skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't do 1-Click (e.g. didn't start Prime until 2 years ago), and I've seen that sort of thing on my consolidated orders when I check out.

Sometimes I can get it isolated to one of the items in my cart, although it can't remember if they then came from different warehouses.

Don't know about this being a Dark Pattern, though, vs. Amazon regressing to the mean, as others have noted in this context in other HN discussions, there are bound to be consequences to treating your technical staff horribly, with search's eternal awfulness being front and center.
Honest question. Why isn't the board just shutting everything down rather than let it continue to burn through cash? Are there sufficient insiders tin whose interest it is to continue their payday?
John Martinis (Google) on Quantum Computing
There are within science actually two types of "science". The one makes precise models and therefore predictions and treats failures of those models and predictions as a big deal, and takes verification so seriously that they would rather delay publication to make sure they results are absolutely correct and not a statistical anomaly. Examples of the first include the LHC and Higgs-Boson and LIGO and gravitional wave detection.

The other type of science practically believes that "science" exists as a purely social construct where you convince others that you have ideas that are true. This science gives p-hacking, and irreproducible studies, and models and predictions that are wrong but that's ok because the over-arching theory is just fine. Examples of this are social sciences.

Also, the second type of "science" seems to insert itself into media and be involved with telling people how they should live their lives. An example of this is the dietary industry with "science" backing.

It turns out, the news media gives heavy preference to the second type of "science", the one with crappy models and predictions, but which the media feel can more easily become clickbait. Which article would you think most people would click on - "An explanation of gravity waves", or "Scientists say eating <common food> is killing you". In addition, because there is less dependence on precise models, the inherent bias of the "scientist" comes into play.

Because of this, the science that most people see in popular media is not where precise models get refined, but one where outlandish predictions are made and then discarded for the opposite outlandish prediction.

After being exposed to this, people decide that science changes from day to day, and that "scientists" are just really influence hungry people just out to tell people how to live their lives and claiming they should be listened to because they have some special knowledge or qualification - just like the "clergy" in the Middle Ages.

PS: The left also has a low opinion of science. You can see this when you see people critiquing studies because they come from oil companies, tobacco companies, or sugar companies. If they really believed in science, they would know that science works regardless of the background of the people involved.
Yea, no one takes it too seriously for employment (which makes me wonder why they even do it most the time). I doubt I would have lost out on any jobs if I had bad credit, it probably wasn't really necessary for me to build up my credit (other than being good for getting car/home loans now).

But your second point is largely what I was getting at. People who don't want that to be a part of their life are starting to run into barriers to leading a normal life. At this point credit scores are used rather casually and don't have that high of consequences. But the trend is in the wrong direction, and I'm firmly against it continuing in the same way as the Chinese are bringing it.
The author is making an assumption but it is not uninformed. In the comparison list he wrote "I had printed games in China before, and have a good relationship with the company we used." I'm assuming things went reasonably well if relationships are still good.
My family cheats at this. We keep wishlists of "items we know we need but can't justify purchasing yet". Then we exchange lists and pick things/a thing to gift. The trick here is you're no longer trying to "justify" the purchase to yourself and you get something you actually need/want instead of something they thought you needed/wanted. It also means you don't need to think hard about what to get.

We've found we appreciate the gifts more because they are something we know with certainty that we'll use. There is still room to "surprise" with what is picked from the list. And in addition, you can pick similar items to items on the list to still throw that bit of "I thought you'd appreciate this too" in there.
BBC Celebrates Release of Lost Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
IIRC PhoneGap is just your app in a WebView while RN uses native components. (e.g. RN <Text> maps to UITextView, while in PhoneGap it's rendered by the WebView)
> We got a call from Satya said, "Hey, you know, we're so excited to work with you. Would you spend some time with Scott Guthrie? He runs Azure. You're gonna love him. Tell him all about your strategy." And we met with Scott Guthrie.

If you don't want to reveal your strategy to outsiders, you shouldn't be talking about it with outsiders. What a dope.
Standard C++ and the Windows Runtime (C++/WinRT)
Blonde slut gets dicks into mouth and ass
Getting to use a line with a lower ratio of travelers to customs officers is exactly what someone means when they talk about skipping a line. If they meant skipping the customs checks they probably would have said checks rather than line.
The only journalist I currently respect is Glenn Greenwald. Others succumb too easily to the temptation to include too many small "in group signals" followed by ad hominem attacks and weak arguments.
Hmmm.... this might be an artifact of the python implementation?

The insert speed should be roughly constant until the filter begins moving items into their alternate buckets(when one of the two buckets for that item is full). In my implementation this doesn't usually happen until well over 90% capacity.

Insert speed will slow slightly as the filters fills up if the implementation uses a shortcut to determine the first empty bucket position by just checking if it's zero. Conceptually, if a bucket is empty you only need to check the first position before the insert. When the filter is half full you need to check ~%50 of bucket positions before an insert. In practice the bucket operations are so fast and buckets only hold 4 items each, I haven't noticed a difference.
I bet this guy spent a lot of time reading "planetes". Awesome work!
I'm working on a cross-compiled library and I am able to compare the same code compiled for the JVM and for Javascript, the language used being Scala, which targets the JVM as a primary target and now we also have http://scala-js.org which is quite good btw.

I can tell you that the answer is definitely no, in my tests V8 being slower than the JVM by a factor ranging between 4 and 10.

If you're interested in seeing that in action, you can download the library's source code and run its tests for the JVM and see how that feels in comparison with the same tests being executed for JS. See: https://github.com/monix/monix
I mostly put everything in the same deck. There are a handful of notes that are similar or contain the same information, it's not really a big deal. If it really bothers me, I just suspend the duplicate while studying and I never see it again (this is trivial to do in the mobile app).

I have a custom note format that I use, with custom fields and custom formatting. It looks something like this:

Front
Back
Context
Source
Date
Author
Hint
Extra
Reverse

"Front" and "Back" are self-explanatory. "Context" is shown on the front of the card, if specified, and is a reminder of the broad context of the note (if it's a note about Python, for example, then I'd put "Python" in the Context). If "Reverse" contains any text, then Anki will generate two cards: front->back and a back->front, which lets me test both directions of the knowledge (it's really helpful to be able to recall information in either direction).

Here's the note template I use (sans formatting, which is standard CSS):

Front:

<header>
Deck: {{Deck}} {{#Tags}}&diams; Tags: {{Tags}}{{/Tags}}
</header>

{{#Context}}
<div id="context">{{Context}}</div>
{{/Context}}

<div class="front">{{Front}}</div>

{{#Hint}}<div class="hint">{{hint:Hint}}</div>{{/Hint}}

Back:

{{FrontSide}}
<div class="back">
<hr>
{{Back}}
</div>
<br>
<div class="extra">{{#Extra}}{{Extra}}{{/Extra}}</div>

<br><br>
<div class="metadata">
{{#Source}}Source: {{Source}} <br>{{/Source}}
{{#Author}}Author: {{Author}} <br>{{/Author}}
{{#Date}}Date: {{Date}}{{/Date}}
</div>
Honest question... If discounting the first year for new customers gives them growth with negligible churn from existing users, why would they offer a discount to loyal users and unnecessarily hurt their margins/LTV?

I feel like this comes up a lot with subscription pricing. Is it not enough that they try to continually add value to the service despite the issues they encounter?
No, Photon is doing "Massively Multiplayer Online As A Service" (did you even read their page?).

And actually they are running game loops, but you can't inject code into them unless you run their software on-premise

So you are seemingly contradicting yourself. 1st you said that "they are doing that." Now you are saying they are also doing "Massively Multiplayer Online As A Service" -- but in a quite different way than what I specified. So yes, I did read what you posted. Apparently you only carelessly read mine.
>If only the problem was with those phones. Anything in the US except for Amazon is under Google's thumb

So you've now qualified it to only phones in the US and devices not from Amazon?

>They put their foot down about other things, like branding, app choices. This should be more important.

It's a balancing act to keep everyone happy. When it comes to things like creating patches and paying for carrier certification these all cost money and shave off even more margin. Support the OEM's that provide timely OS updates and patches and disregard the rest.
Yet as the article points out, the algorithm didn't "train itself" to do anything. It was quite meticulously trained by its researchers.
Does anybody have an example of an application where you need the counting/deletion properties of a counting bloom filter or cuckoo filter over a normal bloom filter? If you do, how do you deal with the filter rejecting your writes because a bucket is full?

It seems like for most applications, silently degrading (instead of rejecting the insertion) when the bloom filter is above capacity is a super useful property.
And how about comparing it to DARPA's Total Information Awareness! Which was renamed and is still thriving, although admittedly it's supposedly only for terrorism. And mission creep never happens....[1]

https://epic.org/events/tia_briefing/tia_categories.gif

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
> You can continue to exist without opting in into FICO.

Only in theory.

For one thing, you don't opt into FICO - the company I transact with chooses to share my information with FICO, without giving me any choice on the matter.

The only way you can opt out of FICO is if you never use the financial system, not have a job, or a place to live. Unless you're an animal, or an undiscovered cave hermit, good luck.

> May be you end up in jail if the score goes below something.

Citation needed.
A prominent investment banker is suing Theranos, and seeking class-action status
LWN reported on a survey: https://lwn.net/Articles/647524/

Of course the kernel community looked at the "Too hard" and "afraid of upstream" responses and called the programmers lying lazy jerks, which I guess proves the point.
stouset didn't cite the IPCC. While that admits the possiblity that they implicitly referred to the IPCC, there are many other sources of variables in the climate debate that are in the 95% range. The mere fact that one is 95% does not exclude the possiblity that others are 95%. Thus the most likely situation here is that you constructed a strawman in your mind, and implicitly argued against it.
I always assumed that's why Python was so popular in universities. It's OOP & it's low on syntax.
This puts me in mind of Whuffie
The intersection of having a bank account, a job, utilities, car insurance, and a roof over your head is close enough to be 'every little thing we do in life.'
A Brief Glance at Ridesharing Revenue Multiples
1st milestone of reactive spring data released
Verbal Harder Than Math?
"Once you have SPF/DKIM in place and make sure your IP isn't already on a blacklist for some past "

you'd think that it would be this simple, but it's not. I have had SPF/DKIM set up from day one, a totally clean IP, doesn't show up on any block lists at all, yet i'm still having some problems delivering to certain ISPs. Verizon is the biggest problem right now.
I had problems delivering to Gmail because my server didn't have a good enough reputation. Everything from my IP was going right into the Gmail spam folder and there was nothing that I could do about it except sit back and wait. It took weeks for Gmail to finally decide that my reputation was good enough.

It's scary just how much power Google has over many things email these days.

Now I have to convince Verizon that my IP is not a dynamically assigned one.
What about selling them very very cheaply as an Amazon Add-on item?
The problem I've had is that there is effectively no difference between bad credit and no credit. It is entirely possible to be a financially responsible person (who exists in the "system" with a bank account) and still be denied housing. This forces people to get credit cards.
The thing with Cuckoo filters is that the item's alternate position is determined solely from it's current position and fingerprint.

Mathematically this is done by XOR'ing with a magic mixing constant borrowed from Murmur2 :) (or in my lib from Mumur3). The quality of the randomness of alternate bucket positions is...probably bad, but in practice it seems to work fine.

Because of this finding alternate positions doesn't require a rehash per se, just a few CPU instructions.

However, there IS a corner case that requires re-hash that comes up more frequently the shorter the fingerprints used. Conceptually a tag/fingerprint of zero means empty bucket, and occasionally the fingerprint hash for an item will end up being zero. In this case I've seen some libraries just add 1, which I didn't really like since it increases hash collisions slightly. Or you can do it like my lib does and just re-hash the item with a salt.
I'll have to admit... that was not what I expected.
Microsoft care. Google don't.
$49 seems very expensive. I could get an android device and start learning "programming" by making android games instead for the same cost.
do you have any pointers for reading about "the C virtual machine"? i'd love an accessible explanation of how the model of the hardware predented by C differs from actual modern chips, but those keywords make it hard to google for.
if you're interested in vector-SIMD algorithms check out this paper

Linear-time Matrix Transpose Algorithms
Using Vector Register File With Diagonal Registers

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13....

disclaimer: I'm the author.
Which they won't be. The average American can't seem to understand that trade negotiations are just that, negotiations. Each side gives up something they would like to have for something they'd really like to have.

Additionally, protecting American labor isn't inherently good. Maybe these companies decide to bring back a few hundred $40k/yr manufacturing jobs, but offset the cost by outsourcing a few hundred $60k/yr office jobs.
"Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities."

From http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Thought as a Technology
I have @tlb.org, which was available when the internet was young. I send and receive through gmail.

- it's one more thing I have to remember to renew every couple of years. Not renewing would be a disaster, since everyone has that address.

+ I can switch email providers without changing my email. I used to run my own server (which was a hassle), and could again, but gmail is pretty convenient.

+ It's slightly shorter to dictate on the phone

+ I don't like sticking someone else's brand on my public identity. Gmail is a fine brand, but not mine. Some other brands (@hotmail.com) have, at least in the past, had a connotation of noobishness.
Right, that would certainly match my expectation. Ship tomorrow, and I'd expect Thursday for 2 business day shipping.
Well, they will still have to import all the upstream changes, and make sure that all the parts play well with each other, which, they can still do. Except that they don't.

I think what makes it hard is the dizzying variety of CPUs that makes it all hard to keep up with. I have heard from insiders that as far as manufacturers are concerned, a CPU stays "current" for about 6 months.
I personally think MakeBlock (http://www.makeblock.com/) does a great job of being a modernized metricized replacement for Erector sets.

It's not particularly cheap - probably costs ~$300 to get a decent sized kit or a smaller kit with enough spare parts to experiment.

All of the mechanical parts are machined reasonably well and fit together in a large number of useful configurations - I really like them for rapid mechanical prototyping.

The electronics are basically arduinos with beginner-friendly connectors - haven't used them myself but have generally heard good things about them.
This is the gold standard for online tutorials - concise explanations, interactive code, and a well-thought-out flow. Really appreciate you taking the time to produce such a high quality resource.
http://polaris.cs.uiuc.edu/~garzaran/doc/pact11.pdf suggests that gcc is only doing ~50% of what icc is doing for vectorization on TSVC, although the experimental speedups on PACT and MediaBench was fairly close (23% versus 28%).
Indeed, and I don't mean it to come off that way. I'm sure in that time he experienced some distribution hiccups as well, so weighing that against his experience here, he must still be finding that the Chinese company will provide a better outcome (since he's still talking about printing with them in the future).
Betaworks' Scale Model Shut Down
It's unfortunate that the "free" version only supports two peers. No scaling and/or convenience for open source projects, apparently!
And the few things here that seem legitimately useful (the sous-vide circulator, for instance) are competing with proven, solid, reliable products (e.g., the Anova precision cooker: 4.5 stars on Amazon with 1100+ reviews).
Exactly the same feeling I got. Kind of unfortunate effect of making a catalog like this - the "we invented something truly new that we think every home in America can use" products do not benefit from being in the same list as "here's something rich people might get a kick out of" products.
CNN acquires Beme social media app for $25m
Performance gain is most likely even negative if you use it for transferring bigger amounts of data (file uploads or downloads) - since the stream multiplexing layer will often lead to an additional copy for each sent/received byte. But that's probably not what the majority of HTTP is used for. On the other hand it will really help all the pages that are making dozens of concurrent small requests, which can't be handled in parallel through HTTP/1 due to connection limitations.
Incidentally, at least one of the images comes from here:
(and they're in violation of the attribution license).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farm-Fresh_user_cook...

I wonder if that image has had many visitors ...
advantages: no snooping, no deletions , no annoying lockouts if your IP changes, no adds, much less confusing the layout, much better spam filtering, looks more professional, better customer service

disadvantages: monthly or yearly fee, possible downtime issues, more work to set it up
Furthermore, it's terminology from mathematics, where, just like the lambda calculus, mutation isn't a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_(mathematics)
If they think it's a fraud, they're by definition correct. The system is supposed to represent them and if they don't feel a representative democracy (hah!) does, who's to tell them otherwise?

The plain fact of the matter is that the representative system was implemented for two reasons 1) necessity in a pre-industrial society 2) to actually limit the power of the people.

The fact that #2 was intended to make us safer (avoid a tyranny of the masses, etc) doesn't change the fact that our government is intended not to listen to our opinions.
Linear-Time Matrix Transpose Algorithms Using Vector Register File (2000)
Ernst and Young Switzerland Will Accept Bitcoin Next Year
But the thing about Chomsky is that pretended to "know" how a certain function of the brain worked (and on a level much more complex than F = ma, and much more specific than anything offered by Freud), well ahead of any available evidence.
If you have a sewing machine it takes less than 15 minutes to tailor a shirt down (just put it on inside-out, pin, and sew).

Made-to-measure mail-order dress shirts are an idea from the 1990s AFAIK. A while back I collected some promotional offers from in-flight magazines and online and ordered a big stockpile of white made-to-measure dress shirts. With the promotional pricing it came out to less than $20 a shirt.

As with any menswear business, the main problem is customer education. Men in the US dress like slobs, do not care that they dress like slobs, and do not want to spend money on clothes (85% of apparel revenue comes from womenswear).
'IT Security' finally starts to make sense
You're correct, but I don't see how that has any relevance?
The US has to transport goods and people longer distances, so all other things being equal US transportation will be more energy intensive. However, having the US switch over to the German mode of transportation, where goods move on trucks and people move on rails, will make the system more, not less energy intensive since goods contribute more ton-miles than people.
This reminds me of an apt quote from Feynman: science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
Hahahahahaha, I've blown much, much more for the same result. Lesson learned.
Are you the same John Teasdale as @beaglerush?
I'm not a "hash guy" by any means - what impact would that have on its performance?
people need to stop being so sensitive and emotional.

seems a reasonable person can answer any question properly; calmly deriving and ignoring the intent and just simply answering the question as truthfully as possible.
So are dildos, but that doesn't mean they need to be made safe for children. These toys were clearly advertised as being for adults only.
It depends a lot on the product and the audience, but from my experience, you are never going to get results with your first $500 or $1000 on Facebook Ads, regardless your background. It takes a lot of trial and error just to understand what works, and then some more to drill down, get better, lower costs, etc. I'd say you are looking at three months and several thousand dollars of experimenting at least to start getting decent results, even with a strong PPC background. Facebook is just a completely different beast.

You can most definitely not set up your first campaign, pick the first targeting criteria that comes to mind, and expect good results with a positive ROI within the same day. If you don't keep at, it of course you are going to walk out with the idea that Facebook Ads don't work.

Source: Spent a six figure amount on Facebook over the course of two years.
The History of 100 Hamilton Ave