skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently they changed the content of the link.

I got the link from e-mail of

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:16:42 +0000

from CBInsights.

In that e-mail is

"73% of tech exits were not VC-backed

If you grabbed our 2014 Tech Exits Report

http://cbinsights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c60818e...

, this stat might have jumped out at you."

The 73% figure did show in the link when
I made my post -- checked to be sure.

Apparently now to get their 73% figure, have
to use the page at the link to request their
report.
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The modern use of the word was spawned by a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh[0] called The Miracle of Mindfulness. It was then codified into clinical practice by (among others) Marsha Linehan, who incorporated the book's ideas (in combination with behavioural therapy) as dialectical behavioural therapy, which was the first evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder[1]. Since then it's been a prominent feature of popular psychology (and real psychology, though in a more restricted context).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%B...
[1]: Linehan M., Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
What I find amusing is the fact that quite a few people didn't even bother to change the designer blurb, which to me suggests they know absolutely f all about design and hints at why they find it necessary to copy in the first place.
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> Uber telling the drivers that there would be enough work to justify them financing a vehicle for Uber usage

It seems incredibly unwise to finance a $20,000 USD vehicle hedging on some third party (of which you have zero control over) to provide enough for you to pay it through.
Dude, I promise you that the reality I want to be true is not one where we have fucked up the earth's climate.

I will only reiterate that if 1000 brain surgeons say X, you should probably believe X unless you have very particular reasons to believe you are way smarter than all of them and know things about brain surgery that they don't know.

And of course once in a great while that happens. There was a guy who first said that the earth was not flat, and all the other learned folks thought he was daft and then probably set him on fire or something. However, I have zero evidence to believe this accounts for any of the variance in the current moment in time, with climate, immunization, any of it. A far simpler explanation will do the trick, as mentioned in my original msg.
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If someone wants to work out these stats properly, Parkrun[1] has an excellent dataset ready for scraping.

Eyeballing [2] 26:00 will get you 93rd out of 300, ie top 1/3rd. That's probably achievable by someone who runs regularly (3 times a week). On [3] it gets you 362/844.

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

[2] http://www.parkrun.org.uk/aberdeen/results/latestresults/

[3] http://www.parkrun.org.uk/bushy/results/latestresults/
But how will governments have a black-ops budget without the black markets of drugs? I doubt human trafficking is even close to as profitable.
It shouldn't require a clearance unless you end up on a national security or defense project.

A valid prescription (the little white pads with a doctors signature, not a pot club membership card) for medical marijuana protects you from criminal prosecution, but not from employer drug testing programs. Executive Order 12564, signed in 1986, explicitly makes the federal government a zero tolerance drug free workplace.
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This is not the desktop version of Windows 10 but "Windows 10 IoT". It has no GUI whatsoever. People are planning to buy this, thinking they will be able to run some sort of desktop Windows. They're in for a huge disappointed.
Thank you for illustrating how ridiculous people look when they say shit like "that said".
Sure you can- nothing stops you from installing your own power generation/water purification (assuming you own your home and don't have a Nazi township/HOA).
Yeah, sort of, but Google has the unique positioning of a much larger install base by virtue of Google Maps. If they integrated ride hailing and routing (essentially, their Uber competitor) directly into Maps, then Uber's rider base doesn't matter, though their head-start onboarding drivers would help for awhile.
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Sure, while I agree it's nice to give strangers the benefit of the doubt, how 'mean' can one really be, to a deceased public figure?

Or to take a sillier example: You could certainly act mean to a stone, but would it care?

Personally, I tend to view the term as having more relevance in the interpersonal domain, where one would try to avoid unnecessarily hurting someone else.
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This is what I was looking for. It seems like a common copyright problem in bunch of applications.
I think this is exactly the kind of situation that GP had in mind. A computer would be undoubtedly faster and more accurate concentrating fire on the weakest stalker, but a human is better at deciding whether to attack now or move into position.

So instead of 'attack this unit,' the player could command his units to 'attack the weakest stalker in range.' Or even, 'stutter step along this path, concentrating fire on the weakest anti-air unit.'
> emotionally invested

I've been involved (ahem) with the Bitcoin drama since Jan. 2012.

Hundreds of people are working with it legally. Do they have a magical exemption from the law?
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I have no expertise here, but here's my understanding:

1) Yes, especially if you've worked for some big name, non-government tech companies.

2) Absolutely not. The salary is MISERABLE compared to what you could get in the private sector. That's the real problem.

The government desperately needs world class software engineers, but the private sector can effectively buy them all away. Who would try and fix the busted old immigration system when Facebook or Google will pay you literally four times more money to write way more fun stuff with modern technology, world class perks, and job security that doesn't depend on the next election cycle.

Joining these guys is a sacrifice. It's a service to the country. It's work that literally changes and even saves lives, but it's miserable, boring work, with little or no personal reward.
OK, this is possible. My bad.
> Highly productive compared to the alternative.

I dunno; I really preferred the alternative I used to have: reading email in a proper email client. The only reason I use the web client now is that it's easier when I'm also using my phone to read mail away from my computer. And I'm strongly considering just returning to desktop-only email; that's how much I miss reading mail in gnus.
Humans are too cheap.

They'll just pass away during the next big extinction event, despite knowing another will eventually come.

We are no better than the dinosaurs so far. Setup outposts on Mars, the moon, Venus, learn to deal with radiation.

Cat lovers.
There's also a lot of unknowns and serious challenges and difficult problems to solve before driver-less vehicles can become "mainstream".

Majority (all?) of the road testing has been on fairly controlled roads with "normal" circumstances, ie. not a blizzard with iced roads, hydroplaning, debris falling in front of the vehicle at speed, etc.

Longevity of the vehicle - it's doubtful a driverless vehicle purchased today will still be on the road (and safe!) 10-15 years from now (there's an awful lot of computing and sensors in place, but would a computer that old still perform safely -- ie. would you use your computer from 15 years ago as your daily-use work machine? no - so why trust your life to it?), whereas majority of vehicles on the road today are 10-15+ years old. Sensors are expensive and prone to natural wear, etc.

What about sensors frizzing out and providing false-readings? Similar circumstances have destroyed $100 million spacecraft missions, let alone some $20K vehicle that's several years old and neglected by the owner. Even military-grade electronics and sensor arrays are not "fool proof" and totally "failsafe" -- and you know the quality, robustness, redundantness, etc.. of the electronics going into self-driving vehicles are not on par.

The moment the first human casualty occurs do to some software/hardware failure, there will be serious ramifications for the self-driving world.
Indeed, allowing the browser's default Ctrl+S action to take effect would be actively harmful. It'd trigger a behavior that's completely useless to the user (saving the active web page as HTML), but which could easily be mistaken for doing something useful.
Heh, I remember this too. For a brief time in the late 90s I was responsible for porting NeXT's NetInfo to a bunch of different Unixes. I think, though, we mainly used gcc except on SunOS, because it was free and handled modern C syntax (of course, compiling gcc in the first place without the native compiler involved hunting down a [usually old] binary version). But that's 20 years ago...
Contrary to all evidence of my puny physique, I'd still be afraid of getting dragooned/stop-lossed into overseas adventurism.
> have poor pension and benefits

That seems to rule out the major reason to work for the government...
Here in Sweden you receive a fully-filled-in tax declaration from the Tax Office. For 99% of people with normal jobs, all you have to do is confirm the declaration on their website OR by sending an SMS OR by calling a telephone number OR by using their app.
Unions do nothing to contribute to productivity (in the broader economic sense). If anything, they are a hindrance to it.

I would rather see a focus on a "union" we already have on the scale of entire states or the entire country called the legislative process. Through it we can argue for basics like guaranteed livable income (so you have the time to better yourself), universal healthcare (so you're not always one accident or sickness from being destitute) and a high quality educational system. A livable income, healthcare and education are the foundation upon which most other opportunities rest.
> The solution to such an exclusive contract is not to prohibit rate-limiting, but to allow competitors to enter the market.

I don't understand why it is an either-or proposition. Seems to me the correct action is to do both.
The issue (well there are lots of issues but this one is pertinent to this discussion) with that line of thinking is when people in general become so inefficient compared to machines that it's more efficient and profitable to get rid of the people entirely since machines are so much more efficient.
I found their Superbowl ad particularly offensive. Basically it asserted you don't need representation in taxation as long as it was "free to file". Totally absurd.
google kills the next google simply: buy startup, shut it down.
Repeat
Service Discovery Overview: ZooKeeper vs. Consul vs. Etcd vs. Eureka
Infinite scrolling: is it right for your startup's website?
That may be true for the Bay Area, but it's different literally everywhere else. In Europe for instance Ruby is still quite rare compared to PHP and .NET.

Also, Google trends is hardly a metric. Compare indeed trends or StackOverflow tags, and you'll see PHP is much more relevant.
Got any stock tips?

EDIT: Thanks for the reminder that nothing mildly humorous is tolerated on HN.
The very fact that it's near collisions vs direct collision. You're correct that having dedicated ASIC's does increase the hash-rate, and thus could lower the time-bounds. But the dedicated ASIC's are only really expanding the I/O interface to get more data in/out, and due to this have a much higher cost.

The PoW system adjusts the difficulty based on the current distributed hash-rate, so an individual(or pool) is operating in a percent range of the total hash-rate.

To analogize the two, properly, you'd have to set the PoW system to the highest difficulty, and keep it there for every individual password you want to check.

Also the scrypt currencies have a fixed memory bound, AFAIK. While use in password cases, "could be" modified in the middle, doubling the required time-bound.
> AT&T owned a substantial portion of SUN when they did the SYSVR4 move.

The all-caps reminds me: SUN was an acronym at one point; it stood for Stanford University Network.
I would love to see a program like ROTC -- the government pays for you to get a CS degree and then you work for the Digital Service to start your career.

You end up being 26 with a great education and a solid work experience under your belt. Seems like a win-win!
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Thanks! This is looking to be the best resource of those suggested so far.
Member of 18F here. Not sure about USDS, but we get "public trust", which is basically the step below clearance. Basically means "stuff that isn't public yet". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#Public_Trust...
Interesting the comparison is with the Amazon book store and not the app store. Probably because Amazon's app store is equally as broken.
Whoa, is it just me or is this a blatant rip-off of http://grantland.com/features/boogie-nights/?
The value is only partially in the driver base. Drivers are tangible. But the true value is intangible.

There is enormous brand value in thinking "I'll get an Uber" as a synonym for "I'll get a taxi, but right what I need it, and it probably will smell better." There is value of having that app on the phone, with credit card # already in place.

But perhaps more important is that Uber is building a graph of everyone who wants to go somewhere at any point in time. (And where they all wanted to go in the past) This is what's worth $40 billion. If two companies have automatic cars, the one who knows where they want to go wins.

Perhaps Google wanted to buy at $2 billion or $5, but not at $40.
"The modelling data that is processed by the engine is written in XML."

You don't need to fear much, by the time the engine evolves data into something scary, the universe is long gone.
As luck would have it, USDS is connected to the Office of Management and Budget =)

Time to dream big.
While for the most part I agree with you, there are sometimes when it seems... appropriate. Take, for example, Google Docs. I'm used to hitting CTRL-S when working on just about any paper. If I had the save website dialog pop up every time I hit CTRL-S, I would start to get annoyed. I'm glad that Google Docs doesn't do that. A similar case can be made here.
I'm sure that point is not lost on researchers, but yeah, factoring in the effect of existing conditions is easier said than done correctly.
One of the people on the original healthcare.gov team with Mikey was right out of college, and I was only at Google for a year before I joined a team working to fix healthcare.gov (not USDS, but same ecosystem, and we spend a lot of time with the USDS folks).
Self-driving cars will solve the issue of collecting street data. Though of course one need some data for the cars to start with.
Try picking a zip code in a state that doesn't have its own state marketplace. The input element suggests 60647, in Illinois, which lets me continue on healthcare.gov instead of getting redirected.

Edited to add: healthcare.gov, unsurprisingly, is a fair bit nicer than the NY site. I live in NY and was looking at the individual marketplace out of curiosity, and I've (somewhat) read up on how US health insurance works, and I got a bit lost at the website. Healthcare.gov's UI explains a the Obamacare-specific parts (such as the "metal levels") right when you log in, and also lets you filter/sort by monthly cost (premium), which for some reason NY's doesn't let you do.
This is not the first time I've come across badly executed studies on running and long-term health. It's unsettling, and misleading.
Thanks! This also looks great. Hopefully I won't run into any NSFW images at work.
How much can Google squeeze its Maps customers without antitrust kicking in? Could they just cut off Uber the same way FB or Twitter or Apple can revoke an app's access to their platform?
Agreed. I've been in the Bay Area for ~1 year and definitely see the Ruby / Node / Java trend but back in Michigan it seemed like every tech job I'd run across was PHP or .NET.
Couldn't agree much. Every time there is some advance in so called "AI", killer robot and others strike back.

These are just advances in doing things human can do, i.e. recognizing in pictures, driving a car. Deep learning is known since long, calculation were just too long.

Fundamentally nothing has changed, we're not closer to an "intelligent machine".
The study seems badly performed and with a small test group—I would not be so quick to draw such a large generalization from it.
Honestly, I spend a lot of my time writing JavaScript and Scala. My point with the article is just that PHP has a lot of stigma that creates a self fulfilling prophecy of being a 'bad language'.
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So they entrench methods of doing things that may be highly inefficient in the face of changing requirements. Sounds great.
How many data points do you think you need to make predictions about where people want to go? Uber's data isn't as hard to get as you think. The article mentions also that Uber is already using Google maps to do routing so Google already has all the data it needs.
> There is enormous brand value in thinking "I'll get an Uber" as a synonym for "I'll get a taxi, but right what I need it, and it probably will smell better." There is value of having that app on the phone, with credit card # already in place.

Hrm. I see where you're coming from, but I can also imagine opening up Google Maps, clicking directions to go somewhere, and then when it says "press to be picked up by your driverless car", I'd just press that. If it were cheaper than Uber, I wouldn't bother subsequently opening up Uber to look for something.

Caveat: I'm a person who currently uses buses and trains because I can't afford Uber. I might not be representative, but I don't care about Uber. I'd be happy to jump ship, and I'm very used to using Google to search for things.
That was what I was thinking. I already use Google Maps like crazy. Add a "get picked up by driverless car now" button and I'm probably sold. (I don't use Uber though, I'm too broke for that right now.)
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Are there republicans actually criticizing the the Digital Service?(ignoring healthcare.gov) I certainly have no clue why they would, as everyone needs better IT infrastructure. A project like this, run well, would be in line with republican policy objectives.
Interesting to see that the "growth curve" was already a thing back then.
Didn't know there were natives in Venus, I must be living under a rock.
> My guess is that any edits made based on feedback from Nature's author network as well as the actual paper in the Nature format are under Nature's copyright.

Half correct. The authors retain copyright for changes due to feedback (peer review), as the authors themselves would have modified the paper to address any feedback. You are correct that the actual paper in the Nature formatting (and possibly associated copy-editing) are under Nature's copyright.
Here are the charts with the confidence intervals: http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleID=2108914

It is crazy they would present a subgroup analysis with 40 people, the effect would have to be enormous to find anything.
I get what you're trying to say but literally every department, bureau, and agency replaces leadership and huge numbers of staff when the White House changes parties. We can argue about whether that's a good thing, but those organizations do seem to weather the change and continue on with their core functions. The State Department is vastly more complex than a tech company yet manages to keep itself in order when one party is swept out and another rolls in. Part of their success is that continuity planning between administrations usually does rise above partisan rancor as staffers hand off their portfolios.
> Everything Apple comes up with goes into making their product better

Apple maps? Your statement used to be true, but not anymore.
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Depends on their duties. A non-cs grad can be good at scripting and coding straightforward things, but when it comes to tweaking/debugging low level parts they probably lack some knowledge on OS courses as it is a little bit hard for a self-learner to grasp.
Imagine a world where our interactions with government are delightful and we are confident in government’s ability to achieve the goals we set for it.

We can create that world.

When I first jumped into the world of healthcare.gov last year it was a crazy experience, but over the last year I've come to believe that anything is possible, which is why I'm still working to creating software that radically improves how government serves people.
Use of lossy compression for science imagery is contentious. Because it's hard to characterize how the compression will affect as-yet-unseen science targets, it's hard to get scientists to accept lossy compression.

You can sometimes get acceptance of prioritized downlink -- let automation decide what is most interesting, and downlink that first. Variations on that idea have been used for Mars rovers.
Apparently this is just another name change from Quantum OS which was originally called Quartz OS.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/communities/10402418756809...
They are formally partnering with CMU. Here's the CMU press release.

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/february/uber-...

"Uber and Carnegie Mellon University are announcing today a strategic partnership that includes the creation of the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, near the CMU campus. ... The agreement also will include funding from Uber for faculty chairs and graduate fellowships."
And this "should never" pronouncement will be enforced by you and what army?
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I envy the way he manages to balance all commitments in his life. Pretty amazing.
>> Do you think there is any such thing as a natural monopoly?

> I am not aware of any.

I think, judging by your username (ancap), you are philosophically opposed to the concept, because the existence of natural monopolies would represent a failure of the pure free market capitalism you promote.

I doubt I will convince you, and I doubt anyone else here needs to be convinced that natural monopolies exist.

>> Do you think the cost inherent in laying cables makes the entity that owns the cables a natural monopoly?

> No, otherwise the "natural monopoly" existed before the first company ever laid cables.

This simply does not make sense, which is further evidence that you're opposed to the concept. The high fixed costs of the laying of the cables relative to the small marginal cost of adding a new subscriber once cables have been laid is what creates a natural monopoly in this context. The massive economies of scale which are only available to the company which already has the cables laid make it infeasible for a new company to lay its own cables; that's how a natural monopoly is enforced.

Therefore, it's nonsense to imagine the monopoly existed before the cable was laid.