skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, my opinion is probably an unpopular one but I would've preferred to have my main social network integrated with my email, my phone, etc. The main problem for me was pretty much no one else used it. I'm not a huge social network person in general though. I do agree that it didn't "deserve" to be popular just because google made it - which google probably ended up learning after they made it.
> As an ISP how would you _guarantee_ the bandwidth for each endpoint?

When I still lived in Slovenia, I had 20/20 FTTH. Fiber went directly into a router in my bedroom. My bandwidth was always exactly 20/20. No matter what.

Now I have Comcast. Speedtest says I get 80/6. On Friday and Saturday evenings Netflix and Facebook and many other things often experience issues. Now I can't confirm any of this. If you run speedtest, it's fine. If you ping something, there's no packet loss. But it just doesn't feel very fast and reliable under normal use.
Yes, of course I'm sure the actual work is valuable as an employee... and to say you're working on the Google+ team is to say you're working at Google, which is hugely valuable on its own.

I'm more wondering if there's some goal they're all working towards... what's their mission as a team? What's the morale like? Is there a lot of pressure on them to perform better?
Instead of "I wish we knew what was OK," what they really mean is "I wish tricking people was OK." Because it's already clear what's OK: make it obvious that the thing is an advertisement. They just don't want to.

I see why they don't want to, although I don't agree. But whining about how it's unclear isn't winning them any points here. It's clear, they just don't like it.
okay. never mind didn't bother checking.
Do you remember when open source meant people just working on stuff for fun and trying to provide free as in speech alternatives to pay crap?

I feel like this is just another step into the corporate OSS world which is a far departure of what a lot of the original OSS architects envisioned.

Trying to monetize OSS often leads to rushed features and bad decisions like in most traditional non-OSS/enterprise products. If you strip off the polish and the fancy website, you should still have a usable, well documented thing that people need. That may also be a product you can sell support for or host, but it doesn't have to be.

Unfortunately, there aren't as many grants and not as much developer free time to go around anymore.
Prior to the 20th century (depending on where you live, but this is for the areas hit with obesity epidemics):

1. You had to walk most places (often miles a day).

2. You had to physically labor. Most people didn't have desk jobs or the period's equivalent.

3. Food was relatively scarce, and harder to transport.

4. Social activities (we are social creatures) required physical effort (walking to, dancing, walking around). We can now be social while being remarkably physically passive.

5. Entertainment options were more scarce, so boredom meant you did something. Now, you can entertain yourself by sitting on a couch or at the desk playing a video game or watching a movie. You could make a case for books being similarly physically passive, but that requires widespread literacy and access to books which wasn't true of the general population.
That sounds like an argument that an arms race is OK because it leaves us better equipped to defend ourselves. But we wouldn't need all of those extra defenses in the first place if we hadn't entered into an arms race.

As people get more used to it, advertisers just work harder and harder to sneak under the radar. We might get more self aware, but if anything it just leads us to be cynical and untrusting of things that are sincere.

The end result is likely a belief that there are two and only two kinds of media:

Insincere media where I can see that I'm being advertised to.

Insincere media that has outsmarted me and where I can't see that I'm being advertised to.
thanks a lot for this comprehensive explanation !! sure will do !!
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Nike.com's robots.txt file
Note that Confidential Transactions (CT) are a different technology. While ring signatures hides sender/receiver identity, CT hides transaction amounts.
This topic has been coming up on this site for the past decade. Every time it does there are a lot of people who say Silicon Valley will never be beaten. I call this way of thinking "California exceptionalism".

Put another way:

"Nobody will ever need more than 640k."

Since the days of Fairchild, the bay area has had an advantage in finance, and of course VCs who didn't want to invest in anyone more than a bike ride away. The level of attitude is really kinda astounding.

California was the golden state... but that was 50 years ago when it had a pro-business government and was disrupting the US industrial base, and attracting high tech talent and companies in the process. Now it is eating itself, drowning in debt and getting ever more desperate due to decades of bad government.

In our industry things have changed. The need for VCs is dramatically less. You don't need to build servers and software from scratch, you can rent servers in the cloud and build on open source foundations.

There are always going to be more smart people outside of SV than there are in it. And TBH, I don't think the SV startups have been really innovative for the past couple decades. It's like after the dotcom boom everything became an "app" (instead of a "dot com" eg website).

For example you aren't building Intels and Apples anymore. you're building Googles (Which might become an Apple, if one of its moonshots turns into a product, but it isn't yet, it hasn't weaned itself from search and search's days are numbered.) You're building facebooks and ubers and airbnbs. It may not look like if if you've not been thru a couple bubbles but those companies are more flash in the pan than solid. Facebook could be more properly called a fad.

The difference is they aren't really technology companies. Google invented page rank, but almost nothing fundamental since. Facebook hasn't invented anything really. It's just a popular content site. Uber and AirBnB are business models, not technology inventions. Of course they all require and depend on technology investment, but they are not based on technological innovations like Intel and Apple are. (And don't even get me started on Amazon which is really a combo of Walmart and U-haul-for-computers. They actively oppose innovation.)

And for some high tech industries, Silicon Valley is not the center. The disdain upon which californians look at bitcoin is a good example. It's kinda a "not invented here" syndrome.

It's like we're the internet, you're AOL at its peak. You rule the roost right now, but you don't get it.
To use it, do I still need to share my real identity with Google? With the world? If so, is that just policy or is it enforced somehow?
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I've written about this before:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...

TL;DR is that we have a lot of corporate open source now for infrastructure, but the golden age OSS end products people hoped for in the 90's/00's never really happened.
How could you ever answer that test with any reliability? Any hypothetical is going to be irrevocably tainted by the money.
Modern solution to campus exercise requirement: Put the dining hall 1 mile away from the dorms.
Right, but you won't be pulling down classified PDF's in any reasonable time. If you have access to the machine to run code, I don't see why you need "a password" particularly.

I thought the purpose was extracting information.
So true. I've been doodling some tools to somehow manage all of it. So far I only have git-like approaches to models and chef-like approaches to infrastructure. I hope to somehow bring all together into a docker-like package that can be deployed without much hassle.
People who complain about downvotes get downvoted, especially if they make a whole new comment (or more, wow) just to complain.
Shh! There is no innovation outside silicon valley! You have to be in California to create a unicorn! We have always been at war with eurasia!
> the Old Northwest

As an Oregonian, I always scratched my head when seeing that "Northwestern University" was in Illinois until I realized that at one point, that was the "north west".
I definitely think there will be a gentle trend of tech moving away from Silicon Valley - perhaps not by people/organizations "leaving SV" - instead, people/organizations not "moving to SV". The center of mass will just disperse a bit even if the absolute numbers in SV remain more or less constant.

We've been building a 100% remote startup since late 2011 - it begun in the midwest (Missouri) and it has worked extremely well. We don't even have a location at this point and can't imagine a situation in which we'd elect to.
As a means of organizing one's friends into groups that only see subsets of what you post, it's not bad.

As the sole means of creating a directed social graph, it's awful.
You know, some of us like weather that changes a lot more, also killing frosts/freezes kill a lot of nasty bugs (although I'm not aware of the Bay Area being know for that sort of problem, maybe too dry?). A quick check indicates you can go decades without a white Christmas, and Wikipedia says about San Jose that "On average, there are 2.7 nights annually where the temperature lowers to or below the freezing mark".

I could rebut with the single word earthquakes, was even in Silicon Valley when the 1983 Coalinga earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Coalinga_earthquake) hit.

Then again, I was also retired to my home town of Joplin when the 2011 tornado hit (http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/), but one convenient thing about tornadoes is that you only have to walk a few blocks perpendicular to their line of movement to get to undisturbed buildings and such, the aftermath is therefore a lot easier than wide area disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes.
I have a bunch of ancient (~1980s) British comics with subscription prices listed as so many £ for UK, so many for Eire.
The environment for your large clusters is almost certainly different from everyone using TF outside of Google. I'm speaking about the problems they'll run into.
For certain values of tech perhaps. Silicon Valley already isn't and never has been a particular center for biotech/pharma for example. One of the things that I expect we're seeing (in addition to the fact that it doesn't work economically for everyone to be in California) is that, as technology of various sorts becomes central to more and more different industries, the centralization of "tech" increasingly makes even less sense than it does already.

I do agree it's not so much as a "threat" to Silicon Valley as just a greater distribution of technology centers to other regions.
Not soundly, no. The borrow check requires flow-sensitive analysis. The lifetime typechecker requires subtyping-aware extensions to Hindley-Milner.
Odd to see Google using a brute force strategy for this. They kill off their wonderful products and keep the bogus ones.
Unrelated question. What's the point of fullscreen button on those term session players (or whatever they are) if it doesn't stretch the playback to fullscreen? You only get a same-sized screen with black around it. It's not even centered to the screen.
There are people still working on VAX systems - are VAX systems not out of date by the same logic?

Spend 1 afternoon with tesseract, and 1 afternoon with Googles text recognition API. The quality of the results is night and day.

I would love there to be an open source one that can complete, which is why I said "sadly". But if you're interested in quality of results, Deep Learning is the way to go.
No JavaScript? Nice. Don't see too many functional pages without it. I don't know that I would call it a poor man's Google Docs due to the lack of equivalent features but good work nonetheless.
New York isn't the New York of finance anymore. Firms are scrambling to get their presence all over the world because the opportunities are no longer converging on Wall Street as they once did.
I love the calm technology principles. A serious problem, though, is that the interests of the technology provider do not necessarily align with the interests of the technology user. Here is an example. (This is speculative on my part. Anyone who is more familiar with the history here, please chime in.) In the earliest days of telephone, it was in the interest of the phone company that callees answer incoming calls. No answer, no revenue. So, the phones generated jarring, noisy, almost violent clanging noises. We all became Pavlov's dogs for the phone company.

I'm afraid that there will always be an underwhelming minority of technology users who make conscious choices to purchase and encourage calm technology.

One admittedly tepid hope is that society-scale evolution will eventually help. Communities that embrace calm technology will be more fit and ultimately successful than those that acquiesce to jarring, rude, and disruptive technologies that foster a passive, frantic, reactive, unreflective, and anxious consciousness.
Odd to prohibit crawling PDFs; modern search engines handle those just fine.
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If she is allowing Facebook to view patient's phone numbers in her own phone, this may be a punishable HIPAA violation, and is obviously completely inappropriate.

What's also just as likely is that patients are allowing Facebook to view the contents of their own phonebooks (which they are certainly free to do, unless of course, they're medical professionals with patient information as well...). Facebook sees that these dozen people have the same contact number, and recommends that they all friend each other.
I was just making an observation, certainly didn't intend it as criticism.
How a letter travels
There was a Parse-inspired project for JavaScript, but I'm not sure to what extent it was developed. There was also a Parse implementation in Topaz[1] (which itself is implemented in JavaScript) but is as of now unfinished.

It'd be difficult to implement as tightly in another language that doesn't have Rebol's (or a somewhat Lisp-like) free-form code-is-data/data-is-code[2] approach. Rebol and its Parse dialect share the same vocabulary and block structure that amongst other things: makes it easy to insert progress-dependent Rebol snippets within Parse; build Parse blocks dynamically (mid-Parse if needed!); build Rebol code from parsed data; develop complex grammar rules very similar to EBNF[3]. The article linked above[4] (and now linked again below :) does a good job of fleshing out these ideas and why it may remain a unique feature for some time.

[1]: http://reb4.me/tt

[2]: http://rebol.info/rebolsteps.html

[3]: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/q/87716/46291

[4]: http://blog.hostilefork.com/why-rebol-red-parse-cool/
Wow. A noncompete to make sandwiches.
Have you considered that some posts may simply be a good read? I often don't comment because the post itself made a good job of stating a point. There is no need to reiterate what was said in a post just to get HN points.
There are lots of ways to infringe copyright with new content. For example, if I posted a video of an amateur performance of the new Star Trek™©®ß film, that would be copyright infringement. Of course, the copyright owners tend to be less concerned about that sort of thing, but the fact remains that the rules regulate a lot.
I'm a fan of bringing back physical education. It seems that more of my younger colleagues (~23-30 y.o.) are trying to be physically active/fit. But exercise is a habit. If you don't build it up when you're young, it can be hard to develop it later. And then there's the physical challenges of returning to a physically active life after years or decades of inactivity. Certain injuries are more likely (like back, knee, tendon injuries) which can be debilitating, leading to months of recovery and more sedentary behavior.

And schools can always give several options to accommodate different interests and capabilities.
> is it a "if we build it, eventually they might come" scenario?

If they're being at all realistic then I think that idea has to be out the window at this point.

Not sure what their ultimate goal is. Since it's Google, even if millions of people are using it I fully expect them to just kill it eventually. I mean they pulled Photos out of Google+, maybe they'll pull out the communities stuff they've been working on and just axe the whole thing.
It's enshrined in the Drool format that every file has to start with a UTF-8 BOM and contain \r\n line breaks?

This sounds like favoring one text editor at the expense of all others, and not a good one. Is this format designed to be edited with Notepad?
Beer kegs on the top floor of a tall building with no elevator.
Deep yet simple explanation of NaN and typeof
> All of this goes to underscore just how destructive the "college for everyone" concept is.

No, it shows how destructive the US policy response to that concept is, not how destructive the concept itself is.

Neither difficult-to-discharge loans without substantial cost or quality controls, nor an extensive role for private, for-profit institutions are demanded by the "college for everyone" concept.

> Consequently, colleges have transformed into bloated profit machines, happily ratcheting up tuition in response to this inflated demand.

I don't think its true that "colleges have transformed into bloated profit machines", so much that "colleges that are bloated profit machines have expanded and taken a larger market share".
One of the differences between a containerized deployment and scripted provisioning with tools like Vagrant is the state of a node following a deployment failure.

Deployment of a container to a node is roughly an atomic transaction. If it fails due to a network partition or server crash etc. The container can just be deployed again to the node again. By comparison, a partially executed provisioning script can leave the target node in an arbitrary state and what needs to happen next to bring the node online depends on when and how the deployment script failed as well as the nature of any partial deployment...and whatever state the server was in prior to deployment.
Btw, this is the kind of knowledge that you should never need unless you are maintaining a hard-core library and you REALLY needs it. Otherwise, the code of your project was probably touched by a legion of wannabes that love using complex stuff to show off and ensure a single job for life.

Interesting nevertheless.
I observed something interesting: when I changed the number of hidden layers from 100 to 1, almost nothing changed.

It took slightly more generations to learn how to race, but not that many more (~80 generations vs ~90 generations). In addition, I thought I observed a small difference in behavior, but nothing I could explicitly measure.
The canonical open source alternative to S3 https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift
The midwest is not the future of startups and will not overtake Silicon Valley in the next 15 years. Yes you can find talent in the midwest but do you think top CS grads from CMU, UIUC, Purdue, etc. want to stay in the midwest after graduating? Think about it.. 22 years old, fresh out of college, after living in the midwest for 4 years...most of them want to come to San Francisco / Silicon Valley, the tech center of the world. Also home of all the other famous tech companies they heard of / interned for before.

Nitpicks from the article:

"California is the eighth largest economy in the world. The Midwest is the fifth"

really? source on that? What states exactly does that entail?

"The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more computer science degrees than any other region or country on planet earth."

source?

"home of the leading computer science school in the world, Carnegie Mellon"

Not one of the leading, but THE leading CS school. Even better than MIT? Better than Berkeley? Better than Caltech? I'm not saying any one of those is THE best, but I would argue they are all top-notch.
From the report:

"In this context we must highlight the danger of restrictive Net Neutrality rules, in the context of 5G technologies, business applications and beyond. 5G introduces the concept of “Network Slicing” to accommodate a wide-variety of industry verticals’ business models on a common platform, at scale and with services guarantees.

Automated driving, smart grid control, virtual reality and public safety services are examples of use- cases with distinguished characteristics which call for a flexible and elastic configuration of resources in networks and platforms, on a continuous basis, depending on demand, context and the nature of the service. According to the telecom industry, BEREC’s draft proposal of implementation rules is excessively prescriptive and could make telcos risk-averse thus hampering the exploitation of 5G, ignoring the fundamental agility and elastic nature of 5G Network Slicing to adapt in real time to changes in end-user / application and traffic demand. The 5G objective of creating new business opportunities and satisfying future end-user needs would be at risk, with a regulation not coherent with the market demand evolution.

It is paramount to ensure 5G monetisation to drive investments. Monetisation can take place across the entire value chain with end-users, service providers and industry verticals in order to ensure fair returns, speed up adoption by end-users and ensure consumers are not alone in picking up the bill for the innovation that will help the business cases of the service providers. Operators should also be free to mix and manage different technology generations, mobile or otherwise, that are enabling 5G mobile technology to serve their customers optimally."
> This topic has been coming up on this site for the past decade. Every time it does there are a lot of people who say Silicon Valley will never be beaten.

Perhaps, but another topic that has been coming up on this site for the past decade is, "X is the new Silicon Valley!", and every time it does there are a lot of people who say Silicon Valley is about to be beaten... and it hasn't happened yet. That's not to say it won't ever, but the track record of these predictions since, oh, the mid-1980's is dismal, and I would say they have a heavy burden of proof to show they're not talking out of their asses.
I've noticed that, at least in photos & videos, it seems cheetahs are exclusively either sprinting at 75mph, or lounging on the ground like a housecat.

It certainly makes sense for them, considering how much energy they expend to run that fast. So perhaps there's precedent.
And remove cheap, high calorie, low nutrition foods. No reason schools ought to provide students with tons of mac & cheese, they can do that to themselves. Give them healthy, nutritious options with the meal plans, and let them spend extra on the unhealthy stuff if they really want it.
> SV is too expensive a place to be, even at GoogleMicroUberAmazon pay rates.

Sample size of one, but this is true for me. I'd really like to come back to CA, but I make 6 figures already, and a 3600 sq ft house is only like $400k here. I don't see what SV has to offer except a larger market for opportunities, but I'm in my mid-30's, so I'm worried that I'm not really a target demographic for SV employers.
I neglected to mention a key point. When he'd show them a plan with a much lower total cost, but a higher monthly payment, they'd accuse him of trying to trick them into a higher payment. No way were they going to fall for that one.

They certainly believed they were making the most rational decision. It didn't help that used car salesmen don't have a reputation for honest dealings.