skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean its not a dick move. Especially considering the way it was phrased.

Again. I'm not saying that this is not something Pocket shouldn't do, just that in this case, and considering Marco's dedication to this, it's rude. But business is business, I get that.

Dick move and good-for-business moves aren't mutually exclusive.
Frogs are noisy neighbours
What do you mean by variable pricing. Haggling? Having the costs vary by time is fine as long as it's detailed on the pricing sticker.

Edit: here are the details http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/Vag/Yrkestrafik/Taxi/Prisin...

Uber could use this standard exclusion: "Tariffs by written agreement exclusively for a particular customer or passenger category do not have to be reported in the price data."

edit2: I'm reading the law now. There are massive loopholes all over this thing. Uber could easily implement their standard business model within this framework if they'd just comply with a few things http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/Global/Regler/TSFS_svenska/...
Please tell me you are trolling:

Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something): "plant viruses that can decimate yields".

decimated Intel's offer.

Drastically reduce the effectiveness of Intel's offer.

It fits exactly. Not only that, but you could also say:

Destroyed Intel's offer. (Def 1)

Decimate is the right word choice and it conveyed the intensity of how badly Finance Co. beat Intel's offer. Your definition of decimate may be used by heavy quants but it doesn't fit everyday usage.
There is a long line of research on mood disorders and the ways to deal with those behaviorally and medically.

http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec...

It has been known for quite a while that if a person is in a prolonged depressed mood state, simply shortening that person's periods of sleep (usually by getting the person up earlier, to bright light) can do a lot to boost the person's mood state.

On the other hand, for the many people who have bipolar mood disorders (so that they have abnormally elevated mood as well as abnormally depressed mood not related to immediate events in the people's lives), sleep deprivation can be dangerous, as it can trigger mania. Severe sleep deprivation can result in all the psychotic symptoms of florid mania even for most people without a medical history of mood disorders, and it is particularly dangerous for people who have already been through an episode of mania. So as other people here have already commented, regularity of sleep (sleep while it's dark, and get up while it's day) is helpful for mood disorders, up or down, and sleep deprivation by itself will not be a cure-all for all cases of depression.

AFTER EDIT: I appreciate HN participant falcolas reminding all of us, in a first reply to this comment, that the submitted article is about an animal model of a proposed drug treatment that may have some of the effects of sleep deprivation without having other effects. Yes, that is what the article is about, and I acknowledged that even after reading the article, the first part of this comment's text (above) had as much to do with other comments here as it had to do with the actual article, maybe more. That said, as investigation of new drug treatments moves from animal models to human clinical trials, the thing to look for in any drug proposed to treat "depression" (depressed mood) is whether it might trigger mania (elevated mood) in the patient receiving the treatment. It's tough to develop an animal model of the psychotic symptoms of mania, which is why this is not an easy problem to solve--how to develop a drug that makes depressed patients enjoy normal mood states without breaking through to florid mania.
Apple developers, Apple developers, Apple developers, Apple developers!

Steve Ballmer must be jumping for joy right now /s
That wouldn't be a 100% match since it assumes HTTP headers and mangles them, too. For example, it probably uses the MIME type served by the proxied server to see whether it's css or js or whatever should be minified (I didn't check the sources for this).

With a pipe, it'd need to use heuristics to figure out what kind of file it is. That could be added, probably, but it's not entirely trivial.

Additionally, you'd miss out on all the HTTP header mangling, such as cache expiry settings.
Michael, I feel your pain. I just want to warn you about Austin, it's not as cheap as it used to be. I was living in Boulder, had been reading the Austin hype on HN and then watched the movie Slacker (set in Austin) and a month later I was on a plane to Texas.

But I was deceived by craigslist apartment ads. The apartment locators in the city were posting beautiful downtown apartments for ridiculously low rents, it seemed amazing. When I got there I found that occupancy at the mega rental complexes was running over 99% and it was incredibly difficult to find a place to live. I also found that most of those postings were fake. The MO is to post a nice place for low money and when a prospect calls say that one is gone but they can show you others.

I eventually took over a lease from someone at a nice complex right next to the Google office. I had heard Austin was easy to get around without a car, but that wasn't really true. I was an hour ride from downtown on the bus and felt stranded up in NW Austin. The bus stopped running around midnight, and if you missed that the closest bus dropped you off an hour walk from your home on a desolate and dark highway.

The buses are ok if you are going north/south, but east/west involves a lot of transfers. I wouldn't want to live in Austin again without a car, as the summers get so hot (100+ for 60 days in a row) you can't show up for a meeting with a client without being a sweaty mess by the time you get there.

My rent was raised almost 20% when I renewed my lease, and I am sure the rents are even higher now. I moved to NYC and am only paying $150 more a month to live in great studio in Astoria. It's a little smaller, and I miss the outdoor pool and hot tub I had in Austin but other than that everything else is better here.

Austin can definitely be cheap if you buy a single family home, but beware the insane rental market as the city is growing rapidly.
Contrast with the CPU simulator SimpleScalar, whose source code is freely available to academic users. Google Scholar lists hundreds of citations for the original tech report (you wouldn't do work based on someone else's simulation code without citing them, would you?), so it seems safe to say the work has done quite a bit for the author's professional status.
I think I've read about it here on HN months ago. The current version looks very decent from the video. I'll surely will check it out. You've my full respect for pulling this off.

One question though: Why does it use an installer on OSX that requires me to enter my admin password?
Considering how many people are involved in making an ad, it would be interesting to know the backstory and how it wasn't until it aired did they realize it wasn't a good idea.
I thought it might've been because omelette is a pain in the ass to spell. In fact I could've used an auto-complete when typing this comment.
I guess not every human is the same. Saying it's a complete bullshit seem to be irrational.
I think if you thought about it for a moment you would realize that he is appealing to the concept of hacking

Absolutely. Timothy Ferriss has made good bank doing something similar, hacking various aspects of his life.

What earns criticism, though (this is a discussion board, and we aren't here to blanket applaud everything), is the pseudo-science: The "I ate a normal meal and my cognitive process degraded, etc". There is zero scientific validity to those claims, and they give it the rank stench of snake oil (again, exactly like energy bracelets, good aura, or the tactics of the anti-immunization crowd). It may be entirely well-meaning, but such are a million quack remedies and claims.
That data came from the HPGe, which really does have that precision. I know it seems like the accuracy is bad since, like you said, it could be either 0 or 2 Bq/kg. However, a Bq/kg is REALLY tiny and that accuracy (which is proportional to the length of the experiment) is good enough for this analysis. So the precision is fixed based on the HPGe and the accuracy increases with the length of time the HPGe took measurements.
> In a supermarket, would such a list be in the isle next to the food? Or would it just be available from management or something like that?

It's on the price tag/label, there's the product price and the unit price (except bulk which only have unit prices).
I don't think it is cynical. This is a new trendy style. In 3 years, everyone will be complaining about flat design, hipster mustaches, and wishing we had more gradients and glossy reflections.

Now i'm being cynical. ;)
It's a shame there's no good way to harness that.
I don't assume perfect information; all economic activity bears risk and your choices are guided by your risk tolerance. Sometimes, you make a bad choice and suffer the consequences. Eliminating choices doesn't eliminate those consequences, it simply forces you to either adjust your risk tolerance against your will or engage in even riskier activity.

You agree, then, that awful crimes could still be occurring elsewhere but are impossible to determine whether they would have occurred in taxis prior to regulation. It is thus impossible to determine if those alternatives are actually safer, and even if they are, safety may not be the only priority people have. It is entirely based on your own subjective risk tolerance.
Imagine someday where many people own their own personal satellite.

Not sure what it would be useful for on a personal level, but I bet they will come up with something.

I also wonder if they could send 1000 to orbit the moon or another planet in a network to do surveys.
TBH, the same thing happened with Google I/O. It became a rush for tickets for free devices instead of a true developer-focused event.
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When I first presented to angels in Sydney I found them initially "tight", and they laughed at the $2M valuation I was pitching.

I feel like the one-time cash-drop is a terrible model for early-stage businesses. A good (1.5+) programmer is worth at least $300k/year working on his own stuff, because (a) he actually gives a shit, and (b) his competence will grow faster than it would in a typical paid job.

So for 4 years of a good engineer's work, $1.2M is a fair sight-unseen valuation. Scale this up for team size and include existing validations from the market, and $5-10M isn't unreasonable (with a 4-year vesting period on founder equity; unvested stuff going to investors).

The indefinite duration to profitability is a problem, because it's such a huge unknown that renders valuation calculation a joke. When you're valuating a person, any number that comes without an amount of work (e.g. a duration) is meaningless.

I feel like an Autonomy Fund model is better. Broad-strokes overview, minus the regulatory stuff and incentive problems and adverse-selction protections: there isn't a specified time line, but you get 75% of your market salary, and investors get a passive 30% equity in whatever you build (including side projects, that being the one downside for employee). The going assumption is that you're worth 2.5x more to the economy when you work on your own stuff than when you work for a typical company.

Of course, there are various protections that need to be in play to prevent people from scamming it (i.e. quitting the Fund, then launching something next-day with 100% equity) and there would be a need for some kind of audit cycle (to push out people who are coasting) but I think the overall model is superior to anything that exists now.

One thought I had is that local governments would have an interest in setting these kinds of things up, because even if the concept fails and they "lose" money, it goes back into the city and the network effects also build up the technology ecosystem there.
> The only people who disagree with this statement are people who are simply not informed.

Please try to be less obvious about your lack of arguments.
Dang, you're right, I could swear otherwise but yup, just on blocks.
> well, you don't. unless you reimplement the code from the methods and see if it's reproducible. except that nobody does this. but let's say they did and found completely different results, that are also new and amazing. who is right? the answer is: NOBODY KNOWS, because nobody is publishing their code!

No one is going to spend time auditing the code to find a mistake either. In academia the way these things are, and should be, validated is by comparing the output to known results. In simulation this means do my simulations match experimental reality. In data analysis this means you check that you can verify something that's known to be true about a particular dataset.

That kind of validation in itself doesn't happen very often (it's often missing for example in computational chemistry). But in all honesty having the code, wouldn't (and doesn't) help.

I'm not arguing that the code shouldn't be open source, but that if you're presenting "new and amazing" results the way you back those up is not by saying you checked your code really well, but by showing that your method and implementation are consistent with known facts while presenting something new.
I feel like I've seen this exact ad ages ago. I wonder if it's been recycled.
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There is a widespread misconception that online education is just inherently inferior to learning in a real classroom. The Department of Education did a huge meta-analysis and found this was not the case - in face online education is a little better than face to face. Blended and hybrid learning was better than either online or face to face alone. http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practic...

We're talking about actual learning, not how well we liked the learning (the two are inversely correlated). An online video for example you can pause, rewind, fast forward, compared to a face to face lecture in which the speaker is likely going too fast or too slow for many.

That said, are there certain types of topics or certain types of students which are better taught face to face? Sure. Remedial courses require much more learner support, and really one-on-one tutoring. Other courses are inherently social or inherently difficult to teach online. Are you going to hire a pilot or a firefighter that only trained online? Of course not, but I would hire a pilot or firefighter who had hundreds of hours of practice with difficult scenarios in a simulator over one who had only learned in a face to face context.
Fixed: >> And unlike other companies our press releases are written by pubescent teenagers.
I do the same thing. It helped when I did get skimmed. Looking back the card slot was slightly wobbly. Now I always check. My credit union contacted me the same day, hours after the skimmage and everything was taken care of practically instantly.
>Brownouts will ripple across the landscape; control centers will call up big companies and beg them to turn off the lights; managers of ultrasensitive modern control centers will watch in horror as voltage drops lead to factory shutdowns. (Germany, a leader in renewable-energy use, is already facing this situation.

Kraut here. I have yet to experience this or read about it in the news, I think the author is either exaggerating or misinformed.

What is true is that renewables already are putting a lot of strain on the net and there are plans to invest in a lot of new power lines and switches to better stabilize the grid, but the tone of the article is just ridiculous.
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I'm just going to say that here in Seattle Uber provide better, cheaper, and, I'd guess, safer service with /significantly/ higher prices.

I choose them exclusively.

You don't have to be perfect to be better...
The more email I get from a service during a trial period the more pissed off I get; it feels as bad as someone nagging at me. I hate receiving email and trying to "engage me" by email is about as bad as a sales person calling me every few days to "see if I need some help" or to "offer a few helpful tips" etc.
> Of course, software itself ought to do it.

Antifragility for most real world software means that the quality has to improve over time even though requirements are changing. Unless the software is adapting itself to new requirements (as well as maintaining itself), that means that the net outcome of development and maintenance efforts has to be an improvement in quality. While the design of the software can be a major factor here (making antifragility easier to achieve or harder), it still depends on the system outside of the software that is developing and maintaining it.

> I don't know if that's a hard problem, but that's a meta-programming problem.

I'd suggest its a problem equivalent to solving strong AI.

> Not something you can do easily if you don't use lisp.

Lisps aren't the only class of languages that support easy metaprogramming, and language support for easy metaprogramming doesn't do much to get you closer to the goal here, anyway.
Unless you're in intelligence an officer's basic clearance is only Secret.

But the point stands. One of the people I've provided personal references for a TS/SCI first did work for the National Reconnaissance Office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office):

"The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), located in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies and considered, along with the CIA, NSA, DIA and NGA, to be one of the "big five" U.S. Intelligence agencies. It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government, and coordinates the analysis of aerial surveillance and satellite imagery from several intelligence and military agencies."

3,000 direct employees, plus many contractors like the above mentioned friend. Is the NRO any bigger because of 9/11 et. al.? Probably somewhat, but not all that much I suspect given how much they were doing before it. What he was doing was just supporting their general efforts. (His following jobs? Well, as usual I can tell you what technology they used, but nothing about them, they're more sensitive, so maybe he became part of this growing post-9/11 "hidden world".)
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As short as possible as to not to bore the reader, and as long as possible as to include the relevant information.
> Personally I'd never use a taxi service that charged only by time.

That's why most taxi services are not time-only, but limo services are (you're going to rent a limo for an evening, but you'll barely drive it)
Erlang is great, but for me, its problems simply outweigh its benefits.

For example, not every app has a need for Erlang's massive parallelism. I can't write desktop or iOS apps in Erlang. Small utility scripts are cumbersome. There seems to be no kind of strong graphics or game support for it. For web apps the lackluster performance means is not really a step up from Ruby, which I currently use, so in that area there is no reason for me to switch.

In fact, the only area where Erlang is really perfectly suitable is in developing fault-tolerant, concurrent, parallel, distributed systems. And yet when I do need to write such a system, I look to Go instead.

> Don't those [commas and periods] make more sense though?

No, they really are a bad choice. First, any kind of statement terminator/separator should be unnecessary, as I have argued elsewhere. Secondly, distinguishing between two types of terminators is a bad idea because it makes editing harder. If I have

A,
B.

and I want to switch the order to:

B,
A.

then I can't just use my editor's nifty line-transposing mechanism. I have to edit each line and change the "," into a "." and vice versa. It's incredibly badly thought out.

Really, I like Erlang, but whenever its syntax is discussed, its defenders come out of the woodwork to make arguments without ever really wanting to listen. Syntax does matter. From speaking to lots of people, I know that Erlang's antique and cantankerous syntax is the number one problem preventing people from adopting it. As long as erlangers do nothing about their syntax, it will remain a weird little language that people admire but don't use.

Just look at Elixir -- people actually get excited about it. Because it has a nice syntax.

> few languages rival Erlang's pattern matching

Erlang's pattern matching is cool, but its reliance on ordered lists (which it calls tuples even though the fields are unnamed) makes it less cool again. I vastly prefer Haskell's pattern matching and overall approach to typing.
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Whenever I need a break from tech:

http://www.lewrockwell.com
Hyundai tried to be cute with this ad and in hindsight, it sounds like a brilliant idea but the problem is that it is a realistic scenario which has happened to many people. I remember in Hurricane Sandy, a boy died in his father's car due to CO poisoning. This kind of commercial was always going to be controversial.
That does not say much. It raises more questions:

1. How much of intelligence is inherited? I am not up to date on this, but I remember that researchers don't have a consensus on this. Also, once you are an adult does G get fixed?

2. Teachers also pay more attention to intelligent, hardworking and industrious students.

Also, grown up intelligent people are usually better at taking care of themselves and end up looking better than others. Of course, this is just one factor.
> The only people who disagree with this statement are people who are simply not informed.

So I take it that you don't realize this is a logical error called Argumentum ad populum?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
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"an industry where you actually get to produce something."

an industry where you could actually earn something would be much better!
> In a more holistic view, a software system includes the program and its developer community.

Software systems are embedded in broader systems which include the developers, users, etc. But it is not helpful to communication to call those broader systems the "software system", which has a well understood meaning.
I had an ATM card eaten in London on vacation because I couldn't recall the PIN.

That was a weird moment.
It cannot be coached very easily. See http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/Briggs_Theeffectofadmissionst....

"Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? For students that have taken the test before and would like to boost their scores, coaching seems to help, but by a rather small amount. After controlling for group differences, the average coaching boost on the math section of the SAT is 14 to 15 points. The boost is smaller on the verbal section of the test, just 6 to 8 points. The combined effect of coaching on the SAT for the NELS sample is about 20 points."
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