skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not competing with that other person, you're competing with nobody knowing you exist and nobody caring you exist.

All the people who know both products exist .... is probably just you.

If your company fails it'll definitely be because of what you did, not what they do.

If your company succeeds it'll - almost - definitely have nothing to do with anything the other company did.
This is perfect. That book Capital is like 700 pages.
That makes sense. Big-O notation is so overrated.

A little bit of history: C++ programmers were always able to choose the right containers simply by using this image, since long before the invention of Big-O.

http://homepages.e3.net.nz/~djm/containerchoice.png
(Author here.) Yeah, I knew this would come up but decided to proceed with the pixelated comparison anyway. I couldn't get the GIFs to reflect the results because of 8-bit quantization/dithering. The images show the neural network inputs and outputs, not a comparison with other super-resolution algorithms (still fascinating :-).

I'm working on the Docker instance now, that should help anyone with interest/experience in the field compare results easily.
As far as I'm aware it is only out-of-spec cables that can cause damage. If everything is in spec then the worst case is just reduced performance or the connection not working. I'd add that – IMO – if an out of spec cable causes damage, then the cable manufacturer should be held responsible.

I'm sure that an out of spec USB 2 cable can cause damage as well.
And the commentary has become pretty awful. Stephen A Smith is unwatchable[0].

[0] http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=17823563
GNU Project, the free software movement by Richard Stallman, turns 33
I can see why one would bristle at the term 'cheap', but where energy efficiency is concerned there is a big difference between the EU and US. Energy costs are higher, regulations tend to be stricter, and usage lower in the EU.

On insulation, I'm assuming you mean in areas where AC isn't heavily used insulation doesn't help electricity bills if heat is provided by gas/oil?
Yes, this totally!

People deeply overestimate the value of any single insight, and largely forget about the dozens of mundane but non-trivial details a successful implementation relies on. Great entrepreneurs understand this and know how to solve enough of those "little problems" to enable a big idea to thrive, and that's the magic of it. Bad ones obsess over the idea itself.
Emacs 25.1 RC2 it out
Most of Trump’s charts skew the data (a plot of barplot baselines)
He mentioned that you can look and see on GitHub that Wix explicitly forked Wordpress repositories.

The gist I got was this - Wordpress was working on this in open source. Wix took their work, built on it, and didn't make their contributions open source, taking advantage of the repository and giving nothing back.
Boston is first major U.S. city to open source its website
Yes, there's a Privacy Status in p≡p, there being four different states: no color (mostly today: insufficient crypto, weak crypto, unknown), yellow/orange for accepted, transparent and well implemented crypto, green for crypto avoiding the MITM (Man-In-The-Middle) possibility (after the involved peers checked their Trustwords and accepted them to be trustworthy) and red if the p≡p engine detects an attack.

Cf. the documentation for screenshots how this looks (nowadays): https://prettyeasyprivacy.com/docs
USB standard bodies can borrow a page from the Ethernet port and signal standards. 10-mbps to Gbps evolution does not have to be painful for users.
Le Debrief – Episode 1
hey this is a great blog post! I was around during those times and totally forgot how all those deals went down. And I wish you were an average HN commenter. Reality is probably more like top 5% :)
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I also can't even justify using VMware with Vagrant anymore.
>I'm Italian and if you won't let me into your crystal shop because I wave too much my hands when I talk and you're afraid I'll break something (I personally don't wave hands), I'll understand. I will be angry sure, but not with you: with the other hand waving italians.

Are you sure you wouldn't be annoyed if this actually happened? I find that a bit difficult to believe. Say, you walk into a cafe and politely order an espresso, and then the owner kicks you out because you're Italian.
> Right, so you have no specific knowledge of what is going on here. You just have a general policy of assuming the worst. Aka cynicism.

It's cynicism when applied to companies about which you have no datapoints, we have plenty of datapoints about those three mentioned above.

Airbnb would have to significantly change their ways before I would be ready to see them as an ethical operator, I've outlined two things they could do to really combat racism, but I'll bet you they will never do this because it would cut into their bottom line.

See, being an ethical company always cuts into the bottom line, there is almost always more money to be made by being unethical.
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If you have an active virus on your system, it can use this method (or any other already known method) to inject its code into, say, your browser and steal credit card info or some such.

Nothing new, but a few new tricks.
Your better bet would be buying a $1000 2000W generator. 4 gallons of gas will give you 24 hours of peak output. About 2 gallons for less than peak output for 24 hours. They're pretty quiet, too, and smaller than a carry-on suit case.
Well that's tragic /s
Yup, but I'm still in the process of building my product (I'm about 2 months before release).
Gotcha, I was just saying how I doubt it will result in worse player quality, at least not immediately.
I tried setting up with Vagrant once. Gave up since I rarely ever have to spin up new VM's enough (and my preferred distro is now Arch) to actually get with it, although I might take a second shot.

IIRC though Vagrant requires that you keep the default NAT configured which can make configuring networking on a VM client rather difficult in VBox.
There are a lot of products where free and premium competitors exist.

Perhaps the best advice is from Michelle Obama: "When they go low, we go high"

Consider aiming for high end users in your market, then you need far fewer customers to generate a decent wage.

For example if you charge 49 vs 9 then you need 5 x less costomers to hit your paycheck.

Just be sure to validate with real customers that the market can bear the price point you need.
How should he show code when the Wix app is closed source?

His post mentions "icons, class names, even bugs". That seems damning (just ripping icons would be a copyright violation on its own).
(Author here.) Did you see the faces example on the GitHub page? It was a domain-specific network trained adversarially for that purpose, but I have yet to see any super-resolution of that quality with or without machine learning.

Most other approaches don't even try to inject high-frequency detail into the high-resolution images because the PSNR/SSIM benchmarks drop. Until those metrics/benchmarks are dropped, there'll be little more progress in super-resolution.
Think Different(ly)
I don't follow /r/spacex so I found this to be a great summary. A little more detail (without going to /r/spacex and wading through threads there) is in a comment (which itself is summarizing theories from /r/spacex) at ars:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/spacex-says-it-remain...
This is a great first step to make government applications a little bit more functional. I would absolutely fix some bugs on a city website after I get frustrated with it.
The mistake this article makes is thinking that the typical person will interact with many different USB-C ports and cables than his or her own. The reality, is that people will get to know their own ports, buy their own cables and devices, and things will work 99% of the time.

Only occasionally they'll need to use a friend or coworker's device or cable and then there could be confusion. Although, even then, assuming the friend also has one of the most popular computers/phones/cables, it'll probably still work.
> I would say some of the value of the commentary on ABC / ESPN is diminished by their talk of politics. It has become something of a joke about what Bob Costas will lecture us on this week. People go to sports to escape and be with friends, and not be lectured to. Looking at the feeds I follow this is a bit of the loss of people.

Bob Costas works for NBC and is never on ABC or ESPN...
>>Wix took their work, built on it, and didn't make their contributions open source, taking advantage of the repository and giving nothing back.

Which is fine if the code was BSD licensed, but the article states that Wordpress uses GPL, hence Wix may be violating the license regardless of the breach in attribution etiquette.
To add some technical explanation to what larrybud said: Docker containers aren't full VMs. They don't virtualize the computer hardware or the OS kernel. So when you run a bunch of Docker containers on a computer, all of those containers are still using the same underlying OS kernel. Docker really only natively runs on Linux (and BSD), and all Docker containers are running in Linux, so running a Windows VM inside a Docker container would really only be possible if you also ran something like VirtualBox inside the Docker container (and I can't really imagine that working or being a good idea).

In short: VirtualBox is still probably the best option for running those IE VMs, and for cases like this Docker is not really a replacement for or competitor with solutions like VirtualBox.
(Author here.) If you have the luxury to train on domain-specific textures, the results will definitely be better. That's why I included all the training code in the repository as well—to allow for this kind of solution.

If you scroll down on GitHub to see the faces examples, those are achieved by a domain-specific network. I suspect you'll similarly get extremely high-quality if you have good input images.
>having to sacrifice IO for charging while mobile

You're not sacrificing anything. The old MBP had two usb ports and the new one has 3 available while charging. The only thing that has changed is now you can use the charging port for IO when not charging. Framing this as a "sacrifice" doesn't make any sense.

>make sure you carry the right USB-C cables, as your friend's might not work

With the old Magsafe chargers, and for laptop chargers in general, it's the same deal. If you want to charge your laptop, you have to bring your charger. The fact that the charger is USB-C doesn't make the situation worse.
Disclaimer: I'm clueless.

They claim that there's basically no way to fix this (it's a consequence of the design of some features, Atoms).
But as far as I understand they have to call the (undocumented, according to the blog) NtQueueApcThread function.

a) What guarantees are given for undocumented API methods in Windows? I know Microsoft tries hard to make everyone happy, to be backwards compatible. But - even for stuff like this?

b) For AV solutions: Wouldn't this undocumented call be a somewhat decent marker?
How is it going to help to a regular user? I doubt regular users even know what those colors are for, adding more colors just brings more complexion
Vibrator+Happy+Angel
Right -- it's cables that do not comply with the USB-C spec that can cause damage. It's not as if plugging a Thunderbolt 3 device into a laptop that doesn't support Thunderbolt will damage the laptop. It just won't work.
I fail to see how a bank is providing a service to me, when they're the ones liable for fraudulent charges (credit card).

Fraud systems are there for the bank, not for you. Don't ever think otherwise.
I've since gone back to VirtualBox because of the absolutely awful performance of Docker for Mac.
(Author here.) Unlike most other non generative adversarial network (GAN) approaches to super-resolution, it does try to inject high-frequency detail; see the faces example on GitHub. But I tuned down that parameter in the released models a bit so it performed better generally.
He does NBC for the Olympics (edit: got that wrong he does the other football games on NBC)

oops, I suppose I can just point to some of the other commentators.
I don't know about now, but I've encountered significant issues with it every time I've attempted to use it in the last three years. To be fair, I was attempting to use it through wrappers - I had a particularly bad run trying to get around issues with both rmagick and minimagick in ruby, and later on a different project with wand in python. Though, with wand, the issues I encountered there were mostly with getting a buildpack working for it on Heroku.

Regardless, whether it's my incompetence or imagemagick itself, I don't have very good associations with the library.
Suppose r > g as Picketty claims. What would be the implications? One I could think of is that rather than investing in human labor (e.g. education), it would make more sense to invest in capital (e.g. stock market) since that would yield you higher returns. Also, all the talk about wealth inequality uses percentages like the top 10%. However, the top 10% is not stable. In fact, the turnover is very high, much higher than it has been in the past. For instance:

> Over the past 30 years, the origin of the wealth of the richest people in the United States has shifted away from old, inherited money. Our new metric, the self-made scores developed for the Forbes 400, shows that increasingly we find self-made billionaires among the ranks of the richest people in the country. This has accompanied the incredible increase in wealth of the members of the Forbes 400, which has jumped 1,832% times since 1984, when the total net worth of our list was $125 billion, compared with $2.29 trillion today [0]

And just a casual look through the richest lists, you don't see a lot of old money. Most are first generation wealth.

So my question is, how is it possible that there is high turnover in the wealthiest while wealth inequality is always much higher than income inequality as Picketty claims? When Bill Gates generated great wealth by founding Microsoft, was that considered income or capital appreciation? I think it would be capital appreciation since he sold stock and the stock appreciated. But is this really "capital" in the sense that its passive investment like a money printing machine that was passed down generation to generation? Or if his wealth would be considered income, then how is wealth inequality always so much higher than income inequality considering the richest Americans created their wealth in a similar means to Gates?

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-a...
Ah for a world where you never have to go and make a presentation in another office.
But Ethernet isn't included on many laptops anymore...

This rush to be "thin" has required changing the physical ports, and has contributed heavily to this issue.

For a few years there will be confusion as cables/connectors/standards shake out, but it's gonna be awesome after that when we have super thin laptops that just use one connector.
(Author here.) Maybe it's worth moving to a GitHub issue. Try `--model=small`. The demo server limits the number of pixels to around 320x200 or 256x256 and can do only 4 at the same time to fit in RAM.
"It's not hard to imagine the solution: fall back to sane defaults like every other system not connected to the cloud."

Almost nothing behaves like this - even if it claims to.

A good example is the sonos music system. They claim that it will work properly (with your local music source) without Internet access. That is false.
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Not sure how this affects parameters ceremony compromise or the alert system, but we can't have an economy with such imbalance from the start:

https://twitter.com/HeyRhett/status/792332276453416960
The other issue with having most of your labour performed by slaves is that the slaves themselves generally don't have the motivation, or education, or chance of actually being taken seriously to propose even incremental process improvements.
Calais camp charities attack UK and France over unaccompanied children
In the US game pass shows no live games which makes it much less interesting for almost all fans. It's targeted at hard core fans who want to watch replay games or many games each week.
Exactly that happened on Lenovo laptops. There was BIOS level code that re-installed malware/spyware on your laptop even if you formatted and reinstalled from scratch or used an entirely new hard drive.
Fortunately there was a hairpin(?) connection across the road, so I agreed to connect there. That means they didn't have to depressurize just for me. Cost nothing (easement terms). However they charged me for the pipe to run the 200' from there to the house! I could have negotiated that better.
A JIT can do better escape analysis, eliminating allocations. A JIT can also be more clever about safe point insertion. And when a JIT detects that code isn't being called concurrently, it can emit much cheaper read/write barriers.
There's actually a semi-legit reason to make a usb2-only c-c cable: because it can get away with not having the high-(super)speed differential pairs, it can be thinner, lighter and cheaper than a full-function cable. Compare to charge-only microusb cables - they are indistinguishable from real cables, but lack critical functionality. If they were easily distinguishable, this would not be nearly as much of a problem.

One really major (to me at least) concern with moving from USB to thunderbolt is that thunderbolt is a PCIe connection, with the same security issues as firewire (a device can basically access all your RAM, extract keys and passwords, plant exploits etc). By bundling that into the same form factor as the (by comparison) far safer USB and hdmi/displayport we're putting users at risk.
We don’t have any data points about why they made this decision. I’m sorry, but your argument basically amounts to saying “Airbnb is a big evil corporation, therefore everything it does is evil”. We simply don’t know what motivations the individuals who made this decision had.

I looked through your recent comments but couldn’t see any practical suggestions. Forcing hosts to accept all bookings would prevent legitimate instances of discrimination. (There are plenty of legitimate reasons why you may not want to rent your room to a particular person. Reasons based on their gender, nationality, race, etc. are of course not among these.)
‘I am not afraid of death. I worry about living’
Bootique: A Minimally Opinionated Platform for Modern Java Apps
He said "sacrifice IO". The old MBP (which I am typing on) has two USB and two Thunderbolt ports. So a total of 4 IO while charging with the old MBP.
This confuses me a lot. What narrative is ESPN pushing? I'm pretty sure both they and the NFL would prefer players do not protest the national anthem - it's a controversy with little financial up side.

But it's the players that are protesting. Is the suggestion that ESPN should be ignoring it, or refusing to broadcast it? Because that seems counterproductive for everyone involved.
The Philosophical Difference Between SocketCluster and Socket.io
Actually if it is the local team for you, even Thursday and Monday night football are over the air for you. As a Broncos fan in Denver I always have access on a local channel (I do have cable mind you, but it is available).
Hmm, don't get me started on standards conformant +12V/-12V RS232 and common 0/5V TTL RS232.
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that some mathematical formula for Unified Field Theory (or similar physics concept) was originaly derived as a part of a game engine and patented.
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Tiangong Kaiwu only dates back to 1637, so do you mean it holds references to earlier steam engines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_Kaiwu
> GC languages are memory hogs

This is unrelated to GC.

> The cost of having GC is that you pay with higher memory usage for doing GC in batches thanks to which you do not have to pay for single deallocations. So this performance advantage cannot be used in embedded space because there is no free memory for it, you would need to GC all the time which would kill the performance.

The same is true for C. You don't get to make frequent allocations for free in any language. You have to trade space for performance; in GC-land, the answer is tuning the collector. In Go, this is one knob: the GOGC env var.
But the old MBP had two thunderbolts and an HDMI connector, on top of the two USB. You could plug in 3 displays, charge it and still have room for a mouse and a keyboard. Now it's always a trade-off, so on top of DVI/HDMI/DP dongles, you'll have to carry a USB hub.
> "That makes sense. Big-O notation is so overrated."

Can you explain how having a classification that allows one to determine whether something is logarithmic vs vs quadratic is so overrated?

Isn't that a bit like saying "Algebra is so overrated"?

Also Donald Knuth introduced Big O somewhere around the mid 1970s and C++ didn't come along until 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#cite_note-knuth...

Also your link is a visualization of ADTs not run times. And while it true that ADTs are chosen for certain guarantees it still depends on how they are used in an algorithm.
Those look really nice. I just might try them too. :)
You should update his Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Costas
No, he is a host of NBC's Sunday Night Football. Also on MLB network. He is not on ABC or ESPN.
ICANN’s First Test of Accountability
As a self-taught, I always get nervous when I see articles explaining Big O because they are almost always wrong. While this one is mostly correct, it is a bit simplistic and misleading, and it could use considerable annotations. The "scary" Wikipedia article has examples that are more nuanced than what is written here; the first example shows a constant time algorithm with nested for loops.

I take issue with the math fearing throughout the article. Time complexity is math, period. There is no getting around this fact, and the sooner you accept it, the sooner you learn that the math isn't that difficult, and the sooner you realize that, without some intuition on what the math is saying, you'll never really have a firm grasp of Big O or any of the other variations.

And also, why no mention of log time?
The projection seems closely related to some examples which use a Tetrahedron as projection surface. But according to the description of the process they used some sort of sub-tiled Triakis tetrahedron[1] as intermediate projection surface. This "inflation" process then rounds off the original tetraeders edges and mitigates maximum angle distortion to the four corners of the tetraeder, which can be conveniently placed in places where they are far way from land masses to distort.

To get the rectangular final shape one of the 4 triangular-surfaces is split into two and rotated to the neighboring sides. (Much like that one triangle south of Australia on a Dymaxion map)

Tetrahedric class projections:

conformal:

- Lee Tetrahedric projection

-- http://www.csiss.org/map-projections/Miscellaneous/Lee_Confo...

- Snyder's Tetrahedron (Conformal)

-- http://www.csiss.org/map-projections/Polyhedral_Globes/Tetra...

equal-area:

- Snyder's Tetrahedron (Equal-Area)

--
https://www.mapthematics.com/ProjectionsList.php?Projection=...

-- http://www.csiss.org/map-projections/Polyhedral_Globes/Tetra...

gnomonic:

- including a primer on Tetrahedral Pseudoglobes by Carlos A. Furuti

-- on prognos.com (currently unreachable) http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldo...

-- cached:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150322140625/http://www.progon...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triakis_tetrahedron