skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he did a great job of explaining that it's not one or the other, which is what the earlier comment quite blatantly made a claim of.
> Chess, like the so called "video games" being streamed, ought to be called a sport.

Other way around, I think. Competitive video games ought to be called "competitive games," like chess. The whole "e-sport" label is stupid: "sport" has always meant a primarily physical competition, and competitive games of the sitting-down type--chess, checkers, Go, Scrabble, etc.--have been their own thing, with leagues and tournaments and titles, for decades or centuries before video games came around. Video games are more dependent on quick thinking and reflexes, but they're still primarily mental competition--see also speed chess, etc.

But competitive video gamers are too full of themselves to be happy rubbing shoulders with something as unhip as chess. They insist that they deserve the same (arguably equally undeserved) acclaim and money and fandom as sports, so they keep pushing the "e-sports" label and all the associated silly trappings and theatrics. After two decades of fruitless flailing, it seems like it might finally be about to stick, more's the pity.
I was thinking about ideologies that work as a proxy for evaluating facts. It's kind of like saying that scientific method is also an ideology. In some sense, it is, but it's the one thing that's not like others.

> I was just thinking that some ideologies seem to exist for the purpose of allowing people to justify their greedy behavior.

Maybe. I try to be more charitable, especially that I know many friends that are (by their own admission [0]) borderline libertarian and are definitely neither greedy nor selfish. I think that it's a way how people respond to governments clearly overreaching with their regulations. It's a kind of cultural backlash, but if you treat it as an ideology, thinking that e.g. Free Markets Are The Best And Government Is Always Evil, then you're throwing baby out with the bathwater and trying to replace a bad hell with a worse hell.

[0] - I try to avoid using such labels, because I think they shut down the mind. I personally might be more liberal on topic A, and lean more conservative on topic B, just because different methods work for different problems. Labeling things by political ideas make people lose that distinction. I've personally been called Marxist And Therefore Wrong by bringing up in a discussion the topic of tragedy of commons, which was immediately labeled as The Part Of Marxist Economy, Not The Real One. sigh
Okay. Well, pending learning anything else about it, I'll assume that it's likely not so bad a law, then.
Let's not deprive women of their sacrosanct right to a fedora.
I agree.

Disclaimer: also European / EU / Polish citizen :).
I still feel offended that my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis, is not need-blind despite its $5.7 Billion endowment.
I think most people who invest in these things take future/potential growth into account. Also, it can be argued that consumer web investments have been working on the greater fool theory for the past decade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory. This is still relatively early for comparable hyper-growth consumer web or mobile consumer app company. If you're able to get your money in this round, you're likely going to see a good return.

Not saying I necessarily agree with the investment, but this is just how things have been lately.
Any vibration or relative movement of either the camera or aircraft will also cause movement trails, though not the ones typically associated with long exposures and star trails centered on the North Star.

Most such long exposures span at least several minutes, though.
It's the difference between offense and defense. Lyft played the game clean until Uber made clear that they wouldn't.

If you're up against a well-funded sociopath who plays dirty, you can't just sit there and be Mr. Nice Guy. It's not an option.

That said, it doesn't surprise me to see a regular Uber supporter smearing Lyft even here in the comments. Actually, it would've surprised me if you hadn't jumped in on the side of Uber, given your alignment.
Step 1 towards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
Yeah, this is a dumb bet.

"Snapchat has peaked" or "snapchat is doomed" are each consistent with independence in a lot of cases. "Snapchat can IPO" as well as "undefined" are also.

The only case I can see for "Snapchat in a quick sale" is if there were a strong #2 from FB, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and another of them bought Snapchat as the competitor. As it is, I don't think it's a direct competitor to Twitter/FB core business, so they're not forced to buy it right now.
How Internet Explorer cost a website a month's salary
FYI, he's doing a Kickstarter to raise awareness and funding:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noahdyer/a-year-without...

Philosophically speaking, the idea of a society where every actioned is monitored, recorded and made available, is a potentially interesting thought experiment.

That said, I find it rather difficult to feel too excited, for this specific campaign.
The link itself doesn't provide the information but is a sales pitch for where to get it. As opposed to the forum and FAQ I'd linked above.

The problem with fitness is that there are no secrets. The basic knowledge is quite simple. But a whole mess of people want to get in on the game. What's actually kind of funny is how little the basic formula for a "become a real man" (or woman) fitness text has changed since Eugen Sandow's first popular modern text in the 19th century.
You honestly think Uber would risk their customer's credentials to shut out a competitor they are already trouncing by most accounts? I would consider the risks of using customer's credentials in such a careless and ridiculous way many magnitudes higher than the potential rewards. It's much safer to buy burner phones and assume fake identities. Sorry, it just doesn't make sense without some evidence to back up it up.
This was really fun challenging myself not to look at the source and thinking thru how I would do each one myself. Things are not as hierarchical as you might expect. Great job!
Betting is a tax on bullshit. Good on you, 'arry.
I wouldn't be surprised, but how do you know that?
Tl;dr guy thinks privacy is dead and so sets up a project to be completely transparent (public access to emails, video of daily life etc). He is a divorced Ex Mormon also, not relevant but a good story hook

I like it btw - I agree that dealin with loss of privacy means asymmetry in knowledge unless we make things transparent.
Hi, streaking is not necessarily due to parallax. It's due to movement of the camera and or movement of the earth. (Try taking a hand held long exposure of the stars, for example).

I guess for that 8s the plan was very stable (no rolling/pitching) AND the focal length is short enough and the resolution low enough the streakiness is masked. I'm still impressed by the amount of stars he captured.
This is a great point. Fundamentally, how well I uphold the trust of my friends is connected to the security of my computing environment. You damn well bet I want more secure software.
Right, I know how you feel. This is how the Digital Sky Technologies LP's must feel about them investing in FB at 15B...good for you that you weren't part of that fund - they are definitely not serious VC's.
I never understood the disdain for Uber's pricing. Who cares if they charge considerably higher than other services? No one is forcing you to take their service.

Do you get upset when people buy an M-Class Mercedes? Would I ever buy one? No. Do I think it's extravagant? Yes. Do I care how other people spend their money? No
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I found this twitter post interesting - the dude did a writeup of how to use metasploit when both the attacker and the victim are behind nat and you are able to get code execution some how on the victim: https://twitter.com/b1tripper/status/383085600040947712
> It is amazing how many statisticians are still using pseudo-inverses in numeric computation

I'm not entirely sure what you mean - pseudoinverse/SVD methods definitely have their place.
Uber must feel really vulnerable if they think there's a need to be this aggressive about undermining the competition.
Thank you for being so enthusiastic and optimistic about my research, it really means a lot to me.

I'll see what I can do; it would be nice to have this project up at least on Github.
I think you're overestimating the effect of Glass, since taking pictures and recording video is still a conscious decision. (Except when someone publishes the inevitable life-blogging app that captures a shot every few minutes. Even then sharing with the public (via Google) is still a conscious decision - sharing with Google & the NSA isn't of course. Luckily batteries are still a limiting factor.)
I would bet that's because there are far more scholarships available for poor minorities.
It gets better: His "transparency" includes being open and honest with the world that he has had several affairs with married women where the husbands did not know.

So, is that some kind of loophole? How does he justify that in his twisted logic? Everyone else knows, so it's okay?
I disagree with your defintion in the google-Apple example and so does Wikipedia. It's pretty clear that if the government regulates it it's not a free market anymore.

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A free market is a market system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between sellers and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
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You have a good point here. I agree that governments are not exempt from the game-theoretic rules that affect everything else. While they are an effective solution to coordination problems of society, they suffer from coordination problems of their own (I think that might be one of the reason governments tend to develop layered structures; it's like turtles all way down, but here we have governments all way up).

> But it's necessary to argue why, if the society cannot produce the flood control systems, why it should be expected to produce a government that will produce the flood control systems.

I think one of the arguments for this would be the fact that it actually happens - i.e. people left alone tend to form governments that then make flood control systems :).

From what you wrote in your previous comment I understand that you believe, that if one would sum up all the benefits and all the costs of government regulation, one would end up with a negative number. Have I undestood you correctly? If yes, could you elaborate on why you believe the effect is net negative and not net positive? I.e. what makes the costs bigger than benefits?
Google has a dominant position in the maps app market and Uber is a company they've invested in. Is it legal for them to leverage their monopoly in this area to exclusively promote one of their portfolio companies?

It appears legal:

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it wouldn't bring charges against Google after a 19-month investigation into whether the company favored its own products and services in its search results and unfairly harmed rivals.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732387420...
I read this years ago and thought he had a great premise for a book. I guess it kinda ties into Gladwell's Outliers and David and Goliath, but I still hope he writes more on this topic in the future.
Except when they actually cancel the rides. The drivers lose in that situation.
I mean that they (still) aren't making any money. The reports of Q1 profits this year are with a criticized, adjusted scale. When measuring with GAAP, as companies have been traditionally measured, they still posted a loss.

Indeed, much of their expenses are for trying to grow as fast as possible, and cutting those could leave the potential for profit - but the entire premise of companies like this is that the potential earnings are unknown (but presumably high), thus they need to throw everything they have at it until they can find the kind of monetization they're looking for. I don't see it happening.
They have so many brand ambassadors there's no way they can control what they do when you wave a stack of hundreds in front of them an incentivize them to try and steal Lyft drivers. Perhaps they didn't tell the recruiters to cancel those Lyft rides but they should have laid out some ground rules if they wanted to keep their hands clean.
Hey fiatmoney. I think you're concerned about some thing that a lot of people don't vocalize civilly, so I'm glad that you are.

Though I don't work in admissions, I work alongside a number of people of that do.

I've gone out of my way to ask about those "white kids from flyover country". I will elaborate on those of my alma mater here.

Very few kids from rural school districts perform highly on standardized testing. Very few receive the encouragement (familial and cultural) to go to high-quality, distant schools. If you want to hear some horror stories about this from me, shoot me an email. I'd be happy to share them in private.

Point being that even within its state, my large public school struggles to recruit from its rural parts.

Contrary to what you assume, they actually do employ recruitment and affirmative action policies towards to the exact folks you're talking about -- predominantly poor and culturally disadvantaged rural people who are predominantly white.
My languages tend to be very innovative or even inventive; e.g. I recently posted this to HN: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...

My problem is quite the opposite: when the languages are so different from what already exists, people (and even myself) have trouble thinking about how adoption would even occur, at least in the short term.
US courts trash a decade’s worth of online documents, shrug it off
More bars have been opened during the economic recovery after the GFC?
Or have cities provide Uber-esq services in lockstep with their other transportation services (bus, light rail, etc).

Don't we argue always for the last-mile to be a public utility? Same scenario. Whitelabel services can contract with locales, an API is provided that anyone can integrate with, and the city can manage capacity and utilization.
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Was thinking about this line in some comment: "if you have nothing to worry about, you shouldn't mind if the government reads your emails".

Besides the obvious flaws, shouldn't it also go the other way?

The government hides tons of things, from classified documents to internal memos. What about that?
The valuation of Snapchat is absolutely crazy. There is no revenue and barely a hint of a revenue model (possible location based ads and news). I don't really understand the $10B let alone the $3B offer.

For those who want to non-mobile link (I hate subdomains for mobile sites instead of using a responsive design): http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6071911/snapchat-finds-inv...
I'll also bet they are independent. But my typical bet size is $100. Interviews with Evan Spiegel imply he believes he has the opportunity to build the next great thing. And I believe him. Snapchat is a fantastic product and idea. I would invest at this "overvalued" level.
> Doesn't have a single review saying it caught fire or exploded

Well, it is a case of every mass-produced good that if it has 0.001% of catastrophic failure, and a million of people will buy it, it will explode in the hands of ten of them, and maybe one will get and write that review. The others probably won't bother writing 999990 reviews saying "it worked as intended".
My company, GetScale, offers cheap fixed-price contract work in design-for-manufacturing (identify and avoid the kinds of mistakes mentioned in the article) and going forward my overseas employees can find and monitor suppliers to make sure things run smoothly (like enforcing your quality standards). We only charge a few dollars per unit for that.
I disagree, I think business size matters a lot. Uber may not be there yet, but the nature of legal violations changes for big companies. It's like they say: if you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem. Similarly, a sufficiently large business breaking the law is more a problem for the government than the business. Just look at how much trouble e.g. Bank of America got in for all their illegal shenanigans surrounding the mortgage crisis.

Uber also has the advantage that they're generally not dealing with national governments, but local ones, who are much more easily swayed by big businesses. One locality might declare them illegal, but they can just drop that market and move on. Or more likely, as happened here in Virginia a few weeks ago, they'll come to some sort of arrangement with the local government and be back in business in a few days.
http://www.taxi.eu/en/

I don't think it will get much further than that in many European cities. Most of the regulations are in place for a reason.
Ron Unz found clear evidence that in the ivy league qualified poor whites and asians are actively discriminated against. Jews are disproportionately admitted.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...
The question is not whether the unqualified, but elite are getting into elite universities. We already know that to be the case.

The question is whether the qualified, but impoverished can get into these universities.

No one asserted that these universities represent pure meritocracies.
This seems maybe the most egregious part:

The most heavily affected court will be the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles all patent appeals as well as certain other types of cases, like veterans' claims. The Federal Circuit has lost all cases filed prior to March 1, 2012. The 2nd Circuit and 11th Circuit will stop providing access to cases filed before 2010.

Finding former rulings was already hard enough, but you at least had something to fall back to. Now if someone hasn't already downloaded it, someone will have to physically go to the courthouse and retrieve it.

Everything described in this article is just ludicrous.
Yes, you definitely want a proper BASIC, and BBC BASIC V would just about do it. It's actually a decent BASIC, not some unstructured POS, and it's got an integrated assembler. So even if you're an assembly language programmer, you can treat it like an assembler with a fancy macro language.

It does smell of the 1980s, sporting line numbers and RESTORE/DATA and implicit variable declaration. But it's a reassuring, nostalgic smell, even if not a healthy one, a bit like four star petrol, perhaps, or stale tobacco smoke. A far cry from its Microsoft BASIC equivalent, with its two-char variable names and single-dimension arrays: nothing there but the stench of ordure and corpses.
It was shown next to the byline, but has now disappeared!?
Issues like this against Google are crazy and just wrong. What is wrong with a company pushing its own (or invested in) products (similarly: the EU requiring Google to not favor its own services when conducting a search)? If you do not like it, than use a different service; the benefit of the free market.

Sorry if that was a bit of a rant: illegal no.
I'm curious why you're satisfied with 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit. Do you never use streaming video / music? Don't you get frustrated waiting for large downloads?
Investing in poor people who are bad at managing their own money or improving their lot in life is probably not going to get you very good returns.

All joking aside. Upper middle class families are more likely to value, encourage and afford personal computers for their kids. That's what got me into programming. I started using my dad's computer too much when he had to work, so he bought the parts and a friend and I built my first computer at 14 with an awesome Riva TNT2 Ultra graphics card.
> In what way were the revelations underwhelming?

The technological ones. I was expecting (and I still believe) that they're tapping much better into the Internet that it is revealed, and that there are many more hardware backdoors out there.

> Countries now also have the ultimate argument for the balkanization of the Internet.

I agree. This is very bad. I didn't say I was underwhelmed with outcome (though I am with the reaction of public and of Internet companies), just with the revealed capabilities of the NSA.
Here is a math major's perspective (I also have a C.S. master's from Stanford, a decent school for computer science).

The real reason statistics is losing to machine learning is M&M: money and marketing.

Money is a huge factor when kids choose majors in college. Many of them have student loans to pay off, and for many of them, getting a high-paying job post college is a serious consideration. In this regard, statistics is a great major, but computer science is flat-out ridiculous. When big tech companies are offering a Stanford graduate with only a few summers of programming internships under the belt for 150k/year, naturally a lot of kids are lured into computer science.

Then, once they start studying computer science, they discover this thing called machine learning. While I do think there is a difference in emphasis between stats and machine learning, the fundamentals are same, except the nomenclature sounds much cooler in machine learning. Nonparametric inference sounds esoteric and cryptic, but unsupervised learning sounds futuristic and cool.

The biggest problem with both statistics and machine learning education, I would say, is their lack of emphasis on mathematical foundations. When I was in college, CS229 (Introduction to Machine Learning) was touted to be the hardest class at Stanford. Having helped my friends wade through CS229 problems (a lot of which comes down to wading through linear algebra and multi-variable differential calculus), I do not think this is remotely true: CS229 is hard because it attracts students who do not have the requisite mathematical maturity to learn statistics/machine learning in a serious way (I am not even talking about the real-analytic foundation of probability and calculus but rudimentary linear algebra and chain rules).

Also, I do think CS229@Stanford is a great class that brings theory and practice together =)

As for R/Python/Matlab/etc., I will let the zealots argue what's best. To me, they are like statistics and machine learning: similar with different emphasis.
Congrats guys. It's been fun following your progress. Love the technical updates and overall direction :)