skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The recent data breach made many people realize that you're always just 1 instance of bad luck away from having a bunch of aggregated personal data stolen.

There is no such thing as data stolen but from the files on your hard drive. As soon as you upload something to the Internet you publish it and have no guarantee but hope people you don't want to see it won't notice it.
My takeaway from this, since the majority of it went over my head: I can continue to parse HTML with regular expressions.
Suppose you have a probability monad, implementing enumeration or random sampling. Like Amb but with probabilities attached.

bayesRule :: (Prob a) -> (a -> Prob b) -> b -> Prob a
bayesRule prior likelihood data = do
h <- prior
d <- likelihood h
guard $ d == data
return h

I don’t actually do Haskell...just thinking out loud.

Looks like it was written similarly here http://www.randomhacks.net/files/build-your-own-probability-...
No idea about Lianke, but I’ve been learning French, and reading translations of novels from English has given a bit of perspective I missed when limited to the ones into English.

Harry Potter comes through just great: nuances tend to be preserved as far as I can tell at my level, wordplay becomes wordplay, the Sorting Hat song is still singable and even rhymes.

OTOH one translation of Alice In Wonderland was super-bad, ranging from very literal to misunderstanding the source. You’d come away thinking it was pointless nonsense. It’d be very hard to translate well, of course, and impossible to make anything exactly equivalent, but this particular attempt was just a waste of time. So cases like this exist.

Asimov’s Foundation and Empire also suffered, which surprised me some since I’d picked it as a source that’s not too literary, easy to translate faithfully. Looking up reviews of it in French, none ever remarked on the quality of the translation (or lack thereof). They seemed to just assume Asimov was like that. Still, the story was not much mangled, it was mostly just the prose style.

I’m more cynical now about translations — the published stuff varies more in quality than I’d appreciated — but it can still be very good. Someone else will have to chime in about Chinese literary fiction.
> Who is the most famous tech founder who was 45 or older when they founded their first company?

This is a straw man fallacy. I think you're conflating the definition of "successful startup" with a cohort of "famous tech" founders, which has some merit (lower age yields higher risk).

The broader definition of "successful startup" is more about "fast growing" or "economic impact". The emphasis is on founders of “growth oriented” firms that can have large economic impacts and are often associated with driving increasing standard of living.

An MIT Sloan study found the mean founder age for the 1 in 1,000 fastest growing companies is 45.0.

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/uploadedFilesV9/180325%20Age%20and%2...
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This is awesome and should be widely known.

I would really like a tool that will go through my accounts-list (maybe from Last Pass, for example) which would crawl / determine / detect who is linking to whom and how. Then offer ways to unlink.

Finally, another thing I would like is an "identity creator" app - one that will shotgun out an entire set of accounts to be managed out as an identity.

For example - a tool that will go out and createa login/ID at some range/list of sites, say, for a new-born child.

It will go and setup and lock-down into as-private-as-possible an account across FB, HN, Reddit, DropBox, Google, etc. etc. etc.

And then keep those accounts locked and with a password-manager.

You can add/remove accounts across these systems as needed.
I'm all for freedom of speech, but I believe it is unbelievable shitty for someone to publish a list of unsubstantiated allegations anonymously. Legally, I think Google has every right to stand in the way of this lawsuit, but morally and ethically I don't believe so. It's just like people posting pictures on Reddit to start witch-hunts and whatever you call what 4chan does.

If you're going to accuse someone, you harm yourself and case if you do not stand up. The one exception would be if you go to a newspaper/site, they do their due diligence, and backup your claims.
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See the discovery paper of gravitational waves [1] which uses informative priors from physical evidences/constraints.

[1]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...
Normally if there a bug or other ticket I will write the root cause into the comments or notes of that ticket after its solved.

It makes it useful for future referencing and is searchable. Unlike writing it up in a word doc and uploading it to something like sharepoint where it is forgotten
In common English, a breach is the damage left be an attack (often a hole in the case of penetrating ordinance, as in "a breach in the hull of a ship"). Breach definitely does not, in common English, refer to a theoretical, unexploited hole in one's defenses. I would be interested if you could point out any instance in literature or professional writing where it is used that way.

Also common English is notoriously unimportant when arguing over legal definitions, so this is all beside the point.
Start a non-profit corporation. Get investors. Figure out a business model that works and make it happen.

Oh, right... that's hard work compared to just taking money away from people.

Heck I'm not even opposed to paying more in taxes, but I refuse to do so when the US already has the highest costs across the board for several sectors including education, health care and transportation. Get the house in order and then we can talk about more taxes. We can start by getting rid of public-sector unions which are a racket and then we can also loosen regulations to encourage faster development.
This isn't necessarily true in Canada. The top 10% of "working-age" Canadians earn around 100k/year, and there are lots of software engineers who get paid less than that.
They are writing in a second (or third+) language.

People learning English have to learn adjective order — it's a big, red bus; not a red, big bus – which could have contributed.
North Korea is peasants, military and a tiny elite. There is no real commercial sector.

If you look at the US, it’s more of a developing Brazil like situation. We’re developing a growing peasant/underclass, growing the wealthy as assets concentrate and squeezing the professional and semi-professional classes.
Eventually I'll be adding the ability to add your own endpoints to the auto generate ones, which would initially give you the ability to implement various additional functions, e.g. sending emails, integrations with other services, etc. This could very easily be expanded to allow users to call functions they have written themselves. However, I've been holding off on this one as BackendLab is primarily a no-code solution. If enough people are keen, I will implement it
would you rather have your mother looking at your phone or that creepy neighbor from down the street?
I disagree with that takeaway.

Technically PCRE regexes are powerful and can match anything.

In reality, a complex PCRE regex will almost always be more difficult to maintain than a parser-combinator or hand-rolled parser in a more traditional language.

People saying "Regexes can't match HTML, use an html library" are wrong to say regexes are incapable of it, but they're right to say to use a library meant for the job.

Sure, you can use this regex to match emails (http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html), but using a more normal parsing language than PCRE regex will result in more readable code.

The same is true for almost any regular expression that takes advantage of PCRE features, especially backreferences.

In addition, a regexp will only match html correctly if you write a very complex one. With a naive regexp for an html tag's contents, you'll find that you still might match that text inside a <script> tag even though that is not html.. so you now need to figure out when you're in a script tag and exclude that, or if you're inside an html attribute string, and before you know it you have a 2000 character regexp that no one else will be able to read, all because you didn't want to use an html parsing library where getting a tag's value correctly would be a single xpath expression or css selector away.
Possibly a critique of deriving truth from intuition, which leaves no way to critically distinguish between two conflicting ideas, much as you can't distinguish between cows by color at night.

Hegel wasn't exactly from the Strunk & White branch of philosophical writing though, so I could easily be wrong. :)
If middle class means the choice to own your own home, then the maybe tech workers stayed middle class and everyone else dropped right out of it.

I'm concerned that homeownership and retiring locally are luxuries now. American culture is already far too fractious these days. We don't need to jeer at people for being able to afford roots in their local communities.
Can the cans still be recycled without having to remove the glue somehow?
Nobody would have considered “bumping” as a status signal then or now. And iPhones were anything but exclusive.
We also have the best education and highway systems on the planet, which have cemented nearly a century of US dominance.

When you purge your public sector folks of their rights, who is going to keep the mob away from you?

It’s one of those things that engineers advocating for some
modern Dickens nightmare forget about.
Useful, maybe, but risky from a privacy perspective.
It's the same rate in Silicon Valley. Federal tax in the higher bracket is 35-40% (it changed with the new tax laws). On top, California will tax 9-12%. That's roughly equivalent to your European 50% rate.
Depends on your definition of "big $$$" probably.

I don't have many specific examples, but the cases where it would work tend to be focused around investing in people with track records doing capital intensive things.
Why can't Europeans use Airdrop?
What do you do though if a small but vocal subset of a population truly believes something that everybody else thinks is fake is actually real, it could either be a disenfranchised minority or a hyper nationalistic group.

Even though I've worked in ML professionally for many years, I still feel like fake news is a social problem akin to identifying the difference between propaganda and news and I'm not really sure how this is a problem technology can solve. It's just an old hard problem and akin to a solution against fascism and class struggles.
I had unlinked my account using the officially supported method. It appeared to work. Months later, I noticed they were still updating my profile picture. I contacted them via Twitter. Four repeated explanations and screenshots later, they confirmed the accounts were silently still linked (despite no actual app authorization existing for Spotify in my Facebook account.)

Took them two weeks to manually unlink it (as in, they had to contact engineering and have them look at it). No explanation of how it happened. No explanation for how they were still accessing the data at all. I have no doubt others are affected.

Spotify Connect is brilliant, every single other thing about the Spotify experience is shoddy. (Like that song that just finished playing? Too bad, you can't see the playlist history without manually skipping back many tracks, etc)
Certain Nokia Xperia can run SailfishOS.
I hear a lot of hype about supervisor trees from Erlang folks, but very little description about what they do or why they’re useful. Are they applicable to other languages? Could someone point me to a good resource for someone who doesn’t know Erlang or Elixir?
Not zero-knowledge, but end-to-end with implied trust to the Titan chip.

If you are high-value target and NSA asked Google to have your backup on some kind of Titan simulation, they would have unlimited tries for guessing your PIN.

As I understand you don’t have any way to verify that your backup is actually encrypted using the Titan and that it doesn’t have bypass mode.
Hi, I've replied to this in another comment - BackendLab will soon allow you to export your app, as a Django project (the BackendLab API is built in django). That way, you can rapidly prototype using the interface, and then export and build it out further outside of the environment.

The fact that the landing page doesn't yet mention this is a big miss - will try and get that updated soon
I don't see anything in the idea of Panspermia that dictates how should I conduct my life and if I can eat pork or not.
Who cares what your peers are doing. In your ideology every penny counts, so why not be the first one?

You're a complainer. Start a movement. Be the change you want to see. I'm sure there's still a pithy Twitter hashtag to be had out there for you and others that agree with you but are afraid to take the first step.
> this list was privately circulated

One user published a private correspondence. Sure, that was shitty on that person's end, but nothing done by the other contributors is wrong, unless you consider talking to a colleague about your (alleged) experiences a public accusation.
Some inspiration here:

>Be courageous. Try different things; experiment. Try to give
a cool demo.

>Measure success by ideas, not just papers and money. Make
the industry want your work.
>Level I: A generic prediction of cosmological inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions - including an identical copy of you about 10^10^29 meters away.
Do what I did to unlink it: delete your Facebook account.
Hi Chris,

Great Idea
I guess some work needs to be done regarding building a frontend for your idea

Best,
Victor
If you want to do the most with your apparently surplus income, look into effective altruism. Your dollar will go a lot further with <take your pick of 1,000 charitable organizations> than it will after going through 10 layers of bureaucracy.

The great thing about is you can start doing it today - you don't have to wait for a gridlocked, highly polarized federal legislative body to come to some pork-filled "compromise".
I already did this with the help of their customer support two years ago.
Don’t forget, the Chinese government runs many businesses that compete with US businesses. If ruining you, or sabotaging your company, helps their their companies steal business they will do it. It’s not dissimilar to Japanese businesses in the 80s except without the pesky moral code.
Totally onboard for Americans. But is this true of the SV area? I'm curious to see numbers for it.
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As far as I know Pony doesn't yet have a distribution story so supervision might not be priority for the maintainers yet. However, since Pony is an "Active Objects"-language, every actor in Pony is essentially an instance of a genserver - this is what makes it easy to type. Supporting more advanced communication patterns in a strongly typed fashion is rather difficult so for the foreseeable future I believe that a gradual typing approach will be the way to go. Genserver is also very powerful so Pony can likely see good success if they just build in some supervision strategies and make it possible to distribute.
Not the 20 best known, the 150 best known. I'd wager if you went 500 deep, you'd see the age being much closer to 30 than 45.

The criteria of this study isn't bad, but I'd much rather just see a list of companies they're defining as startups. Is there a big biotech contingent? Are consulting companies included? B2B vs. B2C? Inc. Magazine published a list of the 500 fastest growing companies every year, and there's very little overlap between that list and what we'd consider the world of tech startups. This methodology feels more like Inc.
This sounds great. I decided to try it out after reading about this export feature.
Every time I look at trends in income distribution in the US, I don't see low income earners increasing. I see middle income earners moving up. If you have quantitative information that contradicts this, I'd like to see it.

Edit: I want to clarify that I don't see the same thing in California, where market restrictions have made the average joe poorer.
What exactly is unsubstantive about the ridiculousness of forced face ID unlocks as referenced in the article?
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I don‘t think people will use this research to „optimize“ their time to fund. If you have an idea and things align you will do that regardless of your age.

I think it provides an interesting contrast to the idea of young-genius unicorn-startups in that it underlines that yes, these companies exist and get a lot of coverage but most innovation still comes from people experienced in their field who had time to learn the appropriate skills for leading a company.
Why copies? By sheer probability or some other mechanism. It indeed is crazy.

Is it possible that is the nature of the universe?
I think the Bill Cosby allegations, accusations and trial are somewhat relevant to this contextually.

Putting aside (if you can) what Cosby was accused of, the trial by media and widespread publicity of accuser allegations and claims over a multi year, two trial period was a disaster for legal credibility IMO.

"“The ability to find evidence that can support a defense 20 years later — it’s an almost insurmountable task,” said Nina J. Ginsberg, a criminal defense lawyer in Virginia who has handled a number of sexual assault cases.

“Having these really long statutes of limitations where it makes it virtually impossible to disprove what the victim is saying is grossly unfair,” she added. “Just from the defense attorney’s perspective, it’s disabling.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-gloria-allred-...

With historical sexual allegations a powerful weapon in politics, business and for financial gain, the accused are increasingly defenseless and accused is the new guilty.

I'm not defending 'shitty men' or Bill Cosby here, I'm saying the legal system is a mess and that careers and credibility are destroyed during the witch hunt whether found guilty or not.

Whatever happened to 'innocent until proved guilty' and the accused's rights to privacy?
Most cans are already lined with epoxy, so I don't think a little more glue will be a problem.
One way without using the phone API directly is through Twilio using their APIs for handling DTMF tones and call forwarding.

This would probably cost something like 2 cents per minute [1] plus whatever your phone service charges (if you're just calling your existing phone) and hosting costs for your server. I was originally tempted to say you could save on this cost by hanging up on verified callers and calling them back directly, except I realized that's about the same as rejecting all calls and calling back the ones who leave meaningful voicemails / texts.

I think you could get it down to 1.2 cents per minute (+server costs) if you also write a mobile app to handle all your calls via VoIP. Then you also need to factor in your cost for data if not using wi-fi.

And also possibly of interest - a few days ago, Google also announced a call screening service for the Pixel [2] which transcribes call audio in real-time for you to read and possibly pick up and join the call. This one has the advantage of being able to screen out actual humans working in call centers to spam you with calls (which is less common than the robocalls in my experience).

[1] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223132367-How-M...

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/09/call-screen-will-le...
I'd be interested in a follow-up to see how many companies have made the effort in the past year to address this. I suspect not as many as one would hope.
I only skimmed over the article, but it seems to me that their data doesn‘t take into account that Angel/VC investors might be mistaken for actual founders in case they held shares since incorporation. This would of course largely invalidate their main claim. Can anyone confirm/deny?
I've seen a lot of studies that make this assertation, but the fact that it's hard to think of many examples in the world of tech startups makes me skeptical.
They are very useful if you follow the philosophy of Erlang: let it crash. It's really important to get easy to understand distributed systems. A good introduction: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/supervisors
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A limiting factor on salaries is competitiveness. It doesn't matter how much value you produce if somebody else is able and willing to do the same work, of comparable quality, for less pay. And as there has been a huge push to get more people into computer science, over time I expect we'll see compensation for such work begin to decrease, not increase. The only way this would end up being not true is if proportionately more desirable jobs emerge than the push to bring more people into computer science manages to achieve.
The US government has overthrown democratically elected governments in other countries to install a government more friendly to specific US corporations.

The US government has jailed the only known telecom CEO to resist warrant-less spying.

The US government has arguably had a major hand in building Stuxnet, which used two zero-day vulns in MS Windows and two stolen Windows driver signing certificates.
On the other hand, as the saying goes, if you are not embarrassed by your first version, you waited too long to ship. ;)
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It's better to switch doors according to any statistical method, whether you're a frequentist or Bayesian does not matter. You can also show that you should switch doors by making an exhaustive truth table, by writing a computer program, or by experimentation, if you prefer these kind of approaches.
I'm not sure they are "irrational" actors.

Inconsiderate actors. Unscrupulous actors. But not irrational actors.
Written by the creator of the bootstrap method in statistic.

Bayesian isn't used much in the industry compare to frequentist approach. Likelihoodist is even rarer. I've learned a bit on Bayesian but end up refocusing on time series and survival analysis within frequentist domain. There is waaaay more job posting and people that you work under that are frequentist or more comfortable doing it the old way.
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How much less pay would you be willing to take? 50%? 75%? Teacher salaries in San Francisco range from 61-81k a year (this includes teachers master's degree). See https://www1.salary.com/CA/San-Francisco/Public-School-Teach...
Stan supports Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.02434.pdf
The original report:

“STILL WALKING THE LIFELONG TIGHTROPE:
TECHNOLOGY, INSECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK” by
Chris Benner, Gabriela Giusta, Louise Auerhahn, Bob Brownstein, Jeffrey Buchanan

http://www.everettprogram.org/main/wp-content/uploads/TIGHTR...
But note, the last paragraph of TFA cautions against use of a Bayesian prior in cases where it is not well supported by actual hard prior information.

It is very hard to validate a given choice of a prior in many applications. E.g., if I claim one prior, and another investigator claims a sharper one, it can be very difficult to decide who is right.

If the prior does not wash out due to lots of data, this indicates a serious and fundamental problem.
This is such an important point. Engineering does so much to shape society and the lives of individuals. But we give zero training to new engineers in these issues. Worse, so many engineers I speak to are willfully ignorant or disdainful of the humanities.
Engineers mustn't loose sight of who we work for: humanity.
Writing it that way makes it sound like they've already achieved the goal, that they're already putting humans into space.

Like, if just having it as a goal is sufficient, well heck, I could step onto my lawn tomorrow and declare my household a manned amateur space program.