jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I used 5 weeks to create a simple Shopify app on evening / weekends after my day job working hours. After launching it on Shopify App Store at mid January this year, I got my first paid subscriber after 3 weeks, and now I have around 15 paid subscribers.

I am really glad that I purposely scoped down the feature set while developing it, and only added new feature after a few customers has requested for it.

I now spend 1-2 hours a day doing customer support / bug fixing for the app
Indeed, another weakness is that multi-layer perceptrons and their deep counterparts are susceptible to "catastrophic forgetting" -- training away old memories when new training data is presented. This is one reason why it's necessary to repeatedly run through the training data. This is a result of the way learning works in these neural networks. Like you say, humans have the ability to learn associatively in one-shot, a very different learning method.

There are neural networks like Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) which do not suffer from this flaw.
Just a wild guess: would it be the asteroids game?
Maybe solar panels/battery/converter combo?

Darren from Hak5 is touring across America to hacker spaces and the like, and he did something like that[0] which surprisingly was used to power more than I thought would be feasible. And this was on a sprinter van, so with a bus like this, one could get 4x the amount of energy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kSX2j7MGT0
I stopped using Uber in favour of black cabs (using Hailo) in London. For airport trips local cab firms are 1/4-1/3 of the price with a more reliable fulfilment time. (The app basically lies about how timely a driver can be, it says 5 minutes but when you hit book it says 15-20 minutes for me rather often).

The pricing is far too high. Only on one occasion out of a dozen did i get a luxury vehicle.

FYI Uber a base specification Mercedes E class is not a luxury vehicle. They are also usually not particularly clean and often with not a particularly competent driver.

I was having a bad day and needed to go from office->home->office->airport. I had to wait 40 minutes for a car (luckily i had thought of this in advance so that didn't bother me). The driver did the first trip then begged me to let him complete the fare there as he didn't want to go all the way to the airport. So I had to get out and book a new journey from scratch.
The miles really melt away when your doing 160, love those open roads and wide curves in the southwest. Yeh Eisenhower! :)

The biggest problem I run into is two lane highways where the semi trucks constantly block the left lane going just at the speed limit while trying to pass other semis in the right lane going just under the speed limit - literally a 1mph difference between the two. The speed limit for cars is 10mph above the truck limit but your lucky to do the truck limit consistently. California was particularly bad in that regard.

People from Oaklahoma are also a constant scourge on the road, they can not tolerate someone going faster then them, so if you try to pass on the left they will pull in front of you and bumble along at the speed limit or one mile over (def a culture thing, cops in OK have a zero tolerance policy for speeding, no margin, regardless of conditions, passing, etc.). On an open road you can just pass them on the right but in any moderate traffic they cause a lot of problems. Check the plates the next time someone does that, pattern isn’t hard to see.

Roads in West Virginia are basically paved over goat trails, I watched some douche in a pickup take a blind 5 mph turn at about 85mph trying to blow past a small sedan he obviously thought was going to slow and wedged himself in a stream about forty feet beyond the road. Luckily nobody was coming the other way around he turn or it could have been really tragic.
The reproducible thing about this error would be: I forgot to initialize my variables.
The biz model blocks from the slide deck are explained in great details (about 60 pages), and the rest is case studies and various ways of visualizing and brainstorming parts of a business. It's well worth the read and has become my primary way of explaining and thinking about businesses.

It doesn't cover validation or customer discovery, or the startup process at all (you'll find it generally has a more corporate feel). Most of that stuff from the deck has been developed from recent meetings between Blank & Osterwalder along with the work of a few others (e.g. Ash Maurya).
Yeah, why can't this be a Facebook app?

A whole lot of Facebook's value is the social graph, which is hard to re-create. Add this app into Facebook's already-existing graph, and you might have a winner.
This is what Google does. What you search is becoming a better and better predictor of what you will do. Most searches are based on future plans, purchase, or interests. They even know your current and future locations if you use google maps for directions. If you use gmail, Google can tell that you just broke up with your girlfriend, or are graduating college.

Sidenote: we don't "give away" this information. We exchange it for the value of the information we are searching for. Microsoft has even experimented with paying people (with discounts) to use Bing's product search features.
The nytimes wrote an interesting article on this a while back titled "How We Value The Super-Rich." It suggests that Americans don't have a general resentment towards the wealthy, but rather a resentment toward rich people who aren't perceived as generated wealth.

A couple of quotes:

"The super-rich of high-tech, on the other hand, create tangible things that make our lives easier, and this we can respect. Steve Jobs gave us the ubiquitous iPod. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the roller-blading Google guys, devised a better way to search the Internet. Jeff Bezos gave people a way to shop in their pajamas. Bill Gates makes the desktop software on the computers most people use every day."

"In contrast, the public seems to resent the big boys of Wall Street because they do not appear to have invented anything -- unless you count ingenious ways to make more money. Option derivatives are as inexplicable to the general public as particle physics. Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers, Alan Schwartz of Bear Stearns and Robert Willumstad of AIG might have tremendous records of innovation. If they do, none of us were told."

I actually think that much of the supposed American resentment toward the "rich" is anger with wall street. I have a feeling that some wall street PR will attempt to use this ambiguity, attempting to equate anger toward bailed out banks with a general hostility toward capitalism, investing, rich people in other sectors of the economy such as high tech, etc....

I also think that it would be foolish for "the left" (am I allowed to say that?) to play right into this by acting too alarmed about wealthy people who clearly have created great wealth.
> As for legal documents, those are all based on the standard work week as well, so that argument falls as well.

No, it doesn't. Quite a few legal documents are signed on Saturdays and then overnighted back so that the sender can have it back by Monday.
There are a lot of smart people here who are apparently outraged at this. But I wonder if any of them are going to do anything about it other than type in this thread.
The maximum signal speed loss due to inclination would be sqrt(1+(1/refraction_index^2))-1, or around 20% for fiber described above. Although, in practice, the fiber would not be even close to its maximum angle.

But potentially, a lower refraction index fiber with a reflective coating would allow signals to travel faster.
> https://rebrickable.com/sets/alternates/

This is excellent, thanks.
You can still buy something like this in Sweden. They sell it at my local food store (food stores cannot sell alcohol above 3.5% in Sweden). I, uh I mean a friend, might have tried it when in high school and it tasted not great, but not so bad you couldn't drink it. And honestly, I've had worse 'real' wine in my life.
In the near future, the world is going to look back at current China's behavior with embarrassment and sadness.
Try applying the problem to other issues to see the impact:

* An advertiser wants to place ads on sites / tv networks that have an audience that is more likely to buy their product upon seeing their ads. If they don't want to violate privacy, they run a survey. What if the response rate among a historical disenfranchised group (e.g. African Americans) is terrible? The modern "data driven" marketer would see little reason to advertise on Black media properties. This isn't a fictious example - it's a current problem in the media planning / agency industry.

* A local government has to decide between investing in more ESL resources in public education vs. other competing budget needs. They look at census / community survey data (which some Hispanic and immigrant populations are fearful of responding to d/t politicization) and decide to prioritize other asks due to undercounted demand. The data could also be skewed in other ways that warp their decision, like allocating budget to school zones that only represent specific immigrant communities that haven't historically been disenfranchised.

The big picture issue here is governments/businesses making decisions with bias information leading to incorrect conclusions, and the only know recourse currently is to scrap privacy.
I like that sportsball and celebs is off to the side - to differentiate it from news.
From the technology standpoint, where it comes from and how it's used doesn't really make a difference - if it can be processed on a single very beefy machine when done properly, then the appropriate/efficient way to work with this data is by avoiding big data techniques.

If it cannot, then you pay the price of all the complexity and overheads of big data processing techniques so that you can get your processing done.

It's correlated with data size, bot not so strictly - you can get, for example, NLP processing problems where you need a painful pipeline split over a huge cluster for a single gb of input data, and you can have problems where the best way to process a petabyte dataset is just to stick a single powerful machine to get the performance benefits of locality and low latency, and avoid managing splits/failed nodes/whatever.

So, in the first problem you would need to use Big Data techniques and the second problem you don't, it's not related to big data and the recommendations on how best to do that won't help people who need to do big data processing.
Wanna help some poor people? Give them money. In most cases, that's what they need, not your good will, not your clumsy efforts. Unless you have a very particular and highly-developed skill that's in high demand, just give money.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/
This seems especially true with cars. I lease a new Volkswagen and it comes straight out of the factory with a navigation system that looks and feels so outdated that it makes you wonder why car manufacturers even bother trying..
It's just so slow and ugly compared to an iPhone or other smartphone that I cannot imagine anyone using it in a few years.
Exit node operator here, had to login to address your comment.

One of the bigger advantages of a hidden service is that you can't be sure who's hosting it and where. They're great for hosting websites but do nothing for allowing access to other services. If you're worried about trouble from running an exit node you could contribute by running a relay or a hidden bridge which would be way more useful than a hidden service.

I've actually been contacted by the Michigan State Police in a child porn investigation and after explaining that I run a TOR exit node and have no ability to help in their investigation the officer I talked to was quite pleasant. I've heard nothing about it since then.

There are several news outlets that run hidden services for whistle blowers and people in danger or unable to speak openly so your idea isn't without merit but it does require pre-planning to be of any use. If you've got no way to communicate the existence of your service to people before they need it, it'll be of little use.
If you hire an electrician to wire your house, he doesn't say “This costs $3,500 (or whatever) and another $700 to ground everything properly." He says "That will cost $4,200", because he is a professional, and he is going to do the job correctly, or not at all.

Part of our jobs as professional developers is to understand the potential business impact on a feature and not invest time on documentation or unit tests for code that will probably be dropped next week. That said, and not to be harsh—but if you want to be treated like a professional, act like one, and set expectations for how much a feature costs to deliver, rather than breaking your work down into separate tasks and inviting your supervisor to discard the tasks he doesn't understand.
If the theoretical prediction can't be calculated until the experiment is done that motivates the choices of what and what not to approximate, is it really a prediction?

Let me make that more meta.

If a theory is unable to predict a particular key value, is it still a theory?

This is not a hypothetical question. The theory being tested here is the Standard Model. The Standard Model in principle is entirely symmetric with regards to a whole variety of things that we don't see symmetry in. For example the relative mass of the electron and the proton.

But, you ask, how can it be that those things are different? Well, for the same reason that we find pencils lying on their side rather than perfectly balanced around the point of symmetry on the tip. Namely that the point of perfect symmetry is unstable, and there are fields setting the value of each asymmetry that we actually see. Each field is carried by a particle. Each particle's properties reflect the value of the field. And therefore the theory has a number of free parameters that can only be determined by experiment, not theory.

In fact there are 19 such parameters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model#Theoretical_asp... has a table with the complete list. And for a measurement as precise as this experiment requires, the uncertainty of the values of those parameters is highly relevant to the measurement itself.
>The issue is taking away even a tiny fraction of car space basically triggers some kind of political road rage.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. I live in what many outsiders consider a bike friendly city though in reality it's impractical and unsafe to bike most places. If you're willing to also walk/bus your bike, flout local law on bicycling in pedestrian areas, and bike on major thoroughfares without bike lanes between travel lanes and parked cars then I suppose you'll be happy. That is until you get door checked, run off the road, ticketed, or hit.

Redesigning just the main streets and their auxiliaries would require making tough choices like one way roads that you'll cause you to drive considerably further to your destination. Removing on street parking, when our city already has a parking deficit. Removing the verges where they exist to accommodate bike lanes. On the many streets without verges the options are one way traffic or no parking, mixed use lanes for truck traffic and bicycles is unsafe. I suppose the buildings on one side could be seized under eminent domain, but that just balloons the cost and time scale.

All this is too say that without widespread infrastructure, especially between cities, biking is facing an uphill climb to widespread adoption. People want to be safe on their commutes. They want their bikes and cars safe while they work and shop. Designing And building infrastructure for bikes in cities that have been maximally developed is an incredibly and wastefully expensive exercise in compromise that does little to meaningfully reduce vehicular traffic.
Typically you get a signing bonus that vests of a period of X years. Once those X years are done, you are relying on additional stock grants from past performance reviews or promotions to keep your comp at its previous value.

If you perform well or get promoted you should see your compensation increase, but without that you are left with your base salary and no additional stock grants and can take a pay cut as a result.

Its one way FAANG weeds out lower performing engineers.
Or give the ability to choose which PDF generator the program uses. The situation you give is completely reasonable from the perpective of what the GPL was designed to do
I believe the article mentioned that the data comes purely from triangulating your position with what cell towers you are connected to. The consent related to location services seems to be only related to the GPS data. The author mentioned a trip to China where he turned off cell data services and used the GPS and Wifi and that none of those locations were tracked in the file.
I'm no kernel dev but yet I understood pretty much all of it. Well written!
I'm always a little wary of technological innovations that stop the system administrator from being able to administer the system. I understand the concept of not trusting root, but the solution surely isn't “so make the manufacturer the real root”. There isn't even a hardware override for this!

Getting hibernation to work under Linux Lockdown is technically impressive, and now we know how it can be done. But should it be done?
It was unfortunate to use that name Linux Lockdown. It was selected before COVID-19 though.
Get a Macbook Pro, dual install Ubuntu via Bootcamp, then run Windows in a VM in either OS (fine for testing, at least). That lets you learn OSX and build iPhone apps while still being able to use Linux as your primary OS if you desire.

I've been researching this setup the past few weeks, and it appears the only issue was that the linux gfx drivers for the HD3000 gpu (embedded in the i5/i7 Macbook Pro Sandy Bridge cpu's) were still alpha/beta quality, but apparently that's fixed in Ubuntu 11.04.

I'm still see-sawing though. My other option is to get a tricked out custom Sager with the latest Nvidia GTX 485 gpu and use it to start farming bitcoins (and perhaps learning CUDA). The embedded HD3000 gpu in Intel i5/i7 gets very good performance for an on-chip gpu (google for it), but is not in the same league as the 485 GTX.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8150s1-clevo-p150hm-p-2981.ht...

iOS development vs bitcoin farming and CUDA is the tradeoff, still thinking that through.
IMO the SSD is what puts the MBA over the MBP when deciding between the two. The big benefit is the battery life. The MBA is the first laptop I've ever seen where a programmer can work for what amounts to a full day on a single charge without any qualification.
When I saw NSFW I was expecting some swear words, not graphic images of a dead body.
I think the disconnect happens in "experienced startup land" where someone has a proven track record, and "scrappy startup land" where it's just two folks with a dream. I can't imagine scrappy startup founders ever having anything but equal equity. There's no market for their services as a CEO, and the founder that they're working with should probably be their best friend from college / work / equiv.
Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps.

I happily pay for quality apps. Why? It's going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value.

For some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service and/or claiming they didn't get enough support.

What do people expect when they don't pay for a valuable app...?
Well, sure, but you can make almost any statement sound ridiculous when you abuse word meaning to pull it that far out of the original context.

Being required to put money into Flattr before other people could give you money sounds a bit shady. It would be like the postal service refusing to deliver your mail unless you send a few letters every month.
Quinoa is also a complete non-meat protein source.
cachegrind is extremely useful, but unfortunately it seems that it's not updated with the current generation processors. Every time I run it, it complains about "unrecognized architecture" or something similar.
Ok... it downloads 22MB of ogg and webm files and then does nothing for me. Just a black screen after clicking on continue. FF4 with GeForce 9600 GT on Windows XP 32-bit
as someone not familiar with Go, always wondering why Go people like to recommend the net/http package instead of those framework, are most go backend services actually written from scratch? I find it quite hard to understand since in the Java world it's usually SpringBoot everywhere
Have they asked citizens? Everybody I know who uses Facebook/Instagram like it.
I'm sorry about what happened to you, really sounds awful. Have you tried tapering your dose very slowly over a long time? Speaking from personal experience, that worked for me (thank God) with my med dependency.
Holy crap how are your comments not greyed out?

Marginal income tax rate of 90% != Wealth tax (for which we haven't even tested constitutionality)

Also, nobody paid close to 90% thanks to generous loop holes and strategic tax avoidance: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nocera-tax-avoidance-...
Exactly. I'm of the persuasion that nearly everyone is fine without Facebook.
Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/
Right - that's fair, in my opinion. For work, I use closed-source software including Dropbox too. I should specify that I agree this is difficult or impossible to avoid, and that using these tools enables us to build things faster, which potentially is worth using them. I do it, too.

But I do want everyone to care. If you're using the tool because it's convenient, and you know that it could be spying on you, you should care about that. Apathy is what I'm fighting here, not Dropbox exactly.

I would love to move my work away from Gmail, Dropbox, etc, someday, but today isn't that day. (Uh-oh, am I like the rest of them?)
Erm heard of footfall monitoring and tracking customers by their phones.
> These properties also mean that in a pinch, if you live in an unstable society or one facing high inflation it can work as an alternative financial system.

At the time of writing this comment, if you want your BTC transaction confirmed in the next hour it would cost you ~ 10USD ( https://bitcoiner.live/ ) .

What planet do you live on where you think a non-negligible percentage of people in ANY country, let alone a developing one, can afford 10 dollars for each transaction they make? That's not even considering the price effect that global demand would have on fees. Bitcoin can't even meet the demand of the relatively small cult of people worldwide that buy it, few of which even move their "assets" off the exchange.

Parasitic investors have strangled cryptocurrency. If you think Bitcoin can currently serve any purpose other than making rich people more rich, you're a fool. Wake me when Tether is dead and people start using crypto as it was intended, peer to peer digital cash.

EDIT: I apologize for coming off so harsh. My anger is (mostly) not at you. I'm angry at seeing the enormous potential bitcoin had to do good in the world go completely to waste.
> "Other companies treat FC staff like shit too" is not an excuse.

How is this not an excuse? Most people would switch to Walmart/Target/Bestbuy or any other retailer if the price on Amazon is higher.
Almost like identity politics is used by those in power to distract us from real issues that have concrete impact on people's lives, instead fostering an us vs them attitude to keep us ignorant that both sides are being played by the same people.
This is cargo cult logic.
These lists seem great but aren’t in a pihole-compatible adlist format. Did you mean that one could take these and create pi-hole lists?