skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting how many fronts they failed on.

Sears Credit could have spawned something like Paypal. They were successful with their Discover card, and the Sears card was often young people's first credit card.

They were kings of catalog shopping, and had the logistics and product data to have had a decent online business.

And, they had brand strength in several areas like Kenmore, Craftsman, Land's End and DieHard Batteries. I know they licensed all that out, but way after the brand had peaked.
regulations seem insanely hard to design well. It's very easy to claim you're regulating for the good of society, but have said regulation have a completely different effect. They're far from a panacea.
I so love/hate burpees. I normally do the above movements combined with a pushup for a serious increase in suffering.
And they are right in both cases.

How about having regular wages for regular work AND performance bonuses to reward great performance (what they're meant to be)?

As opposed to low wages for regular work, thus making performance "bonuses" a necessity (and thus using them to force people to overworking) OR having regular wages and not compensating those working more.

If I pay you $8/hour, and have "performance bonus" of $16 for those who work their asses off, people will be forced to work 2-3 hours more per day to get those just to get by.

If I then start paying you $10/hour and drop the bonuses, those working regular hours would be ok, but others who are still made to work overtime would still like to be compensated extra for what they do. They might still make the same as before, but now their colleagues who go off a 8 hours or have lower performance get the same too. So what's to compensate for their extra effort?

That's what performance bonuses are about, to compensate for extra effort.
dual principle - "The amount of energy [and intelligence] needed to understand refutation of a bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to consume the bullshit.
But US citizens, regardless of descent, aren't foreign nationals to the US. On top of that, Japanese weren't your average foreign national but rather enemy aliens – as the US was at war with Japan. I must have misunderstood your previous question, I apologize. I assumed that when you referred to "foreign nationals" you meant it as in "travelers of uninvolved foreign nations".
Curiously the actual origins of the salute have been lost to history:

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/people-politics/where-did-t...
The more usual statement is that learning Lisp will change how you think about programming. Many have said that it will expand your frame of reference, and make you a better programmer in whatever other languages you end up using. I agree with them, and also that having a programming language so easily accessible inside your editor is also similarly liberating. You can decide that your editor can work more efficiently in some way, then take a few minutes to extend how your editor works, and then continue on with your original task.

As languages go, I would say that Forth and Prolog also have this quality of expanding your frame of reference.
.... and basically the idea that telling a good story is more important than representing the truth when talking about science.
Restored WW1 footage is enthralling combination of tech, lip reading and acting
In Africa I saw these devices that were dedicated sd card file transfer devices. You plugged in two sd cards in and it had a Norton Commander-esque interface on the top for transferring files between the two. It was weird seeing such a device that wasn't a general purpose computer.

Do you guys have devices like that in India?
Online voting is a security nightmare, say experts
If you harvest the wood and burn it/let it rot then the carbon will be released back into the atmosphere.

Of course you might make furniture from the wood, but it will replace other furniture that then gets burned in place.

A forest only holds carbon, it doesn't continuously remove it.
Can you link to the aforementioned books?
Also airline pilots, nurses, michelin-starred chefs...
The article you linked points to an online Microsoft Account Privacy dashboard.

I have Windows 10 installed with a local login. I don't have or want an online Microsoft account. It doesn't seem to be possible to disable telemetry in this case, or at least I haven't found out an (officially supported) way to do it.
> All of this SEC action may sound like very bad news for ICOs, but many in the industry have a more optimistic take: regulatory clarity will bring growth

It will be an interesting test I suppose. If ICO’s are in fact a novel technology that offers some kind of advantage, then this statement will be correct.

If the entire and total value of ICO as a concept was that it was a means to sidestep existing regulations by pretending they didn’t exist, then this statement will prove laughable.

Personally, I lol’d
I am wondering, would it be possible to do this even faster with WebAssembly? So that it is supported by all major browsers?
Merlin Mann coined, or at least heavily uses the phrase "turns out journalism" which I really like. We like to have something that subverts our expectations. At some level we want to be told that the advice we don't like isn't actually useful.
Thanks for the answer. I knew that, and yes the German syatem has a tendency to blur the lines between legslative and executive branches.

My comment was in reply to a comment that equated a parliament electing a chancellor / prime minister with an electoral college. Despite all the downsides of not electing the head of government directly they still are different things.
So why is it not ok that women are penalized by being statistically less likely to get an offer yet it’s just fine to penalize men on auto insurance for being statistically more likely to cause an accident?
A lot of context can be lost in 1 to 1s, however it doesn't mean they can't exist. Often I'll say let's take this to #dev so a) stakeholders are involved b) it's not just a line item on an invoice. If we're just talking shit or having a moan then 1 to 1 is fine
Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust
Highly recommend Joseph Roth's The Hotel Years too. A series of his newspaper columns filed across Europe between the wars.

It's in a roughly chronological order as well, and really captures the darkness and change that spreads across the continent from the 20's through the 30's - with some eerie parallels that can be seen in glimpses today.
Any idea what they are doing differently from the Vuzix Blade?
I agree with you, but I have to point out, because it's so common: The "this will be unpopular, but I don't care" preface is, I feel, about as damaging to the perception of whatever you're about to say as "I'm not racist, but". To make an effective point, I think you should avoid, as the first thing you say, painting yourself as an underdog brave enough to speak out by preemptively criticising your audience's reactions that haven't even happened yet. That's not to say you should never admit those observations - rather, I would reserve such broad criticism of people's opinions for a separate train of thought or conversation.
EU hijacking: self-driving car data will be copyrightedby the manufacturer
what does the open source thing has to do with artists being able to earn a living or not?
There's a third reason: trying to allocate too much virtual memory on machines with limited physical memory will fail on Linux with the default setting vm.overcommit_memory=0. See for instance https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=78
This is often more true than many believe. But in my experience few students get so far that they recognize the patterns and can respond in the way you describe. That might be the crux.

I remember my undergraduate mechanical vibrations class. Every exam was basically a test of how well you could do the Laplace transform on some linear ODEs. I memorized the most common transforms, so this became fairly straightforward and fast for me, but it was obvious the other students were struggling.

If I had a problem that wasn't solveable with the Laplace transform, say a linear ODE with variable coefficients, I'd likely take longer to do the exam, but those never appeared in the class.
https://cdn.mbw.44bytes.net/files/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-0...

Revenue didn't bottom out. CD revenue is still on the decline, and digital revenue is still on the decline.

Ever since the age of the first recording, music has worked on a freemium model. Music was free to listen to via the radio (and ad-supported), which acted as an advertisement and upsell for physical (and later digital) media sales.

With the decline of radio and physical media, as well as the democratization of distribution (less hits, revenue spread more evenly), the music industry has been searching for a replacement business model that works.

It looks like they've found it in streaming services.
It seems like they did think it through, though? And that's why it's being shelved. I don't really see what the story is here. It seems like the whole process worked exactly as it should - Amazon tried something, it had some unintended consequences, they caught it, and shelved it.
> You can opt out of telemetry, you can view what they've collected on you and delete it.

Until the next update automatically re-enables it (and re-installs MS Paint and Candy Crush).
I know that psychology is particularly devasted by the replication crises but aren't branches of research affected as well?
Anyone who has seriously proposed porting Emacs to any language will have made plans to support running the existing Elisp code without modification. You can easily write an Elisp compiler in Common Lisp.

In fact, the original Lisp machine eventually supported Common Lisp as well as the original Lisp Machine Lisp. You could write any individual function in either language, and call from one to the other transparently.
Until Gen X and younger are in political power, things will continue as they are. I'm sure there are outliers, and admit it is difficult to make generalizations about an entire generation, but it's pretty evident that Baby Boomers are in support of anything that keeps their taxes low, yet ironically supports their Medicare, Social Security, and defense industry spending.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/11/09/the-20...

https://theweek.com/articles/627505/how-baby-boomer-psychodr...
If you were paying attention, it's the same repair.

Apple's humidity sensors are known to go red in humid environments (like your pants pockets or your backpack on a hot day) whether there's liquid damage or not.

All Louis had to do was look at the motherboard to see the bent connector.
I don't draw such a strong lines between physical and virtual items.

Even in the case where you buy a song, you don't have limitless rights to it. It would be illegal, for example, to buy a CD and use a song from that CD in a television commercial. You don't own the song, you are purchasing the right to replay the song in some situations. DRM purchases and streaming services are remarkably similar deals.
On Subtlety
> but there are people - a lot of people - who do not consider their political opponents somebody worth treating with respect, civility and basic human decency, and engage their arguments instead of shutting them up and excluding them from participation in public (or even private) life as much as possible.

But enough about Silicon Valley
I was really pessimistic about security tokens because no exchange could legally trade them, but now a few exchanges are getting certified so it may be possible to dump these tokens. How many buyers there will be is still in question.
All of that is true, but I think the most important question is: compared to what? ML is substantially more transparent than human decision makers. Human decision makers will actively lie to you. ML is a major step forward in correcting these sorts of biases, by making interpretable (relative to humans) models in the first place.
Improve performance of Hybrid apps to achieve almost native performance
You rekt that guy.
Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
I didn't mean to assume you did, sorry. Its just fun to be the jerk that points out that hiring without bias is actually really hard.

We've had quite a lot of discussions about this internally, and even with humans at the helm with best of intentions about being unbiased, its really easy for a lot of bias to slip in. Even things like the phrasing of questions can introduce bias (i.e. the ol' apocryphal SAT word association problem that had 'regatta:boat').
Because when you can't win by building a better mouse-trap, you try to win by tricking the mice.
It's about establishing a mutually respectful relationship between the artist and consumer.
Reminds 2013 David Bowie's "The Next Day" was released... I could not get it anywhere legally in the country I was/lived.

I spent more than 4(!) hours trying to find it... the effort ended past 3am; needless to say how.
The idea that Amazon is trying to enforce diversity by using an algorithm that is made to detect, and match, patterns boggles the mind. Why, yes, if your recruiting cost function is "is that person just like all the others we hired", you will end-up with a non-diverse workforce, no matter whether the model optimized with this function has 20 layers, 250 hyperparameters, or two legs, two arms and a fast-receding hairline.

You can de-bias by explicitly controlling for gender, but now everyone in your company went to CMU and likes dogs.

The more I see news about what recruiting for ultra-large corporations, the more I think one of two things is true:

* ultra-large corporations are doomed to hire less and less well in a way that is more and more biaised, and we should regulate against such corporations in a way that forces them to redistribute their wealth to SMBs;

* ultra-large corporations need to start exclusively growing through acquisitions, which will have the effect of redistributing their wealth to SMBs, and also of hiring a more diverse base of employees because there is a priori a greater diversity of backgrounds leading to success in the free market than the diversity of backgrounds leading to success in the Amazon interview.
Ask HN: Chances for Restarting a Career in CS at 30+?
I have never been to college to study, but I self-learnt a bit about HTML,CSS, JAVASCRIPT. I tried to build websites using CSS framework bootstrap, zurb foundation, WordPress.

I don't have any job.

Do you think, it makes sense to study computer science at the age of 31? or is it too late? do you have some experience with that? or do you work at a human resources department and can tell me if there is a chance for those kind of people?
Unethical/dishonest behavior is bad, therefore don't do unethical/dishonest things.

Now, a question... is an appeal to emotion, in itself, unethical/dishonest? If that's what you believe, then you really need to defend that with a strongly reasoned argument.

So if an appeal to emotion can act in the best interest of the person you are trying to convince, if your motives are pure and the results beneficial, is it a good act? And interestingly, if you refuse to use emotion to convince someone of something beneficial to them, is that in itself unethical? There's a strong argument that it is.
The rhetorical context here is that human children look for other human adults that they could potentially grow into in order to aim their own dreams and hopes for their adulthood. If a young human boy sees an adult human man pursuing computers, the young human boy learns that being interested in computers is a socially viable construct and this will affect how he pursues his interests in the future. In consequence, if a young human girl does not see any adult human women in computers, she may not understand that that option is available to her and this will affect how she pursues her interests. Although there is some fuzziness in determining this (some children grow up to be trailblazers, others pursue passions regardless of examples).
People still used oracle products after they started bundling the likes of ask toolbar?
You definitely have to wander around for Hololens to map the room in some cases. Have you used one?

And this is definitely very similar to Hololens. In fact the main difference seems to be the field of view. Other than that, and the fact that you wear the brains on your hip instead of your head, how is it any different?
Word Stacks
> You're not being deprived of anything when you can't download Avengers: Infinity Wars for free.

That seems quite silly. Obviously you're being deprived of watching Avengers: Infinity War.
With python, a good IDE should be able to find usages.

If you delete a method that has usages without searching for them, you're asking for trouble. Sure it's not a compilation error in python, but compilation can only show that the method is missing, not that changes are guaranteed to work.
Some of the American symbolism user by the Nazis is actually a bit more than coincidental: this New Yorker article details a lot of the American racism that inspired Hitler https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-r...
Not exactly a fair comparison because zenbase is NO code, one more step further. With zoho, one must also learn a rather strange proprietary programming language called Deluge.
Google dropped its bid for the $10B Pentagon cloud project
Cooley's invention of the Simple Agreement for a Future Token (SAFT) [1] was genius. Not only did they earn fees on selling people the boondoggle, they'll also cash in on defending every company, and every employee at said company, who unlawfully sold these securities.

[1] https://saftproject.com/static/SAFT-Project-Whitepaper.pdf
Uber’s Undoing Part I: Whipping Boy
I suspect these two:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/2018-edition/index.htm...

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920040385.do
> Even if it isn't, there is no magical moral transition that happens as the marginal cost goes from $10 to $1 to $0.01 to $0.

But there sort of is. Everywhere else when a company is caught selling something for big multiples of the marginal costs, people are outraged. Think of e.g. costs of SMS in the past (which were essentially free for the providers), or how people react to ticket scalping. Even drugs, where the initial costs are high, don't get a free pass here. In most areas of the market, you have competition that ensures margins are reasonable, and outside those areas, people selling way over what they need to recoup the costs are generally considered assholes.

> The reason sneaking into a sports stadium is wrong is not because it deprives the stadium owner of the $0.01 marginal cost of an additional person being present. It's because it deprives them of the opportunity to sell a ticket for $100.

On the other hand, if a stadium was already making money hand over fist on the game, recouping their costs with a wide margin, being too bitter about a couple of people sneaking in would be considered soulless, whereas turning a blind eye would be considered noble. This is a more complex and context-dependent topic; things do not boil down to "opportunity to sell". Hell, in this particular case I'd expect most people's intuitions would be related to general property rights (not paying $100 is trespassing).
Just like the US...
The "utility token" meme was hilarious in the community basically talking itself into the idea that the SEC was going to write a bunch of new laws and/or interpret the existing ones in the most favorable light to those raising ICOs. Playing with fire.
I think it's mostly the weakness of the pre-behavioral economics. The status quo was economics that, almost on principle, ignored the way actual humans behave. Any amount of consideration of how actual humans behave, however limited or flawed, will look like an improvement. It's much like the way behaviorism in psychology, which seems lacking nowadays, actually looked good compared to the Freudian school of psychology it was displacing.
(Eddie) Lampert rarely visits Sears Holdings headquarters, outside of Chicago—some say only once a year, for the annual board meeting.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/the-strange-odyssey-...

Company failing and he doesn't even show up.
It's easy to understand and relate to. To even comprehend contemporary research in most scientific disciplines, you need a seriously strong understanding of math or chemistry--a level so high that it cannot be 'popular'. Behavioral Economics only require remedial algebra, statistics and literacy, and the topics they address are usually familiar to everyday people's lives.
Ok, so if you're hiring professional arm wrestlers, and your model looks at bicep muscle mass, is that discrimination because it selects against women?

If you're hiring therapists, and your candidates take a personality test, and your ML model weights the 'nurturing' feature highly, is that discrimination because it selects against men?
Nothing. Everyone's input is a Rorschach test. All data, even down votes, is valuable.

"Hate" is rooted in fear.
Oxford? Sounds about right for the average PPE student...
Snap Inc. is looking to developing markets for growth
Well, that's why I asked you to quantify things. If you have reason to believe that mobile phones punch above their weight in terms of e-waste, tell me exactly why, and how much. Does that mean that saving 400 million mobile phones per year goes from saving 0.6% of e-waste to 0.8% of e-waste?

And I'm not defending the practice of throwing out TVs or computers or anything else after 2 years, just phones.
Fascinating stuff. I've often thought that the nature of hallucinations - geometric or otherwise - must have lots to tell us about the workings of the brain. From a mechanistic viewpoint all our experiences (hallucinations included) supervene on brain structure, therefore these common geometric hallucinations likely reflect some fundamental structure of the brain.

On a related note, here's an interesting article from 2015 about encrypting information so that only people who are on LSD can read it: https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-commu...
Ask HN: Do you use ElasticSearch to store logs? Or something else?
My name is Lucas Galton (I'm french, pardon my English), I work as a consultant. Some clients have asked me to deploy ElasticSearch clusters in order to store and search their logs.
But, as much as I love Kibana and Grafana, I find them lacking when you just want to browse and see your logs in context.

I decided to start a side project solving this problem, but I ask myself some questions.

What I would like to know is:
- Do you have the same issue ? Did you find a solution ?
- Do you use another system to store the logs ? If yes, do you still face this problem ?

I will post a comment with a link to my project for those interested.
Anyone who has worked at tech companies and has been involved in the hiring process knows the following:

The best thing to be right now is a woman engineer. You can easily get hired within the week.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be well known outside of those involved in hiring.
Interestingly, if Scott Alexander is right, behavioral economics stopped being en vogue a few years ago. From Slate Star Codex's review of The Black Swan [1]:

> All of them continue to do great object-level work in their respective fields, but it seems like the “moment” for books about rationality came and passed around 2010. Maybe it’s because the relevant science has slowed down – who is doing Kahneman-level work anymore? Maybe it’s because people spent about eight years seeing if knowing about cognitive biases made them more successful at anything, noticed it didn’t, and stopped caring.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/19/book-review-the-black-s...
Take a look at https://logvue.xonoko.com/ if you want to know more about the project.
Send me an email if you are interested or you have any question, or even better any critics !