skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. There are several fishy statements throughout this paper. Another one in conclusion:

"For satellite datasets, with inherently high variability,
traditional deep learning approaches are unable to converge to a global optima even with significantly big and deep architectures."

this quote points to some basic misunderstandings of how/when these models work. "Inherent high variability" is suddenly some kind of a problem? Unable to converge to a global optima? The modern view of the deep net optimization landscapes based on several recent studies argue against these outdated interpretations.
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What I don't get it is, why make the software enforce certain frequencies? If the hardware should never be able to broadcast on a certain frequency, why not build the hardware with that limitation?
Most Firefox extensions are still in the older formats but it'd at least get a cross-browser extension system working.
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Related, a famous example of how "doing nothing" can be a surprisingly difficult problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
It'll be even lower by the Nov. 16th release date, if they manage to ship on time.

If the past is any guide, that quarter a day will rapidly decay towards 0 as the global hashrate continues to grow.
So why is it better than any other vegetable or fruit?
Does it have extremely good energy conversion efficiency.
(Sun light to carbohydrates)
Did you read the article or are you just deciding it's bullshit because of the title?
"Clean Build Folder" is basically the "turn it off, then turn it back on" of Xcode. Almost anytime you get a weird compiler error on a project that compiled fine moments ago, it's solved by "Clean Build Folder."

Definitely a good trick to know.
I would have no moral objections to an alternative producer being set up (by the government or anyone else), so long as nobody is forced to buy from either one.

There may be some practical issues (such as the regulator being a member of the same organization as the regulated producer), or issues with the scope (and scope creep) of the project, but those are only related issues.
Probably just taking advantage of the novelty / exotic factor. In India the stuff is quite cheap, at least near where it grows.
This is a harder sell in the connected age, because every time someone on early release commits a serious crime it is widely reported and proof in the public's eye that longer sentences make sense.

But when someone is released early and quietly finishes out their life that doesn't make the news.
Well we use option C which is a layered architecture with default deny policies between each layer.

It's not about speed but about the consequences of making a bad change.

Adding tools never decreases risk. Adding process never decreases risk.

Start from impossible then make it possible. Dont start from possible and then make it less likely.
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Perhaps because that's more costly? Sometimes the disallowed frequencies exist within a range of allowed frequencies. A hardware limitation would involve filter stages that would add cost.
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Of course. This is protectionism. Simple as that. No need to ask questions why 3 people dead are fined more than hundreds dead.
This doesn't seem that unreasonable - weren't/aren't medallions over $1M in NYC, which is a factor more expensive than labor, fuel, or maintenance of a vehicle...
Yes!... Like porn movies. :D
cmd+shift+k followed by cmd+alt+shift+k is a multiple-times-a-day incantation for me :)
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Why is "USD worth of Bitcoin" not a reasonable approximation for the value you get from the bitcoins it generates?
Uber's success has nothing to do with their technology and everything to do with the fact that they straight-up ignored the regulations on their industry by claiming to operate in a different one.

The taxi-industry is overregulated and corrupt, so Uber created a "car service" that works exactly like a taxicab.
>The person wants to bypass actual quality and compete by advertising instead of on merits.

The person was me, and you're completely mistaken about what I said, much less the intent. "Actual quality" is not an objective metric, and many ads are promoting new products that are high quality.

>So either you're not a good enough plumber to be working on your own, or you've worked with an experienced plumber and have built up your reputation that way.

I call BS. You've obviously no real experience promoting a product or service from scratch.

You could have 30 years of experience as a plumber and go out on your own as an independent contractor and you'd be starting from ZERO. Not from experience. You can't just take your former employer's customers; that's unethical and typically against your employment contract. So you have to find new customers under a new brand.

And it's arguably worse for promoting other products or services today. I had 20 years of experience when I struck out and started my own company again; that experience opened doors when I made personal connections to work with people, but it meant crap for my indie game release. Most popular games would fail without being propped up by advertising (and some would be less valuable to their players if they weren't as popular -- I'm thinking of games where you play against others, and so the more people who play, the more valuable the game is to everyone. Standard network effect).

>You're talking about this in the context where people need to manipulate their rankings to compete

Ranking in Google isn't magic. It's an algorithm based (in large part) on popularity. You're basically saying no new business or product ever has the right to exist, because anything that isn't popular now has no right to become popular.

How exactly do you expect something to become popular quickly enough for a company not to go out of business without getting the product in front of enough consumers?
I agree with the last premise, but we already have a way to get people to pay for products they are used to getting for free. It's advertising.

And while I would personally avoid the model, it has spawned/supported many of the greatest tech companies over the last decade.
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On the one hand: who cares? It's private, non-leveraged private money. It isn't a debt bubble like the mortgage crisis and hasn't infected the public markets like the 90's. Caveate Emptor and all that.

On the other hand: the suckers at this table are pension funds and other LPs that are terrible at picking managers. A few good years of returns and money will flood from underfunded pension plans into VC .... just in time for a nice healthy correction. If I was relying on a pension to retire in the next decade or two, then I'd be worried.
no skype here yet (finland)
In Vancouver (Canada), until recently the market price for a "medallion" was $800,000-$1,400,000. Taxis are often unavailable when you want one. A significant portion of the taxi fare does not got to the driver - it goes to the person they are renting the taxi/medallion from.

Uber briefly entered the market using licensed limousine drivers. They were pushed out because we have a crazy rule that limousine rides can't cost less than $80-90 - the only reason for that rule is so that limousines don't compete with taxis.

It's insane.
In general, mapping LaTeX to HTML is an unsolvable problem (and I speak as the author of one attempt to solve it (http://github.com/softcover/softcover)).
I'm sure this must have come up, but the two companies have pretty different manufacturing styles, and integrating them could kill the momentum needed to pull this off. Unless Apple is willing to use Tesla's US operations for version 1 and re-evaluate after that.
> "that quarter a day will rapidly decay towards 0 as the global hashrate continues to grow"

The hashrate increase has been quite slow during the last months [1]. We are far from the exponential-like increases during the bubbles.

[1] https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
that germany had the best tanks is a bit inaccurate. The t-34 was better than almost everything else out there when it came out. easily outclassing common german tanks. the improved models could compete with the tiger and panthers (though there were few of these)

though the big issues with the tiger and panther was the horrible maintenance issues.
Look at commit messages in the Linux kernel, that's what we should be aiming for—whether GitHub or GitHubNext will be around or not isn't really the issue, just an easy thought experiment to illustrate the point.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
He's obviously very very strong. I'm sure the riders all the teams select are amazingly strong riders. They aren't, however, gold medal caliber track cyclists. The men with the strongest legs in the world. There is much more prestige and money in winning a track cycling medal than setting a record in human powered vehicles.

Im simply wondering, what happens if they get the best of the best. With proper time to adapt to the vehicle, its probably worth a few mph. Not too significant, but enough to reset the record.
You can't. RF hardware and signal processing don't work that way... at least not for free.
I don't want "free market economics" applied to the pain and suffering of someone I love, especially if they're not independently wealthy. At what point does the happiness and wellbeing of people you care for outweigh someone ramping up their revenue stream in the name of capitalism?
I often see the "free market" referenced in contexts like this where it's the interactions of a corrupted government entity that is at the root of the trouble - yet the free market is the entity in the crosshairs.
What if the same companies that sell you oranges could give some of those same oranges to the homeless?

A lot of (mostly urban) businesses do, in fact, give food to help feed the homeless. In downtown San Diego, one or more Starbucks locations gives away leftover items to a women's services center to help provide a free coffee and pastry breakfast to indigent women. Presumably they get a write off for it, plus they only serve fresh goods to their customers.

Or use a portion of their profits to (without deceit) send them to countries in need?

According to Diet for a Small Planet, the vast majority of starvation is caused by internal political strife and sometimes food aid gets sold off to put money in the pockets of corrupt politicians or simply rots on the docks because they don't want it delivered to the hungry masses who are often de facto a populace they are internally at war with.

Furthermore, when Western foods are delivered to other countries, locals develop a desire for a lifestyle that is economically out of their reach and frequently not sustainable locally. In other words, they hunger for foods that cannot be grown locally, at least not without ruining the local environment.

There have been all kinds of problems caused in the past by food aid, such as women being given just enough baby formula for their baby that their own natural milk production dried up, then the free aid stopped. I think the intent was to create a larger market for baby formula, but these women could not afford to buy baby formula. As a result, babies died.

On the one hand, help for the homeless can be life saving in the short run. On the other hand, in the long run, the homeless need the same things any middle class or wealthy person needs: The ability to solve their own problems and support themselves. Too much focus on treating homeless individuals like helpless charity cases can actively undermine the possibility of them getting their act together. It's a hard balance to strike. International aid is typically even more fucked up, from what I gather.

I know you mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Your suggestion has all kinds of potential to pave a road to hell.
Seems like the paper includes a pretty straightforward observation that CA just doesn't make much sense. How can you have consistency and availability if there's a partition? That's when you get the strong versus weak consistency or eventual consistency distinctions. If you look at the call me post by Aphyr consistency is a problem when there's a partition in a lot of real world software.
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How do you actually know you're making the world a better place for others, when all you talk about and think about is work?

How do you know s/he's not?

And who asked you? These attitudes toward work-life balance are something we must decide for ourselves, and then live with.
Well, a "per-user" cost growth-model might work. That is, your business follows the Uber model of geeks on top and "contractors" at the bottom. You can ignore everything other than the contractors with the assumption that you'll outgrow them or optimize them into negligible levels, but you accept he contractor cost in your big "growth curve" pitch.
> Most of the United States is uninhabited

I'm going to disagree with that statement (or perhaps with your wording). Less than half of the land area is urban, sure. But more than half is rural rather than uninhabited.
>Some of those processes are a fucking joke.

superuser2: you're telling me that having a process for firewall changes or rotating your keys is a joke? What other process is a fucking joke? System Hardening? Log review? Source code analysis? Updating your network diagrams? Physical access monitoring? These are all processes (and more) that compliance says you should do.

You bitch about word documents when I bet you've never even gone through a thorough compliance process.
OTOH, $120/yr for music is, depending on your assumptions and how you measure, actually pretty high compared to what people have historically spent on recorded music. [1] I know I've been on the fence about paying for a subscription given that I already have a big library of most of the music I care about. It's not so much that I'm too lazy to subscribe but I'm very slow to sign up for services that are going to hit my credit card every month.

Netflix video streaming is close to worthless for movies. But combined with DVDs it's pretty good.

[1] http://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-price-of-music/
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Speaking of a high margin billion dollar market, I'm surprised Apple doesn't get into high speed fiber. Maybe Apple feels they are mostly product development, idk.
Well, Firefox users would still have an advantage. That Chrome users will never get addons that add tree-style tabs, or completely modify the UI, etc, is obvious.

But from that point on Chrome does not have many things above Firefox anymore.
You know how mobile networks made lots of money by letting third parties charge things to people's cell phone bills? I think 21 is trying to build carrier billing for everything. If everyone has a hundred dollars a month of mining power plugged in, 21 can issue those people a credit line secured by the ability to charge arbitrary, limited amounts to their electricity bills.
Yes it combines also amazingly well with inotifywait[1], perhaps there is a port for other OS-es too.

Here is a tip on how it can be used ( not tested )

#!/bin/bash

WATCH_PATH="/some/path"
DEST_PATH="/some/path"
REMOTE="root@example.com"

while read LINE; do
FILE=$(echo ${LINE} | cut -d' ' -f2 )
/usr/bin/rsync -r ${FILE} ${REMOTE}:${DEST_PATH}
done < <(/usr/bin/inotifywait -mq -e CLOSE_WRITE --format "%w %f" ${WATCH_PATH})

1 : http://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait
Huh, I thought CCS revenue was an order of magnitude lower. My mistake.

In that case, the numbers make more sense.
Last mile fiber is extremely capital intensive and not that profitable.
Are you talking about the Ohio pawpaw festival? We drove up there one year just for the festival -- super fun :)
No, not saying that. Pentagon Papers and Watergate come to mind.
http://isskypedown.com is actually a thing, and it should redirect to https://slack.com/pricing
If an Android device has encrypted storage, it has to ask you for the decryption password before it will boot (ie BEFORE you get to a lock screen). If it doesn't, then it's not encrypted.
Quite true under the current rules you can get done for exceeding the regs ie mod your equipment to emit more than the permitted maximums.

I have a 200mw wifi card that with a the right antenna would massively exceed the permitted power.
In addition to the other answers, allowed frequencies differ in different countries/jurisdictions, so it's probably cheapest to make a single piece of hardware that can handle all frequencies in all jurisdictions, and then impose region-specific restrictions in software.
It doesn't work just like a taxicab. I can't hail an Uber on the streetcorner by raising my arm.
They've built a community that is intolerant of abuse and trolling (partly due to the people they initially attracted, partly due to moderation). That dramatically improves the signal/noise ratio.
I agree - with the caveat that it should be "done responsibly" (which is a tough nut to crack in this context).

I'd love a "smart house" - the fewer things I have to do when I get home, the more time I have to relax or do my own thing! I know the promise of the smart house and the execution of the smart house are years apart, but I feel we are just now getting to the "promise" part.
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That is right. Most tanks are designed, that the frontal armor is the thickest and many of the WW2 tanks where very weak at the top. They where basically designed for frontal tank vs. tank (or anti-tank) attacks.

Today's tanks have to take air attacks into account -- with much better top armor but also better armor at the other sides too.

Your calculation is right, I guess, but still 120mm has just overwhelmingly more hitting power than 30mm rounds.
All this dumb money is tying up perfectly good engineers that could otherwise be working on useful stuff. So in that sense the process is harmful even if you don't care about whose pockets get emptied.
I eat this all the time when I am in the Philippines. It has one unique property that was not mentioned in the article. Just as asparagus makes urine smell like asparagus, jackfruit makes feces smell sweet like the fruit.
That's a snappy one-liner, but "a currency which has value because people believe in it" applies just as well to Bitcoin as it does to the US dollar.
> On the one hand: who cares? It's private, non-leveraged private money.

In many cases it's also destroy existing models, so when they collapse, there will be no new business, and no old business, either.
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Or for those who prefer automating, add this to ~/.bash_profile:

alias nuke="rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/"
Question for the bitcoin enthusiasts out there - if stolen computing time is a reasonable component of the current hash power, why would market rate for mined coins ever be above the cost of electricity?
I see. So in 2008, what seems to have happened is a flight to safety, and therefore bonds and the stock market were very much not correlated.

I stand corrected.
I was thinking the same thing. The title could almost be the click-baitish "One crazy trick to solve world hunger! You won't believe this fruit tastes like pork!"

Fortunately I did learn a bit about a fruit I have never seen nor heard of before. So I guess it was worthwhile.
They made houses COST a huge mountain of cash.
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It sounds like a marketer got a little too excited and decided to name their developer kit The 21 Bitcoin Computer, not realizing the confusion they were about to create.

My understanding is that 21 has created a board that fits on top of a Raspberry Pi 2 to offer a miner, full bitcoin node, wallet, some fancy hardware acceleration, and several development tools for engineers who are new to bitcoin and want to experiment with building products on top of it.

It's only been an hour since all this news is coming out but so far I think they're completely missing their target audience by dumbing down their marketing material and selling preorders through Amazon.
"Can you make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer after accounting for energy costs?
Yes, you can indeed make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. However, you would do so not by directly selling bitcoin, but by selling digital goods for bitcoin."

These guys deserve an award for sleaziest PR spin.
Carrier billing worked because there were zero alternatives back in the day and they could charge whatever they wanted. When App Stores became popular with free/low-cost apps, carrier billing died out.

In this case, there is an alternative to the 21 computer known as money.
>Given that Zipcar has had 16 years of experience having cars stolen, they must have decided that it would cost more to install cutoff devices in the fleet than to buy some extra cars every year.

I'm sure that GPS tracking makes it pretty easy to recover these cars. They probably get them back pretty quickly.
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Exactly. It is silly to aim for billions. Aim for making a living by providing a service that some people will pay for. Small percentage of people paying a small fee multiplied by the Internet. The maths works.

As more and more people realise that "free" means "costs are hidden" more and more people will start paying small fees for what once was free. It will never be a high percentage, but high enough
It will drop naturally over time.

It's also possible that even being a "fluff" piece this could be the starting point for a larger conversation.

For instance: what about this piece, specifically, makes you see it as fluff? What would you improve? Are there specific assertions you disagree with?

I don't think it makes any particularly strong arguments, but perhaps that's the point. Maybe the article author wants such criticism?
I remember this from the very early days of Facebook apps. I worked for a company in 2007 that made one, and we bought users by advertising with other facebook apps. The problem was this was the ONLY revenue model for facebook apps; getting other facebook apps to advertise with you. There was no actual external revenue source.
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Why don't you come back and sing that tune when you're old.
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