skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple offers a design-forward interface and a deposit account with debit card, with no rewards. Zero hasn't launched yet, but will offer a design-forward interface and a deposit account with a credit card, which allows Zero to offer up to 3% rewards on spending while still having much of the same functionality of a debit card. Tl;dr: Zero has rewards and Simple does not, but Zero hasn't launched yet.
1) Buy a $200 drone, fly it around for a day and record video output.

2) Write a web scraper and run it for a day on an AWS instance.

3) Download any of the publicly released data sets. There are lot of interesting ones out there, including medical imaging, etc.

4) Hack a video game engine to generate data.

5) Write your own data generator (could even be a generative NN model). Not all data can be simulated, but when it can be, doing so is incredibly powerful.

A few of the above options were not available just 5-7 years ago. Data is becoming more publicly accessible, not less.
>And the only way of achieving that is diet and exercise

Or increasing the metabolic rate. Or decreasing the calorie storage rate.
1. It was 3 words... trust me, it didn't take long to write

2. The comment would be "More white people" - note the emphasis, it's kind of the key thing

3. I always heard virtue was a good thing. And here I am displaying it, you say. With you... in opposition?

But, please, do what you think best.
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I'm like this too; I need a framework of meaning to fit the rote facts into, or they don't stick.
I only published one paper (which in undergrad... never got into research after that) but it got me a 5.
Just curious, what kind of resources you have and efforts you make in the area of marketing, business development, and sales of SageMath and SMC? Have you taken any external funding for SageMath and SMC beyond grants?

The market may not be large enough and opportunity may not be as fast growing that VCs expect, still it may be possible to build a decent size business with SageMath.
How are we protecting human-driven trucks right now?

They are equally easy to stop (simply standing in the road works just as well) and are even easier to take control of (one can always put a gun to driver's head and ask him to hand over the keys - thieves won't be able to pull this trick on a robot).
But my opinion regarding the mouse being faster is supported by research; the opinion that the keyboard is faster or that context switching slows you down is factually incorrect.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/ind...
It is often the case that the discrimination is pervasive, but not that it is difficult for women for example to find jobs. If deliberate collusion makes it difficult for women to find jobs, that would be when I would suggest anti-trust regulators to be involved. This may include for example anti-discrimination restrictions in consent decrees.
>Sounds as good news for any competitor (if your company has any).

Actually thinking of Amazon.com. They have competitors, sure. But they also have the budget to write their own entire stacks internally when the license doesn't fit. And it's not like their decision to avoid GPL software is hurting them in the market in any relevant way.

When something is MIT licensed, they'll use it, and they can and do contribute changes upstream. GPLv2 code requires serious hoop jumping to use, and GPLv3 software is verboten (the patent clause can't be adhered to by large companies with cross-licensing agreements: Many of these licensed patents can't be sublicensed, and so they can't be in compliance with the license at all).

So all GPL does is prevent companies from using and supporting the software. For every instance of an MIT project that ends up modified in proprietary code there are probably 100 that either use it verbatim or contribute changes back upstream. It just makes sense so that you don't need to keep maintaining an increasingly divergent fork.
I think nanotubes are carcinogenic
I just finished a prototype IoT node project for a customer using Azure.

Azure was their choice, not mine, but by the end of the development I was pretty pleased with the level of security they built into the data acquisition side.

Before the Azure project I worked with some other IoT/Cloud providers and it was a lot shakier. As in, am HTTP GET with the device serial ID in the URL and that's it.

My customer showed me the dashboarding they've already built with BI on the backend, it was even more advanced than the stuff I've seen from the others. Azure is no cakewalk to set up, but it seems to work really well once it is.
Ask HN: Tech areas or business domains with less churn at superficial levels?
Are there any application or technical areas in software where new frameworks are not replacing old ones every couple of years? At the same time, inspite of that engineers still get time to solve hard problems and do quality work within those constraints?
Most won't hit it. But you're missing the point.

You'll hit 1TB in 5 years, with 4k streaming. You expect Comcast to raise their 1TB limit? Doubt it.
>If one TB is exceeded, $10 is charged for each additional data block of up to 50 GB/month $200 overage charge limit - no matter how much data is used

I can't parse that. There appears to be some punctuation and words missing.
What the "New Math" was about as I remember/understand it--I suppose that's what I went through we also did plenty of arithmetic drill--was a lot of emphasis on simple set theory, doing arithmetic in different bases, etc. As he jokes in the song, the focus was on certain types of mathematical theory as opposed to being able to add, multiple, divide, and subtract.

Of course, this sort of tension is present in a lot of academics. Focus too much on the theory and students can't actually do anything useful; and many will be completely lost. Focus too much on the rote learning and the students don't actually understand any underlying principles (and, in the case of arithmetic, can't actually do anything a $5 calculator can't today).
might be worth noting that "calculus by spivak" is famously mistitled and is what people today call an intro analysis text. (says so right in the intro :-)

there are now "warm up" books (alcock) as well as even more basic real analysis books (abbott, about half the length of spivak).
I can't believe i'm read so many commenters here say that the government is lying that is Russia. Think about it why would Americans officials lie about this and its not just the US government (now) saying its Russia but independent security groups have been saying this too.

I know its hard to believe in post Snowden America that everything the government says is a lie but it just doesn't make sense for use to point the finger at another country for this.

Depending on the out come of this election Russia could be in a world of hurt.
One of the best most thorough comments I've ever seen. Thank you for citing all those sources.
Because it grew by 0.5x ;)
I don't believe the shareholders committed fraud in purchasing shares, they are punished by the actions of criminals outside of their control. Yet is appears the criminals will go free. If you or I committed $100 Million plus in Medicaid fraud, we would most certainly be in prison. Take back the profits from the shareholders, apply civil asset forfeiture proceedings to the executive staffs assets, and put those responsible in prison.
In some senses, I share your distaste for Word. But, honestly, after having written my dissertation in LaTeX, I must say that it was a terrible experience.

I really wanted to love LaTeX. In the worst possible way. I wanted to sneer at people who used Word, looking down my nose and show them how reproducible research was really done. How much more efficient and beautiful my work would be using this software. I wanted to venerate Knuth and this beautiful example of open source software.

It took me years before I had to admit to myself how terrible it was. I remember seeing a post on HN about how LaTeX was a cargo cult for philosophy majors (the analogy being that they were using the tools of a technical discipline without a clear purpose). For me at least, a better analogy would be an abusive relationship. I would tell my labmates about how great it was, while it was obvious that I was spending hours on getting the most trivial configuration correct.

I am truly glad that some people have a good experience with LaTeX. I just wanted to say that I didn't.
Silkworm son: "What's for breakfast?"

Silkworm dad: "NANOTUBES."
Yes, realistically if you were to have a conversation with an experienced advisor like the article is staging that wouldn't happen. However, the article reflected exactly how I felt trying to do more JS again a few months ago after not having done much JS for a few years.
Couldn't node simply tell V8 to use the earlier defaults if it doesn't have its own tunings already?
The main commercial (but 100% open source) product I'm talking about in the post is SageMathCloud. To clarify, unlike SageMath, SageMathCloud is a web-based realtime collaborative environment for editing LaTeX files, writing code, using Terminals, and distributing and grading homework, which tightly integrates SageMath and Jupyter notebooks.

Regarding "If SageMath goes closed source, what's the point?" there's absolutely no possible way SageMath itself could go closed source, since the copyright is spread across over 500 contributors, and SageMath depends on many other GPL licensed libraries. In my opinion, SageMath also has much greater depth and breadth of functionality than Mathematica for many areas related to pure mathematics research, especially coding theory, number theory, algebraic combinatorics, graph theory and group theory. To a mathematics researcher such as me, the functionality of Mathematica for elliptic curves and modular forms (my area) is very basic compared to what is in SageMath.
Indeed, they are:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23751780

http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-heal...

The mechanism is similar to that of asbestos.
> With NATO effectively being able to shut down all Russian sea travel and make Russia's only "diplomatic tool" other than it's strategic nuclear arsenal irrelevant we are not heading into a pleasant direction.

Why is Russia entitled to imperial pretenses when they are no longer an empire?

I get what you are saying and it does make sense up to NATO is making territorial hay while the unipolar sunshine lasts, but where it stops making sense is why is Russia entitled to buffer zones etc.

Why isn't Poland entitled to the same, for example. Or should people across the water from St. Petersburg complain about Russian naval activity so close to them? We would laugh at all this since (reality check) they are not "powers".

Russia demands to be treated like a "power", its propaganda sites are entirely silent as to why every nation that was liberated from USSR's empire is more than grateful for having their nomnal independence back, etc.

The second thing to note here is that it is Russia, Russian propaganda sites, and a minority western critical voices that have raised the stakes from literally some minor local action to threats of "Nuclear War" and "WWIII".

Regardless of how one feels about the clearly aggressive actions of the West in the past 2 decades, to mistake Russia for some kind of peacenik nation, or the Russian Yoke as a gentle alternative to bankster international is a gross error, in my opinion.
HD streaming costs 5Mbps. Even if you want 24X7, your total bandwidth consumption would be 1.6TB/mo. It seems unlikely that you can eat up 1TB just by streaming videos.
<=1tb=no penalty

1.05tb=$10 penalty

1.1tb=$20 penalty

...

1.5tb=$100 penalty

...

2tb=$200 penalty

2.05tb=$200 penalty

...

938376171819393tb=$200 penalty
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This is not correct. You can't just point to rate of output per area farmed and conclude that conventional is better for biodiversity and soil health. If you're going to do a comparison--you have to look at all the inputs.

Account the footprint of the chemical plant where fertilizers, pesticides, and machinery comes from. Look at the shipping footprint to get those inputs into your fields. Look at the energy source for spreading them. Then look at fertilizer- and pesticide-use externalities.

Conventional fields are net exporters of pollutants and species death. Whereas an ecologically rich field is going to actually filter water and net export richer biodiversity to it's surrounding ecosystem.

The "conventional" advantage is on money and time--not concentration of biomass or biological health.
I think Firebase is a closed source program that can only be used via "the cloud", i.e., via a web application. It's not something you can run yourself. In contrast, RethinkDB+Horizon would have soon provided similar functionality to Firebase, but with the option of self hosting.
This robot is live!
thx for the feedback! I'm trying to optimize the game
There was a thread recently regarding "knowledge rot", which is what you are experiencing. Being as it is a closed platform, all of your hard-won knowledge is at the mercy of a board of suits answering to shareholders.

Microsoft finally capitualated, and Apple will too. But the force that causes it is developers refusing to work their plantation.
I agree that education is extremely important.

"a hideous atrocity that has been proven to hurt young children's minds" is extremely alarmist. I don't think that helps conversation, but I can understand your passion.

Where have you seen that Common Core is harmful? Most sources in my (admittedly limited) research suggest that it is far to early to tell an effect.

The most cited report seems to be https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-progress-report-on-the-... . However, the data reported here is extremely messy. Looking at table 3-2 the conclusion that CC may be harmful is drawn from the fact that n=1 has an improvement of ~2.25, whereas n=5 has an improvement of only 1.94. However, n=4 is at -0.83, n=3 at 1.8 etc. Results are all over the map.

In my opinion there is no clear pattern, let alone a "proven" result. If there is research I have missed I would genuinely like to hear it. I don't have a fixed opinion.
Geez. This will make its way into the food supply.

Remember, some South Koreans (and maybe other East Asian cultures) eat silkworm pupae for food.

Cheap protein, and there's no need to waste calories in that culture.
Have been, but what else is on the market right now in the US? Why is that? Its not for lack of demand.
From the article:

The third time it's exceeded within a 12 month period, however, the "courtesy months" go away and users will be charged $10 for an additional 50GB of data, which will continue happening to a limit of $200 per month.
Most mathematical minds prefer Plato.Verbal types adore Aristotle.
Unless dissolved in olive oil, then it has lifespan extending properties. https://alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/report/fullerene...
They just fine you. People who get audited for millions oftentimes just pay a fine.
What you are talking about happened with the incumbent telcos in the US. Google "unbundled loop" or "UNE unbundled network element. It worked decently for DSL for a while. The provision was overturned in the early 2000s though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbundled_network_element
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling

I agree with everything you are saying but my cynical side says that this unlikely to happen again.
The graph algorithm they're describing is basically Manaal Faruqui's "retrofitting", although they don't cite him. I will make the charitable assumption that they came up with it independently (and managed to miss the excitement about it at NAACL 2015).

Here's why not to be sad: Retrofitting and its variants are quite effective, and surprisingly, they're not really that computationally intensive. I use an extension of retrofitting to build ConceptNet Numberbatch [1], which is built from open data and is the best-performing semantic model on many word-relatedness benchmarks.

The entirety of ConceptNet, including Numberbatch, builds in 5 hours on a desktop computer.

Big companies have resources, but they also have inertia. Some problems are solved by throwing all the resources of Google at the problem, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to solve the problem.

[1] https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet-numberbatch
Things that just work are boring.
Chatanooga, TN has had success with this model as well:

http://chattanoogagig.com/

And of course they were sued by AT&T:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/tennessee-kills-m...
The fundamental diagram of urbanization
A backend without user management is not worth it in 2016.
One robot is in Santa Barbara, California and the other is in La Jolla in San Diego, California at a park somewhere. If you type in the chat box, the robot will say the chat out load.
Absolute English
I don't want to bandy words -- what they say is that the attacks "... are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts". This seems to be an extremely weak statement -- that they are "consistent with", rather than "can be unambiguously traced to".

Assuming good faith in the intelligence community, we can only assume that these "consistencies" would be difficult or impossible for another actor (a different state or a rogue agent) to mimic. The statement is phrased so weakly that it is difficult to say this with confidence. Because of the political situation, government agencies should be extremely careful to avoid making statements like this unless there can be concrete assurances that the conclusions are fully supported by the evidence, without any political agenda attached.
And yet every time one of these near monopolies pleads their case in front of the FCC and DOJ they always state that said merger will be good for consumers.
It does not work that way.
That's called depression... can hit anyone, no matter how fortunate they are, and doesn't mean it's their fault.
Criminal is a harsh word. It looks like the government just finally balked at Mylan abusing their position. But shareholders had every opportunity to know what the prices were, and what the regulatory climate was. My opinion is that if you invest in pharma, you should know how the market works, or else you might get a haircut. Sure, Mylan aren't on any moral high ground, but the operate the way you would expect a rational firm to act in the regulatory environment lawmakers have set up. Blame your congressperson, your senator.

If the law allows it, don't expect companies not to do it. And if the law doesn't allow it, but the regulators never drop the hammer, don't expect people not to do it. If the regulators do have the funding to do their job, look to the legislature to find the problem. And if you invest in this kind of business know what you're getting involved in.
It's only the first step in the interview. If you get past Fizzbuzz (a lot of people can't), they go more in depth about things that actually matter.
pure carbon is, counter-intuitively, carcinogenic.
Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
to your point about analysis, the folks with a CS education here (myself included) should ponder this quote from the intro: "...we have written this book to cover the theory likely to be useful in the next 40 years, just as an understanding of automata theory, algorithms and related topics gave students an advantage in the last 40 years. One of the major changes is the switch from discrete mathematics to more of an emphasis on probability, statistics, and numerical methods." some of the key stuff in statistical learning isn't even real analysis, it's functional analysis (usually two courses later).
I logged in to look at my usage history, because I thought "I can't possibly use that little" when I saw the 3 month average. I don't. I use about 2x what they said my average was. Anyone else see this?

My best guess is the averaged October's data so far with the past two months.
Regarding SMC, right now we are growing our sales slowly but very consistently. Some universities tried SMC last year, liked it, and are significantly expanding their subscriptions this year. However, our top focus right now is on fixing every bug, implementing key features that users demand, and dealing with issues that become clear from support requests, while working hard behind the scenes to build better technical foundations for growth. We have enough users (e.g., often 500 simultaneous active users, and we hit about 1150 simultaneous running projects this week) to give us a good sense that what we are building provides value and is working (or not). Our business model is freemium, and the conversion rate for students using SMC in courses is high.

> Have you taken any external funding for SageMath and SMC beyond grants?

For SageMath, all funding is via grants, and I have almost no such grants these days (I used to get grants in the early days). There's a grant in Europe called OpenDreamKit that provides substantial funding right now. There's also one new NSF grant that will provide some funding for free open source textbooks built with lots of example using Sage.

For SageMathCloud, I did a round of Angel investment about a year ago in order to "bootstrap" things, and hopefully give us the time we need to build the business to be profitable. The Angel investors are a small group of people I know from the mathematics world. Right now the company is not profitable, even with a small number of low-paid developers, so it's critical to have this money to make up for the slack until we have more customers.

We can and should do a lot more marketing when the time is right. I hope that time is very soon.
Uber in China – a case-study of missing product details
If he responded so well to amphetamine, I would simply think he had ADHD, not a drug problem. I take amphetamines every day, and I also have a hard time working without them.

(Adderall is "mixed amphetamine salts", for those that may not know)

Folks with ADHD respond to stimulants in way that is quite different to those with more typical attention steering skills.
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Craziest thing in the world. This is actually real.
Poor choice in hindsight haha!
There are a lot of people who have actual experience, who can't code.
Kendrick and Jaimyn recently gave a talk about this at a student conference (https://compcon.net.au) - we're working on getting video of their talk up soon.
They didn't anyway. But all of that is irrelevant. The point is that questions like the one I originally responded to are fundamentally unanswerable. Don't get too caught up in the specific example. It could just as easily be "maybe walking across the street on a different day causes RMS to be hit by a bus". Or Microsoft taking a different path delays the Gates foundation from eradicating polio by 30 years.
What is EEE?

Unfortunately paid peering is pretty much the norm these days unless you are part of the exclusive club of Tier 1 ISPs, not that I'm defending it. I don't have much great to say about any of the wireless carriers but I feel like T-Mobile is at least trying new things. The T Mobile One plan for instance is really great if you travel internationally. I don't know of any other carrier that is doing that.
this site http://hkrnews.com/ allows you to see the article in an iframe so you can read comments and other headlines all on one page -- faster than clicking between tabs. You can also see the top comments easier by collapsing by clicking the icon
>If the law allows it, don't expect companies not to do it.

This is outright fraud. The law does not allow it. They purposefully misrepresented their product for financial gain.
'Next year you'll say last year was so much better.'
I feel so stupid growing older and remember that I used to think and express myself like him (in this subject). Youth is totally overrated, at tech, arts, sports...