skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't run a re-assessment, and I'm not aware that Stone Temple Consulting (who'd greatly expanded sampling based on my methods) have, though Eric Enge's mentioned doing so.

There are a few sources which track online social network usage, and my experience has been that G+ trends are down, sufficiently enough that they've fallen off the survey's entirely.

If you wan to trac total posting activity and trends per year, a Google search on "this site:plus.google.com" restricted by year should give a rough idea of how the relative quantity of English-lanugage posts are trending. I'm suggesting this as a nonsemantic, high-frequency, English word not likely to be biased strongly by annual trends. (Alternatively "upon" and "thus" are suggested by another person who's done similar research.)

My informal sense is that people are tending to defect from the system. I'm very hesitant to apply personal impressions though due to the enormous sampling bias implied.
Microsoft seems to be going through a second renaissance right now, exciting times!
People tend to screw up the unicode aspects more than the general parsing. And, indeed, the example JSON parser provided checks for a UTF-8 byte order mark, but doesn't validate that the data is valid UTF-8, so it will let through strings that might cause an application problems.

Although there is a commented out method to validate a code point, so I guess he understood that it was an issue.
With proper healthcare it ought to be free anyway, so the "cost" to society is the same. Why would it matter if your diagnosis came during a trial?
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The moderately impressive part of these algorithms is the fact that they can "learn" a style from just one image.

However, in reality they are not nearly as universal as these papers make them seem. Pretty much all my attempts to use these algorithms resulted in garbage with ugly artefacts. Which, actually, was pretty informative, since I saw exactly what kinds of features they pick up. I am disappointed that these blog posts don't include any "failed" images of that sort.
Do you ever take several days off? Like a two-three week vacation without being online at all. This is what I find most difficult to do for a 1-employee operation that offers a 24/7 service.
> They can't both be right about which is more valuable

Actually, they can. As a simple example, they can agree on both price and volatility projections, but simply have different utility functions in terms of how much volatility they are willing to accept. Most simply, one of them might be 64 and about to retire while the other is 22 and just starting to invest in their retirement fund.

I expect that a majority of stock purchases/sales are in fact driven by such considerations and not fundamentals analysis...
"the wrong side"? Is that really how you see people who disagree with you?
All our eggs in that basket got crushed. Let's take this basket over here and put all our eggs in that instead. Facepalm
It's personal for him, as he had a child who died from a drug overdose.

However, I think Tvert's point is well-taken. Los Vegas casino magnates aren't exactly in a position to preach about abstinence or vices.
To cost the company significant amounts of money. Bandwidth in those volumes isn't cheap.
Once I outsourced my side-project, since the pay per hour ratio worked better for me, compared to what I earn, combined with the complexity of that project. The "only" thing I had to do is write specs.

The specs took me 3 weeks to write ( finding a lot of logical "bugs" in my project ), but the detail I went to ( SQL schema suggestions, framework suggestions, front-end plugins suggestions, ready pixel perfect design with different states, urls for the different pages, etc. ) was one of the biggest benefit for the final price. The company that took the project estimated 4 months and delivered it in 3 and half. They said those were the best specs they've ever seen.

Moral of the story : Do full specs before you start coding ( I know it's boring ).
if you've never consulted before, how do you "start"? cold emailing people for freelance gigs that you see on hackernews doesn't usually parlay into high paying consulting gigs.
Love that idea!
So what you're saying is "there are religious people and I don't like them"?
> "you're paying ~$700 for the actual machine driving that display"

~$700 gets you a pretty basic computer with 965m, you can build a desktop with gtx 1070 for 700$ to power a wacom display. And you will be able to upgrade it in the future, with Studio you are stuck with a 965m for $3000. And if you are getting a 980m for $4200 that leaves you with a $1900 to build a computer for Wacom, which can be way more powerful than 980m...

I think Microsoft should have sell that monitor by itself, but I guess this way they could not shovel win10 updates down your throat so it is not a good option for them...
Your office was a couple loud coherent voices. Cafe noise is white noise.

Right now I'm in a cafe that has 50+ people and thumping bass music, all sweet white noise. With a beat.
So it is not passive. That's ok, almost all "passive income" isn't, and the term has been abused into near uselessness.

Sounds like the term you are actually looking for is "lifestyle business"

Nothing wrong than that, and it's a more sensible (i.e. well defined) goal that passive income.
> I like to say that a fast classical factoring algorithm might collapse the world’s electronic commerce, but as far as we know, it wouldn’t collapse the polynomial hierarchy!

This is my favourite quote because it sums up pretty nicely the most common misconceptions people have about factorization, crypto and quantum computing.
Of course the first part is hyperbole, but still put very nicely.
It's prisma with random images rather than filters?
Long term climate change? Those areas were probably fertile when the ancient civilizations thrived there.
And yet, most places I've seen inside, it's the opposite on those top two points.

Dev/creative folks are in bullpen/open areas
Marketing/sales get private offices

Justification I got a couple times was the sales people need to talk numbers, and that needs to be private. Cynically, I think they don't want anyone else (like devs) overhearing the (over)promising that's done, or hear/witness some of the desperation when things are going bad. Also, was told once that having your sales guy talk on a phone in an open office will make it sound like they're in a boiler-room situation, and lose credibility.

Fine - give everyone private/closed spaces, and give shared workspaces available to those who need it when they need it.

Still amazes me that people will pay $100k+ for 'jr-mid' level folks in some areas, but cram them in bullpens because "cost".
Typical death pangs of a company in trouble. Everyone is going to try and squeeze what money they can get back from their investment while company value slowly dwindles to nothing. Get ready for more layoffs to reduce enough costs to make the company look like a good buy, then once bought get ready for more layoffs.
actually teaching the content to people helped me the most.

gitbook is awesome and free. https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook

blog a lot and start making a list of subscribers yesterday.
War is the application of violence to achieve a political outcome.

It's important to differentiate between this type of war and simple conquest and commandeering of resources (human, natural, etc.)

In both cases, as the scale increases, the sophistication required to support the effort increases... One needs better social structures, better technology, supply chain management, etc.

So these "civilized" aspects are in fact prerequisites for victory in war, though war may offer an incentive to focus on improving those systems and their coordination at the expense of other aspects of society.

So just as eating food strengthens a person enough that he/she may grow, survive, and thus desire to eat larger meals in the future, eating is not the cause of hunger.

What we must also realize (for history and for the present day) is that war utterly wipes out culture and the history of humans, and replaces it with some politicized narrative imagined by the victors. We know little about indigenous Americans, and the future will know little about the Afghanistan and Iraq of the early 21st century and earlier. There will be volumes of information, but it will be written by scholars beholden to the occupying hegemon.
Managing Apple devices is a royal PITA. Trying to change from 2-step to 2-factor authentication was not simple because I had a legacy 3gs device. I thought managing devices attached to my account via appleid.apple.com was enough. Nope. After much investigation, I learned there was also something buried via iTunes software. I am not sure where in the back-end the iTunes device list was being stored, but there was no connection between the iTunes device list and what was listed via the website.

The appleid.apple.com and iTunes device lists are also segregated from the Apple support website that has its own device list. Which appears to randomly delete stuff from my profile. With the recent revamping of their support website I checked it out, and they now only show 1 current Apple device. Not the previously listed 5 I actually have.

I don't know if I've actually found all the possible editable locations Apple device information could be stored with Apple.
If we received a record from extraterrestrials, what would most like to see on it? Music would be awesome, of course, but chances are they don't have music, maybe they have something else but it would be meaningless to us, like an ant sending artistic pheromones, except far more bizarre since they'd share no common environment or past. Not meaningless to us would be details about their atmosphere, their society (if that were easily communicable), their technology (even if less advanced than ours), and - by far the biggest - their biology and that of their planet. There's some of that on the record, but it's clear to me that including more than, say, one song, is a service to the humans launching it, not the hypothetical receivers. Then again, in all likelihood, humans are the only pieces of intelligent life to every go near the Voyagers, so perhaps it's them who should be appeased.
Maybe they do all those studies and decide that the hit in productivity is worth the cheaper open space? Maybe individual performance just doesn't matter that much? I'd bet that the bigger the company, the less it matters how effective individuals are and the more it matters how effective teams are.

As much as I love working from home or an office or whatever, team productivity is better when people who work together share physical space.
OK, how about the rest of your house?

My mess is usually not with clothes, but with tables full of stuff, cabinets full of stuff, garage full of stuff, etc.

Did you go through a phase of getting rid of stuff, and then in the subsequent year, managed not to add more stuff to fill in the space you through away?

(And how bad was your house/apartment before KonMari?)

Honest question.
So does common lisp. Fwiw, between the two I've found performance differences mostly due to experience of implementer, more than domain. YMMV of course.
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> professionals care about the specs very much, especially at that resolution and price tag

I did graphic work for many years and have worked with dozens of designers. None of them have ever been worried about specs. In fact the only person who even asked about them wanted a high end laptop so he could play video games on it at home.

I am unconvinced designers care about specs unless they're working on something specific that requires very high performance (which the majority would NOT be doing).
If there's really no way to run these processes as the same group at least, there's always ACLs:

setfacl -m u:NON-OWNER:rwX,d:u:NON-ONWER:rwX,d:u:OWNER:rwX DIR

(Allows NON-OWNER to read, write, execute if already executable for anyone to that directory, and allows NON-OWNER and OWNER to do the same for newly created files.)
For an summary of all the environmental/physiological factors that affect work performance in the office take a look at Creating the Productive Workplace [1]. Research material covered include affect of temperature (high/low and variation), humidity, indoor air quality, ventilation and it's control, lighting, crowding, daylight (too much/too little), artificial light (wrong type) and noise.

One of the points that comes out quite strongly is that whilst each of the environmental factors does adversely/positively impact your performance your ability to control (or lack of control) can have a greater impact. For example you will tolerate colder and warmer environments if you know that you can have some influence on the temperature .

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279190533_Creating_...
To be fair, that's just an interpretation of his actions. I don't know him at all, but this paragraph may shed more light on his intentions:

...his supporters say the billionaire's crusade against marijuana should be seen as an individual decision rather than a business one. Adelson has had two sons who have struggled with drug addiction, one of whom died of an overdose in 2005. His wife, Miriam Adelson, is a doctor specializing in drug addiction.

“This is a case of someone who's been touched very deeply by drug abuse,” Kevin Sabet, of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said in an email.
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> The Venetian cleared >$300 million after costs in 2014. It'd be a pretty bizarro-world decision to jeopardize that for more money.

They also had to pay $50 million dollars the previous year to the government as a settlement for money laundering, and has been in hot water for allegedly paying bribes to secure casinos in China[1]. Their business isn't exactly squeaky clean as it is.

[1]:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/business/in-filing-casino-...
Who did ever suggest flossing to prevent cavities? That would be bananas.

As for gingivitis (and its potential to cause periodontitis, which is the real culprit) - flossing is a low-risk and low-gain recommendation, when looking at a population. On an individual level, for a patient with early periodontitis and tight-fit teeth, it can be the best recommendation ever. There is evidence suggesting that when properly applied (i.e. by a professional), flossing works great for preventing gingivitis.
Yes, and if only that iMac had a Cintiq-like tablet and stylus across it's entire screen, somewhat useful for artists, designers, almost like a Studio...
I think you're badly underestimating the amount and nature of the data required. Think about space travel: after 60 years, the catastrophic failure rate is still about 1 in 200. This is due in part to the very low volume of flights over the decades. The Shuttle underwent what passed for extensive testing before its first "operational" flight, but was retired before it accumulated even as many hours as the average test flight program for a commercial airliner.

Before we run vehicles as potentially destructive as a fully loaded 18-wheeler autonomously on public roads, we should log tens of thousands of test hours under simulated real-world traffic conditions. That's expensive, hence Uber's willingness to roll the dice with other people's lives.

The burden is not on the public to show that an autonomous truck is unsafe; the burden is on the promoters to show that it is safe. That burden is not even close to being met, as the article acknowledges when they say the technology won't be ready for another 5 years. This was a stunt to help Uber maintain its valuation, and the DoT should've been looking out more for the public.
Decriminalization still leaves a legal gray area, which given how racist and power-trippy local law enforcement tends to be does not sit well with me.
> Because a monopoly isn't inherently bad, if regulated properly. My monopoly water, gas, and electric providers do just fine; all highly reliably (and either a small or no profit right is granted).

A monopoly provider is always bad for the consumer. (Occasionally, it is less bad for the consumer than any feasible alternative, but it is always a sign that the consumer is receiving the "short end" of the stick)[0]. For so-called "natural monopolies", the most that regulation can do is reduce that disparity, but it cannot eliminate it - and it does this for a hefty premium (the price of the regulation).

In most (but not all) markets, utility companies are the textbook example of natural monopolies. But there is no reason to believe that the entire supply chain of residential Internet access is a natural monopoly. Furthermore, natural monopolies aren't really a "good" thing; they're just unavoidable in some circumstances. For example, utility companies, whether privately or publicly run, typically do horribly with customer satisfaction ratings, response times for non-emergency services, and so on. The fact that their customers' demand is completely inelastic is the main reason for this.

A monopoly is pretty much inherently bad; it just so happens that sometimes it's unavoidable. But, as OP said, there's no reason to sanction a monopoly provider for an industry (or part of an industry) in which it is avoidable.

> either a small or no profit right is granted

Just because something is nominally run by the public sector or as a "non-profit" doesn't mean that a profit is not being made off the good/service chain. The difference is where that profit is accounted for on the books.

[0] This can be illustrated very easily using cost curves; I'm speaking in colloquial terms like "short end of the stick" specifically to avoid the need for economics jargon, but it's a pretty straightforward and fundamental lemma from basic supply and demand.
Nah man, i know exactly what it means and what your game is. You're pretty sad. :)
Have you ever seen an oil painting up close?

There was an article awhile ago about using a 3d printer and scanner to make a "copy" of an oil painting.

http://www.designboom.com/art/oce-3d-printer-creates-identic...

Until Photoshop filters output STL files and color 3d printers come down in price, humans win.
> Men tend to make more money than women. Seven dollars a month may not be a big deal to you, but it is for some people.

How is this also not an argument that health insurance should pay for food? People (including women!) pay way more per month for food than the $7 that we've agreed birth control costs, and it's far more vital to one's continued health than birth control is.

> And my criticism is more like saying that insurance companies would pay for your gas if you were male but not if you were female.

Only in a tortured and incorrect fashion. Insurance companies will pay for treating all kinds of maladies that only women can get. Is that an argument that they're discriminating against men?
> If you compare paved roads only, the U.S. and Sweden have the same linear density

That's a fair point.

> And even then, it's much less expensive to connect two dense urban areas at either end of a 100 mile road than to serve sparse suburbs and exurbs along a 100 mile stretch of road.

Not necessarily. Build costs in dense urban areas are high, but there are more subscribers. Suburbs and exurbs are cheaper to build per mile, but have less customers. It averages out fairly well.
>I know I am in minority here, but I believe cannabis is not good for society and for individuals using it.

That's probably true, but it's not really relevant. There are downsides to making something illegal, so the question really is whether the harm the pot does is greater than the harm of criminalization.

At this point it's difficult for me to see that balance coming down on the side of prohibition.
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Well, one of the biggest social media channels' censoring and shadowbanning its content is very much relevant.
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I bet you could build it in to the sale price of reselling a home. IE this improvement must be made to make it distinct in the market.
> "Hey, if you want to ruin your life with heroin then go for it"

The problem is with the "ruin your life" part, not the "heroin" part. If we really want government to get involved, they should get involved when people's lives are being ruined, not when someone is merely making, distributing, or using a substance.
The reason we aren't just a slightly odd species of chimpanzees is that we developed the ability execute on ideas. Otherwise we're low-hair primates thinking about maybe fire.
Why not? It's not that hard and there is nothing special about it. Essentially it's an attempt to introduce consistency into interfaces they design. So people could learn and rely on certain colors, shapes and behaviors for certain things across many apps they use and use them intuitively. Of course there is some evil there too, like branding and being inconsistent with other platforms on purpose, but it's in everything they do these days.
1:1 is commonly used in medical imagery and other industrial applications, and for their sales numbers probably not a whole lot else. That's likely why the price is higher. Take a look here and notice the high count of 1:1 displays: http://www.necdisplay.com/category/medical-diagnostic-displa...
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Because user experience. Simply selling a screen that can move like this one with the proper touch inputs is going to require multiple drivers to make it behave correctly. Selling the screen by itself and now you have this issue of supporting all sorts of hardware (and you just KNOW someone is going to buy it and try using it with their Windows XP machine).

Tying it to the computer allows them to control the entire user experience including adding specialized software to take advantage of such an interesting screen. There is a reason Apple owns the full stack and why Microsoft and Google are trying to get into that space: it offers the best UX and ROI.
> I think it comes down to if you believe a major actor like Apple/Google/Microsoft can afford to ignore mobile

I think it's important to note the distinction that they are seemingly ignoring this generation of mobile. Windows Phone has been a disaster and not for lack of trying on their part. The phones themselves have been mostly solid but it's hard to overcome the ecosystem problem. That said with the moves Microsoft has made over the last few years they are well positioned to be a major player in whatever the next iteration of mobile is. We've seen companies become major players and then all but disappear in the 10 years since the first iPhone kicked off the smartphone revolution. It's not to think that crazy that Microsoft might leverage some of their new input device knowledge to craft some new device that allows them to be major players in Mobile 2.0 or whatever you want to call it. If you believe that the current state of mobile HCI is the zenith then yes you are right to be concerned. But if you think we are going to keep pushing pass the status quo then Microsoft is probably is good shape.