skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's something interesting about ferns I recently learned. When scientists were investigating the increased prevalence of gastric and other GI cancers in Asian countries, they turned their attention to Braken fern, whose shoots (fiddleheads) are commonly eaten in Asia, as well as in US. Turns out Braken fern contains a well known and documented carcinogen called ptaquiloside or PTA. It causes cancer in animals and in humans. But here's the kicker: Danish scientist Lars Holm Rasmussen released a study in 2004 showing that the carcinogenic PTA compound in bracken fern can leach from the plant into the water supply, which may explain an increase in the incidence of gastric and esophageal cancers in bracken-rich areas. Such as Pacific NW of US. (There is also evidence that PTA is spread through inhalation of pores of ferns!)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11945131
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Sure, but then the "dark forest" analogy still doesn't make sense.
I live in NYC, but not in Manhattan.

Yes, helicopters fairly regularly fly over where I live. They can be very loud.
I don't know much about GitHub Pages, but if it's only for static pages, then why do you need SSL? I mean if you're not going to be sending sensitive dynamic data. Is it so people can't snoop the contents of your pages over request/response on a network?
Which shockingly bad agenda would that be?
Nope: there's Google ads, Google non-ads, and "Other Bets". Q4 Google non-ad revenue was $2.1 billion, or almost 10%, and this share has been steadily increasing.

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2015/Q4_google_earnin...
Apple's brand trades a lot on having extremely well finished products with very polished experiences. If they started experimenting left and right like Google does, they would lose that brand image, which is arguably their most valuable asset (even above and beyond the technology itself). If Google releases Glass and it flops, it hardly affects their image ('well, yes, it's cool technology, that's what Google does, but I don't think people want it for now...'), if Apple does the same it would be thousands of articles about how Apple is losing its touch and can't possible survive without Steve Job's genius.

Maybe the only way around that is taking a page out of Alphabet's playbook and making a parent company with "riskier" subsidiaries with their own non-Apple brand?
That's what I meant.
Most important programs are written in C.
Look at what program you are running now.
See if you can find the standard C library it links to.
Yes, but the truth of the matter is that they did exactly that. So "can't" is not the right word in this context.
There is a movie dialogue where a man from the future tells his friend in the past:"I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember that?" It ends up making his friend rich in the future. The movie is Frequency(2000)
As a fellow Windows user (at least at home) with a Jekyll blog deployed on GitHub pages, I would recommend using a web IDE such as c9.io or koding.com.

They are little VPSs with sudo access (and a private web server) so you can test "locally" there and then git push once you're ironed out bugs. In your Windows machine you only need a web browser.
Boston, and because I feel like the culture at companies with unlimited vacation is that people are much more afraid of taking longer vacations. When I had 4+ weeks guaranteed, I took advantage of it every year without guilt, even the full amount all at once, as did most engineers. Now I feel guilty for every day. I don't feel like there are any borders between work and leisure. Slack is always active even with inane dialogue.
I agree a business is not a charity, but if there is no hope of a return on your investment, what value is there in doing literally anything else with it? There's is definitely value in making it possible for thousands of people to keep food on the table for their families and pay the mortgage and continue providing services to existing users.
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Google's flagship product, in the sense of revenue, is the text ad ;-)
Same, I guess because I have cookies turned off.
Alphabet has failed at military robots: http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/29/us_marines_kill_off_bi...
One billion
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Edited out a minor freakout i had thinking powervr was claiming to have invented tbdr when its been in the literature for years. Well guess what, fuck, i'm totally wrong, powervr did invent tiled rendering. In 1996. That's what i get for being 2 when the paper came out.
It's a pity that the Basque language is not in this graph.

From wikipedia [1]:

> The impossibility of linking Basque with its Indo-European neighbors in Europe has inspired many scholars to search for its possible relatives elsewhere. Besides many pseudoscientific comparisons, the appearance of long-range linguistics gave rise to several attempts to connect Basque with geographically very distant language families. All hypotheses on the origin of Basque are controversial, and the suggested evidence is not generally accepted by most linguists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language
About a year ago Yahoo said they expected Tumblr to generate $100 million in revenue (not profit) in 2015. I'm not saying Tumblr is profitable (don't think they ever said) or it was a great investment (cost $1.1B in 2013) but at least it generates significant revenue and uniques have around doubled since they bought it.

That was a RELATIVELY good purchase.
> investors think more money will be in the future of AI instead of consumer hardware and software

No, first you are mistaking a bet on a single company for a bet on an industry. The obvious counterexamples being that there are no shortage of wannabe AI companies valued orders of magnitude lower than Apple, that doesn't mean wall street thinks devices beat ai as an industry gold mine.

Google is valued highly today because they print money today. They print money because of search and advertising. They are really good at this and that's why their market cap exceed's Apple's today.

These prices are not remotely rational. There's no serious investor that thinks Apple is going to shut the lights off inside 7 years which is what the current 'market cap' would tell you.
There is also one important thing: a student from a good college is no more guaranteed to be smart than a student from a mediocre college to be not so smart, but there is certainly a correlation. And many top recruiters that have to process thousands of applications every year use the college as an easy filter to get better candidates. This practice, fair or not, probably achieves its goal statistically.

That makes certain professions unreachable from outside of a few colleges, like some top law firms, consultancy, banks, or even tech companies!
Open source projects die too, and it's not always because there are no users. Sometimes there is no one willing to maintain the project. My point is that "closed source software dies" isn't a valid argument for not using a product.
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I don't know how you can call their self-driving cars anything BUT AI. We live in a pretty jaded world if you don't think that constitutes artificial intelligence. While it may not be a source of revenue yet, we are VERY close to it being one.
The "other bets" that are (in aggregate) losing money are things that Alphabet does that are not part of Google. While Google is nearly 100% advertising revenue, it has non-advertising revenue streams inside of Google.

And we only know that the "other bets" (non-Google Alphabet operations) are losing money in aggregate, not that all of them are losing money individually.
Thanks for the edit. Of course an even number isn't prime ;)
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Apple also started paying quarterly dividends in 2012[1]. Whereas, Google does not pay out dividends[2]. Apple's annualized dividend yield is 2.2% (for comparison, Microsoft's is 2.6%[3]).

[1] http://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=AAPL

[2] http://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=GOOG

[3] http://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=MSFT
That's not how it works. That's a terrible suggestion.

If you cut perks, your best and brightest will leave much quicker, the elves leave middle earth. And then your company is essentially screwed, because you'll lose all of your key personnel. And you won't save very much money. This is the way of the bean-counters who know nothing of human motivation and morale. $1000 per employee is less than a percentage of their yearly salary.

If you instead decimate the company, many who survive the culling will be thankful to the company that they are keeping their job, and you'll actually save ~10% in salary costs and future obligations.

(The clever employees who see this coming will leave way before either scenario anyway)
If there's no difference in whether she would've been paid zero dollars, then thats a pretty good argument that they should find someone that will take zero dollars - just find someone that wants to commit reputation suicide!
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The thing that is weird to me about conspiracy theorists is that they all seem to be reductionists. As in, they believe that in order for these strange highly complex phenomena to exist, that there must be powerful people in place at every nexus of the system, with their thumbs on switches and valves to ensure that things work exactly that way. When in reality, complex systems can work under their own power even while the people in that system can be few and unaware.
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Would you rather: be an engineer at a startup or a quant at a hedge fund?
Assume: same size. same baseline comp. same perks.
(Actually I may be confusing the extra comma here with an extra comma at the end of an enum list. Some compilers are OK with that, while others aren't.)
Anyone care to explain what a "tablet magazine" is as opposed to just the online edition of a magazine that may or may not have a print edition?

I need to be convinced that tablet magazines were ever alive before I can be convinced that they aren't dead yet.
I have a friend who works at Lab126 with some really interesting stories about the dysfunctional environment there. He's basically one of a handful or so engineers who have more than a 4 year tenure in his division. Their PMs are basically all fresh out of college. After the complete disaster that was the Fire phone, that team and its director got promoted and placed in charge of Lab126. As expected, everything went to shit.

No idea what the rest of the company is like, but internally, Lab126 employees treat it as a stepping stone until their resume or skillset becomes good enough for Apple, Google, etc.
There's a concept in electrical engineering and signal processing called superposition. It basically means that a linear circuit will process the sum of a bunch of signals the same way it would process them one at a time (in very rough terms, to the best of my recollection, etc.).

Maybe something similar applies to selective pressures; at a statistical, population-wide scale, the result of optimizing thousands of traits at the same time is mathematically equivalent to optimizing one at a time?
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Could you describe your setup? This looks neat. Would love a better idea of what an advanced setup looks like.
I don't think Bayes' theorem applies very well here, because there's no practical way to check enough numbers such that the effect you're describing comes into play. 2^80 is approximately a million billion billion (10^24), so if you had a million CPUs each checking a billion numbers every second, it would still take a billion seconds (over 30 years) to check that many numbers. I suspect that's why such a small level of uncertainty was chosen in the first place.
Follow the "Getting Started" link on rumpkernel.org. That page includes both short and long reading (should you get more interested ;), and also some "hands on" tutorials should you learn about things better that way (I know I do).

SMP scalability is all about bottlenecks. If the driver is the bottleneck, it won't scale no matter where you run it.
Yes. It's because of the idiotic way the Dow formula works. The Dow is a price weighted index. To compute the value of the Dow, you sum the per-share prices of the constituents and divide by a magic divisor. So a $50 move in GOOG (~6.6% change) and a $50 move in AAPL (50% change) would have the exact same impact on the value of the index. The kludgey solution to this problem is just to not incorporate high priced stocks into the index.

Incidentally this is why when you hear anyone quoting the Dow you can tell immediately that they are either clueless or an innumerate moron.
Since software will be linking directly against LKL, does this mean it also needs to be GPL? Will the same symbol restrictions apply?
The nice thing about Markdown that doesn't apply to those other formats is that it's designed to read naturally in plaintext. That constraint should (in theory) prevent it from transforming into something prohibitively complicated to write in.
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It's Schubert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFjkIrRjZZU&t=15m50s Schubert Trio Op. 100 Second movt Andante con moto.
I did in fact run this on a cheap $5 droplet, along with an apache2 server. Worked fine except it crashes about once a week, I think due to memory usage. I switched to weechat in a tmux session
Its hard to explain but i dont feel IFTTT and Zapier quite operate in the same space. IFTTT is much more about your relationship with a service that needs some basic interaction with another. Every "recipe" is built around you, your relationship with the primary online service.

Zapier is more like a glue between two building blocks, it doesnt have to include the relationship to you, just between two building blocks. That simple shift in the way zapier is solving automation make it incredibly powerful.
How much do you want to bet she will start her Venture Capital firm after this debacle?
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I use nix in production, and I love it. It's just as good in practice as it is in theory.

I think the problem is that really using nix involves learning a new language. And it's a weird lazy functional language at that. So yeah, the Haskell folk adopt it readily enough, but everyone else has a high barrier to get over. The only people that do it are the ones that have really wrestled with the problem of dependencies and can see how well nix solves it.
According to Google Finance, it appears that Alphabet has a market capitalization of $517B, which is far different than the $558B quoted in the article. This does not appear to be a temporary fluctuation. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOGL

Am I missing something? Based on the current market cap numbers on Google Finance, Apple is still higher than Alphabet.
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Well, technically, it does. The unfortunate thing is that it also supports non-encrypted HTTP. In my opinion, gh-pages is one of those places where it's not a big deal; there isn't anything too private being uploaded, and all the pages that can be served are available publicly on Github.

Edit: oh, I didn't know that it's not supported for custom domains. That is a bit disappointing.
This helped me in the past. Thanks, it is nicely curated :)
Pi would be a good source, but they are in the wrong order.
It's interesting that the market is valuing Apple's ability to innovate in the absence of Steve Jobs at ~zero. Apple trades like a value stock right now; Wall Street assumes that they're a cash cow that is just going to be milked, and unlikely to have any future major hits.

If you (correctly) disagree with this assessment, there may be money to be made here. If you agree with it, well, I understand why Apple wouldn't look very appealing.
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does network 2000 have any relation to foobar2000?
> A conspiracy theory is merely a theory without corroborating evidence.

It is interesting that the only term that we had to refer to a "theory about an agreement between persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of their legal rights or to gain an unfair advantage" became a synonym for lunacy, while leaving us with no short way to express the former concept.

A conspiracy theorist might suggest that we can be controlled with language.
That might not include after-hours trading prices. Not sure about that though.
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This is based on after-hours trading, where Alphabet is up 9%+ after an earnings beat. The marketcap that you see in Google Finance is calculated based on the price at the end of the trading day, not after-hours trading.
PUBLIC companies are for shareholders, now workers. Private companies are another issue.
Perks are incredibly cheap for the company, because people value them much more than they would the corresponding pay raise.

This is so obviously true that it's a cynicism generator on HN, with people routinely commenting about how Google's free food is a kind of scam. But what's true and what rings true depends on the prevailing narrative, and the prevailing narrative about Mayer and Yahoo is that she's fiddling while Rome burns.