skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of this article by Joel Spolsky on Excel:

Over the next two weeks we visited dozens of Excel customers, and did not see anyone using Excel to actually perform what you would call “calculations.” Almost all of them were using Excel because it was a convenient way to create a table.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
What regulatory approvals are required for this transaction?
>A ban on ex post facto law is such a core concept in Western civilization that it's pretty shocking anyone would actually think such a rule is a good idea.

Not really a fair comment IMHO. Western Civilizations also have the core concept that intent matters and that not every potential conflict/problem can be foreseen. Thus, you have vaguely worded laws that are subject to human interpretation (courts).

I understand that ETH billed itself as being above all that. So I can see why some are justifiably upset. I just think your comment about ex post facto law is a little misleading given that there is, in fact, a great deal of wiggle room afforded to the courts in the West.
Why PKCS#1v1.5 Signature Should (Also) Be Put Out of Our Misery
Finally, Intel makes a move in Deep Learning.
You can download every song to your device for offline playback.
This was from 2001... 15 years ago. Are there new developments causing it to be brought up now?
Don't know about itunes, but google play definitely allows you to mark anything you want as available offline. As long as you have disk space. Same with spotify (but they will force you to reauth from time to time to keep it offline)
I'll be first in line when it gets here (seriously)

> United Kingdom Not yet available here
What large tech company during his time did not engage in that practice?

I am not saying it was the correct thing to do, however, if it is that common in the industry, then it is a systemic defect versus a personal defect and should be treated as such.
The performance gains can be significant. Styles in shadow roots have less rules, styles lower selectivity than in global styles. The browser takes into account the shadow scopes when doing style invalidation and recalc, and so typically recalculates much less of the tree.

Like ebidel mentions, the developer side is important too. You get to write simpler selectors and know that you aren't accidentally styling other parts of the document. I'd go so far as to say that Shadow DOM fixes most of the problems with CSS.
Hello. I'm Eric and I run http://sideprojectors.com

Thanks for listing it on your article.

I suppose unlike other sites, SideProjectors is completely free, so no cost for people to listing it and selling it.

Then the immediate question is "how do you make money?".

Well, I'm a developer and I run other businesses so, SideProjectors is... really my side project. And it has been for almost 4 or 5 years.

I started SideProjectors at a local hackathon where we won a prize from Freelancer! and it all started from there. It receives a constant flow of projects each day and a number of projects have been sold since it started.

In terms of getting the most amount of exposure, I think personally, the most important thing is providing as much detail as possible. It's likely to be featured on the front page, it will show people that you are serious about the project and if not being sold, people will at least message you asking many follow-up questions.

I've been meaning to add a bunch of features to SideProjectors, so hopefully it'll continue to improve!
I've begun to stop buying music over iTunes.
Another possible angle (to be mixed and matched with the original):

French guy works 35 hours (ok really 38) and is busy all the time at work.

Korean guy works 60 hours (ok really 55) and spends much of it 1) recovering from semi-mandatory drinking with the boss and colleagues, 2) browsing / shopping online, 3) chatting on KakaoTalk, often while 4) waiting for his boss to leave so that he can also, or 5) if working diligently, often on polishing pointless powerpoint presentations.
This is a misleading clickbaity title. They never stopped selling iTunes downloads, they introduced Apple Music in South Korea where they never offered iTunes downloads before. This makes perfect sense. The article acknowledges that the South Korean market is dominated by independents, and foreigners find it hard to negotiate with them. Why put a bunch of effort into negotiating the contracts for streaming (which is on the way down) and also Apple Music (which is on the way up)?
Anything more focused on the link layer?
No, because it is not racist.

The author has lived in Japan and studied Japanese for a long time. If you read some of his other posts for context you will see that he deeply admires and loves the Japanese people and their culture.

This article appears to me to be a cathartic rant about Japanese being so difficult to learn that even many Japanese don't master their own language. I lived in Japan for about 3 years and I can corroborate that Japanese people struggle with their own language. For example, the development of word processing has made the problem even worse. When Japanese people consistently use computers for writing they call themselves "Wa-pu-ro baka" (translation "word processing idiot") because they quickly forget how to write kanji by hand.

Actually it is two rants in one. The first rant is about how college level educational standards are very different in the U.S. and Japan. Although I never attended university in Japan, I've met many Japanese college students and their stories corroborate the author's claims of ridiculously easy grading standards.
The interview is heavy on fluff. His pious statements about management are contradicted by his actual, well documented actions.

Reading it makes me feel mildly nauseated.
Because I am assuming some level of tech expertise. This is anathema to prosecutors and sometimes even to defense.

First, tech people often have a much larger store of baseline knowledge than common people. Neither lawyer wants this as you are bringing your own knowledge of what is "true" into the jury and the lawyers can't override this.

Second, tech people often understand statistics and error. Many of us will apply a very large Bayesian to fingerprints, eyewitness accounts, etc. Even things like "He blew a 0.8 blood alcohol content" is going to get met with things like "When?". He blew it when you stopped him coming out of the bar? (likely just barely qualifies and probably within margin of error--why are you harassing this guy for 2 beers?) He blew it 6 hours later in the station? (Holy cow, how was he standing?)

Third, tech people often have very negative experiences with peer pressure and this often translates to resistance against it. My friend put it best from when he served on a jury: "I don't care if he is guilty of many other things. The government charged him with conspiracy and has not proved their case. You can't persuade me to convict--the evidence isn't there. If you want me to vote guilty, show me the evidence." Result--hung jury.

I have never served on a jury in all the time I have been called. I once watched the defense and prosecution play chicken over who was going to burn their strike to get rid of me.

Since the prosecution is all about convictions rather than justice, they want us as far away from juries as possible.
Ah yes, forgot about that. You are correct
cjdns is excellent, I've been using it for quite some time now for all sorts of things. If anyone is interested in peering in the NY metro area, let me know, I've got bandwidth to spare.
The cat and mouse game between advertisers and adblockers is about to enter a new era. I'm surprised it took this long.
This is so huge. I'm a little saddened myself, Nervana had the possibility to live on its own. I understand the capital investments needed to take on the other three giants were immense, but I thought they had the backing.

Honestly though, I would still consider an internship there in a instant, were I better connected with universities. The things they do consistently blow my mind, and they are one of the few startups out there that do.
The FBI could do a better job of advocating for increasing it scope of powers: "Give us this little change in our access to information, and we will be able to go after Rachel in Card Services." If they went after spam, and fraud, like they do terrorism, people would roll over. :/
So, if they offered a PayPal button, and I decided I didn't want to pay via PayPal, would it be okay to not pay in that case?

By putting up the blocker blocker, the site has clearly indicated how you can compensate them for the content, and the only ethical way I can think of around it would be to not consume it.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257376
> I give you, that "%" is bad for named arguments, but why wouldn't you just improve that then?

Perhaps they should. I'm not making a case specifically for the proposed strategy (interpolation), just that if they are going to implement it, that it took this long is odd, and somewhat laughable. Personally, I think the named string format is superior to this new feature in many respects except the most simplistic of cases, but I don't often write python, so my opinion may be colored by that.
You mean you don't use 3.5 be cause pypy does not support it.
Hyperboria isn't focused on an overlay, that is just the easiest way to connect. A bunch of nodes are peered over other channels, like wireless meshes (see the Seattle meshnet).
I think a lot of human understanding is basically intuition about topological invariants in various "spaces". If you go around asking famous thinkers what they see when they think they all describe similar kinds of imagery, fuzzy shapes that merge and unmerge in various ways as they probe the subject.

One good book I've found on the subject is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From.
Notice how speedtest.net selects a server geographically close to you? Well many ISPs work directly with speedtest.net (and other similar services) to ask them to put servers in their own networks, so that traffic avoids going through potentially saturated peering links. So you are really testing the bandwidth of the last mile to your house and the ISP's internal network, which is not representative of your real network bandwidth to the rest of the Internet.
This is ingenious, your public address is also your public key, and the payload of the packet can only be decrypted by your private key.
So awesome, it has encryption built in.
They hadn't even started mass-producing chips, so, very little I presume.
Typical valuation methods are: multiples, replacement value, comparable transactions.

1) Multiples: a comment from Flippa says websites go for 2-4x annual net profit, which is similar to a Mom&Pop operation. So if your side project made $5,000 per year, then value would be $15,000 at 3x multiple.

I like to think about multiples in years. It'll take me 3 years to make my initial investment back - then I think is that good or bad? Apple's stock price to earnings is at 12.6 years, Amazon is at 99 years.

2) Replacement Value: if you estimate your time to be $100 per hour and you could replicate the app/website + business in 1 month, then $100 x 8 hrs/day x 20 business days = $16,000.

3) Comparable Transactions: if you see projects similar to yours going for $25,000, then that's what the market is saying.
Under the hood, all the existing (as of 2.0) ML pipelines models immediately convert the Dataframe to an RDD and cache it, so there is a one iteration slowdown for using the Dataframe models versus an equivalently implemented RDD model. None of them try to get a speedup by directly operating on the Tungsten datastructure, but it is an obvious next step.
Did not read that right the first time, wtf? Wasn't SK on the list? I am now confused.
Unbroken Ground
DoS attacks targeted Australian Census
I use Pandora and Google Play to find stuff, and Bandcamp to pay artists and get downloads if they're there. I know streaming is a raw deal for creators sometimes.
I always had a soft spot for rc4; it held up so well for so long. We shall meet again.
Then you can't do over the wire updates, which means no fixes after it's been manufactured and installed, which would probably increase the costs quite a bit.
Do you have any proof that running a cron job impacts internet performance?
> That's a rather artificial limitations, few modern plots are from 1 or 2 people with hundreds killed.

I've heard small conspiracies called out to justify mass surveillance. You don't really need mass surveillance of your own citizens unless you are concerned about very small conspiracies. Bigger conspiracies can be uncovered with more traditional detective work.

Freak fires are also not a great example. An arsonist cannot cause hurricane force winds to assist and push a fire through a city. This is effectively an act of God. The time bomb is a better example, though again I would ask for evidence that this was a fairly common event the way mass shootings and similar terrorist attacks have sadly become.
Parts of the mango tree have urushiol in them. It's the same irritant that is in poison ivy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango#Potential_for_contact_de...

Cavalier picking of mangoes could also lead to unpleasant consequences.
I get that you like Soylent. More power to you. But I don't think most people are already aware of the alternatives to Soylent and how much cheaper they are. For instance, you said, in response to my comment about buying food from a grocery store every day, "doing that is almost certain to nullify the intended cost advantages".

According to Soylent's website, their drink is $2.69 per 400 calories. That same amount of money buys you 1 gallon of whole milk at the grocery store, which is 2400 calories, or a half gallon of organic whole milk, which is 1200 calories.

The numbers are similar for nuts, cheese and yogurt. And I haven't even gotten into eating olive oil, which can get you another 2x reduction in cost per calorie over milk.

That is a 3x - 12x decrease in food cost. In other words, that choice alone can make or break a household's monthly budget. And if food storage is an issue, the savings will pay for a fridge in short order.
This is not dispersion. The light sent in fiber is essentially monochromatic,hence there is no need to cancel dispersion.

A whole bunch of processes can add phase noise to the light as it propagates in fiber. Refractive index changes, temperature fluctuations, stresses in fiber due to bending, etc. This is suppressed by sending the light back through the same fiber and actively locking the phase of the light that had travelled through the fiber wrt the incident light.

https://jila.colorado.edu/yelabs/sites/default/files/uploads...
> Your livelihood is not threatened if you don't see some information hidden through a facebook login.

I would have missed an exam, because the place and date were only communicated through that medium.

> I can see enabling adblock for the internet at large and sites you don't care about, but you KNOW that facebook relies on ads and you repeatedly use them.

As I said, I rarely go there (maybe two or three times per year?). I'm more a statistical noise at that level. I doubt it threatens their business model, they seem to be doing pretty well recently.

In fact I'm probably making them and their partners save some money by not loading ads for products I would not buy anyway, it seems way more ethical to me.

And in fact all of this is dwarfed by the fact that ads in general are a big security risk.
Exactly. The other related threat is the new junior admin being asked by a senior exec to allow (windows policy-wise) the USB storage just temporarily. "Because I need this presentation NOW as I have to get to the airport in 45 minutes!
An expectation of 10 hour days? Ridiculous. You might be the only one walking out at 5:15 the first few days, but you might get followers, and improve the culture at your workplace in the process. If you're meeting your tasks and deliverables, your hours as a butt in a seat shouldn't matter.

Alternatively, start working from home 2 days a week. Approach your boss with the idea you're more productive without the commute time sucking up 1/4 of your workday
Soylent – Be a Breakfast Pioneer with Coffiest
> Cathedrals, and their close cousins, castles, last centuries.

Is that even a good thing? Aside from being beautiful artistic and historical works, I think that Cathedrals have outlived their usefulness. Just look at St. Patrick’s in NYC - that thing cost 177 million USD over 3 years just to restore it. I mean, obviously it's nice, but in terms of functionality it's a huge waste. You could build another 2 Lakewood Churches (each with a capacity of 16k people), using modern steel building techniques, just for the restoration costs of St. Patrick’s.

I can see the case for over-engineering on things that are effectively "solved" problems (hashing algorithm implementations, knife design, non-electrical hand tools, JSON parsers...) but when it comes to complex systems like buildings or operating system architectures, I don't think we're at a point of stability where anything should be expected to last centuries (or more than a few decades, in the case of software).

We're still seeing fundamental shifts in the assumptions that these systems are built on - whether it's the Cathedral that couldn't have possibly foreseen its stone arches being replaced by steel girders or the early mainframe OS that was designed before cheap computer clusters became the norm.
> I've heard small conspiracies called out to justify mass surveillance.

The fact that something is a convenient and effective narrative for propaganda purposes doesn't mean it is a significant and common threat.
My Airbnb Nightmare Reality
I was very, very hesitant to join the streaming music era. I had many thousands of songs in iTunes that I had bought (either on CD, from iTunes, or from Amazon MP3). I wasn't comfortable 'renting' my music.

Now I subscribe to Google Play Music and I haven't bought a traditional music album in probably two years. I started by uploading my whole library (which is a unique feature to GPM) and have supplemented it with streaming. The only music I buy anymore is recordings of live shows or Kickstarters, which are almost never available on streaming services.

It's really amazing how far these streaming services have come in a few years. They went from a total gimmick (Napster, Zune Music anyone?) to something that almost everybody chooses to use.
Education for the sake of education, for people with a desire to learn. This pretty much has to be better than education for the purpose of credentialing.
Helen Keller's life argues against the proposition that a machine requires the same sort of interaction with its environment that the average human experiences, before it can achieve intelligence.
Lots of experience and a bit of intuition.

If the office/ops mgr can work on customer or product development, that's a different story.
Crap article, and I flagged it. How do you "axe" a tree that never existed? From that basis, we then extrapolate that Apple must be shutting off downloadable content world-wide. I'm sure someone will along shortly with a link to the Wikipedia page for this logical fallacy.
Autodesk's CTO Prepares for the Next Century
It's well known that all of Germany's media, intelligence services, and politics was set up by the US after the war.

From what is seen on the geopolitical landscape, Germany is a vassal state of the US.
I don't. I haven't used it enough to say. However, the Godot devs do.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-reaches-2-0-sta... - look under "Future"
i doubt north Koreans have access to khan academy.
I've been reading the word unprecedented a lot today. For reference, here's Obama unambiguously joking about drone-murdering the Jonas Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4
Could lead to more accurate GPS
Interact with Bluetooth devices on the Web (2015)
Angular 2 RC5 – NgModules, Lazy Loading and AoT Compilation
Having done a technical review of what Nervana has to offer... Why Intel?

My assumption, is that Intel will lease the chips + software, similar to the way HP, Dell, etc. Lease GPU machines.

Nervana honestly woukd have been obsolete and dead pretty soon without this. I see this as an acuire-hire.
The problem is data. I am not sure how to collect enough data for this easily (on the order of 50k or so, we don't need to train from scratch).
If you haven't seen it yet, you may like the stateless laptop idea: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/12/23/state_harmful.htm...
It was not clear to me.
Did you ever use the web in 1995?

Content discovery is neither a part of HTTP nor the architecture of the web. It's a feature if it's current landscape, built on top of existing non-ideal ALI and brute force (scanning).

Good web search (represented by Google) appeared around 1998, years after the general availability of the web, when the corpus of web pages was already large. Up to this moment, search is powered by ad revenue.

I don't see how IPFS is significantly different in this regard.
Nobody clicks articles that aren't confusing.
Id rather see an AI that is smarter than humans. People are trying to make human-like entities but lets think outside the box a little more.
Whatever, I'm still impressed. OP meant "Street View" in the figurative sense.
I'm getting a consistent difference between fast.com in Safari on iPad vs their Fast app (90-ish vs 65-ish, across 5 interleaved trials). I was hoping for better measurement in the native app, but I suspect it might just be a web view in a native shell. Anyone else seeing similar results?

I think this is an interesting idea, but I'm not convinced it'll actually make a difference. From the consumer side, there's nothing to say that the slowest link isn't Netflix's CDN when a discrepancy occurs between Fast and Speedtest.

I was receiving atrocious download speeds for movies from iTunes (18+ hours for 4 GB), and also saw slow speeds from speakeasy.net/speedtest. The comcast rep just pointed me at Speedtest and said "it's not a problem with your connection, it's fast! Contact Apple." He dismissed the "other" speed testing results. ISPs can continue to throttle directly or by refusing to upgrade peering connections. fast.com providing a number to go along with bad Netflix streaming quality doesn't improve the customer's life.

What I really want is something that empowers me to be heard in my request for the $75 worth of Internet that I pay for every month. I had high hopes that the SamKnows program might yield something, until I received a docsis 3 cable modem in the mail from Comcast with a note: "since you're a participant in SamKnows monitoring, we sent you this upgraded modem so you can take advantage of better speeds". My first thought was "what about all of your customers who aren't participating in SamKnows? When do they receive their 'upgrades'?" Do we really need the government monitoring everyone's broadband performance to ensure that companies are delivering?
I also prefer using Python 3. Not everybody agrees, but I think Python 3 not only is the future but also the present and there are nice features that aren't available in Python 2. Besides many great modules are available for Python 3 already. I've been using it lately and I didn't experience any problem. I like the article.
That's an awesome story. How was Javad planning to receive / read the PDF? Or did he want a paper copy?