skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that within about 10-20 years of non-use they would be overgrown to the point of invisibility. Joints are tooled/cut every 20 feet (I think?) and grass has a habit of growing everywhere. The individual "sections" would remain in place of course, but growing things and erosion would push the joints further and further apart every season.

IMHO - the pristine unbroken roadways would be like that for only a few years/maybe a decade.
In spanish and catalan it's called `piña` and `pinya` (exact same pronunciation as ñ is ny in catalan) because its shape is similar to the `Conifer cone` (called pinya as well) [1].

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C3%B1a
There are about 113 cannabinoids in weed, while that pot spray only contains 2. With reefer, exact doses do not matter because unlike most medicine, its active ingredients are endogenous and non-toxic.

I'm sorry that 420 culture causes your bias, but that's not a fault of the plant.
Yeah! Funny, I was the one who wrote the original Scratch->Snap! converter, "Snapin8r". :-)
Yeah, and there's this:

There is no huge secret to conversion rate optimization, or consumer experience optimization. It’s quite simple, really: put your consumer’s needs first and you’ll double your online sales...

So it's that black and white, is it? You can apply a binary assessment to something as complex as "putting a consumer's needs first?" Even if you could, you still have the issue of pricing models, software terms and more to consider which may be necessary to protect your business and your bottom line, but do nothing to further the consumer's interests.

Louis CK is selling one product (a highly popular one) on his site at a single price point. I don't find the fact that he sold out in one day to be mind-blowing or applicable to most businesses. Ticketmaster sells out shows everyday and their customer experience is terrible. The underlying product is what gets the sales, not the website.

The reason sites like Amazon hire MBA's by the hundreds is because those sites have countless pricing dimensions that have to be analyzed continuously in order to maximize conversion rates, profit, and inventory. It sounds good at first pass to think just throwing out all the features on every website that aren't consumer-centric in order to sell out is a simple workable strategy because a popular comedian selling an e-product did it, but then after you think about it for a couple minutes you realize it's pretty useless advice.
Could you detail that with a link to this news?
Hardly the same thing. The point is that it is all but impossible to avoid your face being indexed online somewhere.
> On the other hand, I think if you started packing everything into a tar file, that could as well be a js file.

Modules give you a certain degree of namespacing, which is nice. Compiling down to a tar to be served to a Service Worker is undoubtedly easier than the mangling needed to remove the modules.
Heh, you got me:) I agree the situation is more complicated than I described.

My main response to this is: just because we can't always use content-addressable links doesn't mean we shouldn't use them where we can. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. When pirate movie websites have a 1000x more rock-solid way of identifying content than the NY Times we have a problem.

But even in the most inhospitable situations like the one you describe we can still do better. Content-addressability won't help, agreed. How about promoting UUID style non-human readable paths instead? One of the reasons links change is that the content changes slightly and the name goes out of date. Perhaps in your case legal says "these prices may be up to ten minutes out of date, we can no longer call that path /prices/current/feed". If the path was /3824-3822-4864 this wouldn't be a problem. Information about what that endpoint returns can be placed in a description field or in the docs where it can be kept up-to-date without breaking links.
Google is certainly not blameless here. If they had banned partners who's installers violated a reasonable set of terms, e.g. opt in instead of opt out, this would not be an issue. They would have gotten free installs until the bad installer was fixed and verified ;)
Adobe can do as they please. This is corporate America....of course there is money involved :)
Just went to look at his tour dates and the "buy tickets" links seem to almost all link to...ticketmaster.com. :(

I clicked on the one for the venue closest to me and Ticketmaster forces me to choose from of list of scheduled events to see seating for, and Louie's not even on the list. Classic ticketmaster.
It's not hard to imagine ISPs being ordered to shut down in a total war scenario. Or at least block encrypted traffic.

There is no plug to pull to shut down radio communications, and active jamming of frequency-hopping systems is hard.
Seattle's light rail: How our past shapes the choices
Does not seem to work locally using Chrome 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit) either. Not a good sign.
2 New Roles of BI to Make Data Science for Everyone
I'm really excited to see a framework make security and authentication part of it's foundation.

Amazing work Horizon team!
How has BitKeeper changed since it was used for the Linux kernel
Reimagining CIA and IRS Websites with the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards
That Acanvas self-charging design is brilliant. You hang up the painting above a wall socket and it drops a cord down to the socket to charge when the battery gets low. Then it pulls the cord back up so it appears wireless the majority of the time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acanvas/acanvas-the-cor...
Post-quantum handshake in Tor
Write the same documents but instead of submitting them to the patent office, release them on the Internet.
"Agricultural workers die all the time using heavy machinery. If the increased risks from chemical exposure were similar in magnitude they would show up in epidemiological studies (which have been done)."

The heavy machinery that you speak of is used for a great many other things than simply weed/foliage control.

So aren't you going to have that infrastructure, and those risks, regardless of what you do with your weeds ?

The more serious problem with this line of reasoning is that the risks of the machinery are confined to the people doing the work, whereas the (possibly much smaller, but less understood) risks are potentially borne by the entire population around their use.

What if your neighbors don't share your risk analysis ?
Ok we replaced 'push' with 'desktop' which is what the Github page says.
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Sort of. There's nothing stopping you from using script inside a Service Worker to send those notifications. Calling them push notification is troublesome as the Web Push API and Notification API are actually two entirely separate things.
I'm guessing that this will turn out to be the well-known Installer Detection, around since the time of Windows NT 6.0.

* https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc709628(v=ws.10...

* https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uac/2006/01/13/identificati...
Present tense: https://domenic.github.io/streams-demo/
Your definition of bad ideas seems rather puritan. Not sure most agree on that.
A lot of missteps in the early days of web technologies have made stable URLs impractical, unfortunately.

One problem is that someone decided to include file name extensions. Maybe this happened naturally because web servers made it so easy to expose entire directory structures to the web. And yet, this continues to be used for lots of other things. It is so ridiculous that a ".asp" or ".php" or ".cgi" causes every link, everywhere to depend on your arbitrary implementation details!

Another problem is that many software stacks are just not using brains when it comes to what would make a useful URL. Years ago I was very frustrated working with an enterprise software company that wanted to sell us a bug-tracking system and they didn’t have simple things like "server.net/123456" to access bug #123456; instead, the URL was something absolutely heinous that wouldn’t even fit on a single line (causing wrapping in E-mails and such).

Speaking of E-mail, I have received many E-mails over time that consisted of like TWELVE steps to instruct people on how to reach a file on the web. The entire concept of having a simple, descriptive and stable URL was completely lost on these people. It was always: 1. go to home page, 2. click here, ..., 11. click on annoying “content management system” with non-standard UI that generates unbookmarkable link, 12. access document. These utterly broken systems began to proliferate and it rapidly reached the point where most of the content that mattered (at least inside companies) was not available in any sane way so deep-linking to URLs became pointless.
This is the first time I have heard of OpenDNS Umbrella. I just gave it a try (they have a free trial) and it's really nice--after some simple configuration you pretty much just set your router's DNS to OpenDNS and then your DNS requests are both monitored and lightly protected.

The product is geared towards medium-to-large networks so it's a little hard to find the prosumer $20/yr plan. Here's a link if anyone else is interested:
https://www.opendns.com/enterprise-security/threat-enforceme...
> the people paying you money need to know you're not incompetant

Yeah, that is some requirement you made up. Just because you want your stylist to be regulated should have no bearing on me. Please keep your laws off my body.
It was upvoted enough to make it to the front page, so people are getting some value of it. I agree that davidhoos is basically a lucky marketer whose gimmicky article happens to be entertaining and appeal to a certain Hacker News anti-marketing sentiment (ironically).
The Red line between Cermak-Chinatown and 95th Street [1] was reconstructed over 5 months [2] in 2013.

[1] None of the reconstructed line was elevated steel structure.

[2] Not "almost two years"
That might be part of the process, but the key word here was ensure. The article seemed extremely confident that this model was predictive, to the point of suggesting very drastic actions based on the predictions, which is why I made the comment.
Now I don't know vkontakte, but facebook at least let users tag their photos with who's on them. That should be pretty good training data for a machine learning algorithm, so your profile photo is not necessarily needed.
Nice project, I liked the fact that it has a fallback to older browser versions, will test it later.
That's true. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Firefox correctly syncs bookmark folders on both iOS and Android. Always has, as far as I can remember. What they doesn't support is putting your mobile bookmarks into folders on your mobile device; anything you bookmark on mobile lands in a "Mobile Bookmarks" folder. You have to either use tags or organize them using the desktop browser.
Hey Debra,

Thanks for everything you're doing to increase participation in our democracy!

I know it's a bit far-sighted, but would love to hear your thoughts on electronic voting. Is it feasible? Desirable? What do we need to get there?
>"All studies thus far point to roundup/glyphosate being incredibly safe." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11715481, searine)

FWIW the context was ability to harm humans in any way; you were responding to a person saying they'd been given a rash after using Roundup.

>>"A good portion of which can do serious harm to life. Therefore "unknown" is the issue." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11715508, goda90)

>"Your daily coffee is probably an order of magnitude more carcinogenic than any glyphosate/roundup exposure." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11715557, searine)

Which I'll accept was not quite what I thought you'd said.

Will you admit that you've claimed roundup to be "incredibly safe"?

Also that in response to someone claiming it was harmful that your response, in context, suggested that coffee was more harmful?
>roundup is synonymous with glyphosate

For all intents and purposes, it is.

> yet through further reading I discovered that approximately half of it is glyphosate, and the rest is a combination of surfactants and whatever else.

This is a recent development in the literature. The case for glyphosate being carcinogenic has been so widely tested and proven false that Seralini's group has had to shift focus to save face.

They then turned to POEA as a potential carcinogen, a widely used chemical present in commercial roundup (and many many other products).

They did this because surfactants are irritants, so their physiological effect can easily confound sloppy studies.

The result is a protracted grasping at straws so Seralini can prove his predefined conclusion that "roundup causes cancer". Bad papers published in crap journals to get media attention so Seralini can sell his book.
It used to be so good back in the early 90s!
Doesn't this very paper invalidate this patent, since its publication precedes the filing, and makes the method permanently unpatentable ?
> For many tasks involving herbicide, there's a choice between these chemicals or labor intensive and exhausting use of heavy machinery and hand tools.

Or these chemicals and other, much nastier, chemicals.
How is that " the calories of a meal do not equal the sum of it's parts"?

That seems to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
That would be cool, I'll get them to you in about 4 hours when I'm home.
Good on Louis CK for avoiding dark patterns, but he's a highly differentiated, beloved artist. The special would have sold spectacularly regardless.
The people who volunteer to be subject of those long-term studies tend to have little overlap with the demographic exposed to said chemicals. I.e., your average seasonal migrant who's going to work 8 years here then return to their South or Central American home. If they do stay here, they're more often than not seasonal migrants, sans documentation, not the type who'd volunteer to come into a university building twice a year for 20 years to be a medical subject of a study. (These guys likely don't even have base-level medical healthcare).
Unappreciated might be somewhat of a stretch; European countries were certainly able to avoid spending a significant fraction of their budget on post-war defense against the Soviet Union because the United States largely took that on.
I don't think the change is coming quickly, actually. I think truck drivers have a good 10 years before they're out of a job, both due to technology (self-driving cars won't be fully autonomous for at least 5 years), and due to regulation/adoption (add another 5+ years). This actually leaves them less of an excuse to start retraining now, but it's also a problem because it gives most of them an excuse to dismiss the tech.
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Why? LSTM as such isn't patented, so the concept is free to use by anyone without any restrictions or royalties, no matter who invented it.

Also, the concept of LSTM wouldn't be patentable directly even in the current liberal software patent interpretation, you might patent particular applications of LSTM (e.g. this patent) but not any and all arbitrary applications of LSTM.
It was definitely the mother the entire time.
It's more like: these two numbers are in constant contact all other hours of the day. At this hour midday, when others, including one of the relevant parties, say those two numbers are together, there is no correspondence. Later, the correspondence picks up as before.
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> Note that RoundUp is a Monsanto trade-name with a chemical composition that changes nearly, if not every, year due the rapid immunity weeds tend to develop against it.

What's the point of the genetic modification to seeds if they can just breed resistant crop? Do they change the genetic modification frequently too?
To be highly available the services certainly need to be aware of the status of the connection. It seems like a normal election leader algorithm would handle this just find.
This is the first "Nordic-style" startup plan I've seen from a major tech company. Have any of the other majors tried something like this?
Right! This made me laugh, the idea of a placebo with magic mushrooms.
This is great - would be cool if someone added the latest documents. I think they published more yesterday.
I think if "only so much" is too little, and "few resources" are not enough, then you have no means to reach "beyond reasonable doubt", and you should say so.
It's not arbitrary, it's about arguing against a working and beneficial thing because of fear instead of any reasonable argument. That's why peope who are anti-vaccination also get labeled anti-science, as well as those freaking out about nuclear energy or cellphone radiation.

AI apocalypse, while plausible-sounding (at least to me), is still in the future. GMOs are useful here and now.
> eighter

Niner one niner five copy that.
Yea, that would be nice. Basically a style checker that integrated into the syntax highlighting in some way.
All food has bar codes.
Study on cancer patients showed positive results. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20819978
The myth of the cheat proof digital exam
Where'd you get your images? Food-101 plus something else?

We're working on a similar component for our commercial behavioral-economics-driven app suite, targeted toward patients with chronic diseases.

Do you use location as a way to filter the set of possible foods, as in Google's im2calories project/paper last year?

They do some pretty awesome depth calculation stuff too:
https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=im2calories+type:pdf

Edit: oops, should have read further. I see that you pulled appropriate terms from WordNet and used ImageNet to gather training images from Flickr. Cool!
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In 'theatres of war', combat situations etc., would net connectivity be much of an option? Doesn't satellite have to be stationary?

And data modes must be fantastic for the military, agreed. I don't know if any encrypted streams have been detected by amateurs, do you?
It's not about stamina. Pat yourself on the back for having the very good sense to not ingest written faeces.
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Given historical prescedent, is existence of prior art actually an effective way in practice to prevent the granting of a patent?
The herbicide in Roundup has been glyphosate ever since they introduced the product.

Re your edit: The stuff you are calling industrial Roundup is intended for mixing with water before application. It's sold as concentrate to simplify shipping and storage.

They do seem to vary the additives they use in order to change the treatment properties of the Roundup (better absorption or faster drying time or whatever).
I type good.
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> In combination with independent reviews that have found bulk metadata surveillance to be an ineffective intelligence strategy, our findings should give policymakers pause when authorizing such programs.

If metadata has such power, why do they say that it is an "ineffective intelligence strategy"?
Usually question "Why X is so expensive in US?" can be answered with "Because such and such for-profit entity wedged itself between buyer and a seller and siphoned so much money that can buy off politicians that in other circumstances would kick it out."

I guess case with infrastructure is more complex.
Why wouldn't this be enforceable? It's just as enforceable as any other software patents - we can (and should!) argue about legality of software patents as such, but if the patent is granted, then you simply take a look at any competing MT system, and if they seem to use this approach, you'll be able to sue them for patent violation.
The sentence you quoted states that the name came before cultivation, which occurred later in time.

Basically "Using straw would only happen in gardened berries, but that wasn't done until long after people gathered strawberries (by that name) from the wild".
What are rules for such a publication? I guess that something published in IEEE shouldn't be patentable and have my doubts about publishing on a blog, self-hosted, in Romanian. Where is the line according to the US law?
If you do feature flags by inserting if blocks throughout your code you will create tech debt anyways. The goal is to have one if block and hide the changed behavior behind interfaces (or polymorphic functions if you are using functional languages). Dependency injection is your friend.

If you don't do this, you won't scale beyond a hand full of feature flags. Chrome has hundreds, for example.
I owe my entire successful career in science and mathematics to repeated use of LSD in my late teens/early 20's. It woke my desire to seek answers to the underlying mechanics of the universe. Before that, I was just a high school drop-out with low self-esteem, no direction, and no positive role models.
Building Database Driven RESTFUL API Applications with Flask and Angularjs
I just posted about this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714378

I'm trying to work on a setup to handle this. I ordered a PiCamera instead of the connect though. I just happen to have a connect laying around.
There ARE organic weed killer available. My brother in law made one and seels it and it's rather effective.
I don't know how I feel about the trend of claiming engineering and management is equivalent. Perhaps in pay they are, but the real question is power and except at the very top (CTO/CIO) I doubt engineering has a lot of broad power and discretion. Engineering doesn't cast vision the way management does. Principal Engineer and Sr Director/VP are on paper equivalent jobs, but I wager there are at least some decisions a PE needs Director approval on (where the reverse is never true).

I don't think that's actually a terrible thing. Some people are better at refining others' plans and then implementing; others are great big-picture or ducks-in-a-row planners. There should be multiple tracks for different skillset buckets. But to say they're equivalent isn't really true.
Thanks exactly what I was looking for :)
Yikes. Unfortunately this is why (IMO) I see a lot of mediocre ML articles upvoted very highly on HN that have either very little discussion, or generally poor quality discussion, especially around hot topics like neural networks. The discussion I've seen here is honestly the exception to the norm (probably due to the statistical nature of the topic). Personally this is one of the few areas where Reddit does better.
By and large in the US, you can as far as the government is concerned--especially if the scope is such that a permit doesn't need to be pulled and the work inspected. (There may be exceptions in some states, but it hasn't been the case in my experience either as a matter of law or as a practical matter.)
Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems
Yes, but if URLs don't count against your char limit, then it becomes more attractive. Previously there would be no point in trying to hide data in short links, because they still counted against your character count
I don't think it needs to be an either/or. Why not both/and. Aim to have both a solid user focused experience and to be a highly differentiated, beloved brand.
"Artificial intelligence is what we can do that computers can't ... yet"

You're not far from wrong, but look at the original article.