skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basic economics make that really expensive, but not just a waste of money, which is what excess capacity in shelters is. And yes, it's possible that there are places with tons of excess capacity because the people there have chosen to intentionally overfund out of an abundance of caution and compassion, but I've never heard of such a place.
Eww.

Pinterest does something similar, which is why I blocked it in Google Personal Blocklist. The best way of encouraging people to join your site is to show them what you have to offer, it isn't to put up a wall and make them jump through hoops.

Part of Reddit's early success was due to how accessible the content was and how easy they made it to sign up (e.g. three fields, no email address required). That is not something they should throw by the wayside for short term metrics.
Use AI to fix their blue screen of death first?
From what I can tell, it's less featured and causes around 200 times the CPU load and battery-burn. And the responsiveness and response-times compared to the "heavy" desktop version... Well let's not talk about them.

I'm just not sure how they could seriously work on this, and in the end say "Yes. This is such an improvement, we will force everyone to use it".

What sort of internal regime causes that level of denial?
I'm literally biting my tongue.
Cool :) It reminds me my own web-fractal :) my fractal has smaller resolution, but runs smoothly in 10 - 60 FPS (mouse down to zoom) ... and you can zoom in twice as much, because I use doubles instead of floats http://lib.ivank.net/demos/mandelbrot.html
Do us all a favour and go there on the weekend and ask them. Although I admit that sounds more like a Reddit challenge, perhaps where this story belongs.
Luckey for Italy the President of the ECB is Mario Draghi, former governor of the Bank of Italy...
It seems to me that they fall into false positive - people visiting the site are most likely considering to change the job, that's what they are looking there for. But how can they include in the poll the people who are happy at their current job and don't look for a new one (read, don't visit the job/recruitment site)? The survey doesn't seem to be representative.
I dont care if they do or not, they should not do it.
I definitely know and decide to look up the amount of sites that mark internal and outbound links I click, and its amusing to me that you think a person ignorant of this fact would also take this stance, they have no idea the amount of additional tracking the sites they use are imposing on them.

I run a site based on links, and I specifically do not make this intrusive choice. I am aware of google analytics and no, they cannot make that js roundtrip because I am also blocking js from loading from their site.

Do not assume ignorance on hacker news or you will appear ignorant yourself.
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I saw it in one of the video conferencing posts he had. It was too good not to highlight!
I think Brotli is getting there, with support in Firefox and Chrome so far.

https://samsaffron.com/archive/2016/06/15/the-current-state-...
Their warrant canary is gone, they've banned tons of subs that were barely controversial, and they added a way to block people you don't like making it an echo chamber.

I'd say I want to hack on a federated Reddit clone, but looking at the state of federated social networking, I already feel it'd be dead in the water.

Having to opt-out of tracking feels like another nail in the coffin.
Off topic, but there's something I love about that webcam. It's that mix between the cultural meme that's frozen in time (notably the album cover) and its intersection with a real world place. Before I saw the video I guess it never really occurred to me that it's a real street carrying real people and real cars. It's obvious, but I had never given a thought to it as a real place.

Plus it's funny to see cars zipping around that curve while people are at the crosswalk. I can practically hear the frustration of the drivers who have to stop and wait for a bunch of tourists staging a photo.
Has anyone else faced this?
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Hey, I'd like to talk with you about automating some of that stuff, but there's no contact info in your profile. My email and IRC contact are in mine if you'd be willing to get in touch.
>Hacker News is filled with ads

Where "filled" means there are rarely job ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389835#11391805
So if you know about Brian Eno, he's one of the original pioneers in the minimalist "Space" music genre. His Apollo album in the 80's brought synthesizers to post-rock.

He also made the Windows 95 opening sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Ak5VgyEoc
Home grown food is also way fresher and tastier than anything from a supermarket, so it's difficult to make a direct price comparison.
It's no more uninhabitable than the uninhabitable areas of China. But it is non-arable.

Most of the eastern half of Canada north of a certain is "Canadian shield" and is granite shield rock with little if any topsoil.

The other half is boreal forest and some of it is indeed farmed to a fairly high latittude (central Alberta where I'm from) but once you get up high enough the growing degree days are not sufficient to grow a lot of crops. It's good for grazing if that. And also fairly arid in spots.

And the rest is mountains, or arctic.
True, but if you look at Slashdot they have vote reasons, plus flags, with "Overrated" for use if you disagree, and - let's be honest - commentary over here is a few notches higher. It's admittedly a different group of users, but still.
Electricity is unaffordable to vast mass of people without heavy subsidy. It is same with every infrastructure sector. One can say well phones are available and affordable to 1.1 billion Indian people. However ARPU for telecom companies is less than $2/month which might be one of the lowest in the world. Most companies are in heavy debt with not much to upgrade infrastructure as a result user count is getting very high but quality of network is getting lower.

Any infrastructure sector which requires heavy investment to produce but once there can be used by anyone will remain in bad shape. That is why India has many world class hospitals, 5-star hotels etc because they can be made exclusively available to those who can afford. While roads, piped water supply, sewage systems, public transport, education remain in terrible shape.
No it won't. Just like a billion other research patents Apple has filed for, this won't see the light of day.
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I'm stunned they weren't already doing this. It takes all of 30 seconds [1] to track this and is /incredibly/ useful, especially on a site that's used largely for outbound links. I have outbound link tracking set up for every client and personal website. Same with email address clicks, button clicks, file downloads, etc.

Did anyone really think websites weren't doing this? This is incredibly innocuous compared to other things.

[1] http://www.amazeemetrics.com/en/blog/google-tag-manager-tuto...
They have an AWS plugin for spinning up instances and dynamically sizing the pool.
Maybe with all that money they can buy DuckDuckGo and make it the default search engine? It's a risky move though. If DuckDuckGo doesn't workout, they lose the option of switching to another search partner.
It's too bad that Rust went to all this language design effort to allow inlining (including when passing a closure to a function, which is really impressive!) only to have distros undo it for some policy that ends up harming their users more than it helps.
They probably were. Whenever the officer would radio "shots fired" the dispatcher would automatically start an ambulance. Just depends on how long it takes them to get there.
PS2 still going strong? I thought they were combining server populations to help increase the size of each remaining server.
I think it's selling Marissa short to say she just didn't understand the contracts or her legal options and potential consequences.

I think she understood the consequences but thought that the risk was worth the reward. In some cases I think personal hubris was involved.

I don't do Billion dollar deals but I've done my share of 7 figure ones. At some point in every negotiation you need to tell your attorney that you understand the risks and you're willing to accept those risks or nothing would ever get signed. I think Marissa was convinced the Mozilla deal would be huge for Yahoo. She likely didn't think or care if the company got sold (honestly in that case she's probably out so there's no personal risk for her) and she was convinced DeCastro would be able to do at Yahoo what he was able to do at Google.
i'm quite amazed by how much of a problem this is for people. they seem to be subscribed to all kinds of useless crap and/or unable to just configure their shit properly.

the most i get are 3 notifications per week. 90% of them are crap which i could even disable.

and even then i mostly ignore them.

what happened to human's ability to ignore things?
notifications are not like robots chasing you.
I would appreciate an in-viewer option to change the image resolution. It is taking ~10 sec to redraw on zoom-in, but I don't immediately need that much detail.

Nice work!
However much the store you buy it from sells it for. Stores don't sell at the cost of raw materials, so the argument you can discount the cost of labour (and the cost of processing, transport and storage for that matter) doesn't really make much sense.
All bikes and scooters manufactured in India are 4 stroke,that is so for a decade. Only exception is TVS50, it has some exemption.
I was thrilled to see you're an RTP-based company. I'm on the other side of Raleigh from you, but I shared this with my community and now need to do some measuring to figure out how much grading I'd have to do to install one of these and then figure out what my HOA would say. :)

Have you gone through a winter in this area with the unit in a greenhouse? Any reports on how that worked out?
Do you check the js on every site when you click a link?
Silicon Valley doesn't care about black people
Very simple with js, or 0 lines of code with google tag manager. http://www.amazeemetrics.com/en/blog/google-tag-manager-tuto...
you are under the impression the police discriminate... they do ... if you are blue you get away with everything... everyone else they hate ( the sheep )
Thats simply false. Benzodiazepines are addictive, build a quick tolerance, and they destroy judgement.

You can no more predict a heavy recreational benzo users's night than you can predict what someone will do blacked out on ambien or alcohol.
We've been getting along just fine so far without it. I imagine that could continue for a few more centuries, right?
Yeah I found this out the hard way when my content blocker stopped letting me click on anything in Reddit. It's actually pretty shady.
His cofounder is better to hire a good CFPA attorney before it's too late.
From the way they've set this up, it appears to be optimal for investors and pessimal for founders. Anyone else notice the same or disagree? It's in the proof for a particular theorem.
Well, with the constraint that no startup wants to have multiple visits with the same investor (and vice versa) - so you need to rerun the algorithm with the earlier matches removed from a preference list.
or his injuries were self-inflicted from having a psychotic breakdown ?
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The whole mobile interface is just shit.
Cthulhu statement in reply to the Polish authorities requesting arrest
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Yay! I'm not incompetent. :)

But in all seriousness, yeah, I get that. I keep emergency supplies (90 days/person of backpacking food + water + filters). I also cycle the emergency supplies faster than they expire due to my interests (Food, hiking, computers, books are the sum total of my hobbies) so I find its a good balance point for me since I don't really expect a supply chain disruption would last substantially longer than 90 days.
Waves Make sure to mention the free installation to your community! (I may limit this to a small initial number of customers, we'll see how it goes).

I have an HOA, as well. In our bylaws, we're allowed a garden of 50 square feet without explicit permission, so I didn't apply for an arch. request. But I'd be happy to help any customers apply.

My first prototype was in a greenhouse in Cary. I was able to continue growing through the winter, but everything (understandably) grew slower. See my previous blog posts for more detail: http://blog.automicrofarm.com/page/3
Organic food prices in the local supermarket is the price point I compare against when I do effort vs. yield.

I find its a pretty fair comparison.
Why did you decide on a two tiered system? I've seen aquaponic setups where the farmers are using a floating medium above the fish pool.
physics : ArXiv :: social science : SSRN
If all you have is a network and weights, you have a black box. While it might be magic and make the right decision most of the time, we need to look in and see why those decisions are being made, somehow.

This generally basically means seeing how the net was trained, and its initial conditions. If you threw away your training methodology and data set, why should anyone trust that your algorithm can make suitable decisions? Are we to assume that nobody who writes AIs which are making influential decisions has vested interests?

If you look for example at common law; we have a system where decisions by judges are binding, and future equivalent cases are required to uphold the previous decisions. The only way this system can work of course, is if someone is keeping a record of the previous decisions. The alternative is we'd have a system of judgement based on heresay, and we can have about as much confidence in it as asking a random person on the street to make the decision.

The technical challenge is really about storage and retreival. If we know that discarding training data makes our neural networks "unaccountable for their decisions", then our technical requirement must be that we store the training data in its entirity, such that we can look back and maybe glimpse at why a neural network may behave as it has.

For example, I might create an AI which is used to decide whether to give someone a mortgage. I could have millions of samples as training data, but I might chose to sort the training data by race, and begin training a network initially so that non-white people who have been rejected mortgages initially overtrain the network to correlate race with rejection, then use a limited sample of white man, mostly accepted mortgage requests to train it the other way.

Of course this is extreme, and an expert who looked at such data set would quickly notice that the AI is unfit for purpose, and blatantly racist. But he needs the training set to even have a chance of concluding that. Without it, he has effectively random numbers which tell him next to nothing.

These laws aren't meant to stifle innovation or economic benefits, but only to ensure that fair treatment is practiced in their development. As far as I see it, if you have a neural network, a sound justification of its design and the methodology you used, combined with a complete data set and training set which can be analysed for biases, then there's no reason these regulations should get in your way.
(2011)

Good slides anyway. Anyone know of a recording of the corresponding talk?
The Unity team plans to release a C# package for UNET low level API after the release of 5.4.0. I would caution that while it's extremely straightforward to implement those two QoS channels, you would be essentially reimplementing LLAPI and all its quirks, including queue management for a single threaded architecture.

If you are building something for mobile, consider the state of UDP support over AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint. It's poor. You will be reimplementing so much of LLAPI and Unity's relay servers that it may be more effective to port from NodeJS to Unity and run headless.
Why Basket v2.5 for Android is the best update in Read later segment so far
Maybe this is a naive question, not knowing chrome well, but is the source available? Would love to play around with this..
>> Maybe they're actually saying not to have children. I don't understand all the projection.

Thanks, I like your response. I thought I was just offering an alternative interpretation for why they said it, but maybe I need to get out more with friends ;-) OTOH I do not regret having children, nor do I advocate that people avoid having them.

Note to self, consider weather speculation is actually projection.
Can attest to this. I had a very good friend who was taking an insane amount of various pills (hydros, valium and some others) and had a breakdown. She wasn't suicidal, but the doctors told her she was lucky to be alive with as much as she was taking.

It totally impairs judgment, and people who are addicted can quickly escalate without realizing it.

This very well could have been an accidental suicide.
Of course not, people in this camp generally block javascript by default (because of its constant security and privacy violating problems)
Exactly. "Betting its future" is a line MSFT has to trot out every few years to get people to pay attention. They previous bet their future on .net, phones, tablets, Azure, cloud...
If you are part of the HFT crowd who uses the JVM then you know who the author, Cliff Click, is.

His Blogs (former and current) are goldmines for high performance JVM information.

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/author/cliff

http://www.cliffc.org/blog/

I had one CTO of a public HFT firm tell me that short of FPGA's Azul's pause-less GC (https://www.azul.com/products/zing/pgc/) was the biggest performance win they'd had in the past few years, note: this was a few years ago.

EDIT: someone emailed asking for how HFT firms write their java code. I haven't written java in 3 years so I'm probably not the best person to author a list but this is what I'd include:

In order of importance:

- Measure, measure, measure. Every HFT firm can tell you to the nanosecond, as much as that's possible, what their time is from receiving a packet to when it's replied to. Focus as much, if not more on the 95%, 99% times as the average time.

This time increasing is considered a bug in the same way that an app crashing due to user input is considered a bug, which is to say that you just don't ship with this kind of bug.

- no GC's, everything else starts to become less important if the GC is called every 30 seconds. Some guys will have only one GC call a day, which means you have a really large Eden GC space

- short call stacks, and no recursion

- one physical core per thread

- non locking data structures and use the one writer principle where possible

- don't use the kernel if possible, ie solar flare Ethernet cards that have userland drivers

- cache friendly data structures

Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iINk7x44MmM
This is moronic. Even if you believe that all police are bad actors, it doesn't make any sense that they would be randomly attacking Murdock as he described. Is it impossible? No. Is it far, far less likely than Murdock having a psychotic break and lapsing into paranoia and confusion? Yes.
Thanks. It calculates the escape time for every single pixel on the screen to produce the sharpest image possible - it can be kind of slow on retina/4k displays. It will run faster on 1080p displays (or if you change your monitor resolution).
What makes you say that? This seems to me like a great idea that gives startup founders a quick pitch and an instant response from potential investors. It's almost like a match.com or Tinder for startups/investors.
The difference is substantial: There are books describing some standard practices now, third-party engines will at least include some basic networking functionality, and every worthwhile book on engines will at least mention what you need to do to reasonably support multiplayer. At the time that Tribes was developed, none of that reference material existed yet - you had to do your engineering from scratch, and there were plenty of major releases that shipped a multiplayer that was essentially broken or only viable on LAN - no Internet play, server browsers, or matchmaking.

Today it's more common for multiplayer to only be broken in a limited set of ways, instead of "we are hacking away at a fundamentally wrong architecture for this problem".
the Racism cops have isnt black or white... its blue and not blue....

only poor people run into this and rare is it you get to see them post to HN / other social media in a way they are deemed relevant
How Chrome Could Reduce the Extension Privacy Concerns
Looking at it - it seems like a serialization framework ala .NET ISerializable, while that's a part of what I need I also need a way to dump code metadata out to some file (like JSON) at compile time and then use that data to auto generate the client API to access the data (but that would be done outside of rust). And since I can constrain my models serialization part wouldn't benefit much from a framework - most of the complexity would be in extracting the metadata and validating model constraints. I'm not sure if Serde helps with those I can't tell from github ?

(also the reference links in the readme are broken, eg. http://serde-rs.github.io/serde/serde/serde/ser/trait.Serial... - seems like one too many /serde)
The NASA data shows particulate matter. The real pollutants are CO2 and other invisible gases. Why concentrate on the visible particulate matter? The real concern is 400 ppm CO2 in air.
If you read on it says "But also adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown in violent crime, the data actually show that police are less likely to kill black suspects than white ones".

So the issue appears to be that black people are more likely to be involved in violent crime, perhaps due to poverty, gangs, etc.

Accusing the police of being racist not only is not evidence based, but it's likely to inflame the situation. (See for example the recent shitshorm with Toronto Pride).
Citizens dont carry guns in california without having a friend who is in law enforcement to help them get a concealed carry permit
Smart not nice.

Reddit has a large community of technology savvy users what looks better "We started doing X that some of you may not like" vs "We updated our privacy policy"..few days later "They started doing X, burn them!".

I wish more companies would be smart.
And give up tea...
Maybe you don't understand it that well because the described usage of a comma is not a comma operator (or any kind of operator).
Well yeah, the answer is probably somewhere in between -- it's partly that she gets paid no matter what the deal is, and part naivete. Even if you are purely self-interested, then you will be motivated to:

1) develop a reputation for being a good negotiator, because that will help in future negotiations

2) actually build the company rather than raid it, because that will lead to better jobs down the road / better reputation.

I mean, she's not a finance type. Those guys do just raid and rob. Someone who wants to raid companies doesn't join a 10 person startup out of college, toiling away to acquire users.
Eh, even this ends up being pretty negative. It's basically, "Birds thrive because North Korea is a total shithole, which leaves lots of undeveloped shoreline."
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That isn't what I would list as one of its biggest problems. The biggest problem is that the strongest determiner of what makes it to the front-page is the rate of upvotes rather than the upvote to downvote ratio. This favors thin content because thin content can be upvoted more quickly. Content that can be upvoted based on the title alone does best of all.