skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, that's definitely true, but if there's only 1 r and all assets return r, I'd say the bigger r is relative to g, the higher the wealth concentration as t increases.

most of this math is above me (differential equations and finite difference methods), but the models are pretty easy to experiment with if you employ Monte Carlo methods.

In fact, that would be a nice side project: Piketty web app where the user can mess with various permutations of r and g and their distributions.
My guess is the downvotes are largely based on your use of the word "cunt". (HN won't let me reply to your question about the downvotes, so I'm replying here.)
I was reading this intently to find an answer to the central question that was alleged and provable beyond reproach.
Did another developer "...rip out code" from the git repo due to personal issues?

Almost every thing else could devolve to he-said-she-said (or she-said-she-said in this case). However code commits (and subsequent reverts) are extensively tracked.

Assuming they can roughly pinpoint the time window involved I genuinely wonder how they conclusively proved that it did not happen.

If it were true, then that engineer should have been immediately terminated FOR CAUSE and sued in court. Also given the fact that he is still employed (and presumable just recently promoted) would have made GitHub look much worse. Regardless, it looks like that allegation was unsubstantiated,
Aspiring artists don't paint bowls of fruit because the world needs another painting of a bowl of fruit.

Let people practice and show off their evolving craft.
>- Founder allegations: sounds like they already came to the conclusion that TPW wasn't acting appropriately, so I'm not sure what the fact that it happened before adds to that.

This implies that this is an endemic behavior from tis person, and it would seem that she is an organizational cancer.

This would appear to me to be a super red-flag on her involvement in any company; ESPECIALLY given the fact that she appears to be branding herself as some sort of women-in-business-thought-leader....

From my outside, very ignorant view-point, she seems to be working exactly against what she claims to be leading in; she is an exceedingly poor example of how female business leaders should operate.

My personal opinion would be that she felt like she had some status/power and it just turned her into a horrible person where she thought that said power/status meant she could actt however she liked.
In case you're still checking this thread, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your efforts to educate and correct the record. I know a little about this area, and know enough to see you know more than I do. It's a sad, recent phenomenon of software engineers projecting the epistemic structure they deal with day-to-day onto the medical world.

(quick edit) It's profoundly sad to watch http://quantifiedself.com/2010/09/seth-roberts-on-arithmetic... all the way through as a result of this story. It's complicated... maybe it's a failure of medicine, of medical care delivery, education, etc but a room full of educated people laughing off the comments by that person warning of artherosclerosis/stroke and Robert's responses... it's just not a good sign.
What cost do conversions incur?
>Most problems are not trivially parallelizable
Numeric optimization can benefit from parallel line search, and threads using different initial points.
Matrix algebra benefits from more cores.
Sorting benefits from more cores.
Encryption benefits from more cores
(De)compression benefits from more cores.
A server handling simultaneous requests benefits from more cores.
Cracking hashes benefits from more cores
Computing merkle trees benefits from more cores
Flash banners in 20 tabs "benefits" from more cores
That's fine, but you can not be in favor of these laws and then condemn their direct consequences with righteous indignation. If you've got the one, you've got the other. If you have onerous regulation in some market, you'll be limited to a few large players that can master that regulation.
Yes, there are hard technical problems, but there always have been, and these have been solved when the incentive was there.

There is also three economic reasons:

1. Fabs that make chips are much more expensive now.

2. Intel has no real competition, AMD limps along.

3. Most desktop users are happy with their computer speed, many still run XP
It says in the post.

> The commit history, push log, and all issues and pull requests involving Julie and the accused engineer were reviewed. The investigation considered all possible commits surrounding the accusation of passive-aggressive code removal. One instance was found where the engineer updated and broke some CSS in an internal application, which was fixed in a later commit. The investigator determined this change did not appear malicious.

Sounds like they reviewed all commits by the accused person, and found nothing that fit the accusation.
You seem to be thinking of American capitalism as something other than "capitalism, as practiced in America."
Hey, thanks for the critiques, a lot of them I don't really have a good answer for. A lot of these issues are not fully clear in my head (I haven't really CPU design either besides very basic college level VHDL stuff), and I'm not familiar with all of the current (or even past) research. A lot of my opinions come from my somewhat nebulous experience in the industry, and a lot of that is just what I've picked up from talking with people that would know (and that I'd rather not get too into on a public forum). There's definitely some hand-waving in there too, trying to be provocative and idealist :)

I'm mostly a software/compiler guy, where I know there can be a whole lot of improvement (especially in mainstream tools, not just toy/research projects), but my impression is that hardware isn't much better off. You've given me some good pointers for further topics to research, though. My email is in my profile if you want to chat more about this stuff!
The only way it could probably handle other drivers breaking the law in that type of scenario is for it to be programmed to break the law in a similar manner, or to do nothing.

Which oddly enough, is often the same choices we are given as human drivers.

All the more reason to move everyone to driver-less cars that respect the law and the space of other vehicles on the road.
1. How the heck can you read that and say there was nothing to support her allegations? Did you read the same thing I just read?

2. Github suing her for defamation would be SO counter-productive, as it would make them look awful. Also, did you see the part where they apologized to her?

Are you sure you actually read the OP?

Clearly, their FIRST public announcement was written on the advice of lawyers or PR people, where they admitted as little as possible, in part not to give her 'ammunition' in court. But it made them look bad and weasely. So this is the one they released _even though_ it gives her some ammunition.
Not to mention that he probably owns over $200m worth of GitHub stock.
Sure there is! They provide good examples of what is not accepted here at HN so that bystanders know where the line is. Educating newcomers about what is acceptable is a very difficult thing to do in web communities, and examples (of both good and bad) are the best way.
Flag posts you think don't belong.
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No you are not, you are a journalist.

Also, If you do recruiting, you are not in tech. You are in recruiting. And so on.
Else tell me something technical about graph (a data structure) search vs linked list search.

Outcome: when a recruiter and a marketing person argue at a python tech conference, the tech conference is just a location of their argument. They are not tech.
I believe that's a good thing - I prefer a small api surface to a large one and I don't want to spend time digging through never ending functions to locate what I have to use.

For me, next to everything from Microsoft is an example for a horrible api, the one from Javas standard library is rather meh and Go is pretty much the greatest thing since bread came sliced.
"I sometimes wonder if they would have had a chance if I'd joined them."

Maybe if you joined as VP of Engineering or CTO. As an IC, all you're going to do is get dragged down with them, and go home pissed off every night.

I've been there. A company has no existing test infrastructure, it's all done by hand, and the build "system" are the binaries that come off a dev's machine? No problem! I'm you're man, I'll have you up and automated in a jiffy. Except that the reason there's no existing infrastructure now is because of general cluelessness, not for lack of expertise.

You need someone to hook the hoozit that I lightly touched last time I was there to your new whatzit? Yeah, I'll come in on a contract basis to get it sorted. My first clue should be that none of the other devs who know it better than I came to your rescue. No specs for the thing I'm supposed to integrate with, no documentation as to what it is you actually want, and a PM that sits and watches YouTube videos all day? Yeah, I should have guessed.

It's top-down, and if you're not at the top, you're not going to save them from themselves.
So these 3 million unemployed people can be evenly spread out over the economy, sharing in 3/40ths of the jobs of doctors, nurses, machinists, programmers, cleaners, gardeners, engineers, chefs, management consultants, inbiss cook and street sweepers?

And this can happen with less than a few percent friction cost?

Explaining why this will fail, let alone describing how it did indeed fail where it was tried is econ 101 material. As someone else pointed out, look up Lump of Labour fallacy.
I am with those saying this is a bad idea. Karma no longer shows on individual comments. I understand that was goal oriented and accomplished it's goal. Greying out of comments is a non-numerical signal of negative karma. It isn't intended as censorship. Nor should it be.

I tend to be controversial everywhere I go. It is not uncommon for me to get one downvote and then one corrective upvote. I know for a fact that there are forum members who practice corrective upvoting. I suspect a lot of the downvotes I get are from folks who personally dislike me, not really based on the quality of that comment per se.

If you turn negative karma on a comment into censorship instead of signal, you start moving towards a situation where groupthink gets way out of hand. It isn't healthy to completely silence minority opinions or other kinds of outlier communication. Intentionally creating an atmosphere where you kill the messenger and force people to be yes-men will harm the health of the forum (and of YC, indirectly) not improve the civility of the community.
That's funny, I have never had a job 9-17 in sweden during my 25 years of working life. First job was 6:48 - 16:00 (industry) or something odd like that. Next was 8:00-16:30.(university) Also worked 11-21 (store) and shorter other days at same job. Now I have pretty flexible times as long as I get together 40 hours per week.
Unless the guy was hyper-vigilant about reverting her code (as in, within a few seconds of her pushing her own commit), wouldn't that be a ridiculously noticeable way to do it? Other people would have pulled, and would find themselves inconsistent with the origin repo when they next went to push...

Not saying it's impossible, but it seems like it'd have generated some documentation if it happened, probably in the form of people sending out "WTF? Who's pushing history-changes???" emails.

Edited to add: Also, the article says they reviewed git push logs, which I imagine would catch this.
Ah, I see, that makes sense.
Non-disclosures are common in the EU and will usually include non-disparagement clauses. If you break it, you have to pay back the money, that's all.
If you agree that the current system of regulation is poor, and you wish to improve it, you must ask yourself whether the regulators have/will improve. There has been no paradigm shift in regulation for a long time, and there is no reason to believe that the same regulators (or even different ones) acting under the same incentives will come up with more efficient or effective regulations, though they may come up with more numerous or novel rules.
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I agree with you, too. For instance, it'll be a little sad if we're still writing MediaWiki macro markup in 2040. On the other hand, it's also probably smart to be wary of trendy designs, and Flipboard-like grids of story panels are very "on-trend" right now.
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Similarly, your rep on one StackExchange site doesn't follow you around to all the other sites, because it's not really relevant.
This is not simple issue at all. Who's at fault if anti-lock brakes don't work as expected? What about cruise control? The new cruise control that auto-follows? What about lane-following technology?

We are not going to jump directly to self-driving cars. There will be a dozen steps along the way. When does liability shift from the driver to something else? This is an interesting question for sure.
It's worth nothing that the connotation of that word is very different in the UK than it is in the US. So for UK people you should realize that it is completely beyond the pale in polite US conversation and for US people you should not assume someone from the UK using it meant it the same way someone from the US would.

I don't know about the other Anglophone countries, and of course I have no idea where coherentpony is from.
It's no surprise that, when left unchecked, teenagers (whose brains actually lack some capacity for empathy) would generate extremely un-empathetic content. And it is certainly not limited to children -- adults can be just as bad or worse.

This is a topic that has come up in different forms many times as the Internet has grown. One way to reign in the vitriol would be to force everyone to use their real names (see Google+'s 'real names' policy), but I don't feel this should ever be a requirement for participation in an online service. For the service itself to require it is one thing, but if the government ever tried to enforce this I'd consider it a human rights violation. (The debate over real names vs. pseudonymity vs. anonymity is a topic I could go into at much length).

In the case of Yik Yak, rather than shifting blame onto the app, I instead wonder how/why any parents would allow their children to freely install such apps on their phones. Sure, kids will be kids (and will always find covert ways of misbehaving), but there should be some form of supervision available for parents of smartphone users, don't you think?

I think Louis C.K. has a pretty smart perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c
why not (mostly) a mesh network made up of the individual cars themselves, with a few connecting to the actual internet and acting in a sense like mobile cell towers? the cars would probably vote on which one in a vicinity was going to be come the next "hub" based on some algorithm accounting for location of surrounding cards, location of its own access point, as well as info about its likely route & destination.

Why not let the cars can talk to eachother, and through eachother to the outside world?
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What hack?
The costs: allocating the memory, having it set to zero values and keeping the garbage collector a little busier. All of that more than once if you don't keep the conversions down.
Profile and disassemble your program, Go comes with pretty great tools!
Show HN: my first iOS App as a side project
relevant way.
I've started it as a side project to support the education my two little kids.
Learning Objective-C was tough but there are a lot of good tutorials on the web and iTunes U.
Hopefully my app will be useful for You.
Tamper Serialization Protocol (Go, Ruby, JS)
Does a product manager work in tech?
> You can't just rewrite git history without having everyone in on it.

umm...I've got something to tell you...
There's no real harm, except potentially to the up-and-coming designer, who is signaling something about their design process by writing something like this. Wikipedia has a lot of design constraints that other sites don't have. A big part of the job of being a professional designer is discovering and navigating design constraints. So when you pick Wikipedia as your "bucket list" portfolio spec design example, you might want to be careful that you're not communicating something about your process (specifically: obliviousness) that you don't mean to communicate.

Spec designs are fun to read and while I'm not a designer and have no business offering career advice to one, I'm happy to encourage people to keep doing them so I can keep reading and snipping at them. But there are safer targets to pick than Wikipedia.
Over the last 9 months I've studied iOS development and this is the result: an app which analyzes websites in their technical - most SEO relevant way.
I've started it as a side project to support the education my two little kids.
Learning Objective-C was tough but there are a lot of good tutorials on the web and iTunes U.
Hopefully my app will be useful for You.
Thanks for the informative insightful comment (and this is from someone who is no knee-jerk anti-government libertarian).
Someone wants a pay raise ....
I don't have a good one off the top of my head.

But you have to understand, school administrators are going to be under pressure to do something soon. Solutions like spamming such apps with spoilers aren't going satisfy them (IMO).

These situations are why crappy, overbearing laws get put in place by sixty-something year old politicians.
Using vulnerable wireless protocols, like every other "wireless" home security system.

Broken/jammed in 1 millisecond.
It's hard to put this very politely, but you're making a fool out of yourself now. Lump of Labour fallacy isn't crazy voodoo economics, it's incredibly well established. Read the Wikipedia article, then look through some of the references. Your concerns are amply addressed.
7.25 hours of work plus 1 hour of unpaid lunch and including 0.5 hours of paid breaks is the standard in the Canadian public sector. That is, 9:00 am to 5:15 pm, 7.25 hours of which are paid and 6.75 of which are spent working.
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Hmm, aspx. I think I see the problem...
It's worth noting that anyone on the whole Internet can write an essay like this in the WP project namespace. This particular essay probably comes closer to WP orthodoxy than many others do, but it's still not an "official" position of the project.
I always ask when I see questions like this:

What do you think should be on HN?

Why do you think this specific article should not be on HN?
Not the ones I have met.
uhhh no. no they don't, necessarily. I guess if your only definition of rape is the screaming sexual assault in an alleyway trope, of course you'd think that.
I just reread the guidelines. I am OK now.
Minority Report comes to mind. And, I, Robot (I think). That's just a few examples of stories in which futuristic cars are conveniently control-able by the police when necessary.
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A less organized version of #2 is available via http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar.
You said it perfectly. However, I would add that it seems to me that at first we give more credence to the accuser than the accused. The burden of proof in this situation is always with the accuser and the fact that she assumed people would believe her, and people have, is not something I respect. And being a male has no effect on my opinion. I have pissed off my friends and especially my family, father in particular, because I've always given the benefit of the doubt to the accused in similar situations. My father found it particularly annoying, rather extremely frustrating, that I wouldn't automatically support and accept anything he would say at face value against a business partner or relative or anyone. And my behavior is the same with friends and coworkers, much to their annoyance.

Back to point of Julie's complaints --- we're adults here and if there's a pattern of behavior from a coworker, then documentation is your best friend. In fact, that should be an automatic rule: any communication with colleagues in the workplace should be documented, either via email or chat, and kept short and to the point otherwise. If there exists a friendship between coworkers and there is fallout due to conflict, assuming there is no evidence, the accuser/accused should just let it go because that's what friends do. You can't demand professionalism when the principle hasn't been observed in the first place.

Being a man, woman, father, mother, doesn't absolve one's responsibility from presenting evidence for the truth, even if they have a history of being honest. More importantly, our attitudes towards the accused should initially be of giving benefit of the doubt.
Isn't this pretty much just an advertisement? How is this different from the usual numbers that lots of schools publish to attract new students?
Look, people who always post "why is this on Hacker News": There's no active moderator here, other than the community. So whatever makes it to the front page is decided by the users. If it is here and people are commenting, then it is where it is supposed to be. I understand longtime users who rant the it used to be more techmical/strict hacker stuff, but the user base has grown, and it seems people on Hacker News like what ends up on the front page of Hacker News. Go figure ;)
Go concurrency is great! but in a future a less rigid type system would help.
I love talking about business models (I run a bootcamp in SF helping people to visualize them), so I figured I'd chime in here...

>Eventually they’re going to run out of countries to enter, and that will be the end of Herbalife if they don’t figure out a more long-term, sustainable business model.

This statement is pure speculation. Why hasn't any of the same analysis been done on Groupon? I'm not sure why the article conflated the two stories of Groupon and Herbalife, when their data sets and underlying assumptions are clearly very different.

> You should be able to demonstrate sustained growth in a single market segment, whether it's a geographic region, a certain type of customer, or something else.

Isn't this why diversification exists? Why companies like GE, P&G, and now Google, have a massive portfolios of companies, as opposed to one single product that drives all growth? I'm having a hard time understanding what the takeaway is here...
No, you're not. I've reached out to her on Twitter for clarification, hoping for a response.
You could easily define an interface and write your red black tree once for all types, you'd just have to wrap basic types like int to conform if you want to add them (most often this sort of list is of a custom data type though). e.g.

https://github.com/petar/gollrb

So if you need a data structure like this, you can do it without much trouble without generics. Perhaps you don't feel that solution is as clean, but it's certainly pretty easy to do.

NB that golang has not ruled out generics, it's just not something they felt compelled to put in initially, and not many people who use the language miss them.
I once worked with a guy who gave a lot of "it depends" answers. (In fairness, he was the chief scientist, and there was a lot more of valid "it depends" than I wanted to recognize in the way microwaves interact with living tissue.)

One day a coworker and I asked him a question, and demanded that he give us a yes or no answer. He thought for a moment, and then replied: "Yes. However..."

[Edit: Fixed typo.]
Agreed. I'm going to play around and see what I can learn from it, but a small tutorial would help me get jump started as well. Whether it be the coding aspect, or just ideas on how to implement different animations.