skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider a polar vector, which possesses a magnitude and one or more angles. For such a vector, the magnitude is always positive, on the basis that it is defined this way when shaped from Cartesian elements:

m = sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 ...)

In this convention, for any given value of m, the signs of the individual components are lost in the conversion, which means when discussing magnitude, only the absolute value of m matters.

But, because Mathematica has a "Greater[]" function, and because that function simultaneously uses the word I chose and pays attention to scalar signs, I must be wrong about this.

> That seems an odd definition of "greater" ...

I respect the people behind Mathematica, so I have to agree -- it's not what I thought. I should have qualified what I said more carefully.
Drones - Drone first responders for accidents, for emergency coverage remote telepresence assistance as well as news recording. Drones replacing photographers, meter maids, small package delivery and distribution especially stuff that bike and car couriers are doing now. Crop dusting (already happening), site inspections. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the marriage of flying drone and telepresence rolling robots where the drone lands out in your driveway folds up and rolls in the front door.

Everyone connected and addressed via internet. Eventually everyone personally will have an internet "address" that would combine voice, email etc. when you fill out forms and apply for credit, etc that will be part of your personal identification as well as the primary way to contact you.

Self driving long-haul delivery trucks, probably be accepted quicker than personal cars. Still will be manned initially to handle problems and to dissuade looters, or drive in hard to navigate areas.
the only difference is that in socialized medicine you wait for life saving surgery for months even when you have money to pay for it. So everybody suffers.
Oh, it reduces his cholesterol level[0]. But he has at least one allele that increases the risk of myopathy when taking simvastatin (Assuming there were no milkmen - I do look quite a bit like him - I'm homozygous, and this allele is not terribly rare).

The part about being asian is that asians tend not to catabolize statins as effectively, so his plasma levels are probably higher, since I found out he was taking a full "white person dose" despite advisories that simvastatin should be given at half dose for asians.

[0]I also recall hearing somewhere from a biochemist that while statins decrease cholesterol levels in asians the effect on coronary heart disease (which is what your really care about) is attenuated, and that there may be a secondary mechanism for CHD in asians... But I cannot find the source he was quoting.
The graphic in the article shows that their model predicts civilizations with the highest likelihood along coasts and major waterways, rapidly declining the further inland you get .

It would seem like you could get a similarly inaccurate model by simply modelling people preferring to live by the coast, and only displacing inland when density along the coast gets too high.

I'm sure war had a substantial role, but their model doesn't seem to predict anything it couldn't have without considering warfare at all.
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I make roughly £60 a month from http://www.phonecompare.co.uk

It's written in PHP/MySQL using Symfony 2 and hosted on a UK based VPS.

It's only been online for a short period and I'm working on it all of the time to increase what it's making so we'll see how it goes. At the moment it's pretty bare and doesn't have a huge amount of value so it's not doing very well in the search engines, but I'll keep plugging away and give it a reasonable chance to see what its potential is like.

I'd like to add a comparison feature which will allow people to compare the specs of the handsets against each other which will hopefully give it a bit more of an edge.
that could reflect software licensing and PSO. Oracle's $100k/TB is just the cost of the hardware before software.
I find that reading textbooks on the widescreen isn't all that bad actually. As far as writing math equations, like someone else mentioned, Windows has a dedicated equation writing tool that works really quite well. Otherwise, just plugin the keyboard and use LaTeX.

Personally, I have to draw/annotate circuit diagrams and the Surface Pro is so far superior to paper it's not even funny. I couldn't imagine switching back - taking notes with a full laptop/keyboard just seems archaic to me.
I felt exactly this way too. You know how you just cringe about something, knowing exactly how awful it's going to be or feel? That describes most of my reactions to Allan, and is part of the reason I quit watching. The other was that the raunchy factor seemed to know no lower bound. I finally reached a point where I couldn't take anymore and quit watching (around the time Ashton Kutcher came in).
How much is the cost of updating the old interface once in a while when the backend API's change? They don't need to keep improving to versions in parallel, just keep the old one working is good enough.
I'd say he's neither great, nor a disaster. Without getting inside his head, it's hard to say if he's very lazy and unmotivated, or if he's so smart because he's experimenting all the time.

Another observation: Being 10x is total contribution, not individual contribution. If you're fast, but others can't read your code, subtract that from the productivity. If you cause other decent performers to quit, subtract that from productivity. If you piss off clients, subtract that from productivity.

That's not to say one can't find a way to make eclectic people useful, but the smart jackass rarely ever lifts an entire team's productivity.
For the record, if you don't think health disparities are a topic of intense focus in the healthcare research world, you're reading the wrong sources.
At its peak, U.S. Steel employed 340,000 employees, more than Microsoft, Google, Apple, And Amazon combined. Almost all of those employees were in the U.S., versus the tech companies that have many employees outside the U.S.

Since 1950, San Francisco has gained 50,000 people. Seattle has gained 150,000. Pittsburgh lost 370,000. Detroit 1,100,000. Minneapolis over 100,000. Philadelphia 500,000. Buffalo over 300,000. Rochester 120,000. Etc.

Austin did gain 700,000, but it wasn't from tech.
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Fine. But government is required to treat all people alike. I think this is a reasonable requirement, given that you cannot 'opt out' of government. If you want to set up a private universal health care charity fund, I would happily cut a recurring check to help your cause, assuming some basic transparency and accountability. At least, if you mess up your charity and start, say, embezzling funds, I can opt out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
Have you ever taken compilers, operating systems, or some other project-heavy class? If so I'm pretty sure you've noticed several individuals completing a project with ease while the rest of the class, working in teams, struggles with. You can visit any decent CS program, any semester, and see this happen. It's no myth.
because we all know that then all kids would be hungry and not educated not only the poor ones. Somehow socialism always ends up making everyone equally poor and not equally rich.

I read recently that in Canada waiting time for some surgeries are 6 months. For everyone. People who can afford and people who can't afford. Everybody screwed over. But of course that's what socialism is all about - making all people equal. In their poverty.
Check out gam [0]

gam create alias idontwearseatbelts user crashtestdummy

The only problem with aliases is that it completely breaks using email as a unique id to link you with people. You basically fix spam but lose the "people you may know" feature on social sites where you actually care about knowing who you may know on it (i.e. not linkedin).

[0] https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-manager/wiki/GettingSt...
Now more importantly let’s look at the time saved. No code shipped on the evenings where drinking occurs (loss of 4 hours each night) and 1 day hangover on the Saturday feeling sorry for myself.

You're not gaining four hours each night because you're not drinking; you're gaining four hours each night because you're not going out.
No, if you need lifesaving surgery, you get it. And you don't get a bill that ends up costing a second mortgage.

Elective procedures - that's a different story. But it is location specific, and in many countries with mixed public/private systems you can pay through your nose if you like anyway
Let's face it: there's little to nothing that's new under the sun in software. Experience means understanding old but newly recast problems faster, and if you're lucky, solving their higher abstraction level equivalents the next time for greater apparent effect to the lay observer. As widely understood, the essential repetition of the solution act is something that bores good programmers. I frequently explain programming to others as not entirely dissimilar to floor sweeping. Who is the 10x engineer, then? Simple. They hit those areas that are simultaneously the most trafficked and noticeable, but perversely also the most ignored: the office fridge, the corporate atrium, the stained carpet outside the front door under someone else's management.
You're a little too harsh in saying "tolerated".

Opinion polls have shown for decades that a majority favor a system more like those of Canada or Europe - here it's called "single payer". But the interests of the majority have little relevance here.

The "single payer" alternative is considered so radical in USA that it's mentioned in the corporate media only apologetically, as if it were advocacy of leprosy. When they can't avoid mentioning the obvious, the rejection of it is euphemistically explained by saying that it is "politically unrealistic" - before a quick change of topic. The "talking points" the owners provide for their followers call it "socialism", and the latter, in US political culture, is an epithet like "child molester".

The ugly reality this charade is designed to avoid acknowledging is that the US is ruled by what has lately been called "the one percent" - and there is nothing the majority can do about it. Voting for one of the practically identical, freak-show, major-party candidates is made useless by the two-party system; the increasingly hollow pretence of democracy mocks any thought of reform.

Of course it's barbaric. It is also perfectly rational on the part of the rulers: their families need not worry about getting first-quality treatment of any health problem, and from their view the rest are disposable labor whose costs are still too expensive.

What, exactly, would you propose we do about it? Protest in the streets? People can't afford to lose their jobs, nor even time away from their daily responsibilities. Write to Congresspeople? Pointless for those who can't afford lobbyists. Revolution? No one has a realistic plan. It's almost miraculous that Obama managed to (temporarily?) install a plan that even purports to help - and it forces citizens to pay the insurance industry, whose presence in the healthcare system is exactly what keeps 30-40 percent of the population an illness or injury away from destitution.

You're obviously in a better place (news of which does not penetrate the info-tainment here, BTW), but it's rather naive to suppose that we in the US chose this situation. For us, it will get worse before it gets better.
Congrats. What hosts are you running at? I haven't been able to find one that allows adult content
I'm not sure I agree. I don't have too many data points, but I've observed a couple self taught 10x folks. Maybe they were paired with others racing up a steep learning curve, but they were at the leading edge of technology at a young age, and without seasoned mentors.

This is just personal anecdotes, though, and not hard data. Also not a plan I'd encourage to follow. (One dropped out of a top 3 CS program to spend more time on professional projects. It was right for him, but again I wouldn't counsel others to do that.)
Thanks! It's great to hear you're enjoying it.
> but let's say something like X. Or your average window manager. Or, say, almost anything from GNOME.

This doesn't apply to embedded Linux, or Linux for servers, which could be argued to be just as "traditional" a use case as Linux for desktops.

Additionally, for the desktop use case, nearly every distribution uses a different window manager anyway. There are such a wide variety of window managers, I wouldn't know how to compute an "average" between them in a meaningful way. Although I use Linux for a desktop everyday, I don't have GNOME installed, and I would barely notice if X was missing and replaced by Wayland or a different component.

> I think it's misleading to read "Linux" and imagine "desktop GNU/Linux with all the trimmings."

Right. It's not Linux for the desktop, or Linux for the phone, or Linux for embedded devices, or Linux for servers, it's Linux for the living room. My point is that due to the diversity of the Linux ecosystem, there really wasn't such a thing as a "traditional" or "average" Linux Desktop in the first place, and that we can't even say Linux for desktop is the "traditional" or "average" use of Linux. Anything running the Linux kernel should be able to call itself Linux, without qualification.
My bet is a Debian derivative, running X, with no complete desktop environment, but with all the GTK libs required.

Maybe with added Wine.
The thing is, I'm not rolling my own here (minus message authentication, but based on cursory reading, this is how it's done anyways). I'm using standard OpenSSL libraries - things that are vetted, and I'm using like they suggest. Rolling my own was using it without an IV and without message authentication (aka getting it half right). I'm not doing that any more.

Obviously the libraries he suggested are different than the ones I'm using, but that in itself shouldn't be a case for dismissal. The ones I'm using are industry standard. His suggestion uses a different stream cipher and a different key generation scheme, the ciphers and key generation scheme I'm using are what are behind SSL/TLS - something which is not broken. The NSA didn't break this, they bought their way through the crypto, which should tell you something about its strength.

I am generally curious though, to make sure I got what I did right. I think I have - and again the only part I'm not sure about entirely is message authentication. Some places online suggest including the IV in with the authentication. However, since the code is open to the public, and if an attacker were to take my database, they'd have the IV no problem. The only thing they wouldn't have is what I'm signing each message with, the thing that really does the authentication, my server config variable only used for message auth.
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I'm very curious about what he will come up with.
I'm sure this has been pointed out many times when these posts pop up, but what is shocking to me is that we tolerate $200k medical bills for this sort of emergency care, as long as we aren't the ones paying for them ourselves.

The healthcare industry needs a lot more transparency. Every hospital should be required (if they choose to accept Medicare/Medicaid patients) to publish prices in an easily comparable format tied to standard medical codes for every service/procedure they provide, and should be required to charge individuals without insurance no more than the government or other large insurer pays. This would seem pretty simple to implement and would, over time, help keep prices lower simply by making them public and allowing people to compare them. The information asymmetry in the industry has created a situation where people are powerless to help themselves and make smart choices with regard to getting healthcare, and has led to the creation of another expensive program that we can't afford.

Sadly, we have a system in which the industries being regulated control the dialog, and they are all too happy to tiptoe past prices and on to who is footing the bill.
Seems like Sourceforge runs out of ideas.
So if I ask the librarian for a copy of the book with ISBN

1; DROP TABLE books; --

is that okay because, technically, the server let my request through?
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When we launched our startup we took a vow of sobriety - no drinking booze until we get profitable. It took us 9 months, one of the most productive periods of my life to date.
To be fair, this guy drinks a lot. It seems like he's out drinking 3 out of 5 nights a week and 1 out of 2 nights a weekend which to me seems quite excessive.
who gets to decide what is lifesaving and what is elective?
I didn't say you specifically agreed with what he said on Twitter. I categorised your suggestion that using gender neutral language would be 'daft' together with his idea that it would be 'boring'. If you want to, go ahead and explain why these are such different ideas that I should not have done so.

The article wasn't written in the first person, it was written as instructional and in the second person (I vs you). Writing in the second person is generally an attempt to connect with an audience. Language choices such as using gender neutral pronouns and references can be made to connect more or less with different audiences, and this author rejected them because it wasn't worth it to him. I do not like his decision not to bother including me as his targeted audience. If you don't like that I don't like that, well that is your own inner workings, why does it bother you so much when I want to be included?
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The reason to defend weev in this case is to ensure that the specific act for which he is being prosecuted is not treated as a crime in other cases.

If weev harassed this woman in the manner described in the article you reference, he probably should be prosecuted for that. But it's not ok for prosecutors to put him in jail for something that should be perfectly legal, just because they can't (or didn't) put him in jail for something else.
A bit nitpicky on one portion over an otherwise good analogy. If they library is funded by a city, the list of employees and their salaries are public knowledge. I use to work for a small town library in high school. I could see all of my high school teacher/staff information along with co-workers and any other town staff salaries in the town record (publicly displayed in the library itself). Of course, what you may do with the information is another thing.
If you ask the librarian to hold a book-burning party, and they do, should you get off scott-free?
I will be beyond happy to be able to listen to my own music, read off my iPad, and just begin the whole process of ignoring the goings-on in the flight. Travel will be so much better without the useless electronics rules.

Now to get rid of the TSA...
You make a strong point. This may be used to get people to work harder for the same (or even less) money. I have met talented programmers/engineers/developers. They had that a natural instinct towards computers. But they were not born as 10X. You can be highly talented, but still not be very good. The thing is, people who are born talented gravitate towards exploiting that talent. In computers, its the guys who are always thinking, talking, and dreaming about systems. The ones who sometimes stay up late because they just have to code. Or the ones who are obsessed over the layout of a PCB.

It is the mix of talent, and dedication that puts some people above others (in terms of skills). Not some myth or anything.
I just realized what was bugging me about this article. It points out that the empirical support for 10x claims is shoddy. That's fair enough. But then it switches to making a bunch of claims that have no empirical support: 10x is a myth, it's pernicious, it may lead to drug abuse, etc.

So which is it? If we're going to hold 10x up to the standards of rigorous research and conclude that it's bullshit, then by the same logic the rest of the article must be even more bullshit. (At least 10x has some experiments behind it.) By that standard, the only legitimate thing any of us can say on the subject is "we don't know".

But if on the other hand we're going to grant some validity to the folklore, then the most likely explanation for the persistence of 10x claims among respected software veterans is that it's grounded in reality, even though it's silly to take "10x" literally. (What the hell is "x"?)
> but it drives me absolutely insane that flight attendants gripe at me about turning off my Kindle

I agree BUT you've got to remember that there are a ton of different devices in the world. You can't expect every flight attendant to know what the difference (visually) is between an iPhone and an iPod Touch is, let alone how to set every device to their equivalent "airplane mode."

Of all the rules I disagree with, this is the one that I understand the most.

> If they were actually that dangerous, we wouldn't be allowed to carry them on board.

My understanding (from a pilot friend of mine) that it is really about radio interference with the pilots' radios. Recall the older Edge (for ATT, whatever else for other providers) devices being put up near speakers and that sound made[0]. The rules are still there mainly to protect the pilots' ears from that noise and possibly dropping communication, though I don't know how possible that is. Yes, that isn't common place anymore now that radio frequencies have moved on but how is a flight attendant going to know the difference between an Edge device that causes interference and some 4G device that doesn't?

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0O1_FYzbjw
yeah, like bribes to doctors so they actually perform this cancer tumor surgery to my dad instead of asking him to wait in line for months more. Seen a doctor? Has a belly and a family. Needs money. Simple. But some idiots believe in "free". There is no free. You pay a ton of money for healthcare in any system.
Here is my guess.

This is not the first iteration of the computer simulation. They keep tuning the simulation until it produces better and better results. But are you getting better results because the simulation is right, or because it was implicitly fit to the historical data?

In machine learning terms, their training set and test set are the same, so odds are that the model is bunk.
OH MY GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS.
> I mean, Google Sheets is nice for many things, but to even try to replace Excel it needs to increase functionality tenfold - even LibreOffice isn't really there yet after all these years.

Excel is a moving target. Nothing is ever going to "replace" Excel by simply chasing after it and trying to do everything Excel does in the way most comfortable to existing Excel users. Anything that's going to succeed as an Excel replacement will do enough of what Excel does in a way convenient to existing users and offer some compelling features that Excel doesn't have.

And there are always going to be people complaining about any replacement not mimicking some feature in the way they'd most prefer; even after a replacement succeeds -- it happened with WordPerfect users complaining about Word long after Word displaced WordPerfect and acheived dominance.
Cute project. The fundamental problem remaining is that proper participation on Github seems to still require a web browser.

If you could figure out how to get the rest of its functionality working well on the command line (discussions, etc.) without resorting to unnavigable links sessions, then it'd be a still funkier achievement.

I'm surprised they haven't done this themselves, to be honest.
So I should delete my LinkedIn because YOU don't like it?

Uh... ok....let me get right on that