skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is short on details why he thinks Tim Cook is like Steve Ballmer, except for saying that Apple is slowly missing the boat on AI.

I don't know what Amazon does for AI, I haven't seen anything convincing from them, but I'll trust the author that they are working on it.

However it's tough to beat Google in this space, because AI and machine learning is what Google has focused on since their beginnings. Google's own Search has always been a limited form of AI on which most humans with access to the Internet have come to depend upon. And it is tough to beat them because they not only have 20 years of accumulated knowledge and talent, but they also have a lot of data on users and haven't been afraid to break users' privacy in order to get that data.

Now say what you will of Tim Cook, but he's nothing like Steve Ballmer, with one big difference being that Tim Cook's Apple is making a stand for privacy and security, which is actually quite rare to witness in this day and age. He's a man with principles and for this I appreciate him a lot, maybe more than I ever appreciated Steve Jobs.

It would also be stupid to try and beat Google on their own turf. It would be like trying to beat Microsoft at Windows or Office, or Amazon at AWS. And for important markets, Apple's secret is that they never had to beat anyone in market share, all they had to do was to take over an important slice of the high-end market, which is something they are really good at.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778869
Kubernetes has tutorials for various other cloud providers http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides#turn-key-cl...
What would be the benefit to Microsoft for lowing their prices purely on an exchange rate fluctuation?
Agreed. This is a good business decision to issue a recall. It probably won't cost too much since very few people will actually return it.
Sad how things went for Ellen Pao. The abuse she was subjected to was one of the worst I've seen and I bet there was plenty bleeding off into other aspects of her life other than her inbox.

I genuinely felt bad for her, I wouldn't of been able to handle it at all. It was truly revolting and hateful.
Query parameters are encrypted if you are using HTTPS. The domain/host name (e.g. news.ycombinator.com) obviously is not protected, since the DNS lookup is required and the server (resolved IP) may host multiple sites. Seeing the hostname plaintext in the request is required for the server to disambiguate.

So, for single-use tokens, you're probably OK for passing it in the URL (e.g. myhost.test/resetpw?token=abcdef), but it is usually considered a bad idea to use the URL for non-single-use secret info. Once it hits the server, the full URL may be stored in log files unsecured or if you use SSL termination before the server, it could be logged in other places as well. Additionally, the user's browser itself may store your secret URL in the history.
Reddit is the new Usenet: It's good, it's bad, it's ugly. It all depends on where you look, and there is no single community, there's a fractal-like set of them.
I was going to post on this topic, so thanks for getting it started!

If the interests vested in CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) want to be taken seriously, they MUST push for drastically increased funding for advanced nuclear. Designs for advanced nuclear reactors already exist that eliminate the possibility of meltdown, as well as the need for water cooling. Such reactors would be perfect for coal plant replacement, which is the main necessity for power generation.

The grid needs a large percentage of electricity to be reliable, unlike wind and solar. We also need a source for the rapidly increasing power needs of the world. Safe, clean nuclear power is the answer, and is also the best solution in terms of environmental footprint. Yes, better than solar. (Solar is great when the real estate is "free", in other words rooftop solar and solar buildings.)

One innovative company (of many) working on this is Thorcon Power. Thorcon's concept is to site the reactors 30 meters underground for extra security and safety. It believes it can deliver electricity at three to five cents per KWH in today's dollars.

http://thorconpower.com/
+1 Images are a great starting point for improving page load performance as they sometimes represent a big chunk of the total page weight.
SRS = "Crap Reddit Says" (you can guess what the 1st word is substituting for)
Exposing your console app in Windows Explorer's context menu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_One-time_Password_A...

I might not be using the right term here, but the general idea is that you create an encrypted token out of some data and verify that the data is unchanged and still valid on the server. In that way you can provide a token that ensures the user had access to the link you sent them, but you don't have to store it in the database.
What an arbitrary file upload/execution bug looks like on WordPress
I just ran my numbers, the cost is about $2500/year for me (and this is with roughly the same Kaiser Permanente plan I have at work). That's about two months rent out here in the Bay Area. I've worked at three startups here so far, only one has had an older CEO with kids and the wife, so I think your numbers might be on the high side.
You made that up, right? The current project is that solar will be cheaper than nuclear by 2025.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/solar-an...
That's the issue. It's blocking traffic erratically. It doesn't help to go through google, or to go through private browser + Google :(
I understood the hate (although it probably wasn't all her fault by any stretch), and I still think that everybody went too far.
No, the title rang a bell because I was recently concerned about sending my Passport over mail to an embassy for VISA. So I wanted to know if there was something crazy about mail :-)

The post interesting nevertheless. I've had my share of similar email experiences as well.
It's not really tech startups I'm worried about as they are more likely to receive VC/angel and can be started by young hackers. I'm talking about your average small business, whether it be a self-employed consultant, a small hardware shop, a bakery, mechanic shop, cafe, etc. I observe that small business has been decimated in America and giant chains have proliferated. When you drive through small towns in the US you will usually find a few large chains like WalMart, McDonalds, Jiffy Lube, etc on the Main St and not much else. When I travel UK, Australia, NZ, Europe, small business seems to be in better shape. Much of this is due to active skepticism of large corporate chains and their scale advantages (trading hour restrictions come to mind).
Have you considered that US government shouldn't kill brown people whether their US citizens or not?
Link directly to the video here: https://app.bugreplay.com/shared/report/4d616006-57a9-40df-a...
Walmart and Amazon alone sell $600bn worth of goods. That's 4% of US GDP. These two pushed thousands of independent retailers out of business due to lower prices (and smaller profit margins relative to revenue).

The same happens in transportation, restaurant business, hotel industry. Firms get bigger since 1800. Naturally, the number of new firms decline. In govt stats, it appears as "fewer startups."

Meanwhile, the economy grows thanks to productivity gains in big companies. So what do we want: productivity or new small businesses?
Why are the SW devs who are supposed to write new features also in charge of managing complaints from mods?

Wouldn't the solution here be to dedicate engineers to ship the features that are intended to decrease your support load?

That's basic management 101: be an umbrella.
Maybe it's because a lot of Germans are renting their homes which creates insecurity for the unemployed and protects employers from such antiauthoritarian actions.
How we deploy at npm
How is having var be function scoped instead of block scoped a useful feature?
How on earth did the polarity flip on that one? Amazing.
> Why don't people just stop submitting WSJ articles?

Ehrm, huh? That is your proposed solution?

Just a SWAG: The articles are interesting. This claim can be backed up by the fact that WSJ articles show up on the front page fairly frequently.
Health insurance and direct regulation is a distraction.

The macroeconomic environment where everything relentlessly consolidates is the problem. For software, entire categories are either dependent in advertising and not long term viable or are scoped from a revenue point of view from bundled offerings by Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.

Every other business is the same way. My neighbors dry cleaning business was forced to use a centralized plant because they just couldn't compete with the scale of the local big consolidated industrial cleaners.
I fail to see any reason to hate her, what reasons are there?
I think you take things too literally. But in the 90s I had a computer connected to analogue TV which was pretty blurry, that means you couldn't see pixels at all ;)
That's what you consult an actual lawyer for.

In my country, if they'd interfered with existing business relationships causing expected revenues to be lost, they'd made potentially libellous statements that caused a major source of expected future revenues to permanently block access, there was ample written evidence that they did these things deliberately and that actual losses were and would continue to result, and there was ample evidence that the victim had previously been well-regarded and able to command a certain rate for their services, I wouldn't want to be their position, law firm or not. Situations like this are exactly why defamation cases can result in such huge damages being awarded.
emojis - just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
No, I mean specifically the scenes where the characters were being more genuine, mainly between the main character and her brother and a certain sage-character later in the episode (trying to avoid spilling too many details). The parts where characters were being fake were mostly pretty good, though a little more subtlety might have sold it better.
Exactly. If subsidies are removed from the equation, solar in particular is quite a bit more expensive. Wind and solar also lack the 24/7 reliability of nuclear.
Here's mine: https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/individual/searchAnonymousPla...

Per this calculator:

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/#state=ny&zip=...

subsidies in Albany are $578/month for an income of $70k, with an average cost of Silver plans being about $500/month post-subsidy. At ~9% of income, that's also tax-deductible spending.
>In this case, with its puritanism, UK is closer to the US than to West Europe.

No, it's not. What are you talking about?

The US is more like Western Europe, in fact the US is probably even more liberal than Western Europe, when it comes to porn. The UK is puritanical all by itself, and closer to, say, Saudi Arabia.

Here in the US, we produce all kinds of porn. California (LA mainly) used to be the hub for it, but it's spread out from there and now it's being made all over; you can find people looking for porn performers on any city's Craigslist now. We don't have any kind of "great firewall" to protect us from porn. We don't have proposals to make citizens get "ID cards" to view porn online. We don't have weird anti-porn laws against things like "face-sitting" (remember the flap in Britain a few years ago about that? They had women sitting on men's faces in front of government buildings to protest the ruling), or any other regulation on what kinds of positions are allowed to be shown in porn. It's pretty much totally unregulated over here. The industry does some internal self-regulation, but it's not government-imposed, and there's lots of small, independent producers (basically anyone with a camera) who aren't part of that.

Don't lump us Americans in with British prudery. We have some prudishness problems in parts of our society in "meatspace", but on the internet, it's the Wild West.
Austin top cop Art Acevedo vents over high-profile minority policing failures
As have done many first world countries for a long time.
I've been meaning to take something like a small Scheme interpreter or whatever and run through this book with it. That said, after experimenting with PPL for a while, I'm more interested in variational inference, by which we can approximate the posterior distributions for models with larger hierarchical structure and higher observable dimensionality by turning the numerical integration problem into a gradient-descent problem.
You're right - I was wrong to blame that particular event on "the left". I lumped it together in the same sentence with another event that can be blamed on them with hard evidence. I'll admit that I was wrong to lump them together like that.

However, this is really beside the point. My original comment was simply trying to explain why Trump supporters are shy to show their political stance. The violence against the headquarters in North Carolina is still a completely valid reason for that - a building got firebombed because it was used by people with a particular political stance. So it doesn't really matter whether it was committed by liberals or some other group I'm not aware of, and I didn't mean to make that accusation the focus of my comment (though you latched on to it nonetheless).
You can read up on bitcoin scalability here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
Land Value Tax Discussed at UN Habitat III Conference
Yes. The Mirai software runs in memory. You can clear the infection just by rebooting the device. But if it's connected to the internet, it will be reinfected again within minutes, unless you change the admin password.
I ran a small community many years ago. As soon as the personal attacks, threats, and other juvenile behavior started I took it down. Done.

Reddit is a for profit media property, but banning subs where this stuff goes on is indeed the correct action. Nobody is ever under any obligation to support or sanction this kind of behavior with their money or time.
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> He's a man with principles and for this I appreciate him a lot, maybe more than I ever appreciated Steve Jobs.

Is he really? I mean from a strategic point of view he currently only has to gain from giving that outward appearance. Occam's Razor tells me that he is just luckily able to tread the high road because for him its the one without toll booths.
I can't help but to think that it will solve the problem by putting pressure on its source, aka Humans.
By an argument with exactly the same structure, every State is totally illegitimate. To be consistent, you would have to argue that taxation is equivalent to armed robbery, law enforcement arresting someone is equivalent to kidnapping, and so on.
> 11/ Sam Altman managed to convince Steve Huffman to come back, which was an amazing Hail Mary pass. The new administration is like, okay, FUCK ALL THIS and bans ALL the problematic subreddits. FUCK your free speech, this is why we can't have nice things.

This is probably the right thing to do if you have investors to report to and you want a site that caters to the middle 50% of the population. I guess users will complain about their free speech rights being trampled. I have noticed that reddit seems to have less drama since Steve came back. I don't know if it's just being masked by the new algos though.
Ah yes; I sold out not-too-long-ago to go work in commercial software :)

I suppose it might be worth it to keep including the disclaimer, as it'a possible I may be biased in some way that I'm not consciously aware of. Although it bears mentioning that if my former employer made half of SpaceX's promises, I'd be twice as skeptical! So a point in their favor.

I hope I'm not coming off as too much of an asshole in these threads; I really do want to see commercial space flight grow and succeed going forward. It's just that my experience and the conversations I've had with current and former SpaceX employees gives me an unhealthy dose of skepticism regarding a lot of their claims.
This article doesn't mention the brand names of cameras manufactures by Hangzhou Xiongmai. Anyone know any?
Yep - you're right in that it's not fast. On my post I nabbed a graph from someone who did some performance measurements and the difference is pretty stark.
I think sometimes you have to break it to make it good/great again, like the first Mac OS X release. That's my 2¢.

The fact that Microsoft is increasing revenue on Azure, for example, shows they are jumping on a bandwagon that should give them another revenue stream that they can use to reinvest. I might be wrong, but that's how I see it.
I'm interested in what you're looking at which says that. Against the dollar 2.5-3 years ago GBP was never below 1.47, since the referendum, the highest it has been is 1.34 and that was the lowest we got in the 2008/2009 crash.
I am not blaming Obamacare. I have reflected your exact sentiment in my other posts online. This is a result of the disaster that is the US healthcare system as a whole. Obamacare was a patch, but not enough to stop this from happening.

I do advise that people not write-off criticisms of ACA as right-wing hysteria right now; the 2017 increases are really unbelievable in many states (Minnesota: 50%+). Everyone can browse these rates online.
Ireland has now helped financial institutions save €20B in taxes
That recommended reading list is so good I'm going to save some people the trouble of finding the link: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/now-reading/
The Surprising Reason Some Foods May Trigger Migraines
Anyone can link anything to SRS, and that in turn makes the SRS come to you...
> Sanders forced Clinton very far to the left

Not sure about it. Words are cheap.
Optional#map is implemented incorrectly.

someOptional.map(a).map(b) NOT EQUAL TO someOptional.map(a.andThen(b)
Even if you can capture the traffic at wire speed, the CPU doesn't have the power to analyse the stream. I thought that traffic analysers had to be done with FPGA/ASIC because of that.
The wikipedia article about Hinkley talks about the costs and guaranteed prices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
I am pretty sure, that does not even include the long term cost for the nuclear waste. The roughly 100€/MWh brings it into line with offshore wind, which is about twice as expensive as onshore wind, but more steady and reliable. Solar is roughly in the same ballpark too in middle Europe, in Dubai a new solar plant is being built which promises to be less than $30/MWh.
Big diff is that usenet was to a large extent decentralized and non-profit. Reddit on the other hand is very much centralized and for profit.
lesswrong.com
Can I ask your reasoning in doing this?
The article is about small business creation in the US, not Bay Area tech startups (they use the term "startups" in the headline disingenuously as clickbait; people don't really say "I'm doing a startup" when they open an auto-body shop).
The best argument I've ever read for the death penalty relied on this.

People care about saving people from being killed by the state, they care much, much less about them having their lives totally destroyed by it. The resources devoted to exonerating people facing the death penalty dwarf those spent on helping people sentenced to life, or some lesser sentence that still destroys your life, like a ten year prison sentence.
I think there may be some confirmation bias there; the UK is also discussing the question of what it calls "clone towns", where all the high street shops are either national chains, charity shops, or empty unlet units. The big ones like ASDA/Walmart are out of town.

I think the only place small businesses are really thriving in Europe is Germany.
I don't disagree but there are lots of sub reddits without drama and toxicity. Opendata, datasets, babyelephantgifs etc etc. If you choose to ignore subs that have anything to do with politics, religion etc, Reddit can be quite enjoyable
Because he has shown time and again that he thinks the rules do not -- and should not -- apply to him. A candidate running on a law-and-order platform who thinks he is above the law is essentially the textbook version of a dictator.
You were good until you stereotyped Americans, ignorant fuck.
Also worth a listen is Linda Jaivin's three-part series on privacy and its discontents:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/feature...
I think the role we're talking about is "Community manager" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_community_manager This shouldn't fall to Software Engineers to do, it's an entirely different and far more people-centric skillset.

Maybe you would have engineers providing support to community managers for tools and ad-hoc fixes "intended to decrease the support load" as you say, but as second-line assistance, not doing the main body of work. You would think that if anyone has the specialisation that comes at scale and could do this, reddit does.
This is entirely bullshit. This guy is still on the payroll and will say anything to calm the community down / discredit people who think something is up.
No, your not-so-subtle accusation that "the left" was responsible for burning down that building is the whole point because you are galvanizing your side based on a fear-based rhetoric and a complete disregard of facts. You're now trying a different tack several replies into this thread because you've realized I am correct; your apology and reversal is very hollow given that mere minutes ago you were advising me to "oh come on" and just admit that the event is clearly partisan.

I "latched on" to this particular claim because your own citation comes with absolutely no proof that "the left" was responsible and it is trivial to demonstrate the tactic that you are employing. Which you at least admit, to your credit. The point is that many groups in history have played the for us/against us cards much like you're doing here, and the results have never been positive.

I also find it infinitely fascinating that you've assumed a group is responsible for the event, even in this last comment. One crazy person is not an effective narrative to leverage, and groups were initially blamed for Oklahoma City, too, if I recall.
This is a real concern, but it definitely carries the usual caveats about premature optimization and needing to measure regularly to confirm that it is a real concern and that the performance landscape hasn't shifted since the last time you measured it.

The best suite I've seen is https://kpdecker.github.io/six-speed/ which measures node and the various modern browsers which Sauce Labs supports and appears to be run semi-regularly.
There's no insecurity for unemployed people. They're guaranteed to have a roof over their head paid for by the state. In fact employees usually have 6 months firing protection as well, further reducing insecurity.
I've happily used it a few times this year - I almost always check their prices against bigger sites like hotels.com and they can usually provide a lower price if I'm booking after 6PM (before then and it's often the same price you can find directly from the hotel). More importantly, I very much value their curated set of "advice" about the hotel, and find it significantly easier to filter than sites like booking.com or otherwise.

Their mobile app is nice, and the flow is extremely smooth. I did once have to wait 45 minutes at a Best Western for their customer support to fax something across before I was able to get my room.
The problem of sotware is the fact it is roughly an «artisitc work» (hence the IP crap laws) and that there is no obligation of results, hence no warranty to protect the customers.

It is pretty much the wild west of the economy that is fueled on lack of fair law to balance private interests vs public/consumers interests.
Anything specific you'd like to highlight?