skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just responding to the parent post who suggested that you can’t bootstrap because some better funded company will come along and put you out of business. You can if you choose the right niche.

Of course Twitter as a business did not have this choice - they had to go big or go home. For the founders though it might have been better to have built something else.
Ok, now I have +20 tabs open and I'm only halfway through the comments.
We know how most of the times we are compelled to read everything in a page until the end, but we also know how much does this attitude costs to us.

So from now on I will stop reading and only take in consideration those links who will be posted in response of this comment, if any. Let's see if magic, or coincidence, works!

I advise you to do the same! (If only we could come up with an acronym for this thing!)
No offense to the people I know working at Twitter, but these cuts aren't deep enough to stem the losses.

While Twitter revenue grew $664M, $1,403M to $2,218M over the past three years, it is going to be a lot flatter than that at the end of this year - and despite that growth they've consistently been losing about $500M p.a ($645M, $577M and $521M respectively)

3,800 people work there - and equivalent cuts last year can barely be noticed on the financials.

The good times are over - they've spent billions over the last few years and not done anything to save them from flat user growth. They really need a wholesale shakeup and doing it over time, like Yahoo did, will just make it worse.

edit: here's a more brutal analysis [0][1]:

> PS. Twitter staff - I am not exaggerating. Look at the young man on your left and the young woman on your right. Only one of you three will keep your job.

[0] part 1 - http://brontecapital.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/some-comment-on...

[1] part 2 - http://brontecapital.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/measuring-how-b...
I live in the Bay Area and never understood the coffeehouse work culture. Libraries have better internet (usually), more available desks, are quieter, often have better parking, don't have a coffee tax just to use it, and doesn't reek of coffee.

I recently discovered the local library, and it's probably my favorite spot in the city. It's brand new, and internet speeds hit 200mbps. I shelved my unused kindle and picked up reading real books -- got nearly 50 books in the last 2 years.

There are lots of perks to having a free membership too -- I get free online access to dozens of magazines, the NYTimes, ridiculously cheap book sales ($5 per bag full). Plus, there are the occasional exhibits with 500K+ year old human remains, artists sharing their work, and live local orchestras playing inside.

The best news I've heard all month is the city allocated another $400K/year to increase its hours/week by ~14.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the article. I just wanted to share.
Better link: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/engineers-design-ultralow...

Paper abstract: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6310/302
Oh that takes me back. There were so many BBSes in the 312 in the mid 90s. Just reading the list [1] is like a trip down the memory lane.

The end of that article makes a great point. There was a huge diversity of communities back then, and each of them was small enough that they didn't devolve into spam and mindless trolling. It's something I really miss, and something that can't be replicated by uber-sites like reddit or facebook...

[1] http://bbslist.textfiles.com/312/
Why is this on the front page? What's significant about it?
A literal, physical manifestation of cloud conputing. David Ackley likes to call this the microcomputome[1].

[1] http://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/
interesting!!
can you please talk about the architecture? how was the groovy code stored(db/disk files)?
was it user editable.. what about security then?

why groovy?
Technology company named alphabet seems reasonably specific in my opinion. It's not like the Alphabet Farm is going to get shut down or you'll need to start writing "The Alphabet(tm) Song"
Os X users may use our online version http://esapi.intellexer.com/Summarizer or free mobile version of our another product Conceptmeister https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/conceptmeister-free/id110682... Conceptmeister graps main ideas from text or photo (we use special OCR technology to recognize and extract text from photos)
Thank you very much, Max! To answer your questions:

- As you say, jointly training the autoencoder for reconstruction and prediction accuracy would be easy to code, but it might be tricky to get the tradeoff right since we usually have relatively little labeled data. A massively multi-task approach probably makes sense here. I'm not sure how hard it will be to get smoothness w.r.t. the latent representation, but the logP result was mildly encouraging.

- I agree that it's probably time to bring some of the recent augmented recurrent network architectures to bear on graph decoders. What makes is hard is that it requires differentiating through a cascading series of discrete choices, but people are making progress on this sort of problem.

- I do think we need to completely start over on the synthetic accessibility. There are just too many ways for molecules to be weird to try to write an explicit function for it. In fact I'd go so far as to say that this is the 'missing half' of this method.

- I view this method as a complement to physics-based simulation. A neural net is almost always going to be cheaper to evaluate than a physical simulation, so it's not a bad way to compile all the simulation results together.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135484
I wouldn't discount the probability that some people know how to handle money and how to make money, and they transmit this knowledge to their kids. I attended public schools K-12 and do not recall a single lesson on handling money or making money.
As acdha said, no, this type of attack isn't possible with U2F.
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I don't see why a language like JS couldn't be used for evaluating rules when sandboxed. Looks like there's a project that does just that: https://developers.google.com/caja/
Not sure what you mean by "gimmick". Sure, potential market was limited, as you said, in the first iterations. But for those people that had a Mac with FireWire and a solid music collection in iTunes, it was awesome.
That is exactly what many on Wall St have been telling them to do for years. Despite the popular perception of investment bankers, they do value "patio11 style businesses" more highly than the Twitter style of spending and losing billions of dollars and not going anywhere.

I actually don't think anybody values the later.
Not enough.
That's assuming a lot... there are many, many ways to do part of speech tagging. You could imagine a slow implementation that exhaustively considered every possible POS tagging for an input sequence (would be O(k^N) where k is # of parts of speech)
Absolutely.

https://worldcat.org/ offers a unified online library catalog (though not the materials -- LibGen helps with that).

https://archive.org has a stunning collection of freely-distributable (out-of-copyright or publicly-licensed / public-domain) works.

The local library ain't bad either.
Medical billing analysis of in house vs. otsourced billing analysis
You do have to keep working on the business and innovating. It is not a route to passive income (well not until you retire), but it a very satisfying way to build a business and lifestyle.

The downside is the parties aren’t as good :(
The gist of it is researchers needing to design flows of arbitrary complexity to gather data, that can be composed together in many ways and might change over time (and need to be versioned), with a strong graphical component to it.

Yes, I could have embedded Lua or Python or JS and made them interact with an API that the environment exposes, but designing my own DSL let me make it a declarative affair, which greatly simplified things, as well as take various shortcuts in representing some abstractions that'd have been much more of a pain otherwise. This was in a CPU/memory bound environment, where the declarative, compact DSL approach (with all of the properties of the resulting program inferrable at parse time) turned out to work quite well. And generating that DSL is much more straightforward than generating code in a full scripting language.

The graphical editor was indeed a big reason for the success, and my users didn't interact with the DSL, but my developers did and it was much more straightforward for them than having to deal with lua/Python/etc. Ultimately we'd have still ended up with a DSL, albeit one represented in a programming language where 99% of the features are unused.

I'm not sure I get why you're so opposed to the notion altogether. Sure, there's plenty to quibble with if one so desires with OP's implementation in a vacuum, but perhaps consider that people just as experienced and knowledgeable as you have found value in the DSL approach over others for certain projects. If you're interested in diving more into it, check out Fowler's book.
I wonder if it includes the BASIC ROM chip.
Because it says 'Cross-Platform' and is anything but with that requirement.
Actually, most of the Republican party is in the process of committing political suicide right now. Enough with your vacuous false balance.
The collection of supported machines does seem to concentrate mostly on the older systems. The newer ones seem to be examples of the interesting quirks that were in place in the later days -- ATI's WinBIOS for example, or Compaq's machines which used a stripped down copy of Windows 3.1 as the bios utility. Gut feeling for the newer systems is mostly to couple with the newer video cards on the list -- the S3 Trio64 and the 3dfx VooDoo.
You're writing a compiler! It won't be painless in any language.
I remember seeing a comic[1] about this and thinking it's funny, eerie seeing it for real and in action.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/ctvpPyu.png
I use Twidere, and don't think I've ever seen a promoted tweet.
Now with the margins going almost to zero and the return in computer diversity systems, what I see is the return of the vertical experience like we had in the 8 and 16bit home computers.

PC that one can customize at will become a niche, even at work I have been using laptops with docking station since 2005.
Most of the comments here are missing the point. The functionality and architecture of git aren't what's being criticized, but the way this functionality is presented. In fact, gitless if built on top of git's architecture.

As far as I can tell, gitless still embraces git's distributed and incremental core. It just packages it in a way that's easier to digest. If you're a veteran and know your way around native git flawlessly, gitless probably presents little value. But if you're a notice just learning the tool, gitless can probably accelerate your learning curve without sacrificing functionality—you can still bypass gitless's abstraction layer when you need it.
> Considering Tesla's very generous warranty on the first 4 years or 50,000 miles

It's not overly generous, considering that in the same North American market Kia offer 10 years / 100,000 miles on the powertrain versus eight years / 125,000 on the Tesla, and five years with various higher-than-Tesla mileage limits on other aspects.

http://www.edmunds.com/kia/optima/2016/long-term-road-test/2...

And that's on a sub-$30k vehicle.
OpenStack Revenues to Grow at a 35% and Exceed $5bn by 2020
What libraries are, really, is reading rooms. Even in college, in the 90s, I never went to the library for access to the books.

I love the UCSD Medical Library. They tore out literally tons of shelves and it is now effectively a vast reading room with 20-foot ceilings and huge amounts of soft, natural light coming in through windows and skylights.

Look at the old libraries, how they obsessed with high ceilings and walls lined with books. Not deep warehouse shelving, but glorious, spaces lined with books.

The reading rooms. It's about the reading rooms.

Museums would do well to understand this better also. The National Portrait Gallery in DC does a pretty good job of it.

To sit among the cultural artifacts as you make your own artifacts, or wonder about others, is the beauty of the thing. That's what these post-WWII cinderblock-and-steel-shelving libraries got wrong.

Look at the reading room of the National Library of Medicine. Go to the Library of Congress. The reading rooms, people. It's not about the musty old stacks. It's about the reading rooms.
The UK was the second market where the iPod was released, if memory serves correctly, and it came out in the UK at London MacExpo on 2001-11-22.
> the chart would imply over 80% of 1st quartile dropouts fall at least one income quartile

While I agree that stronger definitions are necessary, that implies that all high school dropouts from rich families were personally making 1st quintile incomes at some point before the age of 40. That seems highly unlikely to me. Even children of rich families are usually expected to work and find a way to make their own income (even if that comes through family connections), not have their parents income flow to them unimpeded and reclaimed as their own income. There is no reason to believe that these children of rich families were ever making as much as their parents at any point in time, save the 14% that did accomplish it.

As such, for all intents and purposes, the chart shows what two groups who both effectively started with zero income were able to achieve by the age of 40. The interesting thing is that there isn't much variance. Yes, the poor college graduates fared slightly better – but only slightly. That is in stark contrast to the popular narrative that high school dropouts are doomed to failure, forever stuck working for minimum wage, if they are lucky and that getting a degree will magically save you from being poor.
Imagine if it had been defined as the time it takes to make 9,192,631,771 transitions.

All our music would sound wrong.
I own a business that grew 10% per year for quite some time, making way more than 20k per month in profit for many years.

I am sure the VC and growth path can be good for some, but if you think this is the only realistic way to make decent money, you drink too much the VC kool-aid.
Normal Matrix Optimization
There's something about running entirely on leakage power, never powering on into the normal region? I can't figure out what they're talking about with scavenging power at all; if it could scavenge why would it only last 'months or years'.
Then you haven't been paying much attention to Haskell which can be forgiven because it's still pretty niche compared to Python or JS.

The best example I can give you is the Haxl project at Facebook [0].

[0] https://github.com/facebook/Haxl
The Intelligent Industrial Revolution
I passed their tests, spent 50 unpaid hours on a coding assignment, for which I learned react native (not a requirement) and got passed over because their requirements were poorly worded and I didn't ask for clarification (it's a coding assignment, why shouldn't I assume they can at least spell out their own requirements well.)

They'll give me another shot at it, but honestly it's not worth the effort. I discovered from the engineer that the average asking rate for the other 70+ developers in Canada is $45/hour. I'm not going to work for that - as a "top 3%" developer it's so much easier to make $65+/hour full-time, remotely. Why would I settle for sporadic work and lots of risk for less money? Do yourself a favor and steer clear of those guys if you know what's good for you.
The reason these works feel so insightful is that they link all their material together into a massive, cohesive worldview. Each additional detail makes it sound more true, even though rationally each detail is one more thing that could be wrong (ironic LW link: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ji/conjunction_fallacy/).

What you're left with after consuming the work is a single giant "fact" that's actually composed of a whole bunch of genuine knowledge and a whole bunch of nonsense, and it's mentally draining to toss the nonsense because it feels like it's somehow a key part of something valuable. The big cohesive viewpoint is a lot more seductive than the actual truth - that all of the material needs to be evaluated separately and there are no shortcuts for sorting it out.

Or another way to put it: You really need to keep a critical eye towards each new fact that's introduced, but the entire appeal of this sort of thing is the idea that it's all one super-fact, so your critical thinking is at odds with your desire to enjoy the big picture.
Fetishist!
Writing Effective Dialogue (Punctuation and Actions in Creative Writing)
Exactly. Firewire = charging + super speed. iTunes was Mac only at the time, for (relatively) easy management and syncing of your music.
Paths-js: Generate SVG paths for geometric shapes
It's not much better. That graph looks like nonsense and it doesn't really explain things. The abstract is fine but only explains a small fraction of the article by itself.
“Harvard is for me a synonym of decadence”

Jude Law as Pius XIII in the new series "The Young Pope" coming in a screen near you. :p
I feel the same way. I stopped using Twitter after that betrayal and never bothered to come back to it. Don't know if it made the difference to hurting their business, but I feel they missed out on something big by losing developer mindshare.
OneSignal Is Hiring a Technical Account Manager
There's not really that much assumption. Given the fact that good and simple linear time algorithms exist for decades it's very unlikely that they use some ridiculous permutation enumeration algorithm.

Even a Microsoft Research project has a fairly complex reductions implementation of a POS tagger that is blazingly fast and production ready (learning to search interface). [1]

[1]: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
Twitter is a niche in my humble opinion. They are basically a short messaging pubsub service for humans, and even artificially limited themselves to that niche, by not increasing message size limits in any obvious way, by not implementing other "social" features people actually use like better photo sharing, galleries and gallery sharing, games, etc. They didn't try to become a full-fledged social network and thus competitor to Facebook (and what Google+ was supposed to be) with messaging and a ton of other stuff.

Even that One Big New Thing they announced, namely Moments, still operated exclusively in that short messaging pubsub niche entirely (and turned out not to be something their users cared about that much so far).

Now their niche market seems kind of saturated, user numbers mostly peaked, and Facebook also started competing even more in that niche when they introduced searchable #hashtags and ways to follow accounts without becoming mutual friends, while still offering their other core features and "external" services like instagram (in direct competition to twitter) or whatsapp (in direct competition to twitter DMs). Tumblr is still there, which to me always felt mostly like a "twitter" for longer-form messages. I saw people switch from twitter to Slack (and recently Discord) and embrace their not-globally-visible pubsub models in some cases, so there is some competition there too.

So in conclusion: twitter seems to me like a pretty niche service (albeit large niche), and has competitors left and right now. It isn't in "that" niche, but in a niche.
I listen to Robert Greenberg's classical music appreciation audio courses. He has published courses on Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, Mahler, Verdi, Wagner, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and also on horizontal subjects such as orchestral, piano, opera, baroque music, romantic music, symphony and quartets (and much more).

Sample: https://youtu.be/whgu7nX0sZc?t=522 (debunking some Shostakovich myths)

Greenberg is a gifted speaker, a composer and and music professor himself. He's sharing with us a burning passion for everything classical. If not for the informational content, then at the very least it's worth listening to him in order to infuse with his passion.

After taking some basic notions about composers and music genres, I started a YouTube safari for unknown music and composers, I am 7 years into my search already. I listened to hours of classical every day since I started. YT is a treasure trove of historical recordings, you can do comparative listening and refine your listening abilities.

There are so many composers almost nobody heard about, even professional musicians, that it's mind boggling. After all, there is a long history of classical music, hundreds of years in the making, and the level attained by Bach 300 years ago was already (and still remained to this day) cutting edge.

Imagine how interesting it would be to browse videos and papers from 300 years history of computer programming. We are overwhelmed even with the production of the last decade. Classical music has such a wonderful deep history that is endlessly entertaining.

A list of Robert Greenberg's courses is here: http://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/robert-greenberg/
The problem is that you need someone willing to buy it, and I can tell you that in the last couple of years that has been a very big issue to Portuguese and Spanish families, which cannot find any buyers.
Backing 'long tail' content with webseeds works well for Bittorrent.

...but that's the same as saying let's back the decentralized web with centralized resources erp.
This is a really cogent description of what I've felt about fit for a while but was unable to articulate. It's also written in an non-combative way.
For those wondering what Certificate Transparency is:

https://www.certificate-transparency.org/what-is-ct
To be fair, that was in May 2016 where it was optional, AFAIK today was the first major announcement that CT will be required for all certs in Chrome (although obviously it was always coming). That blog post reads as much about Comodo throwing shade on Symantec as it does about clarifying CT.
That sounds about right. I see the same targeted ads repeated 3-4 times a day.
In case it was confusing for anyone else – Jupyter is the notebook software, and IPython is the kernel. The name change was to show Jupyter is capable of running more than just Python, and that it's no longer a monolithic project.
Landlord sales house even when rents has not expired see yawa
Do you have a source on that rationale for Salesforce backing out?
Were other MP3 players supported before the iPod?

Wikipedia's iTunes history [1] says iPod support came in October 2001 (i.e. when the iPod was released), and Rio One support in December 2001, and doesn't really mention other MP3 players.

At any rate, the faithfulness with which the iPod presented the iTunes music library was great.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_iTunes#iTunes_2
One of the most memorable coffee shops I've visited. The architecture, culture, and Turkish coffee were fantastic.

I went on a first date with someone who turned out to become a close longtime friend. I worked with my cofounder for 8-hour blocks at a time wired on Turkish coffee (he preferred the mint tea) as we built our first product (DNA Nutrition) and raised our first angel money.

It's an amazing coincidence that my cofounder and I found ourselves in Algiers for what was the first time in many months just 2 days before they shut the doors for good.

Happy to see this make the front page. This closure stings.
You Don’t Actually Know What the Clinton Email Controversy Is
Interesting, I seem to remember them calling it color epaper in some marketing material so I just assumed it was a similar product to eink. Cool though.