skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have learned that you can simply strip that part out of the address... it's in the standard. If you want to know where your data leaked out, you should use a different email every time (e.g. use your own domains).
I get the intention here, but sometimes code really needs to be touched. Otherwise you get in the modern day, some-variant-of-Whitesmiths code that nobody can read, or wants to read ever. If you separate it out, business processes usually impede on your ability to ever get to the spun-off task and then it just gets forgotten.
The mods convenience and to save time and effort. There you go your questions have been answered and you can move on.
b) Probably true, but in VC some of the top managers seem to be fairly consistent. I think that's one reason that LPs invest in emerging funds: if they hit the next Benchmark or Lowercase, that fund will soon be closed to new investors, so the only way to have an allocation is to be an early backer.

a) I generally agree. I was just trying to illustrate why mean and median aren't great for analyzing asymmetric distributions.
Fitbit blaze is a smart watch.

"New products, Fitbit BlazeTM and AltaTM, including related accessories, comprised 54% of Q216 revenue".

I don't know how revenue is split between the two, but it sounds like they're selling a lot of blazes.

Edit:
"In the first quarter, Fitbit sold 4.8 million wearable devices, including one million of the Fitbit Blaze and another one million of the Fitbit Alta."

Now this is first quarter data (when Blaze + Alta did 50% of overall revenue). Since Blaze costs 199$ and Alta 99$, one could split the revenue Blaze (33%) and Alta (17%) roughly.

One third of Fitbit revenue from Blaze (smartwatch) - that's a LOT!
Atlanta isn't the cheapest area, but yes it's much better than the coasts. You don't even have to leave Georgia to find expensive housing; if my property were in Savannah it would be three times as expensive.
The term is called "sell-through" and Apple is one of the few tech companies to use sell-through. It means units actually sold to customers. So no, there is no trick.

Most other tech companies report sell-in which is units sold to retailers. You can game those numbers by what's called "channel stuffing". You "sell" tons of units to distributors and retailers, many of which will ultimately be returned unsold or cleared out at fire sale prices which you'll be forced to give a rebate on. By then all the tech journalists will have moved on to the next shiny bauble and no one will notice you only sold 20% as many units as you claimed or ate losses on 30% completely wiping out your profit margin.
You're confused. Apple Watch version 2 starts at $369. Apple Watch Nike+ (which is also a version 2 device) also starts at $369.

It's the Apple Watch version 1 (not to be confused with the original Apple Watch, which was discontinued, despite being obviously confusing to just about anyone) is what starts at $269.
Why can't someone doing it manually be a solid prototype? If it provides value it's valuable no matter how it's done.

One such product I bought was https://mastermindjam.com
I wonder what does the advent of ideas have to do with the average joe? The collective doesn't seem to be important here
Change control needs to be structured around risk. I.e how much $ are you losing a second given an outage. Also, not all changes have the same risk. Your change control process should be malleable to these realities. If a change is low risk and the reward is high then it shouldn't need the same controls as a high risk change. Also, there are more ways to mitigate risk other than additional steps in the release process.

TLDR absolutists make poor release engineers.
> What do you view is the meaningful reason for users to switch to these other platforms with some kind of better underlying data model?

I completely agree that people don't currently care about their data in the sense that people are complacent about their privacy and aren't likely to change very much in that regard.

I think people care about UX but to what level?? Might be minimal.

There are a few compelling reasons why I think these new open platforms are likely to succeed and I'll try to capture them succinctly.

1. Data Economy: People choose options that save them money or make them more money. While people don't care about owning their own data, they will care about a new platform that lets them earn money for passive things like keeping their smart phone location services turned on, or allowing access to their browsing habits.

2. Account Portability: Currently if you transition from selling on Ebay to Amazon, or from driving for Uber to Lyft you have to start back over from zero. If you own your data then you just bring it with you over to the new platform and all of your reputation and whatnot can come with you.

3. Network Effect: These types of open platforms are capable of robust cross-platform integration. Right now we see the power of this in things like the suite of products that Google provides. We can have these types deep inter-connectivity without needing the applications to be from the same source.

I also want to acknowledge that this isn't going to be a smooth ride and there are big challenges to overcome, but the potential exists and it won't happen if we don't try.

> what's the meaningful reason for a company to adopt such a better underlying data model instead of keeping a data silo and just making better features on top of such a silo?

I believe that the article linked below titled "The Golden Age of Open Protocols" is the most compelling argument I've seen.

- http://avc.com/2016/07/the-golden-age-of-open-protocols/
> There doesn't need to be a "function

Given the existence of depression in the animal kingdom, and it's persistence in humans despite its nonadaptive qualities, this accumulation of coincidences strongly suggests that it definitely had some adaptive purpose at some point.
But will anyone change it again? How many times would they have to change it for this to be better? Maybe the developer should build a UI so the business owners can change it themselves. After all, business people editing config files directly on production machines is dangerous. Clearly the conf file should be in source control and subject to code review. And so on and so forth. Reasonable changes accrete.

The real question is: What is this policy and process protecting against? Does it work?

We're all risk averse. Bad things happen. We come up with processes and systems to prevent them. We write our postmortems and say "How could this have been prevented?" and we say "Heavyweight process X and automated, difficult to maintain, high overhead system Y" and everyone nods their head sagely and makes plans to implement X and Y. Then we make a new mistake and postmortem and build process Z and system W.

But you know that old saying "Lightning never strikes the same place twice"? Well, it's wrong. Sometimes it does. Especially over a long enough timeline. But it's pretty rare.
We're the soldiers preparing to fight the last war and losing the next one.

Personally, when I see stuff like this I always think of https://medium.com/@webseanhickey/the-evolution-of-a-softwar...

It's a cartoon. But I'm getting old and angry. 15 years in, I think that most of this stuff that we do, these pedantic code reviews, processes, policies, best practices and test plans we're always beating each other over the head with, they don't always pay for themselves. We still write bad software. We still make stupid human mistakes.

There is no answer but good judgment, trust and respect. You need as much of it as possible. I think it's easier if you believe Clayton Christensen and build protected small teams that can operate in a limited bureaucracy and limit the connectivity between them and groups viewing them as "others". But again, trust, respect, autonomy and good judgment.

Or just make shittons of money. With lots of money, you can afford to hire lots of smart people to do stupid stuff and take forever doing it.
I didn't mention effects of 75% grid supply from wind + solar because no major grid is operating at that level. Most grids are significantly below 25%. The US as a whole is currently at 5-6% of all electricity consumption from wind + solar. (I know there's not a single unified grid across the US, but still.) I expect that storage is going to be significantly more mature by the time the US reaches even 25%.
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Both of you seem to conflate seed stage and growth stage, where the latter is generally series A and beyond.

The below reflects enterprise, and probably in some form, consumer:

1. Seed stage is likely before growable revenue. This may still be an idea. If technology advances are involved, not just a CMS to power PoF (think university startups vs. most Y Combinators), there may be real capital costs (time, equipment, enterprise POC cycles, ...) before there's something growable. This is also known as turning a technical invention into an adopted innovation. A $500K-$2M seed grant for an AI/infrastructure/etc. company would often need that. Without it, they could only really innovate on stapling together other people's technology.

2. In growth stage, there's a link between money spent on sales + marketing + field engineers and generated revenue, and likely, adding bells & whistles to grow into nearby markets. At this point, first mover advantage gets pretty real. Even cooler, revenue should be predictable within some range, so as soon as sales KPIs aren't being hit, hiring etc. can be scaled back to reflect reality. Or, just keep growing because the market is worth it.

In both cases, the goal is to go big fast, e.g., world leader in 3-7 years, vs. the 5-10 year plan. This isn't necessarily about greed: dealing with competitive industry, the desire to work on big things, the desire to work on many things, hiring certain folks, etc.

Of course, if you can do all of the above with a PoF idea, great. However, if you're that good, maybe just pick the right numbers for lottery tickets and use the proceeds to start a research lab? :)
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That's targeted for future research. From the end of the article:

"You've probably noticed that Salto doesn't have a lot of sensing on it right now, and its jumping skills are all open-loop. In order to orient itself, it uses a rotary inertial tail, but it's not (yet) able to adapt to different surfaces on its own.

The next things that the researchers will be working on include investigating new modes of locomotion, and of course chaining together multiple jumps, perhaps with integrated sensing."
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> Linux is good and all, but come on people, among iOS, MacOS, Windows, Chrome and Linux, it's the least usable and least user friendly.

ChromeOS is Linux. The principal difference between ChromeOS and Ubuntu is that if you want to run something other than Chrome then on Ubuntu you may and on ChromeOS you don't.

And the likes of Ubuntu have been easier to use than Windows for five years or more. The utility of Windows is if you need Windows-exclusive software or hardware, not that it's easier to use. And if that's your problem then you can't have ChromeOS or MacOS/iOS either.

You also can't lawfully install MacOS or iOS on the computers your family already has.
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This comment is also well intentioned, but you're really trying to counter someone who might not be 100% correct with an analogy that gets us farther from the truth.

Learning to live with depression _is_ the super power that the parent comment mentioned. That's the ultimate solution you say anyone can come to, and in fact, that is exactly what OP has described; you just put it more blandly.
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That's a really really old model. I haven't used one recently - I'd say look at Amazon reviews. Friends who have bought them swear by them and my experience with them was exceptional.
Yes, but these other ones are far more rare. Also there are shades that make it so much assessable for people. Almost every day I will ask someone what color something is because of poor selection. Chances are you have a color blind person in you office, just run visualizations by them really quick.
We formulate SGNS word2vec as a distributed graph problem, where nodes are all unique tokens (the dictionary) in the corpus and edges are defined by skipgrams. For skipgram (w_in, w_center), there will be an edge from w_in to w_center.

Tokens are randomly distributed over a set of workers. Each worker iterates over its edges in parallel with all other workers and performs the appropriate computation.

Drawing negative samples is done in two steps. We first draw a worker W from a suitable distribution over the workers and then draw a word from W. The overall word sampling is the same as for the reference implementation (ie, unigram distribution raised to 3/4.)

This work will soon be made public [1].

[1] Stergios Stergiou, Zygimantas Straznickas, Rolina Wu and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, ``Distributed Negative Sampling for Word Embeddings''. AAAI 2017.
I worked at a big company that had a big data warehouse that you could submit jobs to: these jobs could be given one of five priorities from "lowest" to "highest". Naturally, everyone set their jobs to "highest", so jobs that generated some weekly email report that nobody really read were competing at the same level as jobs that were actually business critical (e.g., necessary for ad auctions to work correctly or whatever).

So they introduced a new priority level: "Critical". The pattern repeated itself in short order.

It was a tragedy of the commons thing, and eventually it was literally impossible for a job to ever finish if it was marked anything other than "Critical".

So they introduced "Omega Critical". Now you needed to be on a permissions list maintained by the database team to raise something to "Omega Critical". I got on the list (because I was scheduling actually high-priority stuff). Then everyone in my org would come to me and ask me to set random bullshit to Omega Critical, because they knew I had permissions and "one more job won't hurt"...

I don't work there anymore, but I believe they have since developed even more weird categories like "Q4 Omega Critical" and who knows what else.
I still believe that Rails is more productive than anything Python, because of basic choices in both the design of the frameworks (I've used Django, Web2py and Flask) and the underlying language. With the same level of skills you write less code in Rails and deliver quickly also because of the predictability of where stuff is.

Phoenix can be an alternative, at least you get some advantages with parallelism. Elixir could have been designed to require less boilerplate when doing common operations like creating genservers. Basically you can copy/paste and search/replace the code around the functions that would be methods in Ruby, which is a waste of time, but the thing that every object (the genserver) has its own CPU is great.

That is what I suggest to customers that don't care about the language of new projects. If they already have invested in a language anything would do. I've seen PHP frameworks with various degrees of predictability and readability, JavaScript (always anarchically written applications), Java 8
(can't remember the framework but something modern, much improved compared to years ago, but still unproductive because of Java's verbosity). I wouldn't use any of them in my company. It would be Rails or Phoenix and a separate project for the frontend, possibly with some server rendered pages to reduce the time to see the initial content. I could consider writing Ruby and deploying to the JVM for parallelism.

I never seen or used Go or .NET. Did anybody already use the latter to deploy to Linux servers and has experience to share?
When the issues involved are far more important than the mods' convenience (and I know a thing or two about that, having modded decent-sized communities myself), this is an insufficient answer.
Really? I've been noticing them everywhere* I go lately. I think the real reason you've not seen them is you weren't looking. You noticed them more before because you were subconsciously "looking".

* both US coasts, Denver, and two "middle America" states (I saw 4 people in a WalMart in Berryville, AR even, not a place known for affluent tech consumers)
It's not Shirley's job to make an executive decision, like whether to break policy or not.

If the company policy should be ignored, then the issue should have been escalated to someone with the authority to make that decision.

IMO the real problem is that the submitter didn't realize that was the case and so didn't escalate sooner. This could have all been avoided by asking for (and getting) carte blanche from Philip or David in the first place.
Government policy = political = get it off HN.
Thanks for the help everyone, I'll add it to my list :)
You're going to bust an internal organ when you check out Emscripten. :-)
Government regulation is a political topic. Get it off HN.
Perhaps opportunity cost. Apple has limited design and engineering resources (seemly at least partially by intent) so they've had to sacrifice in other areas to develop the watch, and so far only seen modest returns.
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My Series 2 can do two full days (not wearing while sleeping) even with heavy notifications. My original one definitely couldn't, but the series 2 can.
They, being 1Blocker, have posted about this before. It's felt that The Deck is non-intrusive and therefore not something that needs blocking.
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I wrote this a while back which touches on some similar points: https://jimter.net/open-source-the-journey-from-project-to-p...
Specifically regarding your code review and QA comments, code quality is everyone's responsibility, not just management's or QA's. When development gets the idea that only QA is in charge of quality, development tends to write sloppier and sloppier code.

The real reason why this one-line change took so long is because the bureaucracy hasn't been automated away yet. Policy like not allowing magic numbers shouldn't be stuffed in a document, it should be enforced in a linting tool, and that tool ought to be runnable on the developer's workstation. If you have a QA department, QA should be spending its time writing automated tests, not maintaining and running manual tests. The developer ought to have been able to take 5 minutes to checkout the codebase, make the quick change, run the tests close to the change, and then submit to CI, which would run through the entire test suite and then continuously deploy to production. QA's approval should be built-in to the codebase and CI. Even in big companies, the process should not take longer than an afternoon.
True friends support you, no matter what, especially during a depressive episode. If they don't, they are not your friends. It might help to distance yourself, or to learn to ignore them.
Found this gem while looking through the comments on YT.
How is this even legal?
http://imgur.com/a/m66DA
Native English speakers are in the same boat a lot of the time. My reading vocabulary is a strict superset of the words I know how to pronounce, and I suspect the same is true for everyone who speaks a language with a non-regular writing system.
The next billions should never be born. World population should not continue to grow. Policies that promote smaller populations should be adopted everywhere.
This is a classic "no money falls on common" situation. Debt holders are early in line; investors have preferred shares with liquidation preferences.

Very interesting how they're treating their $33mm kickstarter obligation. [Edit: sorry, I wasn't sure what had been fulfilled already, thanks skuhn]
Just wanted to say I really enjoy Alex Lee's newsletters (It's his site that the link goes to) - one of the best ones I have subscribed to (I am a SaaS co-founder).
>Look at Microsoft Research, and their enormous scientific output over the years. IBM and Google look bleak by comparison, and Apple is not even on the chart.

Do you have any metrics to back up this dubious claim? I find it very hard to believe Microsoft is even in the same ballpark as IBM considering all of the research centers IBM has throughout the world and the number of years they've been in business.
Unless you got it in the last two months, you don't have a series 1. You have an "Apple Watch".

* Apple Watch - released last year

* Apple Watch Series 1 - released in September of this year, has new CPU, but otherwise mostly same

* Apple Watch Series 2 - latest edition
I've seen systems that have two fields, e.g. priority and severity. Where severity is "how important the client thinks it is" and priority is "how important we think it is".
There actually have been arguments on HN about surge pricing -- while not every government action is political per se, the subset that provokes arguments on HN is probably out of bounds for the week.
What I would prefer is cellular connectivity in an iPad. Throw it in the backpack to use when I want a screen, but use watch/wireless headphones while walking around, or talking on the phone.
>Have you tried turning it on and off again?

It seems that the tool is inspired by the 'IT crowd'.
IRL, unfortunately people may skip the first steps thinking that they are taken as idiots.
I agree, but it is a matter of cost/comfort.

For many use cases, going to a PIC doesn't make sense if just a few units are to deployed, with the price difference being just a few euros.
Can you explain how finding problems is the opposite of being a team player? How is a team supposed to get things done if there isn't someone to recognize problems?
But that's the more challenging (and thus more impressive) part of it. I haven't spent any time in researching "jumping" and I'm sure this jumping robot is impressive to those in the know, but as a layman, this is like a self-driving car minus the self part.
What have pebble and coin done to get this IP? Just had enough patent lawyers around to patent stuff they happen to be working on ("Method of having an e-ink watchface")?
I wish people would quit promulgating Forth.

Sorry, but it is not a production language. It is a puzzle language. Many things which are straightforward in even the worst programming language are a brain teaser to figure out how to organize in the "Forth Way(tm)".

Scheme and Lua come closest to my ideal.

However, I just can't deal with 1-based indexing from Lua. Sorry. Too many things talk to C API's.

Scheme is okay, but almost none of them are truly small anymore. Even the ones like picobit (https://github.com/stamourv/picobit) require quite some grunty support from a desktop machine outside the processor.
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This is a clever novel design and shows lots of potential. The next step would be attaining the ability to right itself and land on its foot. Some kind of machine learning (NN) would probably work well.