skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you translate images into groups of primitives -- I wonder if this would facilitate image search like:

- given an image, find similar images

- given image, find all images which it is a subset of
I've seen this cycle play out in realtime.

I'm thankful for the flexibility that NoSQL added to the conversation, though. But I'm confident in sticking with SQL for primary purposes, and only adding in NoSQL solutions when it really fits the requirements perfectly (and I can't see those requirements radically changing anytime soon).
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The stampedes aren't, but hogs are a horrible invasive pest that causes many billions of dollars of destruction per year. They've tried trapping, poisoning, everything. The only thing that has any effect on the population is some serious firepower. The problem is so bad that you can hire people to fly around at night in helicopters with sniper rifles and thermal vision to shoot hogs. I've helped a few friends with hog control, and you'll often startle 10-20 at a time and then they'll go into hiding and you're done for the day. You need to put a lot of bullets downrange fast to have any effect.
I use it the most, but that is not comparable. I am just saying that, because I had X situations where somebody told me "Add me on skype", and then i say look, no.
For government websites I can understand it but for commercial stuff I think this attitude of "everyone must be supported at all cost" is nonsensical.

Where do you draw the line?

Do I have to also support people who prefer to use command line text-based web browsers?

Before you know it we'll have someone say "Oh I work for a bank, we have HTML disabled here. Can you make it work without HTML?" give me a break.
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Cortex-R series is the equivalent to the PRU.

'R' for realtime.... in-order scheduing, highly optimised for determinism over performance.

(Having said that.... 'M' series is pretty good too really).
Hardly that; Roman Catholic priests make house calls, too, and hospital calls, when it's needed. This just streamlines the process.
And in the federal govt it's at least that percentage... Anecdotally, in one department within the DoD, it's ~90%, which sounds insane.
macrumors.com says there will probably be an update in October. They seem to usually be pretty on target with short-term predictions.
When considering the salary for their staff, it is important to point out that LetsEncrypt only works if there is trust. They need to have high caliber people that they can trust and this costs money. Hearing that LE Is paying their people a fairly good wage, makes me much more comfortable using and supporting them.
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I've always wondered - are things like ice screws and pitons always single-use? Does climbing like this basically require you to discard hundreds of dollars of equipment with each face you climb?
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It's the behavioral compliance of memorizing facts that you're not particularly interested in on demand that is a useful trait for factory/office workers
The "hopefully" part doesn't always hold, though. For example, Sayyid Qutb - the founder of modern Salafism, more or less - became radicalized, in part, by him being exposed to the American culture. He learned the ideas alright - and found them appalling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb#Two_years_in_Ameri...
It's kind of a pain though as there's no current equivalent machine if you've got an older Mac Pro with decent graphics card in it

For desktops it's either the aging and not user upgradable Mac Pro or the aging (but less so) iMac.
Creativity requires both.

You have a problem to solve. You first spend time understanding the problem. This process continues until you understand the problem.

You then start to turn potential solutions over in your head. Lots of research and thought required - this includes inspiration. You must feed your brain. You continue this process indefinitely until...

Epiphany. A special kind of inspiration. You come across something unrelated and your mind connects it to the problem. Ideas in the shower are a typical example. The epiphany gives you a rush - out of nowhere you have the solution.

Creativity is a process where inspiration is a key part. They don't have to be exclusive.
What is post-consumer content?
> Preprogrammed maybe, but pulling out your phone to alter the lights after rolling a d20 would offset any added vibe.

"Pulling out your phone", sure, but if its out already because you also use it for other game related functions...
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I think that's a good philosophy to have, but there are still many things that I don't like, such as cleaning. I don't see any way to resolve that outside of hiring a housekeeper, which is not really worth it at the moment. Not to mention all the people in the world who definitely don't have such resources.
re-cycled/recovered materials
I looked at NoSQL when it was all the hype 5 years back and realized this sort of thing was going to be the case without ever needing to try it. NoSQL has its place, but the majority of apps don't seem to need it.
Many people here don't realize what it costs a business, in taxes, to employ someone. I think if more people realized this, we would have less people demanding a $15 pay-raise for minimum wage workers.
>So, the absolute necessity of guanxi, the enormous amount of utilities, the glories associated with it, most people not grown up in China/Taiwan would find it impossible to play at China's extreme level.

People find it impossible to play at China's "extreme level" not because the level is extreme, but simply because of cultural differences. All you have to do is to look at how Chinese friends and American friends treat each other. The Chinese are much more generous in lending money to their friends, or sharing food, or wtv, something that simply doesn't happen in the West. This, of course, also has nothing to do with extreme lack of trust, or attempting to build guanxi for other purposes.

>Doctors and nurses will probably give sloppy or delayed treatment because they are expecting money and gifts from you or your relatives before they treat you, if they are not in your guanxi network, so always work on your network to include someone in hospitals. Don't trust the law to punish the bad doctors for such cruelty, there is no such thing. You get the picture. Now anybody still say it's similar in developed western countries?

There no need in the West for this simply because the health system is multi-tiered. Rich people will just pay more money for better healthcare, thus no need for the whole backdoor stuff.

Anyways, I have yet to seen someone rebuke my argument I wrote previously about how joining a frat and finally getting a job through it is just as "guanxi" as anything else in China.

People mostly get their jobs through recommendations anyways. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/business/employers-increas...
Right. We are trying to make a business decision, not conduct science.

If you go with whichever is ahead, you'll reliably produce correct answers for wins at that you can't reliably measure. Yes, there will be mistakes, but the mistakes are guaranteed to be pretty small.

If you insist on a higher standard, you'll learn which choices you were confident of..but now need to figure out what to do when the statistics didn't give you a final answer.

I think that the first choice is more useful. Evan prefers to clearly distinguish your coin flips from solid results. But in the end you have to make a decision, and it isn't material what decision you make if the conversion rates are close.
Good app. But none of my friends are using it.
I think one of my favorite things about Hacker News is that you can comment on a technology and have a nonzero chance of someone who actually had a hand in it piping in.

Also, I realize now I forgot to mention domain hacks, which I think do give non-.com TLDs a lot more value than they'd otherwise have.

> But I think .com is being undermined quite effectively simply by it being "impossible" to find good names.

In my opinion, a "just okay" .com is better than a good domain with some other TLD. I suspect this is a pretty common opinion.

> I also think this is more apparent outside of the US, where we're used to using ccTLDs a lot more often

I thought about this when I wrote my comment, but as an American it's not something I'm especially familiar with. Our own ccTLD .us isn't commonly used.

> I hardly ever seem to visit ".info" or ".biz" (who launched at the same time as .name) sites, even though at the time (I have no idea what the relative counts are like today) they were vastly more successful than .name.

I think the only reason these were ever popular is because they were priced so cheaply. It seems like .info is/was mostly used for throwaway domains, and .biz is just a terrible name. It's supposed to be for businesses, but it sounds like it'd only be used by shady used car dealerships. Nevermind that .com is officially for commercial entities anyways.

> While many of the ccTLDs have managed to build some level of popularity (e.g. ".io") and others seems to have faded into obscurity (".cx" used to be quite popular in tech circles, but I rarely see it any more).

I think .io is a fad that's going to die along with infinite scrolling websites. The fantasy notion of a "startup" is trendy and sexy right now even outside the industry, just like a "dotcom" was two decades ago. It'll fade away just like .tv did after the novelty of TV services on the web went away.

Side note: would .tv still be big if Netflix used netflix.tv instead of netflix.com?
That depends, for my sect, Shia, it's solely business profit. If no profit, then no Khums.
People who are near the top of the skill curve, and can present a business case for being paid like it, don't make $75K in Omaha for that job. (They may make $9K in Phuket, but there are additional factors on top of that.)

If I left Boston today, I'd still make what I make here. I have considered doing exactly that.
You probably have to restart because the web rendering engine (WebKit) used by your browser (Safari) is used all over the rest of the system as well (in webviews). Just a guess though.
A self-driving car that refuses to move after a minor accident on a wilderness road sounds like a great opening scene for a horror movie.
Those that own the oil fields
Yes it does :)

Awesome to see a reply here - I wondered but wasn't hopeful.

It appeared in the beta feedback bar across the top, after completing a rebate (requiring adding a new address, if relevant to the flow) - it then said something like "processing request, will be transferred to your bank in 2-3 days" and had the top orange bar "this personal tax site is in beta, give us your feedback here" or similar.

Clicking the feedback link from that page redirected to `localhost:<port>/correct/uri/to/feedback`. After exploring the site some more, I tried the feedback link again (different page) and it worked fine.

If memory serves, the port was `3157` - I'm not totally sure, but it may help your search.

Just to be clear - the feedback I wanted to leave was wholly positive!

Cheers :)
If they provided an identical quality of service with 25 employees for $2m nobody would bat an eye. I'd say the fact that the team is so lean is justification for higher salaries in and of itself.
Have you heard about BeeCanvas?Incredible brainstorming app
There are patches to install Sierra on 2009 Mac Pro's.
From the looks of it, paper.

60% of it having come from some family somewhere that's keen on recycling.
Yeah you have a point. I guess living here and having many friends who make more than 300K/yr as engineers (and some as much at 450K or 500K, and a few getting >1.2M), I've become numb to it.
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Google Docs (for collaboration), http://phabricator.org/ (wiki), Looking into a new product called Notion.
Okay, I found this on the web for 'wake me in twenty seventeen'
With the Lync => Skype for Business rebranding, some of the original MSN-emoticons that used to work in Lync / Office Communicator have been removed. :-(
They're working on it: https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webrtc.
Islam has lots of very different (from a Western perspective) personal finance rules. Just two examples:

* Lending with interest is forbidden (which also rules out investment in traditional bonds)

* Zakat is a mandatory annual 2.5% wealth tax

As you might imagine, the latter makes it very difficult to retire without some sort of pension system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat
Thanks for sharing. It's nice to see most links greyed-out as visited, but some aren't (yet)!

Shameless plug: Two open source libraries for A/B testing I created and use regularly.

AlephBet[0] is the JS library to write your test in (with multiple backend alternatives)

Gimel[1] is an AWS Lambda backend you can run for near zero cost. Even at scale.

The Gimel (minimalistic) dashboard is using the algorithms / code from Evan Miller and others to do the bayesian statistical analysis.

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Hrm, how exactly is it novel? Paper bags from recycled materials are known for years. Sounds like another attempt to patent sliding locks or rounded corners. Instead of patenting stuff Apple should do something useful.
The ultimate answer here, I suppose, would be to use some sort of miniature MP3 player/recorder as a cassette drive.
This is great news. Transit's experience is the best in the field.
> ScrollyTelling demonstrated that it would rather burn them than mediate technical fuckups.

From what I understand, they tried contacting them directly, but were given lots of promised callbacks / actions that never materialized. Is your opinion that the "professional" way to handle that just to ignore it and move on?
> Early this year, the United States began shipping more than 50,000 barrels a day of the light crude that Venezuela needs to prepare its own oil for export

What does this mean? How does this work? Why do you need oil to make oil?
Traditionally Apple Stores used a plastic bag [1]. For environmental reasons they are moving to a paper bag made mostly of recycled content. As is normal with Apple, they are spending a great deal of energy making sure this new form of packaging is both aesthetically pleasing and functional. On the functional end of that, they seem to be making significant effort to make it sturdy.

I don't know that the sturdiness-enhancing design justifies a patent, but I do think it is reasonable to acknowledge that Apple has put a lot of effort into it.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/04/apple-paper-retail-store-bags...
Heh, my coworker said the same thing.
Open Source Version referenced by AJ:
https://github.com/codevise/pageflow

Given this is in fact the source code that the developer in question has admitted was the basis for their code, it would be interesting to know if they were correctly using the MIT License here:
https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE
OK, thanks for the clarification. You guys are doing a really awesome thing but this post makes me worry about your longevity. Does Let's Encrypt have plans for other sources of revenue? Like selling support services?
Does the timing of the pledge have benefits or only the ultimate donation?
Recycled from consumer receptacles, as opposed to e.g. trimmings from manufacturing.
> and recruiting!

When I looked previously it seemed the department was hiring only for short-term contracts?

Which worries me a bit if that's the case - I think it's fantastic what and how they're doing it, but not if the philosophy is "ship it and forget".
Can some one apply for a patent for toilet paper made out of at least 60% post consumer content where by the content is made of printouts of Apple patent applications?
You've exhaustively enumerated those people, have you?

I know a couple folks at Let's Encrypt in passing and they are at the top of my list of folks I would want writing code for me if I needed to trust it with, if not my life, most stuff up to that point.
Yes what is and, according to the parent what should be, diverge.

What this really tells me is that workers in Omaha and Phuket ought to demand more, and that they are selling themselves for far less than the value they create, or else that they aren't actually doing "the same job." Likely both are true.
> Many asked for ... more voice control,

Colour me skeptical
Maybe something like a PocketChip (https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip). But cheaper.
I strongly disagree. What the worker needs to make to have a puncher's chance at a life is not related to the amount paid in taxes.
You could set such a thing up yourself. It's basically a trust. Put your money in the index fund, and have a process to automatically withdraw the safe amount and donate it.

Now build a product around that idea, and be the next patreon. I heard of this great company that'll help you get ssh certs for free.
I wish OSX had "picture in picture" in a more literal sense: the ability to make a Space (including a Desktop space) into a window, and then move/resize it around on another Desktop space as if it were a Screen Sharing client window.

Though, really, they could go even further: I use Fast User Switching to basically be two people: "home" me, and "work" me, who each use the same apps but logged into different accounts. (The OS manages this far better than the one-off multi-account features of apps do, I find.) But Fast User Switching isn't very convenient when you "are" both users. How about letting me intermingle the Spaces from two login sessions, so I can have a "Picture In Picture" Space from my own other account open on my desktop?

(If you're wondering, Screen Sharing doesn't allow you to connect to localhost. Even if you hack around that [which requires patching some bytes in a private framework], it's still a cruddy experience, especially concerning screen locking and display resolution. And, obviously, slow.)
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It reads like, oh shit, if you don't donate we might not be around next year.
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I do wonder if the inappropriate use of NoSQL is due to an ignorance of why we used SQL in the first place (and the article doesn't directly say this, but in a roundabout way does). In which case, perhaps the brief flirting with NoSQL at many companies served as a good reminder of "oh, yeah, queries and transactions are kind of important; I forgot about that because I began to take SQL for granted."

IOW, you didn't know what you had until you went and used something else. And maybe you won't be so quick to jump on the next hyped bandwagon.
When suing in a case like this, punitive damages would be paid out of the governments budget, rather than the personal assets of those personally responsible, correct?
Reminds me a prank made during TPP negotiations, where toiler paper with TPP text was placed in the location.
Charity is for networking when significant $ is donated. Another great way to create access.
Nobody, but the Resource Curse seems to be one of those iron laws that happens inexorably even if people are aware of it (cf. principal-agent problems pushing prices upward), unless very determined action is taken to avoid it (like Norway), and that kind of action wasn't going to happen under Chavez.
Given that Iceland supposedly has psychedelic lichens, I was hoping this story would be more literal.
This is a patent application that pretty much has 0% chance of being accepted as-is. What will happen is the filer will play the game with the patent examiner where they move dependent claims into the independent claim until it's just enough to squeeze by.
Look at that, a religion that commands how to spend your money. The west has televangelists but at least they're not so readily accepted and many Christians consider them a scam.
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The technical end of building / integrating / assigning visitors and so on tends to be relatively simple if it is done by competent people who know how to not overcomplicate things.

Coming up with ideas to test tends to be fairly easy if you've got a competent product person.

Perhaps I'm biased. I've built multiple A/B testing systems for multiple companies, and know what to do. However it didn't seem hard for me the first time either.
This is addressed in the article: the oil industry in Venezuela is in disarray, so the country can't rely on its own supply. They have enormous reserves, but they can't reliably draw from it or refine it.
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How about the DMCA? It's routinely abused; it's easy to issue takedown notices and difficult to defend against them.
> the initial article was really unprofessional.

The article that they rapidly fixed.

Its almost like you expect perfection and a complete lack of mistakes from companies despite the fact that companies are made of people like you and me.

If a group is willing to acknowledge a public mistake and fix it that is great news to me. So many fear critique like yours and would rather keep doing something wrong than fix it.
Under Chavez and his successor Maduro, Venezuela has pursued a socialist policy. I'm talking about straight up nationalization of industries, wealth confiscation, and such. The result was economic catastrophe, capital flight, and brain drain. Venezuela is basically hollowed out. It's not that they aren't taxing everyone else, it's that there is very little profitable industry left but oil.

They turned one of the richest countries in the region into a rapidly deteriorating third-world hell hole.
fast == absolute.

performant == relative (efficient on the hardware available).

e.g. an algorithm may be performant on a little Cortex-M but certainly is not fast compared to the same code on an I7.
It's free, what does it matter what's in there for new features? Just upgrade for the security and technical improvements, see it as a patch...
Your 30k salary costs your employer around 50-60k (I don't know the deal with your benefits and payroll taxes and all that).

Rule of thumb in the US is that you add about 40% to a salary to get the total cost to the company to support that salary. And that's just taxes and basic benefits. Add a pension and 401k with matching, and it goes higher.
It's a fairly small sample. However, in theory it's still possible to detect an effect in a population using a small sample if the effect size is large enough. Unfortunately, the paper doesn't present a measure of effect size, e.g. standardized regression coefficients.