brown fat (so the healthier kind). So it has even more benefits!

I asked during the Q&A if they recommend endurance exercise, or weightlifting, and they said that in their tests, it was specifically the muscles that you develop during endurance training that produce this protective enzyme.

[0] https://ki.se/en/news/how-physical-exercise-protects-the-bra...
> Imagine the public reaction to Melania suggest that kids eat apples at school

It's just an assumption to say that both sides are the same. Barbara and Laura Bush, for example, were not demonized like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.
I've been reading Michael Pollan's new book on this (How to Change Your Mind - really good read, incidentally) and according to him it's actually the opposite in some of the clinical trials he looked at. In the book he describes clinical settings that involve relatively large doses of psychedelics, primarily psilocybin but also DMT and LSD, because the goal is to induce "ego death" and/or a profound or mystical experience. This tends to correlate with the type of dosage where you are basically not inhabiting your familiar reality/not aware of your body for several hours at a time.

To put that in perspective, I've probably taken psychedelics around a dozen times and only truly achieved something I would call "ego death" once (a truly fascinating and moving experience, but that's for another time!). And a lot of the people I know would take fairly low doses and do things like go to parties or walk around Central Park. By comparison, the clinical amounts Pollan is describing make it virtually impossible to move around or talk in a coherent way, let alone go out into the world.
Merging the threads now. Submitted URLs so far, besides this one:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/business/dealbook/att-tim...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/att-time-warner-ruling.html

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/att/2018/06/12/att-wins-...

http://about.att.com/story/att_to_acquire_time_warner.html

If anyone knows a significantly better URL for this submission, let us know and we can change it again.
True. However, unlike the "standard" QM interpretation, the non-local hidden-variables theories are deterministic (which is the reason why they were mentioned in this thread a few messages back).
Slightly off-topic...

From The China Hustle, Dirty Money, and The Big Short, it is clear people are putting a lot of trust in the "free market" across the board. Society seems convinced that abusive behavior is acceptable collateral damage required for "free markets" to work; that accepting white collar crime is better than regulating a big company; giving a $1B fine to a company that made $40B in profits is punishment enough to keep companies honest. It is not clear there is a better way...
Just pointing out something that made me smile. I suppose any time someone is marketing or building a new/underdog platform, some ironic elements will be present. Like Stallman using Unix machines to develop the GNU toolchain. :-)
Perfect time to rename the company to "usher in a new era of innovation". How about calling the new AT&T Bell? Because this merged company will be way worse an anticompetitive monopoly than the exploitative operator of the US switched phone network ever could have been.
3.4 Combining methods
[...] are now compared with regard to their predictive performance.
For this purpose, we apply the following general procedure:

1. Form a training data set containing three out of four World Cups.

2. Fit each of the methods to the training data.

3. Predict the left-out World Cup using each of the prediction methods.

4. Iterate steps 1-3 such that each World Cup is once the left-out one.

5. Compare predicted and real outcomes for all prediction methods.
> the issue in the US is that there isn't much common ground politically

The issue is harming children's nutrition to score political points.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297763.
AT&T wins: Judge clears $85B bid for Time Warner with no conditions
I would certainly agree with that but your original comment was specifically about competition in the broadband market, which this deal has absolutely zero effect on and your post seemed to be based on the common misunderstanding of TWC still being part of TW.
There are various solutions for randomness. Funfair's is for the user and the house to generate chains of hashes, e.g. hash(hash(hash(secret))). Each posts the outermost hash to the smart contract. Then each can reveal successive preimages, and the contract can XOR each pair to get a random number.

Here's an article on an idea very similar to theirs, with sample code: https://www.blunderingcode.com/gamble-channels-fast-verifiab...