skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yeah, except... you lose traffic source information, which is kind of critical to measure whether your marketing budget is being well spent:

http://www.pierrelechelle.com/inaccurate-traffic-sources
Buy a bottle of Kool-Aid and dissolve some cyanide salt in lemon juice and make lemon-ade. When life hands you a lemon...The KOOL-AID that cools you permanent. The pause that refreshes... because it puts YOU on ice.
The pay is high in the States. Many companies are willing to pay a steep premium for slightly stronger employees, and the candidates are more willing to jump through hoops to land a higher-paying job.

Not the whole story of course, but might be a factor.
How did you do this? I found pfSense pretty tricky to set up - it seemed like pfSense expected a dedicated WAN interface.
LastPass should be free for the browser.

It does cost to sync across to a mobile device, though.
Improved Node.js client for api.ai (cleaner, better docs, and promises)
This concept seems interesting to me. Can I get an early access key to try out this product?

Thanks :)
You gotta remember to chew those pork chops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBnnon_iZOM&t=2m50s
Should Engineering Managers Code?
There is one thing that is painfully missing on any smart TV I've seen: VGA input.
I would have also accepted a feminist treatment of Peach's empty frock on display before the wrath of Bowser's futile bloviation.
If I downloaded the software I have no problem with that frequency. But you can take it too far. A week ago I downloaded a white paper. Now the guy is sending me six emails a day to get me to subscribe to his for pay course.

I liked the white paper. I'd gladly let him check back with me 4-5 times a year and I might even buy one of his courses. But the guy has lost me forever with this rabid emailing. You'd think a marketing expert would know that wouldn't you?
I'm going to share my comment from a few days ago, it's relevant:

kratom is usually sold as a powdered leaf. you can't smoke it, you can't snort it. you can make a tea out of it if you're diligent. a spoonful is usually swallowed as a powder with a thick juice.

it is habit-forming. to an addict it can stop withdrawals in it's tracks, to an opiate naive person it can provide a buzz, nothing extreme and the subsequent withdrawals are also nothing too terrible.

to an opiate addict it is, frankly, a life saver. this is something with the potential to free a person of an opiate addiction, provided they want to be free badly enough.

it's quite easy to use kratom to replace your drug of choice, not for getting high, it'd be pointless. you simply use the kratom to keep the withdrawals at bay. then, simply get off the kratom after a few weeks of use. you do this because kratom withdrawal is more forgiving than something like heroin.

this is impossible with methadone and suboxone. once you go on methadone, you better plan on never getting off. the withdrawals can quite literally last months.

people have successfully transitioned from methadone/suboxone to kratom and then quit use of opiates altogether, being free from the prison of withdrawal in a week instead of months.

this ban will only serve to worsen the structure fire that is the opiate epidemic.
Hah, especially Android features that we might get 3 years later.
If you have hard numbers showing the reporter is wrong, you will trumpet them. If not, you won't. Sadly shorting VCs is hard.
Gee go figure that using native columns is faster and better to query over.
Isn't rowhammer done purely by read operations?
> Axing Project Ara is one of the first steps in a campaign to unify Google's various hardware efforts, which range from Chromebook laptops to Nexus phones.

Their new phone line will be called Pixels.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/01/exclusive-googles-ne...
This is a Fuchsia casualty, and it won't be the last. Google cannot afford to innovate with hardware until they are done replacing the open-source kernel in Android. Once that's done, and OEMs are accustomed to writing Fuchsia drivers instead, they can use increased leverage over manufacturers to drive hardware innovations in directions they want.
No, the links are not broken

The entire repository only has these files:

./behavioral/strategy.md
./bounded_parallelism/md5.go
./circuitbreaker/circuitbreaker.go
./creational/singleton.md
./idiom/functional_options.md
./messaging/fan_in.md
./messaging/fan_out.md
./messaging/publish_subscribe.md
./object_pool/pool.go
./parallelism/md5.go
./structural/decorator.md
./synchronization/semaphore.md

It's clearly a WIP.
Almost impossible Slack XSS
"Ask them what error rate they get on MNIST or ImageNet"

While I agree that Numenta probably doesn't have any sort of full-fledged AI, the human brain does terribly on MNIST and ImageNet compared to the state of the art. So we would fail that test.

Getting stuck on toy problems like ImageNet and overoptimizing solutions that can't possibly be applied more generally (except as dumb preprocessors) is not likely to lead in the most interesting directions, even if it's incredibly useful and profitable in the meantime.
Take a piece of aluminum foil and ball it up and use that to clean your grill.
I can't help but wonder if they're co-opting the Pixel name to push ChromeOS on a phone form factor with the built-in Android runtime.

It seems very unlikely, but there's a part of me still wondering.
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What a waster of time
> Once we have identified such lopsided data and understood its cause, how do you feed that back into your algorithm to correct for it?

This is tackled in the recently popular field of study called 'counterfactual inference'.

http://leon.bottou.org/talks/counterfactuals
This is just a troll guys, I think.
It's much simpler to just use an off-the-shelf compression (zlib, lz4, etc) on the database pages. This basically has the same effect, but also compresses common values.
Can you please elaborate? I am not following your logic.
His book, 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation, is a good read.
I suppose there are more accurate ways, but we still have to do some guesswork.
I prefer skepticism over supposition.
Much appreciated for your feedback. I think we'll go for option 2, especially for the recommendations. Also, one of our services will be continuous monitoring of your ranking and performance, so that any changes done to your site are reflected in a timely fashion. This could match with a subscription service.

At the moment, I think we don't want to recommend specialised hosting when we cannot prove it will benefit their site, but we might add a host comparison to get better data on this.

Thanks again for the help, your feedback is much appreciated!
Ah, bummer, yeah that's a convenient short term fix. It sounds like you all have this handled pretty well though, I think you'll definitely appreciate the move to a more traditional schema. For events data, JSONB support can be nice for infrequently accessed attributes, so its not an all or nothing proposition, but I found I had a lot less headaches after adding more table structure.
I have one of the "newer generation" smart TVs driven by Roku's interface- completely. In other words, you turn the TV on with a Roku remote and when the TV comes on, you see the Roku interface which you must use to choose which HDMI or game port to use, etc.

I like the interface a lot, but I bought it knowing that at some point, it will not be as cool as it is now. It will probably get in the way, as I'll have to use the Roku remote to browse via the old Roku OS to the port with the box that is the new browseable streaming OS. Maybe the Roku one will get borked by a system update because my hardware is unsupported- I don't know; I hope that doesn't happen, and have had a good experience with my old Roku external box, but it is a possibility several years from now.

Years ago when I bought a TV, never did it cross my mind that "one day the user interface is going to be obsolete".
I know what the root problem is. I also know it comes from an oligopoly of companies that only care about money, probably have patents on key features, and operate in a price-sensitive market. Fixing root cause might be tricky unless you could be sure via contracts of volume deals from cloud and other big buyers.

Meanwhile, small teams in academia are building CPU's that knock out those and other issues. Worth bringing up given the fix you want isnt doable for most HW dedigners. RAM vendors might eventually use it as a differentiator but that's not guaranteed.
Think about that for a moment. If you can test for the virus with a finger prick, you can potentially transmit this and other viruses as well. That needs to be addressed in the protocol, along with any other relevant details. It should be mundane. That's why it's shocking to hear that they did not do it!

IRBs exist to ensure that these sorts of things are not overlooked. Too many times in the past, they have been. So now the burden of proof lies with the investigator.

Like it or not, a few fast-and-loose protocols ensured that this situation will not be changing any time soon.
Made a PokemonGo mini site to show their strengths and weaknesses
HDMI CEC fixes that. It works remarkably well.
What would a decentralized way to buy BTC for USD/whatever look like? That sounds like a nightmare to design without a trusted 3rd party because you're mixing reversible and irreversible transactions.
Great joke. Seems like something I would write.
it's easy to bark orders at everyone below you to create a bunch of documentation and then kick up your feet, light a cigar, thinking you've achieved "systemization" of your company, or some other operational/bureaucratic aspiration which might or might not have a firm grounding in reality.

the harder, narrower road: hire smart people, feed into your team, and do your best to stay out of their way. this is by no means easy -- it's a lot of work putting together a team and leading a team and running interference so they can shine. but it's totally worth it.

(edited for tone and clarity)
The reason to have a problem with his conviction is that it was done under an overly broad law that can be used to convict many people, but is selectively applied. This is not the rule of law.

The actual creepy activity (and subsequent publishing) aren't the things that he was convicted for. Perhaps they should be, and perhaps being so would have even encouraged Guccifer to stay on the right side of the publishing law.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels." - Mencken

FWIW, a cat-sharing startup (or webmail provider) seems in a prime position to continue disclaiming any security warranty. In fact, I'd be surprised if they did not. If users are actually interested in a security warranty, then they should seek alternate providers that are willing to advertise such, have obtained some sort of insurance, and have prespecified some amount of liquidated damages.

I too can see the general concept of liability being perverted by the government into something mandatory for any software developer. But I've advocated nothing of the sort, only application of the standard fitness warranty on real-world integrations. I haven't moved the goalposts - medical equipment is just one area where it's very clear such liability can't be disclaimed.
When the "smart" features age out to obsolescence, you can still hook up a chromecast/roku/etc., just like to a "dumb" TV.
Blatant troll. Flagged.
Amazon carries it for a slightly lower price. Ordered!
You may be right about the selling power of the "AI" brand, but it seems that AI technology routinely becomes thought of as just technology.

Boole called his algebra "The Laws of Thought"; OOP; lisp was an AI technology (much of which has made its way into other languages); formal languages; etc.

The traditional goalpost rule is that once computers can do it, it's no longer "intelligent" (e.g, chess). A change today is "AI" success as a marketing term.
In case someone is concerned about how disruptive it will be to their browsing, uMatrix couldn't have a more efficient UI. It still requires page reloads and is only for advanced users, but there is also a pleasure in driving a machine so well-designed.

(Also, I believe it's now called uMatrix; the greek letter is gone.)
Why US tech companies struggle in China but thrive in India
I had high hopes for this, but seeing how fragmentation is harming Android when the phone is a single integrated device - seems unrealistic they would be able to get all these components to play well together among various OEMs.
I realize it's quite fashionable to bash "smart TV's" in this thread, but I've got a Sony 2016 Bravia and love it. It runs Android TV and has the usual stuff via Android app store (Netflix, Plex, etc). It has built-in chromecast support, too. Everything is nice and responsive; no complaints. The HDMI CEC supports works well, so I can do everything from 1 remote.
> Also, you want "logarithmic," not "logistic."

Don't think so - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function

The 'S' curve of logistic growth looks exponential for a while, which is why the question arises. By contrast, no one mistakes logarithmic growth for exponential growth for very long.
Serverless is the new multitenancy
I've speculated for a long time that basically anything interesting Google says they're doing is essentially meant to be a jobs program to keep employees from leaving, PR for external stakeholders like investors, media, being attractive to potential employees, etc. They seem to have lots of formal ways to keep employees from leaving/close as well including investments off of Google's balance sheet (not GV or Google Capital) into ex-employee startups and just flat out paying people not to leave (which is the arrangement I'm guessing that Matt Cutts is under). It all seems very Microsoft of old.

Can anyone at Google (or ex-employees) tell me if this is true?
But will you still love it in 2020?

Home electronics used to last longer than this.
To add some bikeshedding... One more opinion: get rid of that swooping stuff from the sides. You are trying to sell "easy to read" -- don't make the summary of your services annoying to read.

Edit: also, you mention transparency to prefer money to credits, but I don't see prices.
My recollection is that TV manufacturers didn't even want to include digital tuners until the FCC required them to. Of course, that tuner isn't doing me any good now that the FCC allows Comcast to encrypt broadcast channels.
Google's new phones will be called the Pixel and the Pixel XL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_...
Regular reminder that new users in general don't care at all about the security of your site.

Most of your signups are not going to generate and store a secure password "just to try you out", as evidenced by the most common password here "123456". If you force people to signup to try your site/app, many (most?) of them are going to use a crap password. If you're _lucky_ that'll be 123456, and not their email/facebook/internet-banking password.

The answer isn't to try and force "good passwords" from users who don't care. Remember, by definition - they don't care.

We need to start trying to not require users to come up with passwords until they do care. Maybe just cookie me and let me tromp around as an unauthenticated user until I do something that needs me to set up a password-protected account. Maybe ask for my email and send me a login link that hooks me into my account/data without me setting a password (lets face it, your password security is going to fundamentally rely on the security of my email account, 'cause your "forgot password" story says you'll happily send a password rest link there, right?

I know Start-up-de-jour desperately needs "signed up user numbers" for their investor pitch, but that's not going to motivate me to stop using 123456 or password123 as a password when startupdejour.io demands I create an account just to look around.
Wow. I'm so glad I learned about this project today. Thanks!
Thalidomide was also banned in the US "because rules".

Common sense in medicine prioritizes doing no harm.

I can provide other notable examples if need be. The bottom line is that all parties need to be confident that the expected benefit of a test or procedure outweighs any expected potential harms. Having multiple layers or peer review is one way to ensure this.

I work on clinical trials of "black label" (potentially lethal) agents in patients that typically have no other options. Our pages can be 70-100 pages and we are doing this in our "spare" time (Ha! Ha!). I don't think it's unreasonable for a massively capitalized private company to produce documentation at least up to this standard.

It really isn't much to ask, especially for an existential venture like this (something -- anything! -- trustworthy to recover the tremendous amount of credibility they've lost.)

Other companies had no problem writing a suitable protocol. Why should peoples' safety be compromised just so that an untrustworthy company can enter the market?
Fair enough, I had completely forgotten about charcoal :)
>During my time in Altamonte, the government-backed Ubers worked just as intended. The two-mile ride to city hall came out to around $4 — two dollars more than the local bus system, but taking a fraction of the time.

You can see how this sort of system could result in the richest transit customers being skimmed off to uber. Public transit is left with less customers, and with only the poorest and most marginalized ones. In such a state it is easy for public transit to be increasingly discredited and defunded, which continues the downward spiral further.
This site is a parody of facetious software tips reminiscent of a techie Dilbert. The most recent one, and IMO much better than the HTTP vs HTTPS one, is 'Single-Page Apps Explained' [1], with tips like:

"So you need to fix a query to the database? Check out line 2,359. Need to fix the styling of a button? Check out the in-line style on line 4,442."

[1] https://fakedaveshahsoftwarebosstips.wordpress.com/2016/09/0...

It may not be everyone's style of humour but I found it moderately amusing.
The way I have seen for the issue of which table is to introduce a view and setup triggers on the view to run a stored proc when you insert or update it to handle all the tables....
>For a product like this it is always best to hide the true cost behind credits, then charge tiered prices for the credits.

With due respect to jermaustin1, please, people, do not take this bit of advice. Using credits or other pseudo-currency is a standard dark pattern used by casinos and free-to-play games to extract more revenue from customers by obscuring the amount of cash that a user is paying for a given action. See, for example, http://evilbydesign.info/greed/money-to-tokens/.

It signals that a business is willing to take advantage of human cognitive blind-spots to get additional revenue rather than being purely focused on delivering good value for money.
VGA has limited bandwidth, so it looks horrible at the scale of a modern TV screen. Show someone a VGA signal on a TV and they'll assume the TV sucks.
Is the evidence for this view, that they cancel a lot of interesting projects? I think a simpler explanation for that would be that trying lots of new things is just a good strategy, even if you know 90% of them will fail.
The Roku is built into this TV such that I must use the Roku OS and remote when the TV comes on. It is much slicker than the other crap smart TV interfaces I've used, but when it goes out of style, that means I'll have to use one Roku remote to turn the TV on, browse to the port of the other one, click ok, and now I'm in the second Roku OS. That won't be as nice. Still- for now, it's fine, which is why I bought it.

If I could have gotten the same TV without any smart features and an external Roku, that would have been better long-term, but almost all newer TVs now are smart.
If it's an assertion, we can test it. "The sky is blue" is an interpretation that can be re-tested. "My car has a flat" can be tested. If it's something that happened, we can't repeat history, so we're left digging up falsifiable evidence. This is the work of detectives when they solve cases, or historians re-evaluating historic facts. You don't re-test blood you no longer have, you're only able to scrutinize the analysis. You don't test again for genocide, you seek documents, records of communication, money trails, etc.

A super casual modern day example would be an assertion like "Joe must be gay". You never know until you ask him, and that is if he's honest with you. But everyday-life is full of gross approximations based on bias and partial information.

But the key, even in Joe's case, is you have to go back to the real source. If all we can do is talk about Joe, we can never know for sure. Much like celebrities we are so certain are gay, but haven't come out openly yet. So as long as computers can't leave their data centers, there really isn't any amount of data that can prove anything to them. They can't experience the truth, because ultimately the truth rests on experience and experience of evidence.
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FDIV was really not technically a serious errata in the grand scheme of erratas. The Phenom TLB bug was worse. Intel basically denied/sat on the issue for half a year, stopped just short of slandering Dr. Nicely, etc, they made it into a complete PR disaster. If they came out the week after it was reported and just said, here's a workaround, here's an opt-in replacement program (which they finally did, but then it was too late), you would probably never have heard about the FDIV bug -- like the countless other errata we have software workarounds for.
Unless of course you want to watch local television, in which case you would need a digital tuner. That is why the FCC requires the tuner. There were subsidized coupons for tuner boxes when the switch was made, so that everyone and their grandparents could continue watching television.

Unfortunately, YouTube doesn't have the same kind of support.
> from $0 to $80 CLTV on a $15 product.

What is CLTV?
Check out their efforts on the new Fuschia OS. I'm fairly certain it's Google's attempt to design a mobile OS from scratch to get rid of some of the overhead introduced into Android as a function of it being a Linux derivative.
> Most other 3D movies weren't actually shot in 3D, they were just faked in post production.

In general, animated movies work very well, having watched the 3D versions of Frozen, Inside Out, and sundry others.
I don't know who's downvoting you - but this is a really important idea.

As a new curious user of your new startup's website, I don't give a damn about being "secure". I've probably given you a fake name and a stupid password just so I can poke around and see if your site sucks any less than the other 5 or 6 new sites desperately craving my attention this morning.

If I can get in and look around without having to lie about my personal details - you're _way_ more likely to get a"proper password" and my real contact details if/when I decide I'm actually gonna add you the the list of "stuff I use" instead of "crap I signed up for once and never went back again" or "site I used a few times but none of my friends signed up so I stopped going there".
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The annotations on the paper look informative, thanks for sharing!