jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
He's probably referring to the fact that marginal cost is still below marginal revenue, but long-run average cost is above marginal revenue. This situation is often covered in introductory microeconomics and the conclusion is that they will continue to operate in the short run but shut down in the long run.
The problem is that speculation created a lot of attention for Bitcoin as a get-rich-quick scheme, not as an actual utility.

And that's not necessarily true. It assumes that everyone mines bitcoin for the purpose of obtaining bitcoin, not to support the network.
Not easy to do with Vine's crappy interface but if you step through it and stop you will see that the rocket is decelerating and when it gets close to the platform it adds thrust which then increases its pitch over (which would be expected without anything on the top to control pitch) and then it increases thrust still more (presumably to right itself) but the back end of the stage is already below deck level at that point. It comes across the back of the barge and clips the engine section which separates the engines from the fuel supply. The fuel and oxidizer continues coming out and burns rapidly. That ends up tossing the remains of the rocket off the screen to the left.

We can't tell of course from the video if the barge was moving (by virtue of the camera being fixed to the barge it makes it appear to be unmoving in the video).

If you are reading this SpaceX, here is my suggestion for capturing more data in future flights. Install quad copters on the barge which launch once the barge detects the landing stage is inbound, have them position themselves using the GPS from the barge 100 yards out in four directions. Then have four reference lights on the corners of the barge (can be LEDs) to give you the ability to back compute angles from the video. Stream video from the quad copters back to a secure video storage facility in the barge which is designed to withstand rapid disassembly of the barge and float. Could make for some awesome videos too.
Even if they are engaging in speculation, it would be more rational for them to quit mining and spend the money they would spend on electricity to buy bitcoin on the open market.
Miners need expensive and energy hungry equipment because this is what protects the Bitcoin network.
It's an ok article, though technically inaccurate on a few fronts: The difficulty of mining is related to the number of coins mined (not the number of miners). The miners aren't the "central repo" of the ledger (it's distributed and anyone can download it). shrug
"Ponzi scheme" and "redistributing wealth" in the same headline? Wow, that is a sure warning sign for the quality of the article.
you can share videos on Twitter. There is a huge contingent of complaints from people banned / suspended on Twitter for DMCA concerns. Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search?q=DMCA&restrict_sr=o...
As others have pointed out, the Right to Repair movement has achieved far more practical progress than Stallman has.

Stallman can't/won't even defend the GPL in court; others have had to organize outside the FSF to do so because the FSF is only interested in stroking its beards.
Not really a counter to anything you've said, but just wanted to note that after two decades of fighting open source licensing for their widely popular VST audio plugin API, Steinberg finally did release under the GPLv3.
> they provide a useful extreme endpoint such that there can exist a reasonable "Overton Window" of Free/Open Source/ Whatever Software

Or, ya know, they could just stake out reasonable, nuanced positions that organizations could adopt or at least be a starting point for further developments
>It was somewhat funny many years later finding old boxes written "Custou dez litros de gasolina"

That's genius. I'm going to start using it here for Mexico
>And I would even say: despite having 0 budget, they were immensely successful over time.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because from where I sit, Free Software had a bright spark at the beginning and slowly faded away into a miserable failure.

Apple sells a lot of laptops because they're really easy to use. The wifi "just works" and the battery life is excellent.

To a first approximation, zero people run fully-free stacks on their daily-driver laptops because they're not easy to use unless you're the kind of person who uses their 2005-vintage Thinkpad on Ethernet and AC power only.
But don't you think a query containing the exact name of a website is fairly likely in search of content from that site? In terms of recognizing user intent, I'd consider the need to use a search operator here a failing.

I commented because learning of such special-casing of a site by Google [a] was quite memorable for me at the time; since I also see plenty of other threads around us debating search engine curation, what follows is

I came across some Reddit threads from a certain time in 2014 which noted that the top Google results for some subjects were ED pages that mentioned them. Perhaps ED's downranking was in response to that. Whatever the cause, this is actually a more severe downranking than that famously applied to thepiratebay.org [b]; for example, the query thepiratebay org foo returns only results from the actual site, [c] but the same query for ED returns no results from ED. [d]

I did find two more cases where Google does return a (single) page from ED. The sole query without any operators that does so is encyclopediadramatica online (and its punctuation/whitespace-equivalent variants), for which the Main Page is the first result and the only ED result. [e]

The other case is when searching for a phrase within quotes that occurs nowhere else in Google's index other than on ED. For example, the expected only result of the query "Encyclopedia Dramatica help pages" is the ED page containing that text. [f]

So, to be more precise, ED is severely downranked rather than delisted, albeit with the result that no one can find it on Google without already knowing its URL (or a hapax legomenon quoted from its pages).

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[a][b][c][d][e][f] If I may use a simplistic model of Google that determines a score for each potential search result (i.e., 'distinct' crawled URL) by starting with the same initial score for all results and applying a sequence of steps to each result that each change its score, the following is a speculative explanation for all these behaviours:

- Following the meat of the algorithm is the downrank-specific-sites step, which decreases the score of each page of a downranked site by some amount (affects both TPB and ED: TPB scores are decreased moderately to implement [b]; ED scores are decreased massively, explaining [a]).

- Then comes the query-contains-site-URL step, which greatly increases the scores of all pages of that site (TPB results are now higher than non-TPB results, explaining [c]; ED scores were decreased so much that they are still lower than all other results, explaining [d]).

- Then comes the query-is-site-URL-exactly step, which makes the score for that site's base URL (which in the case of ED redirects to the Main Page) higher than any other score (explaining [e]).

- Search operators are last, and thus the highest-priority (explaining [f] and the site: operator).

These steps have held up in general where applicable for all the queries that I've tried.
The question was: "In exactly which way is Stallman being inflammatory here? "

Nothing you say addresses that.
Perhaps not coincidentally,

Toilet paper was invented in 1857 (4)

That's a pretty good set of search queries, even though I am personally doubting that steel was invented in 1856 and scheme was invented in 1854.
Please don't use the word "journalism" and Engadget in the same post. Ever again.
Egads, you're right. That is the sort of software you wouldn't use every day.

Personally, I find it surprising that customers would complain about you removing "trivial" options. Do you think you would lose customers (did they threaten to not use your product)? Would paying for your product change their opinion?
Well, I know about C166/167, but while it is probably cheap (used in considerate amount of ECUs, and many Siemens products) it is not exactly readily available. Also this architecture is, to put it simply, weird, I would describe it as 16bit hybrid of MCS-51 and Alpha.
Passion triumphs everything.

Just remember this all times.
I don't understand: they all (more or less) execute code from RAM. You can't execute code from ROM, and you can only fit an instruction at a time (or so) in the IR within the CPU. Von Neuman doesn't have an exclusive on that.

The architecture of the CPU refers more to how the data is processed internally, but generally speaking, it's always "load from ROM, stick in RAM, execute in CPU, write results back to RAM." Rinse and repeat.

However, the Von Neuman views both ROM and RAM as a single, vertical unit. You can shift data to and from the ROM & RAM as needed to represent a single high-speed high-volume storage unit, but that's only needed if you want an easy way to page RAM to disk (not run programs from RAM).

The Modified Harvard Architecture is nice, and is popular with many embedded devices. I primarily use Atmel, and their Modified Harvard works great for me.

Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Harvard_architecture

When you're dealing with embedded devices, there's (almost always) another way of dealing with the RAM requirements. For instance, I highly recommend the AT90USB1286 CPUs for hobbyists and entry-level enterprise stuff because of their true USB support and super-low cost. These only have 8k of RAM, but they have 128k Flash memory. You should be able to use the flash to do what you need.

The only time you need the kind of stuff you describe is when you're basically running software meant for "normal" CPUs on microcontrollers. When you're trying to run "operating systems" instead of firmware, and "packages" instead of highly-optimized and platform-specific code, that's when you need 32KB+ RAM. For everything else, a larger (32KB+ all the way till 1MB) ROM backend will do.

My only problem with the ATMEL was the limited EEPROM size for the actual firmware, and since it's a Harvard architecture the separation between data and instructions makes it difficult to run code from the flash ROM. But the new generation now has 8k+ EEPROM for the firmware, which is a nice improvement.
Maybe you can clarify what you mean by 'values of a person' which the recommendation engines are considering. You mention measurable by actions, behaviors. Wouldn't you consider Amazons recommendations engine behavior based. They bought the book, wrote a review, others rated the review, etc. etc.

To use Pandora as an example, they do a ton of metrics to measure what a song sounds like, however their most valuable metrics and the reason the system keeps getting better is the collaborative filtering Pandora receives from the thumbs-up/thumbs-down of users.

So, unless you can give an example of other values, I'm not sure I'm understanding that part of your question.

As far as a business idea, many have tried to sell access to a recommendation system to run on customer data. I think most of these companies fail because recommendation systems are difficult to measure, and look like a high cost to customers. There are lots of recommendation algorithms available which can fairly easily be built into most solutions.

You mention strands which I haven't looked at in a long time, and now is a 'digital log for active people'.

Take a look at echonest. they've been around for quite a while, and may be one of the better music recommendation companies out there, but I wouldn't exactly say they are hugely successful.

I think there are lots of 'good enough' implementations of a custom recommendation engine that can be made by most companies who are already creating value with products or information.

If you have an idea or a market you are looking to build a recommendation engine for, I'd suggest building the entire company, and not just the recommendation engine. Recommendations are not a unique proposition in most markets.
Rust doesn't have a standard async runtime, so the question would be "how does tokio compare to goroutine, etc..." since that's the most popular one.

Looking at the techempower benchmarks, the projects using tokio generally outperform Go, Java, so I'm guessing it's on par or better.

Hypothetically, you could port goroutines exact behavior to rust and use that as your wanted to too.
It is not clear to me why being selfish is either antisocial or being greedy is antisocial. Almost all the better societies, more livable societies are where people are free to pursue their own self interest (aka greed or profits). The one like North Korea where government beats people to be "non-greedy" appear to be pretty violent places to live.

> which is almost never correct

I am not seeing either any black or white. You on other hand just called a lot of people antisocial. So people who move out of California to Nevada because they dont want to pay 10% (or 16%) state tax are antisocial ? Seems pretty black and white assertion to me.
I must be getting old. After reading this article I wrote an email to my representative. I'm pretty sure that's a checkbox on the form I fill out when I get a physical:

Have you ever sent a strongly worded letter to an elected official? []Yes []No
There should be some... parenting Wikipedia... or something like that. But then I imagine how various people would write there all that contradictory advice. :(

We had great parenting lessons, and more importantly, got a phone number "if you have any question or problem, call us".

My wife had a problem breastfeeding: it hurt her, a lot. She asked the nurse what to do, and the nurse was like "dunno, happens to many mothers, use a formula if the problem persists". We used that phone number instead, a lady came to us "show me how you feed the baby... ah, I see, the baby is under a wrong angle, here is how you should do it instead". Problem solved. Lucky us, but less lucky all the mothers who asked the same nurse, received the same answer, and didn't have a friend on the phone. (It also makes me wonder about the utter lack of curiosity with some people. Like, the nurse probably keeps getting the same question regularly for years, and she can't even, dunno, use google, or ask a colleague?)

I recommend trying a child carrier with a little baby. Not the giant type where you wear a huge metallic construction with the seat for the baby, but the ones made from cloth, where your child is on your body, vertically, facing you. -- You can walk around your house, carrying your child with you, and both of your hands are free. You can walk outside in winter, and don't have to worry whether your child is sufficiently dressed. You feel your child's heatbeat and breath, so you don't worry about SIDS. When the child doesn't want to sleep, you can take a walk outside, and maybe read a book. (Then the tricky part is removing the child from the carrier without waking it up. I learned to lay down on my back, unfasten and open the carrier, roll over and leave the child on the bed; still only about 50% success rate.)
> "They're just perfectly fine machines for what they cost."

Sure, but I don't care about the 'crap' segment of laptops. I want more options at the Macbook price point. People often talk about System76 as if they are Mac competitors too, so I don't entirely buy your point.

> "High end machines that compete with mac laptops already exist"

And they mostly suck. There isn't a good option that's a clear stand out Macbook competitor. There is no Windows/Linux hardware that's easy to point at and say this is clearly the one to get. All the competitors are a mixture of bad tradeoffs. Why?

I would think Microsoft would want to make a Surface laptop that's competitive in this space (that targets developers), but they haven't really.
There's a little cognitive dissonance there. You think that public salary info would be bad for everyone, because companies would no longer be willing to pay them far above average. But that's ignoring the obvious fact that the majority of people are not making far above average, so they don't have that to lose. Some of them are even making below average, so they would gain.
Heres the problem. Most israeli don't care about palestinians. 87% of israelis supported the massacre of palestinians in gaza.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israelis-sup...
see those were my two guesses: Taiwan or Pakistan.
The lag isn't due to Android, it's due to Samsung's Android Skin called Touchwiz. My HTC One M8 doesnt lag at all, and it runs Android too. I've also used a Galaxy S4 and it was annoying.
You can leave it blank in an application. In an interview, just say you are looking for the right fit and you are sure we will be able to come to an agreement if we want to work together.

The best case is that they just don't want to waste time by interviewing people that are way out of their price range. If you think that may be the case (you are way more expensive than they were thinking) then maybe signal a price so you can save time.
Not to mention, we can eliminate an extreme majority of malaria deaths, and we can do so at a relatively low cost per person. Something the parent is ignoring entirely.
That epic story deserves its own movie :)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists
So instead of getting ripped off with crappy rates by a person at the airport forex booth, you can now get ripped off with crappy rates by a robot. For gift cards.
Cute! Well done!
Yea, Unicode got that covered:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing
It was an easy sell once they figured out that he is afraid of creepers: https://www.google.com/search?q=creeper+suit
Location: Europe
Remote: Yes, exclusively but okay with travel. I'm okay with any timezone.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Most recently extensively used languages/frameworks are Python (Django), Java (some Spring), and NodeJS. Significant experience with Solr/Elasticsearch/Lucene. Various flavors of SQL (Postgres, MS and others) and NoSQL (Redis, aforementioned Solr/ES and others). Queues (Kafka, SQS) and containers running microservices.

Just to cover some main keywords without listing everything.

Résumé/CV: Email me (see profile), or ask me to contact you.

I've got around 6 years of experience developing mostly web applications. I've had significant experience working on search systems. I'm only looking for an opportunity to possibly get back to working on that sort of thing (information retrieval, natural language processing or even more machine learning related things that I have some experience in).

Thanks for having a look!
Technical Marketing Manager 4 is my job title. Thanks!
The points you make are basically rehashing what I said (or missing the mark) and making it look like we have a debate. We aren't and you didn't bring any new ideas.

The fact that some dictators had passable results doesn't mean dictatorship is a good system. It just had more "attempts" at success because dictatorship (absolute monarchs) are more in line with human nature. Democracy has achieved better which would suggest it's overall a better system.

> Can you point to any real-life communist governments that actually worked out great?

If only I would have written that:

>> communism looked good on paper assuming perfect people and conditions. Nothing you'd find in any real scenario.

> You can't guarantee anything

Yes, which is why I said you can't guarantee anything.

> A dictatorship also has to keep a consistent slice of the population happy.

For a carefully chosen definition of "consistent". At a minimum a dictator has to keep a small slice happy, themselves and their apparatus. This is very far from being "consistent" relative to the population and a far cry from what a democratically elected leader is expected to keep happy. On the other hand a democracy may see a candidate lose even when having the support of the majority of the population (see the electoral college system in the US).

Both dictatorship and democracy have advantages and disadvantages, some theoretical, some practical. But in real life the chances of a dictatorship going wrong are so high it makes the system a no-go. It's fishing with nitroglycerin.
Back in the day we had something which was often used:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter.pl" -->
I use the proprietary drivers for nVidia on Ubuntu, always have, works great.
Yes and I chuckled at the mental image of woz using the term "shitshow". Only to be disappointed when I got the bottom of the page and saw it was written by a Geoff. Good article, though.
I'm reminded of "Closures and Objects are equivalent" (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent)

That being said, you can easily create a data type in Haskell that contains a bunch of "methods" that live in the IO monad and mutate other bits of data the object contains that also live in the IO monad, but it's a bit of a forced paradigm.
"systemd" and "sane" only ever go in the same sentence as "sane people don't use systemd".

It looks like a bug in the init script...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
SEO is longer term, and you may never be able to regain the top spots. Google is becoming more and more biased towards Big Brands, coincidentally the same brands that spend 8 figures a year on AdWords.

Short term fixes can be selling on Amazon Marketplace (possible to escape warehouse lease, use Fulfillment by Amazon if cheaper?), eBay (yes, tons of people still use eBay) or Shopping.com (yes, people use this site) and other marketplaces. You'll still have to pay per sale or click to your site, but it will typically be much less than AdWords.

If you are competing on price in a commodity market, you probably can't win. If you have a differential, valuable feature that isn't easily imitable, people may be willing to pay a premium.
> As the person hosting the access point, other people using it does not count towards your cap.

Ah, that makes more sense.
You mean the rest of the world doesn't have people that don't believe in evolution?
> Why? Do you think your ancestors were especially healthy?

It's the null hypothesis. For me personally, it's more a bet against the modern microbiome than it is a bet for the ancestral one.

See also paleo vs margarine, no fat, no cholesterol, no carbs, enough poly-saturated fat, enough omega 3. Really paleo vs any nutrition advice that's more than 10 years old (so the science had a chance to check the claims)

IMO we don't currently know enough about nutrition or the microbiome to make a better choice than "whatever our great-great-great grandparents did"

> Do you think they all had the same microbiome?

They didn't, but they had way more diversity and significantly different strains than moderns do. Check out my above link to the american gut project's founder or http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
It logs data from people rather than sensors, and displays maps, charts, and feeds with that data.
>pasting Western ideas.

There's a difference between ideas and the expression of those ideas; that's why patent and copyright are separate. What's being complained about here goes beyond copying ideas, into copying expression.
This is my day job. (I make most of my money from bingo cards, supplemented with the odd consulting gig. That underwrites development on AR and all my other assorted wasting time on the Internet activities.)

Prior to April 2010, I worked at a Japanese megacorp. There were a few reasons for that. A sample: I owed my bosses for sticking their necks out for me, it makes visa issues easier (next renewal going to be... interesting), I lacked confidence that I could do this full-time prior to having part-timed it to the point where it was already successful, etc.
If we live long enough to be eventually killed by entropy, then I'd say we have officially Won.

It's like when you get to the final level of Pac Man and it crashes.