skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well-known corporations like Samsung and Tencent should be able to recruit most junior talent they need from their own country or a lower-cost location. The major reason they set up offices in the US is to recruit top talent who are not willing to move and sometimes more senior than those they can recruit from elsewhere.

In other words, they have little incentives to set up offices in other US locations which are not lower cost than their home base and have too few talent at the level they cannot get elsewhere.

The needs of many startups could be different from them.
The only* thing that matters in architecture is whether you feel happy and alive in it. Nobody can tell you how a place makes you feel. That being said, I think one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played was making modern architecture and (some) McMansions extremely photogenic. I think people gravitate toward imagery rather than their own true senses.

*not at all true, but true for this statement ;)
Depends what is driving the housing appreciation. You can end up like Toronto & Vancouver where it keeps on going up anyway despite local incomes being far far away from those purchase prices, for a decade+
They should use Bayesian statistics, in which case it doesn’t matter when you stop (more precisely, stopping when you get a result does not bias the outcome; of course running the test longer will make the result more robust). See http://andrewgelman.com/2014/02/13/stopping-rules-bayesian-a...
I would have loved this reporter to have dig to through counter arguments for the value of Fotini's ideas. Quantum physics is full of crackpots these days and people are churning out theories which have little connection to be relevant. It's obvious that many of Fotini's peers thought of her theory in this way.
Ya that is what he did to Rails...
The First Family of Counterfeit Hunting
> in one narrated incident, a sepoy was mutinied in his camp and started firing on his officers. Rather than rush out of his tent with a gun, Hooper charged out with his camera and attempted to photograph the assailant.

Willoughby seems like a true artist, gambling his life for a photograph. Calling him an “Indifferent bystander” seems like a rash reaction by those who don’t understand the power photographs like these have in the public eye.

Sure, he could have fed these groups of families and children going through extreme famine instead of taking photos, but those families were a drop in the bucket of starving people in India. Sometimes spreading images to the masses is more affective than helping a few people.
Great read for some ex-Valve employees.
What makes it obnoxious? I kinda liked it on desktop (the website with the news article).
Yeah, 2CI is for example very dangerous psychologically, and I’m sure it gets sold as LSD when an unscrupulous dealer has excess inventory.
One only has to work in IT security for a relatively short span to see ample evidence that humans are not generally concious.
That was my experience as well. Maybe it's my (very marginal) Asperger's biting me, but when I joined a supposedly self-organizing team as their only outsider, it was like walking into a buzz-saw. It was an awful experience that I never want to repeat.
Most likely some bias on both ends here
Even better than examples and explanations, learn by doing: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/

"You’re a social scientist with a hunch: The U.S. economy is affected by whether Republicans or Democrats are in office. Try to show that a connection exists, using real data going back to 1948. For your results to be publishable in an academic journal, you’ll need to prove that they are “statistically significant” by achieving a low enough p-value."
I think you should copy/paste the whole function, change one of the copies to suit your needs, and then factor out any subroutines the functions have in common.

This is what OP recommends too.
Of course. Whataboutism is easy to promote.

Understanding the risk is the important part. Personally, I’ll take my chances and roll the proverbial dice with tattoo ink.
No, not the same amount, from a reasonable baseline, from expectations. If you expect a pretty good life, then getting a face tattoo will deviate from those expectations, and you will perceive much affect. NOT getting a face tattoo will not affect, IE, not CHANGE, not DEVIATE from the trajectory of your life.

(It should probably be noted that affect is the root of affection, and an emotional term, especially when considering life change [ love is eternal ~ affect ~ affection ])

In the same sense, marrying someone should be done to preserve trajectory, to solidify path, not to affect a life. Don't get married to change your life; don't get married to "fix" things ( unless you mean fix in place, affix ). IE, if you expect someone in your life, and losing them would be a bigger change than marrying them, then marry them. It is the lesser noticed change.

If you don't follow my logic(and some folly), then you are fallible, not affable.
That reminds me of tenure for professors.
We have an open issue for storing your state in local storage. Just haven’t gotten to it yet.
Hi, I am one of the authors. We found that people p-hack with traditional t-tests. Most A/B tests were run this way in the past and some still are. The paper is using Optimizely data (from 2014) before Optimizely introduced new testing in 2015 designed to solve the issues we found in the paper.

If you want to know how Optimizely prevents p-hacking check out the math behind Optimizely’s current testing here: https://www.optimizely.com/resources/stats-engine-whitepaper...
What do I know? I am a random person voicing my opinion on the internet. Read my other comments, I will freely admit when I am wrong.

If they make something that helps you, I think that would be great.
It’s not that all the good engineers are taken. It’s that the good engineers are doing mindless ad blasting to make a bigger buck.

There’s an opportunity cost of inventing things that actually make people’s lives considerably better.

The valley was the place where this would happen, now that culture and spirit is slowly dying.

Mostly because you can’t take those kinds of risks. Just the living expensive would kill you. VC money needs a quick buck so that kills those ideas in their infancy too.

Innovation is hard!
Was under the impression a mcmansion was a giant suburban tract home on a very small lot. Apparently it means a unique poorly designed one with more space.
> there will always be demand as it's a small, convenient unit in a renter-friendly building, just off of transit.

I hope you're right, but those are famous last words! Look at a city like Chicago, with huge sections that are just like you described, but where even well-maintained properties command a fraction of their peak value, and others are almost unsellable at any price. Oakland hasn't exactly experienced uninterrupted prosperity, so it's not an unreasonable risk to consider.
In the Everett interpretation, everything is local.
Or it’s 5 years less of post-treatment life.

We can make random guesses all day about what’s a good outcome but how about we leave it to medical researchers to actually figure out what’s safe and beneficial?
I think adding a concrete language (most probably C) and a course for OOP to the list might prove useful.
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How could it not be science fiction if it's set in the future?
Internal combustion engines produce exhaust fumes. Polycyclic hydrocarbons would be a good place to start.

Here’s an older study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223100...
It's a new implementation, not a port.
This is wrong. P hacking has nothing to do with the p being too lenient.
Why Would I Want to Get Involved in Blockchain?
Simon Sinek wins the gold medal for thought leader in my book.
> Work your way through the corporate food chain like an intestinal parasite at a gratis conference buffet.

lol, priceless!
California is expensive overall. However, other places are cheaper. I lived in Central/Eastern WA (Pasco) for a postdoc before moving to the bay and it was astronomically cheaper across the board even if you ignore housing (1800sqft house on 1/2 acre was $280k in 2014).

Biggest non-housing difference was no state income tax, so save 7-10%, then pretty much all car/gas/insurance were about half. Food was a bit cheaper but not enough to make a big difference. We didn't go out much since restaurants weren't good but thats not really a far comparison.

Where do you live in NE California? I love it up there (and SE Oregon)
This is not p-hacking.
It’s a hypothesis.
I never suggested you should. My personal decision is to consider tattoo ink the lesser of the evils I chose to be concerned with.

You may have a different opinion and make different choices based on your personal risk rubric.
To each their own I suppose. I definitely think they look almost physically repulsive.
There's already an actual muscle relaxent medication called Soma
I mean sure, the same way literally all art is. That's usually just something people say to dismiss art criticism.
I do not think, Sir, that the most tenacious money-lover could look upon these indisputable evidences of human suffering without experiencing the impulse to do something in the way of alleviation.

Would that this were true.
In term of new game ideas: Portal 1 in 2007. All other titles were sequels.
http://mcmansionhell.com/post/149284377161/mansionvsmcmansio...
Yes. Disgruntled employees leave companies all the time. Yet when one leaves Valve it's because their organisational structure doesn't work, not just that that person wasn't a good fit for the company. Meanwhile Valve probably can't hear what people outside are saying over the noise of their money-printing machine.
It’s so awful to provide people with more living space.
This. I can p-hack in my field, if I wanted to, up to a p-value of arbitrary strictness, given enough time.
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Eg—

firstname.lastname@company_firstname_works_for.com

Proceed to try common passwords?
Show HN: A command-line flat-file note management app in Python 3
Learning Hacking together?
Got a group going of three people that are beginners in hacking. We are learning using a hacking video course. If anyone wants to join us message me.
Traditional A/B testing has very poor ergonomics. Experimenters are usually put in awkward conflict-of-interest situations that create multiple strong incentives not to perform rigorous, disciplined, valid experiments.

Null hypothesis significance testing is fundamentally misaligned with business needs and is not a good tool for businesses. This is true in many fields of science as well, but at least they have some mechanisms that try to ensure that experiments are unbiased. Businesses often don't have the same internal and external incentives that lead to those mechanisms, and so NHST is abused even more.
Don't hide behind the pretense of doing science to justify being a jerk. Look at your own language, in this reply, and in your blog post:

"you don't understand how science works" - this is attacking a person, not an idea.

The blog post:

"Perhaps this would be less shocking, if they'd sat down and instead of jumping straight to Tensorflow, they could realize" [...]

"They apparently have spent to much time staring into the progress bars on their GPU's to realize they are praising something obvious, obvious to the point that it can be constructed by hand in several lines of python code."

This makes assumptions about the authors, and all but calls them idiots. That entire paragraphs drip with sarcasm, of which one can only assume you're smart enough to be aware and have intended. You made it personal, and that's exactly what the GP is noting when they term your blog post a "hit piece".

Yes, people have used explicit coordinates as features before. No, this paper isn't going to radically change the world, but if you're arguing from "science", that _doesn't matter_ at all. Science is full of rediscovery and duplication, and tolerates it just fine. What matters most is that we filter out things that are wrong -- and I don't think that's obviously the case with this paper. "Trivial" is a subjective determination, and while one part of the job of refereeing a journal or conference is to try to rank things as a service to the audience, it's not the most important aspect of a reviewer's job.

Just because you took a lot of bullshit doesn't mean it's OK. It's not OK if people were jerks to you in this way, and it's not OK to pass it on.
Can you link to some medical evidence of the efficacy of that?
In my opinion, CERN is one of the few groups out there that can call their data set "big data" without talking out of their ass. (If it can fit in RAM, it ain't Big Data. Multiple TBs fit in RAM) Their detectors produce something on the order of a petabyte per second which is then pared back immensely to become something that's actually storable. Most of the machine learning I've heard of involving CERN is in reducing that data stream and then highlighting "interesting" things for researchers to take a look at.
Typically this is done with reverse geocoding. What is the advantage of Loc2country?
I wasn’t sure anyone would notice :)
The 100 GPUs remark is an aside, but still somewhat significant. It’s a tremendous amount of computing power to show a negative result that the authors don’t even really acknowledge as a negative result.

There is a common issue with deep learning papers: deep learning seems to excuse thinking rigorously about the underlying problem at hand. We trust a deep network to do the legwork for us, and this invites an intellectually-lazy approach to research. We’re graduating PhDs who have spent four years twisting knobs.

The paper itself is fine, no better or worse than the average paper today. The troubling part is the large number of high-profile ML practitioners praising it within minutes/hours. This suggests to me that notable results in DNN might be drying up and name recognition (Uber AI) is driving attention more than substance.
There are two polio vaccines - the conventional live-attenuated polio vaccine works really well in developing settings, because it's cheap, multi-dose, and vaccinated individuals shed virus, which give people who were previously or un-vaccinated some protection via exposure.

But if we ever get down to actually thinking "These are the last 5 cases..." it's entirely possible to use the killed virus formulation used in the U.S. and Europe.

Where those cases are is a bigger pain.
I would be shocked if it were as low as 57%. As an intern, I found that the analysts in charge of A/B tests often didn't have a background in science or running experiments, and didn't really care. There were a couple of data analytics teams in the company, and I think a lot of the developers didn't like my team because we were seen as "fussier" than the other one. We required people to preregister hypotheses, and run experiments for predetermined amounts of time.

I don't think the tech environment is very conducive to running experiments. Everything moves too fast, by the time you figure out the results someone gives you are bs, they've already got promoted 3 times and work as a director at a different company.

I work in science now, and although people still p-hack like hell, there's at least some sort of shame about it. There's a long term cost too, I've met a couple researchers who have spent years trying to replicate some finding they got early in their career through suspicious means.
NetBSD 8.0 took longer to release than intended.

The comparison to "oldest clang/gcc you can get in a linux distro" is not right, you can get a lot of different versions as packages. this refers to the base compiler which is used to build everything. GCC 8.1 is available as a package for example.

As for the base GCC versions, NetBSD is a little conservative when updating, but keep in mind that it's doing this on a lot of architectures and problems arise. a complete transition to GCC 5.x was held back somewhat by a tricky mipseb-softfloat bug, GCC 6.x (in -current) was held back by a VAX ICE. Newer GCC kills ARMv4-nonthumb support.

If that is OpenSSL 1.0.2k it probably should be updated, yeah.
Yes but afaik it translates to runtime checks.
Personally I get lots of invites to interview due to my experience but few job offers, since I'm not great at unrealistic coding tests under the gun.

What can L.I. do for me?
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/58/3/e44/336537

The term to use is "immune compromised host"
Navstar claimed that this would not be possible anymore, but I find that hard to believe.
Gaiam?
Yes, titanium dioxide is in everything, and where you see it on a label it is almost always nanoparticles. And nanoparticles inside your body are no bueno
> Isn't it also naive to think China and Russia weren't fully aware of the NSA's capabilities?

The latest Mueller indictment suggests no.

I believe that the NSA's domestic surveillance programs were an egregious mistake. However, I do not think that "awful countries" implemented domestic surveillance programs because they read the PRISM documents. Nor does it explain why Snowden leaked details of activities that were not illegal and fully within the mandate of the NSA.
Quit job and do a startup
Hi Folks,

I am a SDE 2 at Amazon and would like to have my own startup in the near future. I believe a 9 to 5 routine is not for me. I enjoy having a lot of autonomy, moving quickly, taking calculated risks and crushing it at whatever I believe in.

However, at the moment, I don't have any ideas or problems that I would like to work on. My job keeps me pretty occupied and finding time to do side projects or research ideas is pretty difficult.

I am looking for opportunities wherein I can work remotely so that I can sustain myself. On the side, I would like to travel, live life of a digital nomad while I figure out the path ahead. I would like to give myself a year of time to come up with something -- build a prototype, research ideas.etc.

I am currently based in SF and am here on my H1B(will need a visa transfer). I am well versed in java, spring, hibernate, aws technologies, springboot, etc..and can learn new stuff fast and deliver.

If anyone who reads this post would like to get in touch, please email me at: remote_user@mail.com
Let's see if we can work something out to our mutual benefit :)

I will also take any advice anyone here has to offer.

Thanks!
- Remote User
Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009)
I'm curious about the wording "effects are truly null". I was always under the impression that you can never really "accept the null", but rather "fail to reject the alternative".
How long have you been using this approach? (Curious to know if it remains effective over several years).
> I think the one area that Python won't fit in is low level languages such as C/C++

What Python is really good at, though, is gluing together/scripting C/C++ code. I've had a lot of success in my career starting a project in Python, and then dropping down to C or C++ for the high performance bits. As an example, I worked on a software-defined radio project with some errr... special requirements. All of the modulators etc were all written in C, and the bitstream generation/manipulation was done in Python. There was also a bunch of numerical processing bits (solving diff eqs with RK4) written in C++, parameterized by Python. The net result was that we could use a Python REPL to experiment and script the system, while handily using all of our CPU cores to their maximum capacity.
> I have little faith that a new form of ID would be any easier to obtain than current options.

It's hard to see how having yet another option could make getting any ID overall more difficult, but, of course, merely easier isn't adequate.

It has to be so easy and frictionless (in addition to being free) as to avoid voter suppression. As such, it would have to be at least as easy as current voter registration (which itself is not necessarily easy enough to begin with).

I have more faith that, if this is possible, it would be doable by augmenting existing election bureacracies to include photo ID issuance, than retrofitting existing DMV bureacracies (and adding locations?!). (I also think that even just attempting a DMV retrofit is likely to end up being a boondoggle/moneypit of breathtaking proportions, at least for the larger states [1])

[1] Witness http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/14/local/la-me-dmv-proj...
Late to the party, but if this is going to be a commercial product here are my thoughts:

1.) Add a quick 30 second or 1 minute demo video
2.) Pricing should be a visible (in the header) and a dedicated page
3.) Pricing of $12/mo seems high. I'd recommend something like $4.99/mo early adopter pricing. Then if demand, increase.
4.) How it works. Show technology and how you don't store sensitive e-mail details like subject and body.
Isn't the solution then to make authority (and thus also accountability) temporary and/or to spread it amongst many smaller areas?

For instance, every employee could take turn at non technical but honorific positions. Regarding technical tasks, each person could also rule absolutely over many small areas of expertise that they also take responsibility for?

I hope there is no need for a fixed arbitrary hierarchy for accountability.
Not exactly an answer to your question, but there is a Kaggle competition currently in progress in this area, sponsored by CERN: https://www.kaggle.com/c/trackml-particle-identification.
Don't need to guess the email format anymore: https://hunter.io/
Selective availability is no longer available on newer satellites. I assume they can still shut off the stream though.
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I dunno. I think all the good he has done is overshadowed by the fact that he put his thumb on the scales and helped Donald Tump get elected.
Agree. I used to use WinAmp on my Windows 95. (and later 98) IBM Aptiva. Still the best music player hands down.
I don't know much about human biology, but if the relationship between dopamine/seratonin and depression/anxiety is more non-linear than linear, then the fact that both increasing and decreasing dopamine/seratonin is effective can make perfect sense. This sort of relationship - where small changes shift an equllibrium and result in a qualitative change - are common in nature and a forteriori human physiology.
Portal was a reimplementation of Narbacular Drop after Valve hired the developer.
Interactive simulation of a wormhole and a black hole like in movie Interstellar
True believers don’t provide specifics, too easily rebutted.
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I think you would find the way they use both to be orders of magnitude more interesting than how they are normally used.
The biggest problem is that we have not managed (as far as I know) to make a virus that can identify friend or foe. Biological warfare is a step above nuclear warfare in the potential to kill all humans on the planet. Unlike chemical or nuclear weapons you can't be assured that it will remain in one area, or that it won't mutate in some fashion to become even more virulent/deadly.

It's a weapon so dangerous to use that only the insane would even develop it in the first place.