jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Content of video:

- Back to around 80%

- Group video chat and offline IMs may be down for a while

- Currently using dedicated servers to restore service

- Looking into giving credit vouchers to paying customers

TechCrunch also has more on comments on their thoughts on the solution.
some in depth points on that criticism.

http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/781

disclaimer, i haven't read the book. but if teaching cpp while he was really teaching C was his crime, than i will probably be on his side when i do read the book :)
For those that didn't know (I didn't): UGC = user-generated content.
G wants the merchants to have a good experience (95%+ report that they do)

How does that match with the rice university study where 42% wouldn't run a promotion again? It seems unlikely that half of your clients have a good experience they wouldn't repeat.
That's kind of... pathetic.
What's keeping my house in good order, and being a good neighbour got to do with electing to use the option offered to me by Google to remove these images? Are you saying I'm wrong for doing so? I'm saying that this matter is still very subjective, it's all new, and there are no wrong or right answer yet, but isn't it still my choice? Google seems to agree with me.
because he's Oprah for nerds and there was a whole thing with him complaining about having his name publicly displayed in an article and people in tech whining about the mainstream press is the new hot thing.
Some comment(s):

- You have a couple of cookies set. If you are not reading that with JavaScript, make them Send For: https only.
Reminder: they both are encrypted, just not E2E. Telegram is not blasting your plaintext messages into the ether and then into their database.
Based on your feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features.

Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :)

ChangeLog:

2015-01-19

- Custom date range picker

- Responsive design

- New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments

- If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion

- Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding, removed useless "upvote" arrow, ...)

2015-01-12

- Full reimplementation based on Angular.js

- Performance improvements

- Minimal design to improve readability

- Customizable sort order (by date/popularity, by date range)

- New sharing features (Twitter & Facebook compliant)

- Cloudfront-based assets delivering

- Experimental UI

- Inlined comments

- Advanced filtering/refinements capabilities

- Thumbnails
There is a lot of hype surrounding Deep Neural Networks which seem to be able to solve extremely challenging machine learning problems with almost no human tuning of parameters.

This is an informal talk at the big-O meetup in London discussing the application of machine learning to quantum mechanical simulations of atoms and molecules. This is a particularly demanding application of machine learning techniques. The requirements for regression accuracy are very high, and in addition a number of physical laws need to be obeyed by the learning algorithm. The point of the talk is to invite discussion about the relative merits of domain expertise versus general-purpose algorithms for high-performance machine learning.
The android interface would be hot garbage on desktops/laptops.

Not everyone uses a 12in netbook with only a browser window open.

The fact that Android is successful does not actually make it good and most of the apps are worthless on a large screen whereas there are lots of actual apps for Linux of note.
>One point that I totally forgot about, but is now painfully apparent now that I'm back on X11, is screentearing. On Wayland, screentearing is a thing of the past. Everything was so smooth, flicker-free, and tear-free. Now I need to mess around tweaking compositors to get a nice experience on X11 (i3)… So that's a big plus for Wayland.

This was my big hold up of using Linux as a whole. The screentearing is horrible, and coming from OSX where everything is as smooth as butter, it is an issue. But thankfully, Mint (which I'm on atm) allows the user to turn off vsync, and because I have an nvidia graphics card, I can turn on full-composition, and have my graphics card do vsync, and BAM! smooth as butter. It's an absolutely lovely and wonderful experience.

I don't know what it's like on the AMD or Intel side, but with hardware becoming more powerful and better supported, I don't think the future is Wayland, but instead defaulting to a higher level of gpu acceleration than the default Gnome settings we have today. This removes the latency, the page tearing, and responsiveness issues that X11 has Wayland was created to fix.
facepalm

Thanks, fixed.
What happened to Mir if Wayland is the only viable x11 alternative?

A cruel friend has suggested everything touched by Ubuntu billionaire founder Shuttleworth turns to manure but I think this isn't so helpful to understand why Mir seemingly died completely? Even GnuHurd hasn't died so dramatically..?
The map doesnt load and it's missing many camping sites in my area
Found this:

Duration of the performance-based contract will be three and a half years, with a total potential value of $128 million. It provides for additional options of up to 10 years.

https://gcn.com/Articles/2004/08/09/USDA-awards-contract-for...

Sooooo yeah.
> In our EE's system, E is not conserved but F=ma still holds. So F=ma is true even if energy is not conserved.

Well; no. Energy is conserved. Just because the electrical engineer is ignoring that fact doesn't stop it being important. Same with the physicists.

F = ma is a very convenient equation. But energy conservation is a simpler, more fundamental concept and forces are a mathematical artefact of that which happen to be easy to work with.
*18F
And this likely cost over $10 million. Will not be surprised if it's $100m.
They call them "Peace Walls"/"Peace Lines" Spooky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_lines
Short URL points to https://github.com/citronneur/rdpy/.
Another tech giant engineer here. All too often random opinionated comments get taken way out of context and misconstrued as something pertaining to the company they work for. Separate from any NDA concerns, no one wants to have some reporter quoting them as "Google insiders reveal targeting of Republicans". I can't speak for Google employees, but I certainly don't have to preface anything with "this is my own opinion", but I certainly won't say anything that implies that I'm voicing some stance or opinion of my employer.
Don’t use Bumblebee anymore.

Use this instead:

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/440.31/READ...
What's with this weird trend since 2016'ish (?) that everyone is getting offended by everything? Surely the world has enough other problems right now.
Ubuntu, for one.
There's also Dick's sporting goods in the US :)
You're probably doing it wrong? Try running 400m flat out sprints with 1 min rest between each one and tell me how high your heart rate gets.
For public information, G8 is pronounced gee-baa in Chinese
Yeah, saying "3.5 billion battery cells per year [for cars]" could make it sound like they delusional expect every other person in the world to be buying a new electric car every year by 2020.
Github should not take weekends into account.
TextMate 2 is GPL. It just isn't multiplatform. Yet. I think there was some work to make it run on GNUStep, but I may be mistaken.
You non-js users are adorable: http://i.imgur.com/VV4Yw2V.png
This effort is bravely. But you have strong competitors like : https://www.smore.com
> Seems it might be a bit hasty to just say "well it's non-ionizing radiation, so one is ignorant to fear it"

That would be nice if anyone was saying that. But we're not. Instead, we're saying that people fear it out of ignorance, which is considerably different.

Do you have a link to Frey's study? I couldn't dig that particular one up.
From my experience as a contractor, I'm betting the actual employee sees less than half of that. Perhaps a lot less.
Considering any positive comment will be buried deep under in HN, I think it's important to celebrate this success. Price of Bitcoin is meaningless, all other metrics seem to point to higher and higher adoption of this new technology. Great news!
Please don't do this here.

Edit: off-topic UI question—my comment was a reply to a comment that its author subsequently deleted. Is that unclear to the reader?

I've noticed that replies to comments marked [flagged] or [deleted] seem to get downvoted more, and am wondering if that's because it isn't obvious that there was a parent comment and it's no longer there.

Edit 2: Thanks for all the replies. It's clearly a problem and I've put it on our list to fix.
"Oh dont worry, the only abuses at the NSA are jilted lovers spying on exs, trust us!"

It sounds like a load of hork, especially considering the sliding slope of truth they have been pushing lately.
How does the centralized ad server track the user as they move from site A to site B, since no cross-domain cookies can be used? Without resorting to fingerprinting which could be circumvented by the client. Absent behavioral profiles and persistent tracking, most ad formats are worth very little. Isn’t limiting all communication to the first party domain a form of sandboxing?
Most people have no productive obsessive interests. They might obsess over Entertainment Tonight, if anything. That produces nothing of value for broader society. You might even say it halts growth as a society, corrupting our cultural fabric.

Geniuses are a gift because they generally apply their obsessions in a way that brings our culture forward. Investing and trading gurus who pore over 10-Ks or find alpha in trading signals and show incredible returns. Writers burning the midnight oil producing a prolific amount of high-quality work. Brian Chesky living in over 30 different AirBnB locations obsessing over the customer experience.

Hire the obsessive geniuses, then get out of their way. Not all of them will have a great "vision" or know what a good collaborative framework at work looks like. Sometimes your job as a founder and leader is to figure out how to let them flourish.
Isn’t the cosmological constant the OG fudge factor in GR?

AFAIK we need dark matter to explain any theory of gravity, the observations don’t match what we would expect form classical mechanics either which is still the go to theory for things like galaxies.

MOND was introduced initially to fix the observations mostly in regards to how we understand Newtonian mechanics, the relativistic versions of MOND can be used as an alternative to GR but these have been more or less debunked with the observations of gravitational waves since afaik all the versions of MOND have “instant gravity” just like Newtonian mechanics.
We should never underestimate the likelihood of a surprising observation being explained by a silly mistake or some mundane chance event.

Like you, I've had this experience countless times when debugging a piece of code, usually my own :)
For those interested, with sympy's lambdify you can do some cool stuff. Here I create a lazy-evaluated version of pricing a third order greek:
https://github.com/timkpaine/tributary/blob/master/examples/...
A lot of people agree that Instagram was sorely underpriced and was a steal for fb
Chess is one of those areas where humans have developed computer-like abilities, such as exhaustive search. What's interesting is the appearance of intuition-like movement in modern chess computers, but is it ... intuition?
This is exactly what I thought, but was not able to put into words. Thank you.
Flipping light switches is not a competition... I wasn't being literal. I mean a great number of important things in life are competitions even if we don't see ourselves as competitors.
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But actually I disagree with saying Ramanujan wasn't competing with anyone, he just wasn't trying to compete

Plenty of people would consider any academic field a competition, even if not everyone in the field is there to compete

The competitive nature of the mathematics field easily have to do with why Ramanujan was not taken as seriously as he should have been at first. A "competitor" was coming with claims to grand contributions and that already created friction, which when combined with other factors about his non-traditional presentation became roadblocks.
Excellent paper. Given how much muck a 5-10 horse barn generates (which self heats with animal body heat) and the daily periodic loading of the digester would enable continuous low level of electricity generation, which makes the problem electricity storage, not generation.

(assuming passive solar and geothermal + modern wood stove heated house, with option for propane backup)

It's a question of what we're optimizing for. To me the priorities would be, animal waste/muck reuse, power outage risk, then with normal conditions handled by a grid hookup, which is mandatory for code in many jurisdictions anyway.

I figured a powerwall would operate as an electricity storage scheme to use for either household or Bollinger truck use. The cutover from powering one to the other is nothing an Arduino and some relays and other cots equipment couldn't handle. Fun to solution this. If you have the liquid capital to build a new passive solar and geothermal house on land, $125k for a vehicle is about par for the course anyway.
Oddly, I read it as having an orthogonal subject: not having skills, but demonstrating them. The presentation seems to be aimed at the sort of entitled mindset that believes employers will _just_know_ that they deserve 40k fresh out of college. Whether you have skills or not, if all you do is write your bachelors degree and some dot-points on your resume, you're not going to get much credit from employers.

Of course, as your skills go up, the chance that you'll get credit for them increases. Truly world class skills would market themselves. The point, however, is that there _is_ an independence between your skills and employers perception of them. It's not always going to be obvious to an employer that you can provide them with value.

It's not enough to simply have skills. It's necessary to demonstrate them, to get them out there. The techniques the presenter outlines might be familiar to someone who has done some reading on the general subject, but to the sort of entitled mindset that the presentation seems to be directed at, they mightn't be so obvious. Blogging, building a portfolio, networking: basic stuff to some, but not to everyone.
Veganism implies a moral consideration for animals; opposition to rape doesn't.
It's not a strict either/or. Even those who are using more dynamic languages/frameworks for their web-facing services may use Java for deeper infrastructure: Lucene/SOLR for search, Hadoop/HDFS for large data-mining, HBase/Cassandra for big-NoSQL tables.
I call this WMC (Weapons of Mass Connection)

Edit: Don't know why I got downvoted but I guess the above statement needs some context:
http://000fff.org/the-power-of-digital-ecoystems/
I hate to find fault in an otherwise informative and complimentary post, but what the heck is AJAX2? XMLHttpRequest Level 2 is a revision of XMLHttpRequest, not of "AJAX", which is a fuzzy bundle of concepts referencing a style of Web application development. It has no 2.
What point am I supposed to be getting here? Yup, it's a benchmark. F# was consistently slower than Java, but, consistently used less memory and fewer lines of code.

Are you saying this is good, or bad?
According to the article, in addition to blocking links, the company's fan page was also removed. Is this also part of the phrase blocking routine? (This is a genuine question and not an antagonistic attempt.)
It's normal to eat meat. People who don't, look kinda sick, you can tell.
This is what the PDF looks like in Chrome 41.0.2272.101 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 14.04.2: http://imgur.com/T1ln9Cl

Looks fine when I download it and read in Document Viewer.
Sweden is a very unified country. The US is not.
Well, two comments: First, it's hard, but never before a single person or small company could at least technically reach millions of people with feasible investment. Now you can.
Second, by the time people who do paper work got to position that can make change, many already confirmed to their system bureaucracy and traditional point of view and interests. You need the people who don't take that way.
> I tried Elm but it is too DSL for me.

Fair. And that's what it wants/advertises to be. "Not a general prog lang".

> Its approach also doesn't scale. Too much writing, like Redux.

Not sure what you mean by this. Software that needs to scale do not run in browsers. Elm is just for the FE bit, the UI, the interactive browser stuff. Hence the DSL thing makes sense (to me); though I totally understand one does not like that.

And when it comes to writing: it has very terse syntax. Look at all TodoMVC examples and you find that Elm will use about the least number of characters of any implementation that gives strong typing guarantees.
It's not meant to be specific to the business. People usually contact small businesses for scheduling / rescheduling / cancellations , those kinds of inquiries are "bot-able" to certain extend. The plan is to have an affordable subsription service for general use.

As I mention before, the decision tree is still designed by the business, the AI is for the natural language processing.
I have a use case for diffing trees, so would love to know of any optimal algorithms you may know of; I'm operating generally with less than 100 nodes, so it's not a huge concern, but I'm finding that discovering _any_ algorithms for this has been tough.
Yes I'm hoping that should be enough to dampen their ambitions
An interesting, and successful regulatory use is detecting oil slicks from bilge dumping (and the vessel associated with them)
Example: https://skytruth.org/2019/11/multiple-accounts-of-oily-pollu...
It's simply just putting money into a checking or savings account that you use to cover unexpected expenses. The amount varies by your life situation and risk tolerance, but a couple months salary is a good start.

Think of the sort of "adult expenses" your parents have - refrigerator failed and too expensive to repair, need to buy a new one - that will be $2,000, right now. My teeth need to be fixed - that will be $3,000. It's winter and the furnace broke - that will be $7,000. You want to be able to have the money on hand to deal with those situations. Those were not random examples - those are things that have come up for me in the last two years

You probably shouldn't have more than a few hundred dollars in an emergency fund if you're paying off high interest loans (10%+)
There a few exceptions to the right of first sale.

This video covers it in pretty good depth. https://youtu.be/GuYd4RP0_qk
I didn't design it - from a graphics perspective. I worked with two awesome designers who worked with me to craft it....i.e. they put up with my overbearing demands :)

The design of the marketing site. Was done by: http://fairheadcreative.com/ and the UI design was done by: http://www.andreeblixt.com/ Both awesome designers.

The Chameleon, both the graphic and the CSS was done by Adam @ Fairhead Creative. Blixt is insane with the UI stuff.
Yes. No. Both. Depends on who you ask.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It's off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everything is ok until your organs get taken out of you while you are still alive.
Could you explain further? I'm not familiar with events surrounding Martin Tripp.
Singapore has 4 languages and associated faiths and works pretty well.
Probably some other social network would have swallowed the world instead. MySpace?
That was my take on it as well. My view is the opposite: if you have a child with dwarfism, it's unethical to refuse to treat them, if there's a safe treatment where the long term effects are understood (I get that this drug is not yet that, but hopefully someday could be).

Being short is a disadvantage in our society, no matter how you try to slice it. Even people without dwarfism tend to be looked on less favorably if they're shorter than average. It sucks, but pretending that being short isn't a disadvantage is just willful disillusionment.

And that's before we get into any of the health problems that dwarfism can cause. I look at this similarly to how I see vaccinations: I'd consider a parent unfit to raise a child if they'd refuse to treat their kid's dwarfism, if a treatment is possible and reasonably safe.

Pride in a disadvantage is helpful for people psychologically, in order to cope with the oppression or cruelty of others, but allowing it to turn into a desire to keep that disadvantage -- and deny others the ability to choose for themselves whether or not they want treatment -- is truly a bad thing.
General-purpose computing is not being attacked or eliminated. Hobbyists and specialists can buy products for them if they like. The monopoly discussion is a red herring because monopolies are bad regardless of whether those business offer fully customizable software.
Are you implying that this truck will be manufactured on Mars at some point?
love the idea, though i'm getting 404ed when I try to compare haskell and coffeescript (osx / opera 26) http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/Coffeescript/Haskell/#
Surprisingly, he's mostly on point with the article he basically summed up the article -Schools don't need better teachers-instead the teachers need better Support.
Still figuring this out - I have DevonThink to collect/catalog but I find that I don't often get in there to search, so that information basically rots. Same with my web bookmarks, many are several years old. As time goes on I find that information is basically useless unless I either internalize or act on it. So I tend to use information to adjust either my anki decks or my goal maps, and then I try to deliberately not save the rest... although that is still difficult since some of it is still just so tempting to flag by saying "gosh I will really want to refer this later after I do x, y, and z"...
Relevant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795150
Johannes Koelman takes apart that claim in a concisely articulated argument -- http://www.science20.com/the_hammock_physicist/falsifiabilit...

TL;DR: "The scientific method is not about testability or falsifiability per se. It is about trying hard to falsify. Nothing more, nothing less. Truth is to be found in those ideas that survive despite the multitude of attempts to falsify them[...]quantum gravity theories needs to reproduce all known low-energy physics, as well as all known classical gravitational phenomena. In other words: if you ensure your favorite theory of quantum gravity in the appropriate limits reduces to the standard model and Einstein's theory of gravity, your theory has survived all falsification attempts ever undertaken in the history of physics. This is a key point that fails to receive attention in 'string theory and falsifiability' debates."
I'm saying all companies HAVE to care about your money but they don't have to care about you. Not unless you have competition.

Laissez-faire
Vidme co-founder here. We re-encode all videos to make sure they'll play well across devices.
They could ban only the accounts issuing the votes and revoke the fake votes when the account is deleted.