skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right, and economically efficient.

Interesting question though. What about land that is reclaimed from the sea, or land that requires investment in order to not fall into the sea?

Such land cannot be said to exist independent of someone's efforts, and we could not make such arguments.
I think that above all, what Arnold is saying is that the blueprint for success is "standing on the shoulder of giants", or listening to successful people advice, which, though it's probably good advice, happens to lead right to the book his article is advertising.
Information was from the top negative review on Amazon: "I called Bose support and they told me the QC30 was never intended to be a replacement for the QC20. They said the NC wouldn’t be as strong and wasn’t intended to be. That is why one is designated QuietControl and not QuietComfort. "

I missed the reply from Bose: "We apologize for the information you received from our support team as it is not accurate. The Quietcontrol 30 headphones should offer a comparable level of noise cancellation to the previous QC20 model. Although the level of noise cancellation is adjustable on the QC30, they should perform just as well as the QC20."
This isn't an article, it's an opinion piece with a bunch of anecdotal evidence and random quotes to support the author's case.

The caption "Nor are they Zuckerberg" is outrageously condescending and judgmental. "None of these people are smart enough to become successful entrepreneurs," judges the author, "and they shouldn't even bother trying."

Is it a surprise that lots of people have the wrong idea about what it takes to be successful with a startup? No, and it shouldn't be a surprise.

Just like any profession that pop culture heaps praise upon, there will be many who have an unrealistic view about what it takes to gain success. It's the same as starting a rock band - some people are going to be outrageously successful and most won't, but most who fail will gain experience and will not regret having tried.

For those who think that this is a problem, try to fix it - go give a talk to some young entrepreneurs about how hard it is. Let them know what the risks are and how much work it's going to take. Try to help them be better equipped for the challenges ahead.
The problem with open source is that the hardware is rarely "open enough", and the software is a small enthusiast niche so it's rarely polished and "complete".

I'd rather accept that the installation has a lifers of 10 years and just buy a proprietary system complete with service and guarantees, then rip it out and replace it all in 10 years.

Agree on wired - and also, smart switches etc have to be usable with standard light switches and power sockets otherwise you are stuck with a tiny selection of ugly fixtures.
+1

I like how your comment stands out as being such a rational, non-aggressive observation in all this. I wish I had the answer for you, but I can't figure it out either. shrug Maybe some people are using this as an opportunity to vent the frustrations they've had with using the language (despite it being so loved, and ranked 3rd in most-used according to IEEE), and since there are two versions of the language instead of one, they can more readily create an object doomed for the epitome of their hatred, the sacrificial lamb going to the slaughter (sounds like something from a bizarre school of thought in psychology). You'd think it'd just be easier to let people do what works best for them. I'm sure many expect to take collateral damage from the differences in versions (imagine being a Python 3 fan and having to start working for a company that exclusively uses Python 2 or vice versa), but these people also readily accept working with languages with radically different designs and welcome in copy-cats (like Clojure is to other LISP-like languages). The important thing is that the language does what you need it to do. The name on the download link shouldn't make that much of a difference. The world has adapted to accepting Python 2 and Python 3 regardless of the bickering. There's room for "Python 2.8", even if it is poorly-named. I imagine there are probably dozens of Python 2.8s in existence - they just haven't been noticed by people here on HN. Besides, in about 3 months, we probably won't be hearing more about Python 2.8 anyways unless someone else decides to use it.
This reminds me of the time my party argued about how much modern information theory we were allowed to use in D&D. We wanted to maximize the amount of information to communicate using Sending which states that it sends "twenty-five words or less". Can I use a form of encoding and a compression algorithm? Or can we make up words and can they be arbitrarily long?
You're welcome!

If you make a wall-like page for selecting services, I'd suggest this layout: https://www.dropbox.com/enterprise

Basically the logo in white against the primary-color of the brand. Very easy to scan and looks clean.
Perhaps without the safety net, children of seniors would provide more care for their parents rather than moving them into expensive senior centers.
I think you've hit on the core issue here. Whilst I abhor some of the hatred and viciousness posted online, and think it's absurd to try to turn it into a free speech issue, I can understand the benefit of no censorship: drawing the line, consistently, is very, very difficult - maybe impossible. But even reddit draws a line (US law?), so there's no getting away from it.

Does anyone here advocate 'free speech' so strongly that they wouldn't mind someone posting their personal details or naked photos online? I'm sure some people are so thick-skinned that they could handle that, but I certainly couldn't.
Actually I wrote the first version of this graph library 3yrs ago. It was to help the search relevance team create reusable components, turn implicit dependency management into a first class citizen and finally add a way to dump the graph state at runtime or statically.
Seems like all the languages and frameworks are creeping slowly and cautiously towards the Actor model. Come on in folks, the water's fine!
Here’s how fintech will impact emerging markets in 2017
If you build a "smart home" begin by accepting that all of lf it should be written off and replaced in 10 years.

If the system is wired, chances are only central hubs/displays need to be changed. With a wireless system then ALL the switches and sockets will have to be changed.
But it's not "no longer." This machine (it's the 2015 rMBP) has not included a dGPU for as long as I can remember.
I have no experience with them myself, but I know there's a good bit of interest in them for non-traditional uses. A Google search for shipping container homes will turn up a lot of interesting results. It still might give your inspector a fit, but there are resources out there. You wouldn't be blazing completely new ground.
This came across my twitter feed and it brought back a discussion about how to know your startup was in trouble. This is perhaps the best indicator, people start lying to themselves.

A reasonably good book on the topic is Bossidy's "Confronting Reality". In that book he has a lot of good anecdotes and techniques for testing whether or not you're lying to yourself but at the risk of spoiling it I'll share it hear, if you can't validate your business model with external realities (facts that your employees generally can't re-cast in a different light) you have a huge problem regardless of what people are telling you.

Similarly when your customers are converting or your life time customer value isn't where it needs to be for your startup's business plan to work, you need to figure that out right now.

If you see your upper management ignoring signs like this, that is a huge sign that your startup is not going to make it.
Is it worth 10k to you to sell? Do you think they'd pay more? Is this an aqui-hire? Are they bringing you on? Have you thought about getting angel investors to maybe see this through and help you grow it?
Interesting idea! So for example, the user would provide the displayed hex digest as a note along with the payment. The payment verification server could then email the user the decrypted key.
The Randomize button is simply delightful.
So if I am starting to date someone, I don't have a right to know they were convicted of sexual assault ten years ago?
I'm pretty sure you're supposed to link to it...
Python xkcd: https://xkcd.com/353/

What's even ironic here is that the print command he used is Python 2 instead of Python agnostic. I wonder which version Randall Munroe would prefer, if either.
Although I agree the compiler rarely produces great code automatically, it's normally possible to handhold the compiler into producing code roughly equivalent to hand-written ASM. Doing so is rarely easier, but it is at least more portable!
World’s oldest known seabird lays an egg at age of 66
Further, if cable #2 was purchased at an Apple Store, just return it 7 days later. You have a 14-day return window.
While not a dice game, my daughter really loved Sequence for Kids when she was 3. She was able to follow the rules and learn to play.

https://smile.amazon.com/Jax-8001-Sequence-for-Kids/dp/B0000...
Mine have not yet developed callouses and I suspect they never will.

Indeed I haven't seen most of the changes in my feet that others say they have seen in theirs. My feet are mostly the same, but with soles that are just a little less sensitive to pebbles and sticks than they used to be.

Maybe I'm lucky, but even in a big city that practically glitters with broken beer bottles and I don't find glass to be a problem. Injuries from broken glass are easy to avoid, and are much more often talked about than realized. Once a season I may get a splinter in my foot, or stub my toe on a root, but that's about the worst of it.

There are no real experts on barefoot living yet and if there are I would not be one. But since you asked, in my experience it took a month or so of being consistently barefoot for my soles to begin to feel like they were changing. They're still changing, slowly, a year later.

You get used to the feeling of the concrete on your soles, just like you get used to anything. Then, like anything you get used to, you notice it less and less.

The only real drawback to being barefoot outside is that a lot of people will look at you like you're crazy. They'll tell you you're going to get injured. That there's glass on the ground. Many of these people will be in pumps or wedges. You just learn to let it humor you on the inside.
Aren't these things going to break and you end up doing maintenance every couple of months in a useless turns-your-lights-off-for-you system?
I really don't know what kind of doctor is more common, because I avoid them. But the last time I went to a primary care doc, he googled my symptoms and read excerpts from a Wikipedia article. He diagnosed me with what I'd already internet-diagnosed myself with, and added no additional value. That experience didn't improve my opinion of doctors.
Sorry to read about it. I am glad I do enjoy a good excercise.
I think my favorite part of that game was Cher as the voice of the fortune-telling machine. The whole part of the fortune telling machine was to allow you to save your in-game progress in exchange for coins.

Probably the first game ever that hired a celebrity to narrate the "Save Your Progress" feature.
The Hypocrisy of Google's Adwords and Adsense
Maybe you need to find a different sport? I prefer running cause I get to be outside and often close to nature. I'd hate it if I had to go to a gym.
> it is not a solution for people to simply stop using e.g. Gmail.

I strongly disagree with this part. For example, if you think the primary problem with GMail is user privacy, then the only solutions are legal or technical. And the legal framework required to protect privacy for GMail users is utterly draconian -- to the point that Google would probably just shutter the service.

The problem with Stallman's approach is only that his purism doesn't scale. The solution to that problem -- one that's been demonstrated effective time and again -- is to make purity utterly pragmatic.
Linkedin probably killed it too. I got an error message: "Sorry, this article is no longer available" and the link is redirected to an article about books that is probably unrelated.
I was a shitty startup founder in my 20s. Despite my failings all of my employees went on to be incredibly successful. The chaos and hustle is an invaluable education.
You sound ADHD symptomatic, it might be worth looking into that. That includes both regularly doing three things at once and occasionally focusing on inappropriate things for hours.
That. is. hilarious.

(Business is like life, love and war: difficult)
That follows Wilde's quip that "the trouble with socialism is that it takes too many evenings."
Why scary? Are you dumb enough to get one of those?
I wouldn't mind a smart home so long as e.g light switches have the response time (1ms?)! and reliability (1 million switchings without hiccup?) of a regular switch.

The acceptance level for "problems" switching lights on or off is pretty much zero.

If all the smart functions fail, it has to fall back to a functioning dumb home, like escalators become stairs when broken. Not a non-working home like a broken elevator...
And how else would you let your users have a subdomain login url? Why bother generating specific certs and dns for each when you can just use the HOST header for the login and use a wildcard?

This is totally common and used in a lot of places..

I mean:

https://bigger.bag.of.dicks.signin.aws.amazon.com/
We also want to be able to protect ourselves from people who are dangerous; how do you know the person has 'learnt his lesson', and is no longer dangerous? Yes, we should give people a chance at redemption, but we need to do it with eyes wide open, being vigilant to protect ourselves from the person doing it again.
> I found US public school education was not about learning and mastery. It's about conformity and obedience.

Bingo.

There has been much improvement in curriculum over the years, certainly, but the structure of the American school system is still basically the same one that was originally designed expressly to produce a body of conforming and obedient factory workers with a consistent and predicable level of skills.
Is that subreddit US-only or global? Because whilst trump may enjoy 50% approval at home, his global approval tend towards 10-20%.
The obvious example is The Americans, and... nothing else comes to mind. Everything else worth watching is created by Netflix or HBO (or maybe Amazon).
Why did Python 3 not ship with

from __past__ import bytestring_literals, loose_comparison, integer_division, ...

? Being able to upgrade one file at a time to Py3 would have made porting so much easier! I realize some things could be hard to support file-at-a-time, but others (like my examples) would obviously not.

I've held off on porting the Py2 code that I'm responsible for because of the lack of total test coverage. I know that something tricky with unicode, None comparison, or the list->generator split will cause a failure in a weird, untested edge case. If I were making a numeric library, that'd be one thing. However, I mostly write complicated business logic API glue code that is hard to test without huge amounts of mocks.

Also, this kind of thing gives me nightmares about porting:

WSGI therefore defines two kinds of "string":

"Native" strings (which are always implemented using the type named str ) that are used for request/response headers and metadata
"Bytestrings" (which are implemented using the bytes type in Python 3, and str elsewhere), that are used for the bodies of requests and responses (e.g. POST/PUT input data and HTML page outputs).

So according to the spec (!) WSGI headers MUST be `str` in Python 2 & 3, but that means that the semantic meaning of the types changes. How on earth am I supposed to write good code for working with headers (let alone mocking and testing) when I'm required to decode them in Python 2 but not in Python 3?
IMO, the fundamental problems with Stallmanism are not to be found in its tactics and execution, but rather in the very core of the philosophy itself.
How does it compare to the two giants, FFTW and Intel IPP? (http://www.fftw.org/speed/CoreDuo-3.0GHz-icc64/). In particular, I don't see any mention of cache awareness. I don't know much about FFTW, but all the parts of Intel IPP that I've used are ridiculously fast, and I'm sure Intel is using all the tricks they can to speed up the cache (ie proper layout, cache prefetch). For example, Intel's fft forward transform on complex floats is about as fast as memcpy with a cold cache.
I have an idea: bicycles.
No, that wasn't at all obvious. If what you're saying is that the bad parts of reddit are bad then I agree with you.
This is why I'm very skeptical of the long-term health of food replacements like Soylent. We know vegetables are good for you. We're not really sure why. How can we possibly create a healthy food-replacement system if we don't fully understand what makes food healthy?
essentially brilliant.

I've been thinking more and more about how Stallman has blocked perhaps the only effective way to make companies make more open-source software: allow DRM to work properly with open-source code.

That is, the main issue with making open-source software is that anyone can copy it, thus placing the value of your software at 0. But if DRM effectively put a a stop to this, by not allowing you to run unlicensed code, you could distribute open-source as much as you'd like, safe in the knowledge that while people could emulate your application, they wouldn't be able to copy your code directly.

My view on this is increasingly that software should be forced to be open-source and modifiable by the (individual) user. But it should not allow the user to run the code without the developer/owner authorization. The developer also should not be allowed to stop users from sharing modifications amongst themselves, as long as they were paying for the original code, so as to stop him from using it as a weapon agaisnt users who modify it and wish to share their mods.

Any other defence of free software is basically an attack on capitalism itself. Regardless of your opinion on capitalism, this is too radical a change for most people.
Weren't we talking about affiliate marketing? For affiliate marketing you need an actual company that is getting sales out of it. Most companies will immediately turn off affiliate marketers getting it sales by spreading malware/ransomware.
While I can't say anything about Google consumer service (all the Nexus products I've had performed flawlessly and admirably), there is one advantage to getting a device on-contract - they often have replacement plans which are quite abordable (and even cover damage), and take away the hassle of dealing with the manufacturer.
Although your comment is a fair one, this critique is tactical/strategic rather than political/ideological. That is, the author assumes you mostly agree with Stallman's end goals, and from there argues for a different set of strategies.
Regardless of the detractors, I think this is brilliant work. All of the negativity around your project is over politics or subjective opinions based off of individual experience where they are lucky enough to work in environments on the bleeding edge.

Keep up the good work, this could help a lot of people!
I've read an article about some person working in Google sleeping in an RV on a parking lot. So am I supposed to make a far reaching conclusions from this one person to whole company? Looks like lots of people here don't bother to make any distinction between one case of one guy in UK doing something weird and the whole Amazon company everywhere. And then they go around and complain about "fake news" misleading them.
I mean when the game ends, the last two players. After one of them loses, the game is over.
Anyone else feel uncomfortable and mild mental-claustrophobia when they run? Time seems to slow to a crawl. I'be never been able to get past that to enjoy running.
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a great counterpoint is documentation for MXNet which is clearly written by non native speakers yet is widely adopted since its so awesome
My experience has usually been with specialists, so that may explain some of the difference.
Yeah, or more likely a Bitcoin address and payment amount would be generated based on the attacker's Bitcoin public key and a hash of the encrypted key. Then the victim would pay that address and somehow contact the attacker (email, forum, twitter, whatever). The point is that the attacker could rely on the victim's human ingenuity to make it harder for the authorities to block payments.
The problem isn't the quantity of characters disallowed, it's that they cover some reasonably common characters in tags. From the list of restricted characters on NTFS:

\ / : * ? " < > |

There are a lot of artists, albums, and songs that use the forward slash (AC/DC, Less Than Jake's TV/EP), colon (Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution's "Intro: This is a Call to Arms"), asterisk (some releases of Serj Tankian's "Beethoven's Cunt"), question mark (Arctic Monkeys' "What If You Were Right the First Time?", David Bowie's "Life on Mars?"), and double quotation mark (David Bowie's "Heroes", Fall Out Boy's ""Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today""). As a stickler for having a well-organized music library, not being able to use those characters in my organization would be a bit grating.
How can anyone possibly care about doing or not doing a thing while a song is playing? How is this, like, a thing?
The problem with this is incentives. Without the profit motive, and without revolutionary support programs like the ones Stallman imagines, people simply have got to pay rent somehow. And FOSS, as Stallman describes it, does not pay rent. So programmers end up working in proprietary applications, often building up on top of FOSS or Open-source to build better user capture and lock-in and winning the market share.
Definitely agree. I just wanted to point out that, even though it often seems otherwise, there are indeed people in the technological community who have deep problems with the FSF philosophies.
We've asked you not to do this, so we've banned the account.
Well producers are available in Dagger now https://google.github.io/dagger/producers.html
Did you try GCC with -O3 and -ffast-math? It seems like ICC has its analogue to ffast-math enabled by default: http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/20815/performance...
If you replace entrepreneurs with journalist, you get the same picture. You have some top tier, and then you get every hack that writes a web column that "shouldn't even bother trying".
Please just spend your time porting things to python 3, this kind of work could spell the end for python
When was this? It might have been harder to find and contact a manufacturer in the mid-nineties.