skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like there was no inflation in the gold standard era. It's just that inflation wasn't under anybody's political control - I guess if there was a gold rush you had a lot of inflation and if there wasn't you didn't.

The free silver movement was a political attempt to redistribute money from one group (lenders) to another group (borrowers, but specifically farmers) by deliberately causing a one-off burst of inflation. The original goldbugs opposed it (correctly, as the author points out) for that reason. Bryan supported it because he knew it would win him the votes of those who would benefit.

The same is not true of modern fiat currencies, which are for the most part managed quasi-independently with the goal of a relatively constant low, but non-zero, rate of inflation. This is better than either the gold standard or the free silver situation (both of which involved large bursts of inflation at unpredictable times), since the inflation rate can be priced in to interest rates.

It is possible to maintain a principled objection to this on the grounds that the political consensus could break down and we could start manipulating inflation for political reasons again. I'm glad we have people who worry about that, but I don't feel the need to join them.

I have a feeling that the ratio of 'principled objection' to 'economically illiterate' is, uh, not that high though.
This isn't a competition problem: Any competitor that gets big enough to challenge YT will attract the same scrutiny from content rights owners. and will face the same copyright issues that YT does.

The problem isn't in the content hosting industry, it is on the policy & legal side.
Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't South Korean have Gaming/Internet Addiction Centers for those with "Gaming Disorders"? I remember seeing something about this from a eSports documentary some time ago. Unfortunately I don't remember name of it.

Edit: found it https://youtu.be/of1k5AwiNxI?t=1150
Sure, Microsoft was on a nice trajectory, and there is no doubt that Bill Gates is smart.

However, that $25K check is the difference between Microsoft being a solidly growing company up against someone else that IBM anointed vs Microsoft is the anointed one.

$25K was about 5x the price of a car at the time. That makes it about $150K in modern dollars.

How many people can cut a $150K cash check because their kid says it's a good idea? Even most "millionaires" can't cut a check for cash at that level.
> Yet the same organisation that seems to care so much about giving every little addiction it's own name

Because diagbostic criteria need to be different for different subject matter, and no suitable generalization had been identified.

> also lumps every variety of autism under the same umbrella term.

Because there is a continuum of manifestations and not clear differentiated kinds with crisp, clinically meaningful boundaries or subject matter.
>Many public transit companies have been around for decades and haven't figured out how to scale up to the kind of service Uber is providing

This is because these are publicly funded organizations that are starved of funds for political reasons.

Public transit works well where it's funded well. It's a political problem, not a technology problem.
Are there any questions as to the validity of Theranos' IP portfolio? Or was the tech all junk science too?

The list of assigned patents looks impressive. Perhaps something that could be developed further by an acquirer?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
COBOL existed to turn your army of clerks into programmers. Those people no longer exist.

The modern equivalent is Java.
This reply demonstrates the problem that an admission process is trying to address. The reply makes it seem like Ivy league admission is like a game to master for some students. Whereas graduates of top schools like Harvard are generally expected to become leaders who care about bigger issues, to have been informed by historical patterns and long term trends. These future leaders must know how to emphatize and care about much more than just getting ahead. (I'm an Asian, btw, if that helps inform the reader of where I'm coming from.)
I think it does have to do with side projects if that's the avenue OP wants to take to find meaningful work.

> I would love to contribute to such a project and I always envy and look up to Jeff Dean

Instead of being jealous, be the Jeff Dean you want to be!

> Maybe I should get a job in a company which has a well established product (preferably something used by developers) and has some room for creativity?

I'm being glib but it's honest advice: one way to get the kind of work you want is to be the expert people need. Rarely does a team hire someone from outside with zero knowledge of a critical, low-level system and pay them to learn it. More often than not they want to hire someone with the skills and experience they're lacking.

The hard part is finding the motivation. A good chunk of line-of-business applications are valuable but do not require, "creative solutions." They need people who understand the problem domain so well that they can translate business rules into systems and can anticipate users' needs.

The low-level work is a lot more fun and personally satisfying for people but you have to be pushing the envelope to get it. If you have the personal motivation to be obsessed with LevelDB for a couple of years before landing that dream job... success may be much more likely.
I enjoy the paper as a starting point for discussions. However, given the varying definitions of technical debt, I think it is important to see additional elaborations and examples of real-world trade offs in production systems.

Perhaps the best overall wisdom this paper tries to impart is this: build awareness, culture, and tooling around your ML systems, both upstream and downstream. Never stop exploring and improving. Relentlessly try to slim down your models, simplify your pipelines, and bring people together to talk about all kinds of dependencies.
I don't think too many Uber drivers are running their gigs on GlobalSats dangling from Arduinos. They tend to have phones.
It's taking all available data from Binance API (Basically all the different cryptocurrencies have been listed at different times, therefore the difference in time ranges)

I can see though how it looks untrustworthy because of that, thanks for feedback!
> The activity which is addictive varies, but the underlying physiological mechanism seems to be essentially identical from cocaine abuse to gambling.

No, it doesn't. There seem to likely be some similar key mechanisms involved, but the shared mechanisms aren't the whole story, otherwise someone addicted to something would be addicted to everything.

We give different diagnoses for different allergies, even though allergies have a common key mechanism.
IOTA is too unpredictable for this algorithm
I really like this extension of the concept of overfitting to codebases in general.

I especially noticed this in libraries/packages that were "community owned" in a company--instead of one team owning the package and being the authority on deciding the long term roadmap and communicating with other teams about feature requests, deprecations, documentation, bug fixes, etc, the community at large, where "community" was very broadly defined as a team that for whatever reason had an interest in using/maintaining/adding onto the package, would collectively own the package.

Naturally, the result was exactly the scenario you described. Each team hacked on their own bit of functionality for their specific purpose, while doing their best to not affect or break the increasingly precarious tightrope of backwards compatibility. There was no long term architectural vision, so there was a definite need for refactoring--and yet no team had the incentive to invest the amount of time needed to do that.The documentation was woefully incomplete as well, and few people understood how the entire thing worked since each team would only interact with their small fraction of the code.
Does this work for governance & politics also?
I see this pattern more often, whenever new tracking systems are deployed with little to no discussion, be it 911 or eCall: it is for our own good.
Baidu’s breast cancer detection algorithm outperforms human pathologists
After Facebook, Amazon is the other company I wouldn't trust to not do evil. Even if many more shareholders join in on this, I don't see Jess Bezos caring about these things. The Amazon stock won't suffer even if he publicly says he won't listen to such shareholders. On the contrary, the stock may just shoot up.

The larger question on this topic is, "If the big technology companies do not sell the technology to the governments, won't somebody else do?" Of course, the governments would find some domestic or foreign companies to buy such technology from (or even spend money on developing it). I think that's inevitable over the course of time. But such pressure on companies could possibly help shape policy too (added several adjectives to indicate how difficult this would be).
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium Expand to Canada and 11 European Markets
Canvas Is Hiring Front End and Back End Engineers (Ember, RoR) in SF FiDi
At Canvas, you won’t be handed a spec sheet - you’ll be part of the product process. Our software is backed by physical assets so we are looking for people who are focused on creating an elegant experience for our customers by working with external parties to stitch technology together with the human component.

Our mission is simple: rethink car ownership to meet the needs of the modern-day driver by creating an easy and personalized car subscription platform. As a part of the Ford family, we have the DNA of a startup with the resources and expertise of a global brand.

We are currently looking for Front End, Back End, and Full Stack Engineers to help build out our subscription platform alongside our small, rapidly growing core team of experienced engineers at our HQ in SF.

Our platform is powered by a monolithic Rails app backed by a Postgres database and an ElasticSearch cluster. We’re using Ember for our front end, Redshift for our data warehouse, and Memcached for our caching layer. We also have an iOS app written in Swift to facilitate our deliveries and returns.

If you’re interested in learning more, please apply here:

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Furthermore, good players can play with probabilities to lead to more consistent results.

For example, try not to play two colors equally. Instead, "skew" colors in one side. Play 75% green and 25% red for example, which tends to be more consistent than a 50/50 split. Furthermore, seeing an opening hand of say all reds (when you know its your "minor color") gives you the opportunity to mulligan for a better hand before the game even starts.

IMO, these sorts of decisions are what makes you a better player. Its a small probability with regards to mana-screw or mana-flooding, but these little things help over the long run.
> Square has designed its own secure enclave,
> a co-processor for processing encrypted
> payment information. About a dozen
> employees at Square work on the silicon
> team.

I do not believe this. $50 says it is just an STM32 with square-written firmware
YouTube is working to restore accidentally blocked videos from MIT and others
30+ GHz require line of sight. It's not feasible to deploy stations, except maybe indoors like shopping mauls.

More realistic is the 700 MHz range. 2100 TDD is also pretty much unused, as well as 2600 TDD. Then again you can reuse existing frequencies that were previously used for GSM/UMTS/LTE.
> If I understand the math correctly, BART claims about 126 million rides (2015) and cost $906M (~$7 a ride, comparable to some uber pool fares)

Scaling a mobile app is trivial compared to running a transit company.

BART owns/maintains infrastructure (including an underwater tunnel) and vehicles, provides benefits (health, retirement, etc) to their drivers, and operates a multi-jurisdictional police force.

Uber meanwhile hired a couple of tech bros (paid largely in stock instead of actual currency), pays their drivers near minimum wage with no benefits (as they're not actually employees), and disregards as many laws as possible (so there's little-to-no cost to enter a new market). It's not surprising they've been able to scale. What's surprising is how expensive their service still is.
This is really funny. How much have you "innovated" while gaming? You are living under the thumb of entertainment media already. You're trapped in your time waster instead of innovating.
Coming soon! I'm planning a page with tracks for web development, machine learning, iOS development, etc.
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Just to totally nitpick your last point, it's worth noting that the BART cost probably includes the entire infrastructure maintenance cost whereas Uber essentially has infrastructure subsidized (i.e., they don't need to pay for maintenance of the roads their cars drive on etc.) so a true comparison of efficiency would result in Uber "costing" more than that.
I have the reverse service expectations.

I want absolutely cheap but non-shared point-to-point rides.

Beyond some very minimal, basic safety and competency as a driver, I stop caring and just want it to be as cheap as possible.

If I could indicate that I’ll happily be paired with a low rating driver if it is cheaper, I would.

And it sounds like adding this functionality could satisfy both of our use cases too!
Most recent item on "recent changes" was five years old in 2014. Galway Airport's certainly been shut for a lot longer than that.
Hard to judge whether this is true, but with billions of dollars in play I wouldn’t put it past human nature to do something immoral.
Direct link to NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/sunday/meditation... . I found it a bit more informative.
Definitely. The best part is that programmers can easily build on top of these projects to create sophisticated applications.
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Fair point, but meaninglessness of one's job can be quite demotivating too if you're paying attention to the bigger picture.
This source is much better, can we please get it changed.

[EDIT] or merged with the other discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17342126
I guess we'll see how serious they are about these accusations if they sue the employee or file criminal charges; if the industrial espionage & sabotage accusations are true, it should be easy to make them stick - and having told the whole company about them, Musk now needs to take action or else forfeit credibility & deterrence (both for not being a liar, and for punishing theft/sabotage).
"I'm gonna build the biggest Dyson Wall to keep those loser space aliens out! Believe me, space aliens are bad hombres; they poop out of their mouths and eat our cars at 3am. Those smelly green runts ate my golf cart in the middle of my game! Most come from total sh&thole planets, unbelievable! #MakeEarthGreatAgain!
First step is to just start blogging/vlogging. Lots of people try to just do social media and personally I think it's harder that way. Do social media but link it all back to your blog/vlog. Make sure Google can find your content (which is hard when you're pure FB/Insta).

Do that for a while. A few months at least, with a few dozen quality posts. Also look in your area for a local bloggers group. One blogger doesn't have a lot of power, but the groups tend to get a group invite to big social/branded events.

You're probably not going to get anywhere unless you pay Facebook. $1/day is enough to get them to show your page to a wider audience. FB ads can work on Instagram too if you pick the right settings.

What we do most of the time is go out to a local restaurant, somewhere we were planning on going anywhere, but write an article about it afterwards. Shop local stores, and write about them. Look for upcoming events and write about them. Share all your posts on social media. Tag businesses in them. This is all stuff we would be doing anyway, the only difference is when we get home we write about it on our blog. That makes it an easy habit to keep up.

After a few months and a few dozen quality posts, start making sure people know who you are. If you want to talk to a business owner, email them directly, introduce yourself, see if you can get an interview. Now they know who you are. Keep doing that. Keep attending blogger events around you. Congratulations, you're now reaping the social status that you're looking for.

This all works best if you have no significant competition. If there are other high profile blogs doing exactly what you're doing, you're going to need a niche. And just like in startups, don't be afraid to pivot or re-launch a few times. We're in the middle of a small pivot right now, we grew a big audience over the years and now we're going to try to flex some muscle to see if our audience can pitch in and help with community projects.

Natural growth is slow. Keep plugging away, and keep paying Zuckerberg his pound of flesh, and you'll get there. But the day it stops being fun without any additional cash in your pocket, that's the day you might want to rethink it.
Because it ties in two barriers to entry that have rarely existed together before: minimum efficiency scale and network effects.

Facebook only has network effects, there isn't anything particularly efficient or advanced about what it does. Given its minuscule infrastructure when compared to Google and Amazon, it would be very hard for it to achieve the same level of cost that Google has on YT. Pure search doesn't rely so much on scale as well.

Any other provider doesn't have either the network effects that YT does nor the scale to be able to compete with Google on YT.

From a scale perspective, the only companies who could effectively compete with Google would be Microsoft and Amazon. Microsoft is still trying to figure itself out, especially on the consumer side. Amazon is geographically limited and has very little expertise in open content and ad-funded platforms, but it is trying with Twitch.
What is it like to be a machine learning engineer in 2018?
There is still a lot of room for improvement in video. I can see a day when video is seen for what it is... A collection of sensor readings. Seen this way, differences in sensitivity between imaging units can be used to gain extra information about the true color of objects. Multiple readings from the same object can be used to re-create the scene in great detail.

Imagine a future where you could zoom in and rotate around an out of focus object seen at the beginning of a video because there were a few closeup views of it 10 minutes later...
Technology is spreading much more quickly than training so it makes sense. ISWIM was written up in the fifties.
Yeah but 19 is a much larger number, visually, than 0.25% or whatever
Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice is one of my favorite books on language implementation. It's dated (the machines targeted were things like 8Mhz 68000 boxes) but details and pragmatics of bootstrapping your way into a working system from a tape dump are a fun read.
I would argue that your desired use case is a closer reality as it just requires adding a new option with lower score or similar. Increasing the quality is not as simple.
I was very depressed for a couple of years, and I am very content now. Here is what helped me. Your mileage may vary, of course.

First of all, the national suicide hotline is there for you if you should ever need it. 1-800-273-8255

I saw a psychiatrist. Therapist is also an option for you.

Sertraline (Zoloft) or other SSRI may provide some 'distance'. I find it helpful.

Shamatha meditation and Shambhala meditation center provides mindfulness and community for me.

Make regular exercise a priority.

Make getting a good night's sleep a priority every night.

Slow down. Try to avoid overextending yourself. Learn to say "no" sometimes. Turn off the phone, TV, and computer when possible.

Good luck! Take care of yourself! :-)
Where are located out of curiosity?
True thanks for pointing that out. I'm addressing this as a self identified video game addict. I feel that pull to play in my brain every day. I just try to not live in denial telling myself that spending all my time gaming is a healthy and constructive way to spend my time.

I've seen this behavior in my peers and in myself. Almost always among the addicts like myself you get two responses. "Yea no doubt lmao" or an exhaustive list of other addictions like television, cigarettes, Facebook, etc. trying to rationalize it to you and themselves. I'd like to point out in these cases it is far beyond a hobby. It is self-destructive. Going a day or more without eating or sleeping. Pulling an all-nighter because you just cant seem to get away from it. I've literally seen league of legends ruin a friends future because he couldn't study over getting in just-one-more-match. In my perspective video game addiction is an undeniable truth. And those vehemently opposed usually have a self-image interest in opposing it.
News flash! Achieving great things is hard and everybody makes some mistakes along the way. On the way, they meet jokers who take great pride in laughing at their mistakes, because, let's be real, jokers are sore losers. Deep down they know they can't do 1% of that shit, and so yeah, let's lift a leg and piss on that fucker. That will show him!
While there's paranoia going around, I wonder whether whoever leaked that email first checked it for hidden Unicode fingerprinting... :P
Yep, though I must admit I downloaded the lossless and uploaded it straight to Google Play Music where it gets converted to lossy.
It was a comment about the quality of people that go into politics, nothing more. There is little incentive for smart, ambitious people to enter anymore.
This is a strange situation. Bitcoin is useless at the moment because no one accepts it. But the fees are low, so there is a real incentive to start using it instead of things like credit cards. Let's imagine that a lot of big companies, like Square, start using Bitcoin. Then the network would get saturated (since it doesn't scale) and Bitcoin would become unusably slow and expensive.

Bitcoin is useless if it's on the fringe, but it's equally useless if it's widely used. If it's too popular there's an incentive to stop using it, and if it's too unpopular there's an incentive to start. Is there a stable equilibrium where it has some utility? I don't know.

A project like this can only succeed if it doesn't succeed too much. Square is big enough that it could single-handedly saturate the Bitcoin network, and I don't know what they'd do then.
I totally agree with you, I decided to unfollow everyone and everything I don't want to keep contact with. It seems like I got rid of unfunny memes, photos of babies I don't care about, a lot of garbage posts from pages I don't even remember why I started following.

I thought I would get a better Facebook, a new feed with only posts from people I care about, turned out my Facebook is empty now, the people and pages I do care about seem to stopped posting a long time ago, I just didn't know because Facebook made it look like my feed was full of interactions I cared about.
> tech bros

What's your point with this?
I've frequently used Uber Pool, and have noticed that it's started forcing a waiting period of a minute to "find the best match". I've also noticed that I'm getting matched with drivers further and further away from me, frequently waiting up to ten minutes. The matching algorithms sure don't seem improved, so maybe they're just covering up a decreasing number of drivers in my area.
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Yeah this ended any competition in NFL video games. Madden got a monopoly basically.
GDPR Gothic
It’s pretty obvious that they never intend to release a game at this point.