skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they have to pay 5 billion once a year to ensure they have a monopoly I don't that is a bad trade for them.

That exact logic/approach is why we're seeing larger are larger fines, EU basically saying 'shape up, you can't ignore us.'
Don't forget all the luxurious fallout shelters in the US built for government officials.
Nope it's still free and has always been free. And it's built on Apache Allura which is open source.
It has little to do with meditation, it's an ever present tension imposed by simmering-hostile environment that most Russians live in. In the same vein it's a common Russian misconception that Westerners always fake their smiles. They are often genuinely more friendly and chill.

And yes, if you smile too much you are taken for лох, even if you are native. Get to an urban market some day and smile to sellers, посчитай на сколько обуют.
Google video shows early app redesigns for Gmail, Google Photos, and more
Return of the Tentacle (Prologue)
> It has some practical issues (defense lawyers are not paid by the state, prosecutors are).

Many defense lawyers are paid by the state: they're called public defenders.
I think this is what zcash already does.
Funny, I see a lot more android phones than iphones with broken screens. Probably 80/20 in favor of android.
Are you an individual user or corporate? Their reputation for large enterprises has been not enough handholding to accompany the complexity. (Relative to IBM/AWS/Oracle) I’m curious about your experience.
I'm pretty sure that's why he assumed one core per neuron.
You're right. Only one entity can take their monopoly away: the U.S. Department of Justice. The fine is just a fine.
Based on previous recorded homicide rates in the U.K. [1], 49 women over three years equates to about 10% of homicides committed against women. As a proportion, that does not seem such a small number to me.

1. https://www.ons.gov.uk/generator?uri=/peoplepopulationandcom...
Unit sales of managed Chromebooks grew by more than 175% in Q2
Genociding the uncommon language, laws, and identity is too often (usually?) a major factor in that process.
> a few

Yeah, but my typing class was only 10 days, one hour a day. It was a marvelous return on investment.

Also, it was on mechanical typewriters. You had to physically hammer the keys to make it work, making for a very positive impression on muscle memory.
> Nothing general is implied about "objective reality".

I disagree. The fact that nature cannot be described by any local hidden variable theory tells you a lot about the nature of reality. There is a real difference between quantum randomness and classical ignorance, and so there is a real difference -- one which you can experimentally measure -- between a particle whose position you don't know because you haven't looked at the result of a measurement, and a particle whose position you don't know because it hasn't been measured at all. It is still, perhaps, debatable whether that difference lies in the particle or in you. But if you want to argue that the difference lies in the particle then the burden is on you to provide an account of when and how the transition happens. No one has succeeded in this, and it's not for want of trying.
You've been posting mainly inflammatory comments about Google and Facebook. Could you please try switching it up?

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tesla stock price is $304 in today trading. If tesla will raise cash with stock dilution, the stock can go to $270-280 range. It was there in Sep 2014, meaning TSLA investors got almost nothing for 3 years straight while broader market roared and a lot of stocks doubled or tripled. This, in turn, may force institutional investors start selling, and since TSLA is very concentrated and free float is very small, it may cause serious price decline.

And if you talk about cash raise with new bond offering, their 2025 bonds are trading with 7% yield. Not the most favorable terms, tbh.
I'm utterly unsurprised.
Reported to the police for a crime. Stalking and threatening someone is a crime. All the police need to do is actually follow up and charge people who commit crimes and get reported to them, which is not exactly stripping people of their rights.
At 25, my career was just starting, but I felt like I was so old that I'd missed my shot. I remember thinking "I'm a quarter century old, that's ancient!"

I had dropped out of college to start a music magazine. While it never made me rich, it was my full time job for a while, and I wouldn't change that experience for anything. By age 25, I'd been running it for five years and it was clear that I'd have to shut it down and get a job.

Luckily for me, one of the writers at my magazine had just started a web design company with his journalism professor. I joined him, and we spent the next few years together at what would eventually become Razorfish San Francisco.

This was in 1996. My life was upside down and chaotic at the time, and stayed chaotic for the next decade. I tried launching a couple of startups—a hardware one, building a home MP3 player in 1998; and a photo sharing community a few years later.

To be honest, I didn't start to feel like a proper "grownup" until I was in my mid-thirties. I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to London to NYC, trying different roles for myself both professionally and personally. I moved to London to make music and join the Britpop scene! Yeah, that didn't happen. At one point I spent four months traveling the United States on a motorcycle, writing a book about small-town outsiders. I went back and forth between corporate gigs and my own projects, taking sketchy clients sometimes and even running a bar for a while.

But I'm glad I did all the things I did. At the time, I thought I was unfocused and treading water, but in retrospect, I was building a diverse set of skills and experiences that I use to this day.

I'm 47 now, and I do think about the advice I'd give to myself at 25.

I have three things I'd say:

1. Don't be afraid to commit to one thing. You'll always feel like you're missing out on something, but that's your brain fooling you. No one can do everything, we're all lucky if we get to do even one thing well. Instead of trying to find out what your passion is, grab what's in front of you and become great at it. Once you do, in retrospect it's going to look like your destiny.

2. Never worry about how old you are, whether you've "done enough," or compare yourself to what anyone else has done.

3. Don't over-plan. It's tempting to come up with a vision for your future, and all the ways you want everything to work out. All that does is set you up for disappointment, because reality never happens the way anybody plans. And it makes it harder to appreciate the great things that do come your way if they don't look just like the plan you'd made up in your head.

Good luck, and thanks for a great question. I enjoyed thinking about this one.
> People tell you they will get back to you. They’ll give you a precise date. Then they won’t. Some will never get back to you. I was shocked by this behavior; it’s super unprofessional, and it sucks for founders. But it’s an acceptable practice in the VC world because investors have all the power.

That's probably the kicker for me. "Shocked" that some investors didn't get back to them.

Its not the VC world its called the real world. :-)
1: to learn. 2: saying I accomplished it & deeper cs knowledge, not sure if aligns with goals to be in management though.

another note: I can't really afford an MBA without going into substantial debt. My CS masters is completely covered by my company
This is what I tried, recursion taking care of puting the simplest cases first. I haven't checked the solution. I think this kind of problem is like a state machine. In each call of the recursion the length of the pattern or the lengh of the string should decrease, so finally one get to the easy cases of length in (0,1,2).

This kind of problems are designed to test you can define a grammar and apply recursion. Another problem with the same flavor could be to evaluate string expressions like "3+25" using a grammar. My one-hour solution (not checked). But I think I have done similar problems.

def pat(s,p):
...: if s == "":
...: if len(p)>1 and p[1] in "?*":
...: return pat(s,p[2:])
...: if p == "": return s == p
...: if len(p) == 1:
...: if p == "*": return True
...: return s == p
...: if len(p) == 2:
...: if p[1] == "?":
...: return s == p[0] or s==""
...: if p[1] == "*":
...: if s[0] != p[0]: return False
...: if s == p[0]: return True
...: return pat(s[1:],p)
...: if p[1] != "?" and p[1] != "*":
...: return s[0] == p[0] and pat(s[1:],p[1:])
...: if p[1] == "?":
...: if (s[0] != p[0]):
...: return pat(s,p[2:]))
...: if (s[0] == p[0]):
...: return pat(s[1:],p[2:]) or pat(s,p[2:])
...: if p[1] =="*":
...: if (s[0] != p[0]): return pat(s,p[2:])
...: return pat(s[1:],p) or pat(s,p[2:])
...:
...:
Depends on the particular stem field but in general, if the goal is a well paying job, STEM PhDs are one of the harder ways to get there.
Adding a second per car in line at a light is going to decrease the number of cars that can make it through quite a lot.
An open source platform promoting universal data portability
>This seems to prove that intelligence influenced by genetics but is affected by many thousands of genetic variations. There is no "smart" gene, just lots and lots of randomness.

Not quite how I would put it. There is no one smart gene, just thousands and thousands of smart alleles.
> They say it's not habit forming

I don't know who the "they" is there, but the manufacturers don't say this, and the people who recommend its use don't say it either.

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/zolpidem-tartrate.html

> Avoid prolonged use (and abrupt withdrawal thereafter); depression; elderly; history of alcohol abuse; history of drug abuse; muscle weakness; myasthenia gravis

> Zolpidem is recommended for the short-term management of severe insomnia that interferes with normal daily life, and should be prescribed for short periods of time only.
She certainly spoke about that though in the section about needing warm introductions...

I don’t understand the comments calling this a humblebrag. If anything, it is useful to have a startup that successfully raised money saying how awful the process was even for them...
And software.

This is the difference between a von Neumann architecture driven CPU and us.

Why would it be not directly connected on the "OS"?
> They're fine with it

This statements needs data. "Fine" with it and "accepted defeat" or "isn't aware it could be different" are not synonyms.
How many British men were killed by men they previously reported to police?
In general a professor is an entrepreneur. They are running a small business where they sell their product ("knowledge") to customers (business and industry) by means of sales and marketing (conferences and papers). Grad students are employees of this business, and of course the prof's incentive is to keep the good ones and fire (graduate) the bad ones, thus the reward for the student working hard is more hard work.
Things You Don't Know about Yourself
We cannot even model C elegans behavior realistically and it has orders of magnitude fewer neurons. The issue right now is not (solely) computational power.
> Blatant unfairness: VCs rely on their network for meeting, evaluating, and closing deals with entrepreneurs. Founders need “warm intros” to the investors, which generally come from people they know because of luck, circumstance, and social circles rather than merit or professional aptitude. The result is that well-liked entrepreneurs with shitty business ideas get funding immediately while shrewd founders outside of the Club can’t get a foot in the door. It’s not fun to play a game that isn’t fair, even if you win.

As much as that sucks to be on the bad end of...this is really common and really understandable.

Ask yourself: Suppose you needed to hire someone to fix your lawn sprinklers, or hire an emply to work at your start up, or invest in a business. What role would personal connections and the trusted endorsements play?

"Professional aptitude" is extraordinarily difficult to judge by other professions, and even more difficult in a reasonably brief amount of time. And character is a still more difficult judgement. Therefore, we rely on our own prior working relationships and recommendations of others.

You can argue this is "unfair" and that everyone be treated at anonymous and unknown for sprinkler repair, early employment, and investment, but what you would call a "fair" strategy (by that standard), I would call a decidedly sub-optimal strategy.
excellent, thank you!
If 9 out of 10 people's wages increase by 10% and the remaining one out of 10 sees their income go up by 1,000% did the economy get worse (assuming cost of living remains stating)? How so, given everyone's real incomes rose?

This is why I'm usually skeptical of most claims that point to inequality as proof the economy is doing poorly. In absolute metrics, people's lives are usually getting better. The Economist ran an article a while ago that measured standards of living in absolute metrics (% of households without electricity or plumbing, whithout an automobile, that sort of thing). Almost across the board, everyone's situations are better. The main downturn is home ownership and apartment situations - but that's more to do with cities' housing restrictions rather than the economy.
Honestly, unless these ML bootcamps are extensive courses on calculus, linear algebra, and statistics and not just "Here's k-means. Memorize it" I doubt they'll harm the market for grad school educated data scientists.
I think they do even if they don't know it. After all, GNU/Linux is the way it is because it is FLOSS. You might just as well say people don't use cars because of the wheels.
Doesn't that rather support the notion that personalised, contextual ads are more effective?
Yikes! Thanks...I need to fix that.
It's intended to show an underlying trend of continued growth. That's the story they want Wall St to absorb.
> an underlying trend of continued growth

I understand the reasoning, and frankly agree with it. It's just funny. I don't remember banks, post-crisis, breaking their numbers out so overtly. Usually it was "less one-time charges" or something similarly circuitous.
How did you have significant money to invest by 25?
But why do they record crime incorrectly? If they were underfunded, being honest about the amount of crime in the UK would be a good case for giving them more money, right?
These are not inflammatory comments. These are facts about two monopolies, that are dangerous for society and for the internet in general. Plus there is this important thing called privacy of the individual.
The value of my data is not that it can train a statistical model about preferences of developers in their 30s - that's absolutely marginal. My personal data is useful in itself as a proxy for my own life, my preferences, my buying habits, it's a map on how to influence and predict my behavior, possibly against my will.

A company having exclusive access to all my personal data, emails, etc. can for example, infer that I have an urgent need to buy an airline ticket to visit my sick father, and extract my reserve price for that ticket, as opposed to an average price for all passengers. Or it can deduce the minimal paycheck I am willing to accept for a job.

So even in the unlikely case I can recover the full value of my data from the market, I haven't really earned anything. My information differential is a competitive advantage in the market, and selling it is self defeating, companies are not selling or giving their data back to me. So the more data you sell or give, the larger the asymmetry grows until the only deals you can make are bad deals.

Edit: I can neither confirm nor deny I am developer and/or in my 30s
There are a few open source RTC platforms.

On first blush, Vialer seems to be softphone centric - audio only, mostly peer to peer, softphone features.
These others target one to many video streaming.

Is that right?

- https://www.kurento.org

- https://mediasoup.org (for node)

- https://janus.conf.meetecho.com

- https://github.com/opentok/OpenTokRTC-V2

OT: is there a way to do markdown in HN comments?
I suppose the essence of being an entrepreneur is being the one to make decisions no one else has made. It seems to be helpful to be data informed with your decisions, but I suppose the moral of this article is that advice can only help with general rules of thumb. In order to solve specific problems that haven't been solved before, you have to carve your own path with your own decisions.
> demonized effective pain relievers

Opioids are widely prescribed for pain that they're not an effective treatment for.

This is cruel: the patient is still in pain, and now they have an addiction too.

The opioid crisis can be thought of as a mass failure in pain management.
The way you fix that is by making the cost of living lower. We need to get rid of all laws that force people to take on high cost living. Currently, if a builder wants to produce low cost housing by using cheaper materials, small square footage, etc, they're simply not allowed to do it: it's illegal in most places. Plus the land is proibitively expensive, which is a problem with zoning.

Next, for medical care, we need to overhaul the laws that govern medical insurance. Once again, if you try create your own affordable medical insurance that only covers in-expensive treatments, legally it's not allowed. Furthermore, there's a lot financial liability with going to a hospital. Gov't could enact laws that prevent the end customer from being financially liable above a certain amount per treatment: and force the hospital cartels to pay for it. I'm guessing that'll help hospitals become more cost effective in a hurry and prevent all that price gouging.

And third, consumers need to learn to spend within their means. There's so many things you can do to reduce your monthly costs, that most people haven't even begun to scratch the surface. Does your car really need an oil change every 3k miles? no do you really need an 80$/month cell phone bill when a 20$ one can do? do you really need to pay 100$ a month on cable when youtube gives you all the entertainment you could already want for free? (or just go to the library) etc, etc. And stop thinking that McDonalds is cheap. 8$ a meal (24$/day) is not cheap (you could eat oatmeal, beans, rice and bananas for just 1.50$ a day) there's countless more examples of this.
You don't have to give them that data. It's still free because they can serve ads based on where you're searching.
There is this important little thing called privacy of the individual, that FB and Google monopolized and actively violate.
A long press wouldn’t suffice, since you’d still need the second gesture (more pressure with the 3D Touch implementation) to switch from moving around a cursor to select mode (ie. moving around the second cursor). Not claiming 3D Touch is the only way it could be done, but a long press seems like it could only support a subset of apples cursor mode.
Both, but small company. But I agree with you, although thry are slowly attracting very large accounts — thanks to discounts surely, but at least they get some names, which will get some names as ROI. Well worth the huge discounts, if it all pans out.
I agree the z drugs are much safer, but there have been deaths by overdose of zopiclone.
Outlook is already a bloated beast. Moving it to Electron would be a disaster. I can't see it happening. Maybe a 'lite' version of outlook, but not the version enterprises use.
Replace “investors” with “women” and “founders” with “men”, and you could accurately describe dating in the valley. Low hit rate, the need for warm intros, the need to fake it till you make it for confidence, ghosting, all part of the dating experience.

Which makes me wonder - could male founders be more immunized to this experience due to practice from the dating arena?
> how to get yourself into this privileged class of people who VCs will meet with and fund

Get a Harvard degree, then become a Google PM. Easy.
Can we also map the synaptic strength with this method? If not, I think we only have half the picture; as for brains, configuration of connections are as important as layout of the circuitry.
One place that should have accurate employee data are IPO docs for companies like Google, Facebook, AppDynamics, etc. Obviously this is only available for relatively mature companies, but it should give a rough breakdown of employee size to customer count.
It’s about time, this has been a serious issue in the UK.

I think it was the BBC that did a program a few years ago with an undercover reporter pretending to be a corrupt Russian government official buying London real estate to launder their stolen gains.

The undercover reporter would go to see various flats with intent to purchase, and “admit” to the sales agents flat-out that he worked for a Russian health care office, processing billions of pounds worth of funding, and siphoned a little off for himself.

He’d then say he needed to know how to close on a property in such a way to hide his true identity. Without fail every single realtor gave him advice how to set up a shell company or which law firms he could contact that would do it for him by not asking all the required questions.

Even after the BBC called those estate agents and law firms to say they were duped, that the buyer was an undercover reporter, and if they had any comment, most refused to even acknowledge any wrongdoing. Despite the undercover buyer clearly indicating the funds were stolen.
why would every ML guide use cats as example
26% is a crazy high growth rate for a company with 89,000 employees.

Even more amazing is that it's actually accelerating:

Q2 2018 vs. 2017 +26%

Q2 2017 vs. 2016 +21%

Q2 2016 vs. 2015 +21%

Q2 2015 vs. 2014 +11%

Q2 2014 vs. 2013 +21%

Q2 2013 vs. 2012 +11%

I don't think I've ever seen this with another big company.

Truly astounding.
(You're right of course; what PC and Mac viruses have ever depended on kernel/bootloader source code?)
A robust adversarial system can be good. What most folks experience in the US isn't a robust system that is anywhere near fair to both sides.

Many defense lawyers are paid for by the state. Not all, but most. But they aren't really paid equally in most cases: Defense lawyers provided by the state tend to be overworked and not have enough time to adequately help folks. I'm not sure anywhere has laws that mean they get as much money and time as the prosecution has to put towards a case. They aren't paid on par with private defense lawyers either, unfortunately.

An adversarial system is only good if both parties have similar support. When one side is obviously disadvantaged when the defendant is too poor to hire a lawyer outright, the benefits of the adversarial system are fewer.
Buying a hepa filter was the first thing I did once I moved to NYC. Very happy with it
Highly recommended: the scholarship of Georgetown Law professor Paul Butler. He's an African-American former prosecutor who writes about the criminal justice system from that perspective---as someone who has been on the prosecutorial side and now rejects the whole thing on the basis of its racial injustice. Really incredible work.
The risk associated with my data being collected is likely not worth what anyone is willing to pay for it, and I assume this is true for nearly everyone.
1x non-participating liquidation is not unfavorable. There are unfavorable terms (and historically it has been more common)...but yeah, that's very reasonable.
Sounds good, if you enjoy it (if not, ask yourself why). Make sure you are proud of your acquired knowledge and related achievements. Worry about management goals as a later pursuit; you don't need MBA to learn management, only to enter select networks.