skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found her attitude sort of annoying. She tells women to ask for accommodation rather than suggesting what companies can do to be supportive of pregnant employees and why they should be more supportive.

We currently kind of ask women to choose one or the other: Serious career or motherhood. And it dooms lots of women to poverty for having reproduced and it means a lot of women who do have careers and are successful never have kids. And I feel like that's just a really, really terrible societal policy. It seems to me that it means our next generation is strongly skewed towards coming from the bottom of society. And we wonder why we have problems that seem unresolvable.
In addition, if she is a good CEO she probably feels responsible for her employee's well being. They're not her children nor are they helpless infants, but it is another responsibility that each person values differently in her position.
Cool idea. I'm downloading the app now.
Unless I misread this, the reason he was incarcerated to begin with:

> Asheem was charged with conspiracy in the third degree. The evidence was the gun charge to which he had already pled guilty, and photos, which he says dated back to the time when he was 14 and 15, showing him and other boys under the banner of Goodfellas.

> Alethia says that in Asheem’s case, the judge told him he was looking at a possible sentence of 15 to 30 years. It was a frightening length of time that convinced Asheem to take a plea deal that could range from 16 months to 4 years instead.

The gun charge just upped his prison sentence to 6 years instead of 1-4.
Lol, it would actually enjoy it, but if other people did it to me, that would suck big time.

I'd assume, if I built it, people would spam the crap load out of me, just by spite.
That question makes no sense. Something can move the average while leaving a wide distribution. Let's say I go around your neighborhood leaving caltrops all over the roads, causing a rash of flat tires. Your question is akin to asking, if the cause of all this is mikeash's caltrops, how come so many cars didn't get flat tires?
Think of it more like fundamental research. Maybe nobody could make immediate productive use of the discovery of (for example) radioactivity in the late 1800s, but it has a wide variety of uses today from energy production to medical imaging.

It's unlikely that proof of the twin prime conjecture would prove that fundamental, but the results are hard to predict in advance.
Google News to shut down in Spain
Heh, this is exactly why I could not understand what was being said.
Great post. However at the very end I wondered if such an esteemed professor should mention Soviet Union the way he did it. It was a big and diverse country.
Oh interesting I either had not seen or forgot about this. Good to know thanks!
Simulations do not like this scenario. The gravity is not enough to counter the expansion due to the heat, so the water (vapour) leaks off far and wide with little chance of coalescing in the inner solar system.
Genetic adaptation seems unlikely except for very species specific adaptations since humans don't seem to share any of these instincts, nor do they seem to be shared by genetic cousins in a way comparable to other traits.
Programming side looks nice, but it's overly heavy on copy, you might want to simplify it a bit. Just a tip, I like the idea.
There are some survey papers like this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828

The point isn't to read every paper it references, but to just get a summary of what the current state of research is. If you are interested in an area then you can go read the papers there.
Not sure why this was downmodded, but I tried to correct that. I do note that people have a bias to believe the first story they hear and it's hard to consciously correct for this. Merely knowing about the bias is not enough to correct it and I realize that I'm not immune to it myself.

As far as I know, I don't know any of the people involved in this, but I've read enough legal complaints to know that they're not always as factual as they first appear, so I try to consciously restrain myself from simply believing it without hearing the rebuttal. Rushing to judgement may be quite common these days, but it's not the sort of behavior fair or intelligent people should engage in.

It's weird that they lead in with the first few comments, which were tame enough that I discount them completely as being an appropriate subject for a lawsuit, though they seem to get progressively worse and some of the later allegations are much more serious. I do wonder why they lead with their weakest cards, though.

That aside, it does seem that the site it exercising editorial control over the comments, which may work against it with respect to the CDA, even though it's trying to do the right thing based on its policy as quoted in the complaint. Given the policy, I wonder how the later comments ever went through, as it seemed like the site wanted to avoid drama like this entirely. Even if this was a lapse of some kind, it might work against them.

As I have not heard the rebuttal, I will refrain from making any judgements one way or another about who is right here. It's only fair, after all.

EDIT: Retraction Watch is covering this case. I believe them to be a reliable, respected and neutral 3rd party: http://retractionwatch.com/2014/12/10/pubpeer-files-motion-d...
I don't think push some form of crowd intelligence would change much. I guess the best thing we could do is to create some conditions to let new nodes emerge and complete. I also believe better funding distribution mechanism/system will help a lot.
The weaker claim that at least some findings will gain applicability in practice should be well enough to justify all of our efforts.
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Thanks, I went ahead and sent an email to the person who interviewed me. I don't know that it will make a difference with my prospects but it did make me feel better.
The problem is that the odds are stacked against people of color. Some people beat the odds and succeed regardless, and that's great. Not everybody can be exceptional, though. So if some demographics are relatively disadvantaged then those people will on average have a worse quality of life through no fault of their own.
Google News shuts down in Spain after new law
FWIW, I am a woman and I was a full time mom for many years. Here is my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732852
It sounds like you're thinking of the Family Medical Leave Act, which doesn't apply to everyone.
Yeah. I would try and compromise with them. Maybe offer some of their money back, but in this case the company doesn't owe them 12 months of refund because they forgot to cancel for a year.
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Whack!

Wow. I'm not even sure where that ball went. :)
why mess with a process that isn't broken? reminds me of a UX/UI design homework where students are asked to 'redesign' or 'reinvent' common things like bicycles or ladders and end up just coming up with the exact same age old designs.

it takes intelligence to improved a host of things in the world and wisdom to realize that not all things need or can be improved

sigh
I think it still is. The output is a function fitting the data, so as long as that function is amenable to analysis, it doesn't really matter how it's found.

In fact, the paper discusses some modifications they made (reducing the number of parameters) to make the output kernels more intelligible to humans.
Prepare to have this comment flagkilled within the hour by the less empirically inclined. It happened to me when I posted this same article the last time a Watson thread appeared here.
How did you build it? I always thought the Firefox code was huge and monolithic and couldn't be used like this.
BB(N) must grow faster than any computable function. BB isn't computable because computing it would involve solving the halting problem. Any function which could grow larger than BB would imply solving the halting problem, and therefore can't be computable. Basically, inverse BB would eat Knuth's arrow notation for breakfast, and start asking about second breakfast and elevenses.
The goal of this app is to facilitate teammate discovery in hackathons. It's the prototype of an idea and a showcase of what can be done fairly quickly in Shiny (R). Don't forget to visit http://hackprofiler.alizee.io/#Information to get more information around the project.
I like the idea of high density right to the edge of town. You get all the walkability but also green (or white that far north) space right nearby. I think the ideal might have some characteristics of fractals to allow all the dense areas to border on the empty areas.
See my other comment: log* only conquers the second level of Knuth arrows, e ↑↑ n. But you can easily generalize log* , in a way that mirrors the way Knuth arrows are constructed, and inverts them at any level.

Say

log*[1](n) = log(n)

log*[k](n) = 0 if n <= 1
= 1 + log*[k](log*[k-1](n)) if n > 1

Then the k-th level is the inverse of the k-th level Knuth arrows, e ↑^k n -- that is, e ↑↑..↑ n, with k arrows.
I think it's actually more causal than you first give it credit for. I think creativity cultures a certain laziness for that person.

From observing my friends and I, my anecdata suggests that the most creative are on average more lazy because they can use their creativity as a clutch to make up for a relative lack of hard work. The other intelligent but less creative individuals must suppliment that with grinding away more time on the problems.

The creative lazy people also tend to be more 'hot and cold' than consistent, because if they rely on creativity but it doesn't fire then they end up falling short. Consistent hard work is more reliable, but takes more effort and doesn't necessarily produce as high peaks (though in doing so, avoids as low troughs)
This past two weeks, I have been reading Kasparov's "Life Imitates Chess" and your comment certainly rings true. He spends a fair number of pages discussing about Botvinnik's rigid and systematic training system and how that helped instill a strong work ethic in him.
There is also a section on Casablanca and how his laziness cost him his crown to Alekhine, who was Botvinnik's predecessor.

If history serves right, I am predicting Carlsen will lose the throne to Caruana in 2016!
The interesting thing to me about this one is a line from the chorus that I always heard as "Comma comma down dooby-do down down", which of course makes no sense whatsoever. Somewhere along the way I saw an alternative transcription, "Come-a come-a down...", which I thought was much more plausible, as "comedown" is a word that would make sense here. But I just checked a couple of the lyrics sites, and they say "Comma comma"!
Where is the error from? I don't understand why connecting the motor directly would be different.
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I'm not seeing how this is any different from true directories in terms of time and space complexity, as far as rename and path resolution are concerned. Sure, the trie nodes don't have to be implemented as key/value pairs in the data store, but don't they otherwise serve the same purpose in the affected algorithms--pointing to key/value pairs or other directories? Doesn't this still mean that path resolution is O(d) for a path of depth d in the trie, and rename is O(a+b) for two paths of depth a and b?
It's sad that she thinks "30 days of family bonding" is enough to be proud of.
While the points are valid and interesting, it shows how much Java is still not functional. 8 brings some niceties, but little more.
Aha. News to me, really.

That seems more like a popular right-wing conspiracy theory than anything that’s actually happening.
The ratings system in chess is what makes it easy to get a competitive game.

You just have to play a handful of games in order to get a rating (whether in real-life tournaments or online), and then you know that playing somebody with a rating within 100 points of your own rating will usually result in a good game where both sides have chances to win and neither will consistently steamroll the other.
Isn't my issue obvious ? I wanted search results that contained the search terms. Otherwise I wouldn't have entered them in the first place.

I understand Google is trying to be clever here and appealing to novices who don't really understand what they want.

But my point is that for those of us that do it is an incredibly annoying "feature". Feature is in quotes because in the specific case above they didn't find semantic equivalents. They just dropped the "webhcat" term entirely.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732859
DMCA is for copyright infringement, not defamation. That's not to say it doesn't get abused in all sorts of "we want you to take X down" scenarios, however.

For safe harbor here, you'd be looking to the CDA, I believe. In that case, what matters is the level of editorial control you exercise over the site. The complaint alleges that they review every comment before posting, which if true, would seem to be a problem for them. My understanding of the CDA is that, somewhat perversely, you're better off having low standards than high ones with respect to user-submitted content.

That aside, the above is a layman's understanding of the relevant law, not legal advice. If you're ever in a situation where this information is important, please discuss it with a lawyer.
In most cases, the motor has constant rotation speed, so the speed at which it advances on the bolt is also constant.

If the bolt is curved, the radius of the motion, relative to the hinge, is constant through the whole range of motion. Constant linear speed + constant radius = constant angular speed.

Some folks prefer to "simplify" the design and just make a straight bolt instead. Again, there's constant linear speed. But this time the radius, relative to the hinge, is not constant (you have a triangle, instead of a circular slice). So the angular speed is not constant anymore.

You could vary the motor speed to compensate for the straight bolt, but why bother. Curving a threaded piece of thin metal rod is not that hard.
A pertinent quote from the Guardian article on this story:

Germany passed a similar law to Spain’s and Google removed newspapers from Google News in response but in October publishers reached an agreement with the company after traffic to their websites plummeted.
somehow spurious correlations came to my mind when reading this http://www.tylervigen.com :)
I recommend Kendall House of Pizza (K-HOP)[0]. I used to eat there all the time when I worked at a datacenter in Kendall.

Right across the street from K-HOP there is a great Greek place Desfina[1] (more of a dinner option but they do serve lunch). If you are willing to walk a little Skampa[2] has excellent Roast Beef Sandwiches.

[0]: http://kendallhouseofpizza.com/

[1]: http://www.desfina.com/

[2]: http://www.yelp.com/biz/skampa-cambridge
So for you, "will of the people" represents a consensus preference? And following this idea, if there is no consensus (i.e., at least one person in Portland wants to ride an Uber), there is no "will of the people"?

The whole point of Arrow is that you need some very strong assumptions (e.g., cardinal preferences) to define a "will of the people". The only real world expression of cardinal preferences is a set of supply&demand curves, however - based on this the "will of the people" says Uber should exist.
The level of unconscious racism in this thread is amazing. Whenever the subject of race comes up and someone sites a statistic purporting to demonstrate "African" or "black" intellectual inferiority, I suggest he imagine a seismologist who stated, "Black earthquakes are inherently inferior to white earthquakes."

"I don't get it."

"Exactly. Why the hell would any reputable seismologist care about white or black earthquakes?"
The exact same thing happened to me during a product interview. I bumbled through product design with the PM and could tell things weren't going well based on the questions she was throwing back at me, the awkward silences, and the increasing number of logical traps I found myself in as the interview progressed.

After the interview, I started beating myself up over the dumb things I said. But after a few hours, I opened up Photoshop, mocked up a better solution and sent it over to the recruiter (who I then asked to forward my solution to my interviewer).

I progressed to the next round.

I honestly don't know if my revised solution helped or not, but I'm sure it didn't hurt.
I wonder if there is a large enough cohort of black kids adopted into white families? That would provide a control for extra upbringing variables, those not tied to wealth.
I'm using the same setup (plus spf13.vim, powerline and Oh My Zsh). It looks beautiful and works very well. Here is a screenshot of my setup: http://postimg.org/image/9jqokq0ll/full/
What kind of products?
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Direct link: https://hbr.org/2005/03/what-great-managers-do
>So many of these marketplaces have failed the past year, what reason should people have to trust Buttercoin or think that they are more secure than the likes of Mt. Gox?

You should not. You should buy the Bitcoins, then move them to your own wallet.
Clickbaity headline too.
Hence my fascination with the human mind and its inherent demons and nuanced machinations. The concept of IQ is fascinating, not least because it causes a fierce ideological firestorm almost instantaneously upon its mentioning. However, mentioning that athletic ability is genetically determined gets a heartfelt, "really, ya think??!"

Alas, we are but a bunch of hominids scrambling in the dark in fear of the world in which we find ourselves. If we get too close to an idea that can burn us, most of us scurry away back to the comfortable dark.

That is except for a few insane pioneers, who embrace the flames even at the cost of their own safety...
TL;DR: This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not. As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable.
This is the mildest form of "purge" imaginable.
How convenient that this article comes out just when people are discussing the US/British Regin malware.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-m...
You really discount the value of the long tail of search, which is where you get best info from google.
Seems like the difference is they can't come to an agreement with publishers this time: "This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not"

(though of course they may be overstating the requirement)
Thanks for the feedback!

1,2: We don't have an editor. It's more "Evernote for sheet music" than "Dropbox for sheet music" for two reasons:

a. score organization/management with cloud infrastructure.

b. image processing (importing paper scores via the phone's camera) and OCR features that we're working on (not released yet).

Which means it has intelligent features rather than just doing syncing of scores.

3: Those should probably become "Upload" and "Library" respectively.

4: That was a tough call. We wanted to communicate in the landing page that iOS devices are supported (through the web app). If we didn't put the icon, people would think that there isn't iOS support.

5: Got it.

6: Sorry about that, we fixed it.

7: We will probably add Esc as a way to exit the gallery.

8: I can see what you mean.

9: Can you elaborate? You can also try the zoom functionality in the single page view, it's different there. You can turn off split page view in the preferences page (click on your username -> Preferences).

10: You can't do it from the web app at the moment. The Android app is needed to do this (for now). Any edits done from the Android app will get synced.

11: Can you mention some of the things you dislike about the upload form?
Things are getting pretty freaky around here in Spain. We've got some horrible (freedom-wise) laws passed recently and we're all angry about them. They've been trying to for several years, and now that people is tired of fighting these stupid laws back they can pass them. This basically means that Google would need to pay to index newspapers.
A hundred cycles to zero a page? If 4 KB can be written in a hundred cycles then, assuming a 3 GHz processor, that's 30 million pages per second or ~120 GB/s. That's pretty fast memory. On x86/x64 processors, which lack a zero-the-cacheline instruction, the memory will also end up being read, so you need 240 GB/s to clear pages that quickly. This ignores the cost of TLB misses, which require further memory accesses.
Heads up: I'm getting an application error. ("An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.")
David Sirlin has a lot of great articles on designing competitive games: http://www.sirlin.net/article-archive/
"we don't make money because we do not advertise on that site" is a huge fallacy.

This sounds like a bluff because if that gets traction in the US then their search business will collapse. Imagine $0.01 for every search that shows a snipet of wikipedia to the wiki foundation?
I'm not sure what the one has to do with the other. My research is corporate-funded and my papers still get reviews from people who didn't read the paper carefully. Unless you're proposing to eliminate the concept of publishing research at all...
"But it's scary to me to think that women feel the need to make these types of sacrifices, and not take care of their family."

Hmmmm ... the United States does not offer paid maternity leave. So if you needed the money, and weren't a CEO, you would have to go back to work anyway. She is making a choice, but for many other women the choice has been made for them. The US is the only developed country without laws providing paid maternity leave.
The page-zeroing code may be able to minimize its effect on the cache, but it will then necessarily consume memory bandwidth -- 4 KB of bandwidth per page zeroed as it writes each page. So, it still affects overall performance.

And it guarantees that when a process goes to use the pages they will not be in the cache. Ah, tradeoffs.
What? What are you start/end points?

Northern suburbs (Royal Oak) to Traverse City is 4.5 hours.
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Jelani did not waive the right to a speedy trial, and in fact his lawyer filed the motion demanding one on three separate occasions before it was granted. This was more than one year into his incarceration.
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The Google News website doesn't show any banner ads.
I am also not sure (as was a commenter in a reply) what was objectionable about my first reply to you, but now that I see that I can no longer edit that reply anyway, I should link here to what PubPeer says in reply to the plaintiff's motion to force disclosure of the name of the PubPeer commenter(s).

http://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014.1...

As an aside, I'll mention that the PubPeer lawyer is doing a much better job in filing pleadings, perhaps because PubPeer is a more above-board client, than Sarkar's lawyer is doing. Yeesh, what a mess the Sarkar complaint is. (Yes, I am a laywer, and I have read pleadings before and have a gut sense of which pleadings are convincing.) Note that the American Civil Liberties Union signed off as lawyers for PubPeer.
If you know Python, my response make perfect sense, in that it's easy to transform xml string -> python tree -> new python tree -> new xml string or json string or csv string.
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Very well said. I am in a very similar position, although at least a few months apart, if not more.
Just out of curiosity: where you will build your company, and what will the company do?
$14M for classic car found under a pile of French magazines?