skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unfortunately for them the IRS accounts for this hack, and if an IRS audit finds the salary isn't reasonable then those amounts will be subject to payroll, social security, medicare, potentially higher income tax, and moving forward affordable care act taxes plus penalties and interest. "

My experience over time with many business people has shown that since we are not talking about a criminal action but an action that will result in only penalties, interest etc. it is probably a chance worth taking.

This is a frequent occurrence in business in other areas. You have to take your chances and you determine the chances that you take by looking at your comfort level (which is different for everyone) with the potential downside and probability of that downside happening.
Valencia Linux school distro saves 36 million euro
Your offer is to build an MVP and I guess it's reasonable to assume that further development of the application happens without you. Sure, an MVP is an MVP but that doesn't mean it has to be thrown away.

You're using your own "mini framework" which I don't think is fair to your clients. Anyone coming in after you will have to work with this "mini framework" regardless of how good or bad it is. There are so many well constructed and documented frameworks out there (+community) for PHP already available that it's almost a crime not to make use of them.

If you build an MVP with a popular framework, e.g. Symfony or Laravel, then this can be used as a feature in selling your service in that your clients will not be stuck with some undocumented bespoke framework but instead they can hire a developer who already has expertise with the framework.
Let them sell what you already have. Why do they need to invent fake products to close a sale?
Someone needs to cross-correlate this with bedbug reports.
I'm not sure that's the distinction I'd use. To me, it seems more to be a matter of the kind and amount of training data you have.

If you have a ton of labeled data (either for the exact task you're doing, or a related one), DL often wins because it's sufficiently high-capacity to learn sophisticated models from all that data.

On the other hand, if you don't have enough data, then the deep network isn't going to be learnable, in which case hand-tuned methods might do better, depending on how much "domain expertise" you can bake into the system. Faces are a very constrained domain, and since there has been enormous work on them for decades now, it's one area that non-DL algorithms probably still have somewhat of a fighting chance (until people gather & label large enough databases, of course).
Thanks, that's a lot to think about.

>Second, having more images of a person does help, but not nearly as much as you'd hope, because now there's an even bigger chance that you might accidentally match against someone else who happened to have their photo taken in the same pose, lighting conditions, and facial expression as your test photo, and it's very tough for algorithms to discount those confounding factors.

I was thinking that having two sets (for example a set of five and a set of three) of known matching images would mitigate that - in that you'd have 15 pairings to check rather than just one.

>If a program or device or robot can recognize who you are, it can pro-actively change its settings/behavior/performance/etc. to better suit you. A very simple example is the new Kinect, which does some sort of recognition to load your saved profile/controller preferences. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Personal devices and systems would rarely if ever be expected to distinguish between 1000s of people, though. Are you thinking more in terms of public devices, such as locks on house or car doors? That would seem as if it would be impossible just because out of thousands, someone could look more like you did when you set it up than you currently do.
What says that the universe containing our simulation is unable to solve NP problems in polynomial time?
You could plot the average performance over time, which would show not only how well or poorly a hotel does in general, but how it weathers high-volume events like conferences.
Most hosters or clouds already provide you servers in seconds / minutes.
You don't have to do home inspections (and consequent repairs), radon testing, title searches, etc.? That's the junk that makes it complicated.
I tried to submit a support request to add the hotel I am sitting in and it got a CSRF error...
The question about that (at about 19:30 in the video) was asked by one of the Ironic developers on my team :)

The answer is basically "we don't do it, we'd like to see it happen". I wasn't at that session, but I was at the Atlanta Summit and so far I haven't managed to get a good answer from Rackspace people about how they're actually tackling this in production today.
Sounds like you haven't used emacs in a few years (or longer). There are tools like CEDET that allow building language modes with AST-level understanding of the source code. I don't know about the vim world in general, but I use omnisharp in emacs to provide C# refactoring tools like you describe, and that was originally built for vim.
> 1 - P=NP is a mathematical problem. It has nothing to do with Physics.

I don't know if I accept that, although it's unclear what exact definitions you're using for those terms. P=NP makes very real claims about the abilities of real physical objects like Turing machines. It's obviously about math as well, but I don't see how that precludes it from being about physical qualities of physical systems.

> 2 - Nature has no problem whatsoever solving complicated equations.

Solving some complicated equations, no doubt. But I'm not aware of any evidence suggesting that nature can easily solve all complicated equations.
I see that you made this HN account only to comment on this post. I've learned that getting into a back-and-forth with anonymous posters on HN is never a good idea, but I'll respond just this once.

1. You're absolutely right. I majorly screwed up here. I say so as much in the post.

2. I think people can reasonably disagree here. An example: a potential customer asks a sales guy during a demo "...and will we be able to export a list of our users?" Answer: "yes, absolutely". The customer signs. The sales person then runs to dev team and says "we need to build this export functionality before they launch". Did the potential customer think that feature already existed? Probably. Is anyone being hurt? I don't think so, so long as the export functionality can actually be built before the customer launches.

3. I was a degree earning student, as I mention in the post, but that doesn't matter. The way I talked about it was wrong, whether you call it a "half-truth" or a "lie".

Regarding the employees who are no longer with Amicus, anyone that wanted help finding their next job got it. Everyone that wanted their resumes sent over the YC list got that. And I spent a good part of the two weeks after this happened making intros trying to help people land somewhere they could be happy. The team breaking up was one of the toughest parts of this whole ordeal. Having to part ways with an employee when they're underperforming is hard, but having to part ways when they're doing their job well -- because of mistakes you've made -- is almost unbearable.
"How is $1 salary justified to IRS? "

What they report to the IRS and what they show on financials could be 2 totally different things. Entirely possible that they are paying taxes on a higher salary.
Right. Sorry my wording was actually unclear. I meant that I didn't believe there were any DS emulators for the PSP.
Only for packet loss testing. If you don't have Java installed in your browser, you get "Pingtest.net requires Java for packet loss testing, but it does not appear to be installed in your browser. Click here for assistance." The ping and jitter tests still work without Java.
The time to provision doesn't really affect the size of the security problem, but it does make it easier to deploy malicious firmware across a fleet of hardware, because everything is behind an API.
I think ESRI was also bootstrapped.
It's been awhile since I've looked into it, but I seem to remember it being more or less that the young, and very old are both less safe than the middle.
Yeah my PSP 1001 was a great all-around device, especially when I used homebrew apps and games - that's what got me interested in programming.

But as far as my original comment, this is actually what I meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8082102
It was on my old blog which is no longer online. I'll see if I can find the article in my backups and post it somewhere. I should probably do the analysis again since my original test was during the end of the housing bubble when prices were unstable.
I always rebind capslock to control. That's essential. The other thing is adjusting the bindings to your taste; for example, I change a number of standard bindings to better suite a dvorak layout.
When someone does a bunch of shitty things that directly affects the lives of others, anger is a wholly reasonable response. While it's nice that the OP is being open about mistakes, you don't deserve a pat on the back for telling the truth, it's the default behavior we expect of people.
If even that single one isn't fully booked, how would multiple planes with 10% utilization each justify their building costs?
Still, until your belief is able to make physical predictions more accurate than other physical theories, it's just that - a belief, which has absolutely no physical validity.
Honestly, this depends totally on whether you are in a hot real estate market or not. If homes tend to be on the market 30 days, scraping MLS data is OK. If homes tend to be on the market 3 days, not so much.
What's with the predilection for unreadable fonts?

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit

http://swannodette.github.io/2014/07/23/a-closer-look-at-tra...
As a grad student at Harvard I was involved in teaching several courses at Harvard Extension School. While the students were generally motivated and enthusiastic about the course material, it was a very different academic environment, one that was not as intellectually rigorous.

You are right about grade inflation, but the difference in the level of rigor between the two schools means that not all As are equal.
We need a way to introduce automation into minecraft.
I think you would have to be assuming that the far-advanced civilization's simulator has the same complexity as the models of computation we can construct. I think that's a huge leap to make. We might not be able to model something due to issues with, let's say, Turing decidability. Unlike us, the advanced civilization's might be able to because their constructable models of computation are strictly more powerful.
I had to say this, the articles from medium.com has more focus on PR than the quality of content. Today itself I saw two articles, Schrodinger's cat and this.
Does "bootstrapped" include "investors begging to throw money at it"? or purely self-made?
That's not really true, though.

If I'm walking in a forest and I pick up an apple, prior to my picking it up, it did not belong to me. Upon picking it up, it now belongs to me. You can claim things that did not belong to you prior to said claiming.

I get what you're saying but it only applies in situations where everything is already owned by someone.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, there's no choice at all. You have to move to the bay area.
Lots of non-technology companies.

Out of tech companies -- Craigslist, Atlassian, 37Signals, possibly MailChimp.

Fringe examples -- Indeed sold for $1B and only took a small amount of later-stage funding [1] from USV. WhatsApp took $8M from Sequoia but apparently didn't spend any of it [2].

[1] http://avc.com/2012/09/indeed/

[2] http://forbesindia.com/article/the-worlds-billionaires/the-$...
California Dept. of Technology and IBM announce Calclou
What kind of businesses aren't in the Bay Area that you'd want to target?
Good point. You can definitely instantiate a Time instance without requiring anything:

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/symbols/Time#annotation=1...
>There are two cats from the "outside", but from each cat's perspective it sees only a single "random" outcome.

in a given Universe there is only one cat. A human observer just doesn't know what the state of the cat in his Universe. The cat knows.
Did TJ Holowaychuk really write and maintain all that code in many languages?
I think I'm a bit older than you. They were "jerks" back when I started in business. But things have changed as you've pointed out.

I had a run in with the labor department at my first company. I wouldn't exactly call them jerks (or nice) but I was able to get them to cut in half a 5 figure amount they assessed me (a lawsuit was filed) by having a personal meeting with the local office head. Without an attorney. After I cut the deal I then said "oh one more thing can I have 5 years to pay this back?". And he agreed (I didn't need the 5 years, it wasn't a large amount, but I thought why not?)
The Tree of 40 Fruit Is Exactly as Awesome as It Sounds
Sure, but a lot of the people taking classes at the Extension School don't want a degree. For example, I had students whose employers were paying for them to take a single course to give them some background knowledge or insight into their jobs. They're not looking to graduate; just to take a class or two that will help them with their careers.
Would you give this up to save a few points on taxes? Penny wise, pound foolish.
I rarely have seen issues in California with zipper merge, when the lanes are actually merging. Most of the time the issue I've seen is when people are cutting over from a turn only lane to try and force their way to go straight.
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Ran with my dad. We would run every day, long days on Saturday. First long day was 10, next 12, 15 etc. Longest I ever ran for training was like 16 I think. Basically I just ran a lot with my dad.
These are very popular training plans:
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In simulations zipper merging is an optimal solution. In reality, relying on thousands of drivers to properly follow specific directions and be completely aware of their surroundings is a flawed solution. Telling people how to do something efficiently doesn't mean they'll do it that way. People are extremely loose when it comes to following driving rules, e.g. speed, texting, minimum distances, merging, etc..
Programming Languages and Taco Bell: Same Features, New Combinations
Redfin is the site that has tried harder to disrupt the space, although it hasn't been as successful.

They still use the traditional model, but with lower commission.

https://www.redfin.com/sell-a-home/how-you-save

http://www.redfin.com/buy-a-home/refund
No, you are right. But I've encountered people that did not understand this. Implicit classes make it when less obvious especially as they were introduced at the same time as value classes.
That's more likely an issue with the game, the desktop, or some other component than the video driver.
Not to mention hotels like, for example, the Hyatt Santa Clara that make you pay for wifi on top of the $300-$400 per night room. It's good to see that hotelwifitest distinguishes which hotels expect you to pay for wifi.
Code School partnering with Google to support women and minorities in tech
Mobile hotspots are good but expensive. My wife and I have been working/living off one for the past 6 weeks and we're averaging around $100/week on internet costs even with extremely limiting our usage.
PreLink, PostLink and Controller Methods of Angular Directives
The buyer's agent would probably rat you out, if the seller's agent listed on MLS wasn't actually the selling agent.
Bloomberg was started by Mike with his own money from his Salomon Brothers departure.
If enough people are doing zipper merging, then there is no way to cut in line, because both lanes are equally backed up. Then once people get to the merge point, they won't have any sense of unfairness because the other lane was waiting just as long, so there will be less impetus for "vigilantes" to mess things up. I'm not saying there will be no problems, but I don't think that more zipper merging will automatically lead to more of these problems.
Best languages combine programming paradigms (OOP, functional etc.). The very best ones combine type systems as well (static + opt-in dynamic).
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By this logic, shouldn't the existence of the universe be impossible since simulating it mathematically in its entirety is infeasible?
If natures models reduce to our NP-hard models which they would if our models are accurate, that is to say if and only if there is some computation that is NP-hard (which means that it is proven to not have a polynomial time solution unless P=NP) that nature can solve in polynomial time and we have proven that P must equal NP.
I understand that people get a little passionate about their fields of study, but the tone of Aaronson's response is wildly inappropriate. Phrases like "a common novice mistake" and "as if he just emerged from a cave" are unnecessary and entirely condescending. This style of discourse fosters a really awful and exclusive atmosphere, and I wish it wasn't the norm.

I don't know this guy at all, and I'm guessing he's pretty respected in his field, but at the end of the day, he doesn't have to be a jerk to get his point across.
> Far from it,

What? While I'm reading your references, let's be clear on what you are saying: On the one hand, in the context of the OP, we're talking about flairs, as essentially discrete events, 'points' in a 'point process', over time intervals from the present back to at least 1889 or whenever it was, that is, over 100 years, and, if we could get more data, thousands or millions of years and (2) what happens in detail with the sun spots, the 11 year sun spot cycle, the magnetic field of the sun, etc.

So, sure, on short time scales, say, within one 'point' there can be a lot of dependence, that is, lack of 'independent increments'. But for these 'points' over years, centuries, or millennia? You are saying that there is a dependence between a flair today and 11 years from now?

Assuming that the 'dangerous flairs' are more common when sun spots are in the 11 year cycle, for modeling the stochastic arrival process over several decades, centuries, etc. we should, first-cut, and I saw a lot of first-cutting when I was in physics class, 'smooth out' the 11 year cycle and continue on. Then, tough to believe that you are claiming dependence between points separated by months or years.

E.g., I see in your [2] in Figure 2 on page 463 a distribution of waiting times with the horizontal axis a log scale up to 10,000 hours but clearly nearly all the
probability mass less than 100 hours, here being sure
to note the log scale on the vertical axis. So, in the context of the OP, that 100 hours
is within just one particular 'point' in the stochastic
point process and essentially irrelevant when considering years, decades, centuries, etc.

So, the independent increments assumption seems to continue to hold. And with the smearing out, so does the stationarity. Then, from Cinlar, presto, a Poisson process.

Oops: Apparently the Maunder minimum, as in the graph
below in this thread, kills off the stationarity
assumption, even with the 'smoothing'.

So, apparently until we can understand things like
the Maunder minimum, we're really short on
a good stochastic point process model of
sun spots and maybe also dangerous CMEs.

Then maybe the best we have is just observe that
both humans and life on earth have been around
a long time and in some intuitive sense the
sun seems fairly 'stable' in some meaningful
sense so that we can guess we will still be
here a long time. Math fails again!
In New Zealand we just have signs like this all over the place:

http://i.imgur.com/AtaDOGX.jpg
The way it's written, I agree with you completely. It's an example of the sort of wantonly confrontational language that seems to flow naturally from many people when alone behind a keyboard.

But the substance of it – suggesting that some apologies are perhaps somewhat orthogonal to the wrongs admitted, or that there may be a lack of thoughts expressed for those let down by the mistakes – isn't unworthy of consideration.

It's just a shame these had to be written from a perspective of confrontation rather than of compassion.
Nifty use of grafting, a surprisingly ancient agricultural technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting
Pure conjecture, but is it reasonable to think that bootstrapped companies might be more likely to be bought out than ones backed by major VC bucks?

I suspect a disproportionate number of bootstrapped companies that fall into the might-become-$1BN category get an offer they can't turn down at some point before they arrive.
The problem is, there are two very different ways to merge based on the flow of traffic. If traffic is moving, then early merge is the preferred method. If traffic is not moving, then a late merge makes more sense.

The problem is people who do not merge early when traffic is flowing. These people wait until the last second to merge instead of finding an opening while traffic is flowing and force traffic to slow down in order to let them in.

And the really real problem is that the average driver in the USA has no idea what they are doing and should probably not be driving at all. It would take a huge change in the way we train drivers to get them to recognize when they should use each type of merge. And forcing people into one way to merge or the other is not really the "fastest/safest" way, because it varies on conditions.
I don't know why, and it's really not relevant, but the thing that struck me the most was that they used actual chalk on the chalkboards. Everything I've seen has been whiteboard and markers for quite a while now...
Yep, welcome to capitalism. When you need to raise your profits to justify high prices for shareholders, it is a race to the bottom to see with how little you can spend for market competitive pricing.
Atlanta, the most I pay for parking would be at a sporting event or concert where it's usually around $20 for the event. The only $40 or more parking would be at the airport.