skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, I guess I misunderstood you statement with others, sorry.
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I moved to Bing a couple of months back and I do the opposite, i.e. turn to Google when I can't find what I'm looking for in Bing. On avg I'd say it's ~5% of the times for generic searches, ~10% for more technical stuff. Used to be much worse, and I disliked the UI very much while now I think it's on par with Google (both G and B have their pros/cons).
I kind of like that they finally added News (I was using Google a lot as a newspaper) and that you can switch tabs and use it as a portal, while Google doesn't show any content until you start searching for something, which I'm not saying it's wrong, but sometimes I start browsing directly from Bing homepage if I like what it's suggesting, which never happens with Google.
One thing they need to fix is the mobile app on Android though, because it's unusable, it keeps crashing and I've almost given up there.
> Why they are motivated to pay to live in the Bay Area is a mystery to me.

Owning a McMansion isn't everything. The Bay Area has more to offer in terms of job opportunities, career advancement, culture, and general quality of life than most metropolitan areas in America. Besides, successful engineers are doing just fine here, and many have no problem affording to buy houses.
I generally agree that the ETH fork is a broken promise. But if enough people adopt it, what can we say? At the same time, you are free to continue using ETH "classic" and refuse the hard fork. I'm sure there are some people who will do this, and then you may have your own blockchain.
They saved "several percentage points" off of 4.4M MWh, so maybe 250M KWH, which might be $10-20M. At 30x earnings [1], they just made back most if not all of the purchase price of Deepmind [2]

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/pe_ratio

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/26/google-deepmind/
Hmm. Seems like Facebook should create some front entities and buy cheap exploits on the black market. Of course, perhaps they already do. Smart folks work there.

edit

Actually, now that i think about it, someone in the right situation could probably make a nice living for a few years buying cheap/obscure exploits for lots of companies that provide bug bounties and submitting them. Beer money at least, perhaps tuition.

Seems sort of on the scale of small time drug dealer. Illegal, very risky in the long term, but possible to get away with for a few years if you're cautious.
That the Julia set and the Mandelbrot set are covariant maps on the 2D complex plane hints at the higher dimensional shape that surface Z^x + c = 0 describes.
Can you give an example?

I've posted about this before, here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386924

Here's a snippet from that post:

Nowadays, when I search for something like this:

"search phrase one" "search phrase two"

I will get a plethora of hits that omit one or the other of those words or phrases, starting with the very first page of results.
Or we could build a new city from the ground up so everything is run by the AI.
That's actually part of the premise in the scfi novel "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears": https://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appe...

Excellent book. Highly recommend it and its sequels.
my 2 cents, #1 doesn't make any sense these days. You can find something bad in all the major players.
To be fair, Oracle gives you things such as VirtualBox, MySql, Java, Netbeans etc for free. That's not too bad for an 'evil' company.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12124522 and marked it off-topic.
I'm curious too. Google is perhaps the oddest of the 2 words, but the article is about Bing, which is hardly a difficult word...
That it can be "intuitive once you understand what each character means" seems a bit oxymoronic to me. A design is intuitive or it isn't. That you can figure out a complex and cluttered design and use it to your advantage over time by trawling through manuals and guides doesn't make it intuitive. Your intuitive understanding of the design may improve, but that applies even to the most brain breaking concepts, so it's hardly a useful way to look at it.
>Why do people keep going there?

Because new grads keep getting six-figure offers at prestigious companies offering more money, autonomy, and interesting work than what they'd get at Fortune 500 cost center IT departments (those that haven't outsourced to India yet) in their hometowns.
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Ethereum failed when it forked to try to mop up the DAO failure.
On grabr, Bruce, the "mule" receives the link and himself have to buy the product... So he knows where the product is comming from (eBay, Amazon...)

Soo, you are going to be a "mule" only if you wants to buy a product comming from deepweb links, lol.
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As an outsider looking in on trying out my first cryptocurrency, Ethereum was definitely on my radar. Now that the founders have shown they are capable and will undo the way the system has executed if they do not like it, I feel much more comfortable keeping my money in fiat where the regulations are well-defined and I know I have recourse through the law. I do not want to be subjected to the whims of an unregulated group operating under unknown rules with an unknown, possibly nonexistent, path of rectification if they chose something I did not like. I otherwise would have accepted the operational philosophy similar to how Bitcoin has been handled thus far and all of the responsibilities associated with a level, permanent playing field. I honestly am no longer interested and do not plan to keep up with Ethereum.

I'm just N=1, but if the trend continues then I see it not growing beyond a hardcore self-interested group of people.
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He's been "permanently suspended":
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanen...

I think it happened in the past hour.
I'm imagining DeepMind allocating a small percentage of the energy money saved to keep a certain rack suspiciously cool.
So I guess the subscription fad isn't disappearing anytime soon.
The Chinese cities I've visited (Beijing mostly, a little bit in Qingdao, Shanghai, and Suzhou) are full of gigantic streets. It's amazingly unfriendly for pedestrians, considering how many there are. Six lane roads are quite common, and the tight little streets shown in that article are reserved for the rare places which have avoided redevelopment due to tourist appeal or whatever.

Between the huge streets and the crazy drivers, I really don't enjoy walking around. Typical American cities are much better in that respect, although many fewer Americans take advantage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521517

These discussions are definitely post-mortem analysis but there is also discussion on another OpSec presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU
Are you saying travel is inelastic?
I would not have guessed that the idiom "taken to the cleaners" dates back at least to early 18th century French.
I wanted to move from Blogspot to a personal domain, but kept delaying it for a long time.
Please! Imagine all the time, gas, and sanity wasted at red lights when there is absolutely no cross traffic!
One might assume, though, that Google could've applied more homegrown ML to the same problem and achieved significant savings as well.
Hasn't everything fell in 2008?
Correlation doesn't not mean causation. It's like saying that building 2000 affordable apartments in London would bring down the price of the multimillion luxury apartments.
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Why do the new subway cars always smell like bad breath is coming through the ventilation system, even when empty and recently cleaned?

Is it some kind of anti-vagrant odor, like the repellent counterpart to Subway restaurant's fresh bread fragrance?
I have no doubt there are a lot of chinese condo owners in Toronto but I don't believe they are leaving the units empty as commonly claimed.

>Multiple buildings are springing up without any need for sewer system upgrades.

How would you know? Do you think most people ask the guys digging up the streets what they are doing? Or what kind of capacity exists in Toronto already(was it future proofed?)

>The lights never seem to be on in most of the units.

Can you give any examples of buildings that are over a year old that are like this? I moved into 33 bay st on the first day residents were allowed in and my floor was empty for 3 months other an me. Most of the building was empty but that was largely because a) there were a lot of units for rent that took time to fill out. b) the sales office was open for 2 years after the building was complete as a lot of units weren't sold straight away.

>New condo developments don't seem to have grocery stores or supporting businesses.

Have you got any examples of this? 33 bay doesn't have a grocery store in it but everyone in those 4 buildings went to the Longos under Mapleleaf square or the Loblaws the other direction. Cityplace has a grocery store and pretty active bars/restaurants now. The ones on King/Queen have the Loblaws on Queen in walking distance and the ones on Yonge between bloor/king have the MLG Loblaws.

>Getting Canadian citizenship requires spending most of your time in the country for multiple years, but that's hard to track if you come and go on different passports.

Most of the people aren't looking for citizenship though only PR status which doesn't require that.
XAML started off from a blank slate and got inferior (IMO) results. There are a lot of not so obvious upsides to html+css that often get thrown out.

Starting from scratch could be better in theory, but I'm doubtful that it will happen in practice anytime soon.
Old fashioned safety razors are still very much a thing [0], 30$ for a handle and another 30$ for 100 blades, I switch blades every 2 weeks.
Of course there's a way: just don't be snarky or personally rude.

The original comment shouldn't have played the psychopath card, but replies like what you posted are the wrong direction to take things.
Anonymity is fragile. One can only ever break it, never fix.
A classic DrDobbs blog. Here's a link to Walter Bright's preceding part 1 blog:

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/safe-systems-...
I guess what I mean is, when compared to a single-payer system, most Democrats were unhappy with the ACA. I'd be wary of believing any polls about the ACA in general because Democrats likely feel a duty to support it in the face of criticism from Republicans. A much more informative poll would be asking Democrats whether they would have preferred a single-payer system.
I wonder if the overall rectangularness of the African countries is evidence of a bias for retangualarness by the map making colonial powers.
Agreed remote could be a lot better. I think it's improving though and probably more so for some positions than others. I would gladly hire a remote DevOps engineer, for instance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123453
Uhhh?

Let me point you to http://fortune.com/unicorns/.
I'm interested in getting this type of razor. Is there a standard? Interchangeable blades?
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Very light on details. What is the baseline of the savings? For example, was there a water pump that was always running at a fixed worst-case setting, and the machine learning system now ramps it up and down? If so, what is the marginal benefit over alternatives like a rudimentary closed-loop electronic control? Would like to know more about the system that was replaced, instead of these bare claims.
Monitor framerates are kinda "fixed". That is, there is no protocol to seamlessly change the framerate.
Reading this post you'd think Braid was a complex game but having never heard of it I looked on Youtube and it's some kind of rinkydink 2D scrolling Super Mario clone. It's amazing people put any thought at all into this kind of thing that was obsolete 20 years ago.
There was a sizable French Concession in Shanghai's International Settlement and its architecture style is widely emulated. My relatives used to own an old school row house (shikumen) in the former French Concession, but sold it off for new development.

Funnily enough, that neighborhood has been turned into an upscale shopping and entertainment district, and many of the new shops are built in a shikumen style.
I've actually taken some sociology classes about this and the professor was a physicist who went into sociology and he used a lot of maths and modeling to tackle this problem in a local city. Unfortunately I do not have any data on this anymore but I remember it being surprisingly complex because human behaviour plays a big role, but there are massive improvements to be made with traffic lights, and so he did.
Here's just one example of my point: we have TBMs (tunnel boring machines) today, which were made possible by 19th and 20th-century industrial development. During the construction of the Hoover Dam, the original bypass tunnels were created by drilling and blasting, which resulted in a number of those deaths. If they had TBMs back then, many people would been spared exposure to dangerous rock dust, explosives, falling rocks, etc.
Actually, yes it is, Bloomberg.
Thank you. I don't doubt that Perl6 has had some negative impact on Perl5.

However, I and many others believe that Perl6's positive influences on the Perl5 community far outweigh the downsides. For starters, the whole Moose:: ecosystem (https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual...) would arguably not have existed were it not for Perl6. And there are quite a few other examples.

Perl5 is a vibrant, active language: https://metacpan.org/recent

I understand your perspective though.
years ago, I pirated a copy of Half Life. It had what I could only assume was a way to detect cracked versions. Remember the long train ride at the beginning? That goes into the canyon and finally stops at the train platform with the guard standing outside? The guard that then has to open the door?
In the version that I found, the guard didn't open the door. The guard fell over dead.

I tried again and again and the guard would still fall over dead every time. Wasn't sure if I was going crazy, or if I had just been trolled by a game developer somehow.
Yep, you want "double-edged razor blades."
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That's where things get very fuzzy. It's easy to link tax dollars to roads because the road is either there, and well maintained, or it is not. In order to make the argument that businesses get more from their dollars by giving it to the government to improve the "health" of the workforce than they would investing it how they see fit, you need to be able to measure it, and that's not an easy thing to do. If it were obvious, like taxes for roads, you'd get little argument from businesses over taxes. The problem is, it's not obvious nor easy to prove.
Out of all codes of conduct, how many will allow the next Linus or Theo de Raadt to emerge? It seems to me that most are driven by the same animus against crimethink that brought us donglegate.
One can smash a car up with a sledgehammer. Is the value of a sledgehammer equal to the value of a car?
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Every country exports goods. Manufacturing these goods will produce some amount of pollution.

For an individual importing from China, it is rare to impossible to get accurate figures on the environmental impact of what you're importing.

Lax environmental oversight is the CCP's choice and the CCP's choice alone.
>EDIT: rereading my comment, I should have said "/foo moves to the first instance of foo in the document" to correlate how / is a movement just like w is a movement (w is "move by one word")

Yes, then it makes much more sense.
If you do run out, just buy them from Dorco (DSC's supplier) and avoid DSC's markup...
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like Digg before it, HN can be easily easily gamed

you have sizable groups of people who work like one team, one person submits and others up vote

In the Digg days I was approached by some guys in Eastern Europe who offered to get me diggs for $$. I declined. I was hoping HN is harder to game, but I don't see any evidence that support that.
And a lot of people don't care so much if someone else says something "inappropriate".
One problem with mid-rise apartment buildings in North America is that they're of wood/plywood. It's one thing to live in a plywood SFH by yourself, but quality of life decreases (at least for me) rapidly in a mid-rise arrangement due to noise.

Anything over 7-8 stories has to be concrete, which makes for a much better condo experience.
> I'd love to agree. But with IRC you've no guarantee, for instance, that an offline user will receive notifications when they sign in (plus multi client handling).
> Slack has search for history, which is huge. No more "eh we talked about it".

For functionality like that it sounds like a mailing list would fit the use case better.

> Onprem is great. But it's a hindrance for quick adoption.

It's not either/or. Think of git, you can use a hosted server or a private one. The ability to host your own server doesn't hinder anyone.
I disagree. If you read the atari paper you will get plenty of details and you can infer how it is applied to electricity consumption. They were using reinforcement learning. The algorithms would learn to get a better score by looking at the screen and sending actions accordingly. Here you could imagine the same algorithm with energy consumption as a score, a set of datacenter metrics as the screen (state) and change of metrics as actions.
Wait, nevermind. See above.
So to summarize: people are willing to pay higher rents and get lower salaries (relative to prices) for "career security" (instead of job security), nice weather, the amenity of living near people who fund startups, and the company of those who would choose the same.
they plan to publish more details in a research paper, AFAIK.
I know a lot of people in Lisp and Smalltalk communities that use unit tests still use the interactive debugging environment. In fact, many of them write their unit tests in the REPL, and then paste them into their test-code. There are even a couple of unit testing libraries for CL that are specifically designed for doing this.

[edit]

I also recommend that you watch the video xuejie posted (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfMUP5iTq8), as it's about using a debugger to write code more than using a debugger to fix code.
> I am assuming twitter would start suppressing non-verifed accounts in replies/searches ect.

How would that benefit them?
"Now that DeepMind knows the approach works, it also knows where its AI system lacks information, so it may ask Google to put additional sensors into its data centers to let its software eke out even more efficiency."

Sounds like active learning to me. It's a type of machine learning where a learner pro-actively ask for interesting data points to be labeled so that he can learn more about the system. :)
I have this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011L8WJIA/

I'm very satisfied. Not coming apart is a significant feature. The case is nice too; I've used it several times to look at the back of my head.

I haven't found any blades that don't work. As far as I know they're all the same.
Even prior to this, it was cheaper to just buy from Dorco (DSC's supplier).
> subsidy/gain is already paid for with the employee's labor

Salary is gain paid for with labor, and it is taxed. I'm not sure I follow your point.
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That's the great thing about double-edged razors: you can recognize the correct blade on sight. The box is distinctive as well. Meaning you'd have to try really hard to buy the wrong blade. I mean really hard, given that a blind person could buy the right blades by feel.
Indeed. One of the "elephant in the room" parts of all of these corporate/pr press releases dressed up as news/revenue reports is that they never report or investigate opportunity cost: say how much could google have saved with a simple algorithm, homegrown solution, or 4 heuristic if/then/else statements.

I've been involved with similar multi-million dollar projects that were reported to be bringing in XX million in revenue/savings over three years. What isn't reported is that the revenue was just being moved from another project that was canned, and a guy in an office for a week looking at a spreadsheet could have found similar savings without the expense/complexity. (Not that I'm saying that's what's happening in google s case, but the fluff peices are so universally fluffy, you aren't given enough information to know that it isn't)
You're probably right, but this comment would be a lot better if it included information (e.g. about how the black market works) and dropped the slurs ("circle jerk", "crying").
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You are correct. Prize is a word in American English, but not one that makes sense in context.
What's your opinion on bug bounties for hosted applications v.s. bug bounties for actual pieces of software?

To me, the latter seem like a much more obviously good idea than the former. Notably, issues of somebody going out of scope- like the Facebook issue a while back- mostly disappear. Bounties on things like Chrome seem to be almost drama-free; the worst possible case, aside from somebody 0-daying a bug out of anger, is somebody not getting paid.
We'll see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/erdogans-purge-ma...
Most razors are for double edged blades. All double edge blades are interchangeable.

My understanding is that there are also single edged razors that don't work with double edged blades, but they are way less popular. /r/wicked_edge has a guide here [0] basically, buy a Vintage Gillette Super Speed Razor on ebay (or really anything you want, handles can't be that different, they're just 3 pieces of metal) and a pack of sample blades on tryablade.com

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge/wiki/de_kit

https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge/comments/4exeep/beginne...
Yep. After he drove yet another person off Twitter by throwing his followers at them they permanently banned him.

Given that they've had suspend him multiple times in the past it's amazing that he still had an account. Pathetic it took Twitter so long.