jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We're pretty deep in a single thread here, but the original article isn't saying "don't use analytics", it's saying "don't use Google Analytics".

Your SaaS or webpage probably gathers 80% of what Google Analytics does in your log files. It could without doubt provide deeper insights that GA is capable of by adding your own behaviour tracking code (which can be written with the understanding of your specific problem dom ain, rather than be an "everything to everybody" generalised solution).

Nobody is suggesting we shouldn't collect usage and performance data, the thesis here is that we shouldn't send all that directly to the worlds most profitable advertising agency, just because they'll draw us some pretty graphs for free.
That's not true at all. The 3/5s compromise affected the resulting balance of power, but the system itself was about preventing any one state from dominating the federal government. (New York was the concern at the time.)

Even if slavery didn't exist, the small state / big state dynamic still required a mechanism to balance the voting power between states. (This is often referred to as the Connecticut compromise.)
I'm not able to evaluate the truth of it myself, as it's outside my area of expertise, but at least some who do make a living studying this sort of thing believe it's feasible: https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-clim...
> He also can get prosecuted and potentially jail time for such a gamble.

I'm sure such a threat is definitely going to stop the bad guys, so let's not worry about actual security. /s

The people that should be prosecuted are the ones falling for such an obvious fraud. If you're in control of the .gov TLD and explicitly tell people to use the domain as a sign of legitimacy you are expected to know what you're doing and not be an idiot like the people currently running it.
Ha! My last name is "Hartshorn", I was kind of thrown by your example at first. You are right, though, textbooks may be this way even more often than lecturers.
Now I'm wondering what your acquaintance's tech stack is, and more generally, what the most reliable way to keep running scheduled jobs after death is - since Twitter won't remove accounts that still log in, I kind of want to set up a cronjob to keep my username active for as long as I can. (Assume that the job itself doesn't change, i.e., there's no need to move away from a deprecated API.)

Maybe Lambda + CloudWatch Events? AWS probably won't go away for decades.

Does your credit card automatically close when your death is reported to the financial system, or can you direct it to stay open in your will + set aside a bit of money to pay off the couple-cent bill in perpetuity?
How is this different from a sparse autoencoder?
Parameters are what we update during training. One parameter is one scalar among the learned variables of the model.

Audio-visual inputs do sometimes end up having 1B+ individual values, but there isn't necessarily a 1:1 relationship between input size and parameter count. In many deep neural nets, most of the weights are internal. They're used to process the outputs of earlier layers of the network. This is where the term "deep" comes from.
My mom grew up in the panhandle (Ketchikan) which rarely even sees snow, I guess (but lots of rain).
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he is alluding to, judging by the link.
Actually I would say Common Lisp, Scheme and Dylan are that type of language.
I think Perl didn't win. I don't know the specific context of Romania, but from where I sit, it's unlikely I'll get paid to program in it in the foreseeable future, if ever.

What's my hidden agenda in agreeing with this article over yours?
I would love to be able to evaluate lambdas in the debugger watch window in Visual Studio. Something like list.First(i=>i.Value==someValue) requires using a temporary variable, at least in VS2013.
Some people argue that suffering comes from other people's free will.

But there's also suffering caused by things other than people: earthquakes, volcano eruptions...
Yeah wtf, I'm not sure why he's randomly namedropping it.
Yes, it's parseInt() plus some further checks if the results are within an expected range in my code. And overall being more verbose, explicit, and careful. And the occasional squinting eyes from the "Fry meme".
I have no idea when it can and when it can't do that to be honest. I tested qsort vs std::sort on my machine on my data and performance was the same (Windows, MinGW, GCC 4.8, -flto enabled) but other people reported different results.
where would the client get this information? (can't you say whatever you want?)

Also this seems easy to massage, you can just resell a commodity under cost to generate all the 'revenue' you want (at negative margin.)
The ability to play golf, unless one grew up in a golfing family, appears to be included as part of the package in certain promotions. A direct download to the brain. "Now I know golf" Mr Anderson may say in later life having capitulated to Mr Smith.

It is inexplicable.
How long before the trigger warning itself triggers the very behavior they're trying to warn about?
what could be the use case now for learning Limbo/Inferno?
it says "distributed" but i couldnt see what it offers for distributed as in multi rack or even multi dc distributed. distributed as in distributed automatically to threads?
He is being very, very liberal with his own analysis.

If you read the predictions in context, you know that he predicted a future world where we are all wearing computers that we talk to. When he pulls each prediction out, he is able to justify it with a bit of a stretch.

btw he completely missed cloud computing - his predictions have users storing everything at home on large disk arrays.

(not sure how he missed it Ellison has been banging on about it for decades)
Thanks for this. It's really helpful for those of us who keep hearing about Kurzweil, but want a primer before diving in.
"Among the most damning facts about Enron, in the end, was something its managers were proudest of. They had what, in McKinsey terminology, is called an "open market" for hiring. In the open-market system"

Perhaps I missed this in the scandal, but I thought the most damming facts about Enron were wholesale accounting & auditing fraud with participation from Anderson. How does 'hiring smart people' explain the fact that their auditors conspired to commit fraud? If Anderson also heavily engaged in this HR practice Gladwell may have a point. But it's still heavily anecdotal. Like most business analysis it's backward looking instead of making predictions based on the theory and reporting the results.

Also, the article seems to conflate having an MBA with being smart. I wonder if Gladwell has ever thought that the reason Southwest has a vastly more efficient organization than its competitors is because it has a bunch of smart people who figure out how to do things more efficiently. People so smart in fact that they realize people on the ground can make much more informed decisions than people in a boardroom. An MBA is not a proxy for being smart, an MBA is a proxy for doing well in school. Unfortunately, school has almost nothing to do with the real world.

When I think about 'smart' people, I don't think about IQ or degrees. I think about people I've seen do the 'impossible'. A 'smart' person for customer service might be someone who is very friendly and personable. A 'smart' person for engineering may not be very personable at all but can come up with a working design in days instead of months.
definitely.. but he can hold his breath!
My beef against testing is that I often see it adopted (and often subtly pushed) as an alternative to thinking through the logic carefully -- Why mess with the if statements, my tests will catch the errors if any. Should I index the array with i or i+1 ? I will just test what works. Should I loop till n-1 or n-2. Let me just stick with n-2 and add a test...

The problem is that to write tests that really ensure that the logic is correct you really need to think through the logic really hard. Just spraying the code with a few tests that happen to come to the mind is not enough.

I am yet to see a convincing argument that shows that coming up with a sufficient number of (unit)tests from a specification is any easier than getting the logic right.

Testing is well intentioned but often abused as an excuse to be sloppy.
Why don't you just automate the REPL tests so they can be done for you? Whatever you type in the REPL, add it to the test suite. Whatever you check as output, that's your set of assertions. It will save you a whole lot of time in the future.
(And force every legit Android developer to manage their applications, updates, and support in two places, not even talking about the hassles of converting purchases between the two stores.)
http://www.registrarstats.com/Public/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

I don't know where these numbers come from (original article) but they are wrong or I've misunderstood their meaning.
You could find out if the short URL service is using a robots.txt file to block search engine crawlers.

Next you can look what kind of redirect the service is using: status code 301 or 302 or something unusual like 307.
Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer is a nice tool to find out the status codes: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html

A site: search on Google for the domain of the service may also be interesting.

I have seen that Googlebot and other crawlers will also follow "nofollow"ed links, I suspect that they use these links for page discovery like ordinary links. The nofollow attribute just tells the search engines that this link can't be trusted and shouldn't be considered for ranking calculations (like PageRank etc.).

It is not clear how much value Google and other search engines give to a link that goes through a redirect.
Sometimes pages redirecting with the code 302 appear in the search results instead of the target page (302-hijacking).

The link: operator is broken, it shows you only a small selection of links pointing to a site if anything at all. The Google webmaster tools show more links, but not all of them.
Yahoo Site Explorer shows more links:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
I have seen nofollow links in both of these tools. They do not tell anything about the value of a link.

I remember that I have seen links from tinyurl in the old version of the Google Webmaster Tools.
It doesn't seem honest about the options and outcomes in their chart. I immediately dislike that about this concept, instead of wanting to really help they make it seem like they are the only ones capable of launching startups. I understand the marketing aspect of it, but other organizations don't mock you for trying other routes and talking to some of the people, they are more than willing to help you regardless of whether you take their program/money or someone elses.
how about the tax for cigarettes?
If I understand it right, the ads are displayed initially and are still in the background when reader is on. If an ad is interesting enough, the user would still see and click it.
That seems like an accident waiting to happen ;)
I was too hasty and confused implementation-defined with undefined.
The equivalent would be Microsoft trademarking "Win" (come to think of it, they probably have done that).
I am working on starting my own bootstrapped business also, and am in a similar position as yourself. Start by googling resources about how to bootstrap a startup. $150/week is plenty, although you'll have to save for some bigger purchases.

Firstly, you'll should plan on doing most/all the work yourself. This isn't strictly required, but I find it to be the most fun part of the job. Save the money for advertising, PR, link building, domain registration, company formation, accountants, etc.

Alternately, you can select a product you you want to build, save for a few months, and then just pay someone to do it for you. There was a good interview on Mixergy about exactly this method, where a $2k investment turned into $80k/month. http://mixergy.com/free-apps-interview/ I wouldn't expect to have the same kind of success, but it is something you could pursue.

If you are more interested in sitting back and investing in established companies, a lot of people will try to sell you hot stocks or whatever. Don't listen. In the long run (3-5 years) no one, save a very few people like Warren Buffet, beat the market. Roll some percentage of your money into an S&P index, and international index, and a bond index, then re-balance every year. The closer to retirement you are, the more money should become cash or CD's. The younger, typically the more in stock + international. It's boring, but it's the surest way to have your portfolio grow.

Personally, I prefer the startup route (but I do plenty of investing as well).

Good luck!
They do a combination of their own indexing and using the API of sites like Bing (not sure if I got the second part exactly right, the point is the Bing results are there with MS's blessing).

More discussion of ddg's internals are on the Reddit AMA[1] and the founder's blog[2]

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bbqw7/i_am_the_founder...
[2] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/
From that link it seems that TomorrowNow had a promising marketing and sales division that improperly used Oracle IP.

While this improper use was going on, TomorrowNow gets to put up big numbers. SAP buys TomorrowNow based on those big numbers. Those big numbers turn out to be fraudulent, and SAP is on the hook.
You're correct, I remember reading a study on that too. The exceptionally misleading thing was that Vitamin D is essentially a super antioxidant. Not only does vitamin D act as an antioxidant in superior ways to all the antioxidants in tea, but it boosts the immune system notably in its ability to respond to cancerous/pre-cancerous cells.

Yes you're blocking the antioxidant benefits of tea because you're consuming a much more potent antioxidant and immuno-booster.

Not to mention milk contains vitamin A B's C (D) K, Biotin, Calcium, Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Iron... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk#Cow.27s_milk It's got good things that I haven't even heard of before.

If you regularly drink milk, then you might as well drink tea without it to get an additional source of antioxidants. If you don't drink milk regularly then put it in your goddamn tea because it is frikin godly.
From our side, we do not, nor have we ever monitored and registered our customer's domain searches. The easiest way to test this is to try and replicate it. I've seen similar complaints pop up from time to time and I've even offered a US 50k reward to anyone that would like to try to prove that we are involved in this in any way. Our customers are our business and we are not here to try to take advantage of them or their ideas. That being said, our domain search is absolutely safe.
Tesla had a demo for a battery pack replacement station [1, 2013], but I guess it never went anywhere.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
> The $10 a year includes the markup of a profit making domain registrar which has marketing and support costs.

I use Cloudflare Registrar these days for .com and .org. They claim to offer wholesale prices. My last .org bill was $9.90 + ICANN fee. And according to [1], Cloudflare directly work with PIR to offer .org, so unless they're lying, they are actually charged $9.90 per domain per year by PIR. Now, the article you linked to claims that PIR paid less than $2 per domain to the for-profit contractor who did everything technical for them (what's left? PR?). I wonder where the remaining $7.90 went...

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/

Edit: Apparently overlooked the beneficiary part. Not a fan of mandatory donations but at least the numbers sort of add up now.
Not too long ago the streets of Beijing and Saigon were the same, but people didn't like it that way and moved first to motorbikes and then cars as soon as they could.
I earn a monthly salary. That means that as long as I avoid getting fired I earn the same amount regardless of how much time I spend on Reddit/Facebook.
User testing can only help you _validate_ a design, not _create_ one. You can have all testing you want but still end up with a bad design.
>Where the definition of "people" is white, male, and I believe also had to be a landowner -- but still, considering the times, a radical level of democracy

So, at best the "people" of 3 centuries ago where asked. And not all the people, just the white, male, landowners (and rich -- poorer white male people only got to vote 1.5 centuries later or more in the US, even in general elections).

And why is this binding for people, including poor, non landowning, women, blacks, latinos, asians, etc, 3 centuries later?
I hate videos for technical documentation, but I watched this one to the end. It was actually a very good way to demonstrate the thought process of why this method is useful and how to use it. Of course it is a video explained how to avoid using videos for documentation. ;-)

I am an emacs user, but I am pretty sure there is a vim-base orgmode as well. I assume it can do most the same things.
Money? like Samsung selling their chips to Apple. Nvidia have a lot of proprietary stuff which allows them to get away even with inferior hardware. Nvidia will prob lose the AI datacenter market anyways, customs asics will just use RISC-V if Nvidia try to stop them.
People click on stories about GameStop.

No conspiracy necessary.
Right. Here is something that I've noticed some time ago and which applies to your history, but which of course isn't very useful to you now because it all has already happened, but partnerships are best formed between parties that are at the same level of commitment and with aligned goals.

If not it is a fairly surefire recipe for disaster, there are some exceptions but the majority of the cases that I am familiar with the party with the money ended up either taking advantage of the other(s), ended up with a disproportionate share of the loot or was able to take more risk. This skews the outcome in their favor more often than not.

It is a pocket edition of why when you're born wealthy you are likely to end up even more wealthy.
There's this thing called ux... John's program has a nice one, diff and curl and bash (used together in the way indicated here) have a terrible one.
Aside from being generally inaccurate, your points completely ignore the fact that we are talking about the future, not the present. Specifically, we are talking about a future in which there is simply no useful "work" for most people to do.

You can read more about the idea here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

There is also:

http://isa-global-dialogue.net/indias-great-experiment-the-t...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
Why the strawman?

It's a question of tradeoffs. Making seatbelts mandatory was a major step in preventing accidental deaths. Ensuring that pools are safer (which doesn't necessarily mean banning them...) would also be beneficial. As for gun safety, what's wrong with investigating how to prevent instances of mass murders which by now make a regular appearance in US news, since apparently the pro-gun lobby is too strong to outright ban weapons? Not to mention children playing with unsecured firearms.
'spread(ing) Western culture and ideas'? Would you care to expand on that? You presumably disapprove.
There are thousands of candidates, and could be even a new species.

The name Lycosa aragogi is already taken...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycosa_aragogi
Stuxnet is the one that comes to mind first, where a Polish mole was able to be hired at an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility.
Are you proposing that one should do any drug without skepticism after reading a wired article about it?
There is a bug also where if a bowman stands below and to the left some tile he can out-range a tower while they both have 7 tiles range. Fun fact, this bug was present in Red Alert.
There's always the possibility of using WebRTC data as a transport instead of WebSockets.

It's like a 7-layer burrito with extra helpings of sour cream and guac - a bit mushy, but still a burrito.
Actually, IndexedDB allows you to store large amounts of data, is standardized, and is supported across practically all browsers.
> Neither can anyone else, so far.

But most AIG researchers don't throw their hands up and say, "Oh damn, it's impossible (intractable), it's magic because we don't understand." Forgive me if I feel this a less-than-useful sentiment.

As far as the possibility of intelligence being intractable, what are the chances of this. Is it likely? If we don't even know what AIG entails, how would we possibly put odds on this? If we don't have the odds, what use is there is thinking about it? Should we stop researching AIG because of the possibility that it might be too much for us to handle?
One minor point since I see a lot of people get this wrong: 3DES is, to the best of anyone's (public) knowledge over the last like 35 years, secure to its intended security level (112 bits, which is basically fine). The only real problem with it is that it's ridiculously slow; there are plenty of faster stream ciphers with higher security levels. 1DES, meanwhile, is weak, but only because a 56-bit security level is useless today.

That said, yes, TLS 1.0, RC4, and SHA1 are all starting to smell, and it's probably time to toss them down the drain.
Accept in this case I don't really see why you'd want a naive o(n^2) parser when it isn't needed. Well besides for slow loading times.
Of course not. It's not federated and not standard compliant. It's a complete shame that they use XMPP but modified it to make it non compliant on purpose. Whatsapp is just an insult the Web and an example of the Internet's dark age mentality of walled gardens (like AOL vs Compuserve e-mail incompatibility).
No, there is no entitlement, I just don't believe that using a site entitles that site's owner to track you all over the Internet. And if you can't see why it's wrong, you're hopeless.