skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand, but at this point you'd expect some sort of intelligent flow in the platform. You definitely wouldn't expect to have an adversarial relationship with it, which is exactly what happens when they take advantage of your trust in their UX. Why would "+connect" imply sending email invitations? If they re-purpose terminology they should be very clear about it, to the point where it's understood. I'm not shooting down the concept or the content, but it becomes immediately clear where they're coming from, to their detriment.
You joke, but it's true. In general you shouldn't hire people until the company is already successful, i.e. people want what you're building faster than you can build it. If you do, you introduce a whole lot of other problems (having to pay them, having to convince them to pivot when you realize you're not succeeding, having to communicate the new company vision to them, having to keep them from getting disenchanted and bringing morale down) that you wouldn't have to deal with if you just didn't hire them in the first place.

I've found the biggest cause of failure of software projects (in general, not just startups) is staffing up too quickly. You really want to know what you're doing and have some idea how you'll get there before you bring other people on board.
Regardless, this means the article is correct, right? By reading both tracks, Square can verify the correctness of the number it read. It doesn't matter what the "encoding" is: the number exists on both tracks. What is your complaint then?
I get the impression Lisp tended to be taught awfully, uninspiringly. Maybe even worse than other programming languages. Cheating sounds like a reasonable response to such a farce of "education"; sad to hear when exposure to Lisp is a soul-crushing experience.

I've seen a few old AI books where Lisp code is formatted unreadably. I wonder why.
'false equivalence'. Equivocation means something else
I will always use "her" in reference to Pvt. Manning, but for historical accuracy, I try to split it between Bradley/Chelsea since it is usually more clear to the person I am talking to when doing so. I mean no disrespect.
Does not degrade.
How would this stack up against something like Manager.io (http://www.manager.io/) which provides the same functionality and more for free?
Not liking your job != exploitation. There are plenty of people out there working shit jobs to pay off debts or a support a family, even though if they have a choice they'd be drinking daiquiris on Aruba, but that does not make them "modern slaves".
And a follow up question, what would an example of a brain over fitting something it learned?
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Turbo Pascal man, the MEMORIES!!
The content of most of these comments should be unacceptable in any community.
sivers your work is some of the truly best.

I'm so sorry for your loss, I've never lost a close friend so I have no idea what you are going through, but obviously if there is anything we can do to help just put out the word.
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In the U.S., lots of tax advantaged accounts have withdrawal penalties.

(I guess the notable exception is that contributions to a Roth IRA can be withdrawn with no penalty. Earnings would all face the penalty)
Riding bikes is super dangerous

Without some pretty sophisticated data, I'm not sure this is true. About 30,000 people die in car accidents every year, which I wrote more about here: http://blog.seliger.com/2013/11/10/foundations-give-away-fiv... . I don't know how many died on bikes or how many miles people bike versus how many they drive.

But car accidents are so common that even deaths often don't register on the news.

There's also an interesting question about the effects of biking and other exercise on health; riding may have salutary health benefits that driving doesn't. I don't know of any studies that examine such effects but would be happy to see any studies on the issue.
False flag operations are the bread and butter of conspiracy theorists, and I'd like to show this list to some I know...

This may not be an ideal list, but it describes things that actually occurred. The false-flags that involved the US are the exceptions that prove the rule. You can see how far these proposals typically get in the US government.
Sad to say, this is one of the disadvantages of Social Media... But for me, a true and strong friendship can't be screwed up by just this.
Ya, it's a ridiculous example but I'm just pointing out the difficulty of codifying vigilantism into law. If illegally killing people who double park is not appropriate, is stealing their TV appropriate? Is hacking their email account appropriate? Who can appropriately be a vigilante? Is it appropriate for a victim who suffered physical injuries? Is it appropriate for a victim who felt offended? Is it appropriate for an eye witness? Is it appropriate for someone who saw it online?
Yes, the muni is not as good as in Tokyo, Hong Kong or London, but so what?

Here's the problem in a nutshell.

Google & co. did not ask anybody before they started using the public Muni stops. I repeat, they did not ask anybody, they just did it.

The problem has become so big that the city is now forced to consider a pilot program where Google & co. pay for use of some of the muni stops.

If you or I started running a private shuttle service which made use of public Muni stops we would have been not only ticketed but prosecuted.

Basically, Google and other large corporations are bullying the city. This is the real issue.
You make a good point. It's easy for me to criticize Bitcoin from the standpoint of assuming it is the official currency of some country, or the world's only currency.

However, in so doing I am unintentionally ignoring the much more relevant and likely possibility: that Bitcoin doesn't take over the world, but is simply so easy and useful for the cases you described that it "just" becomes the "Internet's currency".

This softens my criticisms of how a deflationary currency carries risks, since in this scenario Bitcoin is continually being converted to and from other currencies.
Or is it the other way around... the harmed (abused, psychologically dysfunctional) who find themselves unable to operate within normal societal bounds, start to "get creative" about their work options?

No wonder, then, that such folks find themselves hurt by the work or perhaps drawn deeper into the vortex to earn a better income; they were already unable to pursue more typical paths.
People that are actually wealthy love this kind of misinformation. If they can get the society focused on hitting people that happen to have an upper-middle-class income hard, it takes the heat off of people that are actually wealthy. Screw people with incomes trying to get ahead, but keep capital gains tax low to favor the wealthy.
Median household income in SF in 2011 was $72,947. That is a good deal more than 50k, but far less than 100k.

Now imagine the household isn't one 20-something person, but two adults, closer to middle-aged, with a kid or two. 2.3 people per household in 2011 in SF.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html
Relax. You're going to have much bigger problems if you're that fragile.

I disagree with the content and the tone of the parent comment, but I like to see the debate and it's an interesting perspective.
This is an equally strong argument for teaching plumbing or woodworking.
I always want to be able to respond with an actual answer if someone asks me "Do you know 'x', you are connected with her/him on LinkedIn". Otherwise, it's really just a waste of both of our times since I think improving your connections with the people that you know somewhat well is the true key to using LinkedIn well. That connection could be as simple as
"I met them briefly at a conference", but it can't be non-existent.
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What echo chamber?

Even better: in what way(s) is/are there not enough coders in America?
This is the first time I've ever heard any criticism for redis. As far as I know, everyone loves it, it's a great tool for many jobs and it's amazingly written and solid to boot. I think many of the critics are trying to apply it in ways it wasn't meant to be used.

As far as I know, its main purpose is non-critical data that needs to be accessed as quickly as possible in various different ways, and that's where redis shines.
With a comparable cost of living? Over a comparable area?

It's perfectly possible that's the case, but "$/capita" doesn't make the case on its own...
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When they're synced you mean? no Google can't retrieve them they are encrypted. Also nothing can be retrieved from Chrome remotely, it's a fortress: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/whitep...

It is the most secure browser, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Go in Production? Streak (YC S11) hiring Go engineers
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We’re building a product that people love to use. Even though we sell to “businesses”, we aren’t an enterprise company - we’re a technology company maniacally focused on a great product. Companies (that you’ve definitely heard of) use Streak everyday to make their teams more effective.

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I didn't realize it was real people, I always thought it was some "AI" with loops, kind of like that viral burger king campaign with the chicken.
Depends on who the "you" here is. Our schools do a mediocre job of teaching those things (especially finances), many families do a great job of it, and many families do a poor job of it.
This is a messy topic. If you take two liberal/secular/progressive moral atoms -- "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with selling sex" and "sexual coersion is always wrong" -- you immediately arrive at a conundrum. How do you have legalized prostitution without allowing for sexual coersion? Even regulated, people will still enter into the trade who are being coerced by circumstance: starving children, foreclosure, medical expenses... just because someone finds some things worse than sex work does not mean they truly find it acceptable.

(You can have other discussions about whether people should be coerced into selling shoes, but I think sex is special enough to warrant its own discussion.)

ETA: by 'starving children', I meant if your children are starving, you might 'voluntarily' enter the sex trade yourself to feed them. Constraining the discussion to consenting adults.
> Redis is probably the only top-used database system developed mostly by a single individual currently

isn't SQLite pretty much just Richard Hipp?
Interesting. From Wikipedia:

> The Associated Press reported that Ichiro's contract extension defers $25 million of the $90 million at 5.5% interest until after his retirement, with payments through 2032

If he retires at the end of next year, he'll make that money over 18 years. If he made it all at once, today, he'd pay about 9.8 million of that 25 in taxes (just punching things into a naive tax calculator; I'm sure his accountants would improve things. OTOH, it's also slightly low because it puts him in a lower tax bracket for the first 400K, which he doesn't get because of the other income he has). Ignoring the interest for a moment, splitting 25 million over 18 years he pays a total of 8.9 million. So he saves a million dollars doing it this way. Not bad.

With the interest, he'd get paid more; it looks like 1.8 million per year for 18 years, so 32.4 million instead of 25. That's a bit of a raw deal if he has to pay that as regular income tax, since if he got the money now and put it in the market, it would perform about as well, but would get taxed at a capital gains rate.

All in all, I suspect this is a compromise with the Mariners to alleviate cash flow and luxury tax pressure more than it's a shrewd tax move.
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This is awesome news for our startup! Should bring in more traffic :)
My condolences.

I agree that life is short, but I think you deserve the time to tinker with your laptop (or similar). You were enjoying it or you probably wouldn't be doing it. It's like solving a puzzle, it's worthwhile.

That said, I would (selfishly) love to read more writings. Thanks.
Maybe the BSSID. Similarly identifiable, different layer.
Yes, yes and yes.

Google & co. did not ask anybody before they started using the public Muni stops. They just used them. To hell with regulations, traffic laws, and the city of San Francisco.

Google & co. are bullying the city. This is the real issue.
Sorry for your loss. I used to ride my bike everywhere when I was in my late teens; these days I can't imagine doing that. All it takes is one distracted driver to cause terrible loss.
I am curious what he thought of Google Docs. I agree that it seems very similar to the kind of collaboration he envisioned.
Would these people rather the Google employees all drive personal vehicles, increasing wear and tear on the roads, congestion, pollution, etc., costing the city money?

In fact (reasonably sized) private vehicles create very little wear and tear on the roads, where heavy vehicles like trucks and buses create a lot. So much that in many cities the roads at bus stops are specially re-enforced, surely at some not-insignificant cost.

Regardless, as others have pointed out, using the public bus stops is illegal, it can interfere with official transit operations, and it even generates citizen complaints. Which can't be followed up on because the charter bus companies don't identify themselves. Surprise, the companies doing this are not paying permit fees to do their illegal activities.

http://www.metro-magazine.com/channel/motorcoach/article/sto...

I agree that more shuttles and fewer cars would almost certainly be a good thing all around, but should the charter bus companies be allowed to break the law with impunity, just because we all think the end goal is a good idea?
I don't think so, it's Bitcoin's remittance potential starting to be realised. Converting BTC to local currency straight away is probably more profitable than just taking currency via traditional channels, there's a lot of fees and middle men involved in that process. Bitcoin helps reduce them.
Wonder if there's a way to modify your host file and capture it similarly.
Even worse are pehaps pop-stars. Rappers in particular strike me as very prone to this. Its hard to create hit<album<multi platnum and then repeat. But if you don't repeat, you just average. And if you get rich quick, the tax hit is big. And the denominator grows by all those years you don't have breakout success...
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This is only true if you use the simplest Bitcoin transaction.

However, Bitcoin supports programmable m-of-n transactions, which enable highly nuanced levels of risk hedging.

I suspect that it is only a matter of time before Silicon Valley (and elsewhere) innovators realize this and start providing smooth "select your desired level of risk" services.
The anger is that I'm ashamed to be associated with most people in the tech community lately, wherever I can live, and that so many people who just moved to the bay area think they know so much about how they are obviously not impacting it negatively.

People are becoming bigoted against tech folks and it's not a healthy change for this community, but I can't blame them, and frankly most of the time lately I don't want anything to do with people on either side of the polarized debate.

But the discussion is about how Google and whoever are "solving problems" that would be created by people driving private vehicles when in fact they are commonly recruiting people to work in Mountain View by dangling the ability to live in SF in front of them, which is damaging to the entire community as a whole, from Mountain View to SF to Oakland to Berkeley to wherever.

Also I do not live in SF, FYI, I used to, until my own fucking industry priced me out, simultaneously making it impossible to run a small business here providing tech services as I did for many years.

I came to SF to have it change me, but so many people are intent upon changing it, with complete disregard for how the tech industry left the city a husk after the dot-bomb.

I learned a lot of tough lessons about what makes SF SF and how to play harmoniously with that and most people are just spewing entitlement about how it doesn't matter that they are PERMANENTLY driving the cost of living up due to their TEMPORARY ability to make more money.

The truth is that real estate speculators are profiting off people on both sides of the debate.

People are paying twice the rent that would have been paid a few years ago and in many cases not getting better services.

I just don't feel sorry for a few people who got stuck on a bus. Protests are about showing that you can't change business as usual without interfering in it.
Muni buses now have cameras and there is a team which looks through all the footage spotting violations, even parking violations, and then they issue tickets.

The city should have enforced the traffic laws right from the start and not allowed these corporate shuttles to fester and develop into a now much bigger problem.
Charles Hugh Smith does a quick calculation and comes up with an income of $111k to have what the middle class of the last generation took for granted:

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-does-it-ta...
I'm curious as to what the point you are trying to make is.
Good to see Bayesian model selection get a mention. Bayesian model averaging is pretty interesting, too, in that it comes, in a sense, with built-in protection against overfitting.

I still think there is something quite fundamental, though, about validation sets and other related resampling-based methods for estimating generalisation performance (cross-validation, bootstrap, jackknife and so on).

The built-in picture you get about predictive performance from Bayesian methods comes with strong caveats -- "IF you believe in your model and your priors over its parameters, THEN this is what you should expect". Adding extra layers of hyperparameters and doing model selection or averaging over them might sometimes make things less sensitive to your assumptions, but it doesn't make this problem go away; anything the method tells you is dependent on its strong assumptions about the generative mechanism.

Most sensible people don't believe their models are true ("all models are false, some models are useful"), and don't really fully trust a method, fancy Bayesian methods included, until they've seen how well it does on held-out data. So then it comes back to the fundamentals -- non-parametric methods for estimating generalisation performance which make as few assumptions as possible about the data and the model they're evaluating.

Cross-validation isn't the only one of these, and perhaps not the best, but it's certainly one of the simplest. One thing people do forget about it is that it does make at least one basic assumption about your data -- independence -- which is often not true and can be pretty disastrous if you're dealing with (e.g.) time-series data.
The irony about your very valid benefits of having basic programming knowledge is that music programs, which have been proven to provide benefits in math and language and just general smartyhood, are the first to get their budgets cut in any given budget battle. That said, how many working people have ever had to face the problem of getting a list of filenames into an email?

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits... (not my favorite source, but there are plenty of pointers to this data out there)
I agree with this quote, but "microspecialization" is the appropriate response. You might specialize on Tuesdays by one skillset, and specialize on Wednesday by another.

I think the following assertion adds a significantly interesting context to this entire debate[0]:

All programming is Web programming.

Basically, our daily lives depend on the Web. If you do not understand the [process] of what constitutes the Web, you will be utterly mystified and frightened by it. You don't need to know how to change a tire in a practical sense, but if you cannot understand it conceptually...

For example, bank hacks and e-mail hacks. Do you need to understand how to code to change your password? Surely not. Do you need to know how to code in order to change your password in a relevant way? Probably. And doing that involves knowing how to code, in that one learns something minimally about a very interesting concept: abstract dictionaries.

[0]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...
Big fan of your writing. Please do write and sorry for your loss. Recently I have been trying to grasp the absurdity of life and I think truly realizing that, is a really worthwhile effort. How crazy it is that there is little blue planet floating in space around a star that is one of 100 billion billion stars and we are living on it without giving it a second thought in our day to day activities.
It's Google's fault because they did not get permission first before using public Muni stops to pick up and drop off passengers. Anybody else doing it would be ticketed and prosecuted for repeat violations.

To anybody who wants to defend Google, think about this - what next? Maybe Google should buy up whole city blocks, demolish them, and build residential apartments for their employees? To hell with eviction laws, zoning laws, right?
This looks like a tier A dashboard.
Well just imagine how poor you would feel with just the median household income of 50k (2011 US Census) or worse and you were the bottom 20% making <=25k.

What's your point?

Sounds like you're basically saying, I'm lucky to be making this much. Of course, I know that. Yes, I'm extremely fortunate, compared to someone making $25K or less.

I'm also lucky compared to a paraplegic or a quadriplegic person, or someone dying of cancer. So what?

My point is, $100K doesn't go as far as one would think, when supporting a family and living in a big city on the East Coast. It barely meets expenses, and designating this level of income as "wealthy" or "rich" is a ridiculously dated notion.
This curriculum sounds really cool!

Be sure to post your progress to HN!
So to restate, over 3 months of financial crisis so severe that much of the financial industry either went bankrupt or was nationalized, EUR/USD fluctuated by 20% in 3 months.

In comparison, BTC/USD fluctuated by 40% in 3 days, because of a single policy decision by a government halfway around the world.

BTC is not stable.
I'd like to tack on that it's pretty cool that you can also delete individual points and entire days of data.

I like this much better than what data my wireless service provider probably has on me. At least with this I know what Google has on me, and I have some control over it.
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