skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already have more than enough users. Twitter needs more/better advertizers if they want to break even. Users can be got through sponsorships and celeb endorsements, paying advertizers require competative platforms.
What makes concepts different from interfaces (Java/C#), traits (Rust) or protocols (Swift)? Is it different enough to need a completely new term?
Yo, make node-local a first class citizen already... This is an area where mesos is a far more suitable choice right now for stateful systems.
Also, in the US, we have: http://www.kevaplanks.com
What is node-local?
What is the reasoning for this? I think JVM still has problem handling real large heaps, the GC stop will be unbearable..Does thing change recently?
Some keywords are so competitive that they have PPC rates that are close to $100 PER CLICK

For example, anything related to pyramid schemes like Xango, Avon, etc. Keyword space is SUPER competitive for "indenependent distributors" and so their PPC rates are through the roof
That only works for current TLS. Version 1.3 makes sending the server date optional.
Don't agree with this at all.

NeXT was an actual operating system that people used. You could run word processing apps from which you could print and email. There was a fully fledged development platform with real developers building real third party apps. BeOS was more like a giant tech demo.

If we focus on just the technologies choosing BeOS would have meant at least a few years more engineering effort. And you still wouldn't have been able to replicate the ground breaking nature of OSX in the short time frame required.

I suspect both financially and in consumer mind share they would have never recovered from selecting BeOS.
That said, I don't really believe the moon-landing thing.

Here's my logic:

I'm talking to Alfred, moon-landing-truther. Alfred, I feel, is open in telling me how it works. He knows that I believe that the moon landing is real. He acknowledges that there is reason for me to believe that it is real -- he understands the conventional narrative. He explicitly argues his own (crazy) counter-narrative that subsumes the conventional narrative, reinterpreting the facts that I use.

I've never heard anyone articulate a conspiracy theory around the example questions this study gave. Nobody has ever said to me -- not even online -- "Sure, it appears that inflation decreased during Reagan, but actually, here's the reason why that's a lie," nor "Sure, it appears that the deficit shrank during Clinton, but that's a lie."

The closest that I've heard is two things:

1. A general belief that the media or the establishment lie or shill for Team X, without specifics.

2. Not on "inflation during Reagan" or "deficit during Clinton," but I do sometimes hear conspiracy theories that inflation is not actually currently low because the way that they calculate it and handle new inventions is a cheat, or that unemployment is not actually currently low because the proper measurement of unemployment is workforce participation.
I remember someone at Apple saying that Steve Jobs believed the company (as constituted when he was alive) should not try to support more than two operating systems concurrently. Last time I counted, they were supporting four.
Par for the course. Republicans don't believe in the state protecting consumers except in the most dire cases like predatory pricing, natural monopolies, intentional by-design lack of transparency of the product to the consumer, and other anti-competitive behaviors. Oh wait... guess they just don't care about anything but profit.
So you're willing to trade your time for feeling connected?

That's a shame. They offer Prime video in Poland? I don't even think we get it in Australia :/
Might be a Chrome issue? There is something that locks scrolling about 500ms after the page loads. No overlay or anything, just a totally unresponsive picture of some sad kids.

Overall though, this is pretty pathetic on their part.
How naïve. You think the entire advertising industry is going to throw their hand up and say "Hey, you got us. We'll just cave to your demand and drastically reduce our profits"?

This will just be another volley in the ever escalating ad arms race.
> The culture of medicine, at least at the physician level, is completely insane

Is this problem US specific, or global? And, isn't the real problem a scarcity of qualified doctors? Which, if people follow your advice, becomes worse?
This is ridiculous pedantry, but the "NS" prefix actually means "Next / Sun". It was introduced in OpenStep [1], which was supposed to become Sun's GUI layer on Solaris until Java happened.

Before the OpenStep revamp, the class prefix used in NeXTSTEP was "NX". I think there are still some lingering NX* classes/functions you might see in AppKit stack traces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep
And the polls, markets and experts were all wrong. Apparently they aren't so scientific, liquid or expert after all.

Actually, a few journalists who spent serious time hitting the streets outside London concluded that Brexit would win or at least was quite likely, just by talking to people. They were largely ignored because they weren't "experts", just people talking to other people. John Harris being an example of that.
Some decent discussions there, I missed them before, thanks for pointing them out.

Overall I disagree with some of the commenters who take one look at {{}} and cue the syntax bashing. I've found that many of the new syntactic conveniences in the language have brought a net positive to expressiveness and elegance.
I don't know which browser first added View Source, but I know it has been there since at least 1995.
This is how I see Rust and why I really like it. As a car analogy, basically under the hood it has the C and C++ engine (more true yet using all llvm optimzations for clang) but it has more modern Teslaish/Ferrarish body. :)
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You suggest they lay off 90% of their employees?
The passage of time is an emergent property of quantum entanglement. Yes, I know that sounds like new-age hooey, but it's actually based on solid science:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...

[UPDATE] I would really appreciate if those of you who are downvoting this comment would tell me why.
Largely depends on whether you want 3D performance or not (that's not only for gamers). The performance/watt ratio is significantly higher on Pascal.
work 17 hour days for 7 days in a row (!)

They explicitly said 17 hours was rare.
Researchers estimate 10,000 metric tons of plastic enter Great Lakes every year
HN, Slashdot and Reddit frequently have thousands of posts on a single story and many of the posts are excellent.

The keys are that all three sites are dedicated to discussion: that's practically all they do (plus story aggregation). So they are optimised for it. A simple example of how they differ from most newspaper comment sections: threaded replies. Posts that span the page width. Karma tracking.
I would write a crawler that crawls amazon and stores number of reviews for major consumer brands like Fitbit and GoPro. then go long on those that have a spike in reviews before earnings. and go short on those that have declined
Didn't Facebook recently get called a "free content ad network"?

I think that term describes most of those companies well, as it incorporates their business model. They just vary in what kind of content or service they offer with their ads.

I dont think it's unfair to call a business what it is -- just like we do with farms or investment firms, though they greatly differ in how they go about that business model.
Until you start dealing with the fact that the largest taxpayers really don't consume that high a proportion of their annual income, and someone has to pick up the bill...
>But if you take one thing away, let it be this: garbage collection is a hard problem, really hard, one that has been studied by an army of computer scientists for decades. So be very suspicious of supposed breakthroughs that everyone else missed. They are more likely to just be strange or unusual tradeoffs in disguise, avoided by others for reasons that may only become apparent later.

I really take issue with this. Imagine all of the progress that would have been delayed or quite possibly not achieved had people not persevered against the traditional thinking. Yes, GC is a hard problem but just because something's been researched for a long period of time does not mean there is no room left for innovation. Breakthroughs come some people that think differently not from people that think it's all been done before.
The new model is not improving CPU performance (https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks). Also, losing the escape key is painful, and I still frequently use devices that don't have USB-C connectors.

I did an all-around comparison and chose to buy last year's model instead. I can't think of a previous occasion when a new Apple product was worse for me than the one that it replaces.
Twitter offers those products already - it offers promoted trends, custom emojis, and custom moments to a small pool of 'Premium' advertisers at $100-250k a pop.

It's a good way to control the quality of output, but it isn't a good way to make mega millions, as these big companies and influencers only have so much advertising budget to go round.

Consider also for someone like Trump or a Kardashian, the ability to reach 17.6M followers (and however many more through retweets + national news) for free with no filtering is a huge draw. It's hard to get them to pay for what they have already. Start to introduce features (as Facebook did) that make it more difficult for people to see tweets, and both the end consumers and the influencers themselves will revolt.

Focus less on absolute user numbers and the quality of the product declines (you have less data to train your targeting algorithms on), and the site as a whole becomes less of a draw for influencers too.

Not saying T shouldn't offer 'Premium' content to media companies, but going all in on large advertisers seems like a route to the poorhouse.
I don't buy the "troll" argument. Every site has low-value comments and people either ignore them or down-vote them. They're not an issue. Take YouTube for example - they are known to have a cancerous comment section with little-to-no moderation, yet people don't avoid YouTube, they just avoid reading the comments on most channels.

The real problem for VICE is when comments aren't from trolls - when they're debunking the article and pointing out flaws in real-time.

That being said, I'm happy to see them disable comments. This will open up an opportunity for someone else to take over managing comments on their content... Hopefully someone who cares more about open discussion.
That's not what I claim, at all. And basically it's a slippery slope argument that you seem to be making ("Who's to know if they majority is ever right? And what about all the times they've been wrong? Therefore the whole system is brought into question", in effect).

What I was saying was actually the opposite: we need to consider these situations in terms of first principles, and on a case-by-case basis.
So, they have one product but multiple VPs of product? Sounds like some trimming was in order.
Cocaine abuse was rampant around the turn of the 20th century, since it was used as an anesthetic.
How to build AI that scales naturally
Just a few days ago, in fact:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13200633
Reporter with epilepsy suffers seizure after Twitter user sends strobe image
Yep, a big issue is the metrics that are used to determine performance. I'm at an upper tier medical school and the doctors here talk (complain) about this all the time. Not only are many within 30-day readmissions due to factors outside the control of the hospital, it also disincentivizes institutions to take on difficult and complicated cases.

If you look at the top performing hospitals, many of them are obscure hospitals or ones that only offer expensive surgical care that most doctors would __never__ go to themselves or recommend to their friends/family: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/17/only-251-hosp...

I know the article is a bit old now, but if I recall correctly the rankings haven't changed much since the metrics are still calculated in the same way.
Because something like income tax is a given. We're not comparing against a world with no government. We're comparing against a situation where they get no special attention. You can use whatever word you want for it, but if a company pays half as much tax as everyone else that's a big deal.

You're right to say that it's not fair to only list the $1bn. It should be put in context of the $100bn of normal taxes. But reducing it to "$99bn" is not a fair representation either. It doesn't tell you if they otherwise would have paid 100 or 200.
I bought a bit of Apple stock in 2001, when it was in a rut after the dot-com crash... The next year, I sold the stock to buy a frigging 10GB iPod, of all things!

That might have been the world's most expensive iPod.
Most of it, especially churches, which get special tax and other governmental treatment, at least in the USA. The flip side is that we all need to be more forgiving and tolerant.

Government stuff should almost all be out in the open, way more than is currently. Remember: there's very few real state secrets, but there's a ton of nepotism, self-dealing, dunderheaded blunders, money laundering, fraud and corruption. My guess is that we'd be better off erring on the side of disclosing state secrets, than erring on the side of protecting all the other crimes that probably go on under the guise of state secrecy.
Y'know, every time Signal comes up on here, a small group of people show up and shit all over both it and its creator, then recommend a variety of half-baked alternatives. And Moxie pops by and patiently explains all over again why the preferred approach of that group won't work and what the options are. And you're claiming his tone is unacceptable? I mean, sure, you're free to choose. But he's shown a lot more patience than I would.
yeah, that's great thanks.

Internet advertisers are almost 100% reprehensible and fully deserving of what happens to them. They've spent years pissing in the pool, there is zero reason they shouldn't be force-fed the results.

The key moral argument in play in this entire matter is: "fuck these people and fuck everything about them." I owe advertisers nothing. They are loathsome abominations and have turned the Internet into surveillance capitalism malware soup. Causing them pain is pretty much an ethical obligation.

(BTW, I was surprised and pleased AdNauseam didn't act against Project Wonderful, the closest I've seen to a non-reprehensible advertising network and one I unblocked specifically in uBO. But the rest can frankly go and get fucked.)
Actually Spotify lost $194m last year on subscriptions.
But all those other countries you mentioned are also C, in a way bigger way. The US leans more towards B, in actuality, versus those other countries. Are you saying A is the solution?
This is the same as the early Jewish calendar. The Jewish calendar has adjustments to make it not fully lunar, so that holidays would be during the same season every year, unlike in the simpler Muslim calendar which is fully lunar.

The bible says the new moon must be observed, but the formula for the calendar was calculated in 389CE and that requirement was not observed. I was taught they switched to the calculated calendar right then, but wikipedia says newer sources show the switch was a gradual process that lasted until the 9th century CE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_II
That's a dumb metric. Now, let me be the first to say that Flywheel wasn't very successful in competing with Uber (and there are tons of reasons for that that I could expand upon if anyone is super interested).

But we were plenty successful in creating a system in which people who wanted to get a ride were able to hail our drivers and our drivers could come and pick up the passengers and they could cancel and see ETAs and so forth. We served hundreds of thousands of rides while I was there, and presumably more in the two years since I left.
Why do you think that?

The end users of Jenkins are techies who dont really care about the name if the product does the job.
Twitter's problem isn't just that they have to fix harassment, it's that they have to do it without touching social justice activism that sure looks similar to it from the outside, right down to the doxing, threats, and smears. Oh, and they'll get no sympathy for getting this wrong as the difference is apparently obvious... except that everyone defines it differently (usually based on who their friends are) and simply assumes the world shares their definition. Good luck.
What does it mean to dissent? Go look at the Guardian. They have been progressively eliminating comments sections on their stories. If you go look at the comments sections that are left it's pretty obvious why: the articles are often crap and the comments point it out. Obviously the "journos" take offense at that and start telling each other how horrible the comments are and how full of trolling it is.

In reality the comments are often pretty on point. The Guardian seems to have dropped off a cliff quality-wise since Rusbridger stopped being the editor = many stories are either hopelessly biased, hysterical, or demonstrate profound hypocrisy. Often they are simply opinion pieces where the opinions are extremist. Closing down comments is a form of sticking their heads into the sand.
I'd really like to buy some of those zero-height, zero-width, nonzero-mass blocks!
Will concepts (currently or in the future) be able to constrain on anything other than types?

For example in the Number concept, can you have a PositiveNumber concept (e.g., require Number > 0)? Or given some container, that it is sorted? Or if you have a binary operator, that it is associative?

Maybe with some magical compiler that can tell you that after calling abs() or exp() the "double" type becomes a positive number concept, or that after calling sort on a vector and only doing binary inserts that the vector is still sorted.

Basically a lot of contracts on how to use a function correctly is not captured by just type system or whether you can call certain functions on a type. Is there an easy way to attach a "concept" to an output in an ad hoc way?
Facebook has multiple VPs of product. So does Google. This is common...
Another option to consider is something like Betterment.com or Wealthfront. These are automated investment services and allow you to tune your investments based on your goals. I use one of them and it has worked out well for me.
The public facing platform is just one of many products twitter offers. They also offer advertising that is probably considered its own product...
shocking revelations
Is there any reason we couldn't switch to a dual optic fibre (for signal) and copper (for power) ethernet?
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Keep hearing about graphene base battery technology that is faster to charge, store more in less volume/weight from time to time for cell phone and car.

Hope that will be true soon.
Huh, never lock the door when I'm in the house, except at night ... is that unusual? Live in a smaller UK city. Perhaps if we had anything worth stealing it'd be different.

Is it perhaps the US Americans are the peculiar ones and other countries are more like Canada?
The facts are these.

If I connect to, say, port 80 on www.cnn.com and send some particular ASCII, then the machine on the other end will likely respond with some text. The owners of that machine invite these connections.

I can then: pipe that to /dev/null; read it in a text editor; read it with a web browser; print it out; file it away somewhere. (There are of course other options.)

So pray-tell, if my browser is `wget | html2txt | more`, do you consider me in the moral wrong for failing to also send various bits of PII to whomever CNN considers a Trusted Sponsor today and retrieve images, flash cruft, malware, or whatever else those Trusted Sponsors choose to respond with?
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Looks good!

Recommendations on how to go from basics (being able to fine-tune pretrained ImageNet/Inceptionv3 with new data etc) to a real project? I'd like to play with semantic segmentation of satellite images (hyperspectral). Any pointers?
I haven't done much functional programming, so I have a question regarding how this is done.

From what I understand, functional programming usually avoids side effects, so mutable data structures are replaced by immutable data structures. So instead of modifying an existing data structure, a new data structure is created containing the modification.

So how does this work with games? When you modify the game state, is the entire thing copied into a new game state? Doesn't that really slow the game down when the game state is large and changes are frequent? Is there some trick to this that avoids unnecessary copying?
Well sure, but changing the economic system won't modify the fact that it's an island of 4 million people that's so far out on the periphery that it isn't even included on some world maps (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/). The same economic realities can be said about Hawaii.
XORs only lose information if you overwrite the input values.
Why are browsers so slow?
Developer Edition enables a number of features not currently available for regular Firefox. The two major ones are build time features which can't be enabled in other releases (besides Nightly). One build feature is Unsigned Add-ons, which allows for add-on development where it isn't possible otherwise. The other is Async JavaScript callstacks which are very useful to capture but tend to slow down regular browsing otherwise. Besides build features there a lot of prefs we turn on to make development easier. If you try using Chrome or Firefox release with DevTools you will need to do something extra to be able to "paste into the console" (something that prevents people on facebook from owning themselves) and that guard isn't on by default in Developer Edition. [I'm the Product Manger for Firefox DevTools]
It creates opportunity for disruption. The established players see their costs go up and effectiveness go down. A new player comes in who has non-obtrusive ads, and sees outsized success. Everyone else either dies off or fast-follows.

I'm curious how The Deck is doing these days, seemed like they could have been that player.
If the plane crashes, the pilot has a good chance of dying too, if the doctor makes a mistake, not so much.
I think Mesos is the only one from that list they didn't make, they were just an early adopter on that one
Basics and Standards (edit: on v12 servers) have always had a single replica. Web and Business are the ones that had three replicas.
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Just open source macOS and let us build our own machines. Or at least do what Microsoft is doing and sell macOS independent of Mac. Apple doesn't seem to care about the Macs anymore anyways. Wish Steve was still alive and running the show.
Yes. But when 1% optimization means millions in revenue, you're going to throw a lot of engineers at the problem.
Most ideas don't have explicit mathematical descriptions. Why would this one be more notable than any other?
You know who else will stick around?

All the guys with cheap hosting accounts making web pages like the 1990's. Ironically they seem to be the only ones with content worth reading...
Yeah, exactly. I'm always looking for more insights on how different people make marriage work because... shit is hard. But while the first two essays mentioned might be valuable, I don't see any real insight in the book the article is about. (And honestly, for all the claims of their intellectual superiority, I have trouble believing that anybody who would say that quote about 'feeling betrayed' has any idea how people work. People are complicated, not simple intellectual abstractions).