skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent article, thanks for the contribution.

Perhaps some independent validation, but I was coincidentally having this conversation the other day with a relatively well known computer vision researcher, about why it seems like the idea of neural nets has floundered for decades and suddenly it's the hot topic, and we're seeing massively improved results.

His answers, summarized, are that:

1- Big data is making possible the kind of training we could never do before.

2- Having big data & big compute has made some training breakthroughs that allowed the depth to increase dramatically. The number of layers was implicitly limited until recently because anything deep couldn't be practically trained.

3- The activation function has very commonly in the past been an S-curve, and some of the newer better results are using a linear function that is clamped on the low end at zero, but not clamped on top.

All really interesting to me. This is making me want to implement and play with neural nets!

Of course, now the big question: if we have a neural net big enough, and it works, can we simulate a human brain? (Apparently, according to my AI researcher friend, we're not there yet with the foundational building blocks. He mentioned researchers have tried simulating a life-form known to have a small number of neurons, like a thousand, and they can't get it to work yet.)
Memory profilers are far cheaper to use than valgrind.
Just to clarify: I don't think that "inequality is driven by the Laffer curve". But I do think that lower and lower taxation on the rich since Reaganomics has greatly contributed to the growth of inequality; thus the (joking) reference to Laffer. Also to clarify, I'm against punishing marginal rates like there were at some point also in the USA, but also find crazy that Buffet's secretary pays a higher rate than Buffet's.
I think it's the other way around. You gave an incomplete answer and now imply that I should be doing your homework for you.

You wrote:

> if you study the Kosovo War outbreak there were situations where regions were cut off from supplies, power was lost, but yet there was no invasion or shelling. Ireland comes to mind, there are some examples..

In case I was wrong, and missing something well-known, I reviewed the Kosovo War summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War and The Troubles at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles . I cannot find a relevant example.

For Kosovo, the closest I could find was the Izbica massacre, where FRY and Republic of Serbia forces stole from several thousand villagers then killed 130 Kosovo Albanian men, and the Battle of Junik, where Junik was under siege for 20 days. However, both actions were carried out by partisans, and don't show sign of a third party filling a power gap.

There were 10 or so shell fired in Newry, and unpredictable power during the Ulster Workers' Council strike of 15 to 28 May 1974. Otherwise I found nothing like a city or village being cut off for weeks with no supplies or power in Ireland, and being shelled.

Certainly there are historic instances of cities being cut off, like the Siege of Leningrad or the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, and the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. The German tally after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising suggests that there were fewer than 100 firearms in the ghetto, and nowhere near one per family, so that's not more a counter-example to your point. In any case, third party "drug gangs" or the equivalent power grab do no appear to play any significant role.

So I ask again, can you point to any post-war European examples?
I feel like the original Deus Ex was heading in that direction. The levels were very large and very well-connected, and you felt like you could be creative with your solutions without the whole thing feeling loosey-goosey.
That's a bit of a false comparison though. Amazon developed and used AWS as it was becoming a thing and transitioned parts when certain pieces of AWS was ready for them. This Super Cloud move seems really different though if we had more details of both company's transitions this would be a little easier to talk about.
The majority of people reading this sentence have the JC virus present in their brains right now. Medications that suppress the immune system's ability to keep the JC virus in check can lead to PML, a brain-destroying disease that's often fatal. One oral medication that has led to cases of PML is dimethyl fumarate, marketed as Tecfidera.
The best solution is for people to move closer to work, ditch their cars, and for pedestrians to reclaim the roads (and narrow them considerably). Seriously.
I can't check your site because it's throwing an application error, but Ali Express has many sub-1USD things, even with postage, and also has an affiliate scheme.

A propos nothing, the cheapest thing I've found, ordered, had delivered and found useful was a Raspberry Pi camera mount for 0.19GBP (~0.27USD) shipped. Astonishing and a bit shameful.

http://www.aliexpress.com
That is ridiculous.

In a great way.
I think it would depend on the level of demand. Just look at San Francisco..
There's nothing really technically special about Uber so I doubt that investors were lured by the strength of the proposal or anything like that. The founder of StumbleUpon was a co-founder, so it was most likely through his connections + track record, but I don't actually know the details (someone else here might). I would guess that it's just an accident of luck that Uber became Uber -- right time, right place, and right connections. That's what it takes to get a business off the ground, especially a business that raised $1.5 million in funding before it was released (per Wikipedia's timeline).
You forgot GPRO. It is $11 from $98 just few months ago.
Not sure in what context you are asking your question, can you elaborate?
Their product is a bloated nightmare but maybe that doesn't matter.
> You're only thinking of the most trivial part of the migration: the immediate technical one.

That's a straw man. I said it would take a few months to resolve the logistical issues surrounding migration.

Instead of caricaturing my thought process, could you please specify some of the "disastrious" difficulties you and the GP are concerned about?
Looking at the post it seems that the issue is that the underlying host is much more
Complex and hard for the program to have a complete picture of what is happening. Does Microsoft have an solution similar to drmemory or valgrind?
If you already regret not starting a company, then start one.

Generally you would want to give this "experiment" a realistic timeline (ideally, multi years). Set goals on when you think this is or is not working, so that you can bail. This is very similar to making bets on the stock market, except that you are investing in yourself.

Now, look at your worst case scenario (failed startup). Things you will MOST definitely learn:

- How to start a company?

- What does being your own boss mean?

- Independent thinking

- Make some new friends/contacts and meet other people.

Things you will lose:

- Time

- Money

- Balanced lifestyle, perhaps

If you think, you, as a person, are the same or better, then you've won half the battle.

You need to be sure that years down, knowing the worst case scenario you dont have a new set of regrets. Also, ideas are a dime-a-dozen, its all in the execution.
Interesting. CGIProxy could be easily modified to add random padding to the HTML or headers of responses. Probably a couple of lines of Perl.
I think the "what would you pay to have solved?" question is why business-types are often better than technical-types.

I meet very few technical-type hackers who aren't absolute cheapskates with any products and services that they can just clobber together with a shell script or two.

Therefore it may be often more helpful to ask "What would my friends pay to have solved?"
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Envy has a very negative connotation.

You use the phrase "fair share of someone else's property". I am not talking about getting a share from someone else's property. I am talking about the elite deciding they should get a larger share of the gains the economy produces.

When people in a company complain that their CEO makes more and more money while their salaries are cut it's not envy but it's a basic question of fairness. Nobody wants to take away from the CEO. They just want to have a fair share of the earnings of the company.
Strewth: Integration to give/take points for anything for Slack
"Guys" as a fairly neutral term for a mixed-gender group of people or group of women is a very very informal usage; it makes sense that a group of really close friends might choose to use it with each other in a casual and affectionate way.

The idea of the bot is to be mindful of gendered language when talking to your coworkers in your workplace, which is a different and slightly more formal context.
Voting, in this context of political engagement, isn't just any ol' act of expressing a preference. "Vote with your dollars" is not voting, though you often hear people say this sort of thing, and I think this is why people now confuse voting with making decisions in general. You choose the green shirt, you don't "vote for green," when you dress yourself in the morning.

Voting is the act of expressing a preference in a framework of governance that lets people engage with the governing structures and policies, and these days we also take it to mean that each person gets a vote so long as they're a citizen--they don't need to be rich or even literate. That isn't built into Bitcoin anywhere. It's antidemocratic because there is no way for every single user to express a preference in its design or operation.

That doesn't seem to bother the bitcoin advocates I've talked with, either. The sense I get, and I realize this is not so charitable, is that they look at it as a way to be the guys in power in this new system, and aren't so keen to bake in some sort of voting because it'd just take that away again.
Hey, I just wanted to say that I checked out your company, and I think you have a very compelling product. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to buy it (junior engineer at a massive corp). Instead I just wanted to wish you luck!
I have many many fond memories of dungeon master and was ecstatic to find a bit of a modern spiritual successor in 'Legend of Grimrock'. If you want a similar experience with some modern touches (but not too many) check it out.
No disagreement there.
> It's like if we created Artificial General Intelligence and it decided to just write movie reviews forever.

Bitcoin never had that potential. Regardless of it's theoretical capabilities, the general public would not have been able to use it effectively. It requires a computer, knowledge of digital security, the idea of 'backing up' your money and keeping that safe, and all-in-all, a new approach to handling money altogether (which also requires electronics on the user's part).

The average member of the public could handle all this, sure, but half of people are below average. Bitcoin is also more difficult to understand than cash; there's a lot more mental overhead. Alternatively you can let a financial institution handle your bitcoin for you, but then there's no real difference between btc and dollars - at this point, they're just numbers on a ledger.
Where is the news that Zenefits is struggling? All I have seen is that they are 'one of the fastest growing companies ever'
If everything else was equal, then yes, they would save money by not implementing DRM. However, what if they couldn't get the license for $MOVIE_CONTENT or $PHYSICS_ENGINE without implementing DRM? That's also extra work for them. (I pulled that hypothetical more from a recent Netflix article, so it may not apply equally as well to gaming.)

As it is now, AAA titles with AAA amounts of DRM are still doing incredibly well. It might "cost" more in internal management backlash to suggest not implementing DRM than to keep to a tried and true formula. Internet backlash is more visible than ever, but I can't think of a recent case where a title actually suffered significantly from it (exception being the PC port of Arkham Knight). It's like a form of the 90:9:1 rule, 90% of consumers are perfectly happy with their entertainment, 9% are affected by issues, 1% complain loudly. From an internet perspective, the 1% are heard more strongly. From a business perspective, the 90% are heard more strongly.

</disjointed thoughts>
Did you look for each one? Or is there a filter for that.
Have you ever tried to rent from VRBO? I did a couple years ago and have never been back.

Approx 30 calls, 6 or 7 responded, a couple of those hadn't kept their calendars up-to-date, and only 2 actually were available and matched the info on the site. I was doing my best to spend $6k on a ski vacation and vrbo just didn't want to cooperate. The whole thing was a giant waste of time.
As they always say, this time is different.

My opinion is that the tech sector has greatly expanded since 2000, not just in amount of investment available, but also types of business tech companies are actually in.

So maybe there is a web/ad bubble and it might pop, but how much that affects individual company is more nuanced.

Unsophisticated investors might still lump Google/Twitter/Tesla/AMD into the same "tech sector", but they will find the signal they receive is very mixed and difficult to analyze.
I'm also from (western) Europe and we for sure don't live in "totally equal" societies :)

Eastern European communism created a much more equal society, but it's difficult to argue that people there enjoyed a better quality of life than we did in the West.
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Theoretically for RAID6, but not for anything less than that. And in any case I'm pretty sure Linux RAID doesn't implement that. Though, as the owner of a Synology NAS I'd love to be wrong about that.
Why would I need to sign a loan for a house in Bitcoin? With Bitcoin I can just buy the house outright.

Debt currencies are used for signing loans.

Anyway, there is probably a way to add an inflation metric over the blockchain based on it's length (or #transactions, or avg. transaction value, etc.), where some value equivalence can be drawn between older coins and newer coins, if it's really desired.
Yes, that was deliberate. You objected to ethanbond's comment because you regarded it as straw man example.

I restated ethanbond's objection to show real-world examples where your statement "When people say it must all be X and not Y, you can bet that there's a sweet spot between X and Y" does not apply. Therefore, it is not a strong rule for inductive logic, which is our point.
I'm not surprised at all. Etsy used to be user based and hand made. Now it's just another market place. They still act like they try to enforce "non-mass-produced" but there are countless examples of the opposite being true. Places where people have directly reported instances of this and the problem is still present.

I think the problem is that they stopped caring about their user base and, therefore, became less ubiquitous and people saw that and were like "oh.. time to value them lower.."
So it's settled at last, CSS and HTML are programming languages. Or at least one of the two is.
It's interesting, I don't consider it gender specific either, but it does sound more fitting when directed at an all male group or to single out the males in a mixed-gender group.
You could put LinkedIn in there
For a lot of large open source projects, funding may come in the form of companies paying their engineers to dedicate a significant amount of their time to working on existing open source projects. Or even open source projects that are part of a company's "products" (e.g. https://facebook.github.io/react/ , http://llvm.org/ ). Plenty of startups that use open source spend time improving open source projects (although, naturally, focused on the features they care to use, given how precious of a resource developer time is for a startup).
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> Open source projects need donations in talented engineer time, not in money.

As a infra provider to many open source projects, I have a very solid way of converting money into engineer time: I hire and train them.
They own stuff. Like Flickr and Tumblr.
Show HN: I built a tool for exploring GCHQ gridshading nonogram. Rough but works
Taxation on the rich doesn't change inequality very much, after all, its effects are linear. What's the difference between 1 billion and 1.2 billion? Look to see where there are compounding effects.

Taxes on the rich have increased since Obama has come into the presidency, and yet income inequality still rises.
Yeah, the prizes are paid for out of pocket by me. It's not the most expensive project in the world, let's say I average $50/day ($1,500/month) in gift card costs and $10/month on a server. I live in a 42 square foot room and share an apartment with 5 people, so I'd say that the expenses are taken care of from my choice of a frugal lifestyle (we're talking Manhattan, New York rent here). Those are my only expenses to run and maintain the site. The risk of $1,500/month for a couple of months to possibly achieve my dream is a no-brainer.

My goal is growth. Craigslist is a great example of a site that I want to be like. Offer an awesome service for free. I'd like to have companies fund the giveaways or maybe even have companies pay to have their giveaways featured as a top result. I don't really know yet. I'm sure there's some win-win situation that I haven't thought of where the users get awesome free stuff and there's a way for me to work on the website full time.
Inflation is generally believed to be caused by an imbalance between the quantity of money and the goods & services in the market. BI per se doesn't change the money supply; it can be done by redistribution of existing money rather than debasing the currency.
I can say that unemployment combined with life changes and other stressors can result in debilitating depression. However, it was falling in love and having something to lose that motivated me to land my current job.

Now that she's left me, it's only fear of starvation that motivates me to keep my job.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845301

I've been really looking forward to this, because tree style tabs are the main thing keeping me on firefox. But now it looks like in-window sidebar extensions aren't going to be possible.
These hypothetical situations need to be taken with a grain of salt. Many big companies have tried expanding and taking over other markers, unrelated to their core business - they usually fail or acquire a company in that space(e.g. Google-YT; Facebook-Instagram etc.)
What is this total inequality you talk about? It seems like you're picking the inequality of 0 and infinity. But we live in a finite world, this total inequality is impossible. Furthermore, whether we introduce an infinite inequality or a finite inequality, there's no reason the lower bound should be at 0 (where people starve and die). Suppose we have a society whose inequality range generally falls within 1 and 1,000,000. 1 is a sustenance standard of living, any unfortunate event could totally wipe you out, but it's pretty much maintainable with little effort provided that unfortunate event doesn't happen. Somewhere around 3 being the poverty line and somewhere around 8 being a decent standard of living so long as you're working to maintain it, and somewhere around 50-100 is enough for most people to effectively have that same decent standard of living as 8 but without having to maintain it so hard e.g. through a job. What's wrong with this lower bound increasing by 1 every year (with its associated low level of upkeep remaining the same) while the upper bound increases by 2 every year? The inequality is growing with each year, but in 2 years there is no one below the poverty line, and in 7 years everyone has a decent standard of living but they don't really have to put in effort for it. Why is inequality the issue here?
How do you monetize, say, OpenSSL?
Looks useful, although it probably will have problems with all kind of applications that do anything more than just writing new files or directly appending to old ones (e.g. those that add to files by writing the changed version to disk and then swapping it in place -> old, already encrypted parts of the changed file would then be encrypted again)
??? I't VERY hard to argue that inequality wasn't on the rise in America between 1850 and 1920. Why did unions first arise ca. 1910? Why did the progressives and antitrust policies also start then? Indeed, 1850 to 1920 was the heyday of robber barons and the worst corporate excesses in America. With the new century, it soon became evident to everyone that economic inequalities were wildly out of control and something had to be done. Not unlike the rising tides of Trump and Sanders in 2016...

As to the end of human ownership as a benchmark for the rise of equality... in practice, the Civil War did little to end the inequalities that arose from slavery in America. Jim Crow reigned in America for another hundred years, at least.
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"Vegans are often ridiculed, abused and written off as self-righteous extremists who like nothing more than to push their "beliefs" upon others."

..."vegans are the true moral bastions of society."

Hmmm.
Rationalizing the unreasonable: there are no good academics in the EU
Of course, but right now almost every machine uses x86 or ARM and I want to write a throwaway image processing program. It just seems like a weird choice because the format is almost effortless to use otherwise. You gotta pick one endianness, why not pick the one that's on every machine right now?
Should be fixed now. Just went to rules for Show HN. Thanks for head's up.
Invasive augmentation/implantation could increase the risk of infection. I was thinking that you might want to take that into consideration.
I see your idea as a restriction that would hinder housing development because no person (or company) that owned an apartment building could construct and own a second one. They would have to sell their existing stock in order to produce more, and that seems like a disincentive.
Yes, envy is part of human nature but not everyone is envious by nature.
IMO we have to break things into good inequality (innovation derived) and bad inequality (rent seeking derived). Without innovative uber rich people we wouldn't see companies like Tesla or SpaceX or programs like YC.

Assuming that rent-seeking is root cause of rising (bad) inequality What is the best way to solve that?

IMO more rules and regulations would exasperate the problem as it will create more complexity and loopholes to exploit.

In practice, the more regulations that exist the higher the barrier to entry is for potentially disruptive startups. The problems Uber has faced is a good example of this.

It doesn't have to be this way though, it's feasible for there to be regulation that discourages anticompetitive behaviour. Unfortunately the lobbyists always seem to write these bills.

Simplified regulatory structures with fewer exceptions might be better. With a focus on discouraging anti-competitive and rent seeking behaviour. But this is painting with a very wide brush across industries.

It's a really tough problem. How can you promote competition in an industry while discouraging rent-seeking? How do you create regulations that cannot be gamed and don't further exasperate barriers to entry?

edit: I'd like to add that the statistics from the article are ridiculous. and that attributing innovative growth only to growth that can be explained by patents is very wrong headed for software and in fact backwards. Software patents could be thought of as a form of rent seeking behaviour by large entrenched companies and patent trolls to wield against one another and startups. This doesn't change my stance on how solving rent-seeking is a tough problem.