skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You talk about the ML being reinforced over time by user actions so you must have suffered from the 'cold start' problem in the beginning. How did you address this? Did you initialize it with your own expert curated rules/weightings? Something else?

Have you done any automated mining of the elements in existing "good" company logos (e.g. Nike, AirBnB, etc.). I could see doing something manual too like Music Genome Project or Netflix's internal curated movie characteristics tagging. You'd go through assessing these gold standard logos for qualities like contrast, amount of whitespace, if brand name intersects the artwork, etc and then augment your model with these style rules.

Any insights you'd be willing to share would be appreciated!
Indeed. We reduced our write iops by 95% by moving from Graphite/Carbon to Influx. Try one of the newer databases!
It is a spectrum that is for sure. I expect everyone has an internal barometer where financial help flips over from ordinary to extraordinary. If you give your child graduating from college a used car. Is that privileged? Even if that child has $100K in college debt? Or if you pay their air fare to come to Thanksgiving two times after they are out of college, is that privileged? How about you pay their bail to get them out of jail, is that privileged.

I disagree with the idea that any financial support means your children are privileged but do agree that there is a level of support at which they are so. In my personal definition I draw the line at things like subsidizing their rent or paying their gas or insurance bills. I would consider someone whose parents supported them to that level as living a privileged life.

But as I said, I expect that line is in different places for everyone.
The fact that you think the reasoning behind traditional marriage is "just plain stupid and cruel" is probably the best example of Chesterton's Gate I've yet seen. It indicates that (a) not only do you not understand the reasoning, but (b) our society has changed so much, and so subtly, that it's almost impossible to get anyone to understand that reasoning. Needless to say, I don't think this bodes well for us over the long-term.

(Ducking all the incoming downvotes - I'm keenly aware of how unpopular this position is, and how bigoted it seems to most folks these days - which sort of proves my point.)
not exactly river moving around, just a border demarcation style change after several decades, small island, 2 big states possessing thermonuclear weapons :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhenbao_Island
Democracy are only stable as long as the surplus generated bribes everyone into holding still. This is gone.

If only we had used the time, to craft tools that will keep a minima of society, science and education going even in troubled times.
What do you use for local backup?
That's what I'm getting at when I say that expectations used to be much lower.
I assume that your users are finding your app useful, which is why they are using it. If you were charging $10/month for each user, then you wouldn't be having this problem. It would be worth your while to commit to it full-time.

I would have thought that the idea of a side-project is to create a MVP and if it takes off then you have a viable business. If not, then it was an interesting experiment.

In its current form, your app is a charitable act, you are helping others out of the goodness of your heart. Nothing wrong with that, if that is what you want to do.
Omnicharge. A powerful, smart, portable, multi-device charger. It has the potential to be a massive hit.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/omnicharge-smart-compact-...

They keep shifting the shipping date.
Looks like it got fixed. There's now a consistent 1" margin at all zooms on Firefox desktop. For a while, the right margin seemed to have gone negative.
I think the problem with democratic governments today is the fact that they're winner-take-all. And it's taken to such a extreme that even city governments which have been more socially liberal in the past decade are being overruled by state governments being dominated by socially conservative politicians. They claim that such actions are "needed" to "preserve order." Yet, what I'm seeing here is the antithesis of order since to overrule a city government which is closest to the community of citizens they represent is inherently anti-democratic. This has been a common thread through this election cycle in the United States where communities that are clearly not in step with their state governments are being forced to conform. I'm just waiting for the same social conservatives to make it a mandate that corporations have to abide by government approved "social conventions" to just negate the non-discrimination clauses in employment contracts (just as a way to ensure total compliance to their view of reality). Because the only solution I see for any of this is a radical form of local democracy with proportional representation at higher levels of government to take hold and overturn the current system as it is.
Vizualizing 341M geo-located tweets. Powered by 4 Nvidia K40s
What did you use as the web server / process manager? Was it embedded lua in nginx (maybe lapis as the web framework?) or otherwise? Please share more.
The problem with that is often it gives equal credence to unequal opinions. And not everyone has the critical thinking skills and freedom from bias that they think they do. I'd argue that really nobody is able to fully remove from themselves any biases that may make them more likely to believe some comment over another.

Voting does nothing for this either, as people may upvote a popular lie or misconception, or downvote an uncomfortable truth - I used to see this happen often in the science-based subreddits when I bothered with them on reddit.
I really am sick to death of applications built ontop of Electron Shell et al, what an utter waste.
Can't some video formats be concatenated? Something like this pipeline for serving the ad:

cat $(select_ad_file $user) $video_file
Reasons besides "didn't want to help":

1) Parents are deceased (mine have been dead for decades, for example, so they couldn't)

2) Estranged from parents (people I know have had little no/contact due to irreconcilable differences)

3) Parents are too poor to help

4) Adult child makes enough money to not need help
Because you don't want that lump of mass to change in any way while it is being used as a reference.

Are you aware of all the matter exchange processes that are continuously going on at the surface of water ice under normal conditions?
Endian Firewall (EFW) 3.2.1 Installation and Configuration Tutorial
Servo is actually really exciting for VR. Turns out the team realized they could get WebGL, WebVR, WebAudio and other non-DOM-related features up and running much faster than the enormous complexity of HTML DOM legacy support. So, they are focusing on all of that first!
I'm not sure I understand when you mention academia as some monolithic structure. You mean certain dominant strands of sociology and political theory? I think that's a pretty broad generalization. Also something I notice again and again, and this was especially prevalent in the elections. That when the average US citizen talks about government he or she talks about it as some outside force imposed upon them. You have society and you have government intruding and controlling it. In other developed countries i get the impression the government is seen more as a some entity existing within society, something which can be influenced and entered into.
If you use pozzolan concrete reinforced with basalt, then the reinforced concrete part will last.

There is a lot of research on building a "cloak of invisibility" against ocean waves. Earliest I saw about this was back in the 1990's or early 2000's I think, with some Japanese researchers who were the first I recall proposing what is now commonly cited as a discovery in 2008 by UK and French researchers [1].

It would be interesting if the building design can take the large wind loads and use the energy to create and store hydrogen, perhaps re-direct the wind to anchor the building even more if that is a structurally sound approach.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14829-invisibility-cl...
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In what universe is David Brooks centrist? He's a conservative with no attachment to the center. He's a FiCon/NeoCon who works hard to not criticize SoCons.

The article would be more accurate if it were titled DB and the intellectual collapse of the Right.

The article that Chait cites is just Brooks doing what Brooks does best: equivocation. He wants to criticize Trump but can't. So he equivocates Trump and Sanders which is nonsense.

There is no Alt-Left. We call ourselves Progressives and we don't lie about our positions.
> We can't possibly talk about having enough food, housing, safe interactions with the law, etc. as rights

For housing/food, sure - in the USian context it doesn't make sense to talk about such things as "rights" because they'd have to be provided by somebody else [0]. The existence of life's basic necessities is actually not guaranteed and it is worthwhile to remember that. (However this framework says nothing about the idea of distributing surpluses to people who couldn't otherwise afford it, just that it does not constitute a "right").

But inverting the sense and labeling their presence "privilege" is a completely regressive zero-sum framework, ultimately promulgated by political shills that are more concerned with bolstering their followers rather than actually fixing problems.

This is especially clear when talking about things that are rights, like say simply not being murdered (eg by the police). By labeling as "privileged" the people who are just not having their rights violated, the tone is set that they are the exception. The "privileged" group then checks out of the conversation (as they're being told that the problem does not directly concern them), while the ire of the "unprivileged" group is harmlessly directed at the "privileged" group instead of their actual oppressors.

[0] It's the distinction between saying whether a "right" to Internet access implies a free basic monthly service, or merely disallowing the possibility that one could be banned from the Internet via governmental action like an explicit law or "private" "three strikes" system.
Standard sprite size on the C64 in high res mode is 8x8, and you can't use more than two colours within that space, should be serviceable.
>"You cited Gigerenzer, Neyman, Pearson as if they opposed the concept of power."

Sorry for the miscommunication. The point is that power is a Neyman/Pearson concept, Fisher said it didn't make sense. On the other hand a gradient of evidence is a Fisherian concept, Neyman/Pearson said that didn't make sense.

What people have been teaching as stats is a mismash of the two that makes sense to no one who thinks these types of things through. Gigerenzer reviews this strange phenomenon and offers some entertaining commentary, it is a decent starting point.
That's no excuse for 17GB of memory usage...
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007)
> (Assuming, of course, you can get a card with a decent credit limit while still a student.)

This is the key :)
Great question.

Most countries have a mapping agency/authority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_mapping_agency). I've always assumed that each country defines it's own spatial boundary defined by the relevant legal agreements that define a country. Third parties such as Google presumably use whatever each country provides and try to stay out of any disputes (http://qz.com/218675/here-are-the-32-countries-google-maps-w...).

As far as updates, someone probably just has an annual calendar reminder to pull the latest shapefile for each territory or from a central authority (UN? National Geospatial Agency?)! The geographer in me is mildly amused at the thought of someone in Belgium making a pull request to The Netherlands related to updating a boundary.

If you're interested in questions like this, I highly recommend the FOSS4G conferences (http://2017.foss4g.org/). Many of the big names in GIS attend and can likely give an authoritative answer on questions such as this.
The One Problem with Showing Women's Mental Health Issues on TV
> With tools like valgrind, address sanitizers and modern debugging toolchains, most of these issues can be caught.

Most of these tools require support from an operating system. This is not the case when you do kernel programming. For some reason even existing tools are not popular among kernel programmers [0].

IMO, there are bugs that can be caught well a compile time without my effort, so why should I waste time on catching them at runtime?

I would better make love to compiler instead of having sex with debugger.

[0] http://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3
Show HN: Pragma
Nice, I was just fixing some of their CMake configuration recently (still waiting for my other PR to be merged though)
Anybody got tips on how to start with implementing an alert system? Or what to read to get started?
What transport are you using to secure telegraf into influxdb?

(Haven't tried telegraf yet, setuping a prometheus at the moment)
> Red Hat's has free updates?

CentOS has. RedHat is simply not free, so paid upgrades are par for the course. Any free distribution out there has free automatic updates - I think even Oracle came around.

> Mtier is free for the current version.

Yeah, for now (didn't use to be the case, might not be the case forever). Regardless, you're now trusting two entities, OpenBSD and MTier, rather than one. This second entity is not officially affiliated with OpenBSD, and they could shut down tomorrow. How do you trust someone like that with your most sensitive OS files?

I keep banging on about this, but it's the single item that prevents me from switching to OpenBSD as my "default deployed OS" for my generic web needs: the MTier situation is shady and undignified for a major project in 2016, let alone one built on security which requires trust; and my time is too valuable to waste it on reading release notes for banal patches and figure out what special-snowflake incantation I need this week. If OpenBSD does not have the capabilities to provide what MTier provides, they should broker an official agreement where MTier becomes the official channel for updates, with OpenBSD guaranteeing some quality control. If nobody wants to risk his reputation on this service, how can I ever trust it?
I don't know of any languages that don't have a Latinized written form: Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, etc. all have Latinized forms.
Git 2.11 has been released
Nice one :)

Generally the logic of the work is:

1. Capitalism is poor at providing value to the majority (eg. globally the top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 99%) and ensuring the long term survival of the species (eg. protecting the environment).
2. However, until there is actually a viable alternative it is a moot point. People who criticize capitalism tend to be caught up in marxism which in reality is an old, overly simplistic and unstable system.
3. Use the open source model to build a compelling alternative to capitalism which can then be promoted.

I've completed a very alpha version which details the system reasonably well but I guess the current goal is to get help, which I have found difficult.

This is the repo https://github.com/open-socialism/open-socialism.github.io which I am doing the work on. I am on an associated gitter channel.

I am also doing work on another site to help convince people of the problem that I explain here https://github.com/open-socialism/open-socialism.github.io/i... (will put into github soon)

https://opensocialism.com/open-socialism/ is a reasonable overview of the main points of the system.

Uh, anyway.. Any help is welcome in the form of feedback, github issues, PRs or whatever. No pressure :)
I just have an rsync cronjob that makes an incremental backup to a network drive on my home LAN. There are some GUIs for rsync like BackInTime for those who are less inclined to deal with the command line.
If you're computation bound, unless you have a very current-limited power supply, you can just max out the clock when you wake up and turn it back down before sleeping.

In my case I had to be awake for some time anyway, so I just used the lowest clock frequency I could.
That's because it's unflavored tofu.
Kontena 1.0 Released: Developer Friendly Container and Microservices Platform
Swift optionals explained simpy
> First, slippery slope is a fallacy: having a public broadcaster does not lead to socialized cars.

I was merely trying to draw a comparison to things we can agree shouldn't be socialized, where consumer choice matters, not that one leads to the other. I believe slippery slope fallacy requires the implication that in this case, publicly funding CBC leads to socialized cars. Which I didn't mean to imply is true if it came off that way. Just to draw a comparison to see how you thought of it differently, because I find them fairly comparable personally.

Even in welfare or the mincome proposals you have consumer choice over where to spend and exactly how much to spend on food. Which you don't in this case with CBC's media. That's the part I have a problem with.

> I'm sure there's lots you're enjoying now that they'd prefer not to fund.

And I'm quite confident there's not. In fact, there are very, very few things I feel that the government should be funding. I'm more than willing to give up just about anything the government provides me if they're willing to do the same.

Why is the opposite proposal of saying we should remove these things rejected outright? How about we all just pay for the stuff we use instead of paying for other people's stuff? If we had a mincome-style system, would you be more okay with this sort of proposal?

I'd be much more open to mincome proposals if we could get rid of cruft like this we're paying for. I think it could generate real economic efficiency in cases like this.
From a simple dollars and cents POV, the manager usually makes more money than any of their workers.
No, it just means they think the suit will decrease the value of their investment less than they stand to win.
Actually there's an adaptor with the pencil that allows you to charge with it a standard lightning cable.

You can plug it into an iPad, but you really don't have to.
It'd be nice if this meant being able to use Grafana as a frontend to alertmanager.

(Writing those "ALERT ..." requires a steep learning curve.)
>"The concept of power has nothing to do with "degrees of evidence" or vague hypotheses."

Yes it does. To properly assess the probability of incorrectly failing to reject a hypothesis you need to know how likely the data would be under various rival hypotheses. This depends on the precision of the various hypotheses. This is explained by Fisher in my original ref.
How you can leverage production-grade infrastructure for less than $200/month
For fun. My parents wanted a fake security system with a blinking light at their house to ward off burglars, so I soldered an LED and a resistor to an ATTiny and then soldered on a double AA pack. It's still going off the first set of batteries.
I went the same route as Logojoy with Shodan and it's worked out great. Even charging $5/ month was a non-starter for most individuals whereas a $49 one-time fee is more palatable. And despite it being a one-time fee the monthly revenue is very predictable so there isn't much uncertainty in terms of budget planning. I would highly recommend startups to consider one-time payments, especially if they're targeting individuals and not businesses.
Ask HN: My client is about to franchise to 50+ locations across US
I have a client that owns 3 fitness studios. I've built out a .NET web application for them that allows users to book classes, buy packages, manage their accounts, etc. The client has been approached by an investment group to adopt a franchise model to scale across the US to over 50 locations next year.

What are questions that I should prepare for the investment group either of a technical or business nature? What should I keep in mind when switching to a franchise model and to scaling to such a large size from a technical perspective?

This is my first time dealing with something like this and would love your feedback.
Probably not if you really need a logo.
well no single proton actually makes it all the way across, so it is a phonon!
Further evidence that most 'tech' boils down to how to sell things faster, sell more things.
I'm an admin. Have been for many, many, moons. I've found that when things seen to behave that way it's because I have failed to sufficiently adjust my understanding of them. Often, we can be guilty of expecting that everything should behave like the least common denominator set of features between all host systems. Often, there is great value in finding "the way" that a particular system is trying to exemplify instead of forcing it to match my own.

To be fair, that least common denominator set of features can be very powerful and capable. It's not a slam, I'm just saying that finding out the in depth method of operation for a given system can often be rewarding.
> what possible commodity would be worth trading among star systems

Apart from information which has been mentioned twice I'd say habitable and highly hospitable land (Earth-like planets) as well as access through or even ownership of territory. Space might be big but if we're limited by the speed of light then these things have immense value and still considerable value if we're somehow able to get around it.
RSP needs to be aligned to 16 bytes at CALL sites. See f.e https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040114-00/?p=...
Based on my previous experience, my guess is that the latter would be much too blurry, because generative models tend to only output blurry images.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

The only nit I have to pick is that new frameworks don't have to deal with as much platform fragmentation as jQuery had to paper over in it's heyday, in part because all major browsers are now somewhat more compatible and standards compliant, in part because any missing or incompatible functionality can usually be dealt with by using a polyfill, and in part because evergreen browsers have sharply reduced user updrag.
Stop presuming that just because you're familiar with something that it's no longer worth bringing up. I've never used any of these tools and value the discussions about them that questions like the thread starter's allow.

Further, there are always new people looking to learn and grow. They shouldn't be looked down upon simply because others got there first.

What makes you think the question was a leading question rather than a genuine one? There isn't enough there to definitively determine the intent in any case, so it's up to whoever responds to decide which way of reading the question they will respond to, and that's an opportunity for the larger software community and for the developers of the projects in question to nurture thier communities. Just because it doesn't have value to you doesn't mean it doesn't have value to others.
http://mos6581.com/pictures/commodore-64/fsf.jpg

It works surprisingly well, I've got it setup at the office.
Yes, they're called userdata.
Show HN: Scrapy Middleware for Named Entity Recognition with Stanford CoreNLP
Unless you have a job where you can choose your own tech stack or are otherwise self-employed are there really non-game development jobs that use Lua? I like the language and have used it for scripting games before but have never seen a single job posting for that skill set. I even have it on my resume and I'm fairly certain no one has ever noticed.
The Apple is exploding camp got it right.
Of course, it's the only option that makes economic sense in most cases.
The thing is, I restart games because I want to remember and be cognizant of the story I'm playing through. I often don't play for months at a time, and when I get back I wonder what I'm doing.
Are there decent Linux alternatives?