skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "often finding formal education diabolical"

TBH, as a self-educated developer, I perceive formal education as a premature optimization.

It's a fact that one needs to develop certain skills and gain insight from the knowledge that reflects the experience of expert people, but it's also a fact that one won't need everything the first moment after graduation.

I prefer to research and learn about something the moment I need it, than to be forced to learn it (and probably forget about it) some years in advance.

Anyway... The first skill you need to develop to become self-educated is self-confidence, because nobody is going to believe in you. I have been accused of being an idiot numerous times for dropping college...
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I think this is less of a deal than these journalists are making it.
blaming the poor countries for their poverty, because of "stupid policies" displays an overwhelming lack of historical knowledge.
They can be a bit like rubbery noodles if they're not thoroughly dried, or crispy like shredded cabbage if they are. I don't know if the edible ones don't sting or they do something to neutralize the stingers. (Jellyfish stingers are spring loaded and generally work quite well whether the jellyfish is alive or not.)
> In other words, he wasn't really betting on McCain winning

Actually, I was. I was betting that either I would hold the shares to completion and receive a full payout or enough information would emerge that McCain's odds of winning were higher than then estimated.

> The example of the McCain bets for the 2008 election is a case in point: if the author's bet would only have paid off on the actual outcome, he would have lost!

And you misunderstood the transactions in question. They weren't whether McCain would win the 2008 election, they were whether he would win the nomination. By the time I sold them, he had locked up dozens more delegates than necessary to guarantee his nomination, and my reason for selling was as stated: the contract was basically settled, I just wanted to avoid him keeling over and costing me my well-earned gains. As it happened, McCain did not die or quit, and so the contract paid out in full. I had been completely right, and was appropriately rewarded.
Followers, but that may just be a description for something different.

PS - Well said.
Yet you seriously haven't included any links to this easy to find research the we are at an all time acidification high in 300 million years?

Pretty sure the title might actually get it right unlike the actual article "Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years"

It is the rate of acidification, not the acidification itself that is high.
Silly, but a good way to avoid this would be not shutting down the government.
> but if InTrade drives even some of the news cycle, and if $100k can move the InTrade needle on a relevant issue, then blowing $100k on it is essentially advertising spend, an attempt at image-boosting.

True. Little enough good it did the Romney whale on election day, though: he handed $4m as a gift to all the other Intrade users, and it didn't move the needle anywhere.
Yeah its almost as if he has a track record of going against the evidence in favor of acting the iconoclast.
Fossil fuels are not a long-term energy solution in any case, so it makes more sense to attack the problem from that angle.

And I suspect the answer is that it's not cheaper. I'm unaware of any cheap, scalable, safe method of reducing CO2 levels. It's difficult to conceive of a practical solution to global warming that doesn't involve drastically reducing the ongoing CO2 output. How are you going to balance out 30+ billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year?
Is operating an encrypted email service a conspiracy?

You are doubtlessly right, though still fun to think about.

The law is (thankfully) not like code, and you can't always make a clever hack around the letter of it. When lawyers can, well, that' why they get paid well.
They don't, but judging from their messages on their homepage, they've gotten forbearance from their biggest creditors.
> In his post, loren went on to describe an environment where he was slowly pushed-out of the decision-making process. Where he went from being a passionately engaged team member to being a comfortably-paid code monkey. This was not just about getting bored -- his role in the company was changing, and his attempts to reverse the changes had little effect.

This is exactly what has just happened to me at my most recent startup. Great guys, but the fit I once had has no longer applied and I left. I'm pretty scared right now because I want to jump into consulting/freelance but I've never done it before, and I want to do that while I carefully evaluate the opportunities presented to me. I don't want to jump into another company quickly as a 27 yr old and ruin my future career by joining another mismatched company, but I also don't want to meander as a freelancer without developing a great reputation. I think it's time for me to put in that hard work, but I want to make sure I do it in the best manner possible. And I have no idea what I'm doing - I know code, I know design, but the politics of finding a great company and doing great work are a huge mystery to me.
Not true. My HS has at least one PhD teaching science courses there. Anecdotal, yeah, but so is "no one"...
thanks for sharing these, i know it will help a bunch of people in the future!
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The judge pointed out that jury didn't follow the guidelines. It seems that you didn't really follow the case.

Anyway, Samsung should invalidate these patents for good. Otherwise Apple will use them against someone else next time.
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I find assassination markets a fascinating concept: I wrote a short story about them ( http://www.gwern.net/fiction/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Towar... ) and pondered whether they might be a successor to Silk Road (http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#future-developments probably not).
Them: You can watch this (shitty) movie in exchange for your freedom.

You: Sure!

Me: No way!
They do, but extremely poorly. I criticize them in the OP:

> One might wonder why I don't use the fairly active [Bets of Bitcoin](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bets_of_Bitcoin) prediction market; that is because the payout rules are [insane](http://betsofbitco.in/help) and I have no idea how to translate the "total weighted bets" into actual probabilities. Betting blind is never a good idea.
The entire point of Lavabit was keeping communications secure. It was in fact designed to have the property that you and the government would have liked to "modify" away. The government's position was akin to telling Ford Motors to sell dangerous vehicles to bad people, and then after they refuse forcing them to sell dangerous vehicles to everybody. If you want to outlaw safe vehicles, do that in an open session of Congress. Search warrant proceedings are not the proper fora in which to legislate what sorts of online services are legal.

It's clear that we have different thresholds for the concept of evil.
Perhaps they'd be open to a collaboration where you add that functionality and then you use it to make docker (even more!) awesome.
Exactly...

What next? Send out internal emails saying "Hey, the company has just posted a new blog, but you don't need the actual link, instead just use the HackerNews one, or maybe this Reddit one..."
[I just realized that my comment may have appeared very harsh, specially from the authors' point of view. My apologies to them, I was _very happy_ to have a good GUI when I started working with databases]

@antihero : Seeing things does help, but in my experience, using scripts and the command line is faster for developpement, because a lot of code can be reused, which is not the case with clicks.

I was being too restrictive though, a lot can be done with a GUI, of course.
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But you're ignoring speculators. In a system like futarchy it's easy to imagine organizations whose sole purpose is to make money on information asymmetry. Wouldn't Goldman Sachs hop in to massively outbid the corn industry and make a lot of money in the process?
Thanks a lot, Mark!
> As for their utility, the predictions are about as accurate as any other prediction, which is usually completely worthless. Might work ok for the boring stuff, but show me evidence that prediction markets can forecast the next 9/11, the next iPhone, or the next Arab Spring.

See the IARPA geopolitical prediction contest, on exactly that sort of topic. I am an active participant in the GJP prediction market ( http://www.gwern.net/Prediction%20markets#iarpa-the-good-jud... ). The contest is not yet over, but there's already clear rankings of skill (contrary to what you say,most people cannot predict worth a damn) and IIRC, IARPA has said that the aggregate predictions from GJP & DAGGRE (more prediction markets) are better than its existing experts.
"Events like increased CO2 levels in the ocean should be seen as the way things are, rather than one-off catastrophes."

This is a false dichotomy. Just because these events have happened regularly, on geological time scales, doesn't mean that it wouldn't be a one-off catastrophe from the point of view of homo sapiens. I'm not saying an extinction event, but it could be a catastrophic event.

In other words, taking the long view here (as you're doing) is way too abstract in this case. There will be real costs to change of this magnitude.
I guess I don't understand what the problem with that would be.

Would that somehow lead to Hacker News or Facebook encrypting their site's source code with that DRM? I sort of doubt it. They could do that now with Flash if they wanted to, but no one thinks Flash websites are a good idea.
NASA interns lose their space. (Different kind of space).
Thanks for that useful comment -- much appreciated!

We might benefit from introducing some specialized vertical pages, and we'll provide some more color on who's doing the research work.

The part of the process that's masked is research and strategizing around likely customer sources, which varies significantly per business category. Users might definitely prefer to pay per lead, but that's much harder for us to model from a cost perspective – some users might be easy to target, others might be harder, and some might be impossible to uncover at all.
I think so, how could you sell a security service with a backdoor only for foreigners? Doesn't make sense from a technical point of view.

Also, it doesn't seem that he had a problem with warrants, just opening it for everyone at once.
I don't think a week-long project means a 40 hour project, as the author suggests. In my experience, a week-long audition project has been typically a 5-8 hour project, something I can knock out in a few evenings.

Additionally, it's always been a toy example, typically in the vein of "read some input from a file and do something with it". It can almost always be knocked out with the standard libraries for any given language.
In addition to the PLOS series of journals, there are also other modern open-access journals popping up like PeerJ (peerj.com) and elife (elife.elifesciences.org). Anyone can go on and download the papers, and usually the datasets used in the papers if you want to replicate their results.
There's idiomatic phrase/s in english. For example, the exception proves the rule. Not everybody is a somebody. etc. So the purpose of the phrase is not merely (self) evidentiary, but rhethorical. As I am sure you have surmised.
My understanding (from reading various articles) is that Mesos is very analogous to Google's original scheduler, Borg.
What's wrong with treating symptoms? If the alternative is treating the cause, then yes, treating the symptoms is foolish. But why do you expect the cause to be treatable in this case? We can't (and shouldn't) fix everyone's routine in granite for all of eternity. So that leaves us with the concrete good to be realized from treating the symptoms.

The "concrete good" in this case is saving babies. I find it very difficult to call that anything but a win.
This is similar to, although one step removed from, the anarcho-capitalist proposal in David Friedman's 1973 book The Machinery of Freedom [0]. In this proposed society, monopoly government is replaced completely by a market for everything that government currently does, including law production, law enforcement, arbitration (courts), roads and infrastructure, and even "national" defense. I'm admittedly a big fan of Friedman's proposal, and I wonder what supposed advantage this futarchy provides over Friedman's proposal. There's a decent 20 minutes illustrated summary video on YouTube [1].

[0] http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o
I'm wondering what the benefit is of opening these apps in full screen, without any browser capabilities? Why not just allow users the option to run any browser tab in full-screen, and separately allow adding web shortcuts in the home screen that open in browser.

These 'home screen web apps' will just complicate things for the average user, since now users will get a different UI depending on whether they are visiting the site from a browser, or using the same site from the home screen.
Socher thinks his model could reach upward of 95 percent accuracy, but it will never be completely perfect.

Ridiculous accuracy for something as complex as sentiment analysis. You don't hear established researchers say something like this often. Moving any number from 85% to 95% is the work of the gods.

I wonder if the code they release will include some version of the data from the mechnical turk project. Code for this is great and many people (myself included) will be able to learn a lot from it. But it won't have the same level of reproducibility without the data.

If they do release it they will effectively be giving away the money they spent on mechanical turk. 11,000 HITS ain't cheap and they probably had redundant sampling. If they decide to make this data public as well it would be a big win for research because labelled data is so important to machine learning work.

Open sourcing the code associated with a research paper is already a huge deal. It's great to see big name researchers like Andrew Ng pushing the trend for publishing code. If nothing else this is a great example for computer science papers going forward.
I break these all the time. Python Style Best Practices (PEP 8)
It's neither, I think. It's basically a way to get training data. The novel part is splitting sentences into phrases and asking about the sentiment of each part, which provides the algorithm richer data to train off.
I don't really understand what he's trying to say. He says:

> Your passion may at first carry you further than your peers. But, overtime you’ll find those peers of yours that were willing to put in the hard work and stick to one thing, as boring as it might have been for them, will overtake you.

and

> It doesn’t matter how brilliant you started out or how much faster you exited the gates than everyone else, those who consistently get up every morning and direct their energies along a single path, no matter how boring it may be, will eventually pass you on each of the many roads you haphazardly travel.

What does he mean by "overtake you"? In wealth? Specialised experience?

It sounds like he's just butthurt about having worked hard at things he didn't enjoy.
Peer review is receiving a bad review, no pun intended. Please remember that good journals exist, and insiders know good from bad. A bad acceptance from a heretofore-unknown journal with a seeming credible title is not indicative that all peer review is flawed or done by impatient baboons.

And I say this having had a terrible time getting a decent review in recent conferences. But my journal review process has been largely positive, helping to improve my paper significantly, even if they miss some things. Certainly, when I receive a paper to review, I and my colleagues give it our best shot, but we largely work only for the established upper-echelon in our field.
Shop around; http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=ocean+acidification+&b...
What I would do is build a crowd-sourced data set of what ingredients go well together and which ingredients people don't like together (rate it from 1 to 10, where 1 means these ingredients should never be used together to 10 means this is a heavenly combination). After lots of rating by many different people you could have a average quantitative score for each pair of ingredients.

You now have variation and can use a variety of predictive approaches
>This is in no way related to Hacker News

The vast majority of "show HN: my new disruptive pseudo-plagiarized wheel-reinventing RESTful scalable .js + go single-page site framework" or "_insert_valley_startup_here_ plans to revolutionize _trivial_consumer_SaaS_niche_" posts have little to do with actual hacking, either. Few complain about those.

Here we have a post that points out a massive systemic problem we're facing as a species for which we have no current solution. Pretty sure we're in hacker territory. Much more so than in the case of the Yet-Another-Web-Framework or Disruptive-Instagram-For- Squirrels crap we normally get on the front page.
Free Cash Flow, conceptually, is the total amount of cash you would have from the company's operations as a single owner of the company in a given year.

The importance of free cash flow lies in how capital investment (buying buildings, factories, or other companies, among other things) is treated.

When a company invests money, it doesn't count against the company's profit. It is just treated as one asset turning into another asset.

/BUT/, if a company is essentially /required/ to invest money in new capital to keep the business going (think capital intensive businesses like oil exploration), as an owner you have to budget that you'll need cash to invest in new things, reducing the amount that actually comes to you.

That hit doesn't show up in profit or revenue, but it does show up in free cash flow.
It only punishes users if it is badly implemented. I doubt many users of Steam or Netflix feel punished.
This article and the many others like it are missing the point. The purpose of the shutdown is not just to save money, it's also to force a break in the stalemate. In fact, I'd argue that breaking the stalemate is the primary purpose.

> That doesn’t seem to account for some of the weird patterns we see, however.

The author is overthinking it. The most likely scenario is that an official email went out to all webmasters with the message "Shut it down NOW, people. And then go home." The assorted webmasters then executed the shutdown with varying degrees of skill and diligence before heading off for a drink. Thus, some subdomains are still available, redirects are implemented inconsistently, etc.

Here's a list of agencies[1] exempt from the Antideficiency Act[2], a more interesting question would be: are any of those websites down?

[1] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34680.pdf (p13)

[2] http://www.gao.gov/legal/lawresources/antideficiencybackgrou...
I'm very curious now that I've seen that screenshot. Can you tell us roughly what the emails they sent where like? What kind of template, how much personalization, etc?
Amazon often operates at a break-even or loss yet investors sleep quite easy putting their money into AMZN stock.
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You may want to look at http://hiplead.com

At least for now, this is how their model works.
Thank you.

You might be interested to know that I write in such a style to obscure myself from style analyzing techniques. Not to hide the face of my persona from the likes of nsa bogeymen. My mother would die if she found out the extent of what I am going through. Good samaritans trying to help by telling her would only make it worse. I find the writing pretentious and sickening.

At the end of everything I write I am tempted to justify my phrasing and word choice. I am smart enough to know though that making yourself conspicuous only makes you suspicious in the eyes of of most people.

The people you need to worry about most are the ones you who do not appear on your radar. They are rats, you do not know they are in your midst until you find their shit in the morning.
...the next Silk Road creator is certainly out there, probably technically more astute and careful...

And almost as certainly: more experienced in the use of serious violence. The next guy won't be hiring hitters without introductions from fellow violent criminals. (Not that undercover cops have never been vouched for in such a manner, but it raises the stakes significantly.) Yay Drug War!
By an intern, nonetheless.
- "this is terrific. i'm baffled as to why google, msft, amzn, samsung and other device makers are not pushing harder to advance html5 and web apps as a way to attract more devs and eventually loosen apple's stranglehold on the app economy."

Which is kind of a stupid thing to say since the Iphone does exactly that since its first version ,you can install webapps on your home screen and run them fullscreen, even before allowing developpers to build native apps.

Developpers ASKED for native apps on the iphone.

Anyway , do you really think that all the brands you cited dont want to be exactly where Apple is ? they are not interested in "sharing" the app economy. They want all of it and destroy the competition,just like Apple.

- "yet minimizing barriers for devs to build, release, and test on a new platform would attract more devs and at least force apple's hand at maintaining web parity on ios devices."

It's like the TESSEL stuff all over again.

phone / embedded apps must have an higher engineering standard than desktop apps , because they run on limited hardware,with limited processing power and battery. if your iphone app takes to much memory the system will kill it , and rightfully so.

And mobile OS dont work the same way.

You want to program for the least common denominator ? that's what webapps are for, but I dont want a webapp to access my contacts.
While I definitely won't be using Visual Studio for web development (it just doesn't feel right to me), I wouldn't say Visual Studio is an awful product that should be avoided. Compared to VS 2005 (remember those days?), VS 2012 is far faster and much less of a pain to use. For anyone starting out with web development who has used VS before, it would probably work fine and suit their needs.

That is, unless your projects are giant. Then you might start running into a bit of unresponsiveness, but nothing worse than Sublime Text or comparable editors.
Ok. Just wanted to make sure you weren't getting caught up purely in how much you didn't like the new-hire work.
There is a serious ethical problem with submitting dummy papers in that it abuses the trust of the editors and reviewers. You are wasting the time of volunteer reviewers who have nothing to gain but plenty to lose if they screw up. Reviewers assume papers are submitted in good faith, and are not traps.

Editors have practice spotting cranks but trap papers don't have that smell about them since they are written by smart but naughty people trying to trick reviewers.