skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in the intersection of these, though primarily from SLAM background. The overlap between these communities has been increasing in the past two years.
While I think this is great, I also see that a lot of people working in the field try to take Deep Learning as a 'one-stop' approach to solving SLAM. This is worrying. Any particular methodology, if embraced without understanding pros/cons, can lead to stagnation and local maxima. It was CRFs before that, and Factor Graphs, Particle Filters, or EKF Slam before that.
the vast majority of Netflix's content is a crap-fest of lowest-common-denominator programming

Would you agree that there doesn't exist a similar or better way to obtain the highest quality programming? Netflix has a library (and interface) that many people have found sufficiently entertaining and edifying to the point that they'll drop all traditional content delivery platforms for it. It also doesn't have any ads beyond its contents' meta data like cover art, top casting, ui / categorization choices, etc.

In able to access the opposite of crap-fest content, let's call it quality content, how is a person to reasonably find it and then consume it? Affordably and conveniently with a minimum amount of time searching? Especially with the never-ending flood of content, much of it inspired by the need to sell or be famous? There's just not enough time in the day to hunt for quality content for many, many people.

It seems like Netflix is a better thing in comparison to what came before it, and ads are notably absent. What is the best version of content provision to the 7bil+, and why is it taking so long / so hard to implement?

Personally, seems like a clear win to me towards that system is to automate away the middleman. :)
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I disagree. Laser focus is required, and every distraction has a cost. I've seen teams scale up aggressively when their core was still weak, and it just makes bad worse.
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In the US, anyway, I had to do such big transfers via wire transfer, and while it happens (almost) immediately, you have to catch the 10am or 11am (Pacific) deadline, depending on the bank, or else you're waiting another whole day.
> Actually it was for economic reasons.

Well, a bit of both. True it was not economically sound, but the NUM (coal miners union) had a lot of leverage. All coal power plants had to buy British coal for example, which in turn meant that the government had to capitulate to their demands or face a shutdown. Thatchers decision to shut the mines was incredibly unpopular and to this day large swathes of the north despise her (somewhat unduly), but in combination with a wave of privatization managed to break the union stranglehold. Without the Iron Lady taking that step the mines would have been open for far far longer.

Some of the mines she closed would actually be profitable now though, due to the rising cost of coal.
Blogging via Github Issues? Madness..
I remember meeting these guys ~3yrs ago. Ridesharing was new, no one anywhere had heard of Uber. Guess it just goes to show, it doesn't always matter who is first.
I am not sure how I feel about this. Now that I have a family and children, I want to live in an area where my neighbors are at the same socioeconomic level. I don't want my neighbor to be way richer or way poorer than we are. I don't see how that is bad, wrong or racist!!!
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This neglects how the great expense of nuclear and the long amount of time it takes to build is at least in part due to decades of anti-nuclear propaganda. There are certain activist groups who have created this problem and are now disingenuously pointing to the problem as if they had nothing to do with it.
I believe they use erlang, but not ejabberd.
My favorite book of his -- besides Robots of Dawn -- was Nemesis. Absolutely incredible. Such a FEEL to that story.
One of the main methods we use for finding planets in other systems is watching for them to cross our view of the star -- basically, looking for a star to slightly dim in a periodic fashion, something akin to an eclipse.

With objects in our own system that don't emit light of their own and are much farther away from the sun than we are, they'll never block the light from the sun. If by sheer luck they happen to pass in front of another star and temporarily block it, it's still difficult to figure out what the object was, how fast it was moving, and so on and therefore difficult to correlate with "something in our own system".

Keep in mind, the solar system is REALLY big. "Planet Nine" is proposed to be some 55+ billion miles away, or about six hundred times as far away from the Sun as Earth is.
> While Google has previously published papers describing some of its technologies, Google decided to take a different approach with Dataflow. Google open-sourced the SDK and model alongside commercialization of the idea and ahead of publishing papers on the topic.

A large number of ASF projects in the Big Data space are inspired by Google's publications. Good to see Google finally taking the lead and coming out with code.
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There are plenty of motivated agendas on both sides, for sure.

But if you strip that away by going back as close to the original sources as you can, to the scientists who gather the data and do the grunt work and make the best predictions they can, you'll find they overwhelmingly lead to one conclusion: the planet is warming and human activity is the major cause.

If you try to trace back the "skeptic" positions, it just sort of peters out. You'll find some articles and a little bit of data, but there's little rigor or corroboration.
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I think your question is premised on a false assumption:

> better = more relevant to the things I might want.

In my mind advertising serves 3 roles:

1. informational - this product exists and costs X

2. branding - X is really good at design, Y cares about the environment

3. generate new market/demand - cigarettes are cool, diamonds are about love, you smell bad so you should use deodorant

Targeting is only really suited for #1. 2 & 3 are about social signaling and crafting a narrative about a product. For example, seeing an ad for the Economist would have stronger signaling ("this is for important people") if you saw it on your boss' screen - not your own. There's an article[1] that goes into much more detail about this idea - but in my mind non-targeted advertising would be valuable if it was about brand-association and location (as in traditional media).

Edit: as an interesting side-note, click through rates are utterly meaningless for #2 and possibly #3. What matters is what the audience thinks and feels about the ad and the product/brand, not whether they buy it on the spot. Here, intrusive advertising destroys value by associating a brand with a negative experience (popups, rollovers, etc.)

[1] http://zgp.org/targeted-advertising-considered-harmful/
They started with a version of ejabberd of some sort and migrated to more custom components over time IIRC. I can't find the link right now. (Keep in mind that ejabberd is written in Erlang.)
It is a well-known and fully solved problem of how to deal with nuclear waste. The reason it is not dealt with is purely political, at least in the United States: an anti-science Senator who was pandering to anti-science constituents in his state by killing the waste disposal site.
For me, these drawings made it quite clear what the differences were:

http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-...
Server returning HTML responses? Yuck! How do you deal with that on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android? No, thank you! Plain old JSON is just fine.
Yes, competition is bad and people should never try to create better ways of doing the same thing.
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Do we have something like FPS in Australia?
Actually, David Cohen wrote a check in Uber's angel round - http://davidgcohen.com/2014/07/14/the-ponys-lucky-horseshoe/

And the list of Techstars companies shows only the stats of companies that went through a Techstars accelerator - http://www.techstars.com/companies/ Non-accelerator company investments (Uber, Twilio, etc) only appear on the Techstars fund page - http://www.techstars.com/venture-capital-fund/

Disclosure - I work for Techstars
Can we hope to see a google like search engine open source? I'm just waiting for this day to happen.
> - They recruit their favorite McKinsey strategist - J Pearson - as CEO to change.

Oh and I'm sure he drove tons of money into consulting projects w/ McK. Who do you think helped him identify which companies to take over, build the pricing models to maximize profit, and devise the financial schemes needed to drive up the price of its share?

Behind every Enron, Valeant, etc. is a team of consultants...
The surfer in the main slider has had his fins completely adblocked.

https://www.brave.com/assets/img/sliders/revolution/surfers_...
The top patreon creators are mostly all gaming/art/video related: http://www.pledgesociety.com/?by=monthly-earnings&category=a.... No musicians.
This article is pretty close to what I think on the matter.

W3C isn't a monolithic organisation, there are many working groups that aren't really connected with each other. And some of those groups had a declarative vision for the Web, it's about time we re-examined those ideas.
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If you want to see the companies that went through the 500startups accelerator, just go here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=2001

(500startups does mix the two on their portfolio page; Seed-DB only shows accelerator companies)
I've heard this before, but not seen any primary sources. Can you point to any?
The bulk of this problem is for online orders where they have to look up a shipping from some postal API anyway. Plus, each country is going to have some flat-fee option they can default to. It's not hard to come up with a better scheme than "foreigners pay nothing".
I think you may be overstimating the quality of data I'm griping about. Some of the tables are mostly-unused metadata about optional key-value pairs stored in other tables. Some of the key-value pairs are queried constantly but still haven't become "real columns" because nobody wants to rock the boat.

So instead there are dozens of extra joins and queries going on, and looking at CREATE TABLE definitions helps you find only about 60% of the data-points you might be interested in. In some places entities are related not by a link-table or foreign-key, but by having a similar prefix in a text-value. (So WHERE clauses contain substring checks.)

I believe one of the many contributing causes is that people tried to store their data ASAP before they knew exactly how they wanted to use it, and then the next time they assure themselves the data is technically available without stopping to consider whether it's available in the right way.
The activists and politicians are irrelevant to this particular question. You have to look at the origin of the information, which is the climate scientists who gather this data and make predictions.

What's their motivation to make dire predictions? Sure, anyone with the slightest political awareness can see why politicians are motivated this way, but that doesn't matter to the question of "what is actually happening?" If you want to tell me that the climate change threat is made up, you need to tell me why all these climate scientists are either consistently wrong, or conspiring to hide the truth.
To anyone using the phrase "We, as a society, should do X":

I don't understand what that means, and it makes me think you're babbling nonsense. If you mean a law should be passed, say that. If you mean something else, I honestly can't even guess what it is.
The author is one of the DataFlow committers.
Just like gift cards, it might depend on who manages to use the number first ;)

Even if an entry scan isn't made, it still gets scanned along the way.

Most of this stuff is shipped untracked though.
I know: a server returning html.

It will never work.

EDIT: I've fallen into the ad internetum trap; I shouldn't be so flippant. Sorry about that.

What I am saying is that, for JSON APIs that are needed (for, say, mobile clients) that REST is probably not a great architecture, and it will and should move towards something more like SQL: a single RPC URL with a very rich query and update syntax.

Where REST can still deliver a tremendous amount of value is in pure HTML applications, and intercooler helps make that possible within the context of a modern web application.
If anyone can give feedback / test this on their favorite C/C++ compiler/platform, it'd be great.
I also guess registered mail is common or very cheap in China. I'll have $5 packages shipped registered, which must incur a dollar or two in direct costs by the mail carrier.
Not a surprise that just moving packets from one socket to another is fast.
In 2016s you need to store messages on server, do big file transfers.
Presence need to be update every couple seconds. (like whatsapp)
You need to have large groups (500+ members) for your tests.

How it will work then?
> 2. Automobiles should be banned from cities, roads should be turned into parks maybe with some more with commuter trains.

I hope you don't mind not making it to hospital in a medical emergency.
AIUI The Great Barrier Reef is a living coral reef which grew under water. I am not sure if the sea level changed twice - once to reveal it to become the coast of australia, and once to return it to the sea - or maybe the programme was referring to a larger area of continental shelf being above sea level, with its edge approximately coinciding with the reef? I'm interested in knowing more but the linked paper doesn't seem to be downloadable.
In the past 24 hours, according to Peter, "US$4458 less fees of US$178.32 in 78 payments. two large ones. $2000 and $500."
This really should not be downvoted. It's absolutely true. Yes, there are good reasons politicians and news organizations would want to peddle fear. But in this particular case, the origin of the fear is the work of thousands of smart people who have made it their life's work to study this stuff, and they almost all come up with the same answers over and over and over again.

The media wants to scare us? Sure. Politicians? No doubt. But tell me why (and how!) all these climate scientists would want to predict disaster when there isn't any.
what's happening just north of charleston, south carolina? google earth shows what seems like a cleared foundation in the middle of undeveloped land.

Unnamed Rd, Charleston, SC 29492, USA
32.912336, -79.862333

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/32%C2%B054'44.4%22N+79%C2%B...
I like this article especially because it doesn't take sides, unlike many others. Concurrency is not "better" than parallelism, and parallelism is not "better" than concurrency. Sometimes you want concurrency because you want to interleave operations, and sometimes you want parallelism because you want stuff to go faster, and sometimes you want both.
If you discover a product that sells for ten times more on Amazon than AliExpress, your first instinct should be to arbitrage the opportunity by ordering the product and selling it on Amazon (and letting Amazon handle the fulfillment: http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.ht...).
So why is Houston so economically segregated?
Should we blame the vikings? They terrorized Europe and took many slaves. How about the Mongols? They killed millions of people.

There are now more opportunities and less racism than there ever has been in the history of the US and things don't seem to be getting better.

The point is that this abhorrent behavior is no longer accepted and we have progressed into a civilized society. At some point, we need to stop blaming our ancestors.

Many immigrants from decades ago were treated just as poorly (and some..even worse) as the African American community and they are now flourishing. Mostly because many of these immigrants instilled a culture of education onto their kids, which translates to generations of successful people.

If this happened more in the African american community, we would see more success and less poverty. The problem is that not only is this accepted, the real root of the problem is denied and anyone that even attempts to talk about it is deemed a 'racist'.

I have a feeling we will be having this same conversation in a decade.

I know I had this same conversation a decade ago..and a decade before that when having a black president wasn't even a thought in anyone's head.
HBM and HMC are already in the process of bringing most of those advantages to GPUs and probably some CPUs. Last year's high-end GPUs introduced HBM with a 4kb (0.5kB) wide memory bus with 0.5TB/s bandwidth. The only reason they didn't have more memory bandwidth was because they didn't need it and the die area was better put to use for compute resources. FPGAs may be the only general-purpose chips so far to actually ship that kind of memory bus, but they aren't the only ones that can.
Well it is a little more difficult here in Australia. I have asked a few times and the only way they can provide me with the data is to do a trace which they charge me $50 for doing. Paying $50 extra to learn that some bank took out a fee is not too helpful. I more wish I could stop it happening.
Yes -- even down to the face and beard. Taken with http://hooli.xyz and http://abc.xyz, it seems that show is a bit of a crystal ball (or a really good mirror?).
"The world is the oyster for Asimov, and for the future there are vague plans for almost everything therein save two. No mysteries are on the schedule, and no books on computers. He has been asked to write his autobiography, but counters this with the remark, "What can I say?" "

Of course, those rash statements were made in 1969, but Asimov's typewriter just kept going.

He eventually published a two-volume autobiography (about 1500 pages!), and then a condensed version called I, Asimov. He also published SF mystery novels (Caves of Steel, et al.), and straight-up mystery short stories (collected in the Black Widowers stories), which are quite enjoyable.
That example is not correct, a key concept in concurrency is that it gives way to potential parallelism, but this does not follow from the queues and coffee machines analogy.
> With Square, investors were guaranteed a 20 percent premium on their investment, which would be worth $18.56 a share, meaning Square had to issue more shares to those investors, further devaluing the stock owned by employees.

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Path of Exile! Well, I for one thought your game was quite a worthy entrant to the genre and liked what you did with the various skill and economy systems.
Site not mobile friendly, "log in" pop out blocks whole screen.

Will check this out later though.
The exact bundleware you describe is a badware risk, no matter for what reason it is designed. It is badware since you would not install it if the installer did not trick you, and it is a risk since the bundling bets on your inability to catch all the UI patterns designed to make you install it.

I personally deactivated the block after stumbeling over it. The dialogue is straight forward and takes exactly one click to never bother you with the specific rule ever again. (It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/A7pA5mb.png )

It may be targeted at the tech crowd, but I think this could be said for the whole extension.
I'm not totally convinced that people actually "want" all that ad-supported content, if in this case we're talking about Internet articles and television programs. We consume it when it's there and easy to obtain, but that's a pretty low bar in terms of wanting something. Who's to say that we wouldn't find better uses for our time if all of that content disappeared? Maybe something we actually cared about enough to pay for?
Most of the modern BSD distros have incredibly advanced and performant packet and networking systems compared to Linux.

Some benefits over linux (this is especially geared to openbsd):

The main reason BSDs are awesome: `pf` is an amazing firewall/routing/shaping system.

Stability: BSDs have been far more stable under heavy loads than Linux.

Security: Generally (free|open)BSD are far more proactive with security patches and fixes than Linux distros.
I only started referring to MS as M$ after I had been working there for a year. I joined them with cautious optimism, because the new CEO had finally gotten rid of that atrocious stack ranking system.

That optimism did not last long. I only stayed there as long as I did because of how much they were paying me. Referring to them as "M$" is disturbingly appropriate given that all they do is to throw huge amounts of money at problems until they go away.

After seeing what goes on inside that company, I immediately tried to move to Linux, but it just isn't practical (http://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.th...). At the very least, I won't be upgrading to Windows 10 until 2020.
Microsoft may have given them free or heavily discounted access in exchange for being able to use them to advertise. That was apparently the case with TitanFall.
I'm sure that a router sitting idle is going to consume less electricity and require less cooling than one operating at full load.
It's become popular to pick on Twitter since they've previously made some shit decisions about how to handle free speech and user rights. My thought is that any company handling user data and accounts that state-level actors might want access to is at fault; the very least they can do for user privacy (and rights) is tell those users that someone is targeting them.

from the story:

> Twitter is not alone in starting to alert users targeted by state actors. Facebook did so beginning its notification service in October, followed by Twitter on Dec 14 and Yahoo eight days later.

and with regard to

> “However that [Twitter stays] quiet now does probably more harm,” Kubieziel said. “Some people suspect that Twitter might have received some gag order and isn’t allowed to say anything. However, even if it was only some bad algorithm which misjudged the situation, it would be better to tell the truth. I think it would help many of us to sleep better.”

it seems most likely to me that, yeah, they've been told not to tell who it is that wants the info.
It's not as fuzzy a question as you make out. People like Warhol and Koons may have satirised consumer culture, but this is completely different to the assumption that quality content can/must be funded by an advertising business model for some reason - there aren't even any examples of this (beyond Michael Jackson Pepsi videos and similar).
> What happens if ...

Make a decision, and then make the most of that decision. Sam is not saying it's bad to do other accelerators. However, for very natural reasons, graduates of other accelerators have more expected of them. Likewise, I doubt YC would accept their own graduates for another round.
I was under the impression that iOS and Android both support HTML right out of the box. Do they no longer bundle Web browsers, or are you suggesting some other drawback that is critical to your particular application?
This is my highest rated comment ever currently at +180. I don't know if anti-advertising is anti-business. It remains to be seen if the limited anti-ad experiments like in Brazil are really killing business. What seems certain is that anti-advertising is not a niche position, just not one that I explicitly see expressed online except in terms of privacy, security, and speed.