skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whatever reason, I always remember him for the Allen Telescope Array: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Telescope_Array

Not many are willing to donate that much into funding a project whose chance of success is small, but whose success would change everything.
Paul Allen did a wonderful job restoring old aircraft and creating a flying museum. https://flyingheritage.org/
So if you forget your password, your data is just gone? That doesn't seem like a good solution. I worked on a system in a previous life that encrypted data based on user passwords, and we had to add a backup encryption key (tied to security questions) because we had so many issues with people forgetting their password and losing their data.

Google does now allow you to supply your own encryption keys for some offerings:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplie.... This is probably a better option for those who are clueful enough.

(Disclaimer: I work for an Alphabet company.)
Seriously? I'm assuming you're not from Wisconsin.

I guess I should just run down a few incidents that might give you somewhat of a picture of how things work up here:

We've had our share of bent DA's here in Wisconsin. Probably the best story I can tell you about is a DA that would allow drug dealers and other criminals to "contribute to charity" in lieu of going to jail for their crimes. Of course, all of the "charities" they could contribute to were controlled by he and his buddies. (This way they could make sure all the "contributions" went for the benefit of the local community you see.) It got so bad that drug dealers were routing their shipments through that municipality because if you get caught, you just paid the bribe. I mean, "charity". You didn't have to go to jail.

I won't go into too much detail on this one, because it's disgusting. That said, we have a juvenile detention facility where the guards were discovered to have using the boys for... Well, I think you can figure it out. If not just Google "Lincoln Hills". (but I'd recommend just ... yeah... just not googling it.)

Moving on, we have something called the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Basically everyone chips in to a fund, via taxes, and that fund gives money to entrepreneurs and businesses to stimulate economic growth. That's the idea. In practice, whatever politician is in power funnels the money to his/her cronies. They're pretty open about it too. So small businesses in the state end up having to make do with whatever they get out of the federal SBA. Because the big political guys take all the money from WEDC.

And that's just scratching the surface with the criminal related stuff. There's all kinds of political and public spending related stuff that happens here all the time. There's the typical police corruption that you need to look out for. Man don't even get me started on Wisconsin's part in the VA nursing home scandal. Wisconsin is so bad that at one point there were 100's of thousands of protesters outside our Capitol building in Madison. We're just a really bent state, and there's not much that can be done about it because of how we're set up. There's a lot going on up here. Despite what you may have heard on Netflix, the corruption up here is not ALL about Steven Avery.

Illustrative factoid, there is a restaurant in Madison right on the Capitol Square. It's pretty conveniently located for the state senators and assemblypeople. Kind of a nice place too.

What's it's name?

"Graft", I kid you not.

Located on the ground floor of a building full of lobbyists. I mean, "lawyers". Right across from the Capitol.

I know that sounds just WAY too brazen, but it's a true story.

Thing is though, I wonder if all states have this stuff going on? Perhaps in Wisconsin we're just always complaining about it and it gets in the papers? Then it makes us think Wisconsin is worse than other states, when really, the other states are just as bad, but maybe the people in those other states have just stopped complaining.
Corporates be damned! (and they will be if they don't adapt). There are many issues here and you touch on one: MItM web proxies. To be honest it is pretty trivial to get Squid to do Bump and Splice so MiTM is a thing for anyone and not just corporates with expensive proxy toys.

In the Windows world, you have a weird collection of SSL/TLS settings available out of the box. Unfortunately you have at least three sets of these to worry about: SChannel, WinHTTP and .NET (this one has several sub versions). Updates enable extra features but some need reg keys to switch them on.

Then, once you get things tuned correctly so that TLS <1.2 is unavailable, something will need an older version and you have to switch it back on ... unless your IT security officer is also the Managing Director, which means I get to tell the whiner to piss off and fix their application. I do accept that I have a luxury unavailable to most people!
1. Downgrade attacks.

2. Preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot.
Vale Paul Allen: a quiet man of software and music
It’s virtually free protection against flash crashes & other market oddities.
Has it really shifted? Blaming victims of sexual harassment and assault is what has always happened:

* Why was she drinking?
* Why was she dressed that way?
* Why was she leading him on?
* Gay panic defense -- literally arguing that a hate crime wasn't a hate crime because the murderer panicked about the victim being gay
...

This isn't new. MeToo was a response to believing that just maybe things were going to change.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181015201612/https://www.econo...

Archive link for those who have "reached [their] article limit".
Parent's comment is "Actually X can't be happening because Y happened to me". GP's comment is "Z is happening, which might explain why I've noticed W". Parent's comment is textbook cherry-picking, GP's is closer to a regular anecdote.
Slots go up and down for a variety of reasons over time. As you just demonstrated, Harvard reduced slots from 1988 to 2018. What were their motivations? What would they have done if they weren't trying to let in diversity students?

It is absolutely true that if you do something for group X, you could have done more for group Y instead with the same resources. But saying that doing something for X automatically takes away from group Y is arguing the counterfactual, "Here is what you would have done if you had not done that." But you don't actually know what they would have done. Maybe they would have reduced admissions even more than they actually did. Can you prove otherwise?

That may seem like a rhetorical question, but it is not. Discovery gives access internal communications which could make that case one way or the other. But it is a case that has to actually be made, and isn't simply a foregone conclusion.
"Personnel" is the older, more appropriate name.
Just like nobody was in a panic when Obama won?

Have we forgotten what 2008-2017 was like, or do we just pretend that the republican fringe collectively losing its mind over a black man in the white house didn't happen?
I'm not much of a football fan, but I would really love it if the Seahawks were owned by a charity. It would make rooting for the home team much more meaningful!
It is not against the victim but against fake victims.
MIT Pathway to Fusion Energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
Insurer Anthem will pay record $16M for massive data breach
What Does Genetic Research Tell Us About Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy?
They didn't publish the questions for this survey but I would imagine this survey did not require answer detail enough to be identifiable at any level.

Do you disagree that an anonymous survey with yes/no answer is sufficiently anonymous? Perhaps folks from Callisto can comment further.
You do not know what fire is. I'm serious. You should look it up.

For starters, you're confusing combustion with fire.
Which society? Because last I checked, just China and India made up half the world, and Harvard wanted to produce global leaders or whatever they're calling it these days.
What are the benefits of using SendGrid over AWS SES? I take it the overall API ease-of-use / UX is a real factor.

I ask, as I believe that SendGrid is now built on top of AWS: https://sendgrid.com/blog/sendgrid-joins-amazon-web-services...

There are people who can confirm or deny this better than I can.
Okay, it's always been obvious to me that those words are unacceptable, but I am trying to be open minded for other people's ideas in the discussion of pc culture. Maybe there's another view?
Presumably because their entire purpose is to kill insects?
Don’t respond to spam feedback loops from major mail providers and you’ll quickly get blacklisted no matter how much reputation you built up. This could happen at any point and doesn’t require that many people to mark as spam.

It’s worth paying someone if deliverability is important.
I wish it was a matter of outreach, but I I fear people won’t remember your wonderful analogy unless they identify as a member of your tribe. Instead, putting skeptics on TV who are a member of their tribe, and who assured them it is nothing to worry about, allows them to carry on mining coal and driving their SUVs where they need to go and not updating any of their beliefs. All those things are expensive and painful for adults, but weren’t problems for you as a child.
Why not just buy a second smartphone?
NYSE not NASDAQ
Great quote, creepy guy.
I a more generalist sense just things like using Electron vs native toolkits matter. The desktop Discord app is going to use substantially more power to run day to day than if it were a native code app that just used something like C++, and across millions of gamers for hours a night every night those resource requirements and power demands add up.

It isn't always just "average hardware is faster so use more inefficient frameworks to lower time to market". Using those shortcuts to ship makes sense, but it should then be a long term goal to reel in those expensive abstractions once you can start counting the amount of power your software is using on a regular basis by whole power plants required to keep your code running on a daily basis.
RIP.

Microsoft lost one of its two founders, so did Apple. Two of the most influential companies. How sad.

Amazon and Facebook are both a single man show, then we have Google, one of the two founders also had some health issues, though much less serious.
Do you have a problem with political ads on tv? From my perspective we should have campaign finance laws that regulate political ad spending, but there's nothing inherently wrong with showing political ads on tv, facebook, or elsewhere.
I'm not sure I completely understand this article, but I'd like to take this opportunity to rant about my recent experience using Robinhood. Two weeks ago I noticed that Tesla stock dropped significantly after the SEC's investigation into Elon Musk's "funding secured" tweet led to Elon being ousted as chairman of the board. I thought the stock would recover from this, so I placed a market price order for TSLA shares on Sunday night (September 30th). Indeed, on Monday the stock rose +17% but lo and behold, my order never went through. The reason given was that the stock price had supposedly changed by at least 5% by the time the market opened. I suspect this is because Robinhood prioritizes orders from high speed trading firms over its own customers. Is this common practice, and can anyone recommend a service that doesn't do this? Thanks in advance.
Just to be clear, Asians are doing well despite their racial identity. Given an actually fair playing field, Asians would have dominated as the Jews did and do.
They are essentially merging
As an App Academy alumnus who tells everyone code-curious I meet to check out App Academy, thank you! This is amazing news. It's a big step toward making software engineering even more accessible. App Academy 100% changed my life and the lives of a couple of my coworkers. Seriously can't thank Kush, Ned, Daniel, Chase, and the whole a/A team enough.
Internalizers want the entire order. If RH splits a order across multiple internalizers they will not be happy. So RH allocates in a Pareto-optimal way. As the order creator, you cannot earn that $2.40, you can only save by getting a better price.
Your salary doesn't reflect your value as a person. Lots of highly-paid people are exhausted, miserable, unable to save, etc. Past a certain point, more money isn't more happiness.

Remember also that salary often reflects luck, willingness to be unethical, and many other qualities that have nothing to do with your worth.
It's alleged that it would be 40% as opposed to the 20% it is now.
Thanks!

We’ve tried to build a gentle ramp for folks with no programming experience so I’d definitely recommend it as an option for a total newbie! Also, because it is a completely integrated curriculum, they’ll be able to seamlessly transition from beginner to more intermediate concepts :)
I kind of wish they'd leave the option to re-enable them in extreme circumstances. It's really annoying to try to bring up the web interface on some crusty old piece of hardware and discovering that the SSL/TLS negotiation can't find a workable solution.
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Despite alumni interviewers rating Asian students about the same as others, I might add.
If you're worried, I'd wait until the Q3 earnings call early next month. Their short term finances mostly hinge on the Model 3's margin.
I understand what you are saying, but I think that people unfamiliar with Christian theology might misunderstand you. It's worth noting that the disciples responded to that with astonishment: "Who then can be saved?" -- even though none of them were rich! Crucially, Christ's response is that with God, _all things_ are possible.

Ultimately, the standard for the Christian is to become like Christ. To walk the path of the cross means to cover and take upon the sins of others, beholding all as worthy of the Kingdom and only oneself as deserving of Hell. This is what Christ did upon the cross for us, and it is what Christians are called to do for all. See the writings of St. Silouan the Athonite for more on this.
There is no market out there that lets you trade slower in return for providing a smaller margin for market makers.

It is possible to build one, but it would look so different from existing markets that it would be an uphill battle to get people to adopt it.
I heard that story in college. It stuck out because it was pithy and convincing.

If you think people don't listen to new ideas or change their minds, do you think people should only be allowed to hear what you think is true, so that they don't hear wrong ideas to begin with?
We've been here before with Palm; is there a reason we should try again or are they going to pull these devices from the market after a few weeks of selling them?

P.S. If it's cheap it's going to break a lot... you know palm the cheaper it is the worse it is
UX is huge. Sendgrid is absurdly easy to use, and at least 3 years ago, SES was an impenetrable mass to me. I got my company up and running on Sendgrid in like 20 minutes.

Maybe it's easier nowadays, but at least a few years ago it was a night and day difference.
The original IQ tests were used to gauge what was termed "mental age", what age you were functionally acting at, and was a ratio of your mental age over your chronological age times 100--a ten year old working at an eleven-year old's level had an IQ of 110.

That said, modern IQ doesn't use that definition, and all of the material you can easily find on the matter pretends that it does. Instead, IQ is a normalized bell curve, every 15 points is another standard deviation on the bell curve. Given that definition, a year's worth of education is probably guesstimated at roughly one standard deviation of IQ. This comes with the massive caveat that IQ and educational achievement can't be compared in that manner (since one is an absolute scale and the other is definitionally a statistical artifact).
Read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225068

That poster gave a very detailed breakdown, but point #1 is enough to make anyone who’s done this before cry in a corner from the abuse they endured.
I'm not a vet, but if I were and someone said "This bird is sick." I hope the first question I'd ask is "Why do you think so?" Not to doubt the person but to figure out what the presenting symptoms were.
pretty neat, but is this project active?
How do you think people practically learn critical thinking skills? Occasionally people need to be fooled, and shown that they were fooled.
I don't see how that's relevant.
> SES was an impenetrable mass to me

AWS UX in general is kind of a mess. Vast in its services, no doubt, but just messy.
Journalism requires citations. Otherwise it's just gossip.
To be fair, when I was using Lua a decade ago, LuaJIT mostly only supported Linux and x86-64. Mike was adding new architectures and variants on request and when people would pay him to do so, while the core was both mostly sufficient and still improving. Those 50,000 lines did come after x86-64, if you wanted to move the project in a different direction it seems sensible to strip them out, make your changes. As long as your changes a rent too drastic, it should be comparatively easy to put them back in.
Yeah, btw I think I cited quarterly. Still I think the multiple is too high. I understand 15x for a private company and 10x for a public. But in an inflated market, higher than that? If I had internet other than my phone I would look it up.
The problem isn't holistic admission, the problem is that Harvard is using the cover of holistic admission to black-box the admissions process so nobody can prove what shenanigans are actually going on. That only works until somebody does a simple regression, but most people don't understand regressions or any sort of statistics at all.
good point, but i think we can admit the title is weird if the only support is x86-64
I think this is because when you do a “market order” on Robinhood it’s actually placed as a limit order 5% above the price. Just set your own limit order next time
Yea, you are right. That's the current thought.

I think Numenta is basing their claim on other studies that suggest there are grid cell like signatures in the neocortex, thus leading to the rampant speculation.
What would be some good examples that most books/tutorials make assumptions on? Thanks
I've found mostly these are given mostly as cover. Those are important considerations, but:
A) most CDS is considered educational, and therefore is not supposed to replace an expert's opinion
B) insurance coverage is sorta BS because most health systems are moving away from pure fee for service revenue models. Besides, I feel like you should maybe do your job as a doctor to ensure the best care for your patients than hyper optimizing your own reimbursement.
Nit: you need to calculate the Net Present Value of that $3,000,000, as well as subtracting the cost of tuition.
Clearly there is no system where you can admit a black or hispanic applicant, keep class size fixed, and not push out a marginal white or asian candidate. But that doesn’t mean there is no difference between “discriminating against asians” and “giving a boost to disadvantaged minorities.” In the former case, only marginal asians get pushed below the cutoff. In the latter case, mostly white candidates will get pushed out.

Especially in the latter case, the effect on asians is indirect and attenuted. For example, say Harvard would have been 60% white, 30% asian, and 10% underrepresented minority. You can double the representation of disadvantaged minorities by reducing the asian representation from 30% to about 27%. So basically the bottom 10% of asians get exluded.

What is instead being alleged here is that Harvard exluded more than half the Asians that otherwise would have been admitted.
What I'm telling you is a person running in elite circles can have reasonable concerns that it is not sufficient. I'm also telling you the VC/angel funding crowd in a specific location is likely to be a small community where most folks know each other.
It was obvious to many people that the stock price would rebound significantly after Musk settled with the SEC, so the stock had already effectively increased in price before market open. Robinhood couldn't find anyone willing to sell you shares at the market close price Monday morning because there were none to be had.
Looking from the other side of the Atlantic, the difference is stark. Obama's were the first campaigns widely lauded for their aggressive use of social media. Nobody made a fuss about it, facebook didn't change a single rule because of somebody complaining or anything. The lunatics waving birth certificates were seen by us as some typical American oddity. This time it is different. Our facebook accounts have to be verified, our pages and apps vetted, comments are blocked or filtered, the words "fake news", "russian trolls", russian propaganda etc have become national issues even in countries which never face such a thing. There have been countless elections and referenda throughout the world during the social media age, but the "election phobia" and the idea that all elections are inherently tainted because people can't keep themselves from voting the wrong person/thing was born after the US election.
That's a good point. It's hard to compare a crowdfunded company with a one burning through more than 500 mln USD in VC funding. But I see no reason why people shouldn't be increasing their passive portfolios every month if they can. And with many brokers, $10 is around a minimum commission for a single trade.
And yet here we are with limited spectrum stereo vision, at the top of the evolutionary ladder.
if you don't click the ads, they barely make anything
I personally looked around and couldn't find much, so I built my own with a raspberry pi running Motion. It cost ~$100 iirc.
You need to look at why humans have accidents then.

Hint: it’s not due to the sensor package being used.
I had an opportunity to work at both the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and the Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBs). I was part of the 10 year strategic planning efforts at AI2. Paul Allen was both involved and hands-off in the support of the leadership AI2 and AIBs. It was a rare balance and Paul Allen knew how to create the conditions for innovation and novel research breakthroughs with micromanaging.

Additionally, Paul Allen was an advocate for open science. Through AI2 he directly supported arxiv.org and funded the development of Semantic Scholar. I had an opportunity to participate in a gathering of scientists, academics and publishers organized by Vulcan and the Allen Institutes to investigate innovations to support open science. Alexandra Elbakyan (founder of Scihub) was skyped in (technically on the run) to share her advocacy of accessible and open science. It was surprising and inspiring to see that Paul Allen provided Alexendra a platform to share her experience (especially as several major publishers were in attendance).

His lasting legacy in AI will be the support of Semantic Scholar and the Alexandria (common sense) project. In neuroscience research, AIBs has made major breakthroughs in mapping the mouse brain and producing prolific open datasets (Allen Brain Atlas) to support research.

In Seattle, it was hard to not run into the influence of Paul Allen. From the Seattle Seahawks to the Museum of Popular Culture (MoPoP), Paul Allen had an impact everywhere in Seattle.

It is sad to see him pass away. He has a immense impact on both Seattle and scientific research. I hope both AI2 and AIBs will continue doing amazing work as part of his legacy.
I think Robinhood implements market orders as limit %5 above/below market. You should be able to enter a limit order at your own max price, and it would've executed.
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