skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you check out the bottom of the article, Uber has developed a dashboard for SMBs. But it's smart that they've opened this up to enable startups to leverage this as well as enterprise customers.
I guess I'm just not sure what people are expecting here. The point of Celery isn't to parallelize and synchronize, it's to fire off a task, probably on an entirely different machine, and forget about it. If you're trying to sync up afterward, you're going to run into problems because it's not designed for that.
I can't be the only one who finds it a bit (actually very) scary that just a little wire brushing things like this are uncovered. When I also read about things like MS's secretive constant-calling-home and Intel's secretive IME (the "ultimate rootkit") I get very worried about the real state of personal privacy nowadays.
but there's no continuous flight between systems

I'm working on a game in the spirit of Elite, but with continuous flight between systems, in the spirit of Star Control 2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gogamedev
> The best metric to choose is good old fashioned profit.

No, the best metric to choose is 'discounted future profits'. That frequently means the best strategy is 'lose millions now to make billions later'.
I recently did exactly this, and currently think of the process as several layers working in parallel.

(1) implementation skill building: tensorflow udacity MOOC, and tutorials on the TF website

(2) implementing projects: find a research paper you're interested in, and try implementing it. e.g. "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style"

(3) foundational ML learning: Bengio's textbook, Michael Nielsen's textbook, cs231n, the Udacity ML MOOCs which end with the course on Reinforcement Learning, ... this list could go on for quite some time, which can be anxious for autodidactics because teaching yourself a thing means that your knowledge will be quite lean, but that's OK.

(4) cutting-edge ML learning: join a deep learning reading group / meet-up, and read influential papers weekly

(5: optional) write a technical blog, where the audience is yourself before understanding something.

Also, having high-level conceptual maps when entering an unfamiliar space is useful. For this, I recommend reading all of colah.github.io and Bengio's paper "Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives"
> Actually the 89 earthquake did a surprisingly small amount of damage to the bay area (in SF primarily the marina and small but significant damage to the bay bridge

Also, SR-480, I-280, and US 101 all saw significant damage and closures requiring reconstruction and redesign (either of the freeway itself, or of transport networks because, as in the case of SR-480, the freeway was just deleted entirely after the damage.)

> In addition, the reconstruction was spread over a long period (for example they haven't finished with the bay bridge).

The Bay Bridge damage from the earthquake was repaired fairly quickly; the seismic retrofit to make it better able to survive future earthquakes (and, more specifically, the replacement of the Eastern Span as part of that retrofit) has taken longer.
Should you ever use a JavaScript framework?
The point is that the real money is in brand advertising, not direct marketing, and offer codes won't work for that.
No no - two separate services. I was just saying an API for a cleaning service would be great, just like an API for a courier.
Benzene.
You are too old. Its youngster hipster speak for running your own small business these days. I have heard a few friends referring to their business as a startups.
Bonus points for using the gendered term 'hysteria' to describe women.

Has everyone forgotten that people have always been offended, and offended about people being offended? "Bloom County" from 1982 used the term "offensensitivity". http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/11/14/ .

It's rather like disdainfully calling 20-year-olds "hipsters", forgetting the disdain towards "slackers" of 30 years ago, or the belief that calling people a snowflake is somehow different than the claims that Dr. Spock ruined American youth with his 'permissive' teachings, or the even older cries of woe, like this quote from Life Magazine, March 29, 1949:

> We have reared a bunch of weaklings in our young marrieds of today. Too much has been handed to them on a silver platter without their having had to work for it, and they lack the intestinal fortitude to meet life as a challenge.
Are you guys confident that this can beat the market (i.e Betfair)? I would highly suspect that the answer is "not at all". Does this affect you?
This is exactly the link I was going to post. I think it does a great job showing that accuracy is not always the most appropriate metric for a model.
Thesis defense, I think.
Thats about how long it takes me to write a blog post :P

Also I was trying to get a number of things in a good place, like https://lernajs.io/
I didn't imply there weren't other ways to make it. But there are only a few ways to hedge as an individual dev. One of them is to shoot with a shotgun. It's more or less what incubators attempt to do, but spread out over times since each of us only has one brain to go around.
Joe Biden Writes an Open Letter to Stanford Survivor
Read books. They often contain anecdotes like that.
> your app with two buttons: "Refund Now" and "Continue Using".

I wonder if a service could actually function based on this idea. Sure, eventually all the initial money would be refunded but while you had it you profited by investing it in a fractional-reserve manner.
WorkRamp (YC S16) builds software to help companies train its teams
Better hope domino's doesn't enter the market. Not sure if they could since it's all franchises. But, I imagine they could price it less than $6 per delivery.
True offer codes are pretty common so I'm sure they offer some value.

Having said that, I'm sure it still leaves a lot mystery to those who are looking at the data.
Best color palette tracking tool – aschmelyun
Sure. you can test it by sending "天安门8964" or “法轮功”, "巴拿马文件 李小琳"
Most commercially available technology have particle accelerator-powered versions that are much more powerful.

This is the case for MA-XRF, used for the same purpose with painting at the synchrotron light source at Brookhaven: http://phys.org/news/2011-12-x-ray-techniques-art-historians...
Here's a nice example of where we can apply the Principle of Charity (http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html). That's the idea that you should respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of an argument, instead of a weaker one.

Sure, you can interpret YC's advice as containing an obviously silly contradiction. But you could also interpret it as saying that you should fundraise when you need to, but not waste time on coffee meetings when you don't.
As a lifelong Adobe user, I'd rather hear that Adobe is doing this kind of work at a higher level, that is, studying how users interact with all of their apps as a whole.

Instead of adding art boards to Photoshop, I'd rather see art boards in Illustrator integrated better with PS. And are the art boards in AI still exporting at non-specified dimensions (a very common bug for years)? Fix what is broken before adding features to PS that are already in AI.

Can anyone explain to me why copy/paste tools are different between AI/PS? Just make them the same!

Edit:typo
It represents the type of A/V cable used to connect your laptop to the projector
Right, but as you mention elsewhere in the thread there are caveats, like discussed at
http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/concurrenc... . At this point the blog post author's contention that celery is an better alternative to doing async i/o breaks down.
The future of agriculture
I use it for a few reasons (in the US):

1) Don't have to touch or open my wallet to get at it

2) More secure than either debit or credit because it's a 1-time generated card number

3) Harder for the merchant to track my purchases because it's a different number every time

4) Isn't linked directly to my checking account so I can't lose money if there's a mistake or fraud
Honest question, why are podcasts not just platform independent .mp3's or Ogg Vorbis audio for the purists?

Note that I don't understand how a podcast is different from a radio show that somebody recorded on a computer, so maybe I'm missing key functionality.
Vertical integration is actually incredibly common these days. There's a reason Comcast owns NBC...

As for retention pay, depends on the organization. Walmart and Costco are on opposite ends of the spectrum in that regard.
I use both Python and R for analytics projects. Python falls quite short on statistics and time series, especially if one is doing exotic/advanced stuff.

By the end of the day I just want to get my job done, and I select the best tool for the job. I have gained a lot by working with both languages.

On a sidenote, one cannot talk about the success of R without mentioning RStudio (amazing IDE for working with data)
In Brazil, WhatsApp is an app like this. If WeChat is what WhatsApp may become, it looks Facebook will drag them down. WhatsApp have payments (that nobody use), but some of the features, I believe, Facebook would forbid, like enterprise accounts.

What's the antonym of synergy?
> Samba IIRC predates Linux too

I don't think so. But IRC predates Linux. :)
The real question is, where do you get this training data from?
> it’s better to have 2 impressive achievements than 2 impressive achievements and 3 weak ones.

This is logically false but psychologically true.
IF you have something of value, all that social stuff can help monetize it. First, you need to build a thing. If you have no thing, all that stuff is either hot air or basically con artistry.

Women in business face special challenges. Failing to deal with them at all can be catastrophic. But getting too focused on that piece can also be problematic. It can be challenging to figure out which is which.
2 hours aligns with the postmortem, 12 hours does not. The monitoring is based on a sampling of instances running in each service and region. Outages are verified from multiple network paths. While not comprehensive, over the years this has been generally accurate because most outage events have been network or power related, thus impacting most or all instances in the affected data center. There have been some isolated hardware failures, but they are rare.
Python the second best option for just about everything.

R has a wonderful ecosystem that does amazing data manipulation (dplyr for example)

Python is a good choice but it isn't "clearly better."
whoops, missed that.
We should admire the selfless relentlessness of French government trying to protect us from ourselves.
Agreed. I have a couple of clients that have a pretty substantial AWS spend, but the cost of switching to Azure is too high compared to the difference in offerings. You don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars of developer time and risk switching datacenters for a small improvement.
Football (it's Euro 2016) is a team sport so players are important but it's also very important how they play together as a team. Sometimes there are teams with average players that win competitions because they help each other much more than teams with star players (example: Leicester this season).

I don't know if you can model this taking in account single players, even if their performance in previous games could be an indicator about the strength of the team. We will see soon how the model fares.
I think the article's ideas on advertising, particularly the idea that brand advertising HAS to come to podcasting because direct advertising won't scale is a bit flakey.

Why won't direct advertising scale? Direct advertising opens up the long tail of companies. Small Business X can't spend money on branding but can spend money on acquiring paying customers.

In fact, direct advertising has become so popular thanks to things like AdWords, Facebook Ads, etc. that companies need to find new places to address their target audiences and podcasts might just be a great place to do that. The stuff with coupon codes, special URLs, etc. are pretty trivial to set up and a company like Midroll is going to coordinate between you and the podcast so you can line up that stuff well ahead of time.

There was also this:

"The not-so-secret reality about podcast ads, though, are that advertisers are quite concentrated: a FiveThirtyEight intern heroically listened to the top 100 shows on the iTunes chart and counted 186 ads; 35 percent of them were from five companies. More tellingly, nearly all of the ads were of the direct marketing variety."

I did not read the 538 article on this, but it makes a lot of sense for a company to carpet bomb their advertising. So if you're listening to all the top 100 podcasts in a one-week period, you might have an advertiser hitting a lot of those podcasts in a one-week period. However, if you listened to the same 100 podcasts three weeks later, you might hear another set. Presumably, the companies finding routine success are the ones who you hear all the time.

On the carpet-bombing strategy, if you deploy in relative isolation, you should be able to measure the real effect of the advertising and not just the people who came through a URL or used a coupon code. If I normally sell $100 per week and the week I advertise I sell $200, I don't have to rely on campaign tracking to assume attribution. Wait a few weeks and advertise again and see if the effect holds up.
I left them out because many others have blogged about the same reasons. But this is the biggest reason:

We have a lot of complexity in our view/component layer where we trying to bring simple workflows to very complicated technical features. Backbone (even with Marionette) doesn't have a strong view composition story, essentially avoiding setting up any patterns.

React's composition pattern is so strong that its hard not to abstract things. The complexity is still there but its easy to follow and extremely simple to test (especially with redux).

There are more reasons, but I have to go now. Hopefully that suffices
I am not the reason no one trusts you

No one knows what you believe
Can somebody give an example of a service that needs this, where Fedex wouldn't do?
It's mainly around IO scheduling in the kernel against other processes.

This is a good intro paper on some issues: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~luisceze/publications/novos...

This discussion is relevant too:

https://lwn.net/Articles/547903/

Those are both a few years, old, but I haven't seen discussion as to the progress made around scheduling when the disks start performing as fast as the CPU load operations.

Again, I was just pointing out that I wish that article got into more details around that, b/c I don't know the state of the world, but have some concerns in this particular area and the ability for the kernel to be able to accommodate new scheduling techniques to better utilize the much faster disk access.
Wasn't it Schroedinger who approached QM using matrix algebra?
Although if you get a poisonous snake, it often means that there was a problem with the formatting of your bibliography.

That's genius.
Ha! Finally we found the only one HN user without ad blocking!:-)
We integrated the UberRush API as part of our multi-carrier shipping API https://goshippo.com/shipping-blog/introducing-uberrush-ship...
It's interesting to see Uber entering the space of same day delivery. Happy to chat about the integration experience if anyone is interested!
Mozilla spent $15k to remove the term "slave" from Buildbot code and docs
All over the web! For instance, over 20% of all tweets have emoji in them. Emoji are very popular in instagram comments, etc.
Critiquing others without understand the subject matter is a surefire way to make yourself look foolish.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19227/plural-of-l...
Right now? They are. A podcast is really just an RSS feed of episodes in MP3 or AAC format. That's it.

You can barely track how many people download, let alone listen, when they stop, etc. All the things advertisers want to know.
It's well-established, within YC at least, that solving a problem you yourself have is one of the strongest foundations for a startup.

Edit: actually Jessica says it in her talk:

My advice to those of you who are still looking for an idea is to solve a problem that you yourself have. Then you’ll know it’s something at least one person really wants. And when you’re part of the target market, you’ll have insights about it that you wouldn’t otherwise.
They are.

Which is why podcasters don't have any good statistics.

I recommend listening to the Startup podcast, they do a great job of explaining how the industry works :)
I've been wrestling with the idea of how to enable monetization for smaller podcast producers since I decided to start building an AppleTV app for playing video podcasts this past winter. What I think could work is namespaced tags for specific players that offer ad-insertion. This allows for the platform to remain default-open and opt-in for publishers who want to go this route.

For example, much like <itunes:explicit> is not part of any RSS spec, a publisher could choose to include a tag like <castanet:monetize>yes</castanet:monetize>, which would tell the Cast-a-net app that the publisher of that podcast would like ads to be inserted. The publisher would then need to setup an account with Cast-a-net to share the ad revenue, verify ownership, etc.

There is a significant chicken and egg problem, of course. The player needs to have enough users for the publishers to consider setting up an account to be worthwhile. The ad experience also can't get so obnoxious that users move to other apps. This approach allows publishers to gain monetization and metrics without ceding ownership and control to the platform.

By the way, my player, Cast-a-net, doesn't yet offer this feature. I've been working on making the UI good enough to attract real users first, then hoping it can grow to be something worthy of specific attention from video podcast producers.

(edit: as was pointed out in a reply, Marco is very anti-ads, so I swapped the example tags. I had only meant to use Overcast as an example of a popular independent player that doesn't want to become a walled garden for just a subset of the total podcast universe.)
Pandas for Python is almost re-imaging of R (Base 0 instead of base 1 UGH) very closely and the "common task" match closely, but I still use R over Python.
Part of the problem is that the teams that lost focused probably quietly dissolved before they got to any of our attentions. (Maybe Yahoo?)

Personally, I find that there's a simple question:

Does this move the company, project, or team forward in a measurable way?

If the answer is "No" then you need to take a long hard look at it and explicitly decide that it's either okay and then stop doing it (ideal) or limit it. And that varies from person to person. Spending time with my toddler is okay in my book. HackerNews, less so.

The next level question is:

Is this the most effective task to this move the company, project, or team forward?

And that is way harder to answer.
We need one more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borlaug
Viewed with JS disabled, dind't notice any lags.
https://wearecontrast.com/

https://blog.wearecontrast.com/
I've seen this as common usage in India. In America it would be more common to say "share her knowledge..."
Lerna [1] is very cool. I was firmly against monorepos, but the ability to easily manage and coordinate between individually versioned packages in a single repo is awesome. You get the benefits of a monorepo but also the benefits of small modules so it's the best of both worlds.

[1]: https://github.com/lerna/lerna
That is spot on. Advertising works great on podcasts, and is expensive as a result, because listeners develop a great amount of trust for the podcasts they listen. Anything that undermines that trust is likely to just create a regression to the mean of the value of podcast advertisement: just as valuable as a random online ad.
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That's addressed in the article. Direct marketing with offer codes or special URLs is only applicable to certain products. Brand (awareness) advertising is where the real money comes from.
am I the only one that doesn't want flying cars? I want to be able to look up and see the sky, not traffic. I don't want drunk drivers ramming into buildings. I don't want to have to build a horizontal wall over my backyard for privacy. what benefit do they even have? I'd rather just have fast ground transportation
Podcasts are just platform independent .mp3 files. They're mp3 files referenced by an RSS feed. But apps like Stitcher and the Apple Podcast App read those feeds, add good functionality, present a searchable database, etc.
If the podcast you want is only available through Stitcher.

And it's only on Stitcher because that's Midroll's service and only Midroll ads pay well enough (this is hypothetical-future).

And they only pay well enough because of all the tracking in Stitcher.
dplyr or data.frame is THE DATA MANIPULATION library just like ggplot2 is THE PLOTTING program for all other languages.
Oh, so THAT's why my projector that I used for my PhD defense didn't display red.
Presumably your users don't want to wait 6 minutes to log in, and nor do you want to tie up a full core for 6 minutes running the hash. That's the problem with increasing bcrypt's work factor - you have to deal with the increased difficulty too.

If you're doing salting properly (a unique CSPRNG-generated salt for every user) then 3600 attempts per hour really isn't enough to get anything except the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
> Which is it: selfishness is "learned", or selfishness is the product of thinking.

Why are those two things mutually exclusive?
FTFA:

Q: This whole snake thing is just a metaphor, right?

A: I assure you, the snakes are very real.
The trouble is, you didn't say any of that in your original comment, so it was easier to misunderstand your intentions than not. OP is probably aware of the alternatives, but somewhere along the line, none of them fulfil all their requirements.
maybe not. dominos makes money from the pizza it is selling not just the delivery fee. if they had to purely make profit from delivery it might be a similar price
I think they would have to be self-flying cars to make it feasible.
BitTitan raises funding after 9 years of bootstrapping
Peace is fine. But go and negotiate one with the market. I'm fine with calling it a war, because it is kind of a defensive war - the current direction of affairs, the default, seems to be going towards a pretty bad future.
> I don't really think so. Canonical has proven to be a poor leader of the free software community.

Why is that? They set out to make Linux more accessible. If you're complaining about the level of control they exert on Ubuntu, there are good reasons for that.
One thing that seems to be missing from your project is the actual "HSM-ness". Things like side channels and so probably are not relevant to the target market, but some kind of assurance that device's firmware was not tampered with is probably required.
Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge Tabs and Apps”
Sharing is risky. Sharing intelligently (with those who have honor) is more often than not rewarding.