skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless it's a mining startup, the kind I invest in. The ones who have almost finished their mine, and will start producing within the year.

I value them using a good rule of thumb: If they're priced less than cash at bank plus expected earnings within the first year, and their mine plan is solid, then it's a good buy.

If they make it through the year, making the expected profit, their share price will triple. A one year old gold mine is priced generally at three times earnings.

Occasionally they're wrong AND I'm wrong about the mine plan they had, and the costs of mining each ounce of gold is much greater than thought, the mine runs out of cash in a month or two and everything crash and burns and I lose all I invested in.

Or the gold price just falls hard.

I've made 30%+ per year for the past several years doing this. Requires a good eye on the reports to figure out if the directors of the company are credible.
> The Golden Gate Bridge actually has a railway line below it that hasn't been used.

No it doesn't. You might have some memories crossed, but there's definitely no railway.
Funny, I knew MS used / before but didn't knew that IBM was the reason for the switch.
Amateurs aren't allowed to write any crypto, so unless one of the few accredited elite like djb decide to write an alternative, we're all out of luck.
What Happens When Tor Exit Nodes Break Bad
Java and javascript have the same design flaw, though.
Not sure what you mean but Android 2.x has been been unsupported for awhile now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Gingerbread
1.

Model	Q+I [1]	Q+I+C [1]	ATT 1000	ATT Full
ACC.	0.2678	0.2939	0.4838	0.4651

Where ATT Full represents using all the words in the vocabulary, as you
can see it performs worse than "Most frequent 1000 answers".

Source:

Chen, K., Wang, J., Chen, L. C., Gao, H., Xu, W., & Nevatia, R. (2015). ABC- CNN: An Attention Based Convolutional Neural Network for Visual Question Answering. arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05960.

2.

(a) Several early papers about VQA directly adapt the image captioning
models to solve the VQA problem [10][11] by generating the answer using
a recurrent LSTM network conditioned on the CNN output. But these
models’ performance is still limited [10][11]

(b) our own implementation of this model is less accurate on [2] than other
baseline models

Above two quotes are from -

Xu, Huijuan, and Kate Saenko. "Ask, Attend and Answer: Exploring Question-Guided Spatial Attention for Visual Question Answering." arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05234(2015).

However, I think my words were sloppy, as I could not find more concrete
proof in the literature, but I will revisit them with detail to recollect
where I read about RNN generating answers not overachieveing softmax
classification over Top K distribution of answers.

Also, I would like to note that, I am not using only "one word answers" as
the possible set of answers. It contains few two words, and very few three
and four word answers.

Here is the distribution
Key == Length of words | Value == Count of answers with those many
words

Counter({1: 855, 2: 112, 3: 32, 4: 1})
These people sell anti-fraud services to merchants. I'm pretty sure they know of what they speak.
This kind of behavior is reverse piracy: instead of people pirating Big Corp's music and movies, it's Big Corp that's leaving people without the use of their products. So, the internet gods requested two sacrifices: privacy and ownership. Did I miss any?
Why not do away with the farce that is corporate taxes, open an annual tax holiday to repatriate the obscene overseas funds, and close the gaps on source of high income (yes this is cat and mouse but let's be real, it can be better)?

Honestly, we're better off bringing the money home rather than letting it fester abroad.
> How much did Pfizer pay in US taxes between 2010 and 2012? Zero. What was Apple's US tax rate in 2014? 3.7%

Yes but what did employees of these companies pay in taxes?
There are a number of ways (some patched) for sites to guess at your browsing history, such as the color of visited links or HSTS cache timing.

https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/blog/sniffly/
Apologies for being completely off-topic, but reading this comment gave me a flashback to whenever it was when I started reading Hacker News. Try to imagine that you know nothing about version control or cryptography and then read the above comment.

It's like someone is telling you that they always schnarkel their schnops with shaush, now that the cost of schnacking a schnill is a mere $75k.

After however many days, I pretty much understand all of what joeyh is saying, except maybe for how the social engineering part would work. Thanks Hacker News.
At the top of the article, they mention that they are comparing incidence between the 2% of the device population that represent fraudulent transactions vs. the 98% that do not.
Bokken: GUI for Pyew malware analysis and Radare reverse engineering framework
Water pumps.
I went to Catholic school and yes they do in fact update saints. There's a patron Saint for the internet (Isidore of Seville), movies (Genesius), and astronauts (Joseph of Cupertino). I would say the tradition combines derives from Greco-Roman theosymbolism where divine beings represent specific domains of contemporary life. Note that Protestant and Baptist denominations do not generally recognize patron saints.

You can see a list of all them here and the rationale for their patronage as well. Pretty interesting to see the swath of culture and technology they cover: http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/patrons.aspx
Except the biggest one - tax on labor.
I think there's one exception, and that's the (very common) case where the arguer is leaving their point open to implication and then refuses to explicitly make it. The wink wink nudge nudgers. Then if you try to pin them down, they keep weaseling out of it while continuing to almost make their argument. After a point you just stop engaging them.
Ironically, I find government funded news - e.g., BBC and the PBS Newshour - some of my most reliable news sources. The advantage of publicly funded news organizations is that they don't have to chase ratings (and they obviously don't).
moxie's stuff is, but it is designed for the always-online mobile world:

https://whispersystems.org/
Ah, so it only applies if you go back to the US. Good to know. Thanks.
Just is the worst word in the English language.
Why in God's name would San Francisco want to become New York?

I am a fan of neither, but they are completely different cities.
Molten salt batteries are actually really good for this kind of usage. High power output and cycle life are key requirements, constant usage means energy usage for thermal maintenance is less of a factor, and the fact that it's stationary means energy density and impact resistance are less important.
I would not assume that they are doing it well. Stripe and their customers reportedly got taken to the cleaners over hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraudulent hoverboard purchases earlier this year. Caveat vendor.
I'm at a growing startup of almost 100 employees. In my 2 years there I've repeatedly heard the CEO bash our partners' "lifestyle businesses" for their lack of ambition. These are companies of 20-30 people where the founders are pulling in 300-500k a year without working much more than 40 hours a week. Ironically, if our upside game flops our company would devolve to exactly the same thing.

This is a fantastic middle ground as far as I'm concerned and I'll be very happy to take a stab at this myself after I feel that I've learned all I need to know from working for the man.
What is the incentive for Facebook to add encryption here to WhatsApp? Don't they want to mine every piece of data about every person that they can? I can't imagine there is that much customer demand?
I haven't researched the overhead costs, but there are alternative kinetic "batteries" that have been proposed, some of which are already being used:

- Use excess energy generation to drive a gravel-filled train up a few miles of 2% grade, back down the track to drive turbine(s) for energy to be tapped

- Run water up an incline into a reservoir. This can simultaneously serve irrigation purposes. Water level is indicative of available energy to be sent through turbines

- Multi-ton flywheels. I've seen that some fusion experiments use this for massive, quick energy bursts. Magnetism prevents excessive wear/tear on bearings
Well VMS also had this nonsense for fully qualified paths, NODE"accountname password"::device:[directory.subdirectory]filename.type;ver everything except filename.type is optional based on the users current DEFAULT (pwd in unix parlance). And required extensions and used the "." separator making it overloaded and confusing to read at a glance.

Edit: forgot a few parts of the qualified path.
>What you can't get today and that you could never, ever get before either, is the guarantee that the company you bought that device from will keep its servers alive for any given period of time.

The thing that's different now is that in the old days, the days when it wasn't possible for devices to phone home, they operated independently and contained the functionality offered within themselves. There were no servers to worry about.

It didn't matter if the manufacturer closed a business unit, discontinued the product, or anything else; the functionality you paid for at the time of purchase was contained within the component itself. These days, the functionality is contained in code running on someone else's servers, which may be shut down, disabled, or non-functional at any time.

Potential solutions to this:

a) educate consumers so that it's obvious when they're buying a device whose primary functions are not self-contained, and so that they don't buy these.

b) make some legal requirement that the systems running the primary functionality are online and accessible for at least X time after the last unit is sold, or the code can be loaded onto and executed upon the device in a self-contained manner if the primary functional system goes offline, or similar.

c) allow people to reverse engineer the hardware, make alternate firmwares that perform the promised functions within the device itself, require the primary functional service code be stored in escrow in case of shutdown, and, if shut down, then the copyright is automatically invalidated and the code automatically released, so that it can be run and/or modified by any interested party. Legal structures would have to be installed to protect people who do this.
As rblatz also points out, this argument just doesn't hold water. The only thing stopping companies from investing in the US right now is lack of demand / lack of disposable income. States are handing out massive tax incentives to try and get companies to actually create jobs, investments in R&D and capital expenditures can largely be tax deducted anyway, and yet large companies are still overwhelmingly choosing to downsize, offshore, and hoard cash on their balance sheets instead. If they could easily make more money by investing, they would, tax rates be damned. 66% of a new dollar earned is infinitely more than not earning that dollar at all.

On top of that, what do we get in exchange for foregoing all corporate tax income that we currently receive? I have yet to see a compelling argument showing how this won't just be another trickle-down economics ploy that actually accelerates wealth inequality. Yes, I know the proposal is to kill corporate taxes and also increase capital gains taxes, but how is that better than just leveling the playing field so that all US corporations are taxed equally? I'm genuinely curious if there's a strong economic argument here beyond "everyone else does it this way".
That's an odd statement to make. The whole article is about how she is doing exactly the thing that helps her enjoy life.
TSA Randomizer jsfiddle
You need very particular geography for pumped hydro, plus in hot dry climates your stored energy literally evaporates.
It's unfortunate that your ex had to work in such a toxic environment. She should definitely write about her experiences. As a male I'd be curious to learn about her story because there seems to be this constant allegation on the internet of misogyny in tech, but personally I've never witnessed it, and if anything it seems to be the opposite.

Gender, however, is totally irrelevant to this article. It almost feels like the author is using her gender as clickbait to generate views. If sexism is indeed rampant in the tech industry, these kind of articles aren't going to make it any better.
>One potential solution is directly government funded news

Where does the government get its money to fund news? Either from the local population which is enforced support for an economically non-viable business or it can get money from other people who have no interest in the local news of another place far away.

If good local news is not profitable, then that means there is not enough interest to justify the cost of making good local news. This is not a failure of the free market to provide a critical public good. The free market is working exactly as intended, and what YOU call 'critical' public good, isn't really that critical, according to people who would actually consume said good.

And then you want the government to enforce your personal idea of what is 'critical' by forcing people to buy things they don't want.
I'm in Vegas. A lot of people here are passionate about their community and their personal projects. I'm not sure what you're talking abou the "not giving a crap about life." Just browse our Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/nv/las_vegas/ If you missed those kinds of people then maybe there was a problem with the way you approached Vegas.
I don't think anyone is arguing that open source will guarantee that some company will keep servers up. The reason people see open source as the answer to this problem is that it allows anyone to self host their own server.
WebRTC is not only on the to-do list; it’s listed as "In Development": https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webrtc
Used to be out real late and always got food. Pizza at 4am for a dollar, chicken gyros from the halal carts, chinatown restaurants.
The same as they would have if Pfizer and Apple were untaxed, I assume.
How many jobs if I'm getting close to 50? :-)
Nest could've handled this a lot better by doing the followings:

1. Provide 2 more years of support.

2. Provide incentives to current owners by letting them upgrade to new version at discount, or offer discount to other Nest products.

Yes, people are pissed because they're bricking their devices. But people are more pissed because the compensation Nest is offering is nil and comes across as absurdly greedy.
It's in development: https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webrtc
> Anyone who thinks that open source is the way out of this dilemma needs a reality check.

What do you mean ? If it's Free software, then you should have no issue setting up a server at home by yourself. Many folks run their own server-side clients for online games, this is far from being unheard of.
This is Robert Reich original idea, and quote.

"It's time we eliminated the corporate income tax and made up the shortfall by increasing capital gains taxes. Here's the logic: First, the corporate income tax favors big companies that are able to shift their income abroad and engage in other tax-avoidance activities, while harming small companies that can't do any of this and therefore suffer a competitive disadvantage. Yet small companies are the engines of job growth in America.
Second, the people who actually pay the corporate income tax should properly be the company's shareholders, who are the legal owners of the company and who benefit from increases in its income. But in many cases, depending on the structure of the market, a significant share of the actual burden of paying the corporate income tax is often borne instead by employees in the form of lower wages, or consumers in the form of higher prices."

It sounds like a good idea, but capital gains are already high. My aunt lives in a house she bought for $25,000 in the 70's. She is far from well off. It's a crime what she's going to pay on capital gains if she sells her house.

Yea, I know about the ways around the tax, but they have downsides.

I'd be for this, if capital gains were tied to income. Maybe tied to the average income over the last 10 years?

Right now it's the same rate for a billionaire, and the old lady surviving on social security. My aunt is taking the same percentage tax hit on the sale of her investment as the billionaire?
SF has 1/4 of the population density of Manhattan, the city it is often compared to, and about 1/6 of the densest city in the world (Manila in the Philippines). I wonder where all those extra people are being put if SF has capped out?
That's so cool! Something about the slides not being released yet made me want to read them more. It's Wikileaks of legitimate content =)

Good luck with your work, it looks really useful and interesting. I feel this is what we all dreamed up in the early internet years while watching Star Trek. Digital controls for everything, and not being beholden to others for the way in which we manage the controls.

I'm also interested in electricity monitors but I think that's a separate thing.
If I'm reading this right, most plug in systems currently are a third of the 20kW rating of this charger, but this wireless charger is 90% efficient. So the extra 2kW is just lost to heat? That's a lot of energy to lose - I'm not sure if the convenience is worth it when it still would be close to a half hour to charge the 10kWh battery they're testing on.
>> You can still do this today. Nothing stops you from taking apart, repairing and tweaking devices you buy.

Well, the law can stop you from repairing your own John Deere tractor.

https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/farmers-cant-leg...
White-Hat vs. Black-Hat SEO
Ask HN: Credit Card Transaction Data?
Cardspring used to do it, but they got acquired by Twitter and aren't doing it anymore publicly.

Is there anyone else? Integrating with each of these Card Issuers seems like a PITA. And don't get me started on PCI...
To what end, though? Is there a good argument that shifting that money from a tax haven abroad to a de facto tax haven in the US will actually do something productive? It seems as though even companies that have massive amounts of domestic cash on their balance sheets are just sitting on it right now.
Yeah, my personal theory on this is that the short to medium term success of tech startups is mostly based on factors and advantages other than product quality and technical excellence.

Having a distributed tech team is not hard, but most startups aren't distributed because the VCs aren't distributed. They want face to face meetings.
I think I could get behind that if we had higher top marginal tax rates and increased capital gains taxes (like suggested in the cited article).
Well, I read that the current system for self-driving cars by Google relies on a lot of data from Google (i.e., its system does not purely work through in-car sensors). So if Google decided to pull the plug on that data, or even if they stopped keeping the data current, we'd be in precisely that scenario.
Sadly the NEXUS line was supposed to be an answer to that, until they decided "oh, we are going to drop long term support for older NEXUS devices actually". What a bunch of retards.
You can collaborate effectively with remote people a couple time zones away. India is much harder -- also much harder to periodically bring everyone together for a few days.
hi syllogism

Right now everyone doing this is highly focussed on the competition and trying to beat the numbers. For that purpose certainly they would want to stick to predicting Top K answers.

For e.g see this table

Model	Q+I [1]	Q+I+C [1]	ATT 1000	ATT Full

ACC.	0.2678	0.2939	0.4838	0.4651

Where ATT full is when using all the words, it performs worse than ATT 1000 (Source)[Chen, K., Wang, J., Chen, L. C., Gao, H., Xu, W., & Nevatia, R. (2015). ABC-CNN: An Attention Based Convolutional Neural Network for Visual Question Answering. arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05960.]

Once the competition is over (in rough two months), there will be more focus on actual AI part, where generating the answers would be the right thing to do. There are other papers where they use external knowledge base like DBPedia, certainly "answer word" could be picked up from there.

What you have suggested is a very interesting approach, and I am not aware of any paper which has tried that. Certainly quite a few paper have tried to extend NLP QA to Visual QA but with limited success (expect Metamind people). I will certainly keep that in my ideas to try list. I will update you if I get some results.

P.S: Thank you for creating Spacy, I love it and I use it everyday !
Yeah, that kind of OS is unheard of. :)
This is just the marketing hypnosis speaking. Fast food tastes awful.
Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer While on the Job
That sounds exactly like square one in the interview process...
>or we could move to a sensible model, where software delivers on its promise and allows people to work anywhere

If people really figure out how to consistently develop any kind of software remotely, with any team size and with average programmers, a lot of programming jobs will move away from high living cost areas, as happened with manufacturing jobs.

If you're in the US, where software developer salaries are much higher than most of the rest of the world (even on developed countries average programmers don't earn 6 figures), you'll be probably be on the losing side.
Tencent Is Bringing Path of Exile to China
I would stay away from anything Zigbee. It has become a complex mess
Solar Manufacturing Oversupply: Likely Exacerbating [pdf]
I don't think the CEO should be saying this:

Does that sound kind of annoying? Well, CEO Alex Debelov said it’s designed to be “very non-intrusive” — it doesn’t play sound unless you hover your mouse over the ad (or, on mobile, when you actually stop scrolling). Some publishers go further, by only turning the sound on if you actually hit a button.

His customer is the company and he is discussing features that make the product appealing to the average web-user (but perhaps less useful for the company that is the customer!).
Why did I read this.

This is far from practical to use on a day to day basis. It'd make my eyes bleed if some coworker used this anywhere.

Why not just pickup a scripting language like perk or Python. Use awk or sed. They're available everywhere.
> it's not going to dramatically change everything about this city overnight.

Your post I responded to talked about 15 years, not overnight. I absolutely think SF could have been transformed with a different policy if starting in 2001.

Even without any immigrants, there are an enormous amount of construction workers among our 300 million US citizens.

The idea that it's so incredibly hard to build a lot of housing over 15 years is disproven by the many successful big cities that actually do it.

> This dream of in-fill development being a simple cure-all to San Francisco's housing ills

Again, nobody is talking about a simple cure-all in three easy $19.95 payments.
More likely everything is running on autopilot, well documented so low level support personnel can address any issues that might crop up, and consuming a minimal amount of revenue since the number of Revolv users is fairly static and most likely decreasing over time. I doubt it costs more than $1000/mo to operate the Revolv infrastructure, not counting the humans supporting it, who are probably spending 80%-90% of their time on non-Revolv items anyway.

The real reason for pulling the plug on Revolv is to try and drum up Nest sales, but it was executed poorly since they haven't made any particular effort to steer the screwed Revolv users to Nest, or offered any concession.

Tony Fadell will no doubt shit his pants when he reads this post, but despite how accurate it is, I don't even work there.