skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been to India, but of course have eaten lots of spicy Indian food in restaurants. The one time I had dinner at an Indian person's home (in China) she made dishes that were so hot I had to stop. I don't know where in India she was from. They were absolutely delicious, but so spicy I had to take a break. There were these hunks of fish with some sort of herb/spice mixture seared into the outside...
It seems like it was a warning shot to show what they can do. Imagine the impact to the US if this had gone on for, what, days? Weeks? Is there any reason it couldn't continue indefinitely? It could be as devastating as a nuclear bomb detonation... One of the most profound effects would be the lack of trust everyone would now have for the services (etc) they rely on. The SaaS business model would become extinct overnight, and nothing important would be in the cloud. We'd all go back to desktop first applications, and all the enormous investment in cloud technology would be vaporized. If you don't trust the reliability of the internet, why would you rely on AWS and the like. You wouldn't.

But perhaps this is a smarter approach: build software and services in the most reliable way possible: offline enabled without the assumption of mostly available internet. Oh, and VOIP phone service? Gonzo. Where I work that was the worst effect of the outage. The phones simply didn't work... And we're basically a sales company. Not a lot of sales were made that day...
I like the idea, but I wouldn't call it "relative ease". Are we talking about making better force fields, or training a recurrent neural network for generative dynamics that obeys the laws of physics (can be used to calculate ensemble averages) for arbitrary length proteins/folds? How do you construct a VAE for protein dynamics when you only have a single structure? There's a serious lack of data that prevents these things.
We've seen successful re submissions within days. I'm not on board with getting a pitchfork out after four weeks. I am probably biased because I missed this the time it was posted four weeks ago. Let's agree it's relative.

Thanks for the clarifying links though. I'm not upset it was flagged as a dupe. I'm all for HN moderation, just want to make it clear a lot of people probably missed this. If that's ok and we bury this story I am ok with that. Let's resubmit next year :)
It sounds a little like learned helplessness ... having spent some time in the UK I have noticed this unquestioning deference to "ones betters" and I wonder how it comes about. How is this trait acquired?
Simple answer: net marginal customer revenue.

I'm not sure if that is an accounting term but I've seen it used in similar situations to describe how the business model works, or doesn't work.

It goes kind of like this:

Lets say that 1 SRE engineer, 1/4th developer, 1/3rd customer support agent, and 1/10th of a manager can support 10,000 users. (all made up numbers of course for this example). You can't really cut up manager's in 10ths so you really need 10x this to have 10 SRE engineers,4 developers, 3 customer support agents, and 1 manager.

So that is 100,000 users. But the cost of all those people don't bring in enough revenue from those users.

But there is a "scaling" effect, such that if you have twice that many people, instead of 200,000 users you can support 225,000 users. Four times and instead of 450,0000 users you can support 500,000 users. So the trick is to find the point in the model where you have enough users to make enough revenue to pay for all those people, and the hardware that supplies the service. At that point you're "break even", and then if you can push past it, you start generate cash above what you need, or net profit.

The more you can grow, the more net cash you can generate, and the "value" of your company, is typically a function on your earnings before you start paying taxes, and costing depreciation (EBITDA).

A web business like Twitter's (or Facebook's for that matter) then can be valued based on how many users they have and the revenue per thousand user metrics they can drive minus the cost per thousand users.

If you stop growing before your generating net income, you die. So there is a minimum you have to hit. And if you're well managed, you are constantly trying to minimize costs and maximize revenue to get a bigger income factor.

Here is another issue, generally, like with "blade computers" you get the most money by having just enough people and resources to handle all of your load. When you anticipate growth, if you build out more resources and that growth doesn't come, your stuck with the costs. Like having a computing blades chassis with just one blade in it. A really expensive computer. So you back off and lay off those folks you hired to get your costs back under control so you don't lose a ton of money.

Again, a well managed company will attempt to grow without hiring resources right up until they can't grow any further, and then hire. So that when the next tranche of people show up, you are ideally already net positive on income, just not by as large a margin as you used to be.

At the end of the day you're managing costs, user growth, and revenue per user. If you can't juggle all three you run a high risk of becoming an acquisition by someone who can.
I never ever use commit -a these days, but as a newbie I did. These days, my go-tos are indeed add (-p) and/or commit -vp, so as far as the staging area goes, it become rather essential to me.

Not having a staging area (or using git add . && git commit -a to bypass it) has it's drawbacks too; I think most of the "garbage" files like "main.o" and ".test.py.swp", and secret API keys in public repos, can be explained that way.

To me, the answer is not abandoning the staging area, but improving the UI for handling it and/or directing users that don't want to deal with the git UI to things like GitUp.
The git UI is horrible in a lot of places, admittedly. Even now, considering myself an advanced user, my workflow still is "git branch ... uhmmm... ^H^H... git checkout -b topic".

Fixing the (most annoying issues of the) UI might require some breaking changes sometimes, but so be it.
Interesting. If I'm not mistaken, logP is a type of property where it is easy to look up constituents' "contribution" for the purpose of predicting logP with substitutions/alterations of the example molecule.
This is not limited to Twitter. I live in Japan, most ads I see all around the web are in Japanese for Japanese stuff. I went to Germany a couple years ago, and everything was German when I was there. This is even more ridiculous for the unskippable 30s video ads on Youtube.
Same with Facebook. It's actually a HUGE reason we're building in a "non-compete" clause into our corporate charter for our platform.
Reminds me of pulp's "common people" ... you could call your dad he could stop it all yeah
is something like this applicable for complex math formula as well. For example if you were building a web based financial spreadsheet.
hahah right?
I knew a woman who worked for a Dot Com back in the day. She flew on the Concorde to Paris for meetings because it was important.
This is particular true if you have a mortgage and children to feed. For the sake of keeping the house and bringing food to the table, the majority of people will gladly accept less salary for greater job security.
Show HN: MarcelloDB, an embedded mobile nosql database for Xamarin/.net
Being treated as a actual object is something every woman has to deal with.
In the real world there are laws and social norms, but in VR apparently nobody steps up if they see it happening. I can see this being a very unpleasant experience, and if behaviour like this becomes normal/acceptable in VR I can imagine it takes the fun out of it.

Also, groping in real life does not do the body any physical damage too. But it's still outlawed.
Hi Everyone,

I just release MarcelloDB 0.6.0
MarcelloDB is an open-source Embedded NoSql database built for Xamarin and Windows Universal Apps.

I have been working on it for the last 2 years or so. It took me a while to stabilize the API and the file-format and to add all features I wanted in there for 1.0.

0.6 is the last version before 1.0.

So I want to invite everyone to give it a spin.

MarcelloDB saves entire objects trees (using Json.net), has a very flexible indexing mechanism and transactions.

All feedback is highly appreciated.

You can find the docs here: marcellodb.org

And the source here: github.com/markmeeus/marcellodb

kind regards,
Mark
Meanwhile I'm German, live in Germany and for a while got english ads of the style "Welcome in Germany! As an expat, let us sell you some private health insurance!". What a mess.
If you applied your logic to DNA sequencing. The first DNA sequencing took ages and by various estimates at the time it would have taking 100+ years to fully sequence DNA. Fortunately exponential progress doesn't work that way and full DNA sequencing happened orders of magnitude sooner than those pessimistic estimates.

I see no reason to believe A.I. will be any different. But then I don't believe Moore's law is dead. We'll find other ways to extend it. Insert magic here.

http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cpu-vs-g...
But they needed to compete on cars?
Should such a requirement (CT for private CAs) exist, wouldn't the said laptop vendor simply ship embedded SCTs in their fake certs signed by their own fake log key, also baked into Chrome? (that doesn't even need to correspond to a log, at least in the case of static SCT validation)

When a laptop vendor is building the device that's being shipped, I don't think it's practical for a browser vendor to be able to expect to win that arms race.
Yes. Support for those other players was already present in SoundJam, and was carried over to early versions of iTunes essentially unchanged.
The real innovations come from saying "what if we made a notebook with no ports?"
So, do they own the word Google? Can you use that name in other categories? Google plumbing?
I just read your team page and you feature Palantir somewhat prominently/proudly (you and Alina). If I feel uncomfortable with mass government surveillance, should I simply not apply for any sort of funding from your fund? I see no ethics sub page, could you outline your basic ethics code (what sort of companies won't you invest in, will you invest in competing companies etc.)

This is a serious question, I hope it gets read and answered and not down voted into oblivion.
Speaking of telegram: https://telegram.org/
Wonder what the makers of that one think about this trademark application....
Font Awesome 5 is popular on Kickstarter
> _it is such a huge success_

GitHub _is_ a huge success, and git is merely comes along in a bandwagon (English isn't my native, hope I've made this clear)

> Whereas in mercurial, I feel pretty much lost when I want to do something that has not been an implemented workflow.

Interesting, could you give an example?
Can confirm. Living in Norway. Everyone has skis.
The worse downside: There is a lot more crappy PHP code out there that novice devs will copypasta than there is for other languages. This makes it harder for novices to find the non-crappy PHP code in order to learn from it.

As a result, it is not particularly unusual to come across a PHP app that has been in production (and maintained!) continuously for nearly a decade that have all the SQL and JS inline, for example.
Can be hard to fight for a landlord. Since tenancy is a very asymmetric contract (since one party's livelihood depends on having a home and the other party is merely inconvenienced if there's no tenant), tenants have vastly more rights than landlords.

Terminating a contract can be done if the tenant is behind at least two monthly rents in payments, or if the landlord has personal interest in the property (Eigenbedarf), which is also rather strictly regulated, though (also won't ever happen when your landlord is a company). I'm sure they could terminate your contract if the tenant actually destroys the place. However, they first have to be aware of it (it's not typical of landlords coming to visit, and if neighbours don't complain things can go unnoticed). So usually they won't notice until they move out, although they're liable for the damages caused. The security deposit won't usually be enough to cover extensive damage, though, as it's in the order of two or three monthly rents.
Barry Martin's Hopalong Orbits Visualizer – WebGL Experiment
A DSL is fine, encouraged even, for solving specific problems. JsonLogic however seems like a general tool looking for a job, but I maybe I just haven't seen its usecase yet.

It looks as a way to move business rules entirely to the backend, but still have the frontend executing them. I can see the value in that if you desperately need to reduce the load on your backend.
Artmarq to bring data-driven decision making to the $57 Billion a year art industry. It is made to track, analyse and broadcast every single deal in Art Business. Artmarq App can help users navigate the complex art market otherwise dubbed as ‘Exclusive’, ’Opaque’ and ‘Intimidating’ at a competitive price and on Mobile.
Is that company code, or something you have opensourced? It sounds bery useful for a problem I will face in about 6 months.
Not gp, but I store the old oil in a closed can, back of the shed. While usually there's a waste management charge for oils, in Finland there are occasional events when it's free to deliver oils and whatnot. So I take the few cans then.
Here is an article about user perception about smart watch market: https://feedcheck.co/blog/smartwatches-quality-by-consumer-p...
For software companies, "stop spending huge piles of money" means cutting jobs, see headline of this article.
I had better experience. Yes, the first app i've tried to publish was rejected after 7 days, but after adjustig to the quality standarst, I had no problems.
Maritime archaeologists accidentally discovered 40 ancient shipwrecks
It seems more than 50% of Britons (who bothered to go and vote) do not think same way as you do.. Otherwise if they had such a great deal with the EU why would they vote to leave?

I believe it's their right to revise whatever agreement they had with EU and each other country is more than welcome to do the same. It's what happens when you are trading, every now and then people want to renegotiate their terms and there is nothing wrong about it.
Seeing as the GP's comment is the top one at this point, I guess quite a lot of other people got the reference. For those who didn't, here's a hint (trying not to spoil it): great SciFi series. Some may say the greatest.

...
and I'm back from a bit of wikipedia rabbit hole. Found out even Elon Musk is a fan [1]

[1] http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/the-science-fiction-books-th...
Guess what 0xeac7 means
Absolutely this.

This year I have been growing Bhut Jolokia (ghost peppers), Habanero, Scotch Bonnet and Jalapeños both in a small greenhouse and outdoors. I afterwards dehydrate the fruits to prevent mold and so I can store them over the winter.

My favourite blend for DIY chili powder is Scotch Bonnet mixed with Bhut Jolokia for both taste and heat.
Says the frog to the scorpion: "Why have you stung me? We will both die." and the scorpion answers "I'm a VC and I will always aim for the 10x exit, this is my nature"
Are you saying that Alphabet invest in only one category?
Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back
Adding computation to a data description language is always a bad idea. I've seen this done with XML. XSLT is a great example of why this sucks. This has been done with JSON before anyway. Here are several examples:

https://github.com/json-schema/json-schema/wiki/switch-(v5-p...
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_11.0.0/jso...
https://www.npmjs.com/package/lib-jsl
http://jsonnet.org/language/design.html
The kind of startup that doesnt want to run out of startup capital getting strung up managing software and infrastructure but would rather get to market and then concern themselves with the trivial concerns you raised.
تور مشهد ویژه هتل های ۴، ۳ و ۲ ستاره – اجرای تور ۷ آبان ۹۵
High DPI Scaling Improvements for Desktop Apps and “Mixed Mode” DPI Scaling
It'd be nice if there was a way to run a build + test cycle on the staging tree.
Is SharePoint 2016 Migration on your mind?
Android phones rooted by “most serious” Linux escalation bug ever
Whats app comes to mind as a comparison. Far more complex. A billion customers. 35 engineers.
I use that to watch slow lectures at anywhere to 1.8x to 2.3x the speed. Turns a 40 minute lecture into a 20 minute lecture.
It's called Lisp.
Having or not having a trademark for a category has nothing at all to do with where they can invest.
I don't seem to have enough context to follow the point you are making. What are continental theorists? In what way are they apposed to the Less Wrong crowd?
The book "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr and Humphrey is a literate program (the book contains the actual source code which is extracted at build time). The book won an Academy Award.
Update iOS 10.1 Security Flaw JPEG Executiable
make a service with automator that runs whatever command you want and define a global shortcut under prefs/keyboard/shortcuts.
This is not splitting hairs! These are basic facts. The whole idea behind Tesla and Solar City is to have solar power generation and electric cars. 100% clean and renewable, and that's the long term goal. You cannot criticize the means to get there -- powering Teslas with current electricity generation -- when that's so much better than Fossil Fuels already.

People like the cars because they are better than what the other car makers are making. Model S is the safest, fastest, and most efficient sedan on the market. That's a fact!

Cars are minuscule contributors? The EPA site says 14% Co2 is from cars, which is substantial. That's also a fact!

If Tesla keeps going, it will replace generation and consumption of fossil fuels with a fully renewable cycle. How is that not the best thing ever? That's fantastic! We might be cutting more than 30% of our CO2 emissions.

You need to re-evaluate your standpoint. Also, when you're struggling with cognitive dissonance after reading this, consider this: Your brain's attempts to discredit my argument, and paint Elon backers as mindless followers/disciples, is the real example of psychological trickery, not Elon exploiting some prejudice.
Actually, the FED targets something called the PCE price index which is an attempt at measuring price increases across all consumer spending. But those are just measuring details, if you want to you can go to economic conferences and argue the finer details of these measurements with rooms full of PhDs. The point though is that inflation targeting is about trying to keep the cycle of rising wages and rising prices going. And the point of that is to avoid deflation during recessions. The main losers from inflation are not businesses but lenders, which is why lending rates and inflation are closely related.
Capitated coverage with outcomes metrics.

You're rated on what you acheive, not what you spend (as a healthcare provider).
I'd love to find the original Napster Bad video... all I can seem to find online are the re-edit, the 2nd and 3rd ones. Not the first one. The napster bad you see online wasn't the original I remember.. I seem to remember another take of it before, that was changed and re-released.
Yeah, indeed, this idea is not meant for typical users; only those who have script blockers and the like installed in their browsers. At present, even such security concious users can be deceived with layout and URL masquerades.
Definitely triggered.
Calling the metric "WebBS" was fantastic, it had me continually reading it as "Web Bulls!@#"
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778824
So it's a Haskell kernel for Jupyter, not iPython, or do "kernels" have other "kernels" below them?
Small mountain towns that will go unnamed.
The general saying is that the extreme heat provoke an adrenaline response and increase endorphins and to some degree dopamine blood levels. I know I like the heat.
I was happily living in an owned home, paying off the mortgage (with very low interests mind you!) but I ended off selling it, and staying resident as a tenant for the buyer!

Reasons aside, while my monthly expenses have increased a bit (not terribly much) I've been much happier and care-free now. The hundreds that I would put away for inevitable fixups and maintenance, I can now put in stocks, index funds. I personally can't hold the hammer the right way in my hand so it's been costly.

It's not customary in Finland to take second mortgages against house so having money in stocks is vastly more easily liquidable as well.
I refuse to pay Murdoch on principle.
The Web shortcut doesn't reliably work.
Event based synchronization of side threads with main game thread
Ask HN: Do you recreate motivation that led to advent of X because a in Y was bad
Recently I've gotten interested in Apache Storm, and was reading this article `http://nathanmarz.com/blog/history-of-apache-storm-and-lessons-learned.html, and got stalled at `Before Storm, ... we were very unsatisfied with this approach. It was brittle – we had to make sure the queues and workers all stayed up – and it was very cumbersome to build apps.` Do you folks read such things, accept it and move on, or do you try to recreate it in order to further understand motivations (or consider it a waste of time), or do you build test projects to see it get complex over time and understand the motivation? If you do the latter, do you have any tips for minimizing the effort involved?
Yes it is a Haskell kernel for Jupyter.
Good news: You don't need to pay, because Microsoft OCR is available for free, nicely packaged as "DLL". The caveat: It currently supports only UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/02/08/optical-ch...

For a quick test, try https://ocr.space - a free ocr api that uses Microsoft OCR on the backend.
SwarmViz Trailer – optimization algorithm visualizer
Another upvote for Garry and Alexis from a YC alum! Garry was such an empathetic, helpful person throughout our startup journey.
IPFS archives look like something entirely different from what the grandparent was talking about.

Sure, you can manually publish archives over IPFS, but that's not something that automatically creates an IPFS cache copy of whatever you are surfing.
During that time there were smartphones and handheld computers, as well as smaller music players.

I personally used one of the early BlackBerries, as well as the "Pocket PCs" and the Compaq/HP iPAQ. They were technologically capable of most of what the first iPod/iPhones could do...

I think the game changers were, with respect to the current market direction at the time:

- Better usability. Fewer hardware buttons and no need for a stylus pen.

- Readily available applications through the app store.

- Readily available content through iTunes.

- In app purchases.

Later all other mobile platforms copied this model.
ING-Diba in Germany is still doing this. Here, I am assuming that ING Direct is the same folks as ING-Diba.
Whiteboard animation software list for creative videos
I feel stronger levels of immersion where I can do anything I can think up with the environment rather that it just looking really good.

If that means having less objects to interact with but I can interact with them all, then it feels like I have real control and consequence in the world.

Moving my laser gattling gun in Fallout 4 up onto a table feels immersive. Not being able to navigate a small rock barrier breaks that.

I imagine for me that it is easier to suspend my disbelief when the world feels real rather than when it looks real.
You forget that Twitter purchased an SMS aggregator a few years back. SMS sending is near free for Twitter. I still remember integrating all of the VPNs to the carriers to support this mess.