skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any evidence this is true? I just did the same search and got the same results -- I doubt we have the same fatigue. I think the results are a mix of incomplete metadata, product confusion within amazon, and various premiums for various delivery time horizons.

You want it now: 10 bucks,.

you want it bundled as an addon: 5 bucks.

you can wait and have it bundled with other pantry items: 2 bucks.

you have prime fresh: 2 bucks.

His argument is unsubstantiated paranoia. In fact, the "you want it now" category will _always_ fetch a premium, that's just common logistical sense.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by other things.
Isn't it standard that grants are renewed yearly? If so you'll always be "leaving money on the table" (but then if you switch company you'd probably get a new grant, right?)
I recall reading that the speed of compilation was a big issue for them with the size of their application.
Google gives equity refreshes once per year, so you always have unvested stock. They try to design comp to avoid situations where your total pay suddenly drops 4 years after your initial offer package fully vests.
Weekly Machine Learning Opensource Roundup – Oct. 11, 2018
Do you feel disconnected in Western Mass? I am not sure how remote you are but I live in a remote area now but work remotely and feel it. Hell, even in the Bay area I was remote-is since the commute was isolating. All I can say about the culture there is that you have to job hop to develop relationships that may lead to future opportunities.

*Btw your cartoon on your blog is good. If that's your original creation you might consider developing it out.
The Pentagon’s Plans to Program Soldiers’ Brains
Thanks! Comes out every Thursday, so keep your eyes peeled later this morning if you subscribed :)
> type inferencer

> compile time type checking

Aren't those the same thing?
How to maintain a business partnership about refactoring?
These detectors are underground presumably to remove "noise" from other sources - sorry, I have no source for this, it's just a memory from a physics professor in high school describing such a facility in Italy (Gran Sasso).
> toxic gases

Is 'toxic gases' the new 'chemicals'?
Could you share why you think that's a problem in his approach/method?
It's really a horrible flawed metric. It doesn't mention background of students, nor the connections they might have made in school/life that help them get to those places. It also doesn't take into account students who don't want to necessarily go there (I was valedictorian and had a 4.0, 36 on ACT...I didn't apply Ivy because I didn't want to go there), etc. It's really just a "Hey, these schools have more kids here" ranking, saying nothing about quality of the schools themselves.
Can I start with my hacker news account?
Potentially dumb question: are plantains ok?
Joint report on publicly available hacking tools
Robocallers “evolved” to sidestep new call blocking rules, AGs tell FCC
Spider plants are basically immortal. I’ve traveled with cuttings wedged in an empty toilet paper tube on the back of a motorcycle before and then forgot about them for a few days.. and then they grew fine.
That's accurate. And I will say that I've seen it hang for as long as fifteen minutes opening up my Downloads folder - which isn't all that big really.
Sure, it's going to affect the set of people you interact with in the future. It might hurt your relationships or cut you off entirely from some people. It limits your ability to ask for help or look for work. And it could lead to feeling left out, always behind on what's happening, constantly missing out.
The secret intellectual history of mathematics
Project-A Open Sources Its Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Well, if you don't like nil punning you can always use Scheme. I personally want my dynamic languages to know what I mean.
Google product search could be that but I see a lot of weird behavior there too.
"Windows is a service and updates are part of that service. So if you could just go ahead and reboot now, that would be terrific."
You'll need hobbies, or just "something to do".

But most importantly, you need a job where you can do actually do this.

I've worked for a few startups (wow, ironic) where it was impossible to switch off because everything was being thrown at me as often as possible.

Yeah, they had unlimited vacation and perks like "work from home", "summer Fridays", "beer:30" but these were mostly ruses which helped them be even more effective; not me.

The easiest way to start to separate your work from your life is to move into a boring job. Sorry.

Moving fast and breaking things is cool. Changing the world is super-cool. But it's mostly passion-based work. In the heat of passion, a lot of things get overlooked.
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Honeycrisp is where it's at!
>I don't know how non tech people deal with it.

They silently suffer, develop coping mechanisms and time-intensive workarounds. Most don't even understand how things could be better. This is part of the reason so many interfaces are horrible. This isn't even specific to social media platforms. People adapt to crap. Sounds like this is what Jaron is talking about.

Design thinking should be taught in schools or as Gen Ed in colleges.

When I worked on user-facing apps my silent motto was "reduce user suffering". Of course, this isn't the kind of thing your employer usually wants to hear.
Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative
I know it isn't.
I would be interested in his opinion about slapping the user in the face with greyed-out content and a subscription box on top when he tries to follow a link to read this interview. Isn't this a great example for how the digital world doesn't let us do what we intend to and doesn't deliver on its promises?
The other way (which is what happened here) is simply detaching from the booster using the normal mechanism.
My Documents, Application data and few others are links.
Twenty years ago I was involved in founding something similar, the SRCF: https://www.srcf.net/faq/about#why

The intention was to provide hosting for web pages relating to university societies, with good facilities for transfer of ownership (since there was annual turnover of the society administrators). Nowadays this role would be filled by Facebook pages, but the SRCF is still there and still useful.

I believe if you want to get the co-op model off the ground you have to start with a particular user community that you're a member of. Then you can start scaling it to other communities. But crucially this process must be lead by thinking of the user community and their needs, not the technology - the technology is secondary and you can always tape together a solution somehow.

(We "nearly" came up with Facebook, called people.ucam.org, but we weren't even the only people in the university looking at the question of "how to stay in touch with your friends after graduating"; it was a common problem of the time)

Another example of a community-driven content hosting site / social network is "Archive of our own": AO3, for fanfic (often NSFW)
Great Idea for an app. I wonder when they will have an android release. And if they are hiring.
Thank you, it does look good. I still want one with an animal on the cover!

Or, more seriously, I think an O'Reilly book on common Lisp would go a long way toward promoting the language. As would one from the Pragmatic Programmers.
5. Since the strategy was so effective before, other competitors come in and do the same thing.

6. Now whenever there is an overpriced restaurant, I get delicious, below-cost food from the upstart food trucks.

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OR
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5. A new competitor, seeing the overpriced food, sees a profit opportunity and tries to execute the same strategy.

6. The same business from step (1), again does me a favor by providing me delicious food below my expected price.

What is so special about your hypothetical rich person that they become immune to competition or threat of competition upon reaching step 4?

An economy is a complex dynamic system. More importantly, it is continuous. We can certainly analyze fixed time periods and draw conclusions from these, but any conclusion must be drawn in the full understanding that there is a before and an after.

TL;DR Competition doesn't go away because one person did it well, once. Threat of competition can be as effective as actual competition.
> I apologize that you found my text length was too long but I thought the extra background was necessary to get state why deep reading is often a waste of time.

I read @EGreg as poking a bit of fun, rather than raising a legitimate complaint: simultaneously supporting your point, but also gently pushing at the limits of shallow reading.
Ex-Amazon (and ex-Vmware) here.

Worked at AWS from 2008 to 2014 (Europe, then Asia, then USA), then Vmware (also USA) from 2014 to 2016.

I then spent ~1 year at a startup, as CTO - the experience sucked, and I consider it to simply be a big mistake.

1.5 years ago, I left that job, worked on a new idea, and in August 2017 I founded a startup, Fabrica, with two other friends.

I am still there. No salary. Bootstrapped until March, then raised some angel money. Doing ok.

I will never go back to the corporate world. I'm done with it. I have some money on the side, and I firmly believe that money is to buy things that matter to you. To me, not working at a corporation matters.
All press is good press. IMO There are plenty of products focused around "Knowing your rights". This gets to the point and it stands out.
Well they are charging and only taking in $41/mo, so perhaps this isn't something that many folks are willing to pay for.
Why do you need a camera?
>He has no experience in manufacturing and has never led a company that makes cars or electric vehicles.

Did Elon have either before founding Tesla?

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. The other option that this is a popularity contest and the position is mostly for forward facing purposes.

I'm going to guess that Elon will continue to micromanage from the sidelines but if this is a coup it definitely sets the stage for some drama.
It’s not clear for non-technical users. The error message is something like Symantec Cert Error and you can click a more info link where there is another link to get detailed info.
Churchill was pretty brutal.

"In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/winst...

"Thousands were sent to British run concentration camps during the Boer wars. Churchill summed up his time in South Africa by saying “it was great fun galloping about”."

https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-...
Interview with Marek Polčák, Creator of 5k VR Headset with 170°FOV
I've been using this for a few months and it's been really useful. I agree that offering a free version and a "premium" version with a few extra bells and whistles would be a really good idea. It's definitely the kind of thing that I'd pay to have extra features for.
The message emitted as marketing to the outside world about SRE's is that they spend at least half their time writing code - improving monitoring, fault tolerance, recovery, etc. Because being called out of bed sucks.

If that's actually true is another question of course.
The angle we can exploit is to find all the places where UX is degraded by advertisement, and attack them. With increased competition and shareholder expectation, Facebook will have no choice but maximize the value they can extract out of each user. Right now they are doing a fairly good job at keeping things minimally intrusive, but I think that boundary is going to shift with time.
It’s strange that there’s nobody from Amazon here, just people from G
New clients have to be approved before they can join. How would you not notice?
The problem is that posting anonymous bullshit is still effective to on some people. For example, there is someone who frequents Hacker News and likes to go around saying that features arising from Julia's type system don't "just work". He/she will post all of the time about how we are lying about all of our claims, how when we say it didn't take work it actually did, and how the features that come out are useless.

The specific mention is about uncertainty propagation in our differential equation solver library. It happened automatically because of the type system. There's evidence of the thread where we found out, since a user notified us that it works:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/differentialequations-jl-a...

We have since been investigating the pharmacometric implications of this methodology and are seeing good promise in a paper that is coming out.

But then of course someone will come along and say "Cython can do it too". Yes, every Turing complete language can do everything. The point is how a 0 line of code feature led to a new avenue of research, and Julia's dependent compilation process allowed this to be a very optimized implementation. Of course, this little to no effect solution is pretty cool and something to share! However, as stated in the resource of this HN thread, bullshit propagates fast, so this other person had already come to this thread to start ragging on this work long before I could get here (since we were at a pharmacometrics conference getting feedback from the FDA about the uncertainty propagation algorithm! Just to show its real, check the dates of ACoP 2018).

So let me add a corollary to this principle: any sufficiently widespread work will have an anonymous disgruntled bullshitter that hates on it. I guess you're supposed to learn it's a compliment that someone runs around spending their time doing this to you. But hey... I wasn't going to respond anymore but the thread's focus was just way too perfect. See you next time mlthoughts2018: maybe the name will change soon to make it harder to bop the bullshit.
How do you envision that actually helping in this case?
> I think of Julia and swift as higher-level languages, more domain-specific. Different tools for different problem domains.

Well...my particular interest in these types of languages is primarily in the realm of soft real-time simulation, specifically various kinematic simulations.

Of the three, only Julia is garbage collected, and (unlike some other GC languages) it's fairly easy to not exercise the collector. I'm encouraged that will continue to be the case, since there's an organization using it for robotics, which is implicitly a hard real time use case.

http://www.juliarobotics.org/

Julia, Swift and Rust are all clearly general purpose languages. Swift is unabashedly general purpose, while Julia and Rust each have a primary niche - math/science and systems, respectively. All three use the excellent LLVM infrastructure.

Aside from determinism (which mainly requires pre-allocating nearly everything), my primary requirements are expressiveness/productivity, readability, and efficient runtime performance.

All three languages produce highly optimized code, and Rust probably has the edge as far as efficiency goes - but it clearly loses on the first two criteria, at least to Julia. If one needs access to machine level functionality in Julia, there's an extremely efficient C FFI, so mixing Rust and Julia (for instance) would be painless if needed.

https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead

It's a great time to be a software developer, and things will only get better as languages and tooling continue to improve!
FWIW I've seen this kind of thing at the local grocery store too. The name brand price tag reads "39¢/oz" and the generic right next to it reads "$3.79 per each". I can't be certain that it's malicious but it happens often enough to make me wonder.
I was going to highlight the same exact sentence, and then realized you did it too. Funny, no?
They aren't charging, it's free. The Patreon is donations. Put up a paywall of $1 a month, and I GUARANTEE you will make more than $41 a month.
Do they work though? I remember trying to use them in the past and never found them to function exactly right.
> Have you ever been part of a class action lawsuit and wondered why you only get like $3?

It's because a settlement represents the total damages divided among all class members, reduced to account for litigation risk. Would you have bought a PS2 if you knew Sony was going to take out the Linux feature? Maybe a fraction of the people who downloaded the Linux feature to play with it wouldn't have bought a PS2 without it. So you take their $300 in damages, multiplied by the 1,000 people for whom the feature made the sale, divided by the 10,000 people who just played with the feature. Then you discount for litigation risk. Is your class overly broad? Is your economics expert going to get thrown out on Daubert? There's lots of ways for the company to win that don't require it to prove "we didn't do the bad thing." That's how you end up with a $3 settlement.
Well this definitely made me stop and think about the question at least. Fun site design and communicates some alternative design patterns that gave me some ideas.
You can use the RePast Suite ( https://repast.github.io/ ).

I used both of them about 10 years ago when I was in academia in a PostDoc. I taught Agent Based Modelling and Simulation to Social Sciences PhD Students. I also had the opportunity to work with Klaus Troitzsch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_G._Troitzsch).

These kind of models yield really interesting results. But people have to be VERY careful on how to interpret their outcomes, as some people make the mistake to try to take them as direct forecasting. Also, they suffer very much from the garbage-in/garbage-out problem.
Try going to a coffee shop w/ wifi if you have one nearby. See if you're more productive without having a TV in the environment.

Note that you may just be tired after getting home from work, and turning the TV on may just be a cue for your brain to get out of "office mode" and into "home mode". Instead of turning on the TV when you get home, try putting your phone on mute, and meditating for 5 minutes.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272814.do

Though it is an alien...

Btw., for a decade or so O'Reilly actively refused to publish Lisp books - which did not make them very liked in the community.
Ex-Amazonian, not in a software related position. I left for the same reason a lot of the fellow commenter did, internal politics, promotion / development and shitty bosses (two levels up, but that's where it counts).

For one, as great as Amazons Leadership Principles are in theory, in practice they are used more than a weapon than anything else. Once the higher ups have made up their mind about a person, no amount of feed-back will change that. In the end perf reviews resemble court-martial, except in a decent court-martial you are present to defend your self.

I realized that too late. Internal "voting rings" self-promoting members at the expense of other are aggravating this even further. I would still do it again though, only with a clear exit strategy from day one. Rough guideline, if you failed to get promoted or transfer internally by year 2 - 3 you are by default dead. A transfer buys you another 2 odd years of runway.

What did definitely not help was stock development. I joined in early 2014, initial RSUs have beem granted nased on 2013 expectations, the value increased by a factor of 10 by now. So AMZN had yet another incentive to reduce the number of employees in my generation of hires. And they did.

Funny side note, around two years after I left they implemented tje two high level solutions I proposed back the day and got axed for.

Since then I had two employers which didn't work out. Mental note: take the sabbatical immediately after leaving, failed to get start-up ofbthe ground and finished my studies.
The App is probably just a marketing scheme to promote their AI to real firms.
Neutrino detectors are mainly looking for (neutrino) events coming from below in order to avoid noise from cosmic rays coming from above.

The surprising part is if other particles are observed coming in from below.
Also, in a big company, culture is not homogeneous. Your direct manager and team will create their culture, with mild influence from the surrounding corporation.
>That's always the problem: When you don't have a very good understanding of the mechanism and all the consequences you have to be lucky that the population you study is more or less the correct one. You don't even know when you got the wrong one. If the drug - but same in any other field that uses statistics - fails for 95% of people you may still have a hit for a sub-population (it's not as easy as "it's the other 5%" of course).

Good point, but this kind of subgroup analysis also runs into the multiple comparisons problem. If you test all kinds of subgroups (or just do a lot of any kind of tests), chances are good that you will run into false positives. In such scenarios, it becomes more probable than not that a given positive result is in fact false. Combine that with the base-rate fallacy (the good majority of drug trials yield null results, but this is not taken into account) and you are in really bad shape.

There was a replication study a while ago that tried to replicate IIRC 50 or so "landmark" cancer studies, and only came up with significant results in 6 cases.

Bayesian methods go a long way towards solving these issues, but there is no cure for low-power studies. They just can't tell you much, and will lead you heavily astray if you don't properly account for multiple comparisons, etc.

>Over the years I have gotten much more skeptical of all statistics based "knowledge". Reading those studies always leaves a strange taste in my mouth. Something doesn't feel right. It does not taste like knowledge. I see the relevance given that it often is the only way to make practical progress of course.

Clinical studies of new drugs have uncertainty. Thus any decision-making based on results must take this uncertainty into account. You can't get away from statistics here. The bad feeling in your mouth may be from the unintuitive and usually inappropriate use of P-values and null-hypothesis statistical tests. The vast majority of researchers are actually completely mistaken on what P-values even mean. Most think that they are "the chance of a false positive" or something similar, which is completely wrong.

Bayesian methods help here, because they are the only valid way of combining past information with new information.
Exactly... for non-developer students (social sciences), even doing a model in NetLogo is a big challenge. Still, with the right tools, they can do amazing things.
Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp is a fairly good book for starters. Practical Common Lisp form Peter Seibel is another one(Free to read online).

I guess the problem with writing such a book is finding a market for such buyers.
Ah! Thank you.
Upvoted because you are correct that I didn't watch the video (and I usually hate commenters who don't look at the linked content so I get you). But I can't just start watching videos at work... and I posted my comment under a link to the related article, so I think it was fair to comment after reading the article but not watching the video.

I am interested to see your original comment if you want to repost (including whatever caused it to be flagged if you like, now that this thread is old I doubt anyone will care/notice).
Yep. Carbon dioxide is as toxic as nitrogen, and our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen! Stop breathing now!
What You Need to Know about Vue CLI 3
Being prosecuted for working on code for a demo feels like being prosecuted for building a kitchen because the chefs didn't wash their hands.

If the bar is if they "had known that the project may circumvent the law" then is playing dumb enough to avoid liability? I don't find it morally acceptable that engineers have to take on the legal risk of their superiors' decisions unless it's some kind of extremely blatant doomsday device.