skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well regarding your perspective I think you've got a contradiction in the reasoning used: Unlike you state, they did involve the courts, at least initially. Settling out of court enabled a level of privacy which, as I was getting at, leaves the mechanics of agreement undisclosed (agreeing to not say anything). As outsiders sure that doesn't mean squat, but, in a larger view, some high profile disputes employ "trial in the court of public opinion" tactics. That seemed relevant in this particular instance, and when it goes unaddressed, it simply - again, as an outsider - leaves an odd impression to me.
I found it funny when the author also uses manipulative tricks:

- he finishes the article with two links (one direct and one indirect) for the same website;

- he (or the software) underestimates the time needed to read the article.
It has been popular belief that although deep learning has been successful in a lot of domains, its biggest shortcoming is high sample complexity, i.e. even for simple problems you need tens of thousands of samples. Thus, deep learning was believed to be unsuitable for one-shot (or low-shot) learning, where the model needs to learn from one or a handful of samples per class.

Brenden Lake et al. showed that a bayesian approach outperforms deep learning based methods in this Nature article: http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/Papers/Science-2015-Lake-1332-8.p...

DeepMind took the challenge, and delivered a deep learning based method, which uses no feature engineering and outperforms human-level performance in low-shot learning, thus providing strong evidence against the widely-held notion that deep learning cannot work with small amounts of data.
Researchers Plan 'Unstoppable' DAO to Help Whales Save Themselves
Uber says you're willing to pay more when your phone is dying
"in 1889 the Romanian prototype was already 953 mg lighter than the international prototype kilogram"

Is that correct, or should that be 953 μg? I find it hard to believe that a carefully kept reference kilogram designed to keep its mass would lose almost a gram in a century.

μg Also seems more in line with what Wikipedia writes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Stability_of_the_in...)
L.B. Stanza stands for "Li Bai's Stanza". Li Bai was an acclaimed Chinese poet who lived from year 701 to 762. He was known particularly for his mastery of "regulated verse", the most rigorous verse form of his time. [...]

Maybe you meant "Du Fu's Stanza"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, Li Bai is renowned particularly for his mastery of unregulated old-style (gushi 古詩) forms instead... Du Fu, on the other hand, was an indisputable master of regulated verse.
I think his point about Yelp was more that THEY CONTROL all those new choices you explored. Yelp becomes the gate keeper that restaurants and bars must appease in order to show up in their list that you are looking at.
This is quite impressive. Rating both the student and the question is brilliant.
Actually it looks like the reason their dev kit includes so much in the "base" is exactly the opposite reason:

> “The key here,” Camargo says, “is to develop the functionality you don’t get on your smartphone today. I’ll give you the smartphone, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

They are including an entire phone as the "base" in order to get developers to create new and interesting modules for it.

Everyone and anyone can make a battery, or an SD card reader, they want to see what other things people can come up with.
In that definition, it seems like DOS OSes never had programs.
Admittedly it's not all that popular, but Tcl can do this with no problems at all.

(By the way, Tcl also has an integrated event loop as well as a complete implementation of coroutines, both of which Python only very recently got.)
I'm referring to the mod_php-model. It is of course possible, even if running under apache mod_php, to treat each apache instance as an "application server", and potentially run each apache+mod_php-server in a chroot and as a different (system) user.
>> You need a parallel implementation simply as a "hot backup" in case your primary system fails for whatever reason anyway

Mainframes have backup built-in already, and then they're also ran in twos with one as further backup. The amount of redundancy built in those systems is just insane and quite unmatched by anything in the "distributed" world.

So for example where I work(ed) the mainframe network is touted as having 99,999% uptime. In my time there, there was an "outage" that affected the whole business quite severely... and it was on a distributed (not a mainframe) server. I don't think anyone remembers the mainframes ever having failed for good.

They're just beasts. There's solid reasons to use them the way they're used. The fact that they're a bit archaic... well, to be fair so is Linux. So what? If it works, it works.
Also, the government-farm complex wants "free" food given out.

A new generation is being created that thinks that food is something that miraculously appears courtesy of the government.

The same parents who get food stamps to feed their children, are starving their own children to the point where schools are now tasked with feeding these kids (in addition to the food stamps).
in the political realm they certainly are
How is incorrect antibiotic usage related to anyone claiming it's good for GDP? Seems like a pretty weak strawman.
It's more because of stanford, the jobs and the schools, which is about people and not zoning laws. There are plenty of places that are nicer to live and nicer looking than palo alto. And I've lived there for years.
Sure. Coming up with a good recipe is also hard, but recipes are not copyrightable. Difficult does not always imply copyrightable.
> Yeah, the YC application is merely evidence of a contract rather than a contract itself

Which is less of a distinction than one might think, since a signed contract document is just a very special piece of evidence (which invokes some special legal rules barring certain other evidence) of the existence and terms of a contract. A contract is a thing that exists in law as a result of particular interactions between the parties, anything you can present is, at best, evidence of the contract rather than the contract itself.
It's sarcasm.
Who here enjoyed university academically?
I'm a 3rd year computer science major. Trying to come at it with an open mind. I just can't get around to genuinely enjoying and finding use of practicality or relevance in any of my classes. I do enjoy building and designing stuff though.

I wanted to see if other entrepreneurial-minded people felt the same way. Who else? And why?
There are plenty of natural poisonous berries. Doesn't mean we should start using them as sweeteners instead.
Admittedly I'm neither American nor an expert in international affairs, but if taken down to a personal level, I'd rather be taken to court than bombed into oblivion.
A curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries, resources, etc.
From the article:

>“The key here,” Camargo says, “is to develop the functionality you don’t get on your smartphone today. I’ll give you the smartphone, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

It sounds to me the reason their "dev kit" includes so much "out of the box" is to spur development of newer more interesting modules.

Like you said, we all know that camera, storage, battery modules will be there, but they are pushing to see what others can come up with (blood sugar testers, credit-card readers, touchpads, temperature sensors, etc...)
Is it really unheard-of for an angel to hold such an equity stake and only advise for a month or so?
>And then we can talk about the distribution of the recent gains

Ah, moving the goalposts. And irrelevant. The gains shown in the BLS [1] are median gains.

I just redid the data that you posted up through today (Time series CPIAUCSL [2] and AHETPI [3] from FRED like the author did). We're less than $1/hr off the all time high and trending upwards. We're higher today than 90% of all months back through 1964, and within 5% of the all time high. This doesn't seem like "rampant inflation in cost and deflation in wages over time", since the required rate to lose 5% over nearly 40 years is less than 0.13% compounded annually. That's miniscule. And it ignores all other factors that actually account for a lot of the change (like people getting more returns in the form of benefits and better regulations, which often lowers wages).

Today I learned 0.13% is "rampant inflation".

A large difference between then and now is we let minorities and women earn significantly more money than that high, while white men are earning less. Overall every income quintile is doing better. There is more competition for wages, which generally drives it lower, but the data us consistent with stable wages despite increased benefits and increased supply of labor.

There is nothing supporting your claim of "rampant inflation in cost and deflation in wages over time".

I rest my case. We're done.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm

[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCSL/downlo...

[3] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/AHETPI#
Originally I had one class with grid, direct children were rows and direct children of rows were cells, but it turned into div soup pretty quickly, so I opted for one row at a time.
It is pretty obvious there is a problem when your quick and easy cheat sheet is a 33 page tomb. If only Guido and company would acknowledge the problem and fix it instead of putting their fingers in their ears pretending Python 2 will cease to exist in 2020.
Thanks! Someone opened up a PR and it's merged now :)
I agree with this. With cars came the idea that different parts of the city could be optimized for different things. Work in one place, shop in another, sleep in yet a third. But that means you have no option but to spend a lot of time traveling between these places.
It's almost certain the settlement wasn't for the equity he would have been entitled based on the document that implies he had 50% equity at the time. That is the disaster, worst-possible outcome from a trial so there would be absolutely no reason to settle for that amount. If you're willing to accept that outcome you would be willing to go to trial and hope for the chance that you're willing to win.

It would've been an amount that Guillory was happy to accept, and that Cruise was willing to part with in order to reduce the risk that the legal uncertainty would spoil their acquisition offer. I have no guess as to what this value was, other than to say it would need to be an amount far-below what you would get if you assumed Guillory received 50% equity.

Additionally, Guillory probably traded some amount of financial compensation for the public admission that he was a co-founder.
Chromebooks are very popular as a first laptop for children and teens these days, they are cheap many can be had under 200$ and they provide basic office and apps/games especially now with the play store.

Effectively Chromebooks are the new "EEE PC"/netbook which were also very popular with children and teens as they were chip as dirt which meant that they were often bought as a gift or when a child needed a 2nd computer to take with them.

So when you have devices that cost 199 it's not that surprising that they outsell devices that cost 899 and upwards.

If the "premium" chromebooks outsold MBP's/MB's it would be as much as a surprise to me as why would anyone want to put a Core i7/i5 CPU and upto 16GB's of RAM in a chromebook in the first place.
Semantic UI is far from a light-weight CSS framework. I was recently working on a project using semantic, and I saw that the CSS alone was around ~960KB. I'm guessing that something must have been misconfigured for CSS output to be that high just for the Semantic UI framework, but offhand I didn't see it. That didn't include the icon fonts or the JS with Semantic. I'm guessing with some work, that CSS payload could have been trimmed down, but I doubt it could be trimmed enough to be considered light-weight.

I prefer CSS frameworks to provide the bare minimum instead of the kitchen sink. The only exception I make is if I am working on a project that I know will not have design provided. If a project does have a provided design, overriding framework defaults is counterproductive. Just write your own styles when you need them.
Nihilistic security questions (funny)
In general, I test things in my environment, for the use case I have, which is the only way I can confirm that it fixes the actual problem I'm having. I'm not an expert in every test harness out there, and I generally expect the maintainer knows better than I do.

But beyond that, for most projects, tests apply to multiple environments, and I'm only guaranteed to have mine. If a project is supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux, on Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5, I probably have one, maybe two, of those twelve choices. It makes more sense to reuse the project's test infrastructure than for me to track down the other eleven configurations. And as a random contributor, I might not have access to the test environments.

Of course, if the tests fail, that's a valid reason to push back on me (or for the maintainer to fix the problem and squash, if it requires access to an environment I don't have).
There's definitely positive value in the services and apps that you mention, otherwise people wouldn't begin using them initially.

I think the key difference between the services and living life with "Pre-Internet" substitutes is that all of the services have been designed and engineered to elicit a certain usage.

When you use something that was designed, there's a certain set of axioms governing that thing. You've got to buy into someone else's interpretation of value. If you're aware that the other person's interpretation is different from your own, then you'll be much more likely to have the self-control needed to interpret its value for yourself. The danger is that most people don't do that and as a result fall prey to their own assumptions based on what they were told is valuable.

The trickle of pre-internet information doesn't compare to the firehose we have today. There's not one single solution and I agree that a governance of these ethical ideals will be tricky no matter what form it takes.
That depends: when someone approaches YC and lists equity stakes, is there an implicit understanding of a vesting schedule and cliff? If so, the YC submission wouldn't be enough to substantiate an ownership claim, esp if the assumed schedule is the standard 4-year/12-month cliff.

In the absence of documentation of how the equity dissipates, it would be assumed not to. In that case, I'm not sure it's dismissable as a technicality: if an early, vital partner has to leave, you have to weigh the costs of buying out their equity stake against current cash demands. When the future of the company is tenuous, the value is small and Guillory surely would have accepted a song for a buyout, just as Walter White took a $5000 buyout for his huge stake in Grey Matter (or the Apple guy); but they may also need that money very much.

If you take the approach of "well [in hindsight] OBVIOUSLY they didn't mean to leave him with that equity", you're effectively giving founders a free option on the shares of silent partners, unfair in its own way.
Make+Paying+Off+Debt+a+Priority
On search they are a monopoly, what if they said Google Search will only run on Chrome?
Then I'm sure you'll applaud me when I oppose Trump! I don't want to be inconsistent, after all.

You see, I'm a conservative, and I said at the time that predator Clinton deserved jailtime for what he did. Impeachment and disbarment wasn't enough for an executive that had sex with his 20-something _intern staffer_. That's straight-up criminal, go to JAIL, pig!

But let's not re-litigate the past, you're right, let's focus on Trump. What don't we know about this creep's sleazy activities? Let's see the tax returns! Trump University was a scam that hurt vulnerable people! The casino biz is full of colorful characters, I'm curious about his business partners and finances. Did he really visit that rumored "sex island" along with _Bill Clinton_? How young were the girls/boys he diddled there, if he did go? Are any of the rumors of mob ties to Trump substantial? Enquiring minds want to know!!

And then Trump sounded like a Grade-A perv when he said on mic that he'd want to date his daughter if they weren't related. Noone should talk sexually about their kids that way, SICK! For Pete's sake, sorry to vent, but WTF is the appeal of this guy?? I know Evangelical Christians that voted enthusiastically for the guy, it's madness!
Everywhere in the world you have cities wanting to attract startups and tech companies and be the next Palo Alto.

And in Palo Alto they want to change the zoning code to make it harder for those companies to stay.

Ironic...
Note that the standard in civil lawsuits is not “beyond a reasonable doubt”, but rather the “preponderance of the evidence”.

It’s weird that people keep calling out Schumer, considering there were 24 Senators who cosponsored the bill (12 Democrats and 12 Republicans), with Cornyn (R, TX) the sponsor, and it passed the full Senate (on a voice vote):
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/204...
Those aren't valid tokens. "<newline> = 10" won't assign to a variable named <newline>. If the language wants to parse non-ASCII invisible characters as whitespace, or permit them inside comments or strings, that's fine.
There are many improvements that could be made to this code. However the developer is extremely antagonistic and unwilling to accept criticism so I doubt that the issues will ever be fixed.
General Motors EV1 – “First mass-produced electric vehicle”
Have you ever seen a young person's reaction to an Apple ][?

They say, "What is this?" as they try touching the screen. The older kids look for the mouse, but can't find it. When you show them a floppy, they are perplexed.
> That is the disaster, worst-possible outcome from a trial so there would be absolutely no reason to settle for that amount.

Not entirely true: the disaster, worst-possible outcome from the trial is that plus an order to pay the other sides costs, plus having racked up a bunch of your own costs.

Which is why one might, conceivably settle for that without the expense and delay of trial.
>> various members of the royal family indeed helped to finance the attacks.

IIRC the attacks were forcing some planes to run into two skyscrapers. What financing was necessary for it other than the plane tickets?
"Sufficiently advanced evidence of a contract is indistinguishable from the contract itself." :-p
> Tower 7 was fucking pulled. I know it. The core of engineers know it. And the fundamental laws of physics demand it.

Oh, I see. You're one of those people.
> Tower 7 was fucking pulled. I know it. The core of engineers know it. And the fundamental laws of physics demand it.

If you're going to go all 9/11 conspiracy theorist on us and make some wild claims about the core of engineers, maybe you should cite your rants.
The phone's going to be priced at the mid to high range. Including all the important components pre-built means that it can't be sold at a low price. 'A single phone for everyone' was the original idea, but it seems they've given up on it.
How this guy used Watson to tune out of conference calls
Likes was 666 wen I went to the page... that hijacks me.
Unless it were huge, and scaled with income, it really wouldn't change things for the educated. Educated people earning 6 figures and getting taxed 5 figures are too smart to get excited about a 4-figure payment for roughly 22 years of supporting a child to a high standard.

Ignoring interest and inflation, a lump sum of $8800 to cover 22 years is only $400 per year. That's pocket change for the educated. Make it a $million to be serious.
Tower 7 had serious damage. Does this look like "no damage"?

http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc7_damage.html

There was a giant ragged hole 20 stories high!
Shadow DOM and it's scoped styling is going to help this situation so much.

Instead of large stylesheets with tons of highly-specific selectors, and quite a few broken and unused rules, web components will be able to use small stylesheets with simple selectors that only apply to their local scope, and developers will be able to reason about and maintain styles that are limited to a single web component.
The source of the quote, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, died in 1990. By my reckoning the last Land Rover generation will have been born by now.
>Now neither party will be negatively affected in future business dealings.

Well I wouldn't do any deals with the so-called 'cofounder' because he appears extremely opportunistic and doesn't contribute anything useful.
Ask HN: Specific Ask HN thread quetion
Is there a producthunt or hackernews type system for these specific Ask HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11739183

I'd like to see the best, most complete, most well thought out ideas of apps that should be built and are "shovel ready" i.e. ready to go. And then when programmers are board, they can go and open source like, just take the idea they like the best and build it.
That is a massively simplification and frankly very wrong.

Several of the 9/11 Hijackers enrolled in flight schools:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_September_11_a...

And were otherwise supported to operate inside the US for many months.
That's only half true [1]

[1] https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/twisted-16.2.0/twist...
Pilot trainieren und preparation?

Edit: Lol at German auto correct. I meant:

Pilot training and preparation
Fake identification, presumably some sort of weaponry to threaten people on said planes, planning and organization to make sure they weren't found out.
That's certainly true, but that doesn't mean I trust sucralose and stevia extract (or food-grade aluminum, or long-term storage in BPA-bearing plastic).

Nor do I trust certain natural additives or physical processing methods; chemical is full of unknowns, but natural can be harmful too. I try to avoid white flour and added sugar, for example, and I have my doubts about how good of an idea it was to breed all this sweetness into modern fruit...
Definitely more rare. Yahoo famously brought in remote workers/telecommuters because they felt it wasn't working.

You might want to look for companies that believe in a ROWE: results-only work environment. These are the ones with unlimited PTO. Best Buy corporate was the first to popularize it.

I'm doing some recruiting for a startup that will consider remote if you've got very relevant experience (in this case, are a Spark committer). It can also be that way on the domain side of things.

For instance, I just told a friend who needs to find work fast to contact his company's competitors. In this case, there is no danger of IP theft (and I'd never recommend doing anything unethical) since they are botching up the tech pretty badly, hence the desire to leave. Would be worth it to snag a top technologist at your competitor, even if s/he's remote.
> Tower 7 was fucking pulled. I know it.

Ugh. I think we need browser plugins to filter these people out.
I have seen almost exactly this on hotel mattresses. But it had three months in each spot instead of the season. "Jan/Feb/March" in one spot then "Apr/May/Jun" in the next, etc.
Some popular invisible characters are space, tab, and newline.
Thank you for posting this. This is interesting, regarding the pentagon "hit" the same day. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110207194658A...

This is interesting, exploring the inconsistencies in the background of the alleged hijackers: http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Terrorland-Mohamed-Cover-up-Fl...
Coal has killed way more than nuclear energy so far. Please check data before having an opinion.
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