skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly how survivorship bias, in particular, works:

"Survivorship bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that 'survived' some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of visibility." [Wiki]

Sam's saying that very successful companies tend to hit all of these points, in contrast to less successful or unsuccessful companies, which will miss one or more of them.

You don't need to take the post at face value, but if you're claiming this is a result of survivorship bias, then you're arguing that successful companies just happen to have these traits, and they don't actually help the companies succeed. I don't think that's true.
> The relevant sense of "common carrier" in this context is as a classification in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It's a detailed set of regulations applicable to telephone companies. Classifying ISPs as "common carriers" would not just implicate all of those regulations, but implicate one of the animating principles of phone service under the Telecom Act of 1996, which is universal service.

You are conflating two related but distinct issues, and then compounding that by badly confusing the issue of universal service. Of the conflated issues:

First, is requirements that define a common carrier, which the FCC can apply to entities designated as "telecommunications providers" under the Telecommunications Act but cannot apply to entities designated as "information service providers" under the Act, per the DC Circuit ruling recently, those requirements include things like the non-discrimination/non-blocking rules in the recent Open Internet Order. Designating a new category of "telecommunications service providers" (provided such designation survives any challenge -- there are definitions of what consistutes telecommunication service in the Act and the FCC would have to have reasonable grounds for this designation) allows the FCC to apply provisions that are essentially common carrier rules to entities in the newly defined category.

Second, is the particular regulations that the FCC has applied to particular classes of telecommunications providers, such as landline telephone providers. Designating a new class of telecommunications service providers would not automatically apply any existing regulations that the FCC has adopted for previously-defined classes of telecommunications providers to the newly identifed class.

Finally, universal service is not an "animating principle of phone service under the Telecom Act of 1996". Universal service was adopted for phone service in the Communications Act of 1934. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was notable in expanding the role of universal service to include "advanced telecommunication and information services". This expressly includes non-common carrier "information services" as well as common carrier "telecommunication services", so it is completely irrelevant tot he common carrier issue.

> "Common carrier" is also a classification for various services under common law, but that's not what the recent D.C. Circuit opinion was about.

Actually, applying the common law definition of "common carrier" to the particular regulations that the FCC adopted in the Open Internet Order to see if they conflicted with the Telecommunication Act's provision that common carrier rules could be applied only to "telecommunication service" providers and not "information service" providers (given the FCC's designation of ISPs as the latter rather than the former) was central to the DC Circuit decision.
Why Prioritized Feature Lists Can Be Poisonous
AOL Finds a Partner to Run Its Troubled Patch Division
Not sure what you mean. TRESOR prevents cold boot attacks. If your Linux OS is compromised, TRESOR wouldn't help you anyway. But that's not the point of it, either.
Nope. There are lots of much more interesting things in the article. That's just the one that jumped out at me as I read the first paragraph. And it's already got more screen space than it probably deserves. Onwards to other topics!
Leave, or never sign up? The thing about people is that they age. Someone who fell into the 18-24 category could very well be in the 25-34 category three years later (that category showed growth). While certainly not all of the people aged themselves out of the categories with the most negative growth, I'm left to wonder how many of them did. Say 1 million 16 year olds are now 19 year olds. With no new signups, this would leave 1 million fewer 13-17 year olds and 1 million more 18-24 year olds. In that same time frame, 2 million 23 year olds are now 26 year olds. This leaves a negative on the 13-17 category as well as a negative on the 18-24, but a positive on the 25-34 category.

Obviously my numbers are completely made up and hardly reflect reality. But as it stands, this is pretty meaningless data to draw the conclusion that 3 million teens have left Facebook. The only conclusion is that 3 million Facebook users are no longer teenage Facebook users (either no longer teenagers or no longer Facebook users). If teens are aging themselves out of the "teen" category and the younger generation isn't signing up to fill their place, that's not the same as "leaving" Facebook.
Except when the socket is vertical instead of horizontal.
Answering as a novice:

The whole point of ZFS is that if a bit gets flipped, it's corrected the next time the file is accessed. There's a scrub command that manually hits every file to check for integrity and you can schedule it through cron.

And I assume you can control the size of the snapshots, I haven't looked into it but it would be pretty silly if you couldn't. I have four 3TB drives in RAID-Z and I have 9TB to play with, same as RAID-5.
Seems like you can actually create a project on the left: https://www.monosnap.com/image/NEWTlovotIcjL5wqSYceVSFX2P7Bm...
Super excited about this. CTF2 was a ton a fun. I also enjoyed the t-shirt.
Please Don't Learn Category Theory (2013)
The problem with doing wifi weird bridge mode where you are on both networks leads to performance issues on busy networks because you are necessarily on the same channels.

It might be worth giving that up since then existing hardware is usable.
"Great founders are execution machines." That's a great summarizing quote.
You could also consider creating a B Corp,[0] which balances its duty to shareholders against a duty to also promote the common good. And there are examples VC-backed B Corps, such as Disconnect.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_corporation

[1] https://disconnect.me/#about
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> See my parent post. First you need a few billion dollars to buy some spectrum.

So that's the tragedy of the mobile computing revolution isn't it then? That communication tech is technically a free market but realistically is controlled by very few corporations with very deep pockets. I did not realize that this is how it was set up and now I am sad.
Cynical or not, it's suprisingly common. I started to notice those patterns of thinking after reading too much Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict". A good book, btw.
Hollywood + Silicon Valley =
MicroConf 2013 Videos
Forget provable - better/worse UX is not even quantifiable, it's a qualitative (often subjective) statement.
Awkward confession voice mail
"But... it doesn't. You ever hear about the hypothetical possibility of your atoms lining up and falling through the floor?"

A bad example; that's a very, very large sample space, such that deviations from mathematical perfection are irrelevant. They do exist, if you're precise enough (for instance, the universe is not modeled by perfectly continuous space), but I'm not inclined to argue them, because it's too easy to argue that they're irrelevant. So instead consider something more human-sized: Match a normal distribution to the height of human beings.

It works very well, except in real life, the probability of a negative-height human being is zero. This is not what the Gaussian model predicts.

Unfortunately, rather more science takes place in the second domain than the first.

"that's not what Taleb was talking about"

I'm quite aware. The fact that I commented on how I got something other than what I expected rather suggested that, I thought... The fact that this isn't precisely what Homunculiheaded said is also why I posted, rather than just upvoting....
Gumroad/coinbase partnership
Wouldn't it be nice to see gumroad allow sellers to accept bitcoin and work out a partnership with coinbase much like Overstock.com?
There is more going on in baseball than that. Similarly, there is more going on in software dev team management than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach_%28baseball%29
All points for working code, and let me confess ignorance up front right now.

Really my irk comes down to something along the lines of, "Well why not write it in Go or something? Why JS?" and thinking that the only really good answer to that is "Well, we really like JS."
The pessimist attributes success to external factors and failure to self.
The optimist attributes success to self and failure to external factors.

The reality is probably a little of both.
Thanks for the kind words. Making it simple isn't all that simple so glad that the effort pays off. :-)
Having the reputation of 'provocative' can become about being provocative more than being on point.
Distributed Rspec Tests
I think your overall argument might be correct, but 25% of a demographic slice is hardly a drop in the ocean.
Do they do the administrative hearing as well, or just submit your protest? Cause if they think they are going to have non-lawyers attend hearings on behalf of others, I think the CA Bar might have something to say about it.
So do lots of people that get ticketed anyway.
I am wondering if you have a lot invested in concepts and techniques that Mr Taleb is suggesting are broken. There is certainly a tone of defensiveness about your post.

I think it is still unexplained why the financial community is sticking to things that are known to be broken. It is like trying to use newtonian mechanics to describe chaotic phenomena. Standard deviation does not properly describe fractal stuff.

Feels like the industry is looking for the lost set of keys on a dark street, not where they were last seen but rather under the lamptpost, cause that is where the light is.
100%.

Australia wasn't going to send troops into the illegal Iraq war... then they did and within a couple of weeks signed never-before-seen trade deals with the US that were extremely good for the Australian economy.

When asked if he was pressured into making that decision or lose all trade with the US, the Prime Minster looked straight at the camera with a "what was I going to do" expression, and said nothing.
I've seen this idea before, and it is common in the trucking/delivery business. Cops/meter maids/etc take advantage over delivery trucks who park in front of businesses to quickly load and unload merchandise, especially in large cities.

I know a few people who work at such companies, and they all have some sort of subscription service with a third party that handles all these parking tickets for them. If they lose, they pay the ticket, nothing else. If the company wins, they pay a percentage of what the ticket was.

To give you an idea of what type of advantage cops take over these drivers.. There are a few streets in NYC that a friend's company makes deliveries to. The cops know the delivery schedules, are make sure to be there on time, dropping off the ticket pretty much as the vehicle parks. One of the drivers confronted the ticketing cop once, only to be shrugged off with: "What do you care? You're not the one paying for it."

I'm glad to see this come as a service to the general public. There's some hope that with enough people fighting bogus tickets, someone will eventually get the message and stop handing them out so casually.
Here’s the problem: what AT&T is doing does not violate any technical definition of net neutrality, unless we ad hoc append new parts to it.

This is the core problem of net neutrality arguments, which it is often defined as ‘I know it when I see it’. It amounts to principles, but if we are going to have an enforceable law, we need to do better than that.

AT&T is not offering any priority to any bits here. Nothing is being blocked or degraded. Content providers who pay for sponsored data do not get faster bits nor do they slow down anyone else’s.

It’s free shipping: http://clipperhouse.com/2008/06/03/the-long-game-on-metered-...

Now, I can understand objecting to it on its merits, and Fred is making that argument, which is great. And I can understand why it feels like a violation of net neutrality, but we need to do better than feelings.

Here’s how we test whether we’re defining net neutrality ad hoc: show me a clear, specific, widely accepted definition of net neutrality that describes AT&T’s behavior here, and that existed before this behavior was publicized.
It does make me wonder, what things have I said about somebody's creation and then have them come along and see it

I passingly wrote some disparaging remarks in a github issue about the ES6 binary data strawman spec written by Dave Herman, pretty much out of my own ignorance, only to get a message from him a few months later asking for feedback on it and what I thought was wrong.

By this point I had learned more about the topic and reading the spec language and knew enough to know I had just been an idiot. I ashamedly responded with an apology and basically told him that my criticism could be ignored because it came from my lack of understanding and not a real problem with the spec.
Let people decide. If they want antibiotics: sell it to them.
This is cool, but I wonder if compiled C# code will be too branchy to run fast on the GPU. So many bounds checks, exceptions, ...
Myanmar is going to be amazing if the elections in 2015 go well. I visited in November 2013 and would love to figure something out there.
What OS/platforms does your product support? is it web-based? couldn't find these answers on the site. thanks
Doesn't appear to be current.
Why rampant video game sales are bad for players
Erlang Special Processes without behaviours
What do you mean by new algorithms? The post mentions Raft and Paxos. Only Raft is new. And Sebastian Kanthak said during his Google Spanner talk:

"Our Paxos implementation is closer to Raft algorithm than to what you'd read in Paxos paper which is… horrible."

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spanner-distributed-googl...
Facebook wasn't painkiller.
If we're going with physical attributes.

I would add - Don't mind not sleeping.
In fact, Facebook would not move on to a new campus unless they have made enough money to buy the new servers that they would need to move there. The worst thing that movie did was misrepresented how scrappy early Facebook was.
The final uninsured cost being closer to $100 :(
Nah, nothing is better than the lawdingo.com.
that's great. i don't really love thermostats that much:)
How Blogging Kickstarted My Career
Twisted is (would have been) a better choice because it is (was) already done. (And done really really well.)

To me it feels like people are busily (and happily) rewriting a lot of stuff in JS that might just be written better in some other language (Go) or have already been written (Erlang)

I actually like JS (Thank you Crockford) but it was startling to see it show up on the server side, and downright alarming to see so many people go apeshit over it.)
Nice, I wonder if the second order effect of having a lot of tickets contested will feedback into the people writing them. Since it costs the system more to process a contested ticket, it is a loss for them to write them if they know they won't hold up.
Much more interesting? Mathematically more interesting!
In fairness, are you sure they should be parking there if it's not a loading zone? I once was stuck behind a truck that refused to move on a one-lane street for 20 minutes while he insisted on unloading, backing up traffic 3 blocks down the street.
Finally someone has the courage to tell the Truth about CT.

Next up: the idea that the notions of Monad, Functor, and Category (in whatever guise) are even needed or helpful to do strong FP.
Sorry, I was using the term exponentially to mean "a huge increase" in the same way people tend to abuse the term "literally" when they really mean "figuratively." Our math PhD on our data science team just gave me a thorough scolding. You'd like him. www.gumroad.com/jobs
But on the other hand he skipped going to a doctor and maybe paying for the privilege.

I think he should have right to bet on it. Most times he will win.

I think that most limitations on sale of medications are bad for people and should be lifted.

I'm also not so sure that people doctors are so good.

I fail to understand how commanding people what to do with their own body is suddently okay when it comes to medicine.
Thank you for mentioning B Corporations. If Isaac is trying to decide between a non-profit and a C Corp, then a B Corp could be the perfect compromise. And as I posted on another thread, there are examples of B Corps raising A rounds.
That seems pretty out of date. I only follow btrfs lightly but at least the RAIDZ and send/receive points are wrong. Current btrfs supports those.
Oh, wow, author of that library here, thanks for posting this! I originally intended it to be a little fun experiment, but if there's real interest, then I can certainly clean it up and make it usable.

Last night I changed it to not depend on llc.exe and instead use the llvm api (had to compile llvm-3.4... that was not fun), which was one of the biggest roadblocks I foresaw with respect to redistributability.
I think your analysis is the right way to look at it. Given how hard it is to actually leave Facebook, what this statistic probably means is "3 million fewer 13-year-olds joined Facebook than the number of 17-year-old Facebook users last year.

It does show that Facebook's demographics are skewing older. But I believe it's because their population is aging, not that existing users are leaving.
No, because people are idiots and have no concept of how overuse of antibiotics reduces their utility.

People, as a whole and on average, are terrible at judging long-term costs and overuse.

Now, if the product was priced to properly reflect negative externalities of use and abuse, maybe. But, that's not going to happen.
> and the MAD is more intuitive, it has a natural geometrical interpretation

It's less intuitive, not more intuitive, at least for me. And the standard deviation definitely has a more geometric interpretation than MAD. If you measure a hundred samples, and you want to figure out how much they differ from the expected values, what could be more intuitive than Euclidean distance? But most people never bother to try and extend their intuition about ℝ^3 to ℝ^100 to realize how simple standard deviation truly is.

What is being advocated here is the use of the L_1 norm (MAD) over the familiar L_2 norm (standard deviation). Everybody knows and understands L_2, and L_2 has a lot of desirable properties.
I'd be excited about this if instead of just sticking you with a reduced fine, they actually went after the city for the costs of defending against the errant ticket.
No, there is a good way to argue it: it is provable that there is no improvement.

That is exactly what's wrong with this industry: it convinces people that something entirely provable and quantifiable by math and physics, is in fact unmeasurable and qualitative. It's not limited to "audiophile" nonsense of course - there's all sorts of herbal remedies flooding shelves at your local store which rely on this non-exist fuzziness.

Most buyers are probably very satisfied, but I'm sure if it were a painkiller they were buying, they would be horrified to learn later that it was just sugar. The difference is that in "audiophile" nonsense land, the manufacturers would still be openly advertising it as containing sugar.
I didn't say new algorithms, but I see how my wording was weird.
This is exactly why metric is so powerful: I also have no inherent concept of a deciliter or decagram, but I can convert to my understood liter and kilogram in moments.
Kind of disappointing this wasn't more about the technical direction. Really feel the title is misleading and should have been something about leadership/people change so I would have known not to bother reading it.
A few years ago, I parked my car on the street in Nob Hill. Thursday night I verified that it was legally parked. I got a phone call from my roommate the next day saying they were about to tow my car. I rushed home from work. While I was at work, they put up a temporary 'no parking' sign and were prepared to tow less than 24 hours later. That was the straw the convinced me 'I could get towed in SF even if I do every thing right.'

This prompted me to sell my car within a month and switch to ZipCar.
Um, as long as you're asking ME what to do...

Node.js should vanish (except for where it is already deployed and useful, in maintenance/legacy mode) and all those really smart and talented people currently wasting their time on it should go build something even better and more useful.

There. How's that? ;-)

(Like this: http://swannodette.github.io/)
The Kernel is calling a zero(day) pointer
If people are getting out of tickets for things like "the street isn't steep enough to warrant the curbing ordinance", then they were obeying the traffic laws, too.
A challenge that involves creating a small app in just an hour or two, with tight guidelines to follow? Sure it's doable, but this says to me - I'm not looking for someone creative. I just need a code monkey that can follow instructions.
On LGA1150 you need a C22x chipset for ECC support: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/server-chips...

Prices for these start about 3x higher than other boards, their choice is extremely limited, and availability even more so :/
Thank you for your references. I remember that a lot of people complained about Java is too slow since it's an interpret language, as apposed to compilation language like C/C++ which executes the machine code fast. So a hardware JVM interpreter makes a lot more sense.

Somehow, Sun aborted that plan, but the JIT became farter now. But I still don't get it why it has anything to do the AMD's new APU?